Cost Variation - Publications - Faculty & Research

04 Aug 2014
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‘Cowboy Doctors’ May Contribute To High Health Care Costs

30 Aug 2017
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The Surprising Power of Online Experiments

01 Feb 2002
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It's academic. (Not!)

been a great friend. It makes me feel so good to know that my advisor is interested in my career and my well-being." Raman and Ton have been studying retail operation, focusing on an operational execution issue - namely, misplaced products at retail stores - that is... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Sep 2009
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Faculty Research Online

Reporting Standards (IFRS) when others do not? In this working paper, Assistant Professor Karthik Ramanna and MIT Sloan School of Management’s Ewa Sletten examine variations in the decision to adopt the IFRS standards in over 100 non-EU... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

01 Feb 2001
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Drilling Down

on drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and areas offshore, there would be an impact on supply after about eight years or so. That's about how long it would take to bring those fields on line." Global politics holds greatest sway in the short run. "The... View Details

Keywords: Hanna, Julia; Matthew R. Simmons; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining; Natural Gas Distribution; Utilities

01 Sep 2004
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Promise & Perils

very little of the variation in sales growth and margins.” Accordingly, Oberholzer-Gee advised that “it is a not a good idea to dismiss a company’s investment potential because it is in the interior of the country.” Second, the importance... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Apr 1996
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Stewards of the Seventh Generation

and the costs sometimes associated with implementing "green" strategies - strong government regulation at home and abroad will continue to be necessary in order to motivate many businesses to become more environmentally accountable. He... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso, Garry Emmons, Linda Goodspeed, and Elaine Gottlieb

01 Dec 2000
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Latin America's Decade

accordingly. But despite this favorable trend in the business climate, further improvements are urgently needed. HBS professor Pankaj Ghemawat, whose research focuses on cross-border competition, notes, "It's hard to make generalizations about the region, but the high... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons and Julia Hanna; Latin America; research; infrastructure; Hospitality; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

06 Dec 2021
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New Wave

harvest the kinetic energy of tides and waves without falling to pieces or costing an arm and a leg is tricky business, and many have failed in the attempt. “Plenty of systems have ended up on the floor of the ocean,” says Rahul Shendure... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Chris Sorensen

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