Time And Cost Control - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2003
News

HBS Releases 2003 Financial Report

its commitment to transparency at a time when the School is involved in a $500 million capital campaign. It also highlights the School’s unusual business model. Unlike most schools, HBS does not accept government View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

Profile

Ruzwana Bashir

experiences makes us much happier than buying things. Part of the allure of Peek is to not only make sure we’re able to more easily access and book the experiences that increase our well-being, but also to help small activity businesses... View Details

01 Mar 2009
News

Model Patient

fatigue syndrome (CFS), which for a long time went undiagnosed; battling CFS for some ten years, she could no longer work and therefore lost her health insurance. Her prescription bills alone were $600 a... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Health, Social Assistance

26 Feb 2007
Research & Ideas

The Power of the Noncompete Clause

compare mobility with and without noncompetes, controlling for other factors in what economists call a "natural experiment." States differ in their enforcement of noncompetes. That said, even the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

05 Aug 2010
What Do You Think?

What Is Customer Opinion Good For?

Jacoline Loewen pointed out that "Asking the customer's opinion is great for quality control check(s), but for creative strategy get beyond the client." Gerald Nanninga commented that "consumers are very good at explaining frustrations... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Technology

30 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Computer Security is For Managers, Too

for companies to explain their rationale for the limitations they place on computer usage. Control access to your systems. You don't allow just anyone off the street to wander in and use your company's fax... View Details

Keywords: by Robert D. Austin & Christopher A.R. Darby

01 Nov 2012
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: Judgment Calls

(and thus becoming the only student ever to owe Harvard twice as much as it cost to attend the school!). But, ever buoyant, Dal LaMagna soldiered on year after year, relentlessly trying this or that new business idea, View Details

Keywords: by Thomas H. Davenport & Brook Manville; Consumer Products

01 Oct 1998
News

Beyond the Numbers

Robinson in 1986 as assistant controller for their international consumer businesses, including bank cards and retail banking. His first task, he recalls, was to "take a look around View Details

Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey

Martin W. Clement

lines from New York City to Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, and Harrisburg. At the end of World War II, Pennsylvania Railroad controlled 6% of the railway mileage in the U.S., but more than 20% of the... View Details

Keywords: Transportation

08 Mar 2004
Research & Ideas

Secret to Success: Go for “Just Enough”

it seems to be about simpler values. Like the upper-middle-class living room featured in sitcoms, many depictions of a simple life today cost more than you might think. Our collective fixation on "the best" View Details

Keywords: by Laura Nash & Howard Stevenson

01 Mar 2005
News

One-on-One with Edwin Reed

assessing needs and identifying financially viable opportunities in this market, we defined an acquisition and property control strategy, secured public/private funding... View Details

Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations

01 Sep 2009
News

E Ink’s Wild Ride

inspire immediate excitement. Then Jacobson and his crew showed him another example, this time under a microscope, in which the pixels migrated over an electrode to spell out MIT. “You could see the... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; e-books; e-reading; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services

30 Oct 2012
First Look

First Look: October 30

Michael W. Toffel Publication:Organization Science (forthcoming) Abstract Governments and other organizations often outsource activities to achieve cost savings from market competition. Yet such benefits are... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

22 Apr 2002
Lessons from the Classroom

Entrepreneurship: It Can Be Taught

people who start companies have to do. Many of our students are confronted for the first time with some very realistic problems. We then move on to managing relationships. Since an entrepreneur really doesn't own everything but tries to... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

23 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: ‘Talk, Inc.’

communication ceases to be tenable. Finally, there is the brute fact that all of these changes have steeply accelerated the pace at which business gets done today. As the time available for decision making becomes shorter View Details

Keywords: Re: Boris Groysberg

June 2024
Case

Aidoc: Building a Hospital-Centric AI Platform

By: Ariel D. Stern and Susan Pinckney

In 2023, Israel-based AI health care company Aidoc evaluated its future. The company, founded in 2016, had grown from commercializing a single AI product for radiologists to a software platform that could detect 20 conditions and immediately notify care teams of... View Details

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04 Nov 2002
Research & Ideas

From Lone Star to Team Player

can obtain both benefits: fierce focus on individual business units, which produces solid performance in each of the businesses, and an appropriate level of cross-unit interactions, which produces extra economic value through things like... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark

02 Oct 2000
Research & Ideas

The Dubious Logic of Global Megamergers

focused on building a strong regional presence in Latin America. Even if Telefónica has to sell its assets, or itself, its regional position will command a high price. Keep Your Eye on the Ball. A big deal takes lots of time View Details

Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat & Fariborz Ghadar

01 Sep 2020
News

Giving Amazon the Boot

says. By not requiring merchants to fit their offerings within a rigid product detail page, platforms like Shopify offer more flexibility and control over a brand's story. As for what’s selling well in the... View Details

Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade

17 Oct 2016
HBS Case

Business Solutions That Help Cut Food Waste

As much as 40 percent of food grown in the United States for human consumption is wasted. Source: Eivaisla After decades of wasteful food practices, where perfectly good food is discarded even as poverty keeps many families hungry, solutions are starting to come... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Food & Beverage

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