Affordable - Publications - Faculty & Research

16 Oct 2013
Op-Ed

Response to Readers: Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking

to cumulative world-wide CO2 emissions. Nuclear While rich countries can afford to do whatever they wish to do, policymakers in poorer countries consistently make the trade-off in favor of the certain benefits of electricity to their... View Details

Keywords: by Joe Lassiter; Energy; Utilities

28 Feb 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research, February 28

Business School Case 517-036 Phipps Houses and the Future of Affordable Housing in NYC No abstract available. Purchase this case:https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/517036-PDF-ENG View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

31 Oct 2016
Research & Ideas

Quantitative Easing Didn’t Ease the Housing Crisis for the Neediest

homes. Households refinancing in 2009 saved an average of $250 per month—or $3,000 per year—due to the lower interest rates afforded by quantitative easing, on average cashing out about $20,000 of home equity, says Di Maggio. “But the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

15 Mar 2016
First Look

March 15, 2016

intelligent software for efficient order delivery, and a customer friendly online interface. Ocado's customer base had expanded beyond the wealthy to include middle-income consumers; even with a delivery charge, grocery shopping through Ocado was, in many cases, as... View Details

07 Dec 1999
Research & Ideas

Henry Heinz and Brand Creation in the Late Nineteenth Century

products and brand. Standardized, branded condiments, the entrepreneur realized, would be affordable to large numbers of urban Americans. These goods would also be appealing. As cities expanded, fewer households had access to their own... View Details

Keywords: by Nancy F. Koehn

02 Apr 2015
Research & Ideas

Digital Initiative Summit: The Business of Crowdsourcing

example. Many nonprofits and other organizations can't afford to hire data scientists, so DrivenData taps into college students and professionals who are looking to work with real-world data sets. For instance, the company is seeking a... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

16 Sep 2014
Research & Ideas

Has Apple Reinvented the Watch?

functionality. And the market research on individuals who purchase these activity tracking devices suggests that most have the discretionary income to afford an Apple Watch. Q: Will the Apple Watch end up being a huge piece of CEO Tim... View Details

Keywords: Re: Ryan L. Raffaelli; Electronics; Retail; Health

04 Apr 2005
What Do You Think?

Can an Organization’s “Deep Smarts” Be Preserved?

according to the authors, is a candidate for knowledge coaching, can an organization afford to allocate sufficient time to the practice, including training? Conversely, are these questions merely symptomatic of a basic problem in... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

27 May 2009
First Look

First Look: May 27, 2009

escalate, the debate has focused on how to finance health care. Yet funding solutions can't address the underlying questions: Why have costs risen in the first place? And how can we improve the quality and affordability of care? In... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

12 Mar 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019

documentation decreased to 1 hour and 45 minutes during a shift and 15 minutes of post-shift documentation. The physician cost estimate for documentation without and with a scribe is $644 and $488, respectively. Conclusions: TDABC methodology demonstrated that scribes... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

13 Oct 2015
Research & Ideas

Does Business Get Done the Same Way in Emerging and Developed Countries?

companies in other markets are very strong. They can afford to lose ten years in order to get control of one market.” A: The Koç Group has had some remarkable successes in globalizing the group. At the same time it has remained a more... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

05 Oct 2016
What Do You Think?

Can the US Economy Regain the Growth and Prosperity of the Past?

productivity requires a large middle class that can afford to consume what is being produced. Solve the economic inequality problem, and we will solve the slow growth problem as well as a lot of other societal problems.” Gamaliel Pascual... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

10 Jun 2015
Research & Ideas

The Transparency Revolution in Corporate Reporting

firms and energy companies, whereas it's not that important for financial institutions. Affordability is important for healthcare companies, but less so for tech companies. If you understand which 20 percent is important, you have a real... View Details

Keywords: Re: George Serafeim

04 Apr 2008
What Do You Think?

Who Owns Intellectual Property?

a concern of several respondents. Santhanam Krishnan said, for example, that "assuming even the valuation is possible, it is a moot question as to how many buyers of such companies (unable to afford to defend their IP) would be... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

05 Mar 2008
What Do You Think?

Where Will Management Innovation Take Us?

they sail into retirement...." Haresh Vaishnu concurred in saying, "It will take the ... passing of the leadership role to (the) next generation .... When the underlying workforce that management is supposed to manage is changing it cannot View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

19 Jan 2022
In Practice

7 Trends to Watch in 2022

As 2022 gets underway we asked our faculty to highlight some trends worth watching in the coming year. Ariel Stern: A new future for digital health care While 2020 and 2021 were years of rapid innovation and deployment of new health care technologies and delivery... View Details

Keywords: by HBS News

26 Mar 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019

Reinvention of Kodak The Eastman Kodak Company (Kodak) was a name familiar to most Americans. The company had dominated the film and photography industry through most of the 20th Century and was known for making affordable cameras (and... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

06 Sep 2005
Research & Ideas

The Best Place for Retirement Funds

is not distributed evenly; the median dollar of wealth is held by a rich person, who can afford better financial advice than the median consumer gets. I think that people are becoming increasingly aware of how important it is to consider... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

23 Mar 2016
Research & Ideas

Researchers Prove C-Suite Gender Gap—but Can’t Explain It

whatever unobservable differences that exist [between men and women] are likely to be smaller than a sample of all employees,” Keloharju says. “Because they are executives, both the men and the women tend to earn more than the rest of the population, so they all can... View Details