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- 02 Oct 2000
- What Do You Think?
What Lies Beyond NAFTA?
economies. The conclusion is that it has created jobs on both sides of the border while sharpening the ability of Mexican companies to compete. The Mexican business community is learning to cope not only with foreign competitors, but also with rising labor View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
The ABCs of Addressing Climate Change (From a Business Perspective)
consultants, and investment bankers. It means more capital at work on water, roads, power, and efficiency. And that contributes to more human development, more economic development, plus LESS wasted energy, less CO2, less wasted water.... View Details
- 11 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
The Paradoxical Quest to Make Food Look 'Natural' With Artificial Dyes
Hisano cites companies such as Wells, Richardson & Co. and Heller & Merz Company, which introduced dedicated dyes for butter coloring in the late 1870s. Synthetic dyes decreased the cost of coloring butter significantly. H.... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 04 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Start to Measure Your E-commerce Success
payoffs of e-commerce operational and capital investments are necessary to demonstrate the value creation of e-commerce initiatives and to obtain additional resources for critical e-commerce projects. The measures are essential to monitor... View Details
Keywords: by Marc J. Epstein
- 19 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Your Customers: Use Them or Lose Them
staff—all of this costs money, Frei said. Commerce Bank pays for it by paying lower rates on deposits compared to the giant banks. "Think about it," she told the group. "Would you trade half a percentage point on your... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 15 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
Going Green Makes Good Business Sense
terms of increased business" for its environmental stance. A second possibility, more plausible according to Reinhardt, is that BP hoped that improved government relations, thanks to its policy, would offset the costs it incurred in... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 18 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 18, 2007
within the task network and serve to separate one set of tasks from another. Placing a transaction in a particular location in turn requires work to define, count (or measure), and pay for the transacted objects. The costs of this work... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Jul 2015
- Op-Ed
The Future of the Greek Economy
they will be able to withdraw their funds at a later date—and at what exchange rate. This happened in Brazil in the early 1990s and in Argentina in the early part of this century, when similar desperate policies were enacted. The experience in South America of bank... View Details
- 02 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
‘Retail Revolution’ Excerpt: The Scale of the Ecommerce Threat
most studies of the online threat begin. In most, though not all, retail verticals, online retailers can offer lower prices than brick-and-mortar retailers because of their lower cost structures. In the face of this price competition,... View Details
- 25 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 25
Capitalism: Volume 2. The Spread of Capitalism: From 1848 to the Present Firms and Global Capitalism By: Jones, Geoffrey Abstract—This chapter forms part of the two-volume Cambridge History of Capitalism, a definitive new reference work... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- December 2001
- Teaching Note
Parenting Magazine TN
By: Paul A. Gompers
Teaching Note for (9-291-015). A rewritten version of an earlier teaching note. View Details
- 02 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018
Our logistic regression models indicate that (1) realized post-purchase price drops lead to a higher probability of return, and (2) anticipated price drops after purchase lead to a higher probability of using cash on delivery, a payment method with a lower return View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 24 Jul 2013
- Op-Ed
Detroit Files for Bankruptcy: HBS Faculty Weigh In
and new construction. On the other hand, well-managed public-private partnerships, where the private sector funds, builds, and operates key public infrastructure, can shift the capital requirement from municipalities to the private... View Details
- 10 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
Encouraging Entrepreneurs: Lessons for Government Policy
activity," Nanda remarks. "Each approach has its own costs and benefits, whether it's a direct subsidy, a loan guarantee program, or a venture capital model where the government is a direct... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Professors Introduce Valuation Software
key performance variables (sales growth, profit margins, working capital turnover and long-term asset turnover) as well as financial leverage and cost of capital. Users can judge whether their forecasts are... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
What Really Drives Your Strategy?
way in which ideas are developed and funded in order to respond to something which the top can see clearly: that cost containment is a big issue. Q: What role do capital markets play in the resource... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 22 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019
up to the point where the benefit of the marginal project is just equal to the cost. Because labor is a key input to innovation when the opportunity cost of time is lower, such as during school breaks or time off from work, we find that... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 14 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance
organizations as being focused on tangible hard metrics like profit or market capitalization. But for-profits also do a lot of organizational capacity-building work. Venture capital investments are very much about building the... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 31 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 31
Abstract Theories of the firm have been dominated by a legacy of ideas from early industrialization that pose zero-sum opposition between capital and labor (or capital and nearly everything else),... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- July 2017
- Supplement
Centerbridge Partners and Great Wolf Resorts (B)
By: Josh Lerner, John D. Dionne and Amram Migdal
The case examines the aftermath of the March 2015 Centerbridge Partners acquisition of Great Wolf Resorts, a North American family-oriented indoor water parks and hotel operator, from a private equity (PE) competitor, Apollo Global Management. View Details
Keywords: Private Equity Financing; Commercial Mortgage Backed Securities; CMBS; Secondary Buyouts; Business Ventures; Acquisition; Leveraged Buyouts; Business Exit or Shutdown; Finance; Borrowing and Debt; Cost; Cost of Capital; Equity; Private Equity; Financial Instruments; Debt Securities; Accommodations Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Financial Services Industry; North and Central America; United States
Lerner, Josh, John D. Dionne, and Amram Migdal. "Centerbridge Partners and Great Wolf Resorts (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 818-024, July 2017.