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- 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
- 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
- 19 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019
innovations might impact—and be impacted by—workers, consumers, organizations, and society. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55845 March 2019 Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes Choice... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 27 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 27, 2009
Publisher's Abstract Most organizational change initiatives fail spectacularly (at worst) or deliver lukewarm results (at best). In his international bestseller Leading Change, John Kotter revealed why change is so hard and provided an actionable, eight-step View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
you never have it figured out. Unlike other industries, you can't manufacture endless quantities of the product on a predictable cost curve." As the hunt for oil goes on, even optimists agree that the search will only present more... View Details
- 08 May 2007
- First Look
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
- First Look
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
- 18 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Who Controls Water?
Act is an interesting piece of legislation," said Reinhardt. "The federal government has to do everything it can to reduce the probability of extinction. It's explicitly prohibited in the statute from balancing costs and... View Details
- 14 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 14
multi-level antecedents, mediating processes, and outcomes. We also discuss error management processes such as prevention, resilience, and learning and call for research to expand our currently limited understanding of how these View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 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
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
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
- 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
- 28 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 28, 2010
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-027.pdf Platform Envelopment Authors:Thomas R. Eisenmann, Geoffrey Parker, and Marshall Van Alstyne Publication:Strategic Management Journal (forthcoming) Abstract Due to network effects and switching View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Buy Now, Pay Later: Credit and Information Technology
ratings agencies—and D&B’s predecessor firms in particular—rode a wave of data processing innovations that enabled a marked increase in productivity. Moreover, the success of these early business machines made clear the insatiable demand... View Details
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Finalists | New Venture Competition
cancer. Earthbond Chidalu Onyenso (MBA 2023) Earthbond is a platform that connects urban Nigerians with affordable financing for clean, reliable energy. We leverage group financing and carbon accounting to lower costs and risk in the... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Merton Discusses Risk Management at Dean's Seminar
education may be able to buy a "contract" with a financial institution that will lock in the cost of tuition at today's rates. By making payments to such a contract rather than investing in growth funds, they will be able to avoid the... View Details
Keywords: Elizabeth McNair
- 18 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018
learning capabilities intertwine with managerial cognitive capabilities to support the processes of sensing, seizing, and reconfiguring. We draw from the literature on team learning to develop four categories based on the orientation... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 3
databases). We also show that it reveals the main "flow of control" within the architecture, as denoted by the classification of components into Core, Peripheral, Shared, and Control elements. We analyze the cost of change for a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Big Money for Big Projects
financing requirements—typically north of $500 million. Why study large projects? Because they offer clear examples into the process used by managers to make important financing and structuring decisions, he says. Another reason: Large... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
topics including financing new ventures, deal structuring, valuation, initial public offerings, leveraged buyouts, and financial distress. "Entrepreneurial Finance looks at the acquisition and deployment of resources at each stage of the entrepreneurial View Details