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- 12 Nov 2018
- Blog Post
Student Portraits - Armed Forces Alumni Association
effectively allocate, and insufficient to do everything. If I am certain of anything, it is that my daughter does not agree with my allocation of this precious resource. HBS is the first time in my adult life that I have been outside of a... View Details
- 27 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Dynamics of Standing Still: Firestone Tire & Rubber and the Radial Revolution
million Firestone 500 tires at a cost of $150 million after taxes–an action that constituted the largest consumer recall in U.S. history.19 Firestone's move into radials was not only consistent with the company's standard operating... View Details
- 10 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Retailing Revolution: Category Killers on the Brink
2000. At current growth rates, 2015 purchases via the Internet will likely exceed $250 billion. Online sales tend to be highly concentrated in several categories, and are so significant that it is increasingly difficult for physical stores to justify View Details
- 24 Jun 2021
- Blog Post
Celebrating the Past, Crafting the Future Part 2: The First HBS/HKS Class
coming into the HBS | HKS Joint Degree program. “My goal was to help individuals better invest their money – that was my North Star,” he said. Fast forward ten years, and Reed is living out that vision managing the asset allocation for... View Details
- Web
2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
focus on entrepreneurial actors trying to deliver better health and education outcomes at a lower cost and requiring less time to more people. He also will discuss the role of ventures in addressing climate change. Some of the... View Details
- 14 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World
not an option, this process helped companies share implementation costs and leverage each other’s competencies to discover new ways of doing things. Some companies took more extreme measures to support their ecosystem, for example... View Details
- 10 Jan 2008
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Operations Management
cross-functional coordination, and profitability management. Current product-tracking technology makes problem diagnosis much easier than the time of the original study. By and large, companies using this methodology see lowered costs and... View Details
- 03 Sep 2020
- Op-Ed
Why American Health Care Needs Its Own SEC
prices reflect substantially all publicly available information, and buyers can see which companies provide good value for the money. By establishing trust in the information, this system has lowered the cost of capital and enabled better... View Details
- May 1989
- Teaching Note
Tektronix: Portable Instruments Division (B), Teaching Note
By: Robert S. Kaplan
Teaching Note for (9-188-143). View Details
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
What Really Drives Your Strategy?
way in which ideas are developed and funded in order to respond to something which the top can see clearly: that cost containment is a big issue. Q: What role do capital markets play in the resource View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- Web
FAQs - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
also value in applying TDABC to low-volume care conditions. Since TDABC facilitates comparisons of costs with outcomes managers will be better able to make decisions about whether to expand or limit resources View Details
- Mar 2012
- Article
Macroeconomic Policy and U.S. Competitiveness
as education and infrastructure, contributes directly to one or more of them, whereas spending on health care and entitlements does little to enhance competitiveness directly. Taxes are needed to fund public goods, but they sometimes distort the View Details
- 15 Feb 2017
- Op-Ed
What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects
Senegal, is a public-private partnership where the private sector supplied most of the capital and is compensated mostly by toll revenue, but the low “policy price” tolls would not have paid back the full cost. The government of Senegal contributed to first View Details
- 05 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 5
PublicationsHow to Identify the Best Customers for Your Business Authors:Cespedes, Frank V., James P. Dougherty, and Ben S. Skinner III Publication:MIT Sloan Management Review Abstract How can businesses achieve profitable growth so that their View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 27, 2009
the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-130.pdf Farsighted House Allocation Authors:Bettina-Elisabeth Klaus, Flip Klijn, and Markus Walzl Abstract In this note we study von Neumann-Morgenstern farsightedly stable sets for Shapley... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Big Deals: Project Finance Helps Mitigate Risk in Large-Scale Investments
cost something on the order of $5 billion, not the $5 million one might expect for a typical start-up,” Esty explains. And all too often, he adds, they can turn out to be losing propositions. The managerial challenge is to make sure that... View Details
- 23 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
It’s Back to Business-Basics for Nonprofits
underlying economics of the organization," he said. In order to get a handle on how money is spent, he recommends that companies do a series of basic cost allocation exercises. One helpful exercise is for... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- March 1987 (Revised July 1996)
- Case
Kansas City Zephyrs Baseball Club, Inc.
By: Kenneth A. Merchant, Krishna G. Palepu and Joseph P. Mulloy
Describes a dispute between the owners of the major league baseball teams and the players' union about the profitability of the baseball teams. The issue is important because of the ongoing collective bargaining negotiations. A consultant is brought in to decide... View Details
Keywords: State Ownership; Compensation and Benefits; Entrepreneurship; For-Profit Firms; Accounting; Activity Based Costing and Management; Resource Allocation; Cost Accounting; Cost Management; Labor and Management Relations; Financial Management; Sports; Sports Industry; Kansas
Merchant, Kenneth A., Krishna G. Palepu, and Joseph P. Mulloy. "Kansas City Zephyrs Baseball Club, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 187-088, March 1987. (Revised July 1996.)
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Why Layoffs are a Losing Strategy
practice and Joseph L. Rice III Faculty Fellow. It wasn’t until the idea of “lean” corporations came into vogue that companies began to treat employees as just another resource to be allocated as needed. In the decades since, layoffs have... View Details
- 14 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Web Surfers Have a Schedule and Stick to It
In most markets, products and services compete for the consumer’s money. On the internet, however, the coin of the realm is time, not money—websites and other online services fight for the attention of visitors. So understanding when, how, and for how long we View Details