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  • 03 Oct 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Transforming Manufacturing Waste into Profit

It's been said that "one man's trash is another man's treasure." HBS Assistant Professor Deishin Lee, however, has taken that old adage a step further in her recent working paper Turning Waste into By-Product by showing how it's possible for companies to turn... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Manufacturing
  • March 2014
  • Case

Babcock International Plc

By: John R. Wells and Galen Danskin
In 2013, Babcock International Plc (Babcock) was the largest engineering services provider in the UK with sales of over £3 billion. Under the leadership of CEO Peter Rogers, Babcock had grown revenues and profits nearly tenfold over the previous decade as it benefited... View Details
Keywords: Strategic Change; Strategy And Leadership; Diversification; United Kingdom; Military; Nuclear Power; Nuclear; Engineering And Construction; Conglomerates; Strategic Planning; Competitive Strategy; Global Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Construction Industry; Energy Industry; United Kingdom
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    Strategy Explained - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

    fundamental goal of a company is superior long-term return on invested capital (ROIC) . Only if you achieve strong ROIC are you creating true economic value, which says that you can produce a product f or a price that’s greater than the View Details
    • 01 Oct 2012
    • Research & Ideas

    Better by the Bundle?

    bundle—known as an Extra Value Meal—for cheaper than the products would cost if purchased individually. “Bundling is pervasive in several markets, and it works in many cases” But those same customers might not value being given only the... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
    • 12 Mar 2006
    • Research & Ideas

    New Research Explores Multi-Sided Markets

    platform ecosystem by adding new sides and platform functions that might be valuable to the existing sides and therefore create positive synergies (and dominant firms!). Q: You draw a distinction between two-sided platforms and... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology
    • 15 Jul 2019
    • Book

    Many Executives Are Afraid of Finance. Here's How They Can Gain Confidence

    overconfidence. Exaggerating synergies and ignoring integration costs Synergy is the idea that once merged, the value of two companies will be greater than the sum of the... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
    • 14 Dec 2010
    • First Look

    First Look: Dec. 14

    and suggests that corporate diversification can serve an important insurance function for investors. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-101.pdf The Psychological Costs of Pay-for-Performance: Implications for Strategic... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 01 Dec 1997
    • News

    Multimedia Martha: Sharon Patrick Cooks Up A Winner

    development costs on a per-unit basis. We also focus on providing information, not entertainment. Although she's written and talked about as a celebrity, Martha is really a teacher. We put our how-to content out there, and we let people... View Details
    • 17 Jun 2017
    • Research & Ideas

    Amazon, Whole Foods Deal a Big Win for Consumers

    Source: 400tmax Editor's Note. Online retailing behemoth Amazon announced June 16 that it would acquire upscale grocery chain Whole Foods Market in a deal valued at more than $13 billion. Though the company has dabbled with the idea of a brick-and-mortar footprint in... View Details
    Keywords: by Jose Alvarez and Len Schlesinger; Retail
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    Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

    risk and the cost of equity (the beta anomaly): As firms lever up, the overall cost of capital falls as leverage increases equity beta, but as debt becomes riskier the marginal benefit of increasing equity... View Details
    • 11 Aug 2008
    • Research & Ideas

    Strategy Execution and the Balanced Scorecard

    budget be driven from the revenue targets in the strategic plan. In The Execution Premium, we describe how a time-driven activity-based cost model provides the previously missing link between the revenue growth targets in a strategic plan... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace
    • 02 Apr 2001
    • Research & Ideas

    Not All M&As Are Alike—and That Matters

    geographically by rolling up other companies in adjacent territories. Usually, the operating unit remains local if the relationship with local customers is important. What the acquiring company brings is some combination of lower operating View Details
    Keywords: by Joseph L. Bower
    • 04 Jun 2012
    • Research & Ideas

    The Business of Life

    of our lives, we just deprive ourselves of a very important input." Christensen explores the synergies between economic logic and personal conviction in his new book, How Will You Measure Your Life? Coauthored with James Allworth (HBS MBA... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
    • 29 Aug 2005
    • Research & Ideas

    How Organizations Create Social Value

    organizations wanting to create social value. The researchers stressed the importance of synergies between Economic Value (EV) and Social Value (SV), calling them "two sides of the same coin." By aligning EV and SV, both... View Details
    Keywords: by Manda Salls
    • 20 Nov 2012
    • First Look

    First Look: November 20

    advertising agency services and the slow pace of change over several decades. We model an agency's decision as a tradeoff between the fixed cost to the advertiser of establishing a relationship with an agency and pecuniary economies of... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 08 Nov 2011
    • First Look

    First Look: Nov. 8

    and discuss how the combined effect of increased market concentration and cost synergies can be assessed efficiently. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-031.pdf Investment Cycles and... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 20 Mar 2000
    • Research & Ideas

    Incubators: The New Venture Capitalists?

    sometime incubate those. We sometimes partner with people that have those. But what we do is create economic coalitions between those atomic units in order to provide for the delivery to the customer of a complete solution." With venture capital funds, he said,... View Details
    Keywords: by Kenneth Liss
    • 04 Apr 2017
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research, April 4

    forthcoming American Political Science Review Voter Registration Costs and Disenfranchisement: Experimental Evidence from France By: Braconnier, Céline, Jean-Yves Dormagen, and Vincent Pons Abstract—A large-scale randomized experiment... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 27 May 2020
    • News

    Prepare to Exit

    one of the millions of Americans to lose their job. Tran had been on the opposite side of the table any number of times in his career, working on post-merger integrations and reducing redundancies. In those moments, “I kept telling myself it’s nothing personal, we just... View Details