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- 01 Feb 2000
- News
No Place Like Home
Illustration by Mercedes McDonald. Orchard Gardens photo by Ed Quinn/Saba In many parts of the country, housing costs and shortages have begun to show signs of adversely affecting corporations, workers, and local economies. Affordable... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Making a Difference in the World
million would be saved in annual energy costs. If each household replaced its appliances with the most efficient available, $15 billion of savings in energy costs would result. The top 3,000 public companies cause over $2.15 trillion, or... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Setting the Legislative Agenda
assume trillions of dollars in liabilities spent to try to repair a broken system. The costs of regulatory failure and the urgency of regulatory reform could not be clearer.” Related Links Too Big To Fail View Details
- March 1990 (Revised June 1993)
- Case
Analog Devices, Inc.: The Half-Life System
By: Robert S. Kaplan
The company has committed to major improvements in quality, cost, and on-time delivery performance. Despite strong senior management support, however, the actual rate of improvement was disappointing until a new measurement philosophy was introduced. The new approach... View Details
Keywords: Quality; Performance Improvement; Earnings Management; Financial Reporting; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Performance Productivity; Business or Company Management; Cost Management; Measurement and Metrics; Management Teams; Semiconductor Industry
Kaplan, Robert S. "Analog Devices, Inc.: The Half-Life System." Harvard Business School Case 190-061, March 1990. (Revised June 1993.)
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Event Guidelines | About
support event programming (for crowd control, public safety, or dignitary protection). HBS Operations reserves the right to require a detail for any event at its sole discretion. These details will be arranged directly by HBS Operations & event owner shall pay for the... View Details
- 05 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 5
ability of a firm to transfer its capabilities across markets: no learning, local learning, and global learning. Three equilibrium strategies arise: accommodate, marginalize, and collocate. We identify how these strategies emerge depending on the tradeoff between the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Where Are the Innovators in Health Care?
No sector of our economy is more in need of innovation than health care, yet its many regulations handcuff entrepreneurs. A consumer-driven health-care system will unlock these shackles to bring about a much-needed entrepreneurial revolution. Health care’s $2.2... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Inside Out
The second 90 percent that we are ignoring is the true cost of operating our buildings: the people inside. Most companies spend as much as 90 percent of their budgets on human resources, a figure largely driven by their salaries and... View Details
- Article
Family Control of Firms and Industries
We test what explains family control of firms and industries and find that the explanation is largely contingent on the identity of families and individual blockholders. Founders and their families are more likely to retain control when doing so gives the firm a... View Details
Keywords: Family Business; Cost vs Benefits; Governance Controls; Family Ownership; Business and Shareholder Relations; Competitive Advantage
Villalonga, Belen, and Raphael Amit. "Family Control of Firms and Industries." Financial Management 39, no. 3 (Fall 2010): 863–904. (Lead article.)
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Charitable Lead Trust - Alumni
Giving Charitable Lead Trust Giving Charitable Lead Trust A charitable lead trust (CLT) enables you to support HBS and transfer assets to children or other heirs at a reduced tax cost. Benefits Reduces the gift and estate tax costs of... View Details
Ralph Budd
In 1919, when Budd took over the helm at Great Northern, he was the youngest railway president in the country. Budd pioneered new projects including the 1926-1928 Cascade Mountains tunnel project, which cost $25 million and eliminated the... View Details
Keywords: Transportation
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
The Climate Needs Aggressive CEO Leadership
Corporations are facing great uncertainty. For the world to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, the United States eventually will have to put a price on carbon dioxide emissions, as has been done by Europe, parts of Canada, and California. To plan for the... View Details
- 18 May 2011
- News
U.S. Manufacturing Comeback?
expect net labor costs for manufacturing in China and the United States to converge by around 2015. As a result of the changing economics, you’re going to see a lot more products ‘Made in the USA’ over the next five years.” Even now some... View Details
- 14 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017
expensive. How can health care organizations change this? One key is to prioritize quality improvement over cost cutting. By harnessing IT to help design better clinical practices, it’s possible to achieve better patient outcomes and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
New Wave
harvest the kinetic energy of tides and waves without falling to pieces or costing an arm and a leg is tricky business, and many have failed in the attempt. “Plenty of systems have ended up on the floor of the ocean,” says Rahul Shendure... View Details
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1.18 Field Global Capstone | MBA
their personal international health insurance coverage, which includes verifying the details of benefits, the claims submission process, and potential out-of-pocket costs while traveling. Photography/Videography Policy During FIELD Global... View Details
- 04 Aug 2014
- Op-Ed
Why Small-Business Lending Is Not Recovering
Structural barriers also appear to be impeding bank lending to small businesses, including consolidation within the banking industry, high search costs, and higher transaction costs associated with small business lending. A decades-long... View Details
- 11 Nov 2013
- Research & Ideas
A Smarter Way to Reduce Customer Defections
should consider not only the churn probability of customers, but also how much they spend, the likelihood that they will respond to a retention offer, and the cost of the offer itself. Gupta's predictive model takes all these factors into... View Details
- 02 Dec 2009
- What Do You Think?
Should Immigration Policies Be More Welcoming to Low-Skilled Workers?
of cost shifting." J. Boxer points out that "there's a high cost to cheap labor, and that cost (free education, free health care, etc.) is passed on to the state and... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Truth Be Told
“cash for information” may not be the right way to talk about it, because it comes across as if someone is making a lot of money without any costs. It’s more like an insurance payment. Whistleblowers incur a lot of costs and get some... View Details