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- 01 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
How Politics Drives Business Decisions in a Polarized Nation
party offering starkly differing prescriptions for growth, it’s more important than ever to understand how political leanings shape the business, the workplace, and beyond. “Political homogeneity of executive teams in the US has become... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 31 May 2016
- First Look
May 31, 2016
Porteus Abstract—We extend the Clark–Scarf serial multi-echelon inventory model to include procuring production inputs under short-term take-or-pay contracts at one or more stages. In each period, each such stage has the option to order/process at two different View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
word for it: Numerous sources over the past several years have documented the actual costs of the new generation of nuclear plants, including testimony to regulators by many of the utilities proposing to build them. According to these... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Class Day and Commencement 2001
category. Both winning teams addressed health-care issues. The social enterprise team of Neil Houghton, Ashley Magargee, Naomi Weinberg (all MBA '01), and Marcel Acosta won for their venture Low Cost Eyeglasses, whose aim is to supply... View Details
- 29 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
How Technological Disruption Changes Everything
could only be accomplished by specialists in less convenient, centralized settings. PCs, for example, brought computing power to individuals at a fraction of the cost of minicomputers, replacing the minicomputer specialist and centralized... View Details
- Web
Finalists | New Venture Competition
2024) Daniel Erdosy We help drug manufacturers produce life-saving biologics more efficiently, in order to deliver cheaper drugs to patients worldwide. SaveSpace Katharina Kelm (MBA 2024) Kelvin Kassis... View Details
- 08 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 8
diverse and relatively unconcentrated size structure appears quite consistent with other research on the underlying economics of this industry. Culture Clash: The Costs and Benefits of Homogeneity Author:Eric Van den Steen... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Apr 2015
- What Do You Think?
Are Technology Companies Ripe for Disruption?
trying to impress his/her peers and just confuses the customer." Mark Altobello offered an interesting theory: "We try to make the software so flexible to reduce the cost of future changes. But I think we therefore omit the idea... View Details
- 19 Oct 2023
- Blog Post
New Venture Competition 2023: Business and Environment Ventures
urban Nigerians with affordable financing for clean, reliable energy. We leverage group financing and carbon accounting to lower costs and risk in the energy transition of Nigeria's $14B fuel-based, off-grid generator market. PolyoseBio -... View Details
- 04 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 4
to second-line drug regimens, 3.8% had died, and only one patient had been lost to follow up. A costing analysis done by the Clinton HIV/AIDS Initiative suggested that the model could feasibly be spread to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Jun 2020
- Book
Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever
based on those forecasts, the highlights of their observations, and prescriptive thoughts based on our analysis of their ideas. The executives identified 10 powerful forces that had the potential to disrupt the progress flowing from the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 02 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 3, 2008
also find that people's willingness to punish wrongdoers is consistent with their judgments, and we offer preliminary evidence on how to reduce these biases. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/facpubs/workingpapers/papers0809.html#wp09-020 The View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 15
Publications August 2013 Economic Development and Cultural Change The Costs of Favoritism: Is Politically-Driven Aid Less Effective?" By: Dreher, Axel, Stephan Klasen, James Raymond Vreeland, and Eric Werker Abstract—As is now well... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 11
Standard theories of corporate ownership assume that because markets are efficient, insiders ultimately bear agency costs and therefore have a strong incentive to minimize conflicts of interest with outside investors. We show that if... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 May 2016
- Op-Ed
World Health Organization Lacks Leadership to Combat Pandemics
greater role in WHO governance and if there are guarantees of purchase contracts for new drugs and vaccines at sensible prices. Both seem unlikely, as the WHO's culture has always winced at cooperation with the private sector. WHO's track... View Details
- 30 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 30
recognizes that contingent debt can be associated with incentive problems and lack of commitment. Thus, the benefits of unexpected inflation are tempered by higher interest rates. We obtain that costs from inflation more than offset the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Jun 2020
- News
Covering All Corners
is coordinating with Gilead Sciences, maker of Remdesivir, to distribute and manufacture the antiviral drug treatment for use in 127 countries, including Egypt. It was recently approved for emergency use by the United States, India,... View Details
- 18 Aug 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs
application, the paper chip, which costs only pennies to produce, monitors liver function and the adverse side effects of the powerful drugs used to treat HIV/AIDS and TB. In February, DFA's reach broadened... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
failed companies. When Potentia Pharmaceuticals won the contest in 2001 with Alec Machiels (MBA 2001) at the helm, its plan hinged on a mechanism created by a team of Harvard and MIT scientists that used atomic force microscopy in drug... View Details
- 19 Apr 2018
- News
One Last Pitch
app allows the user to participate in random drugs tests using a thumbprint, or breath or saliva tests via video. “No more degrading urine tests,” Gastfriend says. Patients are rewarded for meeting goals and staying on the program through... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers