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- 15 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 15
http://harvardbusiness.org/search/510030/ Eddie Bauer (A) Harvard Business School Case 110-008 In June 2005, Eddie Bauer, the specialty apparel retailer, emerged from bankruptcy. Under the plan of reorganization former creditors converted their View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Inside Intel
indistinguishable from one another. Fabs 4 and 5 both came online in 1979, each more efficient and more expensive than their predecessors. From humble beginnings, manufacturing was well on its way to becoming one of Intel’s competitive...
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- 16 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 16
reputation concerns, but only if advertisers ultimately figure out when they're getting a bad deal. Legal, administrative, and logistical factors make it difficult to sue even the worst offenders. And sometimes an advertiser's own staff...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 2, 2016
households. The quality of the liquidity services provided by bank liabilities depends on their safety in case of default. Commercial bank debt is fully insured and thus provides full liquidity. However, commercial banks do not...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Local Hero
investors said at the time,” Baer recounts, “ ‘The good news is we just bought the team. The bad news is we just bought the team. What the hell do we do with it?’ ” As a business, the Giants organization was losing around $15 million a...
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- 28 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 28, 2009
show that the same behaviors produce more ethical condemnation when they happen to produce bad rather than good outcomes, even if the outcomes are determined by chance. Our studies show that individuals judge behaviors as less ethical,...
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Martha Lagace
- 26 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Yes, You Can Raise Prices in a Downturn
current "Great Recession"—PACCAR has maintained a price premium and outperformed the S&P 500 by several orders of magnitude. One practice among others that sustains this performance: PACCAR provides a 26-page white paper on its Web site detailing View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
mandatory coverages such as in vitro fertilization) — is more expensive than originally anticipated. Another drawback is that an important cost-cutting feature — comparative-pricing information for services and procedures across cities...
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- 16 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer
to technological race Sometimes content is unreliable (spoof files) Decentralized—makes it hard No anonymity Itunes Strengths Weaknesses Legal Customers must pay for content (relatively expensive at $0.99) Easy to use Restrictions on...
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- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Blissful Thinking
good news: They got everything they wanted,” Brooks said. “Here’s the bad news: They wanted the wrong thing. The result is that they’re not as happy as they could be. We need to teach a class on happiness,” Brooks concluded. A social...
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Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters
- 20 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 20, 2016
strengths and limitations of this method, and address two misconceptions about ABMs: reductionism and “you get out what you put in.” We also offer maxims for good and bad ABMs, give practical tips for beginner modelers, and include a list...
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Carmen Nobel
- 29 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 29
Authors:Michael C. Jensen and William H. Meckling Abstract This paper discusses five common divisional performance measurement methods—cost centers, revenue centers, profit centers, investment centers, and expense centers—while providing...
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Martha Lagace
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
The New Space Race
space.” (courtesy Joseph Landon) Joseph Landon VP and CFO, Planetary Resources “Everything we consider precious on earth is available in limitless quantities in space.” (courtesy Joseph Landon) Which is fine for small satellites, but what about the bigger, more View Details
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Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
location with access to other business and transportation infrastructures; and the unmet needs of eight million households (with $100 billion in retail demand). Businesses can and do thrive in these regions that have often been misconstrued as View Details
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
the district’s solicitor and financial consultant waive fees for refinancing debt from 2014 was rebuffed as agenda-driven by a 20-year veteran of the board. Cognetti’s response: “My agenda is to get us through this crisis and stop any...
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- 01 Dec 2001
- News
September 11: A Community Reflects
significant contribution to the relief effort. After committing $10 million in support, Paulson praised the efforts of others. "We owe a huge debt to our firemen, policemen, rescue workers, doctors, nurses, and others who have done so...
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Susan Young;Deborah Blagg
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
run-of-the-mill company with lots of competitors and doesn’t have hyper-normal margins and doesn’t have a sushi bar or masseurs running around the facility, when they start deciding about affordability, what I believe our research suggests is they look at the View Details
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
Peter really believes that a corporation has a certain role in society. And one of the things that always rubbed him wrong was corporations making big donations and doing marketing around it. And while that wasn’t bad for the nonprofit...
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- Web
Print View - Course Catalog
digital age changing this space? And when businesses generate strong financial returns, does it come at the expense of social impact --- can business play a significant role in addressing social issues? When is an enterprise generating...
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America on the Move - U.S. Competitiveness
only with a smaller checkbook and bad memories. I cross the Charles River dividing parts of Harvard daily via a picturesque, historic, red brick bridge. When several years of stressful reconstruction are finished, we will have (drum...
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