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- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
race to win new customers and e-reader converts. It will make the company a truly global entity, bringing it closer to its customers in Asia. And the acquisition will simplify the supply chain, driving down costs (the Kindle DX,... View Details
- 08 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 8, 2016
Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50690 2016 Handbook of Media Economics User-Generated Content and Social Media By: Luca, Michael Abstract—This paper documents what economists have learned about... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
No Easy Fix for the Financial Crisis
the bailout could very well calm the current crisis but also provoke even greater, and even more dangerous, risk-taking in the future.” Innovation Will Continue University Professor Robert Merton, who received the Nobel Prize in economics... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Latin America's Decade
accordingly. But despite this favorable trend in the business climate, further improvements are urgently needed. HBS professor Pankaj Ghemawat, whose research focuses on cross-border competition, notes, "It's hard to make generalizations about the region, but the high... View Details
- 18 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 18
Economists: A Market Design Perspective Authors:Peter A. Coles, John Cawley, Phillip B. Levine, Muriel Niederle, Alvin E. Roth, and John J. Siegfried Publication:Journal of Economic Perspectives (forthcoming) Abstract This paper provides... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Sep 2014
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First Look: September 9
seeking to make their business socially acceptable and a range of non-governmental groups working to promote public welfare, labor, and minority rights. In France, where a similar coalition did not emerge, consumer credit continued to be perceived as View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
The Race Against Resistance
ensuring], for example, fewer days in the hospital.” Triola echoes this argument. “Without any economic data to justify the use of premium-priced treatments over cheaper generics, how are you going to make the case that a hospital system... View Details
Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- 14 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
New Agenda for Corporate Accountability Reporting
How do you measure corporate accountability? And can you do it credibly? Since the financial crisis of 2008-2009, for-profit corporations are facing greater demand to disclose more than revenues and expenses on annual financial reports. In response, some are pointing... View Details
- 13 Apr 2010
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First Look: April 13
Publication:Manufacturing and Service Operations Management (forthcoming) Abstract We empirically document factors that influence how local operating managers use discretion to balance the tradeoff between service capacity costs and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Mar 2013
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First Look: March 5
Paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/shanson/Issuer_Quality_2013_RFS_Final.pdf The Cost of High-Powered Incentives: Employee Gaming in Enterprise Software Sales Authors:Larkin, Ian Publication:Journal of Labor View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jun 2016
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June 28, 2016
Economics Oliver Hart's Contributions to the Understanding of Strategic Alliances and Technology Licensing By: Lerner, Josh Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50650 forthcoming... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Nov 2011
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Making Lincoln Center Cool Again
sellout. It's sacrilegious." Levy understood that his primary goal had to be bringing the various Lincoln Center constituents together to build consensus around continuation of the redevelopment project and making Lincoln Center View Details
- 21 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 21
largely emphasizes the collective benefits of market creation and overlooks the costs borne by individual evangelists. Through an inductive multiple-case study of five startup competitors, we traced firms’ efforts to stake out a new... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Nov 2020
- In Practice
How Retailers Can Thrive in a Shopping Season Like No Other
lecturer of business administration and the C. Roland Christensen Distinguished Management Educator. Ramon Casadesus-Masanell: Watch costs and find channel advantages Given COVID-19 transmission rates as of mid-November, the upcoming... View Details
- 22 Nov 2022
- Blog Post
Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combatting Climate Change
electrified transportation, waste/recycling and food/ag, we’re thrilled with the IRA. We’ve already seen the economics shift for a number of startups in battery development, battery recycling, carbon capture, solar development, and clean... View Details
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CFO Letter - Annual Report 2016
against our forecast of 1 percent growth. At HBX, revenue doubled from last year to $10 million, resulting in a planned operating deficit of $12 million. The HBS economic model relies on multiple revenue streams, including MBA tuition,... View Details
- 17 Nov 2022
- News
Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combating Climate Change
We’ve already seen the economics shift for a number of startups in battery development, battery recycling, carbon capture, solar development, and clean hydrogen. Within EVs, the IRA’s tax credit of 30 percent on commercial EVs (up to... View Details
- 01 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
When Do Alliances Make Sense?
thousands of public documents from the Department of the Interior that detailed bid price and profits from 1954 to 1975. He reported his findings in a paper published in the Journal of Financial Economics last year, The Performance of... View Details
- 26 Apr 2011
- News
BioMine Strikes Gold
Fellowship winner. The organization is based in New Delhi, India, where it provides economically viable housing solutions for under-served populations, starting with India and for communities around the world. (Watch Mehra explain how... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
What’s the Big Idea?
including my MBA students, to conduct these kinds of experiments,” Norton says. “They are low cost but add enormous value and knowledge—and they have great untapped potential to impact public policy.” —GE A Capital Idea Michael Porter... View Details