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- 03 Aug 2011
- News
No Ducking the Debt Ceiling
Lecturer Robert Pozen succinctly proposed what he called “a debt plan Republicans can support with $400 billion in revenue raisers.” To many Americans, this is now read-it-and-weep material. Just days before the vote, Professor of View Details
- 08 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 8
management friendly provisions, we identify the economic determinants of the resulting trade-offs for shareholder value. Consistent with the theory, our empirical analysis shows that provisions that allow View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
The occasion? The company, a leading supplier of cloud-based services for electronic health records (EHR), practice management, and care coordination, was expanding. In a big way. Founded in 1997, athenahealth now serves about 44,000 medical providers, posted $422... View Details
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Innovating at Scale - Course Catalog
existing sources of revenue or involves risky and uncertain investments. History is littered with established companies (Blockbuster, Kodak, etc) that failed to meet these challenges and innovate. This course centers on how to innovate... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
HBS Faculty Explore Ideas Around the World
conducted for the case. He learned that although ANA is one of the world’s most pro table airlines, a majority of its revenues come from the domestic market, which is shrinking due to Japan’s declining population and competition from the... View Details
Keywords: faculty research
- July 2010
- Supplement
Marketing Analysis Toolkit: Pricing and Profitability Analysis (CW)
By: Thomas J. Steenburgh and Jill Avery
Pricing is one of the most difficult decisions marketers make and the one with the most direct and immediate impact on the firm's financial position. This toolkit will introduce the fundamental terminology and calculations associated with pricing and profitability... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Rethinking Call Centers: Effective Delivery of Service is Key
call centers, with their attendant voice response units, need not be frustrating. When a company manages its call center well, effectively linking a triad of service, information technology, and internal processes, both the customer and... View Details
- 22 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
The COVID-19 Mutiny: When Teams Leave and Take Their Clients
"The biggest transition? Establishing a new Zoom account." Leadership integration—ensuring a fit between the acquiring firm’s top management and the team leader—has become part of the courtship phase. And remote work has radically... View Details
- Profile
Shana Hoffman
overall power of the HBS experience,” Shana says. The courses, too, complement her plans, with The Entrepreneurial Manager proving especially helpful in its ideas for creating practical revenue models. “I... View Details
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
Jeffrey R. Immelt, MBA 1982
managing 7,000 people, and it was a crisis all the time. There were many hard decisions to make every day, but boy, I learned a ton.” GE has seen significant change since Immelt’s tenure began, with acquisitions in energy, aviation, water... View Details
- 12 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 12, 2016
Management Science The Relationship Between Workplace Stressors and Mortality and Health Costs in the United States By: Goh, Joel, Jeffrey Pfeffer, and Stefanos A. Zenios Abstract—Even though epidemiological evidence links specific... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Media Metamorphosis: Advertising in the Technology Age
In 1998, Internet advertising revenue passed the $1 billion mark, more than double its 1997 level. Indeed, although the Internet entered the media fray barely four years ago, its revenues from national... View Details
- 05 Mar 2014
- What Do You Think?
When Will the Next Dot.com Bubble Burst?
monetize concepts, many of them apps for Android and IOS, driving doubtful revenue models in packed market segments with little differentiating code." Nol Perreira asked, "What will prick the bubble? The timing of that is, one... View Details
- 08 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 8, 2008
for positions of international leadership in research and education. Bargains-then-ripoffs: Innovation, Pricing and Lock-in in Enterprise Software Author:Ian Larkin Periodical:Best Paper Proceedings of the Academy of Management (2008).... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Profile
Maliha Khan
had built up its manufacturing business in anticipation of the new law, doubling our capacity in just one- and a-half years." Through growth and acquisitions, the business jumped in scale to revenues of $90 million a year with 3,500... View Details
- Fast Answer
Transforming Health Care Delivery
project sponsors Executive bios Size of organization, i.e., number of employees, revenue Capital IQ - Public and private companies and nonprofit... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Ticktock
and function in order to avoid the danger of your product becoming a flash-in-the-pan fad? In the “Clocky” case, Nanda cites the Roomba, iRobot’s robotic vacuum cleaner, as an example of a product that manages to steer clear of that fate.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Riding It Out
the company’s revenues have increased by leaps and bounds. But the melamine pet food scare last spring could have ruined everything. The bad news came to a place it shouldn’t: Disney World. It was during one of the few vacations that Paal... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
Gleason (MBA '97) is finding a way to make both a profit and a difference. Last fall, as a part of HBS associate professor Marco Iansiti's Managing Product Development course, Gleason created a model for a company that would employ... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 08 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 8, 2007
S. Kaplan and Steven R. Anderson Periodical:Journal of Cost Management 21, no. 2 (March-April 2007): 5-15 Abstract Activity-based costing has enabled managers to see that not all View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace