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- 05 Sep 2012
- What Do You Think?
Will Business Management Save US Health Care?
health care is about life, quality of life, and death. Start trying to manage, control and put a dollar figure on that and you will instantly run into walls at all levels of society." On the other hand, David Giammittorio described... View Details
- 11 Dec 2014
- News
Fashion's Retail Revolution
entrepreneur, e-commerce offers low cost of entry, wide reach, rapid scalability, and the opportunity for an MBA to start as CEO. When Senior Lecturer José Alvarez started teaching the MBA Retailing elective five years ago, enrollment was... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
The Campaign for Harvard Business School
$475 $500 95% *Total includes undesignated and unrestricted gifts, as well as planned gifts at present value Stamps Gift Supports Baker Reading Room A recent campaign gift of $12 million from the charitable foundations of E. Roe Stamps IV (MBA ’74) and Penelope W.... View Details
- 01 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 1
propose a general mechanism of partner choice, "screening," that is similar to the economic theory of mechanism design. Imposing the appropriate costs and rewards may induce the informed individuals to screen themselves... View Details
- 09 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 9, 2008
discussion of how ownership concentration constrains restructuring alternatives, how hedge fund investors might confront controlling shareholders, and how the mispricing of agency costs can give rise to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 24, 2006
maintain majority control of their company. As attractive as the plan seems, they worry about the high cost of the loan and the risk that the offering might fail. In January 2005, with no time left to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Short Takes
to ensure that environmental resources are replenished for future generations - as there are people discussing the issue. But with increased pressure on businesses to consider the costs of their actions to society and the environment... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 03 Oct 2006
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First Look: October 3, 2006
less control over their strategy than they think while middle managers and operating managers can have a much greater role in strategy than is generally recognized by either those managers or by top management: But the complexity of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Apr 2010
- What Do You Think?
Why Are Fewer and Fewer U.S. Employees Satisfied With Their Jobs?
Joyce Dias puts it, "People give up what they enjoy doing most in order to submit to the unnatural process of doing something— anything in order to earn their living." Combine this with research that cites a high correlation between job satisfaction and View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Decoding the Promise and Perils of Generative AI
contributions. “Similarly to how the internet and web browsers dramatically reduced the marginal cost of information sharing,” they write, “AI may also be lowering the costs associated with human thinking... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 02 Sep 2019
- What Do You Think?
Are Overlooked Forces Shielding the US from Severe Economic Downturns?
Harvard Business School. The experiment was typical of thinking in those days: If only we had better ways of communicating, especially better ways of tracking customer preferences and demand. Now we do. Another notion prevalent in those days was that of the “total... View Details
- 05 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
If Your Customers Don't Care What You Charge, What Should You Charge?
customers. Both established firms and new market entrants frequently use introductory offers to accumulate customers and then raise prices later on, assuming customers will choose to stay over the cost of switching again. This works on... View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Lillian Lincoln Lambert, MBA 1969
of its contracts. "Suddenly, I was losing a lot of money," she says "It took us three years to be profitable again." Stringent cost controls and aggressive outreach to commercial clients made the difference.... View Details
- 02 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
Four Companies that Conquered America
consumers but exclusively on an online basis. Taking advantage of its low no-bricks-and-mortar cost structure, ING was able to offer generous rates on certificates of deposit. Just four years on, ING is the third-largest holder of... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- 18 Apr 2005
- Research & Ideas
Prosper with Multi-Channel Retailing
the brand in all major facets of the store experience," he said. "The one thing we pride ourselves on is the presentation of the merchandise in our stores." While many of Abercrombie's customers are Web-savvy teens, Nuzzo said it is more difficult for... View Details
- 22 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity
was enough to spur the innovation, offering inventors a "seal of approval" they could then use to show investors that their idea had merit. "When you think about the cost of launching a new innovation, it is clearly an... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 23 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Forgiving Medical Debt Won't Make Everyone Happier
and data on future debt sent to collections. In the first experiment, researchers compared more than 14,000 randomly selected patients for whom RIP Medical Debt relieved a total of about $19 million in debt with a control group of more... View Details
- 27 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 27
and affiliated physicians. Over the last two decades, through a combination of active legal defense and medical error prevention, the RMF has successfully controlled the medico-legal costs of physicians... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 22, 2016
managerially substantial increases in current retailer orders (i.e., demand, not just sales). Specifically, a one percentage point increase in fill rate, measured over the prior year, is associated with a statistically significant 11% increase in current retailer... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 May 2020
- News
Better Than Cash
in sanitation or health or education, it starts with a payment system everyone can use.” Goodwin-Groen offers the example of a mother who has to pay for her children’s schooling once each semester. She needs to save money for several months to do so; in low-income... View Details