Activity Based Costing and Management - Publications - Faculty & Research

28 Mar 2019
News

California Alumni Explore Role of Capitalism in Addressing Climate Change

representatives from 12 European-based alumni clubs, provides club leaders the opportunity to share experiences, gain new perspectives, and learn about successful club activities View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

03 Apr 2006
Research & Ideas

The Competitive Advantage of Global Finance

financial settings? How should I measure exposures arising from international operations? What is the appropriate way to think about the cost of capital for the worldwide operations of a single firm? The CFOs that View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services

05 May 2003
Research & Ideas

How Bank of America Turned Branches into Service-Development Laboratories

research. Every potential experiment was entered into an "idea portfolio," a spreadsheet that described the experiment, the process or problem it addressed, the customer segments it targeted, and its status. The team categorized... View Details

Keywords: by Stefan Thomke; Banking; Financial Services

13 Feb 2006
Research & Ideas

The Hidden Market for Babies

those areas of biotechnology that dealt with the basics of human reproduction. So I started to look into this field, and quickly realized just how radical the technology was and how vibrant commercial View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls; Biotechnology; Health; Technology

01 Jun 2004
News

Life Lessons

Africa and as a Bain consultant. She is still actively involved with a Johannesburg home for abused children as a member of its management committee. At HBS, as copresident of... View Details

Keywords: James E. Aisner; Garry Emmons; Julia Hanna; Susan Young; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools

25 May 2020
Research & Ideas

Has Occupational Licensing Outlived Its Usefulness?

variation in licensing stringency across states and occupations, we can evaluate the aggregate costs and benefits of licensing regulation. In our study we take government... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Service

17 Mar 2015
Research & Ideas

Where Did My Shopping Mall Go?

not all equal in facing these threats. While some retailers will manage through this revolution, many will perish. The old strategy of containing shrink and growing incremental store traffic two percent per... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

16 Feb 2004
Research & Ideas

European Private Equity—Still a Teenager?

Oliver Ewald said his firm, Audax Group, has recently made deals on corporate carve-outs that include a digital x-ray manufacturer based in Switzerland and a cryogenic equipment manufacturer in the Czech... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services

22 Jul 2014
News

Hungry for Change

Editor's note: Rob Zeaske was appointed director of the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative in July 2020. Read more. As CEO of Second Harvest Heartland, a hunger-relief organization based in St. Paul, Minnesota, Rob Zeaske (MBA 2002) has a... View Details

Keywords: Agriculture

01 Sep 2006
News

Strange Bedfellows

Publicly reporting taxes paid is a sensible first step in restoring some sanity to these parallel universes. With luck, these strange bedfellows will be productive ones as well. — Mihir A. Desai is the Rock Center Associate Professor in Finance View Details

Keywords: Mihir A. Desai; Government

02 Mar 2016
News

The New Space Race

finally come to aerospace,” says Sunil Nagaraj (MBA 2009), VP at Bessemer Venture Partners (BVP), one of the most active firms investing in the space industry. “It means that parts are cheaper and more... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley

06 Dec 2018
News

Source Code

from every other life form on the planet. (The “old” brain—that lower rear 30 percent—is responsible for more rote behaviors and drives: breathing, heartbeat, reflexes; anger, hunger, sex.) And this is how... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Daniel Hertzberg

01 Mar 2018
News

Case Study: On the Record

Cleary (MBA 2010) and the leadership of investment management startup Alpha Architect were considering launching an affordable, actively managed... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Mar 2023
News

The Latest Model

tracking public funds. The firm’s findings, which were published in September by EY and the Official Monetary and Financial Institutes Forum, indicate that a blockchain-based public finance View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; blockchain; cryptocurrency; economic models; innovation; consulting; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services

27 Mar 2005
Research & Ideas

Should I Pay the Bribe?

suspicious. Q: What countries and corrupt activities have you studied? Have you been particularly surprised by anything you have learned? What trends are you seeing? A: My research does not have a geographic... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia D. Churchwell

Web

IFC: Japan; Exploring Japan's Innovation Ecosystem - Course Catalog

work in small teams to undertake a project with an organization based in the Tokyo area. The course will meet for four on-campus sessions to (1) provide students with a basic understanding of the Japanese innovation ecosystem, (2)... View Details

01 Dec 1996
News

New Releases

Technology Fountainheads by E. Raymond Corey (Harvard Business School Press) As corporate research and development costs rise, many firms choose to participate in R&D; consortia - collaborative ventures with... View Details

18 Nov 2009
HBS Case

Customer Feedback Not on elBulli’s Menu

prepared by Adrià and his team of thirty to forty cooks. The meal costs roughly 230 euros and represents hours of laborious research, testing, View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Food & Beverage

07 Sep 2021
News

Summer Fellowship Recipient is a Changemaker in Tanzania

heart of public services decision making.” That’s why DeBere and Helga Mutasingwa, a doctor and public health professional based in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, cofounded Afya... View Details