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- 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... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
- 21 Jun 2017
- Blog Post
Agricultural Investing: Where Boots Meet Suits
investment standpoint, the cost of emissions and resource scarcity, particularly water, is largely yet to been priced in, and I believe there are plenty of strong buying opportunities in many markets. Real assets, such as farmland, can... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Teachable Moments
brothers don’t want to work in the business, and that he wants you to take over—not in a year, but next week. He wants you to deal with the unions and the aftermath of a flood that cost millions of dollars of inventory. He wants you to... View Details
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VBHCD Initiative - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
time-driven activity-based costing (TDABC) to measure costs over the full care cycle, and then identify cost savings while maintaining quality of care Facilitate View Details
- 12 Jul 2022
- News
Expanding the Power to Prosper
could to relatives back at home—a process that opened Dyer’s eyes to the ways in which the financial system, with its long delays and steep fees, often winds up being most costly for those who have the fewest resources: Migrant workers... View Details
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Empowering School Leaders to Meet Today's Challenges
in the process, they learned that of the more than 230,000 K–12 school leaders in the United States, half had no access to quality professional development, either because programs weren’t offered nearby or were cost prohibitive. To... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 11 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Cheap, Fast, and In Control: How Tech Aids Innovation
Harvard Business School, discusses how businesses can sidestep the often prohibitive costs and time-consuming trials of experimentation by implementing new technologies. Wendy Guild: We've all heard the old saw, "If it ain't broke,... View Details
Keywords: by Wendy Guild
- 19 Sep 2016
- News
Sustainable Farming in the Arid World
operate sustainably. “I started Sundrop Farms about four years out of the MBA program. Most people don’t know but agriculture consumes about 50 percent of your operating costs are related to fossil fuels. Agriculture uses about 70 percent... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
One-on-One with Grover Norquist
state legislatures, and governorships to sign the pledge. Today, 222 members of the House, 46 senators, the President, more than 1,200 state legislators, and 6 governors all have signed. And that has changed the modern political process... View Details
Keywords: Government
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Books - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
activity-based costing (TDABC), an easier and more powerful way to implement ABC — revealing inefficient processes, unprofitable products and customers, and excess capacity. The authors also show how to use TDABC to link strategic... View Details
- 18 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
Tech Investment the Wise Way
market focus is needed to begin the process in order to know what technological attributes to target in the development, and how to resolve the many trade-offs that arise in the course of development, e.g. View Details
- 27 Jul 2023
- Blog Post
Recruiting International Students is Easy and Beneficial for Employers
employee. What’s more, there is no cost to the employer. Converting international employees to long-term employees is also an easy process, which more than 25,000 companies complete each year. “The visa View Details
- 03 Oct 2012
- What Do You Think?
Can We Bring Back the “Industrial Commons” for Manufacturing?
"Where was (the) support for manufacturing when it really counted, before much of it escaped offshore? Why should we believe this 'new thinking' now?" Citing " high labor costs and uncooperative unions," Philippe... View Details
- 03 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
Faculty Spotlight: Professor Jurgen Weiss
we have to maintain a reliable energy supply throughout. So, there is potentially a role for these current technologies just to make sure we have enough energy if the policy processes are too slow to decarbonize it over the next 30 years.... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Forward Thinking
You can ask the internet anything, but getting an answer via generative artificial intelligence consumes about 10 times more electricity than a traditional Google search. Consequently, the data centers where AI tools are trained and run are guzzling more and more... 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... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Taking Tailoring High Tech
the cost and time commitment of a traditional bespoke tailor. The efficiency of the technology allows Acustom to sell jeans—one of the most difficult tailoring challenges—starting at $225, about a quarter of the going price for custom... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- Blog Post
Building a Startup at HBS
first few days or weeks of life. Nurses in those units told us repeatedly how difficult it is to find veins in these small children, about the unpleasantness from having to needle-stick babies multiple times, and the resulting costs in... View Details
- 09 Jul 2018
- Research & Ideas
Overcoming the Challenges of Selling Brand New Technology (Hey, Need a 3-D Printer?)
ago. Or the first Newton, Tang, or Roomba. Everyone knows and understands a better mousetrap when they see one—no selling skills really required. But a 3-D printer? Why would I want that? How much does it cost to maintain? What’s wrong... View Details
- 13 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Unexpected Way Whistleblowers Reduce Government Fraud
contracts.” In fixed-price contracts, the supplier provides a product or service to the government at a fixed price. In cost-plus contracts, the supplier bills the government based on reported production costs and profit margin, making it... View Details