Opportunity Cost - Publications - Faculty & Research

12 May 2009
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First Look: May 12, 2009

does this occur? Across four studies, people justified their dishonest deeds through moral disengagement and exhibited motivated forgetting of information that might otherwise limit their dishonesty. Using hypothetical scenarios (Studies 1 and 2) and real tasks... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

16 Apr 2007
Research & Ideas

Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer

Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Andres Hervas-Drane: The nature of competition is changing rapidly. Drivers such as globalization, deregulation, and technological change are opening opportunities for the development of new, original business... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Music

17 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

Let Customers Call the Shots

suffered from the same problem: it is unclear that we need an across-the-board revolution in retailing. Moreover, empowering systems appear to be opaque and suffer from complexity: It is hard to envision the costs and benefits of... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

22 Aug 2005
Research & Ideas

Balancing the Future Against Today’s Needs

navigate conflicts both external and internal. Today, more than ever, markets exert continual pressure on organizations to cut costs and return capital to the bottom line, but building value demands that much of that same capital be... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Michelman

30 Jun 2020
Book

Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever

urge business leaders everywhere to seize this opportunity to rebuild public confidence in capitalism and its ability to function in a way that generates inclusive and sustainable prosperity,” write coauthors and HBS professors Joseph L.... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

09 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 9, 2008

responses by firms that receive poor ratings, especially those that face lower cost opportunities to improve and that operate in highly regulated industries. Our empirical analysis examines how nearly 600... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Residential Life | MBA

fees include the cost of utilities at all complexes and Internet in select locations; 24-hour maintenance service is provided. Students and families living in Harvard University Housing have access to the Graduate Commons Program, a... View Details

03 Oct 2019
News

Clubs Convene to Focus on Health Care

public health care, skyrocketing costs of prescription medications, and how AI-assisted personal medicine is coming in the future.” Ahmed says the Cleveland Clinic Canada (CCC) represents one of the growing patient-centric models of care... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Health, Social Assistance

12 Dec 2018
News

Lesson Plan

that a member of the school board had resigned his seat, with two years left on a four-year term? “I looked at the position and realized this was probably the opportunity to start contributing,” she says. Without a solvent,... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Chris Sorensen

23 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 23

leads to the possibility of strategic delay by decision participants who differ in their preferences and are limited by the resources they can allocate to influence decisions. We focus on sources of delay caused by the strategic interaction of decision makers over time... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

03 Jun 2016
News

Again in a Great City

opinionated time line of Detroit’s highs and lows. And there have been a lot of lows. Just a few years ago, Cummings was done with Detroit. The municipal government was in disarray, the auto industry was collapsing, the population was plummeting, and business View Details

Keywords: April White; photographed by Brian Kelly

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IFC: Japan; Exploring Japan's Innovation Ecosystem - Course Catalog

simultaneously creating economic and societal value. Through project work with a diverse range of business partners, from established corporations to burgeoning startups, students will have an opportunity to gain practical insights into... View Details

17 Apr 2013
Research Event

Conference Challenges Gender Conventions

that women often leave client service to work in industry where they experience better work/life quality but limit their ultimate career progression. Her team focuses on creating policies to influence the costs and benefits of those... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish

15 Mar 2016
First Look

March 15, 2016

Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50752 Voter Registration Costs and Disenfranchisement: Experimental Evidence from France By: Braconnier, Celine, Jean-Yves Dormagen, and Vincent Pons Abstract—A large-scale... View Details

01 Dec 2010
News

Additional alumni books for your consideration.

company to still lose money, Byrnes explains how managers can rethink their business for maximum profit. Along the way, he punctures such harmful myths as revenues are good, costs are bad; all customers should get the same great service;... View Details

Keywords: Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance

22 Jul 2002
Research & Ideas

How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”

1930s, where it was noticed that direct labor costs tended to decrease by a constant percentage as the cumulative quantity of aircraft produced doubled. Learning effects figured prominently in wartime production planning efforts. World... View Details

Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat

01 Dec 2000
News

Latin America's Decade

accordingly. But despite this favorable trend in the business climate, further improvements are urgently needed. HBS professor Pankaj Ghemawat, whose research focuses on cross-border competition, notes, "It's hard to make generalizations about the region, but the high... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons and Julia Hanna; Latin America; research; infrastructure; Hospitality; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

28 Aug 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018

through social learning) and costs (lower maximum solution quality due to a reduction in individual exploration for novel answers) relative to independent problem solving. In contrast to prior work, which has focused on how the presence... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

15 Nov 2010
Lessons from the Classroom

Connecting Goals and Go-To-Market Initiatives

therefore critical to long-term revenue growth for most firms, and poor alignment means both direct and opportunity costs for companies. But it's especially critical for owner-president, privately held, and... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

30 May 2005
Research & Ideas

Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers

institutions are in flux. Many of the large German firms have huge legacy costs and entrenched corporate cultures that must change. Remembering August Thyssen reminds people just how entrepreneurial corporate Germany once was. I think... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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