Costs And Consequences - Publications - Faculty & Research

17 Mar 2021
Research & Ideas

Beyond Pajamas: Sizing Up the Pandemic Shopper

that attract consumers to retailers’ websites. Companies typically have to balance the popularity of these policies in a competitive market with the high costs of managing returns, including shipping and... View Details

Keywords: by Ayelet Israeli, Eva Ascarza, and Laura Castrillo; Retail

February 1999 (Revised July 2004)
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Life as a Minor League CEO Frank Burke and The Chattanooga Lookouts

By: Stephen A. Greyser and Kirk A. Goldman

A "slice of life" depiction of the range of issues and activities experienced by Frank Burke (HBS MBA 1987), the president of a minor league baseball team (the Chattanooga Lookouts). Raises questions of the applicability of MBA skills in this role and the "quotient of... View Details

Keywords: Happiness; Managerial Roles; Entrepreneurship; Business or Company Management; Marketing; Cost Management; Cost vs Benefits; Operations; Sports; Business Education; Sports Industry; Tennessee

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Women, Work, and the “M” Word - Blog: Health Supplement

your workplace (i.e., having a fan on your desk) can significantly increase comfort levels. Small changes, like these, which can be made almost immediately and come at little to no cost can help determine... View Details

20 Mar 2000
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No Place Like Home: America’s Housing Crisis and Its Impact on Business

In many parts of the country, housing costs and shortages have begun to show signs of adversely affecting corporations, workers, and local economies. Affordable housing — such... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Construction; Real Estate

14 Jul 2020
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Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World

not an option, this process helped companies share implementation costs and leverage each other’s competencies to discover new ways of doing things. Some companies took more extreme measures to support their... View Details

Keywords: by Raffaella Sadun, Andrea Bertoni, Alexia Delfino, Giovanni Fassio, and Mariapaola Testa

22 Oct 2019
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Use Artificial Intelligence to Set Sales Targets That Motivate

Setting the right sales targets for employees is a difficult balancing act, with long-term consequences on growth and morale. Setting a target too low, making it easily achievable, might cause an an employee... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

20 Sep 2022
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How Partisan Politics Play Out in American Boardrooms

more balance While predominantly red and blue executive teams may be an unavoidable consequence of the current social and political climate, companies may be able to do... View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds

09 Sep 2024
HBS Case

McDonald’s and the Post #MeToo Rules of Sex in the Workplace

It was a brief dalliance, just a few weeks in length, over text and video only. The end of the affair was nonetheless just the beginning for Stephen Easterbrook, the McDonald’s CEO who went from being hailed as the company’s “savior” by... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman; Food & Beverage

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Emerging from the Pandemic: Insights from South Asia and ASEAN

While HBS delivers the majority of its Executive Education programs in Boston, we conduct research and deliver global leadership programs to serve the needs of executives from all over the world. In her role as regional director of client... View Details

13 Mar 2025
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Launching leaders: HBS's new initiative fuels first-generation and low-income student success

addressing barriers for students from lower socioeconomic backgrounds have included the creation of the First-Generation Students Club, financial wellness programming, and scholarships covering the total View Details

03 Mar 2011
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HBS Faculty on Revolution in the Middle East and North Africa

protestors. The costs and benefits to an individual thinking about getting involved depend in large part on how many other individuals are participating. In autocratic states where retribution against... View Details

Keywords: Re: Deepak Malhotra; Energy; Utilities

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Strategy in Emerging Economies - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

effectiveness and their products are not distinctive. But cost advantages tend to decrease over time, and eventually companies in developing countries will need to address both... View Details

June 2018
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Valuing Snap After the IPO Quiet Period (B)

By: Marco Di Maggio and Benjamin C. Esty

Analyzes Snap’s value and analyst recommendations following the events described in the (A) case. View Details

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08 Mar 2017
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Op-Ed: Can the Proposed American Health Care Act Improve on 'Obamacare'?

value individual freedom, having the ability to answer this question will be seen as a benefit. However, if too many people do indeed opt out of purchasing plans, the potential downside is that, collectively, costs may rise. Risk pools of... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch, Dr. Gordon Moore, and Emily Boudreau

March 2021 (Revised July 2021)
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Aledade

By: Regina E. Herzlinger, Samyukta Mullangi and Nicholas Samonas

To truly supercharge growth, should Aledade take a step back and focus on product development? View Details

Keywords: Health Care; Health Care Costs; Health Care Delivery; Health Care Entrepreneurship; Health Care Industry; Medicare; ACOs; Affordable Care Act (ACA); COVID-19; Health Care and Treatment; Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development Strategy; Product Development; Health Industry; United States

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Challenges and Opportunities in the Restaurant Industry - Course Catalog

interaction of food and labor costs with consumer value. The course may also appeal to future consultants, investment bankers and venture capital/private equity professionals,... View Details

October 2016 (Revised December 2016)
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Strategy Execution Module 6: Evaluating Strategic Profit Performance

By: Robert Simons

This module reading demonstrates how to calculate and analyze the profit generated by different business strategies. Formulas and examples are provided to calculate profit generated by changes in market share, revenue growth, efficiency improvements, and support costs.... View Details

Keywords: Management Control Systems; Implementing Strategy; Execution; Evaluating Business Performance; Profitability Analysis; Variance Analysis; Measuring Effectiveness; Measuring Efficiency; Activity-Based Costing; Flexible Budget; Accounting; Strategy

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01 Dec 1997
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Making Real Progress in the Middle East: The Bottom-Up, Economic Solution

these ventures is competitive advantage and profit. For Israeli companies, cooperation can open up new markets, provide cost-effective outsourcing opportunities, and significantly lower the View Details

Keywords: Michael Porter, Yagil Weinberg, and Noreena Hertz

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Making Seconds Count: When Valuing Time Promotes Subjective Well-being

By: Alice Lee-Yoon and A.V. Whillans

Time is a finite and precious resource, and the way that we value our time can critically shape happiness. In this article, we present a conceptual framework to explain when valuing time can enhance vs. undermine well-being. Specifically, we review the emotional... View Details

Keywords: Time; Happiness; Welfare; Money; Value; Well-being

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