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  • 24 Jun 2009
  • Working Paper Summaries

Don’t Just Survive—Thrive: Leading Innovation in Good Times and Bad

Keywords: by Lynda M. Applegate & J. Bruce Harreld
  • February 2010 (Revised October 2010)
  • Case

YouTube: Time to Charge Users?

By: Anita Elberse and Sunil Gupta
In January 2010, YouTube, the world's largest online video aggregator, was still seeking to become profitable. Was the time right for Google, YouTube's parent company, to charge users seeking to upload content, as some analysts had suggested—and if so, who should be... View Details
Keywords: Digital Marketing; Business Model; Cost; Profit; Revenue; Consumer Behavior; Internet and the Web; Motion Pictures and Video Industry
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  • 31 Aug 2021
  • Book

Feeling Powerless at Work? Time to Agitate, Innovate, and Orchestrate

Although CEOs hold positions of power, many can feel powerless in certain ways—particularly when it comes to influencing the behaviors and performance of their employees. Yet perhaps they aren’t taking the View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
  • 01 Feb 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Keeping Track: Performance Measurement, Control & Strategy

Measurement & Control Systems for Implementing Strategy, published by Prentice Hall. Q: What's the context for the development of this book? Simons: My colleagues and I in the School's Accounting View Details
Keywords: Re: Robert Simons
  • July 1999 (Revised January 2000)
  • Case

Yahoo!: Business on Internet Time

By: Jan W. Rivkin and Jay R. Girotto
In the wake of major competitive moves, CEO Tim Koogle and his senior team at Yahoo!, an Internet portal, must decide whether and how to adjust their strategy. Following deals between AOL and Netscape, Excite and @Home, Infoseek and Disney, and Snap and NBS, Yahoo!... View Details
Keywords: Competitive Strategy; Growth and Development Strategy; Business Strategy; Organizational Structure; Industry Structures; Internet and the Web; Risk Management; Technological Innovation; Business or Company Management; Information Technology Industry; Web Services Industry
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  • September – October 2011
  • Article

The Manufacturer's Incentive to Reduce Lead Times

By: Santiago Kraiselburd, Richard Pibernik and Ananth Raman
It is generally a well acknowledged fact that, ceteris paribus, reducing the lead times between downstream and upstream parties in a supply chain is desirable from an overall system perspective. However, an upstream party (e.g., a manufacturer) may have strong... View Details
Keywords: Cost; Demand and Consumers; Order Taking and Fulfillment; Production; Supply Chain Management; Sales; Manufacturing Industry; Retail Industry
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  • 24 Sep 2014
  • Op-Ed

Tackling Climate Change Will Cost Less Than We Think

change? Harvard Business School faculty share their thoughts. Most importantly, there are good reasons to think that the world will surprise us , and that once we put our mind to addressing climate change the View Details
Keywords: by Rebecca Henderson; Energy; Utilities
  • 27 Apr 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Building Businesses in Turbulent Times

critical to success today and in the years to come. They must consider cost cutting as one step on the journey to future success. In a sense, every business, large or small, needs to think of itself as a... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 14 Oct 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Time that Government Reopens for Business

it may take them some time to get over their financial anxiety even after the shutdown has been settled. In addition, programs like Head Start and nutrition assistance, targeted at the disadvantaged, are put... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
  • August 2001
  • Background Note

Work Methods Design: Note on Time Standards

By: H. Kent Bowen
Looks at production design. Helps students observe and work with procedures and consider cost reduction ideas using a view of methods improvement. View Details
Keywords: Cost Management; Management Practices and Processes; Standards; Production; Performance Improvement; Perspective
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  • 08 May 2006
  • Research & Ideas

The Cost of Cutting in Line

Third, installing and operating these emergency counters is costly. In all research on the fairness of prices, customers agree that it is fair to reimburse companies for the cost of providing extra services. View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 2010
  • Article

Estimating the Attributable Cost of Physician Burnout in the United States

By: Shasha Han, Tait D. Shanafelt, Christine A. Sinsky, Karim M. Awad, Liselotte N. Dyrbye, Lynne C. Fiscus, Mickey Trockel and Joel Goh
Background: Although physician burnout is associated with negative clinical and organizational outcomes, its economic costs are poorly understood. As a result, leaders in health care cannot properly assess the financial benefits of initiatives to remediate... View Details
Keywords: Physicians; Burnout; Health; Health Care and Treatment; Employees; Cost; Programs; Policy; Health Industry
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Measure Outcomes & Cost for Every Patient - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

time required for each process. Overhead functions such as billing, information technology, and human resource management should be attributed to the condition based on resource use resulting from the needs... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2020
  • News

Up Your Time Affluence

here, Whillans offers straightforward strategies for gaining control over that most precious asset of all. Beware of time confetti. Our near-constant connection to technology leads to social media View Details
  • 31 Jan 2018
  • Research & Ideas

American Idle: Workers Spend Too Much Time Waiting for Something to Do

Paul Bradbury American workers are usually a pretty busy bunch, yet their time spent idle costs employers an estimated $100 billion per year, according to a new study from Harvard Business School. “We... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • August 1994
  • Case

Higashimaru Shoyu Company, Ltd. (A): Price Control System

Illustrates how Japanese firms use profit pressures to increase efficiency. In particular, explores how pseudo profit centers create pressure on workers to increase revenues and reduce costs, and the use of semiautonomous teams in a traditional Japanese workforce. View Details
Keywords: Cost Management; Groups and Teams; Organizational Structure; Performance Efficiency; Management Systems; Japan
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  • 16 Apr 2019
  • News

Would You Live in a Smart City Where Government Controls Privacy?

  • 01 Jun 2011
  • News

All in Good Time

O’Kelly’s mind, as is, ironically, maintaining balance in her own life. “Amid ups and downs, I do feel like I’m achieving it,” says O’Kelly, who declined venture capital funding so that she could maintain more View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; staffing agencies; parenthood; Accounting, Tax, Bookkeeping, Payroll Services; Professional Services
  • 10 Mar 2021
  • News

Elevator Pitch: Game Time

Video Embed Animation by Drue Wagner and Troubadour Image + Sound Concept: Tilt Five is an entertainment system that uses augmented reality (AR) glasses, a game board, and a wand View Details
Keywords: AI; virtual reality; gaming; technology; entrepreneurship; startups; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries
  • 18 Nov 2014
  • News

Giving women more control over their biological clocks

Reproductive technology pioneer Christy Jones (MBA 2004) founded Extend Fertility in 2004 to enable women to freeze their eggs and then utilize them when the time is right. (Published November 2014) View Details