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- 2019
- Working Paper
Design Rules, Volume 2: How Technology Shapes Organizations: Chapter 16 Capturing Value by Controlling Bottlenecks in Open Platform Systems
The purpose of this chapter is to investigate the means by which firms capture value in open platform systems. I begin by arguing that the surplus value created by complementarities within a technical system will be split among the owners of the unique and essential...
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Keywords:
Open Platforms;
Bottlenecks;
Flow Production;
Value Capture;
Disintermediation;
Production;
Management;
Digital Platforms
Baldwin, Carliss Y. "Design Rules, Volume 2: How Technology Shapes Organizations: Chapter 16 Capturing Value by Controlling Bottlenecks in Open Platform Systems." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-054, November 2019.
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
When Losing Money Is Strategic—and When It Isn’t
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Adding Value
Mary Callahan Erdoes Her first experience managing money was as a six-year-old helping her grandparents balance their checkbook. Today, Mary Callahan Erdoes (MBA 1993) is CEO of JPM Asset Management,...
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Finance
- 27 Feb 2020
- News
Why Cryptocurrencies Should Be Evaluated As Fiat Money
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Money and Markets Dominate New Course Offerings
Subjects related to globalization and finance top the list of courses added this year to the elective curriculum for second-year MBA students. Notably, seven of the twelve new...
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curriculum
- 14 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Big Money for Big Projects
matters in the investment decisions made in financing a project. Could you explain this further? A: Modigliani and Miller's (M&M) "irrelevance" proposition is one of the foundations of modern...
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- August 2021
- Case
Yummy: Delivering Value to Venezuela
By: Ayelet Israeli, Jenyfeer Martinez Buitrago and Carla Larangeira
By June 2021, Yummy had become Venezuela’s first and largest food delivery app and last-mile logistics company. In Caracas, the nation’s capital, Yummy held a 55% market share, while operations in other cities had already started to take place, including in three of...
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Keywords:
Internet and the Web;
Health Pandemics;
Business Startups;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Expansion
Israeli, Ayelet, Jenyfeer Martinez Buitrago, and Carla Larangeira. "Yummy: Delivering Value to Venezuela." Harvard Business School Case 522-034, August 2021.
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Why We Do—or Don’t—Donate Time and Money
What is the role of volunteerism and other charitable giving in the United States? About one in four adults volunteer every year. About one in two adults give more than $25 to charity every year. The estimated combined View Details
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April White
- 06 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
Money and Quotas Motivate the Sales Force Best
just given it—conditional versus unconditional. Doug J. Chung, an assistant professor in the Marketing unit, and Das Narayandas, the James J. Hill Professor of Business Administration, explain what kind of...
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- 27 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Values and Employee Cynicism
Positive values are a fixture on corporate mission statements these days. But when leaders fail to live up to the values they've articulated, it's a recipe for employee cynicism, according to Sandra Cha and...
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by Martha Lagace
- 30 Aug 2021
- News
How to Buy A Little Happiness, No Matter How Much Money You Have
- 22 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
Profits and Prophets: The Role of Values in Investment
"Profits and Prophets: The Role of Values in Investment," at the Harvard Business School Möbius Leadership Forum on April 12. Hayes holds the Jacob H. Schiff Chair in Investment Banking at Harvard...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- April 2023
- Article
The Subjective Expected Utility Approach and a Framework for Defining Project Risk in Terms of Novelty and Feasibility—A Response to Franzoni and Stephan (2023), ‘Uncertainty and Risk-Taking in Science’
In their Discussion Paper, Franzoni and Stephan (F&S, 2023) discuss the shortcomings of existing peer review models in shaping the funding of risky science. Their discussion offers a conceptual framework for incorporating risk into peer review models of research...
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Lane, Jacqueline N. "The Subjective Expected Utility Approach and a Framework for Defining Project Risk in Terms of Novelty and Feasibility—A Response to Franzoni and Stephan (2023), ‘Uncertainty and Risk-Taking in Science’." Art. 104707. Research Policy 52, no. 3 (April 2023).
- 23 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
This Crisis Loan Program Preserved Jobs—and Made Money
negative” cost for the French government. The loan guarantee program likely prevented the loss of roughly 217,000 jobs over a seven-year period ending in 2015, at a gross cost to the government of about...
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- 2022
- Article
Alleviating Time Poverty Among the Working Poor: A Pre-Registered Longitudinal Field Experiment
By: A.V. Whillans and Colin West
Poverty entails more than a scarcity of material resources—it also involves a shortage of time. To examine the causal benefits of reducing time poverty, we conducted a longitudinal feld experiment over six consecutive weeks in an urban slum in Kenya with a sample of...
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Keywords:
Time;
Subjective Well Being;
Administrative Costs;
Friction;
Poverty;
Well-being;
Money;
Perception;
Kenya
Whillans, A.V., and Colin West. "Alleviating Time Poverty Among the Working Poor: A Pre-Registered Longitudinal Field Experiment." Art. 719. Scientific Reports 12 (2022).
- Program
Value Creation Through Effective Boards
greater insight into corporate governance oversight and best practices, you will emerge a stronger leader and decision-maker, ready to create more value for your company. This program is developed and taught in collaboration with the IESE...
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- March 2011
- Case
Cash Flow Productivity at PepsiCo: Communicating Value to Retailers
PepsiCo developed a new metric that better measured the value added by Pepsi products than did gross margin, the traditional metric used by retailers to determine shelf space and promotional activity. The new metric, cash flow productivity, captured the value of...
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Keywords:
Customer Relationship Management;
Cash Flow;
Measurement and Metrics;
Distribution;
Performance Productivity;
Value Creation;
Food and Beverage Industry;
Retail Industry
Martinez Jerez, F. Asis, and Lisa Brem. "Cash Flow Productivity at PepsiCo: Communicating Value to Retailers." Harvard Business School Case 111-069, March 2011.
- 16 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
Has COVID-19 Broken the Global Value Chain?
The coronavirus pandemic has not only disrupted lives and businesses, it has illuminated underlying fragilities in the global value chain (GVC) that drives economies around the world. The smartphone you use many times daily is a product...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 2023
- Working Paper
The Subjective Expected Utility Approach and a Framework for Defining Project Risk in Terms of Novelty and Feasibility—A Response to Franzoni and Stephan (2023), ‘Uncertainty and Risk-Taking in Science’
In their Discussion Paper, Franzoni and Stephan (F&S, 2023) discuss the shortcomings of existing peer review models in shaping the funding of risky science. Their discussion offers a conceptual framework for incorporating risk into peer review models of research...
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Lane, Jacqueline N. "The Subjective Expected Utility Approach and a Framework for Defining Project Risk in Terms of Novelty and Feasibility—A Response to Franzoni and Stephan (2023), ‘Uncertainty and Risk-Taking in Science’." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 23-037, January 2023.
- March 2020
- Article
Synergistic Value in Vertically Integrated Power-to-Gas Energy Systems
By: Gunther Glenk and Stefan Reichelstein
In vertically integrated energy systems, integration frequently entails operational gains that must be traded off against the requisite cost of capacity investments. In the context of the model analyzed in this study, the operational gains are subject to inherent...
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Keywords:
Vertical Integration;
Volatility;
Capital Investment;
Capacity Management;
Renewable Energy;
Green Hydrogen;
Decarbonization;
Carbon Emissions;
Environment;
Energy;
Environmental Accounting;
Environmental Management;
Environmental Sustainability;
Investment;
Decision Making;
Operations;
Technological Innovation;
Green Technology;
Energy Industry;
Utilities Industry;
Consulting Industry;
Green Technology Industry;
Industrial Products Industry;
Manufacturing Industry;
Technology Industry;
Steel Industry;
Shipping Industry;
Transportation Industry;
Europe;
North America;
South America;
Africa;
Asia
Glenk, Gunther, and Stefan Reichelstein. "Synergistic Value in Vertically Integrated Power-to-Gas Energy Systems." Production and Operations Management 29, no. 3 (March 2020): 526–546.