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is intuitive, yet seldom put into practice. Many organizations tend to anchor their pricing decisions on an estimate of unit costs and a target margin or use competitors’ View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Golden State of Mind
Tim Draper (MBA 1984) tells 30 students assembled poolside at Draper University, a seven-week entrepreneurship boot camp targeting 18- to 28-year-olds that he launched in 2012 after purchasing and renovating the vintage 1926 Benjamin...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Producers
innovator Stephen Chao (MBA ’81), hopes to eventually do production and distribution simultaneously. For now, however, Roadside is finding success by venturing where others fear to tread. “We’re surrounded by studios that can outspend us, so we have to find movies that...
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- 01 Sep 2008
- News
The Levitt Brand
30, 1975). “In our very first class he opened my eyes to how people are motivated to make decisions. Before, I thought as an engineer — the best attributes and the best price sells the product. From that day on I focused my attention on...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
the damage is on both sides: employers pay a price in lost productivity and expensive churn. What accounts for these inefficiencies, and what would it take to make low-wage frontline work less of a dead end?Welcome to the Managing the...
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- 14 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Big Money for Big Projects
U.S. targets fell 70 percent from $1,789 billion in 2000 to $539 billion in 2003. The difference with project finance is that it is used to finance long-lived projects, many of which are in the infrastructure sector (power, water,...
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- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
athenahealth "Patients' health information is either on paper and isolated or electronic and isolated," Bush tells the assembled crowd, his voice rising. That this little thing remains so difficult in the Internet age, often because many providers are loath to share...
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- 26 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Best Practices of Global Innovators
"failure" rates to near zero. NewCo, a firm that designs enterprise servers, obtained a different type of benefit. In one recent project, the firm was having difficulty meeting the target cost due to the high View Details
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 24 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 24
1839 and 1939. We find large effects of the prizes on competitive entry and the quality of contemporaneous patents, especially when prize categories were set by a strict rotation scheme, thereby mitigating the potentially confounding effect that they View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
underfunded schools to pay for specific projects and supplies needed by the teachers. “That program was based on a great idea, but it was struggling when we heard about it,” says Ellis. “We gave them advice on pricing and how to build...
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- 15 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 15
preferred ways. The price of output is a crucial determinant of this choice, since it affects the size of the pecuniary benefits: higher prices lead to more integration. Because tariffs increase domestic...
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Sean Silverthorne
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America on the Move - U.S. Competitiveness
leaders in St. Louis, Missouri, developed, along with the Department of Transportation, a community benefits agreement for a $500 million highway project. They decided to dedicate half a percent of the actual budget for the project and use it for View Details
- 19 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 19, 2007
on industry-level targeting to analyze quality FDI based on the subjective preferences expressed by the receiving countries themselves. Finally, we use a two-stage least squares methodology to control for measurement error and...
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Martha Lagace
- 07 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 7, 2009
Strategic Leadership Development. The mission of the CDC is to improve the capabilities of clients' in-house legal departments, such as by making them better partners with the business units and improving their leadership skills. The CDC has adopted an innovative View Details
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Martha Lagace