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- 14 Feb 2022
- Research & Ideas
Curiosity, Not Coding: 6 Skills Leaders Need in the Digital Age
need to create space for “slow thinking” in a fast-moving world, making time to meditate and reflect on uncomfortable questions or choices. Leaders can’t afford to be lured by quick fixes or the latest “shiny object.” With clear minds,... View Details
- 18 Jun 2024
- Research & Ideas
Central Banks Missed Inflation Red Flags. This Pricing Model Could Help.
explains Cavallo, the Thomas S. Murphy Professor of Business Administration at HBS. “They tend to rely on time-dependent models, which assume a fixed frequency of price changes. Many of them failed to recognize that, given the size of the... View Details
- 01 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
Choosing the Right Student Loan
to the Cost of Attendance less other aid or sponsorship received, which includes tuition and fees as well as other expenses, like housing, food, and health insurance. However, you are never required to borrow the maximum, and we encourage... View Details
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Healthy Outcomes - Managing the Future of Work
outcomes such as higher retention and better engagement. Read the Report Featured Videos Joseph Fuller Why Employers Should Care About the Care Economy Why Employers Should Care About the Care Economy Joseph Fuller Joseph Fuller Measuring the Hidden View Details
- 24 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 24
trends in cost behavior. First, when revenues are growing, "indirect" costs related to sales, distribution, marketing, personnel, technology, and occupancy are far from View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
decision-making via the lessons from the case he wrote about GM's launch of Onstar. Participants left this presentation with an ability to identify and manage the unique challenges all companies face in pursuing new growth beyond their core business. Can Consumers, Big... View Details
- 12 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 12, 2006
the footprint are outsourced—module boundaries are redrawn and interfaces designed for this purpose. The result is an invested capital advantage, which can be used to drive the returns of competitors below their cost of capital. We... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 21, 2008
plus city and industry fixed effects explain between sixty and eighty percent of manufacturing entry. We use spatial distributions of natural cost advantages to address partially endogeneity concerns.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Nov 2021
- HBS Case
How a Company Made Employees So Miserable, They Killed Themselves
Though the company had already reduced its headcount by tens of thousands, its fixed costs remained higher than those of some competitors, so Lombard vowed to cut an additional 22,000 people. To reach its... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
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Biography - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Teisberg), and then through a series of articles including What is Value in Health Care (2010), The Strategy That Will Fix Health Care (2013, with Thomas Lee), and How to Pay for Health Care (2016, with Robert Kaplan), Dr. Porter has... View Details
- 18 Jul 2023
- Research & Ideas
Will Global Demand for Oil Peak This Decade?
Is the globe’s thirst for oil finally topping out? A major international energy watcher says yes, predicting last month that demand for global oil for transport will peak around 2026, plateau for all uses by 2028, and possibly hit a zenith by the end of the decade.... View Details
- 22 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
“Too Big To Fail”: Reining In Large Financial Firms
on specific proposals begin the week of June 22.] Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner's proposals for fixing the broken financial system closely resemble those found in Moss's own playbook. In this instance, the book is a Special Report... View Details
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Managing the Advantages and Tradeoffs of Collaborative Structures
To solve complex problems, organizations must both collect facts and use them to solve problems. In one study, my coauthors and I show that increased connectivity—measured as network... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Game On
that were growing more contentious in communities across the country. And that was part of it, McCarthy acknowledges. “But that’s not what I saw,” he adds. Pickleball players are only getting younger, at least in averages. McCarthy noticed that pickleball plays were... View Details
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Business & Environment - Faculty & Research
transient investors. This result is more pronounced for firms with high growth opportunities, not controlled by a family, operating in 'sin' industries, and exhibiting commitment to IR. I find that the results are robust to the inclusion of firm View Details
- 16 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restaurant Revolution: How the Industry Is Fighting to Stay Alive
restaurants typically purchase without the ability to hedge or otherwise lock in pricing, and so are at the mercy of supply-price fluctuations. A third cost challenge for restaurants is occupancy. Locations are generally leased on a... View Details
- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
Is Performance-Based Pricing the Right Price for You?
is an arrangement in which the seller is paid based on the actual performance of its product or service. It is becoming much more popular. In the advertising industry, agencies had been traditionally paid 15 percent of the cost of the... View Details
- 21 Aug 2013
- Research & Ideas
What Went Wrong at J.C. Penney?
hard to manage costs and shorten the supply chain. That was J.C. Penney historically. ''It was not clear why someone would go there in the face of all the other available options'' But over time, the retailer lost its identity. It was not... View Details
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Strategy and the Internet
complex Internet-based procurement application in just sixty days. As the fixed costs of developing systems decline, the barriers to imitation fall as well. Today, nearly every company is developing similar... View Details
Keywords: by Michael E. Porter
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
in combined revenue and cost savings. Unfortunately, the quantum phenomena that make all this possible are incredibly fragile. The slightest bit of noise—a stray radio wave, an iota of heat—will cause a qubit to tumble out of its quantum... View Details