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- 15 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
Going Green Makes Good Business Sense
your company with a "quality flashlight," said Reinhardt. You may find that revisiting your many systems—design, production, delivery—will yield internal cost reductions that can be better spent on... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 08 Jan 2001
- What Do You Think?
Have We Extended the Boundaries of the Firm Too Far?
quite high at the time, thus providing a justification for the vertical integration of large organizations) set limits on behaviors that we refer to today as partnering, the forming of alliances, and outsourcing. Transaction costs... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 02 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
‘Retail Revolution’ Excerpt: The Scale of the Ecommerce Threat
prices across the board, instituting price-match policies with online retailers, or accepting that they will lose sales to customers who are showrooming. In all of these circumstances, either because of price reductions or fixed View Details
- 19 May 2003
- Lessons from the Classroom
Business Plan Winner Targets India Dropouts
microfinance applied to the problems of education. Specifically, we came to believe that an innovative microfinance-based solution could have a meaningful impact on the reduction of the high dropout rates in primary schools that cause... View Details
- 23 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Forgiving Medical Debt Won't Make Everyone Happier
in a survey conducted of 45 experts before the study, including academics, nonprofit staffers, and government or private sector employees. These experts predicted a median 7 percentage point reduction in depression tied to the debt.... View Details
- 16 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 16, 2018
strong complementarity, but it can arise for other reasons as well. Transaction cost economics and property rights theory advise that strong complements should be placed under unified governance, for example, through common ownership.... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- Web
Policy - Business & Environment
Hawaii, and New York City to name a few. Innovation Increasingly, business leaders from many sectors are taking action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in their operations and supply chains—and some are going further to urge policymakers to enact laws to require... View Details
- Web
Charting Tariff Pain: Small Businesses Brace for Job Cuts, Falling Sales | Working Knowledge
could immediately switch to domestic suppliers, and 35 percent estimated that reshoring would raise costs by no more than 20 percent. Another 20 percent of owners said that shifting would be impossible or prohibitively expensive. While... View Details
- 17 Nov 2022
- News
Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combating Climate Change
We are in a unique moment in time, where the United States’ chance to make a difference on climate is greater – and more necessary – than ever. With the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) in August, business leaders have a... View Details
- 13 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 13
census. We document a shift to smaller shops following a 1996 regulatory change that increased the costs of opening large stores. Our analysis suggests that total factor productivity (TFP) of multi-store retail chains fell after the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Aug 2019
- What Do You Think?
Has the Twitter Age Left the Case Method Behind?
Goldshlager suggested a reduction in the use of cases, citing the emphasis in cases on “best practices” and the possibility that they “may not be leading (practices) to begin with, and may not be amenable to transfer to other companies,... View Details
- 18 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
Time to Rethink the Corporate Tax System?
concern has to be weighed against the gains in reduced compliance costs (firms would no longer have to file hundreds or thousands of returns) that are currently sizable, reductions in tax sheltering, and... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 20 Mar 2019
- News
Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire
emissions reductions immediately, Henderson and the other speakers were optimistic that it is completely plausible to change today’s practices and norms. Despite ongoing debate about the cost of... View Details
- 07 Apr 2003
- What Do You Think?
Should Global Business Initiatives Be Devalued?
firms with global interests—one that centers around the impact that these phenomena may have on such things as the potential benefits and costs of doing business abroad? Specifically, will questions increasingly be asked about whether... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 02 Sep 2019
- What Do You Think?
Are Overlooked Forces Shielding the US from Severe Economic Downturns?
to communicate with each other at will, then repeated the experiment. The result of increased communication was a significant reduction in inventory swings. The paper resulting from that experiment (and probably a lot of other research... View Details
- 04 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 4, 2016
reductions in higher-order multiple (HOM) live births (defined as three or more fetuses), following the initial publication of the Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology (SART) guidelines on ET in 1998. Design: Descriptive use and... View Details
- 26 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
How Electronic Patient Records Can Slow Doctor Productivity
access the results of that study, she may be less inclined to repeat it," he says. "This reduction in duplication can lead to lower costs without harming quality." Productivity losses are not inevitable, and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Ask the Expert: Energy’s Next Era
toward renewables, it also moves from variable cost to fixed cost—from an Opex world to a Capex one. How should pricing evolve to reflect a Capex world and induce consumption when energy is abundant and prevent it when it isn’t? —Catarina... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Clearing the Air
MORE For a deeper dive, check out our three-part Skydeck podcast series on carbon capture. Skydeck podcast MORE For a deeper dive, check out our three-part Skydeck podcast series on carbon capture. Skydeck podcast When the United States Congress passed the Inflation... View Details
- 30 Nov 2018
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Best Administrative Approach to Climate Change?
Summing Up: Should a 'Montreal Protocol' for Administering Global Warming Be Pursued? Climate change and how to manage it is a daunting subject. Nevertheless, several readers of this month’s column were willing to venture a model or two for administering a system... View Details