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- 01 Jan 2017
- News
Improving Health Care Delivery
through big data by offsetting the cost of collection and analysis and by tapping into the tremendous amount of existing medical information available. “I think HBS can be a leader in making use of that information from a business and... View Details
- 19 Jan 2024
- News
The Values and Virtues of a Quick Fix
But while there's a danger of moving too fast, Morriss tells me, there's also a serious opportunity cost of moving without enough speed. Her new book, Move Fast and Fix Things: The Trusted Leader's Guide to Solving Hard Problems,... View Details
- 28 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 28
is extremely limited. Theoretically, delegation of authority is expected when locally adapted choices are most important to the overall value of the firm, when local information advantages are significant, or when the cost of processing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
Amazon, Whole Foods Deal a Big Win for Consumers
Source: 400tmax Editor's Note. Online retailing behemoth Amazon announced June 16 that it would acquire upscale grocery chain Whole Foods Market in a deal valued at more than $13 billion. Though the company has dabbled with the idea of a brick-and-mortar footprint in... View Details
- 16 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
Has COVID-19 Broken the Global Value Chain?
efficiency and cost minimization shall be accompanied by more attention toward a diversification and also of the currencies used for transactions. Question: What are some implications for policymakers?... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Too Much of a Good Thing?
it's supposed to." Bower continues: "Theoretically, when an industry has excess capacity, prices fall and the least efficient producers can't survive." But, Bower adds, that doesn't always happen. "In many countries, for all sorts of... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 31 Mar 2023
- Research & Ideas
Can a ‘Basic Bundle’ of Health Insurance Cure Coverage Gaps and Spur Innovation?
Professor of Public Policy at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, conducted the research with Katherine Baicker of the University of Chicago and Mark Shepard, associate professor of public policy at the Kennedy School. Addressing the high View Details
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Case Studies - Social Impact Collaboratory
financing) poses many challenges to core investing activities such as financial projections, valuation and exit modeling. Family offices doing direct investing have unique capacities to be flexible, long-term partners to companies absent formal capital markets. Root... View Details
- 02 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Not All M&As Are Alike—and That Matters
managers, and rationalizes administrative processes. In the end, the acquiring company has greater market share, a more efficient operation, better managers, more clout, and the industry as a whole has less excess capacity. What's not to... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph L. Bower
- Web
Electricity - Business & Environment
Ecometano/MDCPAR “Our goal is to provide our corporate clients in Brazil with cost efficient low carbon energy solutions. Ecometano has pioneered the upgrading of high BTU biogas from landfills and other... View Details
- 08 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Creating Value in Your Business Ecosystem
technologies that offers solutions to others in the ecosystem. The platform can be a physical asset, like the efficient manufacturing capabilities that Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing offers to those computer-chip design companies that... View Details
Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien
- 15 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: November 15
the compact arrangement of buildings, efficient use of water and power, and deployment of transit that reduces congestion. Investment and urban planning in three Asian cities are profiled as illustrations. Two sample proformas featuring... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Aug 2022
- Research & Ideas
Can Amazon Remake Health Care?
Investors and market watchers noted Amazon’s less-than-stellar forays into health care, while privacy advocates raised concerns about Amazon’s access to patient medical data. Still others have voiced hopes Amazon will bring much-needed View Details
- 28 Jun 2022
- Book
The Moral Enterprise: How Two Companies Profit with Purpose
How can government and business work together in this fractious political moment, when finding solutions to pressing problems like inequality and climate change are more urgent than ever? Rebecca Henderson, Harvard University’s John and Natty McArthur University... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 15 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
The New Global Business Manager
managers? How have your own views changed? Christopher Bartlett: Well, fortunately, the basic argument has held up. But the world has evolved and we do see some new patterns emerging. But first let's focus on the things that have stayed constant. Companies have still... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 10 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot
achieving the complete elimination of all waste in pursuit of the most efficient methods.” The system is based on two principles: automation with a human touch, and each process producing only what is needed for the next process in a... View Details
- 07 Jul 2003
- What Do You Think?
Can We Have Too Much Productivity Improvement?
improvements improve life somewhere in the globe, but not necessarily in the U.S.A." Bill Donohue wrote that "In the 20's ... the root cause may perhaps have been the massive building of low cost assembly line-based industrial... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- Web
Business Economics Online Course | HBS Online
pricing strategies Benchmark costs compared to competitors through relative cost analysis Apply conjoint analysis to understand what features customers value most Understand the power of network effects to... View Details
- 21 Jan 2022
- Blog Post
Tipping Point: Investing in the Women of Kenya’s Coffee Farms
experimenting with using blockchain for transparency in the tipping process. It also is exploring whether cryptocurrency might allow for more efficient tipping in a café setting. The cost of transferring... View Details
- 20 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 20
Snack Foods, located in Austin, Texas, manufactures, markets, and distributes snack foods and frozen treats. The CEO is passionate about maximizing shareholder value and believes in keeping tight control over costs and operating the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne