Publications

February 2007 (Revised March 2007)
Case

UBS and Climate Change--Warming Up to Global Action?

By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee, Forest L. Reinhardt and Elizabeth Raabe

Marco Suter, Executive Vice-Chairman, UBS Board of Directors, carefully studied the chart on his desk. It showed the public commitment of major financial institutions to help mitigate global warming. Evidently, UBS lagged behind its competitors. The graph was part of a... View Details

Keywords: Climate Change; Energy Conservation; Cost vs Benefits; Law; Financial Institutions; Environmental Sustainability; Corporate Accountability; Financial Services Industry

October 2001 (Revised November 2001)
Case

Club Med (C): The "Re-New" Plan

By: Frances X. Frei, Daniel Rethazy and Hanna Rodriguez-Farrar

Supplements the (A) and (B) cases. View Details

Keywords: Business Subsidiaries; Industry Structures; Competitive Advantage; Organizational Culture; Cost; Customer Satisfaction; Accommodations Industry; United States

March 1999 (Revised August 1999)
Case

Coop, The: Market Research

By: Ruth Bolton and Youngme E. Moon

Daryl Buckmeister, CEO of The Chicken Coop, must decide whether to invest in market research, how much money to spend, and which programs to fund. His two vice presidents (of quality and marketing) have presented very different proposals. View Details

Keywords: Marketing; Cost; Research; Markets; Quality; Decisions; Management Teams; Food and Beverage Industry; Retail Industry

23 Dec 2014
First Look

First Look: December 23

cost of leisure is lower. We interpret these results as evidence of differences in preferences for leisure across CEOs rather than optimal responses to organizational differences correlated with ownership. Differences in labor supply are... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

21 Jun 2017
Blog Post

Agricultural Investing: Where Boots Meet Suits

investment standpoint, the cost of emissions and resource scarcity, particularly water, is largely yet to been priced in, and I believe there are plenty of strong buying opportunities in many markets. Real assets, such as farmland, can... View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing

Portrait Project

Dominique Baillet

I've always had a big mouth. In third grade, I informed my teacher, Mr. Rogers, that the design for recess line-up was flawed: We kids spent disproportionate time organizing alphabetically at the cost of the very freedom recess was... View Details

Web

Minority Students | MBA

Foundation The LunaCap Foundation assists Mexicans (born anywhere in the world) or current active military or U.S. Armed Forces veterans with the cost of an MBA education. Candidates will be selected based on performance but, more... View Details

01 Mar 2023
News

Family Matters

University of California. The $5,000 cost was beyond her family’s means, but Thompson-Woode’s mother decided she would ask the community to invest in her daughter’s dream. “The city raised the money,” Thompson-Woode says. “People wanted... View Details

Keywords: April White

1985
Chapter

Cost-Benefit Analysis Applied to Risks: Its Philosophy and Legitimacy

By: Dutch Leonard and Richard Zeckhauser

Keywords: Cost vs Benefits; Risk and Uncertainty; Risk Management

February 1998
Teaching Note

Starlite Corporation TN

By: Kathleen L. McGinn, Julia Morgan and Katherine Lawrence

Teaching Note for (9-396-351)--(9-396-356). View Details

Keywords: Negotiation Participants; Negotiation; Learning; Cost; Employees

April 1985
Case

SEEQ Technology--1984

By: Kim B. Clark

Examines a decision about product and process technology facing a small, three-year old semiconductor company. The company must decide between pursuing a well-defined technology (N-MOS) with significant short-term advantages or an advanced technology (CMOS) that has... View Details

Keywords: Cost vs Benefits; Decision Choices and Conditions; Semiconductor Industry

16 Dec 2014
First Look

First Look: December 16

compare those clicks with users' subsequent purchases. Ever-cheaper IT makes this tracking cost effective and routine. In addition, a web of interlocking ad networks trades inventory and offers to show the right ad to the right person at... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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

February 2007 (Revised January 2008)
Supplement

Multifactor Models (CW)

By: Malcolm P. Baker

Keywords: Asset Pricing; Cost of Capital; Forecasting and Prediction; Investment Funds; Investment Return; Mathematical Methods; Performance Evaluation