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- 27 Feb 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Hidden Cost of a Product Recall
American emissions tests. Volkswagen estimated that fines, repairs, and legal costs would total more than $30 billion. And worse, the company ceded its command of America’s diesel car market—producing more than one-third of the models... View Details
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HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information
Consolidated Balance Sheet Supplemental Financial Information Supplemental Financial Information Revenues HBS funds its operations with cash from three primary sources: MBA tuition and fees; earned income from Harvard Business Publishing... View Details
- 03 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53161 forthcoming European Accounting Review The Role of Overbilling in Hospitals' Earnings Management Decisions By: Heese, Jonas Abstract—This paper examines the role of overbilling in hospitals’ earnings management... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Better by the Bundle?
Despite this, they found that Nintendo sold the most products when it offered a bundle option—a video game console and a game sold together as one package-—coupled with an option to buy each piece individually. Sales from this "mixed bundling" offering were View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship
Appex’s revenues exceeded $100 million with an order backlog of over $1 billion. It was selected by Business week as the fastest growing private company in the US. Shikhar founded Open Market in 1993. Open Market was one of the pioneering... View Details
- 02 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
Coronavirus Careers: Cloud Kitchens Are Now Serving
The restaurant industry is one of those most devastated by COVID-19, and social distancing will continue to make many small restaurants unviable. Reduced revenue flows will never cover the rent. But not all is lost. In our research, one... View Details
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HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information
Activity & Cash Flows Consolidated Balance Sheet Supplemental Financial Information Supplemental Financial Information Revenues HBS funds its operations with cash from three primary sources: MBA tuition and fees; earned income from... View Details
- 25 May 2021
- Research & Ideas
White Airbnb Hosts Earn More. Can AI Shrink the Racial Gap?
services to e-commerce platforms like eBay and Uber. “If other companies invest in building similar race-blind algorithms, that may even the playing field for users,” Zhang says. Without AI, white hosts earn more Airbnb has faced criticism for disparities in View Details
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HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information
Consolidated Balance Sheet Supplemental Financial Information Supplemental Financial Information Revenues HBS funds its operations with cash from three primary sources: MBA tuition and fees, earned income from Harvard Business Publishing... View Details
- 23 Aug 2006
- Op-Ed
The Real Wal-Mart Effect
the form of lower prices. There is general agreement that Wal-Mart prices are significantly lower than its competitors. Assuming that the company's prices are 8 percent lower—at the low end of the estimates from various studies summarized... View Details
- 07 May 2024
- Blog Post
Opportunity to Offset Travel Emissions with Carbon Credits that Meet HBS Criteria
human health consequences from fossil fuel pollution. This pollution has led to an estimated 8 million deaths in 2018, and disproportionately affects low-income communities and communities of color given where power plants are located.... View Details
- 03 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
Cut Payroll Costs with Transparency, Fairness, and Compassion
2020 has been a challenging year for leaders, their companies, and their employees. When we asked 600 CEOs earlier this year what keeps them awake at night during this global pandemic, many cited the need to reduce expenses, including payroll costs, in response to... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott
- 04 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Schmoozing with the Boss Helps Men Get Promoted
managers who earned higher pay didn’t perform better or work longer hours than those who earned less. The researchers found that higher-paid employees worked a similar number of days and hours, and they brought in similar sales revenue to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
New Medical Devices Get To Patients Too Slowly
associated with being the first product to enter a new device market," concludes Stern. "As you can imagine, that results in a big cost for folks trying to bring new products to market." In fact, Stern conservatively estimates that delay... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
the time. “This is a sad chapter in Cherokee history,” he told the New York Times. “But this is not my Cherokee Nation. My Cherokee Nation is one that honors all parts of her past.” Keen, who traces his own lineage back to James Vann—a powerful Cherokee born in the... View Details
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HBS - The year in Review
global leader in improving the practice of management and its impact in a changing world, growing revenues from approximately $90 million to $270 million. He successfully oversaw the publishing company's Higher Education, Corporate... View Details
- 29 Aug 2023
- News
Helping Consumers Decarbonize their Purchases
where you sit in the middle and there's companies that you're getting information from and that you're highlighting. There's estimates based on these different climate models that you mentioned. You have users on one side and then you... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
A "Growing" Online Community
(MBA '99), aims to help farmers pool their orders so they can make bulk purchases at lower costs. "Everyone thinks that farmers are unsophisticated and have no ideas," Grippo said in the January 5 article "Online Agricultural Sites Sprouting Up around Argentina." He... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
HBS Alumni Contribute to Business and Society
for-profit or nonprofit organizations. “Excluding financial service organizations,” he notes, “HBS founders are responsible for nearly 11 million jobs worldwide, across an estimated 43,000 companies and organizations.” In terms of board... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
A Better Way to Go on Strike
W hen President Clinton imposed a cooling-down period in the American Airlines pilots' strike, he recognized that a strike would impose huge costs on those not involved in the labor dispute - from travelers and airfreight shippers to resorts in Florida and the... View Details