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- 10 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
New Medical Devices Get To Patients Too Slowly
average price to bring a new high-risk medical device to market. That extra cost can dampen the ability of companies to pursue new innovations. Indeed, Stern found that small firms (defined as non-publicly View Details
- 07 Apr 2015
- News
Warrior Spirit
a fact Sityodtong has made one of the gym’s competitive advantages despite the expense involved in recruiting and relocating fighters from as far away as Brazil. (Monthly pay for an Evolve instructor ranges from $5,000 to $15,000; housing View Details
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2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
Celebration Dean Srikant Datar: Welcome Address Video Recording + More Info – Less Info Hear an update on the Dean’s key priorities, which will strengthen and accelerate the School’s impact in the world. Faculty Presentations Can Evidence-Based Information Shift... View Details
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Finance Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Published in the Journal of Financial Economics in the Area of Corporate Finance and Organizations for "The Ownership and Trading of Debt Claims in Chapter 11 Restructurings" (February 2016) with Benjamin Iverson and David C. Smith.... View Details
- 30 Mar 2018
- What Do You Think?
What Should Mark Zuckerberg Do?
who don’t realize there is a cost for Facebook’s “free” service. Miki Saxon recalled that “Tim Cook once said, ‘If it’s free, then you are the product.’ It seems that Americans are just waking up to that fact ” Malcolm Harper commented,... View Details
- 21 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
From Emerging Economies to the Global Market: The Case of Embraer
and the Canadian manufacturer Bombardier, which has yet to be settled by the World Trade Organization. Conference participants offered a variety of predictions on how they thought the dispute could and should pan out. According to... View Details
- 15 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Businesses Beware: The World Is Not Flat
administrative/political (laws, trading blocs, colonial ties, currency, etc.), geographic (physical distance, lack of land border, time zones, climates, etc.), and economic (income levels, cost of natural... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 08 Sep 2008
- HBS Case
The Value of Environmental Activists
There are many methods, most financial, to measure the success of companies in meeting goals. But the question becomes a lot harder at Harvard Business School when MBAs are challenged to measure the efforts of environmental organizations like Greenpeace and the World... View Details
Risks, Opportunities, And Investments In The Era Of Climate Change (ROICC)
The MBA course on "Risks, Opportunities, and Investments in an Era of Climate Change" is ideal for students who aspire to become entrepreneurs by starting their own company or joining a start-up that is driving innovation and solving challenges posed by climate change.... View Details
- 28 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Coronavirus Could Create a 'Bankruptcy Pandemic'
for a large publicly traded company (although much faster prepackaged or prenegotiated bankruptcies are sometimes possible) —creditors are temporarily held at bay, and are not able to exercise remedies normally available to them when... View Details
- 19 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?
Like many business leaders, Donovan Neale-May routinely seeks out information on business innovation and management trends. He reads reports from market analysis firms, white papers from companies in his field, and articles in online View Details
- 12 Nov 2018
- Blog Post
Student Portraits - Armed Forces Alumni Association
became friends with people of other places, cultures, beliefs, and value systems which taught me not only tolerance and respect, but also appreciation for what friendship and family really mean. Enduring sacrifice and long absences has taught me the View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
new application of technology, he set his sights on winning it—and did. “AutoCAD had been around, but it wasn’t being used at Bath Iron Works,” he recalls. “I ran the numbers on the cost savings and—lo and behold—won the award. Management... View Details
- 20 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
Gaps in the Historical Record: Development of the Electronics Industry
$2,500 a month, the cost of a middle-sized punched-card tabulator. Its revenues of $2 billion helped to finance the commercializing of the world's most successful data processor, the System 360, a family of compatible computers. In 1963,... View Details
- 10 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Commodity Busters: Be a Price Maker, Not a Price Taker
customers are encouraged to trade down to lower margin merchandise or services, or just become so confused that they won't buy. It is difficult enough to compete with others; do not compete with yourself! By and large, simple product... View Details
Keywords: by Benson P. Shapiro
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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
expanding trade, ever more efficient logistics, and a relatively benign trading environment. Revolutions in transportation and communications empowered the reconfiguration of global supply chains and a dramatic shift in production to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Every Trick in the Book
Haft himself, then head of the company, sat amid a pile of hardcover books. “Books cost too much, so I opened Crown Books,” he said to the camera. “Now you’ll never have to pay full price again.” Haft was right. Together, Waldenbooks, B.... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 14 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World
these narratives A common feature of all resilient businesses we interviewed is that they proactively sought information from a variety of sources, including suppliers, trade associations, and health care professionals. Managers readily... View Details
- 02 Mar 2018
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: Trump’s Tariffs Could Harm Allies as Much as Opponents
the US withdrew this ill-fated measure in 2003 after the World Trade Organization authorized the largest penalty sanctions ever against a member state, and after the European Union threatened retaliation. Back then, there was ample... View Details
- 22 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist
with the passage of two bills: the Robinson-Patman Act of 1936, which prohibited sales below cost and secret rebates; and the Miller-Tydings Act of 1937, which made fair trade contracts enforceable in... View Details