rising costs - Publications - Faculty & Research

02 Dec 2009
What Do You Think?

Should Immigration Policies Be More Welcoming to Low-Skilled Workers?

Summing Up Low-skilled immigrants: burden or opportunity? Immigration is apparently a topic that stirs passions globally, judging from the responses to this month's column. As Nauman Lodhi pointed out, "Tough times give rise more... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

01 Jun 2006
News

Banking on Success

you’ll keep the cost line flat and that you have the discipline to raise revenues faster than your competitors, your stock price can rise in double digits,” he said. View Details

Keywords: Management

01 Sep 2004
News

A Market-Based Prescription

for her innovative research and teaching on the business of health care, Herzlinger has long predicted the unraveling of managed care in the United States, along with the rise of consumer-driven health care and health-care-focused... View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Health, Social Assistance

07 Jun 2004
Research & Ideas

The Competition of Countries

rising real per capita income). Capital formation (investment) and the development of human resources are key to this process. Q: Were you surprised by anything you've discovered? A: I am constantly surprised—surprised about corruption... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

17 Nov 2015
First Look

November 17, 2015

evolving structure of corporate debt markets—and given rise to new questions about the private and social costs and benefits of leverage and, in particular, the role of leverage in affecting the likelihood... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Charting Tariff Pain: Small Businesses Brace for Job Cuts, Falling Sales | Working Knowledge

Economics and Global Commerce Charting Tariff Pain: Small Businesses Brace for Job Cuts, Falling Sales Featuring Zoe B. Cullen and Ebehi Iyoha . By Ana Elena Azpúrua on April 4, 2025 . Rising costs. Climbing inflation. Potential... View Details

03 Apr 2006
What Do You Think?

Has Globalization Reached Its Peak?

cautionary note: ". . . the elephant in the room is the assumption of the availability and cost of petroleum . . . the economics of globalization will change dramatically in the decades ahead." Will what is true for the world... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

18 May 2011
News

U.S. Manufacturing Comeback?

Don’t give up on American manufacturing yet. There are signs of new life that give rise to optimism about a U.S. manufacturing renaissance. A new analysis by The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) estimates that within the next five years the... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Manufacturing

29 Sep 2015
Research & Ideas

Work 3.0: Redefining Jobs and Companies in the Uber Age

protect against a company’s having extensive control over its workforce without paying for employee benefits and social security taxes. Until recently, Work 2.0 worked. Now the Work 3.0 era has dawned, prompted by the rapid rise of... View Details

Keywords: by Andrei Hagiu; Transportation; Web Services

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Market Perspectives - Course Catalog

instead of discussing general environmental challenges, we focus on how a small island community deals with the impact of sea level rise and related concerns, highlighting costs and benefits, property rights... View Details

01 Apr 2000
News

Award-Winning Article Urges Companies to Loosen Ties that Bind

One function builds relationships with customers, another develops products, and the third oversees the operational infrastructure. Even though these activities often conflict with each other, traditionally they have been bundled together because separating them would... View Details

27 Apr 2009
Research & Ideas

Building Businesses in Turbulent Times

crisis as a disrupter to the status quo and look for areas of pain. In fact, cost cutting and restructuring are simply the first steps in repositioning and leading your company and industry through the crisis and in defining how business... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

25 May 2010
First Look

First Look: May 25

attempting the transformation required to embrace a new, dominant technology—the choice to maintain focus on the old technology. In considering this choice we distinguish between "racing" strategies, which attempt to fight off the View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

06 Dec 2004
What Do You Think?

Why Do Managers Fail to Act on Their Predictions?

short run versus large costs of unknowable certainty in the future. As examples of predictable surprises, they suggest such things as the rise of terrorism, compromises of auditor independence (and its... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

22 Feb 2022
Research & Ideas

When Will the Hot Housing Market Finally Start to Cool?

Harvard Gazette spoke with Nori Gerardo Lietz, a senior lecturer who teaches real estate private equity at Harvard Business School, about what’s going on and whether rising interest rates may offer some relief. The interview has been... View Details

Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette

16 Sep 2002
Research & Ideas

The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs

evidence was overwhelming and not pretty. The rise in the power of institutional investors has led to the creation of an "external" market for CEOs that is wracked with irrational decision making. Increasingly, the emphasis was... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Mar 2023
News

Case Study: Power Nappy

to landfill waste. What’s worse, each of the 27 million diapers that are tossed every year will take four or five centuries to decompose, due to their petroleum-based materials. Between the lack of performance in the sustainable brands and the environmental View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Miscellaneous Manufacturing; Manufacturing

13 Nov 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, November 13, 2018

to then cover their positions once asset prices start recovering. Predation leads to profits of about 25 basis points over ten days and increases the liquidation costs for the distressed fund by 40%. These results suggest a broker’s role... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

25 Oct 2016
First Look

October 25, 2016

Abstract—Emissions regulation today is non-uniform, with some regions imposing carbon costs within their borders while many others do not. This gives rise to concerns over carbon leakage—offshoring and... View Details