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- 18 Apr 2005
- Research & Ideas
Selling Luxury to Everyone
them. "The market is smaller than we had anticipated," Johnson said. So far, the brand is struggling to gain market share, and Mercedes-Benz has some high costs to recoup. Johnson estimated it... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Case Study: Farming It Out
understand requirements of modification and research to enhance the product. At a more mature stage or later on, to prolong the life cycle of the product, AGR could switch to a Microsoft ecosystem to focus on product only and let others... View Details
- 30 Jan 2019
- What Do You Think?
Who Will Measure up to These Two Remarkable Leaders?
obituaries 40 years from now? Who will we credit with turning an entire global industry upside down in a way that delivered unbelievably low costs as well as differentiated product/service performance to Customers, a great place to work... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Pearson Hunt Remembered
also contributed to the theory of capital budgeting and to the development of a more realistic application of the cost of capital to investment decisions. In the midst of this work, Hunt coined the term EBIT (earnings before interest and... View Details
- 30 Jan 2012
- News
Shopping Around
Europe. In an interview published in the July 24, 2011 London Sunday Times, the U.S.-born Calabrese, who taught business and marketing to high schoolers in Charles County, Maryland, before a late-1970s career change to commercial property... View Details
- 29 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 29, 2008
those whose cost of external finance was unchanged. However, while some of the fall in entry was due to less wealthy individuals with high human capital (confirming the presence of financing constraints),... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Social Entrepreneurs Can Increase Their Investment Impact
revenue toward high impact opportunities, then an investment may allow the financier to reallocate funds to other purposes. Does the company have opportunities to expand its profitability at little cost to... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 11 Dec 2014
- News
Fashion's Retail Revolution
Principles Jamal Motlagh Taking Tailoring High Tech Taking Tailoring High Tech Karen Moon Making Big Data Fashionable Making Big Data Fashionable Imran Amed Rethinking the Fashion Beat Rethinking the Fashion... View Details
- 08 Dec 2015
- News
Living the Legacy
HBX CORe, a three-course online program that teaches the fundamentals of business, he knew his children would benefit from the content and the high quality of instruction that had set the foundation for his own career success. Ray... View Details
- 20 Aug 2020
- Blog Post
“Business as Usual, In a Different Way” – Creating an Impactful Remote Internship at Actis
resources including personalized work plans for each Summer Associate and an employee handbook. Formalized plans gave the Summer Associates high level objectives for their summer so they could better understand expectations and goals. The... View Details
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Olivia Zhao
incentives for companies to make drugs, but then you get to the point where someone has to pay for them. The question is, how do insurers and payers decide what to pay for drugs, and how does that affect patients who may be faced with a very View Details
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Buy Now, Pay Later: Credit and Charity
credit were not profit-making enterprises but charities. In fifteenth-century Italy, outraged by the high rates charged by moneylenders, the papal governor of Perugia established the first monte pietatis, a public pawnshop that charged... View Details
- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
investment without far-reaching central planning. For example, a developer can install PRT to benefit its own property, thereby establishing initial PRT links without resorting to public funds. Despite the high social and environmental... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Evolution of Modern Pricing Models
brick-and-mortar stores, you can’t change shelf prices that frequently. With e-commerce, that cost disappears, and nowadays with better algorithms, it becomes even easier to change prices as often as possible. Another constraint has been... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Start-Ups Make Their Pitch
today goes to telecom, high tech, or software,” said Mahesh, founder and CEO of Sundaram Medical Devices in Chennai. Mahesh trained at Stanford as an engineer and worked for McKinsey and Toyota before attending HBS. He plans to apply... View Details
- 02 Apr 2014
- What Do You Think?
Has the Post-Capitalist Economy Finally Arrived?
entrepreneurship " Peter McCann pointed out that things are déjà vu all over again. "There will be increased productivity but the day of zero marginal cost for more than a small set of goods and services is not even on the... View Details
- 08 Apr 2015
- What Do You Think?
Are Technology Companies Ripe for Disruption?
Summing Up What's the Downside to Disruption in High Tech? This month's column gave many readers an opportunity to join my rant about the need for disruption to combat the increasing inscrutability and waste of technological innovations... View Details
- 10 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Rethink the Value of Joint Ventures
going it alone even more than the returns to partnering with local firms. The reasons are that the forces of globalization—particularly reduced trade costs leading to more fragmented production processes—are making it more and more... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 01 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Slow, Steady Battle to Fix Cancer Care
on a holistic treatment plan comprising one of eight "bundles." “If we can drive down costs while improving outcomes, that will be much more favorable to our economy and to our competitiveness as a nation” "We're hoping... View Details
- 21 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 21, 2009
competitor to boost sales, become #1 in a niche market segment, and achieve economies of scale. He is struggling with whether the deal makes strategic sense given forecasts that this niche segment is declining, whether the price is too View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace