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- 23 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
Product Disasters Can Be Fertile Ground for Innovation
spread the high fixed costs of development and commercialization over their high sales volumes.” Those larger companies also may have benefitted from brand reputation, which could see customers flock to... 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 Apr 1997
- News
An Orchestral Startup
from recording and touring because you're maximizing the orchestra's productivity. By doing the same concert, for example, in a dozen different cities, you spread out your fixed costs for preparing that one... View Details
Keywords: Linda Goodspeed
- 20 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
The U.S. Patent Game: How to Change It
ways that are often invisible. A provocative new book by economists Adam B. Jaffe and Josh Lerner describes what's wrong, but shines a light on ways to fix the system, too. Their book, Innovation and Its Discontents: How Our Broken Patent... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Year 2000 Computer Problem and You: Disaster for Some, Lessons for All
They're betting that if they don't fix all of their office PCs, the result may be troublesome but not catastrophic. Can I soften the impact on my personal life? You can to some extent. For example, you can check with the manufacturer of... View Details
- 15 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 15, 2009
Policies that would create net benefits for society but would also involve costs frequently lack the necessary support to be enacted because losses loom larger than gains psychologically. To reduce the harmful consequence of loss... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
Are the Olympics a Catalyst for China Reforms?
support productive change in China, can also function as constructive bridges. Seeing China as a short-term cost minimization fix is, in this sense, a lost opportunity. Q: It seems that China had hoped to... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 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
- 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
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Five Honored for Missions Accomplished
helped create Citigroup; and rescued Bank One. As a manager, you are known for cost cutting. Would you say that’s a fair assessment? I never call it cost cutting because that implies it is indiscriminate. I... 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
- 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
- 02 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
Digital Initiative Summit: Who Has the Power in the Music Industry?
Andresen Professor of Business Administration at HBS, who led the discussion. In the old model, he said, economies of scale regulated success and performers had to be big to spread out high fixed costs. Now, as a result of the way we... View Details
- 22 Jul 2014
- News
Hungry for Change
Editor's note: Rob Zeaske was appointed director of the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative in July 2020. Read more. As CEO of Second Harvest Heartland, a hunger-relief organization based in St. Paul, Minnesota, Rob Zeaske (MBA 2002) has a clear understanding of what he's... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture
- 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... 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
- 08 Aug 2006
- First Look
First Look: August 8, 2006
(dating from the 1950's in psychology and continuing through the 1990's in economics). We consider a random sample of 2x2 constant sum games to determine how close on average are the equilibrium predictions to observed play in repeated play of a game against a View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
HBS Alumni On Leading Their Alma Mater
more as a consumer—a purchased good versus an experience that will transform their life.” RM: If I just think about the economics of the expenses—at least here at Harvard—about 70 percent of the expenses are fixed View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 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