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12 Nov 2013
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First Look: November 12

most recently-precisely the individuals who would recognize it is a gift. The effects of the gift are higher for workers with lower historical wages, and in fact it increases productivity more than it increases cost for this group. Our... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

18 Jun 2007
Op-Ed

Leveling the Executive Options Playing Field

behavior. Indeed, a significant cost for corporations—the cost associated with compensating key employees with stock options—was until recently treated as an expense for tax purposes but not for financial... View Details

Keywords: by Mihir Desai

08 Nov 2024
Op-Ed

How Private Investors Can Help Solve Africa's Climate Crisis

African people, businesses, and nations are becoming increasingly stressed by climate-related perils like droughts, river flooding, extreme heat, and rising sea levels. This is leading not only to the destruction of assets but also challenges to lives and... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber; Green Technology; Energy

15 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 15

find the evidence to be most consistent with a model of endogenous technology adoption where the cost of adopting new technologies declines sufficiently with the current level of adoption. The evidence is less consistent with a dominant... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

Mar 2012
Article

Macroeconomic Policy and U.S. Competitiveness

government deficits put upward pressure on the cost of borrowing for companies. The authors propose a plan--they call it "20/21 by 2021"--to reduce the deficit from 3.8% of GDP (the Congressional Budget Office's most likely... View Details

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Tanya Khakbaz

hard — but it is so worth it. I used to be the devil's advocate, constantly challenging the facts around me. It made me a good student, but an imbalanced soul. Maybe it's because as an economist I'm used to weighing costs and benefits.... View Details

Ian K. MacGregor

Assigned to handle arms purchases for the British government, MacGregor came to the U.S. during World War II. Sensing a fertile climate for business, MacGregor stayed in the U.S. after the war and became the CEO of American Metal. Through his shrewd View Details

Keywords: Metals

John L. Collyer

In 1940, Collyer brought to market the first tire with a substantial man-made rubber content. Goodrich’s tire was 50% synthetic rubber at a time when man-made rubber was not yet cost competitive with crude rubber. However, shortly... View Details

Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace

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3.9 Annual Notice: Higher Education Opportunity Act - MBA

3. Financial Obligations 3.9 Annual Notice: Higher Education Opportunity Act Welcome to HBS Being a Student at HBS 1. Academic Information & Policies 2. Integrity & Standards of Conduct 3. Financial Obligations 3.1 Student Accounts 3.2 Financial Aid 3.3 Student View Details

01 Sep 2011
News

Making a Difference in the World

million would be saved in annual energy costs. If each household replaced its appliances with the most efficient available, $15 billion of savings in energy costs would result. The top 3,000 public companies cause over $2.15 trillion, or... View Details

Keywords: Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

01 Jun 2009
News

Setting the Legislative Agenda

assume trillions of dollars in liabilities spent to try to repair a broken system. The costs of regulatory failure and the urgency of regulatory reform could not be clearer.” Related Links Too Big To Fail View Details

Keywords: Credit Intermediation and Related Activities; Finance; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

02 Feb 2023
News

Can We Really Engineer a Climate Fix?

computer to predict important properties of molecules. DM: Like how much energy it takes to bind the molecule to CO2. Or how much it costs to produce the molecule. AS: And the other part is using machine learning to connect the dots... View Details

01 Jun 1999
News

Where Main Street Meets Wall Street

fund sector, today is undergoing substantial transformation, thanks to the Internet's growing reach. Unlike other areas of Internet commerce, such as online bookstores, where the cost of merchandise is roughly equivalent to in-store... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

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support event programming (for crowd control, public safety, or dignitary protection). HBS Operations reserves the right to require a detail for any event at its sole discretion. These details will be arranged directly by HBS Operations & event owner shall pay for the... View Details

05 Jun 2012
First Look

First Look: June 5

ability of a firm to transfer its capabilities across markets: no learning, local learning, and global learning. Three equilibrium strategies arise: accommodate, marginalize, and collocate. We identify how these strategies emerge depending on the tradeoff between the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

John F. Welch, Jr.

Though he had the full support of GE’s board, Welch’s first few years as CEO consisted of extensive cost cutting plans, some of which involved controversial divestitures of GE subsidiaries. Having successfully streamlined the company,... View Details

Keywords: Fabricated Goods

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Family Control of Firms and Industries

We test what explains family control of firms and industries and find that the explanation is largely contingent on the identity of families and individual blockholders. Founders and their families are more likely to retain control when doing so gives the firm a... View Details

Keywords: Family Business; Cost vs Benefits; Governance Controls; Family Ownership; Business and Shareholder Relations; Competitive Advantage

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10 Jan 2005
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Public Pension Reform: Does Mexico Have the Answer?

is the wrong discussion ...Instead of creating the equivalent of mini-401(k) accounts, the focus on social security reform should be on the income side. By utilizing an institutionally-provided defined benefit approach that better integrates investment and annuity... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Financial Services

04 Apr 2018
Op-Ed

Op-Ed: Why Private Investors Must Fund 'New Nuclear' Power Right Now

category known as “new nuclear,” which offers the potential to dramatically reduce costs and rapidly ramp up installations when compared to today’s nuclear power plants. But the success of new nuclear—and perhaps the future of the... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph Lassiter; Energy; Green Technology

06 Jun 2023
Blog Post

Van den Ende Rozen: Greenhouse Rose Production

two years. Digitalization and Automation The site we visited was Van den Ende Rozen’s second and newest greenhouse. Constructed in 2008, the site covers 80,000 square meters, capable of yielding over 300 roses per square meter per year. The operation’s three View Details

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