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02 Nov 2020
What Do You Think?

Is Antitrust Just a Quaint Notion in the Digital Age?

Joel put it, “Though I get the point that their behavior excludes competitors, the consumer would seem to benefit for now. What I wonder is why there is not more aggressive enforcement where the consumer is clearly being hurt, as demonstrated by excessive price View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Retail; Technology; Telecommunications; Communications; Consumer Products; Service

01 Jan 2005
News

Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., MBA 1965

with the burden of integrating their new systems. Then, in the early 1990s, the rise of desktop computing saw IBM lose the PC race to a raft of new competitors. By 1992, IBM was feeling the effect of its sluggish reaction to these... View Details

04 Dec 2007
First Look

First Look: December 4, 2007

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=407049 Analyzing Relative Costs Harvard Business School Note 708-462 Introduces students to the technique of relative cost analysis, a core... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

06 Jun 2013
Op-Ed

How to Do Away with the Dangers of Outsourcing

diminishing the quality and even viability of its offerings. Outsourcing Has Its Costs Just ask Boeing. No firm placed a bigger bet on the virtual organization model. Its new 787 Dreamliner was going to be the UN of manufactured goods:... View Details

Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati; Manufacturing; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion

29 Sep 2015
Research & Ideas

Work 3.0: Redefining Jobs and Companies in the Uber Age

protect against a company’s having extensive control over its workforce without paying for employee benefits and social security taxes. Until recently, Work 2.0 worked. Now the Work 3.0 era has dawned, prompted by the rapid rise of... View Details

Keywords: by Andrei Hagiu; Transportation; Web Services

19 Apr 2016
First Look

April 19, 2016

three-time increase in cov-lite issuance compared to a previous peak in 2007. We evaluate whether this development can be attributed to market overheating, increased borrower demand for cov-lite loans, or a rise in creditor coordination... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2018
News

Ask the Expert: Gimme Shelter

homelessness. But the affordable housing problem is especially acute in urban areas, where entire tranches of the workforce—teachers, laborers, first responders, restaurant and transit workers, for example—are squeezed out of their communities by View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

07 Dec 2016
Blog Post

Marketing Reimagined: A Recap of the 2016 Marketing Innovation Conference

memorable take-a-ways came out of the session. For example, Matt Taylor, CEO of Tracksmith and Becca Freeman of LOLA shared the power of earned media for early-stage startups. Several of the panelists also addressed paid media; efforts can be successful but close... View Details

Keywords: Entertainment / Media / Sports

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Supplemental Financial Information - Annual Report 2016

largest expense, comprising nearly 44 percent of total operating costs in fiscal 2016. Salaries and benefits expense increased 5.1 percent in fiscal 2016 to $309 million, from $294 million in the prior year. The total number of faculty at... View Details

11 May 2017
News

Going with the Flow

with a team on a new idea in the health IT space—one she believes has the potential to increase the quality of patient care, while lowering costs by giving control of health care information back to the patient. “We are looking to turn... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley

19 Sep 2011
Research & Ideas

Doomsday Coming for Catastrophic Risk Insurers?

Kenneth A. Froot spends more time thinking about natural disasters than the average business school professor. In addition to the rise and fall of the Dow and the long-term implications of the financial crisis in Greece, he has natural... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish; Financial Services

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CFO Letter - Annual Report 2017

our plan, rising slightly less than 6 percent and 3 percent, respectively, year over year. Driven by a group of major platform investments, I.T. has been a major contributor to the higher fixed costs at HBS... View Details

20 Jun 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 20

techniques for changing individual behavior in pursuit of policy objectives. The types of “nudge” interventions that governments are now adopting alter people’s decisions without coercion or significant changes to economic incentives. We calculated ratios of impact to... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

15 Aug 2016
Research & Ideas

Black Swans and Big Trends Can Ruin Anyone's Internet Prediction

AOL’s chat rooms and SixDegrees, a social networking site that peaked at 3.5 million members before failing in 2001. Despite these developments, I didn’t foresee the rapid rise of Friendster (founded in 2002), MySpace (2003), and Facebook... View Details

Keywords: by Thomas R. Eisenmann; Technology

12 Mar 2007
Research & Ideas

The New Real Estate

early perestroika days when real estate developers could command six years of rent upfront before the building was even built have been reduced to six months. Unlevered going-in returns of 30 percent on costs are now 14 percent or less.... View Details

Keywords: by Arthur I. Segel; Construction; Real Estate

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Supplemental Financial Information - Financial Report 2015

increase was primarily driven by spending aimed at positioning HBP and HBX for future growth, and was partially offset by decreased expenses in Executive Education. Although HBS characterizes these publishing, digital learning, and executive program View Details

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Supplemental Financial Information - Annual Report 2017

aimed at positioning HBP, HBX, and Executive Education for future growth; and investments in I.T. systems and platforms across the School. Although HBS characterizes its publishing, digital learning, and executive program costs as... View Details

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Supplemental Financial Information II - Annual Report 2019

expenses include a portion of faculty salaries and benefits expense, as well as direct costs for faculty support staff and travel, and for the School’s network of global offices. Additionally, HBS allocates a portion of the View Details

22 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

Recessions Push Some Entrepreneurs to Launch Too Soon

entrepreneus. Sean Silverthorne: First off, can you summarize your previous research findings? Maria Roche: Our first finding is that an increase in the unemployment rate is associated with a substantial rise in the share of entrepreneurs... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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Amager Bakke: I Like This Waste Incinerator in My Backyard! - Blog - Business & Environment

Rising Climate Stories Clubs Courses & Curriculum Creating Emerging Markets Entrepreneurship Event Faculty Faculty Research IFC Decarbonization & Sustainable Production 2023 IFC Decarbonization & Sustainable Production 2024 IFC India 2024... View Details

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