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January 2011 (Revised September 2011)
Case

Caterpillar, Inc. (A)

By: David F. Hawkins

2010 Healthcare Reform Act eliminates Medicare Part D subsidy and Caterpillar recognizes a $100 million change. View Details

Keywords: Information Infrastructure; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Employment; Cost vs Benefits; Forecasting and Prediction; Change Management; Asset Management; Financial Strategy; Activity Based Costing and Management; Business or Company Management; Technology Industry; Manufacturing Industry; United States

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Educators

Purchase

12 Feb 2008
First Look

mutually agreed-upon transfers with compensation and are located within the task network. Placing a transaction in a particular location in turn requires work to define, count (or measure), and pay for the transacted objects. The costs of... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

04 Sep 2019
News

What I Do: Keith Cerny (MBA 1991)

“We want to serve the surrounding community in the most diverse way possible.” “Needless to say, an orchestra is not a factory. But thinking about fixed and variable costs and capacity utilization is incredibly important for what we do... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

10 Aug 2017
News

Into the Light

came to understand the human and economic costs of “energy poverty,” and realized that her idea could do more than improve the environment. It could improve lives, at a cost that is less than the price of... View Details

Keywords: April White; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

01 Aug 2013
News

A Cure for Cold Storage

percent of the children are vaccinated against the virus. And the price of the vaccine is negligible, says Schrader—around 5 or 10 cents. "It's not cost that limits it," he says, but rather infrastructure: Vaccines rely on a complex and... View Details

Keywords: Morrell, Daniel; vaccines; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

05 Feb 2009
Research & Ideas

In Praise of Marketing

Second, the ambitions of American inventors and entrepreneurs demanded the broadest possible distribution. The Wal-Mart mission, for example, is to lower the cost of living for everyone everywhere. Third, American society was open to... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch; Advertising

10 May 2016
First Look

May 10, 2016

Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51040 forthcoming American Journal of Health Promotion The Effect of Cost Sharing on an Employee Weight Loss Program: A Randomized Trial By: John, Leslie K., Andrea Troxel,... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

26 May 2015
First Look

First Look: May 26

in the world where factor costs are favorable. This paper re-examines this assumption and suggests that not all manufacturing is highly mobile. We suggest that manufacturing sectors should be viewed along a continuum from highly mobile to... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

03 Apr 2007
First Look

First Look: April 3, 2007

recommendations and zero pressure following hold recommendations. We discuss possible explanations for the differences in trading response, including information costs and investor naivete. The Business, Legal, and Ethical Ramifications... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

09 Sep 2024
News

Basket Chase

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. On this episode, we’re featuring an excerpt from a new HBS podcast called Think Big, Buy Small. The show is hosted by Professors Richard Ruback and Royce Yudkoff... View Details

01 Dec 2002
News

Bad Times for Business

pay back ill-gotten gains from option exercises that preceded accounting restatements — and longer vesting would be great. Another significant step would be to expense stock options, which would make their costs more evident and more... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

11 Sep 2019
Research & Ideas

Germany May Have the Answer for Reducing Drug Prices

American lawmakers attempting to stem spiraling drug costs might find inspiration in Germany, where the government’s regulatory model has been curbing price growth without thwarting innovation or access, says research from Harvard... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Health

08 Dec 2014
Research & Ideas

A Manager’s Guide to International Strategy

portfolio of locations. Collis drills down into the many factors that can affect location and observes how companies typically assign each a weighted percentage: employee availability, sourcing, quality, and cost (40 percent);... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

09 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Incentives and Operational Excellence

selling it and breaking even. However, the incremental cost for studios to put an additional tape on the retailer's shelf is less than three dollars. Demand for an individual movie is highly uncertain and usually tapers off rapidly after... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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

18 Apr 2005
Research & Ideas

Prosper with Multi-Channel Retailing

with their best customers. While some retailers at the beginning of the e-commerce phenomenon feared that adding another channel would simply add costs and erode their other channels, she said the opposite is true in many cases.... View Details

Keywords: by Julie Jette; Consumer Products; Retail

02 Oct 2000
What Do You Think?

What Lies Beyond NAFTA?

economies. The conclusion is that it has created jobs on both sides of the border while sharpening the ability of Mexican companies to compete. The Mexican business community is learning to cope not only with foreign competitors, but also with rising labor View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

15 Dec 2024
News

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
News

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

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