Cost vs Benefits - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Mar 2012
News

Get Creative

about relative advantage, you can achieve it several ways. You can provide more benefits for the same cost, the same benefits for less cost, or a lot more benefits for slightly... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

12 Aug 2008
Op-Ed

Google-Yahoo Ad Deal is Bad for Online Advertising

receive far lower payments. Other Google practices, particularly Google's restrictions on export and copying of advertisers' campaigns, further hinder competition in Internet advertising-without any countervailing benefit whatever. Google... View Details

Keywords: by Benjamin G. Edelman; Advertising; Publishing

August 2022
Supplement

Atlanta Ransomware Attack (B)

By: Amit Goldenberg and Julian Zlatev

This case describes the March 2018 Ransomware attack on the information technology (IT) systems of the city of Atlanta and the response by Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms and her administration. The case includes a brief background on Bottoms and her young administration at... View Details

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24 Jan 2012
First Look

First Look: Jan. 24

create net benefits for society but would also involve costs frequently lack the necessary support to be enacted because losses loom larger than gains psychologically. To reduce the harmful consequence of... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

16 Dec 2020
News

A Creator in the Era of Disruption

but the communities needed a lot more than loans. The loans were just the beginning. They needed the ability to just buy things that weren't available. Simple things like pots could cost twice what they would in another place. They didn't... View Details

25 Jul 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: July 25, 2017

rates, deal premiums, and completion rates in the UK, relative to the other European G-10 countries. We find that M&A deal volumes in the UK declined significantly in the aftermath of the 2011 Reforms, relative to deal volumes in the European G-10 countries. We... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

23 Sep 2019
Blog Post

Distressed Employees? Try Resilience Training

Every year depression affects one in every five employees and costs American businesses $210 billion in medical bills and lost productivity. In fact, for every worker with a depressive disorder, a company loses an average of 32 productive... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

24 Aug 2017
News

Unlocking Potential

Northern California, to help Reset create employer partnerships and engage corporate support. Elaine MacDonald (MBA 1998), executive director of HBS Community Partners for Northern California, says the project benefitted both the... View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli; Community Partners; Legal Services; Professional Services

06 Dec 2021
News

Tipping Point

Kenyan coffee farm. The price of coffee beans on the global market is under $1 a pound, while the actual cost to produce that pound is between $1.62 and $2. The coffee farms are profitable only when they rely on free labor, typically from... View Details

Keywords: April White; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Mar 2011
News

Two Kinds of Green

while effective, are the “low hanging fruit” in meeting sustainability goals. “Going those last few yards to become 100 percent waste-free costs much more than the earlier steps,” agrees HBS’s Marquis. “The marginal economic View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; natural products company; Miscellaneous Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

16 Dec 2002
Lessons from the Classroom

Marrying Distance and Classroom Education

together that would be like a network that would come together in a larger sense. You could handle some of the face-to-face dynamics and get the benefits of some of that but also some of the benefits of the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

13 May 2019
Research & Ideas

The Unexpected Way Whistleblowers Reduce Government Fraud

more risk in projects by limiting their use of “cost-plus” agreements, which make it easier to overcharge government agencies, according to researchers. This renegotiation of contractual terms allows the agency to hedge its bet with a suddenly risky contractor while... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Service; Construction

02 Oct 2008
What Do You Think?

Workout vs. Bailout: Should Government Take Advantage of the Buffett Effect?

to have cost citizens about $200 billion, a sum that went to those who were more expert at determining value than the government's representatives. The proposal would have immediate effects, but they might not be as noticeable to "Main... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

03 Oct 2005
What Do You Think?

What’s the Future of Globally Organized Labor?

competency and its ability to move up the value chain that will allow it to share the positive gains. If labor tries the old tactic of strikes, management will just outsource the staff from somewhere else ... " Globally organized labor may View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

17 Oct 2019
News

Venturing Away from Venture Capital

potential to return their entire fund through acquisition or IPO. In the process, she says, VCs can be “forced to make investment decisions that don’t benefit the company, the entrepreneur, or the entrepreneurial landscape.” For example,... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand

01 Mar 2018
News

Case Study: On the Record

well as speed. My read is that solving the supply chain issues around the resin using scarce money and time will not necessarily create a sustainable advantage, because competitors will also benefit from more efficiency in that part of... View Details

Keywords: April White

03 Apr 2007
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First Look: April 3, 2007

Periodical:Duke Journal of Gender Law and Policy (forthcoming) Abstract This essay aims to address the costs and benefits of constraining cultural displays in the workplace on legal, business, and moral... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

16 Dec 2014
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First Look: December 16

benefits are at most partially realized. The same institutions and practices that facilitate efficient ad placement can also facilitate fraud. The networks that should be serving advertisers have decidedly mixed incentives, such as View Details