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- 24 Jun 2015
- HBS Case
Upgrading School with a Startup Mentality
looking for ways to reduce costs without sacrificing customer experience or results. If he is successful at employing these types of principles to education, he could potentially influence the direction of more traditional public schools... View Details
- 08 Aug 2006
- First Look
First Look: August 8, 2006
home-building concentrated in low-income neighborhoods, Patrimonio Hoy has generated recognition and goodwill for the company. Its innovative approach reduces significantly the cost and time needed by the poor to improve their housing.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Dec 2017
- Blog Post
The 23rd Annual Harvard Business School Tech Conference
highlighted how the trend of decreasing the cost of sequencing a human genome will be even more disruptive than Moore’s law. Right after Deep, Eric Paley spoke about his investment philosophy and how he thinks prorata (a right to invest... View Details
Keywords: Technology
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IFC: Cape Town; Africa Rising - Course Catalog
round-trip air travel and any costs associated with required visa documentation and immunizations. Students should ensure adequate processing time for all visas, as travel fees are not refundable if a student does not secure visas on... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
‘Green’ Trailblazers
on clean energy and the carbon markets Craig Lund (MBA 2008) 1366 Technologies Lexington, MA Develops innovative manufacturing solutions for silicon cell manufacturers that dramatically cut the cost of installed solar power David Prend... View Details
- 24 Oct 2013
- News
Searching for a Better Society
needs. That took me a long time to understand, and it cost me a lot of money. It is why I believe what I believe. I don't want to repeat mistakes." Dumon is more than someone with a formulaic approach to designing new products. He has... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Alumni Books
credit cards to the cost of a cheeseburger. Net Profit: How to Succeed in Digital Business by David Soskin (MBA ’79) (Wiley) Soskin, the former CEO of Cheapflights Media and current chairman of mySupermarket.co.uk, has solved the problems... View Details
- 03 Aug 2020
- News
A Clean Start
could combine electricity and carbon dioxide and also be worth more than what it cost to make. After four months of weighing alternatives, he settled on formic acid: a commodity chemical and energy-rich electrofuel, or carbon-neutral... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 07 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Off and Running: Professors Comment on Olympics
infrastructure make a case in point. The exorbitant cost of new structures, the limited number of opportunities for post-Games usage, and even the sometimes questionable quality of the construction are often lost in the excitement of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Reality to News Biz: Drop Dead
what craigslist alone has done to the staple help-wanted ad. At the Washington Post, a 10-day placement that runs both in print and online costs $500; a 30-day run on craigslist costs $25. The Philadelphia... View Details
- 15 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 15
micro-foundations of market legitimization and on the role of morals in sustaining professional jurisdictions. A Temporal View of the Costs and Benefits of Self-Deception Authors:Zoë Chance, Michael I. Norton, Francesca Gino, and Dan... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 24, 2007
production quantities of the two products based on the characteristics of both markets. We find that increasing disposal cost increases the cost of the primary product, but decreases the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 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.
- 03 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Competitive Advantage of Global Finance
financial settings? How should I measure exposures arising from international operations? What is the appropriate way to think about the cost of capital for the worldwide operations of a single firm? The CFOs that manage global financial... View Details
- 10 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018
informal organizational networks; and during periods of credit expansion. Overall, we provide novel evidence of non-agency related costs in the use of soft information in credit decisions. Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Aug 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Quantum computing has long been talked about as one of the next big things—the kind of technology, like AI, that will change everything. But to our... View Details
- 13 Sep 2019
- News
Hollywood Ending
else in town, when they commission content, they own the IP. But we made the strategic decision not to compete with our suppliers,” Toubassy says. Instead Quibi pays the studios’ production costs up front, including a 20 percent premium... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
$how Me the Money
price-fixing, and influence peddling. But bribery is corruption’s most recognizable face, with some $40 billion annually doled out to corrupt government officials, TI says. Half of the executives in a 2009 TI global survey said that bribery and corruption raised... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Mobile robots revolutionize order fulfillment
orders. Kiva’s distribution center automation technology simplifies operations and reduces costs while increasing flexibility. When orders are received, hundreds of autonomous mobile robots are directed by a complex software application... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Latin Flair
different to walk into HBS when you’re 23 years old, with the entrepreneurial bug, than when you’re older and [making a] big career move,” says the 28-year-old chief executive. “[But] I knew that if I didn’t go right after college, my opportunity View Details