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16 Mar 2010
First Look

First Look: March 16

peripheral locations. If the goal of state and local policy makers is to encourage venture capital investment, outperformance of non-local investments suggests that policy makers might want to mitigate costs associated with established... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

10 Jun 2002
Research & Ideas

How to Look at Globalization Now

other, offering thirty channels of programming in eight languages. STAR's evolution indicates, first of all, the abiding preference—demonstrated in all regions around the world—for local TV programming, even if it costs much more than... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

17 May 2011
First Look

First Look: May 17

founders. To motivate the empirical analysis we develop a simple theory of costly bargaining, where founders trade off the simplicity of accepting an equal split, with the costs of negotiating a differentiated allocation of founder... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

20 Dec 2004
Research & Ideas

How an Order Views Your Company

profitable parts of their business. It also enabled them to segment different types of order to improve their efficiency. Taken together, the improvements in efficiency and the greater focus on highly profitable orders lowered costs and... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston

10 May 2004
Research & Ideas

Rethink the Value of Joint Ventures

going it alone even more than the returns to partnering with local firms. The reasons are that the forces of globalization—particularly reduced trade costs leading to more fragmented production processes—are making it more and more... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

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Benefits | Information Technology

a difference in the world, while scaling the School’s impact and pedagogy. By removing some of the barriers to learning, like travel cost and logistics, we can allow more people to benefit from, and contribute to, the HBS classroom... View Details

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Entrepreneurial Finance (Q3) - Course Catalog

the relative costs and benefits of each source of funding and the connections between a venture's financing strategy and its product-market strategy. Inevitably, there will be some overlap with courses such as Launching Global Ventures,... View Details

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Bequest - Alumni

President and Fellows of Harvard College, a Massachusetts educational, charitable corporation, for the benefit of Harvard Business School. Benefits Costs you nothing during your lifetime Helps fulfill your financial, tax, and estate... View Details

09 Dec 2020
News

How to Fix America

American child at the time of birth. “At historical rates of equity returns of 8 percent annually, a $6,750 at-birth retirement account—which would cost the government $26 billion a year based on the average number of children born in the... View Details

02 May 2016
News

Can Brian Shortsleeve Fix the MBTA’s Budget Woes?

table.” The answers, Aloisi said, will have to come from Baker and from Transportation Secretary Stephanie Pollack, not from Shortsleeve, who serves as more of a chief financial officer than lead visionary. But Shortsleeve said controlling View Details

27 Mar 2005
Research & Ideas

Should I Pay the Bribe?

accusations have a cost to the politicians, both in terms of the monetary cost of the legal defense efforts and in terms of the reduced esteem of the uninformed public at home and abroad. My proposal is to... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia D. Churchwell

23 Feb 2004
Research & Ideas

How Corporate Responsibility is Changing in Asia

to outsource elsewhere, Ballinger said the number of Nike employees in Indonesia grew from 20,000 in 1988 to 110,000 in 1997. "(Nike) still thought it was a pretty good deal," he said. Even if the minimum wage rose to $5 a day, it would only View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

17 Feb 2003
Research & Ideas

Rating Fund Managers by the Company They Keep

work? A: Unfortunately the method is quite difficult to implement—it took us many months to do it properly, and it required mutual fund holdings data that costs tens of thousands of dollars (which the HBS Division of Research was kind... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

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Awards | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

travel, travel class, cost of the air ticket, type of ticket, method of payment, and a zero balance. Upgrades, ticket exchange fees, and frequent flyer miles applied towards a ticket purchase are not eligible for funding. Train receipts... View Details

01 Dec 2016
News

Ask the Expert: Energy’s Next Era

toward renewables, it also moves from variable cost to fixed cost—from an Opex world to a Capex one. How should pricing evolve to reflect a Capex world and induce consumption when energy is abundant and prevent it when it isn’t? —Catarina... View Details

27 Jul 2023
Blog Post

Recruiting International Students is Easy and Beneficial for Employers

employee. What’s more, there is no cost to the employer. Converting international employees to long-term employees is also an easy process, which more than 25,000 companies complete each year. “The visa process is what most companies... View Details

26 Mar 2020
Blog Post

The Road Untraveled: VC Perspectives on COVID-19

these times. Be open with your team and give them ways to reach your executive team that may not have been as readily available in the past. 2) Cut costs wherever you can before letting go of employees. Culture and human capital are more... View Details

01 Jun 2000
News

Social Capital Markets: Creating Value in the Nonprofit World

which recruits at-risk youth to work in Ben & Jerry's shops). It monitors employee progress and tries to quantify the costs each represents to society. It then tracks how that cost structure changes due to... View Details

Keywords: Anne Kavanagh

01 Mar 2014
News

Clubs Hopping: A Healthy Dialogue

noted that the President was focusing on trying to get more people covered and shifting more of the costs to wealthy people while reducing costs to those with lesser incomes. But there was much debate about... View Details

Keywords: Morrell, Daniel; healthcare; HBSAAA

01 Mar 2004
News

Drug Imports a Hot Topic at Alumni Health-Care Conference

between the high cost of developing prescription drugs and patient demand for lower prices. Speaking on “The Politics of Innovation,” McClellan acknowledged that many patients have resorted to buying drugs outside the FDA’s regulatory... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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