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  • 01 Dec 2017
  • News

The Robots Are Coming to Save Your Job

becoming even more acute over time.” Beyond answering short-term labor needs, Eckert thinks these kinds of co-bots also have the potential to upend traditional factory economics. “For a generation now, you had to go to a low labor cost... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
  • 01 Dec 2003
  • News

Books

new hire costs an organization in the time spent overcoming often steep learning curves. Even so, transitioning has not generally been taught as a specific management skill, until now. Most companies report that it takes roughly six... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 21 Feb 2018
  • News

Can Farming Save the Planet?

good return on their product, more than enough to offset the increased cost of additional labor, says Wiviott. “You do the conversions for a couple of years,” he says, “and then after that you have a very stable cash flow from these... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2007
  • News

In Brief

counter basic assumptions. Several HBS professors consider the cost to organizations when dissent does not or cannot surface, and suggest ways to make sure it does. To the Rescue. In India, there’s no such thing as calling 911 in an... View Details
Keywords: Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

    James F. Lincoln

    Lincoln, as president of the world’s largest producer of welding equipment, pioneered the incentive wage system. Lincoln’s “Incentive System” rewarded workers according to their productive capacity and made the company the lowest cost... View Details
    Keywords: Fabricated Goods
    • 20 Mar 2019
    • News

    Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire

    emissions reductions immediately, Henderson and the other speakers were optimistic that it is completely plausible to change today’s practices and norms. Despite ongoing debate about the cost of decarbonizing the world’s economy,... View Details
    Keywords: Allison Webster; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation
    • 20 Feb 2013
    • Research & Ideas

    Big Deal: Reflections on the Megamerger of American and US Airways

    agreements or use the threat of such rejection as leverage to obtain financial concessions from lessors and other counterparties. For an airline that leases its planes, this can generate enormous cost savings. This ability to reject or... View Details
    Keywords: Re: Rosabeth M. Kanter & Stuart C. Gilson; Air Transportation
    • 02 Aug 2006
    • Research & Ideas

    Investor Protection: The Czech Experience

    multinational and local firms? A: While it's certainly a disheartening outcome on the surface, there are some silver linings. The costs associated with weak institutions are usually hidden—companies that don't go public, financings that... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Media & Broadcasting; Entertainment & Recreation
    • 01 Jun 2017
    • News

    Powered by the HBS Fund

    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
    • March 2019 (Revised May 2019)
    • Case

    Fetchr: A New Way of Last Mile Delivery

    By: V.G. Narayanan and Eren Kuzucu
    By mid-2016, five years of aggressive growth had transformed Fetchr from a small logistics startup to a 1,000-employee, full-fledged last-mile delivery company operating across four countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Already beneficiaries of the... View Details
    Keywords: Startup; Decision; Financial Strategy; UAE; KSA; MENA; Cost Accounting; Business Model; Business Startups; Transformation; Cost Management; Strategy; Disruptive Innovation; Technological Innovation; Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Logistics; Service Delivery; Supply Chain Management; Performance Evaluation; Mathematical Methods; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Transportation Networks; Middle East; United Arab Emirates; Dubai; Bahrain; Egypt; Saudi Arabia; North Africa
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    Narayanan, V.G., and Eren Kuzucu. "Fetchr: A New Way of Last Mile Delivery." Harvard Business School Case 119-018, March 2019. (Revised May 2019.)
    • May 1997 (Revised June 2003)
    • Case

    Prestige Telephone Company

    By: William J. Bruns Jr.
    An independent regulated telephone company has established a computer services subsidiary that seems to remain unprofitable. Managers must determine whether it is profitable or not and consider changes in pricing or promotion that might improve profitability. A... View Details
    Keywords: Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Profit; Cost vs Benefits; Business Subsidiaries; Telecommunications Industry
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    Bruns, William J., Jr. "Prestige Telephone Company." Harvard Business School Case 197-097, May 1997. (Revised June 2003.)
    • February 2013 (Revised October 2013)
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    Investindustrial Exits Ducati

    By: Francois Brochet and Karol Misztal
    In early 2012, Investindustrial, a European private equity group, publicly announced their intention to sell their 76.7% stake in Ducati Motor Holding S.p.A., an iconic Italian producer of sport performance motorcycles. The decision followed a six-year turnaround... View Details
    Keywords: Cost vs Benefits; Private Equity; Valuation; Investment Return; Brands and Branding; Financial Services Industry; Motorcycle Industry; Hong Kong; Italy
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    Brochet, Francois, and Karol Misztal. "Investindustrial Exits Ducati." Harvard Business School Case 113-058, February 2013. (Revised October 2013.)
    • January 1998 (Revised March 1998)
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    Viacom, Inc.: Carpe Diem (Condensed)

    By: Joseph L. Bower and Thomas R. Eisenmann
    Viacom has built a powerful position in the global entertainment industry through skillful and bold acquisitions. Now its expansion is challenged by the moves of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. Different businesses within Viacom have contradictory positions on how to deal... View Details
    Keywords: Acquisition; Cost vs Benefits; Decisions; Entertainment; Competition; Corporate Strategy; Expansion; Entertainment and Recreation Industry
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    Bower, Joseph L., and Thomas R. Eisenmann. "Viacom, Inc.: Carpe Diem (Condensed)." Harvard Business School Case 398-086, January 1998. (Revised March 1998.)
    • 2001
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    Using Tax Incentives to Compete for Foreign Investment: Are They Worth the Costs?

    By: L. T. Wells Jr., Nancy J. Allen, Jacques Morisset and Neda Pirnia
    Keywords: Taxation; Motivation and Incentives; Foreign Direct Investment; Cost vs Benefits
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    Wells, L. T., Jr., Nancy J. Allen, Jacques Morisset, and Neda Pirnia. "Using Tax Incentives to Compete for Foreign Investment: Are They Worth the Costs?" Foreign Investment Advisory Service Occasional Paper, September 2001.
    • 01 Mar 2012
    • News

    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
    • 27 Sep 2024
    • Research & Ideas

    Charting 'Cheapflation': How Budget Brands Got So Pricey

    cheaper goods could be tighter than those of makers of high-priced goods from the same category, adding pressure to raise prices as supply costs increased. But when inflation decreased, “the relative prices of cheaper options remained... View Details
    Keywords: by Ana Elena Azpúrua
    • 01 Sep 2011
    • News

    Capitalism’s False Mantra

    Related Links Martin discussing his book One of the most influential papers defining the role of business, “Theory of the Firm: Managerial Behavior, Agency Costs and Ownership Structure,” was coauthored in 1976 by Michael Jensen, the... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Management
    • 01 Mar 2010
    • News

    Rwanda Provides Students with Hands-On Learning

    in Rwanda’s most impoverished villages. To help improve the function of the Rwanda Development Board, another team examined the cost to business of governmental bureaucracy. “I believe that people learn the most about another country and... View Details
    Keywords: Margie Kelley; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
    • 26 Feb 2008
    • First Look

    First Look: February 26, 2008

    order to smooth earnings (Graham, Harvey and Rajgopal, 2005). We estimate that marketing actions can be used to boost quarterly net income by up to 20% depending on the depth of promotion. But there is a price to pay, with the cost in the... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 01 Aug 2002
    • News

    HBS Business Plan Contest Keeps Entrepreneurial Spirit Alive

    FishLogic's Javier Segovia, Patrick George, Benjamin Vigoda, and Gonçal Pagan: producing programmable signal-processing chips that cost less and work faster. Lucas Klein, Matthew Mugo Fields, and Jason Green of BEST Education Partners,... View Details
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