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  • February 1997
  • Case

Enron Development Corp.: The Dabhol Power Project in Maharashtra, India (B) (Abridged)

By: Louis T. Wells Jr.
A new administration takes power in a state in India and cancels a power project agreed upon by the previous state government and a U.S.-based energy company. The project cancellation is based on allegations of irregularities, exorbitant costs, and political pressures. View Details
Keywords: Energy Generation; Fairness; Cost; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Policy; Government and Politics; Contracts; Market Entry and Exit; Negotiation Process; Conflict Management; Energy Industry
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  • 26 Mar 2013
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First Look: March 26

ones. Findings: Our key counterintuitive finding is that Japanese and American founders of entrepreneurial firms are more similar than is often suggested. We first find that in both Japan and the U.S., achievement motivation is positively related to customer... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 May 2011
  • First Look

First Look: May 10

pre-selection by a menu setter. We develop a model to study the relation between the ability of the menu setter and the size and quality of the menu. We show that when the cost of increasing the size of the menu is sufficiently small, a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Sep 2008
  • News

Totting Up the Bill for the Iraq War

BILMES AND STIGLITZ: Among a costly war’s casualties, American prestige and power. PHOTOS: (LEFT, RIGHT) DOMINICK REUTER, DAN DEITCH The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict (W.W. Norton, 2008) is not just about... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; National Security and International Affairs; Government
  • February 1991 (Revised October 1991)
  • Case

Fenchel Lampshade Co.

By: William A. Sahlman
Describes the proposed purchase of a lampshade manufacturer by Steven and Michele Rogers, recent graduates of the Harvard Business School. Focuses on their plans to raise the capital necessary to buy the company. Among the issues raised are how to structure the deal... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital; Financing and Loans; Negotiation Deal; Business or Company Management; Cost vs Benefits; Manufacturing Industry
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  • June 2010
  • Article

The Pathologies of Online Display Advertising Marketplaces

By: Benjamin Edelman
Display advertising marketplaces place "banner" ads on all manner of popular sites. While these services are widely used, they suffer significant challenges, including weak user response and low accountability for both advertisers and web site publishers. I survey a... View Details
Keywords: Misleading and Fraudulent Advertising; Online Advertising; Cost; Corporate Accountability; Information Publishing; Consumer Behavior; Relationships; Web Sites
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  • March 2010
  • Article

In Favor of Clear Thinking: Incorporating Moral Rules into a Wise Cost-benefit Analysis

By: Max Bazerman and Joshua D. Greene
Bennis, Medin, and Bartels (2009) have contributed an interesting paper on the comparative benefit of moral rules versus cost-benefit analysis (CBA). Many of their specific comments are accurate, useful, and insightful. At the same time, we believe they have... View Details
Keywords: Cost vs Benefits; Moral Sensibility; Adoption; Performance Effectiveness; Decision Making; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques
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  • 01 Apr 1998
  • News

Short Takes

Managing Development Flexibility in Uncertain Environments," the authors assert that increasing flexibility during the product development cycle can enable a firm to adjust to unanticipated circumstances so opportunely and cost... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Caroline Chauncey
  • Web

Crisis Leadership - Bubbles, Panics & Crashes – Historical Collections – Harvard Business School

Dennison to mechanize the production of watches, a technique recently applied to firearms. Dennison, an artisan watchmaker underemployed throughout the crisis years, calculated that interchangeable parts could dramatically reduce the high labor View Details
  • 21 Jun 2020
  • News

Rooting out Racism

elevate the cost of all other types of racist behavior, in policing, criminal justice, housing, K–12 education, and health care—systems that for decades have been putting knees on the necks of our most vulnerable citizens and... View Details
  • 04 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 4

than smaller menus, as measured by the maximum Sharpe ratio achievable. We propose a model in which menu setters differ in their ability to pre-select the menu. We show that when the cost of increasing the menu size is sufficiently small,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 08 May 2007
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First Look: May 8, 2007

integration have barely occurred, and globalization's future is fragile. Cross-border mergers are running up against protectionism, and local economic stagnation may lead to a reversal of globalization that may persist for decades. The Innovation of Time-Driven... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • February 2009
  • Teaching Note

Pitney Bowes: Employer Health Strategy (TN)

By: Michael E. Porter and Jennifer F Baron
Teaching Note for 709458. View Details
Keywords: Health; Employees; Cost; Policy; Situation or Environment; Innovation and Invention; Contracts; Programs; Strategy; Manufacturing Industry; Service Industry; United States
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    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
      • Web

      Supplemental Financial Information - Annual Report 2014

      multifaculty, cross-disciplinary research. The School also incurred new costs in fiscal 2014 for I.T. infrastructure to support increased alumni engagement, as well as FIELD enhancements in the MBA Program. MBA tuition and fees recover... View Details
      • 14 Nov 2006
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      First Look: November 14, 2006

      currency. This reduced profitability because Clearwater's costs were in Canadian currency while its sales where largely in other currencies. The case also discusses the challenges of maintaining a sustainable fishery and uses the collapse... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • 05 Mar 2020
      • News

      Green Light

      she began to realize how wasteful, unsafe, and unreliable it really was. Conventional agriculture was facing substantive infrastructure problems while the cost of the tech solutions to address these issues was declining rapidly. It was a... View Details
      Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Scott Nobles
      • 08 Mar 2017
      • Op-Ed

      Op-Ed: Can the Proposed American Health Care Act Improve on 'Obamacare'?

      value individual freedom, having the ability to answer this question will be seen as a benefit. However, if too many people do indeed opt out of purchasing plans, the potential downside is that, collectively, costs may rise. Risk pools of... View Details
      Keywords: by John Quelch, Dr. Gordon Moore, and Emily Boudreau
      • 12 Feb 2013
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      First Look: Feb. 12

      the costs and benefits of land placed under different uses. Policy scenarios then determine the amount of land under each land use and the implications for costs, benefits, and carbon emissions. A "low-carbon development... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne