Opportunity Cost - Publications - Faculty & Research

05 Dec 2022
Blog Post

2022 Climate Symposium: Tackling Climate Together

challenge. With over 500 tickets sold, the Symposium, held on HBS campus on November 6th, 2022, facilitated conversation and reflection between leaders and experts from all areas and industries about the challenges and opportunities of... View Details

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IFC: India; Development While Decarbonizing - India’s Path to Net Zero - Course Catalog

irreversible climate crisis. As a result, countries and companies have committed to decarbonization initiatives and announced net zero targets. While there are significant climate-related problems that are common across the world, there are some unique challenges and... View Details

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Approaching Business with an Artistic Eye - Global Activities 2020

point. “Global brands like Zara sell their products in the Middle East through franchisors, so garments can cost twice as much as in the United States,” he explains. “We use skilled artisans right in Lebanon—no intermediaries.” “In the... View Details

01 Dec 2022
News

Flying High

idea that there is an enormous opportunity to make air travel better.” The startup saw space in the market between premium commercial airline options that were increasingly inconvenient and the ever-more expensive choice of private air... View Details

Keywords: April White; aviation; airlines; entrepreneurship; leadership; innovation; Air Transportation; Transportation

29 May 2019
News

HBS Career Coaches Hit the Road to Serve Alumni

opportunity to connect with each other and to HBS during a workshop exploring career and life decision-making, and showcasing the many career and professional resources at HBS available to them. “We wanted to increase awareness among... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

23 Oct 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018

Organizations: Chapter 7 The Value Structure of Technologies, Part 2: Technical and Strategic Bottlenecks as Guides for Action By: Baldwin, Carliss Y. Abstract—The purpose of this chapter is to present analytic tools based on functional maps that can be used to... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

01 Mar 2004
Lessons from the Classroom

Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science

the "Faster, Better, Cheaper" initiative, and what did it try to achieve? A: FBC was a response to rising development costs and the high-profile failures of several missions in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Its aim was to move... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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Crisis Leadership - Bubbles, Panics & Crashes – Historical Collections – Harvard Business School

the 1920s Research Links Site Credits Crisis Leadership: Waltham Watch Company, 1837–1957 Financial crises place extraordinary demands on business leaders. Surges in bankruptcy rates testify to the hazards involved, but these brief periods of cataclysm have also been... View Details

21 Jun 2020
News

Rooting out Racism

basic practices, such as acknowledging what constitutes third-degree racism so there is no hiding behind a lack of understanding; committing to diversity plans that meet a carefully considered standard of rigor; and delivering outcomes in which people of color have the... View Details

10 Jun 2002
Research & Ideas

How to Look at Globalization Now

other, offering thirty channels of programming in eight languages. STAR's evolution indicates, first of all, the abiding preference—demonstrated in all regions around the world—for local TV programming, even if it costs much more than... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

04 Apr 2018
Op-Ed

Op-Ed: Why Private Investors Must Fund 'New Nuclear' Power Right Now

category known as “new nuclear,” which offers the potential to dramatically reduce costs and rapidly ramp up installations when compared to today’s nuclear power plants. But the success of new nuclear—and perhaps the future of the... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph Lassiter; Energy; Green Technology

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IFC: Saudi Arabia; Economic Diversification - Course Catalog

sources of economic growth away from petrochemicals. Societal change has been rapid in some dimensions – exhilarating and sometimes disconcerting – and on others has been glacially slow. This has triggered new entrepreneurial 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

23 Jun 2009
First Look

First Look: June 23

outperformance." This case provides an opportunity to evaluate Goldman's decision to raise capital, the cost to the firm of Buffett's investment, and the decision by Warren Buffett to make the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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

20 Mar 2025
Blog Post

IFC India 2025: Illuminating India’s Solar Future: Reflections on Tata Solar Manufacturing Plant Visit

Professor Vikram Gandhi’s Immersive Field Course (IFC) “Development while Decarbonizing: India’s Path to Net-Zero" delved into the critical aspect of decarbonization and sustainability goals amid India's rapid development. The course presented an opportunity for... View Details

25 Feb 2002
Research & Ideas

MNCs in Asia: Investing in the Future

contributed to the development of a business-oriented society with increased short-term opportunity for MNCs. "The dot-com bubble brought practices, ambitions, and goals to China that are here to stay," he added.... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

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

Keywords: Re: Karim R. Lakhani; Health

03 Mar 2009
First Look

First Look: March 3, 2009

(February 2009) Abstract Pharmacy benefits managers (PBMs) have a unique opportunity to promote public health and generate value in the healthcare system. However, PBMs are largely evaluated on their ability to control View Details