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  • 08 Mar 2017
  • Op-Ed

Op-Ed: Can the Proposed American Health Care Act Improve on 'Obamacare'?

value individual freedom, having the ability to answer this question will be seen as a benefit. However, if too many people do indeed opt out of purchasing plans, the potential downside is that, collectively, costs may rise. Risk pools of... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch, Dr. Gordon Moore, and Emily Boudreau

    John R. Sculley

    Leaving his position as CEO of Pepsi-Cola, Sculley’s first task as head of Apple involved cutting costs and cutting people, most notably, Apple’s founder and symbol, Steven Jobs. Though the firing of Jobs was difficult for many to digest,... View Details
    Keywords: Computers & Electronics
    • Web

    Veterans & Active Military | MBA

    participate in this program. Veteran Readiness and Employment (formerly VocRehab) Veterans are strongly cautioned that VRE may not meet the entire cost of the program. HBS is unable to assist in these cases. Veterans must ensure their... View Details
    • 15 Dec 2024
    • News

    Forward Thinking

    centers run around the clock. Some industry observers wonder if AI’s potential returns can outweigh these rising electric bills—and the cost to the climate from the widespread use of fossil fuels in the sector. But Bill Nussey (MBA 1996),... View Details
    Keywords: Janine White; Illustrations by Richard Borge; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities
    • 01 Apr 1998
    • News

    Short Takes

    Managing Development Flexibility in Uncertain Environments," the authors assert that increasing flexibility during the product development cycle can enable a firm to adjust to unanticipated circumstances so opportunely and cost... View Details
    Keywords: Garry Emmons and Caroline Chauncey
    • 10 Jan 2008
    • Sharpening Your Skills

    Sharpening Your Skills: Operations Management

    Sharpening Your Skills dives into the HBS Working Knowledge archives to bring together articles on ways to improve your business skills. Questions to be answered: Can "lean" productions methods improve service industries? How can a company's order management cycle... View Details

      Jeno F. Paulucci

      Paulucci founded Jeno’s Frozen Pizza to capitalize on the growing acceptance of frozen foods as alternatives for dinner. While there were many regional frozen pizza offerings, there was no national brand. Through low cost production... View Details
      Keywords: Food & Tobacco
      • Web

      Financial Aid | MBA

      scholarship last year was $46,000—or $92,000 over two years. Need-Based Tuition Assistance Additional Harvard Funding External Funding Student Loans 101 Evaluating a Sponsorship Offer Annual Cost of Attendance 50 % of students receive... View Details
      • August 2011 (Revised August 2012)
      • Case

      JetBlue Airways: Deicing at Logan Airport

      By: Douglas Fearing and Robert S. Huckman
      The case explores a deicing capacity expansion decision made by JetBlue at Boston Logan International Airport in the summer of 2010. The need for capacity expansion was driven by significant challenges faced during the previous winter combined with substantial... View Details
      Keywords: Operational Disruptions; Strategic Planning; Disruption; Cost vs Benefits; Air Transportation; Service Operations; Logistics; Operations; Air Transportation Industry; Boston
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      • February 1990 (Revised March 1990)
      • Case

      Quantum Semiconductor, Inc.

      By: Janice H. Hammond and Roy D. Shapiro
      Quantum is faced with a difficult ethical dilemma--industry studies provide evidence that chemicals used in semiconductor manufacturing may cause women working in fabrication cleanrooms to suffer a higher likelihood of spontaneous abortions. The possibility of other... View Details
      Keywords: Safety; Prejudice and Bias; Law; Equality and Inequality; Cost; Production; Ethics; Health; Gender; Semiconductor Industry
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      • Article

      Beyond the Reach of the Invisible Hand: Impediments to Economic Activity, Market Failures, and Profitability

      By: Dennis Yao
      In this paper it is argued that failures of the competitive market are necessary conditions for supranormal profitability. Three fundamental causes of these market failures-production economies and sunk costs, transactions costs, and imperfect information-are developed... View Details
      Keywords: Economics; Markets; Failure; Profit; Cost; Information; Market Transactions; Competition; Strategy; Production
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      • 06 Aug 2001
      • Research & Ideas

      Go Global—or No? Can You Make the Case?

      your comments published in an upcoming issue of HBS Working Knowledge—it will cost you $6.00 to download the full story from HBR. See details below. For two years, U.S.-based DataClear has all but had a stranglehold on the data analysis... View Details
      Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle
      • 03 Feb 2021
      • Blog Post

      Faculty Spotlight: Professor Jurgen Weiss

      potentially make electric cars more common and faster than we thought. Can you walk me through it? Jurgen Weiss: Companies like Amazon or FedEx or UPS that own all the delivery trucks look much more closely at the total cost of ownership.... View Details
      • September 2011 (Revised February 2014)
      • Case

      Duke Energy and the Nuclear Renaissance

      By: Richard H.K. Vietor and Forest L. Reinhardt
      Duke Energy, an American investor-owned electric utility, confronts multibillion dollar decisions about its future fuel mix. In particular, its leaders are considering building new nuclear capacity. Whether this is sensible depends, among other things, on demand... View Details
      Keywords: Cost vs Benefits; Expansion; Policy; Business Strategy; Energy Sources; Utilities Industry; Energy Industry; United States
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      • 01 Apr 2015
      • Research & Ideas

      The Slow, Steady Battle to Fix Cancer Care

      on a holistic treatment plan comprising one of eight "bundles." “If we can drive down costs while improving outcomes, that will be much more favorable to our economy and to our competitiveness as a nation” "We're hoping... View Details
      Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health
      • Profile

      Kyle Schultz

      Kyle Schultz (MBA 2004) works with a software company that is developing ways to notify patients about the costs of their health care procedures and the ways insurance can be applied. View Details
      Keywords: Health Care; Technology
      • Web

      3. Financial Obligations | MBA

      3. Financial Obligations 3.1 Student Accounts 3.2 Financial Aid 3.3 Student Cost of Attendance 3.4 Tuition & Fees 3.5 Withdrawals, Leaves of Absence, & Return of Federal/Title IV Funding 3.6 VA Benefits 3.7 Financial Aid Fraud 3.8 Health... View Details
      • 01 Jun 2002
      • News

      News in the News Biz

      of wealthy individuals, then the newspaper business has to generate profit. Since 75 percent of newspaper revenue comes from advertising, and staff — at 16 percent of total cost — is the most important cost... View Details

        James J. Hill

        Hill, a railroad builder and entrepreneur, was a pioneer of the Northwest in a variety of ways. He located his roads and terminal facilities in potentially productive areas, he constructed them for economical operation at minimum cost... View Details
        Keywords: Transportation
        • Profile

        Ricardo De Armas

        banking," Ricardo says, "but in my first internship, I found it very bureaucratic. P&G gave me a chance to pursue finance in a more dynamic environment." Over a four- and a-half-year tenure, his responsibilities were both deep and broad. "At... View Details