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- 10 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty Views on Debt Crisis
the story is the same. The threat is real, the costs will be large, and we must act. But what we must do is well understood: Reform entitlements and the tax code to spend less, raise more, or both. Fixing... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 11 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Cheap, Fast, and In Control: How Tech Aids Innovation
Harvard Business School, discusses how businesses can sidestep the often prohibitive costs and time-consuming trials of experimentation by implementing new technologies. Wendy Guild: We've all heard the old saw, "If it ain't broke,... View Details
Keywords: by Wendy Guild
- 24 Aug 2017
- News
Unlocking Potential
professor for a father and an enthusiastic community volunteer for a mother, Anderson recalls that talk at the family dinner table often revolved around social problems such as the exploding US prison population, and how to fix them.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Rent Out Your Ride
CLARK: A bright idea for utilizing untold idle capacity, America’s privately owned autos. It’s estimated that a privately owned midsize car costs about $8,000 a year to own and operate. In cities, it also spends most of its time parked... View Details
- 22 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist
policy. “You have to acknowledge that [Gleason] was trying to fix prices. This is antithetical to how most Americans think of the US market operating” “I thought, who is this plucky woman amongst men?” Sawyer recalls after seeing... View Details
- 23 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
Will the “Long Tail” Work for Hollywood?
long-tail view suggests that consumers will purchase an increasing number and a wider variety of videos, everything from Hollywood classics to obscure foreign films. Long-tail proponents believe that consumers have very different tastes, and online retailing with its... View Details
- 14 May 2009
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Teams
in your organization, join the club. Despite the mantra that goals are good, the process of setting beneficial goals is harder than it looks. New research by HBS professor Max H. Bazerman and colleagues explores the hidden cost when... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 10 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Counting Up the Effects of Sarbanes-Oxley
the importance of building in opportunities to measure the costs and benefits. "A skeptic of regulation would say that SOX wasn't needed at all, that the system would have fixed itself," he... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
Prescriptions: Free the Data! Build a Killer App Measure Health Care's Real Costs Make Medicine Personal Leverage Human Nature Integrate Preventive Care and Payment BUSH: A passionate advocate for improving health care efficiency and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
health-care system is in critical condition: The cost of U.S. health care not only hampers its citizens’ well-being and the country’s ability to compete globally, but it also draws funding away from other sectors, such as education, where... View Details
- 02 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 2
fixed costs of changing prices. The latter predict unrealistically large responses of price changes to inflation for firms that do not frequently reduce their prices. Adjustment View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
IT Links for Boundaryless Companies
information technology as being subject to fashion, but the same thing happens, the network effect. This is important when we start talking about B2B hubs." The third characteristic is differentiated products and prices. Most of the View Details
Keywords: by Kenneth Liss
- 15 Feb 2017
- Op-Ed
What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects
President Trump’s infrastructure plan and a counterproposal by Senate Democrats are rising toward the top of the national agenda. All agree that there is a pressing need to fix the collapsing bridges, potholed roads, crashing trains, and... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Beyond the Numbers
by 300 percent in one year by altering the company's profit structure and leveraging its balance sheet. Among other reengineering moves, Robinson reduced fixed costs significantly by centralizing the firm's... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Real Conflict
economic pie available to be divided among its various stakeholders, instead of just slicing up a fixed pie in a way that favors one group over another. Consider, for example, the conclusions of the McKinsey Global Institute’s study of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Conducting Business
In 2015 I moved from New York City to Madison, Connecticut, where I met, quite by chance, Ginny Vancil and her brother, Richard. I thought, How many Vancils can there be in the world? I asked if they knew Richard “Dick” Vancil, who was my first professor for my first... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
INK: Big News for Small Business
photo by Susan Young I also believe this will decrease risk for lenders, which will lower the cost of capital and create a virtuous cycle. Community banks, in particular, could be big winners: Imagine if they introduced these fintech... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
HBS Issues Upbeat 2006 Annual Report
billion, up 13 percent, reflecting strong returns and new gifts. The School’s operating expenses rose 12.4 percent to $345 million, with the growth primarily reflecting increased investments in Executive Education and HBSP, and inflationary pressure on View Details
- 07 Oct 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
How Companies Can Make Up with (Very) Unhappy Customers
JetBlue employees and more than 130,000 customers whose flights were cancelled, delayed, or diverted. How did the airline make it right with customers and learn from its mistakes? The Hidden Cost of a Product Recall Product failures... View Details
- 05 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 5
perceived benefits from lowering transactions costs to foreign financial-statement users increase and contribute significantly towards the country's decision to adopt IFRS. We find that perceived network benefits increase the degree of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne