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- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Creating connections among consumers
embraced technology and tools that make it easier for members to access reviews and deals. “Our members want help with hiring decisions that have a high cost of failure if done improperly, so they’re happy... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Rent Out Your Ride
CLARK: A bright idea for utilizing untold idle capacity, America’s privately owned autos. It’s estimated that a privately owned midsize car costs about $8,000 a year to own and operate. In cities, it also spends most of its time parked... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Case Study: Tip the Scale
process. The staff of seven recently switched from an assembly line to a less-efficient but more scalable pick-and-pack process, with one person completing each order. In the previous setup, adding staff would create bottlenecks. “Imagine... View Details
- 21 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 21, 2015
longer than follow-on entrants in regulatory approval. Back-of-the-envelope calculations suggest that the cost of this delay is upwards of 7% of the cost of bringing a new high-risk device to market.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Feb 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: JSW Steel and Cement and the Quest to Capture Carbon in Hard to Abate Sectors
facility, around 2:30 outside of Mumbai, we met the company’s executives and learned about both their net zero commitments and how sustainability is embedded in the company’s culture, through a series of high ROI projects which also help... View Details
- 18 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
Tech Investment the Wise Way
Excerpted with permission from "The Dual Edged Role of the Business Model in Leveraging Corporate Technology Investments," in Taking Technical Risks: How Innovators, Executives, and Investors Manage High Tech Risks, article ©... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Priceline's Jay Walker: The Future is Wow
Walker, who was invited by the student-led High Tech and New Media Club to speak at the School in March, equated the changes brought about by the Internet with the transformational effect the automobile, the telephone, and television have... View Details
- 09 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Got a New Strategy? Now Make it Happen
accountability and speed up decision making—and thus to support the strategy of focusing on a few promising businesses—was to switch to a matrix structure. Members of the senior team strongly disagreed. A matrix would not work, they... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Beer & Russell A. Eisenstat
- 08 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017
characteristic-based portfolio strategy that requires relatively low annual turnover. This is a continuum, with small size (a very persistent characteristic) at one end of the spectrum and high frequency reversal at the other. Unlike... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 6
were making decisions that made them more acceptable to customers given the particular social, cultural, and economic contexts within which they were embedded. Ownership Structure and the Cost of Corporate Borrowing Authors: Chen Lin, Yue... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: “The Architecture of Innovation”
level. Yet the corporation's senior management and human resource professionals resisted changing the scheme, pointing out the high quality of junior hires that the firm was making. It was not until 2009 that the firm's management agreed... View Details
- 19 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019
inequality affects behaviour towards the rich and poor. In Experiment 1, participants who became aware that wealthy individuals donated a smaller percentage of their income switched from rewarding the wealthy to rewarding the poor. In... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 20 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
When CEOs Become Activists
group of same-sex marriage supporters, purchasing intent was nearly twice as high among respondents who had been told of Cook’s public views about the RFRA. For those who opposed gay marriage, Cook’s opinions didn’t sway purchasing... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Feedback
lecture was to read the New York Times obituaries every day to see who had been successful, and then learn what made them successful. No case method for the General. We listened and learned. —Bill MacDowell (MBA 1955) via alumni.hbs.edu December to Remember Re: View Details
- 23 May 2019
- News
Álvaro Rodríguez Arregui, MBA 1995
says Rodríguez of IGNIA, which is Mexico’s biggest VC firm. Growing up in Mexico, Rodríguez and his brother were raised by their mother after their father left the country in 1972. He attended high school in the United States and... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
health-care system is in critical condition: The cost of U.S. health care not only hampers its citizens’ well-being and the country’s ability to compete globally, but it also draws funding away from other sectors, such as education, where... View Details
- 20 Jan 2015
- News
Patient Medical Records, Pocket-sized
the cost of care. The records are secure—encrypted, password-protected, HIPAA-compliant, and not stored on a server. In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Bushkin read of displaced New Orleanians whose paper medical records had been... View Details
- 03 Nov 2016
- Op-Ed
Forget About Making College Affordable; Make it a Good Investment
Donald Trump has not issued an official platform on student debt, although he has referenced reducing college costs and lowering interest rates on student loans. Hillary Clinton has offered a variety of proposals. Echoing Bernie Sanders,... View Details
- 28 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
Microfinance: A Way Out for the Poor
poor by removing the high cost of everything they need. Chu discussed the benefits and complexities of microfinance with Harvard Business School alumni on June 4, in a session titled "Microfinance:... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 12 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Solving COVID'S Mental Health Crisis
staying away or unable to pay and rising costs for personal protective gear and new technology. “Compounding the problem, SUD treatment and prevention programs risk draconian cuts to public funding as states experience economic downturns... View Details