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- 03 Mar 2016
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Pamela Meyer (MBA 1986)
being paranoid. But the costs of deception are high. It pays to develop a close team of colleagues you absolutely trust and would go to war with. A complicated stew in our culture is creating a deception epidemic. Social media, for... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Feedback
lot of time exploring the universe on my computer, and am familiar with the best software and its applications. The story retrieval application in Stories (alumni.hbs.edu/stories) is automation at its best! I know that—in managing this platform—access, storage, and... View Details
- 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
- 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
- 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
Hertenstein, Julie H., and Robert S. Kaplan. "Burlington Northern: The ARES Decision (A)." Harvard Business School Case 191-122, February 1991.
- 13 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Hidden Market for Babies
homes. For example, more generous tax credits could substantially reduce the cost of adopting available children, and would make adoption more feasible for lower-income families. Our State Department could work more closely with... View Details
- 23 Jul 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Open Office Revolution Has Gone Too Far
what would be your reaction? Bernstein:It depends on what you’re trying to achieve with open offices. My understanding, from speaking with real estate managers and architects, is companies’ conversations about the built environment tend to start with View Details
Keywords: Re: Ethan S. Bernstein
- 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
Krieger, Joshua Lev, Christopher Stanton, and James Barnett. "Forecasting ClimaCell." Harvard Business School Case 820-044, December 2019.
- Portrait Project
Keta Burke-Williams
Figure skating was solace. I loved the cold, rink air against my cheeks, the sound of my blades carving grooves into the ice, and the intoxicating scent of Trident tropical gum, cool air, and Zamboni gas. That was absolute freedom. As I grew taller, and the View Details
- Portrait Project
Josh Solera
didn't know this man particularly well, but I like to imagine how much he and his wife enjoyed their soup. His faith in me pushed me to work harder, and to dream bigger. I want to inspire others to do the same, even if it costs me a few... View Details
- Portrait Project
Andrea Coravos
mausoleum. “Would you like a guide?” he eventually asked. Muhammad’s three-hour tour cost a paltry $6, an uncomfortable bargain for his hustle and magic. In America, we are told that success comes from hard work. But is meritocracy real?... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Faculty Research Online
Survive — Thrive: Leading Innovation in Good Times and Bad Cost cutting and restructuring are just the first steps in coping with the current global financial crisis and defining how business will be conducted in the future. In this... View Details
- 09 Jan 2013
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Understanding Customers
Addiction to Service Heroes In their new book, Uncommon Service, coauthors Frances Frei and Anne Morriss show it is possible for organizations to reduce costs while dramatically enhancing customer service. The key? Don't try to be good at... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Hair Today
extensions market. Today, Upgrade is an e-commerce site where customers can create a customized wig at an average cost of $500; it also has a brick-and-mortar location in Houston’s Third Ward, where Winters was raised by her grandmother.... View Details
- 28 Aug 2014
- Op-Ed
Government Can Do More to Unfreeze Small Business Credit
released in May 2013, economists from the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis quantified the costs of increased regulation on community banks, modeling the impact of new regulatory costs as the hiring of... View Details
- 02 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Excerpt: ‘A Social Strategy’
retweets they got on Twitter would translate into sales or lower costs (which they rarely did). Second, with this approach, eBay is not trying to become friends with its customers with the intent of broadcasting messages to them. Instead,... View Details