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- 01 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Hiring a Career Switcher: The Value of the MS/MBA
a single answer. Finance gave me a better understanding of costs (fixed, operating, startup, depreciation, etc.) and Marketing was beneficial for the marketing research I had to conduct. Bandwidth, curiosity, and fresh perspective Adam:... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 15 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
MBA Voices Blog: A Year in Review
able to effectively deliver transformative therapies to patients in need. As a member of the first cohort of Harvard’s MS/MBA joint degree, I wanted to share four things you should know about this new program.” Read More How Financial Aid Can Help You Meet the View Details
- 02 Apr 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: A Circular Journey Through JSW Cement - From Steel Slag to Stronger Shores
traditional counterparts (typically a ~20% premium). However, with advancements in production technologies, the cost gap is steadily narrowing. Additionally, their availability might be limited in certain regions, but as demand grows,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Batteries Included
modern container shipping, the ship is really a relatively small part of costs,” observes McCown. “Everything ship-related might only be 30 percent of the carrier’s total cost. The biggest cost is fuel.” Both economics and environmental... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Vital Signs
telehealth to our advantage more than we have in the past. Because now the providers have ripped off the bandage. Telehealth procedures are in place. The health insurance plans are seeing the benefits and the cost savings. Beyond that,... View Details
- 21 Mar 2019
- News
Helping Veterans Build Careers
Goldenberg reflects. “We want to be warmhearted in helping veterans, but it’s done through tough-minded assessments so that we can maximize our impact,” which includes placing more than 50,000 vets into high-quality jobs at one-sixth the View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Additional alumni books for your consideration.
company to still lose money, Byrnes explains how managers can rethink their business for maximum profit. Along the way, he punctures such harmful myths as revenues are good, costs are bad; all customers should get the same great service;... View Details
- January 2021 (Revised March 2021)
- Supplement
Juno (B): Leveraging Student Power
By: Joshua Schwartzstein, Kathleen L. McGinn and Amy Klopfenstein
In March 2020, Juno co-founders Chris Abkarians and Nikhil Agarwal decided to pitch banks in anticipation of their annual auction while negotiating directly with private lender Eager. Responses from the majority of private lenders—including Juno’s 2019 partner—were not... View Details
Keywords: Decision Making; Decision Choices and Conditions; Decisions; Cost vs Benefits; Judgments; Education; Higher Education; Finance; Borrowing and Debt; Strategy; Adaptation; Alignment; Negotiation; Negotiation Deal; Negotiation Offer; Negotiation Participants; Negotiation Process; Negotiation Types; Financial Services Industry; Education Industry; North and Central America; United States; Massachusetts; Boston
Schwartzstein, Joshua, Kathleen L. McGinn, and Amy Klopfenstein. "Juno (B): Leveraging Student Power." Harvard Business School Supplement 921-033, January 2021. (Revised March 2021.)
- September 1990 (Revised April 1993)
- Case
R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.
By: William J. Bruns Jr.
Following the company's purchase as a part of a leveraged buyout, the new management team of R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. had to decide what to do about the build-up of excess inventory of its independent wholesale customers. The case introduces students to the problems... View Details
Keywords: Activity Based Costing and Management; Customer Satisfaction; Business or Company Management; Business Growth and Maturation; Consumer Products Industry
Bruns, William J., Jr. "R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co." Harvard Business School Case 191-038, September 1990. (Revised April 1993.)
- April 2002 (Revised February 2003)
- Background Note
An Economic Framework for Assessing Development Impact
By: Benjamin C. Esty, Frank J. Lysy and Carrie Ferman
Discusses the differences between private and social returns and describes an economic framework for assessing a project's social return [known as the economic rate of return (ERR)]. The framework begins by analyzing the impact of a new project on private financiers... View Details
Keywords: Cost vs Benefits; Microeconomics; Investment Return; Framework; Projects; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Valuation
Esty, Benjamin C., Frank J. Lysy, and Carrie Ferman. "An Economic Framework for Assessing Development Impact." Harvard Business School Background Note 202-052, April 2002. (Revised February 2003.)
- winter 1989
- Article
Split-Awards Procurement and Innovation
By: James J. Anton and Dennis A. Yao
In many procurement settings, it is possible for a buyer to split a production award between suppliers. In this article, we develop a model of split-award procurement auctions in which the split choice is endogenous. We characterize the set of equilibrium bids and... View Details
Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Auctions; Bids and Bidding; Cost; Supply Chain; Investment; Balance and Stability
Anton, James J., and Dennis A. Yao. "Split-Awards Procurement and Innovation." RAND Journal of Economics 20, no. 4 (winter 1989): 538–552. (Harvard users click here for full text.)
- 04 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 4
Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-005.pdf The Effect of Labor on Profitability: The Role of Quality (revised) Author:Zeynep Ton Abstract Determining staffing levels is an important decision in retail operations. While the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
Impact Stories - Business & Environment
fee on carbon where it enters the market. Only by pricing in external costs can we eliminate existing subsidies to fossil fuel use and shift to a clean energy economy.” Carl Ferenbach MBA 1972 | In the Market for Environmental Change "The... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Eric Schiffer
have to be able to deal with that. At a retailer like Gap, where the average price per item might be around $20, the number of items we sell would generate $30 billion in annual revenues. Every penny counts for us. If I add a penny of View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
word for it: Numerous sources over the past several years have documented the actual costs of the new generation of nuclear plants, including testimony to regulators by many of the utilities proposing to build them. According to these... View Details
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How One Center of Innovation Lost its Spark
While the knowledge sharing benefits of clusters takes off, the liability of institutionalization rise steadily as a function of time. These costs consist primarily of foregone flexibility resulting from persistence of established... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Dream Job: Higher Ed’s New Hire
costs are fixed. The pandemic has made it a very challenging time in the life of universities. People are thinking really hard about the value proposition of tuition costs when many students are virtual. I... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Faculty Q&A: The Future of Foreign Aid
the government can actually tax and spend and build things, while lowering the cost to business of doing its work, then you've achieved a good equilibrium. At that point, a country can begin to use its own institutions to look after... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Mickey Herbert (MBA 1969)
were providing better health-care coverage for Americans. By the early 1990s, the industry had undergone an almost complete transformation to for-profit health care. I took my own HMO public in 1993. But by the mid-1990s, health plans began working much harder to... View Details
- 21 Oct 2010
- News
Hell? Maybe Not.
companies expect only one or two hires to come out of the process. “Our team works hard to provide a seamless experience, and we manage all the logistics and details at no cost to the employer,” Fitzpatrick points out. On the student... View Details