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  • 07 Apr 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Three Steps for Crisis Prevention

the chain—failures of mobilization—occur when leaders recognize and give adequate priority to a looming problem but fail to respond effectively. When the Securities and Exchange Commission tried to reform the U.S. accounting system—well... View Details
Keywords: by Michael D. Watkins & Max H. Bazerman
  • 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
  • 01 Jun 2022
  • News

Research Brief: Weatherproofing Renewables

Colombian energy firms manage frequent fluctuations in the weather by diversifying their energy sources: During the dry season, when the cost of hydropower can increase as much as tenfold, firms increase their reliance on fossil fuels.... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities
  • February 2007 (Revised March 2007)
  • Case

UBS and Climate Change--Warming Up to Global Action?

By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee, Forest L. Reinhardt and Elizabeth Raabe
Marco Suter, Executive Vice-Chairman, UBS Board of Directors, carefully studied the chart on his desk. It showed the public commitment of major financial institutions to help mitigate global warming. Evidently, UBS lagged behind its competitors. The graph was part of a... View Details
Keywords: Climate Change; Energy Conservation; Cost vs Benefits; Law; Financial Institutions; Environmental Sustainability; Corporate Accountability; Financial Services Industry
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Oberholzer-Gee, Felix, Forest L. Reinhardt, and Elizabeth Raabe. "UBS and Climate Change--Warming Up to Global Action?" Harvard Business School Case 707-511, February 2007. (Revised March 2007.)
  • 30 Oct 2007
  • First Look

First Look: October 30, 2007

pre-specified limit. Mr. Sattaiah, managing director of the BASIX's bank, considers a revised insurance policy for the coming season, weighing the costs and potential risks of expanding the product against the potential benefits. Purchase... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Oct 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Tuning Jobs to Fit Your Company

lower level. Finally, executives can use accounting and control systems to adjust the span of influence. For example, the span will be wider for managers who are forced to bear the burden of indirect cost... View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons
  • 21 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 21, 2009

crossed with small incentive (ranging from U.S. $3 to $14) to open a bank savings account. We find that the financial literacy program has no effect on the likelihood of opening a bank savings account in the full sample but do find modest... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Sep 2016
  • News

Pricing Paradise

The Daniel Patrick Moynihan Senior Lecturer at the Harvard Kennedy School, Bilmes began her career at the Boston Consulting Group, focusing on cost structures in large-scale industries where fractional commodity fluctuations result in... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
  • 01 Mar 2005
  • News

Campaign Passes Goal, Continues

In addition, our new first-year course in leadership and corporate accountability is influencing business schools everywhere. The cost of being a pioneer in all these domains is high.” HBS, he noted,... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services
  • 13 Feb 2018
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New Research and Ideas, February 13, 2018

2018 Pearson Education Horngren's Cost Accounting: A Managerial Emphasis By: Datar, Srikant M., and Madhav Rajan Abstract—Horngren’s Cost Accounting defines the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

IFC India 2025: From Gray to Green: A Glimpse of the Future of Green Hydrogen in India - Blog - Business & Environment

Blog Blog Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author HBS Faculty Author HBS Staff Author Staff Author Students Topics Topics Accelerating Climate Solutions Conference 2023 Alumni Alumni Programs Alumni in Climate Networking Series Business... View Details
  • 23 Apr 2020
  • Research & Ideas

This Crisis Loan Program Preserved Jobs—and Made Money

As the US Congress prepares to replenish its Paycheck Protection Program for small businesses, questions still linger: Do guaranteed loans for small businesses work in the long term? Who wins? Employees? Businesses? Taxpayers? The answer appears to be yes for all... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services
  • 04 Apr 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Attention Medical Shoppers: What Health Care Can Learn from Walmart and Amazon

and counting, according to research—that the human body can fail. "The delivery of health care is arguably the delivery of 13,360 different service lines, town by town, of anyone who needs care," Gawande said. He then told the audience that 5 percent of... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health
  • March 2007
  • Teaching Note

Understanding Customer Profitability at Charles Schwab (TN)

By: Francisco de Asis Martinez-Jerez
Teaching note to 106002. View Details
Keywords: Customers; Profit; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Decision Making; Cost; System; Transformation; Budgets and Budgeting; Performance Evaluation; Financial Services Industry; Web Services Industry
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Martinez-Jerez, Francisco de Asis. "Understanding Customer Profitability at Charles Schwab (TN)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 107-065, March 2007.
  • 01 Sep 2008
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Totting Up the Bill for the Iraq War

individuals so that the war’s consequences are felt directly by citizens. The White House has come down hard on the numbers and message of The Three Trillion Dollar War, but by offering a detailed, devastating accounting of the human,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; National Security and International Affairs; Government
  • February 2000 (Revised March 2000)
  • Case

Owens & Minor, Inc. (B)

By: V.G. Narayanan and Lisa Brem
After a manager at Owens & Minor, a national medical and surgical distribution company, proposes and develops a formalized activity-based pricing and activity-based management approach to sales and service provision, this case explore the outcome. View Details
Keywords: Activity Based Costing and Management; Logistics; Distribution; Price; Supply Chain Management; Sales; Outcome or Result; Management Style; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Distribution Industry
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Narayanan, V.G., and Lisa Brem. "Owens & Minor, Inc. (B)." Harvard Business School Case 100-079, February 2000. (Revised March 2000.)
  • 01 Jun 2025
  • News

Agenda: Stacy Sonnenberg (MBA 2003)

with post-COVID construction costs soaring, political winds have shifted away from solely taxpayer-funded venues toward public-private partnerships. As the global head of sports finance at Goldman Sachs, Sonnenberg works to develop... View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
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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 only enough interest to cover the... View Details
  • 19 Apr 2011
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First Look: April 19

hypothesis that perceived network benefits from the extant worldwide adoption of IFRS can explain part of countries' shift away from local accounting standards. That is, as more jurisdictions with economic ties to a given country adopt... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 25

impact on the accounting standards under which the investee firms present their financial information; the only change is in the investor's familiarity with these standards. This suggests that differences in View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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