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26 Sep 2006
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First Look: September 26, 2006

Indian pharmaceutical company, Cipla, to bring down the annual per-patient cost of an ARV triple cocktail from $12,000 to under $250; using ARV development as a key component of its prevention and treatment strategy the Brazilian National... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

10 Jan 2005
Research & Ideas

How to Put Meaning Back into Leading

by: The leader's willingness to uphold organizational values especially when there is some perceived economic cost to doing so. (If values are violated when there is a perceived benefit in doing so, they are little more than guidelines... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

11 Apr 2018
Research & Ideas

Sexual Harassment: What Employers Should Do Now

tolerated with others. The sales manager who brings in big bucks but acts in a hostile, domineering way with his team may be seen as the definition of success, yet letting “a brilliant jerk be a jerk” could cost a company many other... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

13 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 13

attractiveness, which is the cost of factor inputs relative to a country's competitiveness. This analysis reveals important insight into the economic trajectory of individual countries. Our framework also offers a novel methodology for... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

03 Nov 2009
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First Look: Nov. 3

costs decrease and as the benefits from outsourcing the use of intellectual property increases. We also examine how different licensing arrangements affect the relation between the variance of the returns to the intellectual property and... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

07 Aug 2007
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First Look: August 7, 2007

that both effects are operative. Instrumental variables analysis indicates that plausibly exogenous changes in payout policy result in shifting institutional ownership patterns. Similarly, exogenous changes in the tax code indicate that as the tax View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

17 Mar 2021
Research & Ideas

Beyond Pajamas: Sizing Up the Pandemic Shopper

that attract consumers to retailers’ websites. Companies typically have to balance the popularity of these policies in a competitive market with the high costs of managing returns, including shipping and restocking fees that cut into... View Details

Keywords: by Ayelet Israeli, Eva Ascarza, and Laura Castrillo; Retail

01 Jul 2014
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First Look: July 1

that this tradeoff is shifted towards the reseller-mode when marketing activities create spillovers across products and when network effects lead to unfavorable expectations about supplier participation. If the reseller has a variable View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

26 Mar 2007
Research & Ideas

Learning from Failed Political Leadership

leader should not be evaluated solely on the basis of what was accomplished, but also on the opportunity cost of what could have been accomplished, such as avoiding war or fighting a shorter war, and wasn't. View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

26 Jul 2004
Research & Ideas

A Better Way to Negotiate: Backward

preferred outcome and think in reverse about how to get there. Here are the basic steps: 1. Draw a "map" of the parties who are currently involved and those who might potentially get onboard, along with their interests and their no-deal options. 2. Estimate... View Details

Keywords: by James K. Sebenius

19 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

Alfred Chandler on the Electronic Century

computers, primarily for commercial and business markets. The commercializing of the System 360 required half a decade, at the cost of nearly $7 billion. That extraordinary learning experience immediately defined the computer industry... View Details

Keywords: by Alfred D. Chandler, Takashi Hikino & Andrew Von Nordenflycht; Computer; Consumer Products; Electronics; Manufacturing; Technology

20 Aug 2001
Research & Ideas

Making an Ally of Uncle Sam

percent of this work in 1999, less than one-tenth of the Japanese share of U.S. public works projects. 13 This was the case even though Japanese construction costs were estimated to average 3.5 times more than in the United States. 14 View Details

Keywords: by Michael Watkins, Mickey Edwards & Usha Thakrar

May 2018
Case

The Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation's Answer Fund

By: Richard G. Hamermesh and Matthew G. Preble

Citation

Educators

16 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 16, 2008

internalize products' entire life cycle costs into market prices, with the ultimate objective of reducing their environmental burden. This article provides a framework to evaluate the potential for take-back regulations to actually lead... View Details

23 Mar 2021
Book

Succeeding in the New Work-from-Anywhere World

for nearly two decades. Indeed, studies from around the world consistently show that companies see productivity gains after allowing employees to choose their work locations. Remote work offers many other benefits, too: “Commute times disappear, operational View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

30 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 30, 2019

including Nina Simone, Etta James, and Marvin Gaye. After over a quarter century of success with this model, where she paid as much as $144,000 in annual rent, Jackie must decide whether to continue renting, proceed with the building of a new theater that will View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

30 Nov 2009
Research & Ideas

Tracks of My Tears: Reconstructing Digital Music

numerous subsets of the songs on the album—but when the process is fully digital the costs of reproducing music are much lower. The Internet makes mixed bundling feasible. Q: You note that while demand for individual songs on services... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Music

07 Aug 2000
Research & Ideas

The Business of Biotech

will give way to $200 to $300 million drugs. That will be a very different world for big drug companies, with different cost structures and resource-allocation processes." And the drug industry won't be the only field affected,... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Biotechnology; Health; Technology

22 Jun 2021
Research & Ideas

The COVID-19 Mutiny: When Teams Leave and Take Their Clients

what “pre-soliciting clients” meant, for example. Do the same when you’re in the role of NewCo. Taking great care in hiring teams and individuals shows people thinking about leaving how seriously you view defections. Discourage lift outs through incentives and... View Details

Keywords: by Robin Abrahams, Boris Groysberg, and Steven L. Manchel

05 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019

treating platform systems and step processes as mutually exclusive architectures sets up a false dichotomy. Creating any good requires carrying out a technical recipe, i.e., performing a series of steps. Step processes in turn can be modularized (at the View Details