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- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Answering the Call
the value you create.” Illustration by PJ Loughran Hernias R Us Case: Shouldice Hospital Limited Written: 1983 Copies Sold: 240,911 Shouldice Hospital, a Canadian facility that performs hernia operations only, has developed procedures to maximize surgical success... View Details
- 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 cost View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Dec 2009
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First Look: Dec. 15, 2009
David LaneHarvard Business School Case 210-016 Less than a month after the close of the merger between The Bank of New York and Mellon Financial, managers at the two firms realized that plans for combining their asset servicing businesses—and realizing the $180 million... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Dec 2007
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First Look: December 4, 2007
winter. We suggest that the presence of membership fees can lead consumers to infer a "fees -> savings" link, spurring them to increase their spending independent of the actual savings afforded by such clubs. Using both field... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Jun 2025
- News
The Vinyl Revival
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. When Caren Kelleher (MBA 2010) was at HBS, she started managing bands, mainly as a way to stay involved in an industry that she loved. It was right... View Details
- 17 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 2/5
rifles are empowered to occupy a state capitol to oppose public health measures intended to save lives, accost police officers, and intimidate state representatives, but be granted grace, understanding, and space to express their... View Details
- 29 Mar 2023
- News
Supporting Earthquake Victims in Turkey and Syria
saving the lives of 117 of our citizens.” Şen notes that the Koç Group has also donated more than $12.7 million to urgent needs and allocated another $95 million for long-term projects focused on providing shelter, health, and education... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
also apparent that a dollar of earnings generated through business expansion may be an annuity, and perhaps even a growing one, while a dollar gained from cost savings is a one-time improvement, an incremental cash flow that is not... View Details
Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 09 Aug 2011
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First Look: August 9
States, and one deceased donor can save numerous lives by providing multiple organs. Nevertheless, most Americans are not registered organ donors despite the relative ease of becoming one. We study in the laboratory an experimental game... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Business and the Global Poor
there is action. At the same time it would be a wild dream to believe that private sector investment is going to save the world. Unless the appropriate government participates actively as an investor, regulator, or guarantor, there will... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 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
- 15 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018
help senior leaders achieve their goals. Too often, they’re done for short-term gain, but the cost savings are overshadowed by bad publicity, loss of knowledge, weakened engagement, higher voluntary turnover, and lower innovation, which... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 20 Jan 2015
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First Look: January 20
individuals. Financial inclusion could potentially help these individuals by increasing financial literacy, building credit records, improving savings rates, providing access to loans and other financial products, and, in general, by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 3
each other. On the display-ad side, affected newspapers experience a decrease in display-ad rates. We also find evidence that affected newspapers are less likely to make their content available online. Finally, we estimate that Craigslist's entry leads to $5 billion in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Apr 2019
- News
Give It to Me Straight
all these different ways, I'm now having to fire him for it. It was terrible for me. It was, of course, much worse for Bob, and it was really awful for the whole team. But in that moment, I realized it was too late to save Bob. All I... View Details
- 16 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Times Captures History of American Business
older generation, the Baby Boomers, born between 1946 and 1964, struggled to define the next phase of their lives. For many, this meant dealing with the large—sometimes-crippling—losses to their retirement savings wrought by the financial... View Details