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01 Mar 2011
News

Making Their Way

manufacturing, which is very high-skilled with fluctuating demand. Similarly, with IT, we were first-movers to cloud computing, which saves on fixed IT costs.” Looking ahead, CGM is building on its core strength: family. “Our business... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Rail Transportation; Transportation

02 Oct 2015
News

The ‘F’ Word

government and saved my earnings. Afterward I invested the money to develop a life-saving aviation technology but couldn’t attract resources to commercialize it. I was offered the chance to fly it on the Rutan Voyager (the first aircraft... View Details

Keywords: Walt Disney Studios

08 Jan 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, January 8, 2019

Standardized metrics of cath lab efficiency are proposed, which can be used in public reports on this topic moving forward. Attention is paid to understanding balance sheets to track the financial health of the cath lab. Specific cost-saving measures are described, and... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

18 Apr 2017
First Look

First Look at New Ideas, April 18

business with operating profits of $884 million. The purchase consideration was $14.4 billion. Although the deal was billed as a merger, Ireland-based Tyco effectively acquired U.S.-based Johnson Controls in a tax inversion deal that View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

12 Dec 2006
First Look

First Look: December 12, 2006

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=607010 Note on Health Savings Accounts, Flexible Spending Accounts, and Health Reimbursement Account Vendors Harvard Business School Note 307-034 Purchase this note:... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

Web

The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2025 | Working Knowledge

Perspective-taking and paperbacks Summer reading? You mean, besides the mounds of reports, cases, and digital files on professional topics saved for summer catching up? Every year I vow to plow through these, then find myself gravitating... View Details

10 Jul 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018

increased by 9.4% following the first managerial change. Our results highlight the important complementarities between incentives and management practices, especially in developing countries. A back-of-the-envelope calculation that suggests India could View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

20 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

US Competitiveness at Risk

you've done on firms' location decisions. Could businesses be doing a better job of that? MP: American businesses should be locating certain activities abroad because that makes them more competitive by enabling them to better penetrate international markets. In some... View Details

Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin

02 Mar 2016
News

The New Space Race

space startups, one giant leap for space exploration. Video Embed Blue Origin’s historic November launch. Arianne Cornell is visible at ~1:08, midscreen with binoculars in hand. This promise of cost savings and efficiency has long been... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley

26 Feb 2008
First Look

First Look: February 26, 2008

principal can set its payment delay to deter bad-type agents and to attract solely or primarily good-type agents. Through the savings from excluding bad agents, the principal can increase its profits while offering increased payments to... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

08 Sep 2016
News

How We Make It Work

is a no-brainer in terms of quality of life and money saved over the time your children are in school. I know it’s not easy to do, but spend time researching and if necessary downgrade jobs or move to a different school—you will not... View Details

11 Sep 2012
First Look

First Look: September 11

Churchill and Judah Folkman-and telling the stories of how they came to power and how they made the most important decisions of their lives, Indispensable reveals how, when, and where a single individual in the right place at the right time can View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

07 Sep 2021
News

Increasing Access and Expanding Opportunity

assistance needed to attend for two years, including the ability to partake in all aspects of the MBA experience? Susan Gilbert: It depends on what their expectations are. I think there are a lot of people who come here and think it should be free, and it’s not.... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

01 Sep 2018
News

After the Fall

nature, he says, so “this is about designing a financial system that can save us from our own worst tendencies.” To illustrate, Hanson points to a paper he coauthored with Robin Greenwood that revealed lessons about the mix of firms that... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers; illustration by Dan Bejar; Monetary Authorities-Central Bank; Finance; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

12 Jul 2021
News

Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis

personally transporting several patients to local COVID wards. “Instead of giving people numbers, we do the work for them,” he told India Today. “If someone needs a nebulizer, a medicine or oxygen, we get it to them.” The article goes on to note that Dost has View Details

25 Aug 2022
News

September 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books

preschool, discover F.A.R.T.’s grand plan: a brain modem that can turn kids into well-behaved zombies! This wacky crew has no choice but to find out who’s behind the nefarious organization and save young people the world over. Let’s Be... View Details

13 Dec 2017
News

Skydeck Live: What Really Motivates American Voters?

unbelievable statistics here. 78% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck. Half of Americans save less than $100 a week. 40% of Americans have been in situations in the past couple of months where they literally don't know how they're... View Details

22 May 2020
In Practice

Post-COVID Health Care: More Screens, Less Red Tape?

shared savings and capitated arrangements and away from fee-for-service, they will be better positioned not only to withstand any COVID aftershocks but also to gain patients during the recession. Leemore S. Dafny (@LeemoreDafny) is the... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

19 Jan 2023
News

Forged in Fire

Novartis as a boy, being in an iron lung for a year. He learned he wanted to be a great doctor and then he wanted to use those doctors' gifts to help other people with pharmaceuticals that could save lives. And he did just that. But he... View Details

12 Dec 2017
First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017

a bid to save the planet. The narrative then reaches back to each person’s childhood and shows the individual growing—step by step—into the person he or she will ultimately become. Significantly, as we follow each leader’s... View Details