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Eugene N. Beesley

The first non-Lilly family member to serve as president, Beesley joined the pharmaceutical company at the age of 20, and worked in a variety of positions before becoming an executive level manger. Under Beesley’s leadership, research and development expanded greatly,... View Details

Keywords: Healthcare

26 Mar 2013
First Look

First Look: March 26

ones. Findings: Our key counterintuitive finding is that Japanese and American founders of entrepreneurial firms are more similar than is often suggested. We first find that in both Japan and the U.S., achievement motivation is positively related to customer... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

10 May 2011
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First Look: May 10

pre-selection by a menu setter. We develop a model to study the relation between the ability of the menu setter and the size and quality of the menu. We show that when the cost of increasing the size of the menu is sufficiently small, a... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

04 Jan 2012
First Look

First Look: January 4

than smaller menus, as measured by the maximum Sharpe ratio achievable. We propose a model in which menu setters differ in their ability to pre-select the menu. We show that when the cost of increasing the menu size is sufficiently small,... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

08 May 2007
First Look

First Look: May 8, 2007

integration have barely occurred, and globalization's future is fragile. Cross-border mergers are running up against protectionism, and local economic stagnation may lead to a reversal of globalization that may persist for decades. The Innovation of Time-Driven... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

Herbert A. Sklenar

as crushed stone for concrete, where Vulcan is the nation’s largest and most profitable producer. Coupled with this investment and expansion, Sklenar also instituted an array of cost cutting measures, all of which allowed the firm to... View Details

Keywords: Construction & Real Estate

Donald C. Burr

Burr created an airline based on low cost travel and a flat organizational structure, setting People Express apart from other airlines. By giving employees stock in the company, Burr was able to dramatically impact productivity. People... View Details

Keywords: Transportation

01 Mar 2009
News

Health care article stats

12/1/08 citing: WHO; U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services; Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services) p. 30 “2007 McKinsey study ” (“Accounting for the cost of health care in the United States,” McKinsey Global Institute, January... View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance

24 Oct 2024
Research & Ideas

With Millions of Workers Juggling Caregiving, Employers Need to Rethink Support

to remain working left because they could not reconcile the obligations of the career path they were on with caring for kids. Caregiving, along with higher education and healthcare delivery, has among the highest real-dollar increase in View Details

Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette

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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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

05 Sep 2012
What Do You Think?

Will Business Management Save US Health Care?

for-profit health care organization led to better patient outcomes at the same time that "provider engagement and feeling of satisfaction have increased, our costs have fallen and our net profit has increased." One of the basic... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Health

28 Jun 2004
Research & Ideas

Microfinance: A Way Out for the Poor

poor by removing the high cost of everything they need. Chu discussed the benefits and complexities of microfinance with Harvard Business School alumni on June 4, in a session titled "Microfinance: Harnessing the Market for Social... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

08 Jul 2013
Research & Ideas

Everything Must Go: A Strategy for Store Liquidation

working paper, doctoral student Nathan Craig and professor Ananth Raman introduce a dynamic approach for optimizing the profitability of store liquidation that increases net recovery on cost by 2 to 7 percent of assets on hand, an... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail

29 Sep 2009
First Look

First Look: September 29

to be the most efficient. The central insight of the theory is that each method offers a different way of aligning decision-making authority with valuable "specific knowledge" inside the organization. The theory suggests that View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

19 Nov 2019
Op-Ed

Gender Bias Complaints against Apple Card Signal a Dark Side to Fintech

which was historically plagued by frictions, is becoming potentially more accurate, efficient, and cost effective. For small-business lending, technology is changing the game, providing access to capital for more small businesses that... View Details

Keywords: by Karen G. Mills; Financial Services

02 Apr 2008
Research & Ideas

Four Companies that Conquered America

consumers but exclusively on an online basis. Taking advantage of its low no-bricks-and-mortar cost structure, ING was able to offer generous rates on certificates of deposit. Just four years on, ING is the third-largest holder of... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch

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Mallika Ahluwalia

Mallika. "I used formal business models to create a business plan and a feasibility analysis, balancing costs and revenues, to help members access credit and reach bulk markets." Her next internship, with McKinsey in Washington,... View Details

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