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- 11 May 2020
- News
Better Than Cash
in sanitation or health or education, it starts with a payment system everyone can use.” Goodwin-Groen offers the example of a mother who has to pay for her children’s schooling once each semester. She needs to save money for several months to do so; in low-income... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Short Takes
who doesn't stockpile at all risks getting an inferior deal the next time around. Retailers' ability to control their inventory storage costs also plays an important role in this balancing act. As Chun writes, "A higher inventory holding... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
New Releases
textile dyes so that its customers could reduce their use of other raw materials and their costs for end-of-pipe waste treatment. Ciba could then capture some of these cost savings. Another example is the... View Details
Donald V. Fites
During his tenure as CEO, Fites grew Caterpillar, the world’s #1 producer of earth-moving machinery, from a $10 billion company to a $20 billion plus company. Fites successfully implemented a $1.8 billion modernization program to cut View Details
Keywords: Construction & Real Estate
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Noted & Quoted
“Some Democrats view Medicare as a successful cost controller, pointing to its low administrative overhead, which they peg at 3 percent. But that figure ignores an inconvenient truth: Medicare’s unfunded liabilities, estimated at about... View Details
- Portrait Project
Amy McGowan
of people that wants to earn an honest living is relegated to the status of working poor because of the high costs of essentials like health care, housing, and energy. Our children face unequal opportunities to attain quality education... View Details
- Portrait Project
Athena Ko
polishing rough situations to reveal the beauty inside. I will soothe the anxious men who come to me for engagement rings. I will mentor difficult underprivileged children even when they spit at me out of frustration. I will bear the financial View Details
- December 2011
- Case
Roger Caracappa: Package Deals for the Estée Lauder Companies
Roger Caracappa must negotiate a cost-saving, innovative proposal from a potential French supplier that could displace the otherwise satisfactory, long-time incumbent supplier. Shortly after being promoted to executive vice president of the Estée Lauder Companies with... View Details
Keywords: Operations; Supply Chain Management; Change; Innovation and Invention; Cost vs Benefits; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry
Sebenius, James K. "Roger Caracappa: Package Deals for the Estée Lauder Companies." Harvard Business School Case 912-003, December 2011.
- 10 Jan 2005
- What Do You Think?
Public Pension Reform: Does Mexico Have the Answer?
is the wrong discussion ...Instead of creating the equivalent of mini-401(k) accounts, the focus on social security reform should be on the income side. By utilizing an institutionally-provided defined benefit approach that better integrates investment and annuity... View Details
- 04 Apr 2018
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: Why Private Investors Must Fund 'New Nuclear' Power Right Now
category known as “new nuclear,” which offers the potential to dramatically reduce costs and rapidly ramp up installations when compared to today’s nuclear power plants. But the success of new nuclear—and perhaps the future of the... View Details
- 06 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
Van den Ende Rozen: Greenhouse Rose Production
two years. Digitalization and Automation The site we visited was Van den Ende Rozen’s second and newest greenhouse. Constructed in 2008, the site covers 80,000 square meters, capable of yielding over 300 roses per square meter per year. The operation’s three View Details
- Web
3 Technologies that Will Change the World - Course Catalog
create a global utopia by solving intractable problems like climate change, ending the need for humans to work for a living and bringing the cost of energy to zero. Why are normally balanced leaders taking such extreme and opposite... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Helping India’s energy crisis, one bulb at a time
experience with Motorola Mobility, Yarlagadda saw a safe and economical solution. Yarlagadda developed a solar-powered LED lantern that turns a few hours of sunlight into more than double the lighting power. “I priced my lanterns at $25 so that they would be less than... View Details
- Web
The Institute for Cancer Care Innovation - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
existing models of cancer care delivery and reimbursement. Its programs are based around the principles of value-based health care delivery, which focuses on the outcomes and costs of care. The Institute has been at the forefront... View Details
- 29 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
Get Off the Dime!
from people in the divisions began to grow exponentially. People would say, "How long is this going to take? In my business we can't . . . ." "The cost versus benefit for our business unit is no good. Why do we . . .... View Details
Keywords: by John P. Kotter & Dan S. Cohen
- Web
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
- January 2017 (Revised August 2017)
- Case
Earl Gordon - Eastern Circle
By: Steven Rogers and Greg White
This case follows an African-American entrepreneur through the process of sourcing a potential acquisition, valuing a company, and securing the funding to purchase the company. This entrepreneur must decide if he should close the deal and which financing term sheet to... View Details
Keywords: Negotiations; Manufacturing; LBO; Leveraged Buyout; Entrepreneurship; Term Sheets; Deal Structuring; Financial Statements; Acquisition; Leveraged Buyouts; Business Model; Forecasting and Prediction; Cost vs Benefits; Cash Flow; Borrowing and Debt; Cost of Capital; Private Equity; Negotiation Deal; Negotiation Offer; Negotiation Process; Valuation; Value Creation; California
Rogers, Steven, and Greg White. "Earl Gordon - Eastern Circle." Harvard Business School Case 317-061, January 2017. (Revised August 2017.)
- 27 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
New Cluster Mapping Project Helps Companies Locate Facilities
Too often corporations decide to locate facilities based solely on cost savings. And that's shortsighted, argues Harvard Business School professor Michael Porter. Instead, business leaders should look for locations that gather... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 6
were making decisions that made them more acceptable to customers given the particular social, cultural, and economic contexts within which they were embedded. Ownership Structure and the Cost of Corporate Borrowing Authors: Chen Lin, Yue... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace