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  • November 1990 (Revised May 2004)
  • Case

Mile High Cycles

By: William J. Bruns Jr.
Introduces the concept of cost variances. Looking at a bicycle manufacturer with one product and three departments, the case presents budgeted and actual data for material, labor, and overhead. View Details
Keywords: Cost; Business Divisions; Accounting; Bicycle Industry
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Bruns, William J., Jr. "Mile High Cycles." Harvard Business School Case 191-056, November 1990. (Revised May 2004.)
  • 2009
  • Working Paper

Policy Bundling to Overcome Loss Aversion: A Method for Improving Legislative Outcomes

By: Katherine L Milkman, Mary Carol Mazza, Lisa L. Shu, Chia-Jung Tsay and Max H. Bazerman
Policies that would create net benefits for society but would also involve costs frequently lack the necessary support to be enacted because losses loom larger than gains psychologically. To reduce this harmful consequence of loss aversion, we propose a new type of... View Details
Keywords: Decision Making; Cost vs Benefits; Policy; Government Legislation; Outcome or Result; Welfare
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Milkman, Katherine L., Mary Carol Mazza, Lisa L. Shu, Chia-Jung Tsay, and Max H. Bazerman. "Policy Bundling to Overcome Loss Aversion: A Method for Improving Legislative Outcomes." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 09-147, June 2009. (Revised September 2009, December 2009.)
  • January 2007
  • Exercise

Multifactor Models

By: Malcolm P. Baker
Students evaluate the performance of four mutual funds and compute the cost of capital for two companies using fixed benchmarks, the CAPM, and a multifactor model of returns. View Details
Keywords: Cost of Capital; Performance Evaluation; Business Model; Investment Funds; Investment Return; Motivation and Incentives; Markets
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Baker, Malcolm P. "Multifactor Models." Harvard Business School Exercise 207-056, January 2007.
  • 26 Jun 2007
  • Working Paper Summaries

Contracting in the Self-reporting Economy

Keywords: by Romana L. Autrey & Richard Sansing; Accounting

    Bank Capital and the Low Risk Anomaly

    Minimum capital requirements are a central tool of banking regulation. Setting them balances a number of factors, including any effects on the cost of capital and in turn the rates available to borrowers. Standard theory predicts that, in perfect and efficient... View Details
    • September 1976 (Revised July 1995)
    • Case

    Texas Instruments: Time Products Division

    By: Steven C. Wheelwright
    Outlines the components of Texas Instruments' low-cost digital watch. Focus is on getting the assembly line running smoothly and efficiently in order to meet production cost and delivery requirements. View Details
    Keywords: Cost; Production; Service Delivery; Performance Efficiency; Electronics Industry; Technology Industry
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    Wheelwright, Steven C. "Texas Instruments: Time Products Division." Harvard Business School Case 677-043, September 1976. (Revised July 1995.)
    • September 2016
    • Article

    Communicating Value in Healthcare Using Radar Charts: A Case Study of Prostate Cancer

    By: Nikhil G. Thaker, Tariq N. Ali, Michael E. Porter, Thomas W. Feeley, Robert S. Kaplan and Steven J. Frank
    Question: Can we create a value-based tool to visualize the outcomes and cost of various treatments that could facilitate patient-centered decision making?

    Summary Answer: We developed a standardized value framework by using radar charts to visualize and... View Details
    Keywords: Decision Making; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry
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    Thaker, Nikhil G., Tariq N. Ali, Michael E. Porter, Thomas W. Feeley, Robert S. Kaplan, and Steven J. Frank. "Communicating Value in Healthcare Using Radar Charts: A Case Study of Prostate Cancer." Journal of Oncology Practice 12, no. 9 (September 2016): 813–820.
    • November 2014 (Revised May 2017)
    • Teaching Note

    Fresno's Social Impact Bond for Asthma

    By: John A. Quelch
    The case desccribes a social impact bond (SIB) to fund home-based remediation programs designed to reduce asthma attacks among Fresno residents (especially children) and thereby save on health care costs (ambulance callouts, emergency room visits etc.). The case... View Details
    Keywords: Programs; Social Issues; Investment Return; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry; California
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    Quelch, John A. "Fresno's Social Impact Bond for Asthma." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 515-031, November 2014. (Revised May 2017.)
    • May 1994
    • Background Note

    Designing Channels of Distribution

    By: V. Kasturi Rangan
    Presents a framework and a method for addressing the new product channel choice decision. Offers a six-step method that involves: 1) disaggregating and prioritizing a distribution channel by customers' channel function requirements; 2) obtaining and combining... View Details
    Keywords: Distribution Channels; Framework; Cost; Customers; Cost vs Benefits; Management
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    Rangan, V. Kasturi. "Designing Channels of Distribution." Harvard Business School Background Note 594-116, May 1994.
    • 08 May 2017
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    Boards Neglect Cybersecurity at Their Companies’ Peril

    • 17 Oct 2014
    • News

    Can Google Express deliver on same-day shopping?

    • February 1985 (Revised July 1986)
    • Case

    Applichem (A)

    Applichem has six plants in different countries making the same chemical product. The purpose of this case is to allow students to think about what costs are relevant to management in this process industry environment, about how to define a comparison of costs and... View Details
    Keywords: Business or Company Management; Multinational Firms and Management; Performance Productivity; Operations; Performance Improvement; Chemical Industry
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    Flaherty, Marie-Therese M. "Applichem (A)." Harvard Business School Case 685-051, February 1985. (Revised July 1986.)
    • June 1997
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    Massachusetts General Hospital: CABG Surgery (B)

    By: Steven C. Wheelwright and Mikelle Eastley
    Once the CABG care path is implemented and other care paths begun, hospital staff and administration examine the resulting data. Further methods of improving care and reducing cost are presented for analysis. View Details
    Keywords: Cost Management; Policy; Retention; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Operations; Performance Improvement; Health Industry
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    Wheelwright, Steven C., and Mikelle Eastley. "Massachusetts General Hospital: CABG Surgery (B)." Harvard Business School Case 697-021, June 1997.
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    The Economic Consequences of Bankruptcy Reform

    By: Tal Gross, Raymond Kluender, Feng Liu, Matthew J. Notowidigdo and Jialan Wang
    A more generous consumer bankruptcy system provides greater insurance against financial risks but may also raise the cost of credit. We study this trade-off using the 2005 Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act (BAPCPA), which increased the costs of... View Details
    Keywords: Bankruptcy; Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention And Consumer Protection Act; Borrowing and Debt; Credit
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    Gross, Tal, Raymond Kluender, Feng Liu, Matthew J. Notowidigdo, and Jialan Wang. "The Economic Consequences of Bankruptcy Reform." American Economic Review 111, no. 7 (July 2021): 2309–2341.
    • February 1995 (Revised August 1995)
    • Case

    Siemens Rolm Communications Inc.: Integrated Logistics Core Process Redesign (ILCPR)

    In the late 1990s, Rolm realized significant losses and needed to significantly reduce its costs and redesign its logistics process. View Details
    Keywords: Restructuring; Logistics; Telecommunications Industry
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    Stoddard, Donna B., and Sirkka Jarvenpaa. "Siemens Rolm Communications Inc.: Integrated Logistics Core Process Redesign (ILCPR)." Harvard Business School Case 195-214, February 1995. (Revised August 1995.)
    • 2006
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    Service Productivity Management: Improving Service Performance Using Data Envelopment Analysis

    By: H. David Sherman and Joe Zhu
    Here is an in-depth guide to the most powerful available benchmarking technique for improving service organization performance—Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). The book outlines DEA as a benchmarking technique, identifies high cost service units, isolates specific... View Details
    Keywords: Data Envelopment Analysis; Economics; Operations; Mathematical Methods
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    Sherman, H. David, and Joe Zhu. Service Productivity Management: Improving Service Performance Using Data Envelopment Analysis. Boston, MA: Springer, 2006.
    • 11 Mar 2015
    • News

    Paying more for comparable outcomes in prostate treatment

    • October 2014
    • Supplement

    Honeywell and the Great Recession: The Economic Recovery (B)

    By: Sandra J. Sucher and Susan J. Winterberg
    Five years after the Great Recession, Honeywell's CEO Dave Cote and his executive team reflect on the choices they made to manage costs and earnings forecasts during that uncertain time. They discuss which cost cutting measures they decided to take and their personal... View Details
    Keywords: Layoffs; Furloughs; Downsizing; Work Sharing; Short Time Work; Recessions; Earnings Forecast; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Cost Management; Executive Compensation; Crisis Management; Financial Crisis; Manufacturing Industry
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    Sucher, Sandra J., and Susan J. Winterberg. "Honeywell and the Great Recession: The Economic Recovery (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 315-023, October 2014.
    • Research Summary

    Debt Maturity: Is Long-Term Debt Optimal? (with Fabio Kanczuk)

    By: Laura Alfaro
    We model and calibrate the arguments in favor and against short-term and long-term debt. These arguments broadly include: maturity-term premium, tax smoothing, rolling over risk and the cost from defaulting. We use a dynamic equilibrium model with tax distortion,... View Details
    • 10 Nov 2020
    • Sharpening Your Skills

    Research News and Tips: Innovating Across Time Zones

    minimize temporal distance—that is, largely on a North-South axis,” the paper says. Read the paper: The Effects of Temporal Distance on Intra-Firm Communication: Evidence from Daylight Savings Time. Jasmina Chauvin, Prithwiraj Choudhury, and Tommy Fan Pang. Immigrant... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
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