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  • 1998
  • Journal Article

Ford's Model-T: Pricing over the Product Life Cycle

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell
The pricing decisions monopolistic firms make over time are determined to a large extent by the complex interplay of two distinct sets of elements: demand- and supply-based considerations. Demand factors include the possibilities of (a) exercising dynamic price... View Details
Keywords: Experience and Expertise; Decisions; Forecasting and Prediction; Cost; Price; Information; Demand and Consumers; Monopoly; Product; Sales; Complexity; Auto Industry
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  • 16 Aug 2018
  • Blog Post

A Day in the Life as a ‘Spreadsheet Ranger’

Olivia Staffon, MBA 2019, shares a day in the life during her summer internship at the National Park Service, Dinosaur Park. Her project is focused on evaluating opportunities for sharing operational resources such as equipment, labor, or... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
  • 03 Mar 2017
  • News

Why We Don’t Value Flextime Enough

  • 15 Feb 2022
  • News

When Working Harder Doesn’t Work, Time to Reinvent Your Career

  • 30 Jul 2019
  • Blog Post

Leadership That Defines you – Reflecting on my Time at HBS

life begins, I wanted to take some time to reflect on the takeaways this journey has instilled in me.  1. "Develop questions, not answers, from every class." In September of 2017, HBS Professor... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2001
  • News

Christina Ehrenberg: The Examined Life

tiny island where the people, despite their poverty, valued generosity over possessions. The hospital was little more than a hut, and patients slept on the floor. It was essential, rudimentary medicine, a stark contrast to my experience... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Health, Social Assistance
  • 01 Dec 2016
  • News

Recognizing the Value Proposition

of his 50th Reunion that he hopes will be focused on the intersection of business and life sciences. McCance is well versed in investing in good ideas and is particularly interested in how business skills can be used to tackle society’s... View Details
  • 29 Aug 2018
  • News

The Value of Valleys

that stage, and was there any value in staying back to complete the task? Which is done more out of loyalty and a sense of duty rather than necessarily the best career progression plan. I think that a life... View Details
  • January 2013 (Revised April 2015)
  • Case

Affinity Labs: Valuing Customer Growth

By: Joseph B. Lassiter III and Elizabeth Kind
In November 2006, Chris Michel left Military.com, which he founded in 1999, to start Affinity Labs, a global network of online communities. That month, Michel raised a Series A round of venture funding and established a partnership with Monster, which he had sold... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Demand and Consumers; Partners and Partnerships; Social and Collaborative Networks; Online Technology
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  • 29 Aug 2005
  • Research & Ideas

How Organizations Create Social Value

A recent study on the factors that contribute to successful high-performance social enterprises finds a connection between enterprises that link economic value with social value. This was the focus of a study presented at the colloquium,... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
  • Article

A Blueprint for Pharmacy Benefits Managers to Increase Value

By: William Shrank, Michael E. Porter, Sachin H. Jain and Niteesh K. Choudhary
Pharmacy benefits managers (PBMs) have a unique opportunity to promote public health and generate value in the healthcare system. However, PBMs are largely evaluated on their ability to control costs rather than improve health. PBMs should be evaluated along three... View Details
Keywords: Opportunities; Health; System; Cost Management; Partners and Partnerships; Motivation and Incentives; Value; Innovation and Invention; Performance Effectiveness; Health Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry
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  • 07 Mar 2007
  • Research & Ideas

How Do You Value a “Free” Customer?

Businesspeople understand that not all customers are created equal—the 80-20 rule suggests that over time a small percentage of a company's customer base can generate a high percentage of its sales and profit. Models for calculating... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Web Services
  • March–April 2025
  • Article

Getting Value from Digital Technologies

By: Frank Cespedes and Georg Krentzel
Companies need digital technologies in an omni-channel buying world where online and in-person interactions are complements, not either/or substitutes. Multi-channel hybrid sales solutions are required, but what are the key requirements for using the available... View Details
Keywords: Sales; Technology Adoption; Competitive Advantage
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  • 05 Oct 2016
  • News

Harvard to Open Life Sciences Lab

The Life Lab will house approximately 20 ventures at a time with high-potential ventures founded and led by Harvard faculty, alumni, students and postdoctoral scholars. Ventures typically would comprise two... View Details
Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services; Scientific Research and Development Services
  • March 2022 (Revised April 2022)
  • Case

MTN: Unlocking Value While Driving Socioeconomic Progress

By: Benjamin C. Esty, Pippa Tubman Armerding and Dilyana Karadzhova Botha
On March 10, 2021, Ralph Mupita the new CEO of MTN Group, Africa's largest telecommunications company, presented the group’s 2020 annual results and unveiled a new strategy to “drive growth and unlock value.” Despite MTN’s leadership in most of its markets, the... View Details
Keywords: Decision Making; Goals and Objectives; Valuation; Emerging Markets; Business Strategy; Financial Management; Information Technology; Corporate Finance; Telecommunications Industry; Africa; South Africa; Ghana; Nigeria
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  • 30 Jan 2019
  • Blog Post

The Life and Role of a CEO

recommendations on the company’s most crucial issues. After every such meeting, I always wondered “what is it like to be a CEO, having multiple rounds of these meetings every single day?”  “The Life and Role of the CEO”, one of the Short... View Details
  • 07 Sep 2006
  • Working Paper Summaries

Optimal Value and Growth Tilts in Long-Horizon Portfolios

Keywords: by Jakub W. Jurek & Luis M. Viceira
  • May 2011 (Revised March 2012)
  • Case

Nanda Home: Preparing for Life after Clocky

By: Elie Ofek and Jill Avery
Gauri Nanda, the inventor of Clocky, the alarm clock that rolls off the bed stand and forces its owner to find it, has to make critical decisions regarding the future of her nascent company. As sales of Clocky show signs of declining, she must decide whether to... View Details
Keywords: Brands and Branding; Management; Electronics Industry
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  • 24 Aug 2009
  • Research & Ideas

SuperCorp: Values as Guidance System

guide. Clear articulation of values and principles helps employees choose among alternatives in a consistent manner. "One Cemex, we are only one Cemex," CEO Lorenzo Zambrano declared to me. The Mexican company is one of the... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
  • 11 Apr 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Adding Time to Activity-Based Costing

the 1980s, with time dimension modifications introduced by Anderson for clients of Acorn Systems. We asked Kaplan to describe the problems with traditional costing approaches, the improvements made by TDABC, and how it works with the... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert