Economies Of Scale - Publications - Faculty & Research

07 May 2024
Blog Post

Opportunity to Offset Travel Emissions with Carbon Credits that Meet HBS Criteria

high standards and criteria on climate, health, and equity. As an example, offsetting the emissions of an economy flight from San Francisco, CA to Boston, MA would cost $13.50 To meet those goals, CNaught... View Details

12 Nov 2012
Research & Ideas

Pay Workers More So They Steal Less

cited in the paper. The problem is particularly severe in retail chains: According to the 2008 National Retail Security Survey, inventory-related employee theft contributed to a loss of $15.9 billion. Intrigued by the size and View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Retail

15 Dec 2003
Research & Ideas

The New Global Business Manager

by those three views at the table, and create the process for its debate and resolution. The role of top management is to create channels of engagement and the forums for interaction to facilitate that... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

19 May 2021
Op-Ed

Why America Needs a Better Bridge Between School and Career

Over a year into the COVID-19 pandemic, there are hints of optimism as more people gain access to vaccines and the federal government injects more stimulus money into the economy. Yet, the outlook for workers remains mixed. The crisis has... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph B. Fuller and Rachel Lipson

Profile

Peter Gumulia

access to high quality education for millions of Indonesians.” With support from the i-lab and Rock Center, Peter aspires to build an online English learning platform in his home country. “Indonesia is transitioning from a country... View Details

01 Jun 2004
News

Working the Street

scuffles but has never fired his weapon, nor been fired upon. He always wears his bulletproof vest, and does things by the book. On the street, he’s firmly in command but respectful, bantering in both English and Spanish. “On a street-smarts View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; tattoo; removal; program; Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities; Government

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Our Mission & Team | Institute for Business in Global Society

taught courses that include Business, Government and International Economy and Managing International Trade and Investment. A prolific writer, Spar's books including Ruling the Waves: Cycles of Discovery,... View Details

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Understanding Entrepreneurial Opportunity in Kazakhstan - Global Activities 2020

underserved and operating under so many constraints—there is a lot of entrepreneurship in sectors such as banking,” she explains. “In the US economy or in Europe, these areas are dominated by traditional... View Details

01 Sep 2007
News

Alfred D. Chandler Jr. Remembered

examined four U.S. industrial giants from the 1900s to the 1940s, focusing on the executives who devised the decentralized, multidivisional structure of the large corporation. In Scale and Scope: The... View Details

29 Aug 2023
News

Helping Consumers Decarbonize their Purchases

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. In this episode, we’re going to be highlighting an episode of another HBS podcast: Climate Rising, which focuses on what businesses are doing, can do, and should do... View Details

04 Apr 2023
Blog Post

Maersk’s Journey to Decarbonize Shipping

profit into long-term investments that aligned with the company’s decarbonization goals. Maersk has a unique scale that makes its decarbonization targets particularly important, with the company singlehandedly responsible for... View Details

14 Dec 2016
HBS Seminar

Siobhan O'Mahony and Rebecca Karp, Boston University

06 Dec 2017
What Do You Think?

Is It Time To Break Up Amazon, Apple, Facebook, or Google?

Can a Platform-Based Tech Giant Be Broken Up? The answer to this month’s question of whether platform-based tech giants Amazon, Apple, Facebook, or Google should be broken up was a resounding “no.” “TD in FL” put it succinctly with one... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Technology; Web Services

24 Nov 2003
Research & Ideas

Boards and Corporate Governance: A Balanced Scorecard Approach

framework can serve as the cornerstone of both effective management and sound governance. Key Learnings · A sophisticated governance system is necessary in a complex capitalistic economy to ensure that... View Details

Keywords: Re: Robert S. Kaplan & Krishna G. Palepu

17 Dec 2008
Lessons from the Classroom

‘Ted Levitt Changed My Life’

writing." Levitt deployed that power again and again in his books and numerous HBR articles, including "The Globalization of Markets." In it, he described "a new commercial reality—the emergence View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education; Retail

01 Nov 2022
What Do You Think?

Why Aren’t Business Leaders More Vocal About Immigration Policy?

understand why it isn’t in the best interests of their organizations to weigh in on all issues facing society, but this is one that can have a direct impact on the performance of their organizations. It is... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

Research Summary

Renovating Democratic Capitalism

By: Malcolm S. Salter

This in-process work focuses on how best to address the declining public trust and confidence in democratic capitalism, which many citizens consider to be a cornerstone of our national ideology and identity? While the answer to this question is not entirely clear, I... View Details

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Tsedal Neeley | About

and global expansion, and regularly conducts research and advises organizations on scaling cultural change. She has authored three award-winning books on organizations, technology, and transformation. The Digital Mindset: What It Really... View Details

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Clinical Trials as a setting for Health Policy and Management Research

The clinical trial marketplace is in flux. A decade ago, pharmaceutical firms almost exclusively conducted the study of their novel drug compounds within major academic medical centers. But today, industry-sponsored clinical trials are increasingly using community... View Details

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Business Economics Online Course | HBS Online

different forms of auctions See how conjoint analysis can be used to understand customer preferences 12 hrs Module 3 Suppliers and Cost Understand fixed versus variable costs and economies View Details

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