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Social Entrepreneurship Fellowship | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

your income calculation for these programs. The loan assistance programs require that you receive need-based financial aid while enrolled at HBS, and each program has distinct eligibility requirements, application processes and deadlines,... View Details
  • April 1993 (Revised May 1994)
  • Case

General Dynamics and Computer Sciences Corporation: Outsourcing the IS Function (A)

By: F. Warren McFarlan and Katherine Seger
Designed to generate discussion on the issues of outsourcing from the perspective of a firm thinking about turning over its IS activities to a third-party vendor. View Details
Keywords: Management Systems; Management Style; Information Technology; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Business Strategy; Economic Systems; Business or Company Management; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Business Processes; Employment; Emerging Markets; Activity Based Costing and Management; Information Technology Industry; Consulting Industry
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IFC: Japan; Exploring Japan's Innovation Ecosystem - Course Catalog

portion of these costs. Students are responsible for booking and paying for their own round-trip air travel and any costs associated with required visa documentation and immunizations. Students should ensure adequate View Details
  • 21 Jul 2009
  • First Look

First Look: July 21

slightly for ISO 9001 adopters, although total injury costs did not. These results have implications for organizational theory, managers, and public policy. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-018.pdf A Decision-making... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Mar 2012
  • News

Alumni Book Briefs

'75) ((Amazon Digital Services)) Frank Batten: The Untold Story of the Founder of the Weather Channel by Connie M. Sage ((University of Virginia Press)) Smarter Branding without Breaking the Bank: Five Proven Marketing Strategies You Can Use Right Now to Build Your... View Details
Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 07 Nov 2005
  • What Do You Think?

Is Less Becoming More?

Typical of comments regarding the issue of choice were those by Mehmet Genc, who said, "As choice increases, search costs increase . . . [and] it takes longer to make a decision. At the same time, due to social changes, we have even... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Consumer Products
  • 17 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 17, 2009

to combat gray markets is to increase internal transfer prices to foreign subsidiaries in order to increase the gray market's cost base. We illustrate that when a gray market competitor is present, the optimal price for internal transfers... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Mar 2025
  • News

Patch Work

pour more water into it, but it just doesn’t matter.” Jameson focused on using newly available data about individual voters to predict who would be likeliest to respond to a call, but not merely because it would help his clients win. The best way to cut View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg; Illustrations by Dan Bejar
  • 08 May 2007
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First Look: May 8, 2007

data, 3. drives costs to transactions and orders using specific characteristics of particular orders, 4. can be run monthly to capture the economics of the most recent operations, 5. provides visibility to View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Aug 2008
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First Look: August 5, 2008

may not be a pure-strategy equilibria. In the standard case where marginal costs are weakly positive, there is no pure strategy where the lower quality B firm obtains positive market share. We also consider the case where A has negative... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Oct 2010
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First Look: October 5, 2010

Demand: Model and Estimation Methodology Authors:Nathan Craig, Nicole DeHoratius, and Ananth Raman Abstract To set service levels, firms must understand how changes in service affect customer demand. Supply learning is a process whereby... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Aug 2009
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First Look: August 11, 2009

facilitating their entry at larger firm sizes. On the other hand, the process of lowering financing constraints democratized entry and created a lot more churning among entrants, particularly at the low end of the size distribution. Our... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 5, 2007

  Working PapersDesigning a Two-Sided Platform: When to Increase Search Costs? Authors:Andrei Hagiu and Bruno Jullien Abstract We propose a model for analyzing an intermediary's incentives to increase the search costs incurred by... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Sep 2024
  • Blog Post

Amager Bakke: I Like This Waste Incinerator in My Backyard!

year-round ski slope. Image source: https://www.babcock.com/home/about/resources/success-stories/amager-bakke-copenhill\ About Amager Bakke Initially built to replace a 45-year-old waste incineration plant, construction of Amager Bakke began in 2013 and was completed... View Details
  • 09 May 2017
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New Research and Ideas, May 9

American Economic Review The Costs of Sovereign Default: Evidence from Argentina By: Hébert, Benjamin, and Jesse Schreger Abstract—We estimate the causal effect of sovereign default on the equity returns of Argentine firms. We identify... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 22, 2008

207-075 In May 2006, a resident of Key West, Florida had to decide whether to renew his policy to insure against hurricane damage. The policy would cost $13,000 for one year, $5,000 more than what he paid in 2005. At the same time, a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Sep 2007
  • News

Riding It Out

one-cup feedings per day costs $20.95 — more than most grocery brands but a manageable sum for customers who value the convenience of automatic shipments that make taking care of the family dog as easy as peeling the top off a SmartPak.... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; dog food; pets; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade
  • 01 Dec 2009
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Alumni Books

key to economic progress lies in unleashing women’s potential. For example, China has prospered because it emancipated women and brought them into the formal economy. Unleashing that process globally is the the best strategy for fighting... View Details
  • 26 Oct 2009
  • Lessons from the Classroom

The New Deal: Negotiauctions

buying a home or car. The first Harvard faculty member to hold tenured appointments at both Harvard Business School and Harvard Law School, Subramanian is the faculty chair for the new HBS Executive Education course Managing Negotiators and the Deal View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 27 Jun 2005
  • Research & Ideas

The Potential Downside of Win-Win

consideration for all managers. Value Creation—and Collusion Suppose that pharmaceutical firm A manufactures a new, beneficial drug and begins selling 100 million pills per year at $3.05 per pill. Each pill costs 5 cents to manufacture,... View Details
Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman