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  • 19 Mar 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Unlocking Your Investment Capital

if the firm held a diversified equity portfolio like the Standard & Poor's 500. Assets with only passive risks are typically zero-net-present-value investments. Q: Why does the required amount of equity cushion that a company should have be based on its Value at... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services
  • 01 Jun 2002
  • News

News in the News Biz

of wealthy individuals, then the newspaper business has to generate profit. Since 75 percent of newspaper revenue comes from advertising, and staff — at 16 percent of total cost — is the most important cost... View Details
  • February 1991
  • Case

Burlington Northern: The ARES Decision (A)

By: Julie H. Hertenstein and Robert S. Kaplan
Burlington Northern's decision whether to invest in ARES, an automated train control system, is a ($350 million) strategic investment in information technology. Although set in a service industry (railroad) the issues around this decision arise in many organizations... View Details
Keywords: Investment; Rail Transportation; Information Technology; Competitive Strategy; Performance Evaluation; Performance Effectiveness; Cost vs Benefits; Technology Adoption; Technological Innovation; Customers; Quality; Rail Industry
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  • Web

1.19 Immersive Field Courses (IFC) | MBA

residing in the immersion location may not participate in course activities (e.g., group sessions, field work, cultural excursions, group meals, etc.) nor may they stay in GEO-provided accommodations whether a student has been assigned a single room or has requested a... View Details
  • December 2019
  • Case

Forecasting ClimaCell

By: Joshua Lev Krieger, Christopher Stanton and James Barnett
A weather technology startup, ClimaCell considers the R&D trade-offs and financing implications of pursuing a proposed contract with a major automobile maker, rather than continuing its focus on building a scalable, all-purpose weather prediction engine. View Details
Keywords: Weather; Forecasting and Prediction; Technological Innovation; Research and Development; Finance; Cost vs Benefits; Decision Making; Strategy
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  • 01 Sep 2004
  • News

A Market-Based Prescription

curb cost increases while ensuring quality treatment. Those goals have not been reached, largely because patient and physician resistance to stringent gatekeeping has led to more relaxed controls and freedom to use out-of-network... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Health, Social Assistance
  • 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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  • 01 Jun 2017
  • News

Case Study: Something New

attach the word ‘bridal,’ it makes it cost 5 to 10 times more,” says Leslie Voorhees (MBA 2015), who founded Anomalie with her now husband, Calley Means (MBA 2015). “It’s offensive to a woman who understands how things are manufactured.”... View Details
Keywords: April White
  • 02 Apr 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Digital Initiative Summit: Who Has the Power in the Music Industry?

business and you can market yourself. You can start at a low cost to record and post something online. "As an example, let's say I sell socks. Before, I could only sell socks at a Walmart. Now, I can basically set up my own little shop in... View Details
Keywords: Re: Felix Oberholzer-Gee; Music
  • 20 Sep 2007
  • Research & Ideas

How to be a Customer

the contract price if the seller's costs clearly exceed expectations or promise to refer the supplier to a friend. You may want to do business with the same supplier again. (Why waste time on selecting another vendor from scratch?) If you... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
  • Profile

Larry Braithwaite

Learn and Grow: offering cost savings, procurement analytics, and encouraging new business-to-business opportunities within our own network." Looking ahead, Larry would like to grow both concerns, expanding his procurement-management... View Details
  • 22 Jul 2014
  • News

Hungry for Change

Editor's note: Rob Zeaske was appointed director of the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative in July 2020. Read more. As CEO of Second Harvest Heartland, a hunger-relief organization based in St. Paul, Minnesota, Rob Zeaske (MBA 2002) has a clear understanding of what he's... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture
  • 01 Oct 2002
  • News

John Batcha: Sowing the Seeds to Fight Hunger

vegetable and flower seed, which Batcha sources, packages, and labels in a dozen languages, working out of his home in Charlotte, North Carolina. In the past four years, SPI has shipped nearly six million packets of seed abroad. Batcha sells the seed at nominal View Details
  • 19 Feb 2008
  • News

The Scoop Behind the Silver Screen

estimated in advance by companies who specialize in this sort of analysis. Bonds can be purchased to cover cost overrun risks, too. And it doesn’t hurt to have the reality check of a bonding agent looking over the movie’s projected... View Details
Keywords: Arts, Entertainment; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Real Estate
  • 10 Jan 2017
  • News

A Side of Data with Your Dinner

Damian Mogavero (MBA 1996) was a frustrated restaurateur. The MBA grad wanted to answer simple business questions such as "Why did food costs go up?" but he was greeted, he tells Bloomberg Pursuits, with “blank stares and wrong answers.”... View Details
  • 01 Oct 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Five Questions for James Austin

For example, the AMA broke off a cause-related marketing agreement with Sunbeam Corporation after its members decided that it was not appropriate to its social mission. This ended up costing the nonprofit association over $10 million in... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
  • Web

Residential Life | MBA

fees include the cost of utilities at all complexes and Internet in select locations; 24-hour maintenance service is provided. Students and families living in Harvard University Housing have access to the Graduate Commons Program, a... View Details
  • 01 Mar 2012
  • News

Social Investing Pioneers

rising to a maximum of 13.3 percent, but only if the reoffending rate is reduced by at least 7.5 percent. Even at the highest rate, the government is forecast to pay out only about a third of its cost savings. Fifteen months into the... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance
  • 25 Mar 2018
  • News

Modernizing Infrastructure Management

they know. Even if it's incredibly painful to change, not only do you have to deal with change management, but just the cost do so. So my business, we focus really on small cities and rural counties. We are tailored for them that we know... View Details
  • 25 Feb 2020
  • News

The Influence of Geography on Work and Innovation

(and enabling the USPTO to reduce office space needs in expensive regions). Choudhury found that those who took advantage of the policy chose to move to more attractive locations, which might mean places with a lower cost of living,... View Details
Keywords: April White