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- 30 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 30, 2016
the CFO role. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/216079-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 316-178 Olivia Lum: Wanting to Save the World This case considers the entrepreneurial career of Olivia Lum, who founded... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 31 Oct 2018
- What Do You Think?
What is the Function of Fear in Leadership?
up saving the life of the potential victim The trigger for achieving the desired outcome: instilling the sense of fear in the subordinate. Accordingly, can an argument be made that at times and under certain circumstances fear might be... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 15 May 2007
- Working Paper Summaries
How is Foreign Aid Spent? Evidence from a Compelling Natural Experiment
- 08 Aug 2022
- HBS Case
Building an 'ARMY' of Fans: Marketing Lessons from K-Pop Sensation BTS
complete with a plot that featured band member Jin as a time-traveling hero trying to save his bandmates, each with their own alter-egos. The story allowed BTS to create interlinking music and videos as well as a weekly webcomic, a novel,... View Details
- 22 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 22, 2016
Care Thaddeus Fulford-Jones and Eric Weiss, founders of healthcare technology startup Radial Analytics, have been busy developing a software program designed to save hospitals money and improve patient outcomes by producing customized... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jul 2021
- Book
Good News for Disgraced Companies: You Can Regain Trust
sustainability. He sounded great! He was well versed in the vocabulary and actions of the fight to save the environment, using terms like “clean energy” and “going green,” and discussed how his company was committed to sustainability... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 18 Mar 2013
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: LEGO
managing a balanced business system," says Thomke. "Complexity is something you need to watch very closely." Controlling complexity, clarifying the core of its business, and engaging the larger community helped save the... View Details
- 12 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
New Research Explores Multi-Sided Markets
productive to first isolate the fundamental functions platforms perform, of which there are three: reducing search costs (this helps in matchmaking contexts: men and women, buyers and sellers, etc.); making audiences (this is essentially the function of advertising... View Details
- 28 Nov 2023
- Book
Economic Growth Draws Companies to Asia. Can They Handle Its Authoritarian Regimes?
call it “looting,” drawing on a well-known paper on US firms in the savings and loan crisis, among other episodes. That paper shows that firms loot their own assets in expectations of bailout, but I show that expectations of vulnerability... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- October 2022
- Article
It’s Not Just the Prices: Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing for Initiation of Veno-Venous Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation at Three International Sites—A Case Review
By: Michael Nurok, Vin Pellegrino, Marc Pineton de Chambrun, Jonathan Warsh, Meredith Young, Erik Dong, Neil Parrish, Syed Shehab, Alain Combes and Robert S. Kaplan
The United States spends more for intensive care units (ICUs) than do other high-income countries. We used time-driven activity-based costing (TDABC) to analyze ICU costs for initiation of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) for respiratory failure to estimate... View Details
Keywords: Healthcare; Cost; Time-Driven ABC; Health Care and Treatment; Cost Management; Activity Based Costing and Management; Health Industry
Nurok, Michael, Vin Pellegrino, Marc Pineton de Chambrun, Jonathan Warsh, Meredith Young, Erik Dong, Neil Parrish, Syed Shehab, Alain Combes, and Robert S. Kaplan. "It’s Not Just the Prices: Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing for Initiation of Veno-Venous Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation at Three International Sites—A Case Review." Anesthesia & Analgesia 135, no. 4 (October 2022): 711–718.
- Research Summary
Putting Patients First: Marketing Strategies for Treating HIV in Developing Nations
It is more than mere coincidence that the highest rates of HIV occur in the world’s poorest countries. Of the over 40 million people currently living with HIV, 95 percent are in the developing world. The first half of this paper explores the economics of HIV and... View Details
- 24 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking Activity-Based Costing
resource capacity during this period, representing opportunities for savings or growth depending on the company's circumstances. Activity Quantity Unit Time Total Time Used (in minutes) Cost-Driver Rate Cost Assigned Process customers... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & Steven R. Anderson
- 05 May 2022
- Research & Ideas
Why Companies Raise Their Prices: Because They Can
many took advantage of economies of scale and other more efficient production processes. Yet, firms increasingly held on to the savings they gained from these reduced costs, rather than passing them on to customers in the form of lower... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 04 Sep 2007
- Working Paper Summaries
Why Do Intermediaries Divert Search?
Keywords: by Andrei Hagiu & Bruno Jullien
- 19 Jul 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Government 'Nudges' Motivate Good Citizen Behavior
to do, like save for retirement—which are both for the good of society and for their own good. Here’s an example. On the first day of a new job, the paperwork is coming at you fast and furious, including a packet of information about how... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 28 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
Remote Workers Spend More on Housing. Do They Deserve Higher Pay?
To executives expecting to save on office space when some employees continue working remotely post-pandemic: Not so fast. Makeshift desks and kitchen tables have sufficed for many people working from home to avoid COVID-19. However, permanently remote workers tend to... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 03 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Truck Driver Who Reinvented Shipping
mail carrier to supplement the family's income. Even so, when young Malcolm graduated from high school in 1931, the country was in the midst of the Depression and further schooling was simply not an option. Pumping gas at a service station near his hometown, McLean... View Details
- 19 Sep 2023
- Research & Ideas
What Chandrayaan-3 Says About India's Entrepreneurial Approach to Space
appeared in the Harvard Gazette. Interview has been edited for clarity and length. You Might Also Like: 5 Qualities That Help Companies Thrive for Decades—Even Centuries When Experts Play It Too Safe: Innovation Lessons from a NASA Experiment Could a Business Model... View Details
- 18 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
What Is an "Essential" Purchase for a Low-Income Family?
in Boston. [Image: jetcityimage] Related Reading Corporate Tax Cuts Don't Increase Middle Class Incomes These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems Helping Low-Income Families Save More Share your insights... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 23 Apr 2024
- In Practice
Getting to Net Zero: The Climate Standards and Ecosystem the World Needs Now
With each month clocking record-breaking temperatures across the planet, this Earth Day reflected the renewed urgency of regulators and businesses to find climate-change solutions. The US Securities and Exchange Commission recently adopted new rules that will mandate... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne