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IFC: Italy; Tradition and Innovation - Course Catalog
national economy), Italy is the second largest manufacturer and the second largest European exporter. Students will learn how Italy’s companies – that include some iconic brands that leverage the powerful “Made in Italy” label - have... View Details
- 17 Jun 2020
- News
Toronto Copes with COVID-19 Via Webinars; Alumni Respond to Pandemic in Philippines
Chairman and CEO, Integrated Micro-electronics Inc.: “Ayala-led Integrated Micro-Electronics Inc. (IMI) seeks to bring down the cost of nursing COVID-19–afflicted patients back to health by manufacturing... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 07 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 7
their own business and balancing the demands between their work and family obligations while creating a company that was responsive to their employees' and their customers' needs. The Bursteins had joined a large multinational View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 14 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 14
value on average quality and less value on total quantity. With competing platforms, the effect of user preferences for quantity is reversed. Furthermore, exclusion incentives depend in a non-trivial way on the proportion of high-quality users in the overall population... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 28, 2008
Case 508-074 The largest retailer of diesel fuel in the U.S., Flying J, is rethinking its growth strategy as the economy goes into a recession. Its major customer base, owner-operated truck drivers, are facing increasing costs of doing... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Naina Lal Kidwai
10 percent of GDP, per capita GDP is just shy of $500, and it has slightly more than one billion people. It is a relatively closed economy without a great deal of foreign investment. Today, the globalization imperative is driving Western View Details
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Rahul Bajaj, MBA 1964
of disobedience. "To lower my costs while improving the price and quality of my products, I needed economies of scale," he explains. "Ignoring a government regulation, I increased my volume by more than the permitted 25 percent of my... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
"Service-Profit Chain" Links Members of Service Management Unit
costs of employee turnover? What are the benefits of a loyal customer base? These are questions that intrigue members of the Service Management unit. Judging from the popularity of the Service Management elective, they are questions that... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
The Small Business Difference: How Smaller Companies Manage with Less
explained to an audience of returning MBA alumni during a reunion presentation last fall, “In approaching some one hundred companies, ranging from manufacturing to service businesses, we were attempting to discover the operating... View Details
- 29 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
Pride Goeth Before a Profit
not a recommendation to manufacture a false enthusiasm to gloss over problems. Speaking about and to employees' pride has to be authentic; employees will quickly sniff out managerial insincerity, and the manager's communication will... View Details
Keywords: by Theodore Kinni
- 11 May 2017
- News
Going with the Flow
regulate the industry, and the company became a pioneer in establishing a regulatory model and developing good manufacturing practices for stem cells and human tissue. ViaCord’s first transplant was in 1995, saving the life of a young... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 03 Apr 2006
- What Do You Think?
Has Globalization Reached Its Peak?
cautionary note: ". . . the elephant in the room is the assumption of the availability and cost of petroleum . . . the economics of globalization will change dramatically in the decades ahead." Will what is true for the world... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 26 Jan 2015
- News
The Ingredients for Success
cost of her much-smaller condo in Los Angeles. Markowitz, now 39, believes she’s found her true passion as NOCHI’s executive director. “I’m attracted to creative people,” she says. “I think sequentially and logically. I’m bottom-line... View Details
- 23 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard
purchasing departments. The process transforms these from functionally oriented cost centers into strategic partners with the line-operating units and the company. This alignment is often accomplished with a service agreement that defines... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
- 17 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 17, 2018
the partner type and private consumption. We estimate our model using the 2013 "Living Costs and Food Survey" database. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54695 forthcoming The Economics of... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 25 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health
garment factory owners engaged in cutthroat price competition to secure orders from Western manufacturer and retailer brands. These brands conveniently sourced their requirements at arm’s length through third-party intermediaries to avoid... View Details
- 18 Oct 2010
- Lessons from the Classroom
Venture Capital’s Disconnect with Clean Tech
suspend the emissions reduction law until the state's unemployment rate falls below 5.5 percent for four consecutive quarters. "The cost curves you see in renewable energy are falling fairly predictably," Lassiter says.... View Details
- 28 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: The Good Struggle: Responsible Leadership in an Unforgiving World
markets—a far cry from the buffer zones and spheres of influence surrounding the large twentieth-century hierarchical organizations. They typically didn't know whether their product would work, what it would really cost to make and sell... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph L. Badaracco
- 30 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
Turning Employees Into Problem Solvers
context of the health-care industry drew instant attention. Preventable medical errors resulting in injury cost the industry somewhere between $9 billion and $15 billion a year, the report stated. Even more shockingly, by some measures... View Details
- 07 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Three Steps for Crisis Prevention
South Africa over its attempt to reduce the cost of HIV drugs through parallel importation (buying pharmaceuticals in countries with lower prices and then importing them) and compulsory licensing (requiring patent holders to allow others... View Details
Keywords: by Michael D. Watkins & Max H. Bazerman