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Franchises
2008 article Srikant Datar discusses the pros and cons of franchising in order to grow. A Consumer's Guide to Buying a Franchise from the Federal Trade Commission covers the benefits and responsibilities of owning a franchise and the... View Details
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VBHCD Initiative - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
outcomes in order to idenify opportunities for value improvement and develop reimbursement models aligned with high value care delivery. Read more about Value-Based Health Care Delivery Read more about Measuring View Details
- 26 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Yes, You Can Raise Prices in a Downturn
higher prices," says Frank V. Cespedes, a senior lecturer at Harvard Business School, who spent 12 years running a professional services firm. That's right. Higher prices, not lower. “Competing on price is ultimately a bet on your View Details
- 07 Feb 2012
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First Look: February 7
2011) Abstract In this paper, we assess the economic viability of innovation by producers relative to two increasingly important alternative models: innovations by single-user individuals or firms and open collaborative innovation. We analyze the design View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Confronting the Reality of Web Services
communication exchanges, are not going to happen unless managers better integrate common standards. McAfee studied IBM's B2B midrange ordering system and interviewed key players to find out what worked and what didn't. Using his case... View Details
Keywords: by Sara Grant
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VBHCD Initiative - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
and manage patient-level costs over complete cycles of care for a variety of medical conditions. This innovative approach links costs to clinical outcomes in order to identify... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Library Dues
“It’s a free university for everyone, from children to scholars. I’ve always loved this library, particularly for the way it serves all people and entirely without cost to them.” The library aims to raise $1 billion over five years in... View Details
- 26 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 26, 2008
order to smooth earnings (Graham, Harvey and Rajgopal, 2005). We estimate that marketing actions can be used to boost quarterly net income by up to 20% depending on the depth of promotion. But there is a price to pay, with the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 19, 2016
in press Journal of Systems and Software Technical Debt and System Architecture: The Impact of Coupling on Defect-related Activity By: MacCormack, Alan, and Daniel J. Sturtevant Abstract—Technical debt is created when design decisions that are expedient in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Aug 2009
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First Look: August 4
Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-005.pdf The Effect of Labor on Profitability: The Role of Quality (revised) Author:Zeynep Ton Abstract Determining staffing levels is an important decision in retail operations. While the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
Do National Security Secrets Hold Back National Innovation?
widespread secrecy is understandably difficult, since by their very nature, secret inventions are hard to find. Recently, a researcher at Harvard Business School found a way to study this issue—by examining patent applications the US government View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 20 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
Maybe Uber isn't God's Gift to Mankind
own drivers). Uber routinely frustrates regulators as much as it pleases consumers. It has fielded cease and desist orders from governments all over the world, often continuing operation even when ordered to... View Details
- 23 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
It’s Back to Business-Basics for Nonprofits
underlying economics of the organization," he said. In order to get a handle on how money is spent, he recommends that companies do a series of basic cost allocation exercises. One helpful exercise is for... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 01 Jun 1999
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Short Takes
companies, turnaround companies, and low-performing companies. But in order to focus on how compensation decisions are made, he garnered most of his data from interviews with the compensation committee chairs from fifty of the sample's... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 18 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
Tech Investment the Wise Way
market focus is needed to begin the process in order to know what technological attributes to target in the development, and how to resolve the many trade-offs that arise in the course of development, e.g. View Details
- 12 Jan 2016
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January 12, 2016
potential adverse event once the test-statistic crosses a stopping boundary. We employ asymptotic analysis that assumes a large number of observations in a given window of time to show how to compute the stopping boundary by solving a View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
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The Institute for Cancer Care Innovation - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
existing models of cancer care delivery and reimbursement. Its programs are based around the principles of value-based health care delivery, which focuses on the outcomes and costs of care. The Institute has been at the forefront... View Details
- 07 Jan 2016
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Helping Property Owners Reduce Their Carbon Footprint
innovative approach. “I have been in renewable energy for about five years now, and I joined CleanFund about a year ago as CEO, in order to help the company unleash a financial technology that will make a difference on the environment.... View Details
- 03 Aug 2020
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A Clean Start
Scientists, world leaders, and corporations have spent billions trying to harness carbon-dioxide output in order to combat climate change. So far, they’ve figured out how to capture it, but not what to do with it. Todd Brix (MBA 1997)... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Streamlining the Supermarket
full-time employees, slashing labor costs by 90 percent. Those two innovations are expected to add up to a net profit margin of three times that of the overall industry. “And that is really powerful,” Pedró says. “You can actually give... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs