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- 07 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Three Steps for Crisis Prevention
South Africa over its attempt to reduce the cost of HIV drugs through parallel importation (buying pharmaceuticals in countries with lower prices and then importing them) and... View Details
Keywords: by Michael D. Watkins & Max H. Bazerman
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Noted & Quoted
“Some Democrats view Medicare as a successful cost controller, pointing to its low administrative overhead, which they peg at 3 percent. But that figure ignores an inconvenient truth: Medicare’s unfunded liabilities, estimated at about... View Details
- 17 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 17
Publications August 2013 California Management Review What Impact? A Framework for Measuring the Scale & Scope of Social Performance By: Ebrahim, Alnoor, and V. Kasturi Rangan Abstract—Organizations... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Wrapping Your Alliances In a World Wide Web
chain management and advanced planning and scheduling software embed more advanced algorithms than their predecessors and offer the possibility... View Details
Keywords: by Andrew McAfee
- 15 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Right Connections
of the picture, a young company must clear many hurdles before convincing potential investors that its future prosperity is a good bet. New research by HBS associate professor Monica Higgins and Associate Professor Ranjay Gulati of the... View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross
- 18 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 18, 2009
useful and saleable by-product. The term "by-product synergy" (BPS) has been coined to describe this practice. By converting waste into by-product, the firm not only reduces its waste disposal cost... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Jul 2024
- Blog Post
Advancing Health Equity: Social Enterprise Summer Fellow Simona Stancov (MBA 2025)
preventive interventions in Burkina Faso Efforts to better understand and address out-of-pocket costs in Benin Development of a costing tool to estimate resource needs for... View Details
- 28 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Football Stars Debate ‘The Social Capital of the Savvy Athlete’
about making money, but about managing it. "Financial literacy is not something that exists in the inner city," he said. Foxworth said that any conversation about working hard and staying in school... View Details
- 12 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 12
the costs and benefits of land placed under different uses. Policy scenarios then determine the amount of land under each land use and the implications for costs, benefits,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Apr 2000
- Research & Ideas
Financial Services 24/7
likes to look at this complicated new world in terms of what is changing and what is staying the same. A longtime observer of technology's impact on business, McFarlan has been intrigued by recent developments in the financial services... View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Lords of Strategy
do large-scale engineering without knowing the laws of physics. As a set of ideas, strategy sought to remedy all these deficiencies. And the effort was spearheaded by, of all people, management consultants —... View Details
- 02 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 3, 2008
cultivators, especially on public lands. This reduced the costs of tenure insecurity. Political constraints prevented the government from subsidizing land reforms to a greater degree. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Feb 2012
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First Look: February 7
2011) Abstract In this paper, we assess the economic viability of innovation by producers relative to two increasingly important alternative models: innovations by single-user individuals or firms and open collaborative innovation. We... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
This Crisis Loan Program Preserved Jobs—and Made Money
As the US Congress prepares to replenish its Paycheck Protection Program for small businesses, questions still linger: Do guaranteed loans for small businesses work in the long term? Who wins? Employees? Businesses? Taxpayers? The answer appears to be yes for all... View Details
- 14 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Can Entrepreneurs Drive People Movers to Success?
How did you first become interested in PRT systems? Ben Edelman: As a longtime user of public transportation, I often wish for more widespread transit links, more frequent services, and faster journeys. Yet I'm shocked by the View Details
- 03 Dec 2015
- Op-Ed
How "New Nuclear" Power Could Save the Planet—If Regulators Would Allow It
Leaders from some 150 nations have convened in Paris this week for the COP21 conference with a singular goal: to fight the global threat of climate change. Each of them have brought to Paris their own national plan for reducing greenhouse gas emissions that drive... View Details
- 15 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 15
PublicationsBuilding Sustainable Hybrid Organizations: The Case of Commercial Microfinance Organizations Authors:Julie Battilana and Silvia Dorado Publication:Academy of Management Journal (forthcoming)... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
America Needs a Manufacturing Renaissance
battery cells used in electric vehicles. Theme 3: There Is Nothing "Natural" About Erosion of the Industrial Commons—Management and Policy Matter The erosion of the industrial commons in the United States is the result not of the... View Details
- 08 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Clayton Christensen on Disrupting Health Care
for the number and cost of the services they provide rather than by the value of those services in helping patients. In short, medical professionals make money when their patients become sick. Here's one... View Details
- 11 Dec 2018
- Research & Ideas
Free Trade Needs Nurturing—and Other Lessons from History
the Mekong Delta, where you have the same. The US producers felt that they were being threatened by cheap fish from Vietnam, and local politicians went all the way up to Washington, which imposed a series of trade barriers. The View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Auto; Aerospace; Chemical; Consumer Products; Electronics; Energy; Industrial Products; Manufacturing; Shipping; Transportation