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- 16 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Resolving Patent Disputes that Impede Innovation
Land Rover, for instance, while the Universal Serial Bus (USB) helps standardize the connection of countless computer peripherals. Intellectual property owners often strive to have their patents included in these standards, such that in View Details
- 11 Dec 2017
- News
Growing from Within
there’s an obvious cost to that arrangement. But what are the benefits that company ownership offers McDonald’s? In the US, the McDonald’s Operating Company, McOpCo as we call it, plays an important role for the McDonald’s system:...
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- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Short Takes
environmental management. Reinhardt argues that in order to manage the environmental challenge successfully, firms should improve their cost management, reduce risk, create and capture value, and help...
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- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Real Conflict
prices are significantly lower than its competitors. Assuming the company’s prices are 8 percent lower — at the low end of the estimates from various studies summarized in a recent report by Global Insight — and applying that to Wal-Mart’s domestic sales volume, U.S....
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- 09 Nov 2015
- Research & Ideas
These Employers Pay Higher Salaries than Necessary
necessarily charging higher prices to take advantage of inexperienced companies, says Stanton. They could also be trying to recoup their higher costs in working with a first-time employer, who might need more hand-holding navigating the...
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- 01 Feb 2001
- News
The Doctor Is In
"Doctors and hospitals must be fairly compensated in order to supply first-rate patient care," Slavin emphasizes. "Doctors are seeing more patients than ever, and in some specialties, reimbursement has fallen by 50 percent. But I think...
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- 28 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
Microfinance: A Way Out for the Poor
for someone to get off the ground: enough to buy inventory, rent space, and begin to generate an income in order to feed, clothe, and shelter a family. A legal loan of that amount from a real bank is also the difference between paying...
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by Martha Lagace
- 09 Jul 2018
- Research & Ideas
Overcoming the Challenges of Selling Brand New Technology (Hey, Need a 3-D Printer?)
ago. Or the first Newton, Tang, or Roomba. Everyone knows and understands a better mousetrap when they see one—no selling skills really required. But a 3-D printer? Why would I want that? How much does it cost to maintain? What’s wrong...
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- 09 Mar 2009
- Research & Ideas
How to Revive Health-Care Innovation
networks arise, disrupting the old. Hence, disruptive business models such as value-adding process clinics, retail clinics, and facilitated networks must be married with disruptive innovations in insurance and reimbursement in order to...
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- 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...
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by Mihir Desai
- 19 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
LEED-ing by Example
parties) have issued executive orders requiring federal agencies to use environmentally preferable products and services whenever possible, as has the European Commission. These procurement policies are specifically aimed to "spur private...
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- 09 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
Starbucks’ Lessons for Premium Brands
coffee, revitalizing the quality of its standard beverages. But none of these moves addressed the fundamental problem: Starbucks is a mass brand attempting to command a premium price for an experience that is no longer special. Either you have to cut price (and that...
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- 03 Aug 2017
- Blog Post
“I Can Acquire Important Skills, But Also Gain the Big Picture Perspective of a Founder.”
at ways to reduce the cost per dish, in the kitchen or within the delivery logistics. The larger role, and the one with more urgency, requires aggressive customer acquisition. “After one-and-a-half years, Bacadio is serving 180 dishes a...
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Entrepreneurship
- 06 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018
favor posted prices; our estimates suggest the latter is more important for explaining the shift away from auctions. We provide supporting evidence from a survey of eBay sellers and discuss why sellers might use a mix of auctions and posted prices in View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jun 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Twenty-first Century Skill: Trading Carbon Credits
Cap and trade has become an increasingly popular mechanism used by governments to induce green behavior among corporate polluters, with news emerging almost daily. Just recently New Jersey Governor Chris Christie withdrew his state from the Regional Greenhouse Gas...
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- 16 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Researchers Contribute Globalization of Markets Papers
Value A transnational brand is the corporate brand of firms that market globally in order to leverage economies of scale and scope, according to HBS professors Douglas Holt, John Quelch, and co-author Earl Taylor of Research...
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by Working Knowledge editors
- 03 Dec 2015
- Op-Ed
How "New Nuclear" Power Could Save the Planet—If Regulators Would Allow It
test and development facilities in multiple countries. We can re-engineer regulatory processes to radically lower costs and shorten approval times by testing full-scale prototypes before licensing. We can create new public safety...
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- 07 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: Sept. 7
(Study 1B) and not their interpretation of the questions (Study 1C). The second set of studies suggests that divulgence is anchored by the initial questions in a survey; people are particularly likely to divulge when questions are presented in decreasing View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
Reducing Risk with Online Advertising
good type (someone who is actually providing the contracted service) or a bad type (someone who is using one scam or another in order to get paid despite not actually having done the work or provided the benefit). Q: Which online...
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- 23 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard
protective stock in case delivery is not when expected. Late deliveries cause higher costs for expediting orders and rescheduling the plant around the missing items. Also, low-price suppliers may not be...
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by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton