Costs - Publications - Faculty & Research

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

Citation

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02 May 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research: May 2, 2017

banks use their global balance sheets to respond to local monetary policy. However, sources and uses of funds are often denominated in different currencies. This leads to a foreign exchange (FX) exposure that banks need to hedge. If cross-currency flows are large, the... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

22 Dec 2016
Op-Ed

The Small Business Administration is a Model for How to Drive Economic Growth

critical (but often neglected) part of the economy, all at a low cost to taxpayers. Gallup and other surveys show high support for small businesses. However, programs that support small businesses are not popular for superficial reasons.... View Details

Keywords: by Karen Mills

19 Apr 2018
Blog Post

Policy, Practice, Leadership & Impact: Making a Difference with the HBS/HKS Joint Degree

balance between financial and social returns – ensuring strong financial performance that maintains their AAA-rating and a low cost of capital, but also fulfilling the World Bank Group’s mandate of poverty elimination. The IFC will truly... View Details

28 Apr 2016
Blog Post

3 Concerns I Had about HBS

return to my prior employer (who would have funded a significant portion of the cost of attendance). In other words, coming to HBS meant I had to acknowledge that I would be in debt. A lot of it. Here’s how I got comfortable with the... View Details

19 Sep 2024
Blog Post

A Day at Royal FloraHolland: The Epicenter of the Global Flower Market

from growers to buyers, a deliberate choice made by balancing cost and practicality. The auction, along with the transfer of flowers, occurs for just a few hours each morning. This limited operational window makes it cost-prohibitive to... View Details

01 Jun 2022
News

Vision: Into the Breach

covers direct costs of a cyberattack and protects companies if they are sued for disruptions to their computer systems, malicious or otherwise. But the company is preparing to move beyond cyber insurance: Later this year, it will... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand

01 Sep 2020
News

Saving Grace

holiday—next up is a trip to the American Rockies, if the global health crisis permits it—they can withdraw the cost of the trip and leave the rest where it is to continue growing. They pay one flat annual fee (0.95 percent for the first... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

20 Nov 2019
News

Lifting Fallen Families

public assumes that the government assists them. And it does, to an extent. “There are two government programs that are designed to aid them,” says Kim, “but that aid doesn’t cover the full cost of college. And it leaves a gap of about... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

13 Nov 2018
News

Building a New Real Estate Investment Model

small mom-and-pop operations, who often feel economic pressure themselves in rapidly gentrifying communities as taxes and other costs rise. Only 2 percent are owned by large institutional investors, and most of those homes are located in... View Details

Keywords: April White; Real Estate

21 Jan 2014
News

Climbing to New Heights

Everest ascent, he committed to raising £10,000, 20 percent of the cost of the planned shelter. To date, Petzel has raised £6,000; he hopes matching funds from Goldman Sachs will allow him to go over the top. "The work the porters do is... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley

01 Jan 2011
News

Hüsnü Özyeğin, MBA 1969

immediately evident. Adding pizza to the menu, for example, was a smart move. "The pizza cost us 25 cents and we could sell it for over a dollar," he says. "It ended up being the most profitable product at the Grill." In addition to... View Details

Portrait Project

Amy McGowan

of people that wants to earn an honest living is relegated to the status of working poor because of the high costs of essentials like health care, housing, and energy. Our children face unequal opportunities to attain quality education... View Details

Portrait Project

Athena Ko

polishing rough situations to reveal the beauty inside. I will soothe the anxious men who come to me for engagement rings. I will mentor difficult underprivileged children even when they spit at me out of frustration. I will bear the financial View Details

Mar 2012
Article

Choosing the United States

exhaustive analysis. At the same time, managers ignore substantial hidden costs associated with non-U.S. locations and overlook the benefits they could reap were they to invest instead in local communities. This article examines the... View Details

Paris Wallace

extensively in academic and corporate settings including Harvard, MIT and Wharton. Paris holds a bachelor’s degree from Amherst College, and an M.B.A. and M.P.A from Harvard University, where he was a Reynolds Fellow. He is an avid cyclist and he and his wife split... View Details

Keywords: Biotech & Life Sciences;#19;#Digital Health;#43;#Healthcare;#56;#Personal Health & Wellness;#64;#Software/App

01 Sep 2012
News

Muhammad Yunus Visits HBS

more than 1 million homes. He has also arranged partnerships with multinationals to combat illness. For example, he persuaded Adidas to build a shoe that conformed to the company’s quality standards but still would cost only one euro.... View Details

Keywords: Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

01 Dec 2015
First Look

December 1, 2015

Statistics Survive Another Day: Using Changes in the Composition of Investments to Measure the Cost of Credit Constraints By: Garicano, Luis, and Claudia Steinwender Abstract—We introduce a novel empirical strategy to measure the size of... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

11 May 2010
First Look

First Look: May 11

Standard theories of corporate ownership assume that because markets are efficient, insiders ultimately bear agency costs and therefore have a strong incentive to minimize conflicts of interest with outside investors. We show that if... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

10 Jul 2000
Research & Ideas

IT Links for Boundaryless Companies

"There are huge switching costs in information technology. If you're selling stuff, you can lock in the buyer around your proprietary standards. But the buyer has to beware they're not locking themselves into a closed standard.... View Details

Keywords: by Kenneth Liss

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