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- 09 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Social Entrepreneurs Can Increase Their Investment Impact
revenue toward high impact opportunities, then an investment may allow the financier to reallocate funds to other purposes. Does the company have opportunities to expand its profitability at little cost to...
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by Rachel Layne
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Supplemental Financial Information - Financial Report 2018
Although HBS characterizes its publishing, online learning, and executive program costs as operating expenses, they would in large part be considered as cost of goods sold in a profit-seeking enterprise....
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- 02 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
Digital Initiative Summit: Freeing Patient Data to Enable Innovation
impediments in the future. In mapping those bottlenecks, Hsiang cited difficulty in moving data around because of legal constraints and high costs with low rewards. Petro added the issue of timeliness--even...
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- 11 Dec 2014
- News
Fashion's Retail Revolution
Principles Jamal Motlagh Taking Tailoring High Tech Taking Tailoring High Tech Karen Moon Making Big Data Fashionable Making Big Data Fashionable Imran Amed Rethinking the Fashion Beat Rethinking the Fashion...
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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...
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- 10 Jun 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Transparency Revolution in Corporate Reporting
has become more concentrated in recent years, with most of it now controlled by just 1,000 companies. That allows economies of scale and scope and very high returns of capital, all of which give those companies tremendous power. With that...
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Re: George Serafeim
- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
investment without far-reaching central planning. For example, a developer can install PRT to benefit its own property, thereby establishing initial PRT links without resorting to public funds. Despite the high social and environmental...
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Carolin Oldenbuettel
worked on a project to optimize the target costing management system, aligning new car models to feasible costs,” she says. “What I like about the auto industry is that they’re more and more influenced by tech—self-driving cars, for...
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- 13 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 13
foreign market share therefore increased five-fold between 1997 and 2007. We construct and analyze a panel of Mexican bank financial data covering this period and find no evidence that foreign entry increases the availability of credit. We also find that View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Start-Ups Make Their Pitch
today goes to telecom, high tech, or software,” said Mahesh, founder and CEO of Sundaram Medical Devices in Chennai. Mahesh trained at Stanford as an engineer and worked for McKinsey and Toyota before attending HBS. He plans to apply...
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- 29 May 2019
- News
HBS Career Coaches Hit the Road to Serve Alumni
recently wrapped up workshops in Seattle and Indianapolis. Other cities on the tour include Toronto, Salt Lake City, Charlotte, Houston, and St. Louis. Northern California Alumni Consider the High Cost of...
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Margie Kelley
- 10 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Rethink the Value of Joint Ventures
going it alone even more than the returns to partnering with local firms. The reasons are that the forces of globalization—particularly reduced trade costs leading to more fragmented production processes—are making it more and more...
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by Cynthia Churchwell
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
The Exchange: Micro Management
Image by John Ritter In the 50 years since modern microfinance was introduced as a tool to fight poverty, institutions have distributed hundreds of millions of loans to people in developing countries. Such loans are repaid at rates often as View Details
- 22 Jan 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
Why You Are Unhappy at Work
importance of being supportive. Hazard Warning: The Unacceptable Cost of Toxic Workers A productive workplace can be easily disrupted by one unruly employee. Here's what companies can do to detox the problem-makers. If the CEO’s View Details
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Youth Movement: HBS Clubs Make Students a Top Priority
and general manager of the East Coast Division of Nordstrom, Inc.; and Ralph C. Thomas III, associate administrator of NASA. "We negotiate with the companies to sponsor the cost of the dinner meeting for the MBA students, and then we have...
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Amy E. Dean
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Brick by Brick
founder. Under his management, product demand was so high at times that executives actually found themselves discussing ways to slow sales. That all changed in the early 1990s as seismic shifts pounded the toy market. Big-box toy...
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- 06 Jan 2003
- What Do You Think?
China: The Next Big Market Opportunity or the Next Big Bubble?
view raises questions of whether there will be an adequate supply of such talent. Will impatient Western managers eager to develop Chinese business opportunities delay initiatives until the right people can be found? How high is the View Details
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by James Heskett
- 27 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
New Cluster Mapping Project Helps Companies Locate Facilities
twenty years, particularly in high tech, made the decision to move manufacturing offshore where costs are lower. You have argued that the location decision should involve much more than simple financial...
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by Sean Silverthorne
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Supplemental Financial Information II - Annual Report 2020
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
- 19 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 19
margins from its Help Desk contract with Fonaveu, a large, strategically important customer. Emergia is considering tactics such as overdelivering on calls that incur lower costs (while underdelivering on View Details
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Sean Silverthorne