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- 01 Mar 2005
- News
One-on-One with Edwin Reed
$80,000. Today, properties can cost up to $250,000. We’ve learned that churches, like any organization in a competitive environment, must have both the will and the wherewithal to be early movers and take advantage of View Details
- 16 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Confronting the Reality of Web Services
opportunities to use their new language skills. Q: What questions should a CIO or other company leader ask as they consider a Web services project? A: Who are we doing this with? Can we be sure that our partner is in this for the long... View Details
Keywords: by Sara Grant
- 02 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
Digital Initiative Summit: Freeing Patient Data to Enable Innovation
impediments in the future. In mapping those bottlenecks, Hsiang cited difficulty in moving data around because of legal constraints and high costs with low rewards. Petro added the issue of timeliness--even if data was flowing, it would... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- First Look
First Look -- September 1, 2015
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49520 2015 Journal of Comparative Effectiveness Research Comparative Costs of Advanced Proton and Photon Radiation Therapies: Lessons from Time-driven Activity-based View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Sep 2020
- Blog Post
Reflecting on my service
$4,000,000 of equipment and challenged to become fluent in Pashto. By twenty-two, I was part of a small team leading hundreds of men on the battlefield, conducting dozens of raids and capturing Taliban leaders to destabilize the insurgency. Unfortunately, the most... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Short Takes
Managing Development Flexibility in Uncertain Environments," the authors assert that increasing flexibility during the product development cycle can enable a firm to adjust to unanticipated circumstances so opportunely and View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Caroline Chauncey
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2019 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
between position-taking and identity, the costs and benefits of difficult conversations, and changing notions about the role of researchers in contemporary social, political, and ethical debates. With you, we hope to foster a... View Details
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2019 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
between position-taking and identity, the costs and benefits of difficult conversations, and changing notions about the role of researchers in contemporary social, political, and ethical debates. With you, we hope to foster a... View Details
- 05 Apr 2016
- News
Don’t Send Your Kids to College. At Least Not Yet.
list of the costs of the “conveyor belt to college”: high dropout rates, increased stress levels, and massive debt. Her suggested fix? The bridge year—a key facet of Falik’s Global Citizen Year, which offers graduating high school... View Details
- 14 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Big Money for Big Projects
otherwise healthy parent corporation can deter a manager from making the investment in the first place even if it is likely to have a positive net present value in expectation. As a result, the firm will suffer an opportunity View Details
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HBS - Financials | From the Chief Financial Officer
did total operating expenses. This landmark reflected the expansion of core programs and higher MBA enrollment. The growth also reflected the rising costs required to maintain those revenue sources while continuing to invest in the... View Details
- 25 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 25, 2016
factor of about 2 to 1. Even after adjusting for differences in internal labor cost rates, the hospital at the 90th percentile of cost spent about twice as much as the one at the 10th percentile of cost. The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Latin Flair
different to walk into HBS when you’re 23 years old, with the entrepreneurial bug, than when you’re older and [making a] big career move,” says the 28-year-old chief executive. “[But] I knew that if I didn’t go right after college, my 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
- 20 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 20
Costing to Identify Value-Improvement Opportunities in Healthcare By: Kaplan, Robert S., Mary L. Witkowski, Megan Abbott, Alexis Guzman, Laurence Higgins, John Meara, Erin Padden Abstract—As healthcare... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
The Climate Needs Aggressive CEO Leadership
Corporations are facing great uncertainty. For the world to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, the United States eventually will have to put a price on carbon dioxide emissions, as has been done by Europe, parts of Canada, and California. To plan for the... View Details
- 10 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
HBS Virtual Treks: How Student Clubs are Adapting to the New Normal
expectations that the trek would be a major opportunity in their recruiting process posed a challenge to board members. How would we organize a virtual trek that match the impact and quality of the in-person experience? In addition to... View Details
- 18 Apr 2005
- Research & Ideas
Selling Luxury to Everyone
mall and everybody is getting into the cosmetic business," he said. But most of the panelists said the opportunities of the past several years have far exceeded the challenges. Tahari said her company's sales have grown by more than... View Details
- 21 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
Grundfos: Innovation & Inspiration for Sustainable Product Design
with recycling and take-back programs. Next, we toured the Grundfos factory floor, which was an amazing opportunity to see in-person their vertical assembly for advanced manufacturing process. This layered approach is quite rare due to... View Details
- 18 Jul 2018
- Blog Post
Amira Rashad: An Ambidextrous Mind Meets Consumer Needs in the Middle East
mind," Amira says. "I'm equally comfortable with the details of ground-level execution as I am with the big picture, 30,000-foot, pie-in-the-sky vision." In 2010, her personal and professional lives took a dramatic turn when her husband was offered the View Details