Cost vs Benefits - Publications - Faculty & Research

05 Mar 2007
Research & Ideas

Risky Business? Protecting Foreign Investments

funds they and their lenders put into such projects, more than the cost of public borrowing. In many projects corruption, government incompetence, or disorganization led to deals that were terrible from the point of view of the host... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Energy; Utilities

17 Dec 2014
Research & Ideas

How Our Brain Determines if the Product is Worth the Price

neuroscience at Stanford. "Because we had neuroscience tools at our disposal, we had the benefit of exploring both those questions," Karmarkar says. “We were interested in whether considering the price first changed the way the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail

09 Jan 2006
Research & Ideas

When Benchmarks Don’t Work

customer order, or processing the same type of paycheck or benefit claim across multiple companies. But benchmarking is not informative when it is used to compare fundamentally different processes or products. For example, knowing that a... View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan; Service

05 Feb 2013
First Look

First Look: Feb. 5

concentrated among firms with high growth opportunities or firms confronting adverse circumstances, consistent with boardroom connections mattering most for firms that stand to benefit most from the information communicated and resources... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

08 Oct 2018
Research & Ideas

Knowing What Your Boss Earns Can Make You Work Harder

Reading: Should Companies Disclose Employee Compensation? Working for a Shamed Company Can Hurt Your Future Compensation Research Paper The Psychological Costs of Pay-for-Performance: Implications for Strategic Compensation What do you... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

17 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 17, 2009

to combat gray markets is to increase internal transfer prices to foreign subsidiaries in order to increase the gray market's cost base. We illustrate that when a gray market competitor is present, the optimal price for internal transfers... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

02 Jun 2020
Research & Ideas

Coronavirus Careers: Cloud Kitchens Are Now Serving

base and brand clout. Restaurants also discovered the benefits of operating multiple virtual restaurants: They gained more visibility on food delivery apps at little additional cost or effort to them.... View Details

Keywords: by Lena Ye and Geoffrey Jones; Food & Beverage

19 Sep 2023
Blog Post

2023 Summer Internships in Business & Environment

Summer Fellowship) NetaCarbon is the TurboTax for carbon credit – a carbon credit issuance platform that digitizes and streamlines the process of how carbon projects are created and managed. By reducing the time and cost for project... View Details

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Case

Astra/Merck Group

By: Frank V. Cespedes and Marie Bell

Astra/Merck (A/M), originally a joint venture of AB Astra and Merck & Co., is preparing to be an independent company in 1993. Since the company does not engage in basic research and development of drugs, it is essentially a distribution organization. Fundamental to... View Details

Keywords: Cost vs Benefits; Marketing Strategy; Distribution; Performance Evaluation; Research and Development; Risk and Uncertainty; Sales; Competitive Strategy; Pharmaceutical Industry

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25 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 25

often sought some equity in mining and other foreign investment projects, but as shareholders they have rarely gained what they anticipated. Only in special cases might the benefits to governments outweigh the risks and often... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

January 2018
Case

John Rogers, Jr.—Ariel Investments Co.

By: Steven Rogers and Greg White

John Rogers Jr., the founder and CEO of Ariel Investments, an enormously successful finance firm with $12 billion of invested capital, is one of the few African Americans in the asset management industry. As one of the high profile leaders in the black business... View Details

Keywords: Advocacy; Diversity; Investment Management; Affirmative Action; Disruption; Cost vs Benefits; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Fairness; Moral Sensibility; Values and Beliefs; Corporate Accountability; Leading Change; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Problems and Challenges; Financial Services Industry; Chicago

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16 Feb 2010
Research & Ideas

The Outside-In Approach to Customer Service

effort to educate its employees about the benefits of an outside-in perspective (it even launched a "customer- centricity university" for employees) and, second, a monumental effort to mobilize action. From building... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Consumer Products

06 Mar 2006
Research & Ideas

Four Strategies for Making Concessions

that a concession was, in fact, made. For example, the manufacturer could have explained the effect of a 3 percent wage increase on his firm's bottom line or discussed how difficult it would be for him to justify it to his board of directors. Second, emphasize the... View Details

Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra

05 Oct 2020
Book

Want to Be Happier? Make More Free Time

if pursuing a less hectic pace may mean sacrificing career advancement. Also, default to saying “no” for most unplanned, last-minute impositions on your time, especially requests that benefit someone else, like a side work project. While... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

25 Jun 2018
Research & Ideas

In America, Immigrants Really Do Get the Job Done

economists who are more skeptical of immigration suggest the impacts are modest.” On the other hand, the benefits that immigrants provide when it comes to innovation are impressive, he adds. In his recent working paper with Pekkala Kerr,... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Agriculture & Agribusiness; Technology; Service

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Online Business Strategy Course | HBS Online

meaningfully to strategic conversations and your team’s success Create value for customers, employees, and suppliers, often in surprising ways, that rival companies will find hard to match Build sustainable success with the help of complements and network effects Who... View Details

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The overarching goal of my research is to produce works that are influential and informative to both academics and practitioners in the field of operations management. To accomplish this, I collaborate with industry partners who provide knowledge about their field,... View Details

04 Dec 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 4, 2018

periodically. We also document a benefit of consuming calls by finding that the consumption of calls is associated with more informed trading decisions. Overall, our investigation illuminates the actual consumption of conference calls by... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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Value Measurement for Health Care - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

organization's strategic agenda. Key Benefits Focused on improving the quality and delivery of health care, Value Measurement for Health Care provides more efficient and more cost-effective approaches to measuring patient outcomes, and... View Details

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Strategy for Health Care Delivery - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

organizational models for transforming the way health care is delivered, measured, and reimbursed. Empowered with new insights and capabilities, you will return to your organization prepared to implement and oversee a value-based health care approach that lowers View Details

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