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- 01 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
Sometimes Success Begins at Failure
they have much more rarely considered the false negatives. This is because the damage created by false positives is much easier to recognize, and to quantify. It can be both expensive and embarrassing when a project goes through the... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Increasing Access and Expanding Opportunity
graduate school, how does the fear of incurring a large amount of debt keep individuals from applying to HBS? Chad Losee: We did a market research study in 2019 to understand what prevents qualified potential students from applying.... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 26 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Better Way to Negotiate: Backward
Free Trade Agreement, went about securing buy-in: "News might arrive that a representative who had been leaning toward yes had come out as a no…. When he heard the bad news, [Daley went into action].… 'Can we find the guy... View Details
Keywords: by James K. Sebenius
- 24 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
With Millions of Workers Juggling Caregiving, Employers Need to Rethink Support
or it’s a bad air-quality day and my child really shouldn’t be outdoors, I’m going to keep them home from school. As a normal working adult, I don’t have money to hire a service, so I’m going to miss a day of work. Fifty percent of women... View Details
Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
- 05 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 5, 2006
Working PapersThe Framing Effect of Price Format Marco Bertini and Luc Wathieu Existing evidence suggests that preferences are affected by whether a price is presented as one all-inclusive expense or partitioned into a series of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Your Taxi Is Waiting
difficulties of flying in a post-9/11 world. Long lines at security, delays, and meager service were the least of it. For many business travelers, getting from a big city to a smaller one was a tricky, time-consuming proposition, often requiring the additional View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Producers
marketplace mean studios are making fewer and bigger movies. “Corporations are about reducing risk; making movies is about taking risks,” says Zee. “The safest bet seems to be franchises and big, expensive movies. But where is the... View Details
- 14 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 14
related to the company's expansion into products and services for China's growing high net worth (HNW) population, including questions about the suitability of its products and its vulnerability to bad debt... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
December 2021 Alumni and Faculty Books
rescue a leading energy corporation from ever-increasing debt and a lack of executive accountability, he faced an uphill battle. Not only had he never before stepped into the role of CEO, he also had no experience in the rapidly evolving... View Details
- 03 Apr 2019
- Book
Fintech's Game-Changing Opportunities for Small Business
out an application in minutes, and get an answer the same day and money in their bank account the next day, they flocked to the new lenders. Some issues arose quickly, though, such as high prices and bad actors charging hidden fees. The... View Details
- 19 May 2016
- Research Event
Crowdsourcing, Patent Trolls, and Other Research Insights Highlighted at Harvard Business School Symposium
dispute to court can be an expensive proposition. Cohen shared an example: Lumen View Technology, which had initiated patent lawsuits in the past against numerous companies, sued FindTheBest and several other firms, claiming they... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman & Carmen Nobel
- 11 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 11
organizations, Kaplan and Haas identify five common mistakes when managers attempt to cut health care costs. The mistakes are triggered, primarily, by working from the line-item expense categories on P&Ls, rather than clinically based... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jun 2012
- Research & Ideas
When Business Competition Harms Society
high. But when meeting customer demand is bad for society at large, then competition has a flip side," says Victor Bennett, an assistant professor at the USC Marshall School of Business, who cowrote the paper with Lamar Pierce of... View Details
- 31 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 31, 2009
expenses between the businesses in a way detrimental to Friendly shareholders but personally advantageous to the CEO. Further, Blake believed that Friendly's board of directors was not meeting their fiduciary obligations to shareholders... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Jan 2010
- Research & Ideas
Best of HBS Working Knowledge 2009
include: How does a team leader win the confidence of the group? What's the best method for developing team goals? How can individual performers be developed into team players? How do teams learn? When Goal Setting Goes Bad If you ever... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Damon Silvers
changes in approach, and what changes or circumstances gave rise to those changes in approach. We do not assume that making changes in response to changing circumstances is a bad thing. But the frequency of changes suggests a lack of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- Lessons from the Classroom
Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science
the "Faster, Better, Cheaper" initiative, and what did it try to achieve? A: FBC was a response to rising development costs and the high-profile failures of several missions in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Its aim was to move toward smaller, less View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 13
operating in preferred ways). We present an incomplete-contracts model in which vertical integration raises output at the expense of lower private benefits. A key implication is that higher prices should result in more integration, since... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Key Metrics | Annual Report 2024
Key Metrics Financials (in millions) 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 Revenues $ 1,098 $ 1,067 $ 966 $ 805 $ 861 Expenses 1,062 1,003 908 779 831 Net Operating Surplus 36 64 58 26 30 Capital Investments 37 31 43 22 43 Building View Details
- 27 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 27
a new business venture is one of the most important decisions entrepreneurs will face: Should they go it alone or bring in cofounders, hires, and investors to help build the business? More than just financial rewards are at stake. Friendships and relationships can... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel