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- 01 Mar 2015
- News
A Boomtown's Echo
in the oil patch during that boom—that’s how I put myself through college. But once the price of oil dropped in 1982 and 1983, then that boom went bust because it was no longer cost effective to extract the oil. It was a very painful... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Forward Thinking
private companies that have drastically lowered launch costs while pioneering new technologies. This infusion of competition and innovation has led to an increasingly symbiotic relationship between the government and the commercial space... View Details
- 11 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 11
Standard theories of corporate ownership assume that because markets are efficient, insiders ultimately bear agency costs and therefore have a strong incentive to minimize conflicts of interest with outside investors. We show that if... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Back to the Future
next twenty years than it was for the past twenty. World demand for energy is only going to grow. And whether the market price rises or falls, the costs of environmental degradation and national security, two critical externalities, will... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Q&A: Andrew Kendall
As much as Kendall loved the nuts and bolts of manufacturing — he even trained on the company's assembly line and became a certified welder — he decided that the demands of a career in manufacturing would... View Details
- 01 May 2000
- What Do You Think?
Can You Hard-Wire Performance?
Boeing and by selling time rather than engines—up-time, that is. The deal guaranteed that GE would keep the engines running for a quoted cost per hour, providing whatever parts, service, and related support might be needed over the life... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 16 Jul 2024
- Blog Post
Driving Positive Impact on Community and Climate with Ben Schutzman (MBA 2016)
I had done some shipping and logistics work during my career, and had also liked the tangible aspects of working in a manufacturing facility. In the back of my mind, I was always curious about the physical infrastructure of cities. I had... View Details
- 29 Feb 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: JSW Steel and Cement and the Quest to Capture Carbon in Hard to Abate Sectors
is that the sector should be treated as a priority to abate sector by the government given its contribution to total emission levels. However, they mentioned that, to achieve net zero, it would require them and the sector to revisit their View Details
- 13 May 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #5: Phyllis Newhouse, CEO, Entrepreneur, Leader
you have on a tower means more energy. One tower could reduce electricity costs by 53% in the first year for a manufacturer or a refinery or an airport. Rio Tinto has invested and is building its first... 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
- 06 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Sorting Out the Patent Craze
different manufacturers could not talk to one another. PCs would cost $10,000 because each company would have to design its own software, as well as craft proprietary storage, memory, and display components.... View Details
- 21 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 21, 2009
effects explain between sixty and eighty percent of manufacturing entry. We use spatial distributions of natural cost advantages to address partially endogeneity concerns. MIT Roundtable on Corporate Risk... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 May 2005
- What Do You Think?
Where is Consumer Generated Marketing Taking Us?
of bloggers who speak in both whispers and shouts. Combined with the low cost of Web site and even crude advertising design, inhabitants of the Web can achieve wonders in creating and broadcasting a wide range of messages. These range... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 23 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Drive to Acquire’s Impact on Globalization
as when a U.S. auto company builds a parts plant in Mexico, has come into prominence only in the past few decades. Cutting costs is fair enough, unless it is done by paying less-than-living wages, creating unsafe working conditions, or... View Details
Keywords: by Paul R. Lawrence
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Case Study: Sweat the Technique
digital, including allowing users access to a stream of information that they can track and sync with other performance data. While the shift would add both cost and time—and potentially push Nix into a more saturated wearables market... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 06 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 6, 2007
(Brazil, Russia, India, and China). Experts agreed that for Brazil to grow like other BRIC countries, the Brazilian government would have to reduce the cost of doing business in the country ("Brazil cost"). At the same time,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Dec 2015
- Research Event
When Hosts Attack: The Competitive Threat of Online Platforms
categories, they found that, on average, the products Amazon chose tended to have higher retail prices and lower shipping costs than those it didn’t choose, which makes sense because Amazon offers free shipping on orders over $35. Also,... View Details
- 19 Oct 2023
- Blog Post
New Venture Competition 2023: Business and Environment Ventures
urban Nigerians with affordable financing for clean, reliable energy. We leverage group financing and carbon accounting to lower costs and risk in the energy transition of Nigeria's $14B fuel-based, off-grid generator market. PolyoseBio -... View Details
- 06 May 2002
- What Do You Think?
What’s Driving the “New Marketing?”
department and focused on the "interruption" of customer buying behaviors, the need to acquire new customers, immediate transactions, and the treatment of marketing costs as expenses. Instead we are asked to think of marketing... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Speakers Share Triumphs and Challenges
other manufacturers have abandoned it to seek cheaper labor elsewhere. Since corporations are the center of wealth and power in this country, they are the only ones that can make a difference in addressing poverty and unemployment."... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner