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- 06 Mar 2019
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Making Sabbaticals Mainstream
much more happy and refreshed and rejuvenated. I think that we need to take the conversation from people's anecdotal stories about how great it is to take time off to companies... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Rationale for Non-Rationality: Why We Make Bad Choices
governed by one or the other of these regimes, and Jensen suggests that time is split between them in about a 50:50 ratio. The switch into the PAM regime occurs when we are frightened -- which can happen... View Details
Keywords: Laura Singleton (MBA '88)
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Research Brief: Weatherproofing Renewables
From its seat at the tip of South America, belted by the equator, Colombia enjoys fairly steady temperatures—an evenness that’s counterbalanced by the seesawing of two rainy seasons and two dry seasons every year. Those peak periods of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Opening the Door
1981. The School's Nancy R. McPherson Professor of Business Administration, Herzlinger is the author of seven best-selling books, including her landmark volume Market-Driven Health Care (1997), which analyzed the revolutionary impact of consumer awareness, View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
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The Robots Are Coming to Save Your Job
becoming even more acute over time.” Beyond answering short-term labor needs, Eckert thinks these kinds of co-bots also have the potential to upend traditional factory economics. “For a generation now, you had to go to a low labor cost... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Tipping Point
Kenyan coffee farm. The price of coffee beans on the global market is under $1 a pound, while the actual cost to produce that pound is between $1.62 and $2. The coffee farms are profitable only when they... View Details
- 17 Mar 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Adam Enbar (MBA 2010)
controlled by code. And this has all happened at the hands of a relatively small group of people, with largely homogenous backgrounds. As more people, and especially ones from... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
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Entertainment Moguls Ponder the Future at HBS Conference
States and from international markets and skyrocketing production costs pose huge challenges to the movie industry. Film- production costs alone,... View Details
Keywords: Paula Maute
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
New Economy Notables: Eileen M. Rudden
FairMarket, the mother of three was taking the summer off to spend time with her family and see "what bubbles up." As to the future, Rudden anticipates heading another high-tech company: "Technology draws a... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
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Breaking Down Barriers: The Electronic Wallet
Dwight Crane. "There is a learning curve in conducting business over the Internet. After people break through a few initial barriers and see the power of the medium, there is no telling what will happen." One futuristic device that... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Mar 2010
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Slum for Sale
Hollen, is at a critical juncture: Weighing the cost of capital, construction, and expected market prices for developed units, should Hollen meet the government’s minimum bid for one of five development... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Get Creative
into a product affects how easy it will be to market. There’s always this idea of feature creep that leads to adding bells and whistles. But every time you add bells and... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
A Wider Net
from getting outside. The problem, according to Cordeiro, is access. “The number of registered players is flat, but there are millions of kids out there playing soccer in unaffiliated leagues,” he says. “There are kids who can’t afford to play in travel programs View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Evolution of Modern Pricing Models
brick-and-mortar stores, you can’t change shelf prices that frequently. With e-commerce, that cost disappears, and nowadays with better algorithms, it becomes even easier to change prices as often as... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Charged Up
And can it execute either in a timely enough fashion to begin breaking even? “It’s a familiar issue,” Vietor says. “How does a new venture company manage its cash as it is developing its technology over... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
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How to Fix Wall Street
"I'm making this decision on principle, just to see how it feels." ©The New Yorker Collection 2003 Leo Cullum from Cartoonbank.com. All Rights Reserved. Another bubble is brewing. Only this time it is a regulation bubble. As agencies... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
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Case Study: A Souped-Up Strategy
continue to focus only on small and midsized cities. The company seems likely to confront winner-take-all competitive dynamics at the city level, because network effects are strong—more diners will attract more hosts, View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
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3 Minute Briefing: Y Combinator’s Qasar Younis
(photo by Leah Fasten) My impetus to start my own company was so somebody else couldn’t control my destiny. My first company was Cameesa, an apparel company with a Kickstarter model. There were many failures: We didn’t know what we were... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Clubs Hopping: A Healthy Dialogue
noted that the President was focusing on trying to get more people covered and shifting more of the costs to wealthy people while reducing costs to those with lesser incomes.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
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A Safer, Smarter Future for Tech Trash
or in a way that didn't impact the health of all these children. "In Guiyu, people have about 250 times the level of lead in their blood compared to neighboring towns, and about 90 percent of the people... View Details