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- 08 Apr 2015
- What Do You Think?
Are Technology Companies Ripe for Disruption?
trying to impress his/her peers and just confuses the customer." Mark Altobello offered an interesting theory: "We try to make the software so flexible to reduce the cost of future changes. But I... View Details
- August 2009 (Revised January 2012)
- Supplement
Pandora: Royalties Kill the Web Radio Star? (B)
By: Robert C. Pozen and Alex Curtis Rosenfeld
Pozen, Robert C., and Alex Curtis Rosenfeld. "Pandora: Royalties Kill the Web Radio Star? (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 310-027, August 2009. (Revised January 2012.)
- 27 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Potential Downside of Win-Win
consideration for all managers. Value Creation—and Collusion Suppose that pharmaceutical firm A manufactures a new, beneficial drug and begins selling 100 million pills per year at $3.05 per pill. Each pill View Details
Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman
- November 2000 (Revised July 2019)
- Teaching Note
Cafes Monte Bianco: Building a Profit Plan
By: Robert Simons and Indra Reinbergs
Teaching Note for (9-198-088). View Details
- 06 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 6, 2007
the financial analysts, and the commercialization of academic knowledge. Noncompetes and Inventor Mobility: Specialists, Stars, and the Michigan Experiment Authors:Matt Marx,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Ten Deadly Mistakes of Wanna-Dots
Increasingly, it seems, there are just two types of companies left in the world: dot-coms and "wanna-dots." The dot-coms, of course, are the pure Internet companies operating on-line businesses. Most of them are less than five... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- February 2004
- Teaching Note
Sampa Video, Inc. (TN)
By: Richard S. Ruback and Peter Tufano
Teaching Note to (9-201-094). View Details
- 02 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 2
assessing the outcomes of the company's strategies after 1945. It examines the challenges and costs faced by the company in recovering the ownership of its brands. While the management of distance became... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
New Challenges for Long-Term Investors
monitor my investments as often as I like, and that I can perform all kinds of financial transactions from my home computer at a fraction of the cost I would have had to pay twenty years ago. In this sense,... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 1983
- Article
Cost-Benefit Analysis Defended
By: Dutch Leonard and Richard Zeckhauser
Leonard, Dutch, and Richard Zeckhauser. "Cost-Benefit Analysis Defended." QQ: Report from the Center for Philosophy and Public Policy 3, no. 3 (1983).
- July 2012
- Case
Show Me the Money (A)
By: Clayton Rose
A business unit leader faces a major decision when an employee critical to a high profile transaction asks for a unique compensation arrangement that has implications for the culture of the business. View Details
Keywords: Culture; Compensation; Leadership; Cost vs Benefits; Decision Choices and Conditions; Organizational Culture; Compensation and Benefits
Rose, Clayton. "Show Me the Money (A)." Harvard Business School Case 313-002, July 2012.
- 03 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 3
supply chain system. When commodity prices became more volatile in 2007 and 2008, executives at Domino's changed the way they worked with suppliers and franchisees to manage View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 15 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Business IT Innovation is so Difficult
prices is that tremendous cost has been taken out of its supply chain and operations by using IT to keep inventory low but still not stock out." That Walmart is secretive about how it manages to so finely... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 26 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 26, 2006
Indian pharmaceutical company, Cipla, to bring down the annual per-patient cost of an ARV triple cocktail from $12,000 to under $250; using ARV development as a key component of its prevention and treatment... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- May 2018
- Case
The Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation's Answer Fund
By: Richard G. Hamermesh and Matthew G. Preble
Keywords: Data Analytics; Customer Focus and Relationships; Customer Relationship Management; Cost vs Benefits; Investment Return; Health Care and Treatment; Innovation Leadership; Intellectual Property; Knowledge Sharing; Knowledge Dissemination; Leadership; Leading Change; Resource Allocation; Goals and Objectives; Marketing Communications; Performance; Programs; Projects; Business and Community Relations; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Networks; Partners and Partnerships; Research and Development; Genetics; Behavior; Motivation and Incentives; Social and Collaborative Networks; Nonprofit Organizations; Strategy; Health Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; Biotechnology Industry; United States
- 21 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 21
slightly for ISO 9001 adopters, although total injury costs did not. These results have implications for organizational theory, managers, and public policy. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Thriving in the Turbulence of Emerging Markets
philanthropy. We have to take care of all stakeholders—I say customers, vendors, employees, shareholders, and the society in which you work. You can't produce a bad quality and high View Details
- 23 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 23
Publications 2006 University of Chicago Press Manufacturing Morals: The Values of Silence in Business School Education By: Anteby, Michel Abstract—Corporate accountability is never far from the front page, and Harvard Business School... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Apr 2000
- Research & Ideas
Financial Services 24/7
likes to look at this complicated new world in terms of what is changing and what is staying the same. A longtime observer of technology's impact on business, McFarlan has been intrigued by recent developments in the financial services... View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
- 02 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 2
strategies leads to better access to finance. We hypothesize that better access to finance can be attributed to a) reduced agency costs due to enhanced stakeholder engagement and b) reduced informational... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne