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- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Venture Capital’s Comeback
our capital so that we can get a return on it. Potentially, we can even garner some strategic advantage from the relationships.” When evaluating offshore deals, cost saving isn’t the primary motivating factor, explains Breyer of Accel... View Details
- 28 Aug 2018
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New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018
savings of 40% versus national brands through the elimination of the BrandTax, the hidden costs the company claimed consumers paid for a national brand. As the venture-funded startup entered the fiercely competitive CPG industry, it was... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
to power a new PA system for the village mosque. “You have to lead from the front,” Khoja says of AKDN’s decision to go against the cultural norm. “These are the things John Kotter taught us in AMP. You’re trying to change the paradigm.” Of course, paying a bribe would... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 25 Apr 2017
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First Look at New Research, April 25
people prefer the action that saves more lives, despite its being more aversive. Our findings shed light on the formation of moral judgment under normative conflict, the conditions for preference reversal, and the potential polarization... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Sep 2012
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First Look: September 5
shared about 640 now-documented good practices. In 2007, the strategic importance of saving time in a decentralized organization through adoption of colleagues' good practices was put to a test. Should the knowledge management tools be... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jul 2010
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First Look: July 13
offered. While significant cost savings goals would be realized in part through employee layoffs, he wondered about ITG's ability to deal with these changes. Adjusting its customer portfolio meant that ITG would be pulling back products... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Yes, You Can Raise Prices in a Downturn
truck. You can input fuel costs, "tire rolling" coefficients, and vehicle weight to quantify the savings of a PACCAR truck versus lower-price alternatives. You can do the same for resale value by individual truck specification... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Money Matters
unique to India before iTrust launched. “It would have saved a lot of time and emotional energy,” he writes. The Upside of the Economic Downturn Given a choice, Agarwala and Varma probably would have kept their day jobs had they foreseen... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
“literally saved my life.” When Andre Bastien became self-employed, he and his wife, Gabrielle Rene, found a plan through the Connnector that was superior to what they had had before. Not long afterward, Bastien, experiencing chest pains,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
(Palantir Press) Tōru: Wayfarer Returns is an alternate history of the tumultuous period from the opening of Japan in 1853 to the Meiji Restoration in 1868. The hero of this fictional account is Tōru, a shipwrecked young fisherman rescued by traders and taken to... View Details
- 26 Sep 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017
promising source of potential savings for other segments of the commercial insurance market. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53250 September 14, 2017 Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin From... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
Post·cook·ie (adj.) Cookies—those bits of data that track online browsing history and save your passwords—aren’t going anywhere. But third-party cookies that allow a shoe advertisement to follow you from page to page will become a thing... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Supercharged
purchasing and infrastructure management makes it easier to manage costs efficiently. Moreover, while electric buses can carry heftier price tags than gas-guzzlers, their lower operating costs pay off in the long term: Proterra estimates that one of its battery-powered... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017
techniques presented in them. Fifty-Five, Unemployed, and Faking Normal: Your Guide to a Better Retirement Life by Elizabeth White (MBA 1988) (EDWhite) You’re in your fifties and sixties and haven’t saved nearly enough to retire. You want... View Details
- 19 Mar 2015
- News
Walter Salmon Remembered
1967) You might say Walt saved my career. Much in ego-building demand, I accelerated out of the Harvard Economics PhD program, where I had loaded my brain with monetary policy, Keynes versus Friedman, mathematical macro-modeling and lots... View Details
- 01 Nov 2011
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First Look: Nov. 1
the Del Monte shareholders. Laster saved his most severe criticism for Barclays, suggesting that, among other things, it had misled its client's board. Purchase this supplement:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/312004-PDF-ENG In a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Apr 2007
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First Look: April 17, 2007
restructured, and whether he could find some means of saving the company in time. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=707473 Edelnor (B) Harvard Business School Supplement 707-530 Supplements... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Fixing Corporate Governance: A Roundtable Discussion at Harvard Business School
from this short-term fixation. Palepu: Through tax deferments on pension money, society is giving tax breaks so that people can save and invest for the long term. And so one idea that has been proposed is that, because the government is... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 14 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
Celebrating Love @ HBS in 2021
story that involves me awkwardly introducing myself on a dance floor in DC. Perhaps, Daniel is saving me from embarrassment. Little did I know in that moment my life would change forever.Daniel was a junior at Harvard College, and I had... View Details
- 09 Jun 2017
- News
Curating the Cuisine of Southwest China
seeing? So I decided to do the same. I saved some money by giving private English lessons and I traveled back to the Dali myself that year. April White: So tell me a little bit more about Dali. Obviously, you had a perspective on it and... View Details