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July 2000
Case

Aerospace Technologies, Inc.

By: Paul M. Healy and Jacob Cohen

Ben Galil's privately held engineering consulting firm represents aerospace products manufacturers in Israeli government biddings. The company incurs expenses for years before getting paid. This case deals with the alternative methods for booking revenues and expenses... View Details

Keywords: Accrual Accounting; Accounting; Revenue; Cost; Business or Company Management; Profit; Engineering; Bids and Bidding; Government and Politics; Private Ownership; Consulting Industry; Israel

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2022
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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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Market Perspectives - Course Catalog

instead of discussing general environmental challenges, we focus on how a small island community deals with the impact of sea level rise and related concerns, highlighting costs and benefits, property rights and the complexity of... View Details

01 Jun 2012
News

Plan B: The Brick Bank

the target household’s average savings capacity was $1 per month, that local annual inflation was nearly 20 percent, and that home repairs usually cost about $300.” While that environment was not conducive to the savings program, the team... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Dec 2017
News

Environmental Impact

fellowships, and influence practice by convening thought leaders. A self-described pro-environment, pro-science Republican, she believes that business has a critical role to play in environmental conservation: “It’s important that managers take into account societal... View Details

01 Apr 2000
News

Award-Winning Article Urges Companies to Loosen Ties that Bind

One function builds relationships with customers, another develops products, and the third oversees the operational infrastructure. Even though these activities often conflict with each other, traditionally they have been bundled together because separating them would... View Details

01 Sep 2014
News

The Changing Nature of Research

deepens, the cost of conducting powerful, relevant, practical, and broad-based research increases. Because research today encompasses a wider range of approaches and methodologies than ever before—and often requires international... View Details

01 May 2013
News

Michael F. Cronin, MBA 1977

of skills, imagination, and interests. Harvard needs to educate the very best MBA candidates from the widest possible applicant pool. That means we have to remove cost as a barrier.” A native of Boston’s Dorchester neighborhood, Cronin... View Details

16 Sep 2016
News

Gaining Ground on ALS

Bucket Challenge to support the Phase 3 trial of a promising investigational drug that is designed to slow the loss of lung function and muscle strength in patients with ALS. “Clinical trials cost tens to hundreds of millions of dollars,”... View Details

24 Apr 2014
News

Positive impact that hits home

of a fellowship. “I still think about money in our local currency,” Seck Mercier says, “and with the two years’ cost of Harvard Business School, in my country I could buy a lot of real estate.” Seck Mercier says her fellowship means... View Details

01 Jun 2012
News

Letters to the Editor

efficiency, it’s true that in many areas, private is more efficient. But not in health care. Compare Medicare administrative costs to those of private insurers. Medicare Advantage has average costs 15... View Details

Keywords: Administration of Economic Programs; Government; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Apr 2001
News

Big Deals: Project Finance Helps Mitigate Risk in Large-Scale Investments

cost something on the order of $5 billion, not the $5 million one might expect for a typical start-up,” Esty explains. And all too often, he adds, they can turn out to be losing propositions. The managerial challenge is to make sure that... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Motorola; Air Transportation; Transportation; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance; Telecommunications; Information

09 Jan 2014
News

Tapping into Opportunity

increased its water efficiency by 21.4 percent between 2004 and 2012, recently announced a new initiative to increase that efficiency by another 25 percent. Or look at another example: extracting shale gas ("fracking"). It costs from 50... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman; Business and Environment Initiative; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

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

20 Feb 2025
Blog Post

IFC India 2025: Building Resilience - Mumbai’s Journey to Sustainable Water Management

projects to make this water potable. Despite these efforts, significant barriers remain. Energy costs account for 60% of the facility’s expenses, underlining the need for more energy-efficient technologies. Additionally, stormwater and... View Details

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

11 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

The Paradoxical Quest to Make Food Look 'Natural' With Artificial Dyes

Hisano cites companies such as Wells, Richardson & Co. and Heller & Merz Company, which introduced dedicated dyes for butter coloring in the late 1870s. Synthetic dyes decreased the cost of coloring butter significantly. H.... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

17 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

Protecting against the Pirates of Bollywood

release date. Doing so, however, would negate cost savings achieved by reusing film copies across staggered release dates. Studios could also limit a film's distribution to digital, not analog, screens, the copies tagged with electronic... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Motion Pictures & Video

04 Oct 2004
Research & Ideas

Start to Measure Your E-commerce Success

a summary measure of revenue generation and cost control. They should be controllable in that employees in the organization can actually influence improvement in the factor measured. Some of the metrics shown here are evaluations of... View Details

Keywords: by Marc J. Epstein

19 Jul 2004
Research & Ideas

Your Customers: Use Them or Lose Them

staff—all of this costs money, Frei said. Commerce Bank pays for it by paying lower rates on deposits compared to the giant banks. "Think about it," she told the group. "Would you trade half a percentage point on your... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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