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  • 01 Jun 2004
  • News

Who, Me?

Is this a great country or what? Once upon a time, a journey of self-discovery usually involved biting insects, bouts of diarrhea, familial approbation, and staggering opportunity costs while one searched out a shaman or mystic to help... View Details
Keywords: Tickle.com; social media; tickle; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information
  • April 1, 2024
  • Other Article

Paying For AI In Healthcare: Setting The Right Precedent Amidst Growing Use

By: Mitchell Tang, Kaylee Wilson and Ateev Mehrotra
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; AI and Machine Learning; Cost
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  • June 2021
  • Case

Reversing Course on a Reverse E-Auction (A)

By: Kym Lew Nelson, James K. Sebenius and Alex Green
Global consumer products powerhouse LSP has found enormous savings in a trial run of a new competitive bidding tool for their procurement organization known as a reverse e-auction. But when Jen Baldwin is asked to achieve the same savings from her suppliers for a... View Details
Keywords: Reverse E-auctions; Bids and Bidding; Auctions; Complexity; Cost vs Benefits
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  • Article

Priced and Unpriced Online Markets

By: Benjamin Edelman
With forces both supporting and opposing zero prices, typical Internet-related activities—like surfing the web, web searches, and e-mail, along with behind-the-scenes practices like domain names and the allocation of IP (Internet Protocol) addresses—present a natural... View Details
Keywords: Cost vs Benefits; Price; Market Transactions; Service Operations; Internet
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  • 18 Jul 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Time to Rethink the Corporate Tax System?

Corporations have traditionally considered taxes a painful but necessary cost of doing business. But this view has changed, says Harvard Business School professor Mihir A. Desai. With the advent of sophisticated tax shelters, global... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
  • 27 Jun 2005
  • Research & Ideas

The Potential Downside of Win-Win

consideration for all managers. Value Creation—and Collusion Suppose that pharmaceutical firm A manufactures a new, beneficial drug and begins selling 100 million pills per year at $3.05 per pill. Each pill costs 5 cents to manufacture,... View Details
Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman
  • 17 Sep 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Is There Help for the Big Ticket Buyer?

from a lack of information (about the negotiation process, about the other side's reservation price, etc.). In recent years, however, a large number of Web sites (e.g., www.cartalk.com) have sprung up that reveal the exact dealer cost of... View Details
Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman
  • 17 Oct 2016
  • HBS Case

Business Solutions That Help Cut Food Waste

As much as 40 percent of food grown in the United States for human consumption is wasted. Source: Eivaisla After decades of wasteful food practices, where perfectly good food is discarded even as poverty keeps many families hungry, solutions are starting to come... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Food & Beverage
  • 29 Jul 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Get Off the Dime!

from people in the divisions began to grow exponentially. People would say, "How long is this going to take? In my business we can't . . . ." "The cost versus benefit for our business unit is no good. Why do we . . .... View Details
Keywords: by John P. Kotter & Dan S. Cohen
  • March 2004
  • Case

L.L. Bean: A Search for Growth

By: Rajiv Lal, Walter J. Salmon and James Weber
In mid-2003, CEO Chris McCormick felt L.L. Bean was in a good position to begin to grow again. For nearly 90 years, the company sold clothing and gear for outdoor enthusiasts through its catalogs and a single retail store in Freeport, Maine. In the three decades prior... View Details
Keywords: Business History; Restructuring; Growth and Development Strategy; Cost Management; Sales; Performance Improvement; Diversification; Distribution Channels; Resignation and Termination; Retail Industry; Web Services Industry
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  • 11 May 2020
  • News

Better Than Cash

in sanitation or health or education, it starts with a payment system everyone can use.” Goodwin-Groen offers the example of a mother who has to pay for her children’s schooling once each semester. She needs to save money for several months to do so; in low-income... View Details
  • 01 Oct 1998
  • News

Short Takes

who doesn't stockpile at all risks getting an inferior deal the next time around. Retailers' ability to control their inventory storage costs also plays an important role in this balancing act. As Chun writes, "A higher inventory holding... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
  • 01 Feb 2000
  • News

New Releases

textile dyes so that its customers could reduce their use of other raw materials and their costs for end-of-pipe waste treatment. Ciba could then capture some of these cost savings. Another example is the... View Details
  • 2022
  • White Paper

The Options Multiplier: Decoding the CareerWise Youth Apprentice Journey

By: Joseph B. Fuller, Rachel Lipson, Farah Mallah, Girish Pendse and Rachel Snyder
As more Americans question the appeal of costly higher education programs, earn-and-learn models, like apprenticeship, are attracting increasing attention from policymakers and employers alike. While apprenticeship is widespread in many parts of Europe,... View Details
Keywords: Apprenticeship; Higher Education; Training; Personal Development and Career; Cost vs Benefits; Success; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms
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  • 15 Apr 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Solving the Search vs. Display Advertising Quandary

Second, because display ads drive consumers down the funnel so that they click more on search ads and eventually become a customer, this process also increases overall ad cost due to additional search clicks. Therefore, the benefit of... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Advertising
  • 21 Mar 2024
  • Blog Post

IFC India: Renewable Energy - CleanMax

Shah, realized corporations were seeking cost efficient ways to reduce their environmental footprint while simultaneously the cost of solar energy was decreasing. There are several key accomplishments under... View Details
  • Web

Supplemental Financial Information II - Annual Report 2020

include a portion of faculty salaries and benefits expense, as well as direct costs for faculty support staff and travel, and for the School’s network of global offices. Additionally, HBS allocates a portion of the View Details
  • 01 Apr 1998
  • News

New Releases

service, and knowledge management in examining the implications of this paradigm shift for managers, entrepreneurs, and policymakers. Cost & Effect by Robert S. Kaplan and Robin Cooper (Harvard Business School Press) View Details
  • 04 Sep 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54036 August 23, 2018 NEJM Catalyst Using a New EHR System to Increase Patient Engagement, Improve Efficiency, and Decrease Cost By: French, Katy, Barbra Bryce Speer, Alexis B. Guzman, Tayab... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 05 May 2009
  • First Look

First Look: May 5, 2009

not the end goal. In fact, cost cutting and restructuring are simply the first steps in repositioning and leading a company and industry through the crisis and in defining how business will be conducted in the future. This paper describes... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace