Relative Cost Analysis - Publications - Faculty & Research

22 Dec 2015
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December 22, 2015

Sakis, Shalini Rao, Daniela Saltzman, and George Serafeim Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50239 December 2015 Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology Time-Driven Activity-Based View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

08 Sep 2009
Research & Ideas

The Height Tax, and Other New Ways to Think about Taxation

it wants to spread the burden of taxes among its citizens in the least painful way, Weinzierl says. In other words, the government wants those for whom it is relatively easy to earn money to pay more in taxes than those for whom it is... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

06 Aug 2001
Research & Ideas

Go Global—or No? Can You Make the Case?

your comments published in an upcoming issue of HBS Working Knowledge—it will cost you $6.00 to download the full story from HBR. See details below. For two years, U.S.-based DataClear has all but had a stranglehold on the data View Details

Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle

24 Nov 2014
Research & Ideas

Corrupting Silence: Companies Must Speak Up Against Bribes

the cost of investment in developing countries by at least 20 percent. And yet, companies are mostly silent on the subject. "The thing that struck me is how little information there is on corruption because no one wants to talk about it,"... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

05 Aug 2002
Research & Ideas

Five questions for Regina E. Herzlinger

risks of consumer-driven health care: Overall, relative to the current system, the risk of consumer-driven health care is low. After all, the current system has led to quality problems, double-digit cost... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Oct 2018
Blog Post

Josh Latson and his Fellowship: “It’s like a pie eating contest.”

immediately understood and added value to a number of deals,” says Alastair. “But the single biggest value he brought? He was excited by our mission. He’s done everything from M&A analysis to support for your growth strategy, to... View Details

Keywords: Health Care

10 Oct 2007
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by 7.5 percent relative to private firms. We interpret this as evidence of investor belief of policy irreversibility, where reforms may reach a stage beyond which future regimes have difficulty reversing those policies. Further View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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International Students | MBA

Student Loans Your maximum loan eligibility is the cost of attendance minus any other aid received. Having a US citizen as a cosigner increases your options for student loans; however, there are also options for international students... View Details

05 Jun 2012
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(giving competitors a lead in a market) and the entrenchment benefits (the cost advantage firms develop through learning-by-doing when they enter early). Both the opportunity costs of absence and the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

18 Jun 2001
Research & Ideas

Tech Investment the Wise Way

from any innovative venture must be assessed within the framework of a specific business model, which will specify how revenues will be generated, from whom, and what costs will be incurred in so doing. In other words, technology does not... View Details

Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough & Richard S. Rosenbloom

07 Aug 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, August 8, 2018

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53835 July–August 2018 Journal of Healthcare Management Using Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing to Model the Costs of Various Process-Improvement Strategies in... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2020
Blog Post

Hiring a Career Switcher: The Value of the MS/MBA

technologies to address climate change at scale, where he accepted a summer internship as a Portfolio Greenhouse Gas Impact Analysis Intern. Kaelyn refined her broad career interests after hearing a guest speaker in the MS/MBA seminar... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

12 Jan 2004
What Do You Think?

How Should We Think About the Exportation of Jobs?

that the "good old days" of relatively strenuous, dangerous, and boring manufacturing jobs are not coming back. Many of those jobs have been exported for good. Now we are confronted with a new reality: Service jobs are just as... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

Profile

Alice Yang

applied for a position with the organization, and in the summer of 2003, became Farmer’s research assistant. “It was just before Tracy Kidder’s bestselling book, Mountains Beyond Mountains, was published. PIH was still relatively small –... View Details

01 Sep 2004
News

Alumni Board Wraps Up Year

also found that Alumni Career Services already has a broad array of beneficial Web-based and on-campus career development offerings, but that awareness of these services is relatively low. Hence, the committee recommended improving... View Details

Keywords: Ted Fischer; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

01 Mar 2016
News

Off Script

of pharmaceuticals and medical devices work in a more coordinated way? —Rebecca Leung (MBA 1996) HASSAN: Smaller, highly advanced countries with long-term industrial strategies, such as Singapore, have a relatively well-coordinated system... View Details

Keywords: Insurance Carriers and Related Activities; Finance

18 May 2011
News

U.S. Manufacturing Comeback?

Don’t give up on American manufacturing yet. There are signs of new life that give rise to optimism about a U.S. manufacturing renaissance. A new analysis by The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) estimates that within the next five years the... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Manufacturing

03 Apr 2018
News

Taking Frontier Markets to the Next Level

like that. We saw that there was an opportunity to bring cleaner and cheaper energy through solar energy to these companies. “We started CrossBoundary Energy as an affiliated investment vehicle to help finance solar energy for businesses in Africa, allowing them to... View Details

01 Jul 2014
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that this tradeoff is shifted towards the reseller-mode when marketing activities create spillovers across products and when network effects lead to unfavorable expectations about supplier participation. If the reseller has a variable View Details