Billion Prices Project - Publications - Faculty & Research

13 May 2016
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A billion prices can't be wrong

13 Mar 2015
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The Billion Prices Project Thinks Inflation May Have Turned a Sharp Corner

25 Feb 2024
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New Insights on Inflation from a Billion Prices

01 Jun 2023
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Pet Project

than children—she started to think more seriously about the value proposition. Spies teamed up with Christine Busaba (MBA 2019) to launch Maev in March 2020 as a direct-to-consumer (DTC) raw dog food company. Business has tripled every year since, says CEO Spies.... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade; Sporting Goods, Hobby, Musical Instrument, and Book Stores; Retail Trade

08 Feb 2023
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Alumni-Cofounded Company Sells to CVS for $10.6 Billion

Photo via LinkedIn Photo via LinkedIn The Wall Street Journal reported this week that health care giant CVS has agreed to purchase Oak Street Health, a “network of value-based primary care centers for adults on Medicare” that was cofounded by Geoffrey View Details

15 Apr 2015
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Biogen, Danish company in patent spat worth billions

01 Sep 2016
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Pricing Paradise

The Daniel Patrick Moynihan Senior Lecturer at the Harvard Kennedy School, Bilmes began her career at the Boston Consulting Group, focusing on cost structures in large-scale industries where fractional commodity fluctuations result in global View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Sep 2005
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Perfection’s Price

for the first year are projected to top $1 million. Kaplan is already planning to open two more stores in the New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut area, and he is optimistic about the prospect of Fashion To Figure becoming a national... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores; Retail Trade

28 Sep 2017
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Alumni-Founded Aerospace Pioneer Orbital Acquired for $7.8 Billion

attract young engineers to work on exciting projects like designing rockets for satellite delivery. Besides, he held the “naive view that starting a space company might be fun and profitable.” Founded with two HBS classmates, Bruce... View Details

10 Apr 2019
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Rakuten’s Mikitani Bets $5.5 Billion To Shake Up Japan’s Telecom Industry

much leaner than our competitors, and we can enrich the service using the existing Rakuten ecosystem. And I don’t think people really care whether it’s NTT, SoftBank or Rakuten that much. It’s primarily about connectivity, speed, price... View Details

Keywords: Telecommunications; Information

25 Aug 2022
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Research Brief: Paying the Price for Remote Work

The pandemic dramatically accelerated the global marketplace’s appetite for remote work, which had already become a $50 billion industry by 2020. But wages for the same remote jobs varied greatly, depending on where the worker lived.... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken; Market Research, Photo, Translation, Veterinary and Other Services; Professional Services

01 Apr 2001
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Big Deals: Project Finance Helps Mitigate Risk in Large-Scale Investments

wing and learn anything about underlying demand for the plane. Instead, you have to sink the full $12 billion into the project before learning if there is, or is not, sufficient demand.” Given the level of... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Motorola; Air Transportation; Transportation; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance; Telecommunications; Information

07 Oct 2019
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WeWork is hitting the brakes after its IPO went up in smoke — and landlords could pay the price

01 Mar 2003
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Inside the Revolution

participants. For his part, Jonathan West emphasizes that “real companies are putting billions of dollars into real projects whose impact is going to be staggering.” In envisioning how these investments will... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Eileen McCluskey; Jonathan West; Life Sciences Project; LSP; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services