International Cost Of Capital - Publications - Faculty & Research

09 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Incentives and Operational Excellence

Minor allowed customers to internalize the consequences of their demand for services," he explained. "Owens & Minor developed cost drivers to understand the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Mar 2017
Research & Ideas

A Good Thing Happens When Doctors Start Talking to Their Patients

difficulty is that doctors and hospitals usually do not bear the eventual downstream costs of shorter visits. “Because of the fragmented way we deliver and pay for care, no... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

23 Jan 2020
Research & Ideas

Businesses Need a 'Catalyst' to Make CSR Practices Stick

responsibility programs are basically funded by an internal tax within the company,” says Robert Kaplan, Senior Fellow and Marvin Bower Professor of Leadership Development, Emeritus at Harvard Business... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

01 Nov 1999
Lessons from the Classroom

What’s Next & So What? Leading in the 21st Century

Indeed, many of the leaders we've celebrated over the last decade or two made their organizations competitive by instituting fairly linear improvements, such as reengineering, supply chain management, enhanced customer responsiveness, and... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

04 Dec 2013
Research & Ideas

The Fantastic Horizon: How to Invest in a New City

flexible and strategic, but value is created in proximity and in phasing. Uses need to be near each other for both economic competitiveness and to save the environmental costs of long car transit. Without... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber; Construction; Real Estate

04 Apr 2018
Op-Ed

Op-Ed: Why Private Investors Must Fund 'New Nuclear' Power Right Now

category known as “new nuclear,” which offers the potential to dramatically reduce costs and rapidly ramp up installations when compared to today’s nuclear power plants. But the success of new nuclear—and... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph Lassiter; Energy; Green Technology

10 Jun 2015
Research & Ideas

The Transparency Revolution in Corporate Reporting

ESG issues tend to have the best future investment performance. Q: Why is that? A: If we have better information around ESG issues, and it is communicated and used more effectively, then that information will be incorporated into stock prices and affect the View Details

Keywords: Re: George Serafeim

21 Nov 2012
Research & Ideas

What Health Care Managers Need to Know--and How to Teach Them

Harvard Business School Professor Regina Herzlinger. “This is not a field for mile-wide, inch-deep managers” On October 4-5, Herzlinger, the Nancy R. McPherson Professor of Business Administration, hosted the View Details

Keywords: by Paul Guttry; Health; Education

23 Feb 2004
Research & Ideas

How Corporate Responsibility is Changing in Asia

treaties, tariff policies, and regional trade agreements that can be put in place to enhance the effectiveness of CSR and a country's long-term competitiveness. When international quotas on textiles and... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

08 Sep 2003
Research & Ideas

A Bold Proposal for Investment Reform

should be a nonprofit organization, with responsibility for rating the performance of financial analysts from the viewpoint of retail investors. We believe that there are costs... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services

25 Feb 2002
Research & Ideas

MNCs in Asia: Investing in the Future

said Howson, who focuses on mergers and acquisitions, project finance, and capital markets in his firm's Beijing office. The creation of domestic capital markets, increasing... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

16 Feb 2004
Research & Ideas

European Private Equity—Still a Teenager?

The European market remains very attractive, with strong potential for growth—especially once French and German restructuring gets more underway, according to a panel of private equity group executives. That panel discussion was part... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services

23 Jan 2015
Research & Ideas

Oil Price Fallout: What Happens Next?

The last six years have proved just how fluid the international oil market is. And if recent support of the Keystone Pipeline by the U.S. House of Representatives and the... View Details

Keywords: Re: Richard H.K. Vietor; Energy; Utilities

01 Oct 2020
What Do You Think?

Are CEOs the Wrong Leaders for Stakeholder Capitalism?

has enough leverage to practice it. Boards of directors play an important role in championing the cause of stakeholders of all kinds. DF in AZ put it this way: “If a company... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

Five Questions for James Austin

In an email interview, Harvard Business School professor James Austin spoke with HBS Working Knowledge managing editor Carla Tishler about his work on collaboration and his ongoing research.Tishler: You talk about companies transitioning across three stages View Details

Keywords: by Carla Tishler

07 Sep 2019
Op-Ed

Even for Non-Believers, These Are the Next Steps on Climate Change

works out to a 35 percent chance in a span of 30 years if nothing else changes). The hotel’s owners should be balancing the near-term known cost of reinforcement—that is,... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber

08 Jul 2013
Research & Ideas

Everything Must Go: A Strategy for Store Liquidation

innovation simply by ensuring that new firms have room to enter the market. Second, efficient liquidation also reduces a retailer's cost of capital by increasing the bank's... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail

02 Oct 2000
What Do You Think?

What Lies Beyond NAFTA?

economies. The conclusion is that it has created jobs on both sides of the border while sharpening the ability of Mexican companies to compete. The Mexican business community is learning to cope not only... View Details