Convex Ordering Cost - Publications - Faculty & Research

02 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Not All M&As Are Alike—and That Matters

resources-processes-values framework. Resources refer to tangible and intangible assets, processes deal with activities that turn resources into goods and services, and values underpin decisions employees make and how they make them. (See the sidebar "Some View Details

Keywords: by Joseph L. Bower

Web

Frequently Asked Questions | HBS Online

programs. What are the learning requirements in order to successfully complete a course and how are grades assigned? For information on learning requirements and grading for HBS Online courses, visit our Policies Page . What do I receive... View Details

26 Jun 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, June 26, 2018

analytic methods in a series of experiments across a range of hedonic products. The results suggest that hedonic learning follows a sequence of stages whose order matters and that the holistic stage is facilitated by attending to... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

08 Oct 2008
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: A Sense of Urgency

someone to blame for the crisis. Suddenly, a rumor started that the plant manager had purposefully taken steps in the prior year in order to create the severe problems the company faced. Any energy to confront the facts and deal with the... View Details

Keywords: by John P. Kotter

18 Apr 2000
Research & Ideas

Learning in Action

their small, tailor-made orders from eight to ten months to weeks or days. Because they were breaking new ground, not only in the bearing industry, but also in manufacturing, the challenge clearly demanded exploratory learning. A design... View Details

Keywords: by David A. Garvin

24 Feb 2022
Op-Ed

Want to Prevent the Next Hospital Bed Crisis? Enlist the SEC

meeting surges in capacity and to explain how they derived that estimate. Transparency as a solution often fails because of a lack of enforcement or overly complex regulations. For example, when President Biden issued an executive order... View Details

Keywords: by Regina Herzlinger and Richard Boxer; Health

Research Summary

Research

The founding and expansion of new firms is central to innovation and economic growth, but the determinants of a new idea’s success are difficult to ascertain. The decision to form a new firm and its ultimate outcome are impacted by ownership structure, financing... View Details

08 Nov 2011
First Look

First Look: Nov. 8

structural estimation methods. Our results confirm the belief expressed by industry experts that in the fast-food drive-thru industry, customers trade off price and waiting time. More interestingly, our estimates indicate that consumers attribute a very high View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

04 Apr 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research, April 4

forthcoming American Political Science Review Voter Registration Costs and Disenfranchisement: Experimental Evidence from France By: Braconnier, Céline, Jean-Yves Dormagen, and Vincent Pons Abstract—A large-scale randomized experiment... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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 resources, financial resources,... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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

Keywords: by James Heskett; Web Services; Information Technology

12 Nov 2021
News

Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge

expensive natural disasters risk the planet on which we depend, and are already triggering immense geopolitical ramifications and population displacement amid costs to human health, food security, and water availability. Weigh that... View Details

27 Sep 2021
Blog Post

Working to Change the Food System

sugars or vegetable oils, using a lot less land and resources. It’s no secret that these are powerful organisms, but past attempts to scale production have faced challenging unit economics (high up-front capital costs for facilities,... View Details

20 Feb 2017
Research & Ideas

Having No Life is the New Aspirational Lifestyle

is about saying, I am the scarce resource, and therefore I am valuable.” The business of busyness Marketers have already begun using such insights to target consumers, flattering them by implying how valuable their time is in order to... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

25 Mar 2015
HBS Case

Tate’s Digital Makeover Transforms the Traditional Museum

or a blog comment? There is no magic formula we have for linking this type of digital activity to the actual sale." In addition to the presumed increase in ticket sales, Tate has found value in the information users have provided online, which has saved the museum... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Education

27 Nov 2000
Research & Ideas

The Dynamics of Standing Still: Firestone Tire & Rubber and the Radial Revolution

convert existing factories, but that this "quick fix" would prove insufficient in the long term and that Firestone would need to build a dedicated radial factory. The Committee, according to the minutes, "instructed Mr. DiFederico to proceed immediately... View Details

Keywords: by Donald N. Sull; Manufacturing; Transportation

10 Feb 2003
Research & Ideas

Commodity Busters: Be a Price Maker, Not a Price Taker

customer values of convenience, availability, product or service functionality, and relationship, creates a reason for the customer to buy. But, you also must eliminate reasons for the customer not to purchase. Various adjunct services, for example, often described as... View Details

Keywords: by Benson P. Shapiro

20 Mar 2000
Research & Ideas

Incubators: The New Venture Capitalists?

sometime incubate those. We sometimes partner with people that have those. But what we do is create economic coalitions between those atomic units in order to provide for the delivery to the customer of a complete solution." With... View Details

Keywords: by Kenneth Liss

22 Jul 2019
Book

How to Be a Digital Platform Leader

and then simply copying it? Nonetheless, belonging to a platform is a way to engage in a platform market quickly at relatively low cost and learn the tools of the trade. In the book, we explore a number of “belong” strategies which have... View Details