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- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Increasing Access and Expanding Opportunity
educating great people who are concerned about the world and who understand that the way they manage a business will affect their employees, customers, and their communities. It would be hard to do that if we didn’t have diversity in all these dimensions in our... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
A Better Way to Go on Strike
W hen President Clinton imposed a cooling-down period in the American Airlines pilots' strike, he recognized that a strike would impose huge costs on those not involved in the labor dispute - from travelers and airfreight shippers to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Action Plan: Horse Sense
numbers game,” says Finley, who buys 30 to 40 horses annually at an average cost of $200,000 per animal. “Keep in mind that these horses are 18 months old or thereabouts. They’ve never had a saddle on their back, and all you get to do is... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Up Side Story: HBS Show a Sold-Out Success
’01) took care of the creative aspects, including running auditions and rehearsals. Premier sponsors Novartis and The Boston Consulting Group helped offset the $55,000 cost of the show, as did the sales of some 2,400 tickets to students,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Blue No Longer
(“Baby Blues”) and concentrated instead on cutting costs (by paring the workforce and closing plants) and expanding IBM's capability to help companies meet the full range of their computing and IT needs. Keeping IBM intact “was a big... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Crash Pad
When 4753 North Broadway opened in 1924, the neoclassical tower represented the height of American architectural design, a terra-cotta temple of capitalism at the heart of Chicago’s Uptown neighborhood. Over the next century, a series of banks occupied the spacious... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Up on the Green Roof
BEFORE AND AFTER: Step one involved removing the stones (top) that covered the old, leaky roof. Areas not suitable for a green roof were covered with sheets of white PVC (above) that reflect the sun’s rays. A living roof can cost more... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
A New Approach to Health-Care Reform
patients’ needs. Today’s doctors work in a system where they are rewarded by Medicare and insurance companies for the number and cost of the services they provide rather than by the value of those services in helping patients. In short,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Letters to the Editor
efficiency, it’s true that in many areas, private is more efficient. But not in health care. Compare Medicare administrative costs to those of private insurers. Medicare Advantage has average costs 15... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Big Deals: Project Finance Helps Mitigate Risk in Large-Scale Investments
cost something on the order of $5 billion, not the $5 million one might expect for a typical start-up,” Esty explains. And all too often, he adds, they can turn out to be losing propositions. The managerial challenge is to make sure that... View Details
- 09 Jan 2014
- News
Tapping into Opportunity
increased its water efficiency by 21.4 percent between 2004 and 2012, recently announced a new initiative to increase that efficiency by another 25 percent. Or look at another example: extracting shale gas ("fracking"). It costs from 50... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Your Taxi Is Waiting
term familiar to every good HBS student. With its relatively low price tag (about $2.8 million) and low operating costs (40 percent less than existing small jets), the twin-engine Mustang and other “very light jets” (VLJs) represent a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Start It Up
MOOREHEAD: A green start-up designed to reduce the human and monetary costs of war. While serving in different parts of the world as a Navy SEAL, Doug Moorehead (MBA 2007) observed firsthand the human and material View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Saving lives through new vaccine technology
Michael Schrader (MBA 2012) is on a mission to help keep millions of people around the world from dying needlessly. “Right now, 2.4 million people die every year from vaccine-preventable diseases,” says Schrader, cofounder and CEO of Vaxess Technologies. While the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Capitalism’s False Mantra
Related Links Martin discussing his book One of the most influential papers defining the role of business, “Theory of the Firm: Managerial Behavior, Agency Costs and Ownership Structure,” was coauthored in 1976 by Michael Jensen, the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Rwanda Provides Students with Hands-On Learning
in Rwanda’s most impoverished villages. To help improve the function of the Rwanda Development Board, another team examined the cost to business of governmental bureaucracy. “I believe that people learn the most about another country and... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
What I Do: Gordon Medenica (MBA 1979)
always stuck with me. But the process is extremely cumbersome—the state budget-setting exercises get down into the weeds of our operation, but they only look at the cost side, not the revenue side. So it’s a challenge. We try to stay as... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Priceline's Jay Walker: The Future is Wow
convenient place to shop ("7-Eleven is more convenient, but it doesn't have the retail share Wal-Mart has"), the discount retailer gained market supremacy by proclaiming, and delivering, "always the lowest price" -- typically by wringing out every possible View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Ads Improve Consumer Decisions
in fact we believe consumers are generally ill-informed about products, there's a utility cost to the individual of not receiving ads,” says Anand. “Imagine a world where there's no advertising — essentially we'd be making some very... View Details
Keywords: Laura Singleton (MBA 1988)
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
The Road Less Traveled
foldable, totable scooter to get from apartment to bus stop, or subway stop to office. Of course, an increase in bikes, scooters, and mopeds will require new regulations and investment in street design to ensure safety for all users. Dediu estimates the spending needed... View Details