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Buildings & Cities - Business & Environment
figure out which assets to harden and defend, which to abandon, and which to prepare to rebuild after events. I’m interested in how we can cost justify and mobilize investments in real property - and address the human vulnerabilities as... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Bringing ‘Global’ Back Home
Explains Fields, “Especially since the recession, to be more competitive, we’ve looked beyond things like labor costs when deciding where to locate new business.” He believes that the United States can often claim competitive advantage in... View Details
- 19 Apr 2018
- News
One Last Pitch
ventilator that costs 10 percent of a typical machine, while maintaining the same capabilities. Though the NVC has undergone many changes over its 21-year run, Professor Thomas Eisenmann said one aspect has been a constant: “a commitment... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 11 Jul 2013
- News
The Good Writer
phone at his home in Los Angeles, Dick, one of eight writers on the show, has had about seven days to turn in a 60-page script. “My wife will tell you that I’m an insufferable ogre when I’m on deadline,” he says. “But you have to feed the beast. Halting production can... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
relatively high costs for labor and energy as well as the investment and time required to build factories in a country that has much more stringent environmental standards. “COVID-19 has changed only a few of the variables across... View Details
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Franchises
2008 article Srikant Datar discusses the pros and cons of franchising in order to grow. A Consumer's Guide to Buying a Franchise from the Federal Trade Commission covers the benefits and responsibilities of owning a franchise and the View Details
- 18 Apr 2005
- Research & Ideas
Selling Luxury to Everyone
them. "The market is smaller than we had anticipated," Johnson said. So far, the brand is struggling to gain market share, and Mercedes-Benz has some high costs to recoup. Johnson estimated it cost... View Details
- 30 Oct 2012
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First Look: October 30
Michael W. Toffel Publication:Organization Science (forthcoming) Abstract Governments and other organizations often outsource activities to achieve cost savings from market competition. Yet such benefits are often accompanied by poor... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Back to the Future
next twenty years than it was for the past twenty. World demand for energy is only going to grow. And whether the market price rises or falls, the costs of environmental degradation and national security, two critical externalities, will... View Details
- 04 Jan 2010
- Research & Ideas
Best of HBS Working Knowledge 2009
organization, join the club. Despite the mantra that goals are good, the process of setting beneficial goals is harder than it looks. New research by HBS professor Max H. Bazerman and colleagues explores the hidden cost when stretch goals... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 12 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Broadband Explosion: Thinking About a Truly Interactive World
next? A: I continue to work on the idea that computing technologies that reduce the cost of trying new things, thus making work more "iterative," can supercharge innovation processes. The way we do work in the future is going to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
A Boomtown's Echo
in the oil patch during that boom—that’s how I put myself through college. But once the price of oil dropped in 1982 and 1983, then that boom went bust because it was no longer cost effective to extract the oil. It was a very painful... View Details
- May 2020 (Revised August 2021)
- Case
Playing the Field: Competing Bids for Anadarko Petroleum Corp
On April 8, 2019, Occidental’s CEO Vicki Hollub made a private offer to buy Anadarko Petroleum Corporation for $72 in cash and stock. Anadarko's CEO Al Walker said he would consider the offer, yet three days later, on April 11, he signed a merger agreement with Chevron... View Details
Mayfield, E. Scott, Daniel Green, and Benjamin C. Esty. "Playing the Field: Competing Bids for Anadarko Petroleum Corp." Harvard Business School Case 220-087, May 2020. (Revised August 2021.)
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Competencies and Credentials
degree inflation: Over the last decade, changes in employment expectations have created a powerful combination of underachievement and misalignment that is costing both US competitiveness and working-class Americans aspiring to a decent... View Details
- 15 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Lessons of New-Market Disruption
the outcomes. Teradyne found that by using generic components offered with Windows NT software, it could slash the cost of delivering the product to integrated circuit manufacturers. Despite the significant View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
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productivity. Professor Emeritus Robert S. Kaplan explain how he uses action research to lower the cost of health care. Professor Mihir Desai talk about his research and his testimony before Congress on international tax reform. View Details
- 06 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52341 February 20, 2018 JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association Administrative Costs Associated with Physician Billing and Insurance-Related Activities at an Academic Health... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- November 2000 (Revised December 2000)
- Case
Loewen Group Inc., The
By: Stuart C. Gilson and Jose Camacho
A publiclytraded funeral home and cemetery consolidator faces imminent financial distress. The company has aggressively grown through use of debt. Restructuring the debt is potentially very costly to creditors, shareholders, suppliers, and other corporate stakeholders.... View Details
Keywords: International Accounting; Restructuring; Capital Structure; Cost of Capital; Debt Securities; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Crisis Management; Business and Shareholder Relations; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Service Industry
Gilson, Stuart C., and Jose Camacho. "Loewen Group Inc., The." Harvard Business School Case 201-062, November 2000. (Revised December 2000.)
- 08 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 8
diverse and relatively unconcentrated size structure appears quite consistent with other research on the underlying economics of this industry. Culture Clash: The Costs and Benefits of Homogeneity Author:Eric Van den Steen... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
homeowners have to put sweat equity into the construction of their house, and the homes of other Habitat families, and also purchase the house.” With the average cost of a Habitat home at $67,500, a typical monthly mortgage payment (which... View Details