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15 Dec 2024
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Forward Thinking

You can ask the internet anything, but getting an answer via generative artificial intelligence consumes about 10 times more electricity than a traditional Google search. Consequently, the data centers where AI tools are trained and run are guzzling more and more... View Details

Keywords: Janine White; Illustrations by Richard Borge; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

01 Apr 1998
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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

01 Sep 2020
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Comeback Trail

economy are rebounding in fits and starts, the Congressional Budget Office estimated in July that the pandemic’s impact would last a decade and cost the US economy $16 trillion. To better understand how to approach an economic recovery of... View Details

01 Jun 2006
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Banking on Success

you’ll keep the cost line flat and that you have the discipline to raise revenues faster than your competitors, your stock price can rise in double digits,” he said. View Details

Keywords: Management

24 Apr 2014
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Tackling the data dilemma

centers. HP’s answer is the Moonshot server system, introduced in 2013, which uses 89 percent less energy and 80 percent less space, and costs 77 percent less than a traditional server environment. “No other company is taking on the... View Details

01 Dec 2003
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Alumni Bookshelf

case studies and analyses of major corporations, Michaelson offers an in-depth view of common techniques of restructuring and discusses how to deliver increased value. A Manager’s Guide to Creative Cost Cutting (McGraw-Hill) Techniques of... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

August 2006 (Revised May 2007)
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Management Levels at Staples (A): Company and Organization

By: David A. Garvin and Lynne Levesque

One of six cases that describe the roles and responsibilities of managers at each of the hierarchical levels of management within the U.S. Stores business unit of Staples, the world's largest office supply company. Together, the cases form a complete integrated... View Details

Keywords: Cost vs Benefits; Leadership; Management Practices and Processes; Managerial Roles; Operations; Performance Effectiveness; Strategic Planning; Perspective; Retail Industry

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20 Jan 2015
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Costing to Identify Value-Improvement Opportunities in Healthcare By: Kaplan, Robert S., Mary L. Witkowski, Megan Abbott, Alexis Guzman, Laurence Higgins, John Meara, Erin Padden Abstract—As healthcare providers cope with pricing... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

26 Nov 2007
Research & Ideas

Best Practices of Global Innovators

can provide a valuable source of product differentiation. And finally, advances in development tools (e.g., computer-aided design) coupled with a move to more open architectures and technical standards have driven down the cost of... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Mar 2012
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How to Close the Health Gap

where innovation is winning the day. An increasing number of biotech start-ups are setting up shop in developing countries, and VC firms are chasing them. In Hyderabad, India, for example, Shantha Biotechnics created clever culture-growing techniques that dropped the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

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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

01 Dec 2018
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Ask the Expert: Gimme Shelter

disabilities, and lower-wage workers, the cost to build simply cannot be covered by the rents they can pay—there has to be a subsidy of some kind. In regions like the Bay Area, middle-income rents can’t cover the View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

01 Jun 2017
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productivity. Professor Emeritus Robert S. Kaplan explain how he uses action research to lower the cost of health care. Professor Mihir Desai talk about his research and his testimony before Congress on international tax reform. View Details

07 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

XTV: Xerox’s Attempted Recovery From “Fumbling the Future”

because they were built with proprietary components, a manifestation of Xerox's approach to systems design. The development costs of these proprietary components had to be borne by the low unit volumes of its printers, in contrast to... View Details

Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough

Daniel Willard

began to pay off for the B&O in the 1920s, and he continued that trend of high quality, introducing, among other things, the first mechanical air-conditioned equipment. During Willard’s later years with the company when the Depression stifled growth, he kept the... View Details

Keywords: Transportation

10 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

Counting Up the Effects of Sarbanes-Oxley

approach when considering SOX," explains Srinivasan. The most worrisome part of the act on the business side was the mandate that required public companies to obtain an independent audit of their internal control practices. The cost... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Accounting; Banking

Ian K. MacGregor

Assigned to handle arms purchases for the British government, MacGregor came to the U.S. during World War II. Sensing a fertile climate for business, MacGregor stayed in the U.S. after the war and became the CEO of American Metal. Through his shrewd View Details

Keywords: Metals

John L. Collyer

In 1940, Collyer brought to market the first tire with a substantial man-made rubber content. Goodrich’s tire was 50% synthetic rubber at a time when man-made rubber was not yet cost competitive with crude rubber. However, shortly... View Details

Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace

15 Nov 2004
Research & Ideas

Solving the Health Care Conundrum

The U.S. health care industry is unique in that despite the presence of significant competition, which usually drives increased value through decreased costs and improved quality, the nature of the competition in health care has been... View Details

Keywords: by Michael E. Porter; Health

August 2009 (Revised July 2010)
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Choosing a GAAP for Canada

By: Karthik Ramanna and Beiting Cheng

Explores Canadian regulators' decision to adopt International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). The Canadian decision in 2005 to adopt IFRS is particularly interesting because Canada had well-developed domestic accounting standards and because a significant... View Details

Keywords: Financial Reporting; International Accounting; Cost vs Benefits; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Standards; Accounting Industry; Canada

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