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- 17 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
America Needs a Manufacturing Renaissance
those declines. Our argument is built around three core themes. Theme 1: When a Country Loses the Capability to Manufacture, It Loses the Ability to Innovate Innovation and manufacturing are often viewed as residing at the opposite ends of the View Details
- December 1989 (Revised April 1997)
- Case
Destin Brass Products Co.
By: William J. Bruns Jr.
A specialized manufacturer of brass valves, pumps, and flow controllers is troubled by competitive pricing in pumps and higher than expected margins for flow controllers. Managers suspect that cost accounting and cost allocations to products may be to blame. Two... View Details
Keywords: Cost Accounting; Activity Based Costing and Management; Five Forces Framework; Customer Value and Value Chain; Competition; Business Strategy; Design; Inflation and Deflation; Asset Pricing; Governance Controls; Manufacturing Industry
Bruns, William J., Jr. "Destin Brass Products Co." Harvard Business School Case 190-089, December 1989. (Revised April 1997.)
- 13 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 13
May 2017 American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings Immigration and the Rise of American Ingenuity By: Akcigit, Ufuk, John Grigsby, and Tom Nicholas Abstract—We build on the analysis in Akcigit, Grigsby, and Nicholas (2017) by using... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
How Many U.S. Jobs Are ‘Offshorable’?
brought home to many students that offshoring could affect them personally." Nearly 900 members of the MBA Class of 2009 participated in the exercise, with students divided into learning teams of five or six individuals. The exercise was conducted via an intranet site... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 16 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
HySynergy and Crossbridge Energy
assets if their technology investments prove economically uncompetitive compared to alternative “green” solutions. The newly finished Hysynergy Power-to-Hydrogen facility. Inside, large alkaline electrolyzers convert excess energy to... View Details
- 07 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
How to Help Small Businesses Survive COVID's Next Phase
through a few months, when normalcy would resume. The Paycheck Protection Program (PPP)—government-funded forgivable loans designed to help businesses pay their employees—would help them weather the storm. Six months later, there’s still... View Details
- 22 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist
the federal Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890, which was designed to protect competition by outlawing monopolistic business practices. This fear of monopoly power made Americans leery of business agreements that smacked of price-fixing. Yet... View Details
- 17 Mar 2023
- News
Dean Datar Meets with Alumni in New York
interdisciplinary research enterprise that will position HBS as an intellectual hub for examining the most critical issues and opportunities of our times—from climate change and environmental sustainability to racial equity and social and View Details
- 19 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Expensing Options Won’t Hurt High Tech
harm entrepreneurial incentives are often the same people who claim that current disclosure is adequate for communicating the economics of stock option grants. The two positions are clearly contradictory. If current disclosure is... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Trade Off
What patterns emerge from history that can help us better understand where we are today? Sophus Reinert: To many people, globalization is teleological, something that necessarily becomes stronger over time and leads to an ever-more View Details
- 19 Jan 2021
- In Practice
Leadership Advice for Biden: Restore a Sense of Calm
said: Julie Battilana: Put people and the planet at economy's core My hope is that President Biden and his team will help all of us rebuild strong democratic foundations, and place human beings and the planet back at the core of our View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Collaborative Cures
diagnostics, consumer, and devices, collectively raising more than $150 million in funding. To further catalyze these new science-based businesses, the program provides fellows professional development in areas such as startup strategy, View Details
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Marjorie M.T. Yang (MBA '76)
to try to improve the livelihood of every member of the company." When you go into a store looking for a stylish, well-made shirt, the designer brands jump out at you-names like Hugo Boss, Tommy Hilfiger, and Ralph Lauren. So do the... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
New Chairman Updates Development in MBA Program
trying to move the basic building-block skills out of the required curriculum and into prematriculation. Our goal is to free up time for students to delve more deeply into the economic logic required to solve problems and into the larger... View Details
- 30 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 30, 2016
viable business out of their groundbreaking technology. The case raises issues in entrepreneurship and B2B marketing such as analyzing economic value to the customer, designing optimal price metrics,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The HBS Fund
thrilled to be accepted to HBS, but she wondered how she would pay for it and how much debt she could handle. Generous financial aid enabled her to attend HBS, where she blogs about her MBA experience. She is the co-founder of Thrive, an online community View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
New Releases
managerial formula. His book is designed to help managers understand that distinction and show them how to adapt and respond accordingly. The Service Profit Chain by James L. Heskett, W. Earl Sasser, Jr., and Leonard A. Schlesinger (Free... View Details
- 20 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2008
information about how to switch to export crops, makes in-kind loans for the purchase of the agricultural inputs, and provides marketing services by facilitating the transaction with exporters. The experimental evaluation design randomly... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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HBS - Financials | From the CFO
dollars in tuition revenue for fiscal 2021. Second, the pandemic forced Executive Education to pivot from its entirely in-person learning model to an all-virtual portfolio. Designing and implementing such a portfolio from the ground up... View Details
- Web
Additional Archives - Creating Emerging Markets
initiative of IIMA Archives that captures the experiences of several people associated with the institute from its formative years. IIMA Archives also holds a collection of documents and directories related to the business and economic... View Details