General Strategy - Publications - Faculty & Research

03 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty on Supreme Court Health Care Ruling

employers as varied as Medtronic, Exxon, General Mills and Whole Foods, all of which are self-insured, have already moved forward with such systems, and their rewards are reflected in the lower cost of employee health care and higher... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty; Health

05 Jun 2006
Research & Ideas

Using Competition to Reform Healthcare

Business Around Medical Conditions The starting point for developing strategy in any field is to define the relevant business or businesses in which an organization competes. Health care delivery is no different. Health care providers do... View Details

Keywords: by Michael E. Porter; Health

06 Feb 2006
Research & Ideas

Sorting Out the Patent Craze

pulling out and demanding large royalties on their patent. Standard setting bodies can limit these "opportunism" problems. Q: You discuss a couple of interesting issues with regard to SSOs: "Real authority" and "Sponsor View Details

Keywords: by Sara Grant; Technology

18 Jul 2024
Research & Ideas

New Hires Lose Psychological Safety After Year One. How to Fix It.

employees that their thoughts are welcome—and that includes inviting people to push back on a company’s strategies when they disagree with plans or recognize flaws. “You are training people to contribute by constantly asking questions:... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

27 Jan 2009
First Look

First Look: January 27, 2009

is found when the regression is run on data generated by a calibrated version of our theoretical model. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-080.pdf Dirty Work, Clean Hands: The Moral Psychology of Indirect Agency... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

31 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

The Dow at 20,000: What's That All About?

you see as some of key factors that led to this? Luis Viceira:The Dow is an index that has traditionally included the largest companies traded in the US stock market. Its growth since its inception reflects the growth and profitability of these companies and more View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

26 Feb 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019

forthcoming Management Science Frenemies in Platform Markets: Heterogeneous Profit Foci as Drivers of Compatibility Decisions By: Adner, Ron, Jianqing Chen, and Feng Zhu Abstract— We study compatibility decisions of two competing platform owners that View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

29 Oct 2013
First Look

First Look: October 29

Getting to Yes by Roger Fisher, William Ury, and Bruce Patton and the hard-bargaining style of Herb Cohen's You Can Negotiate Anything. Now Michael Wheeler provides a dynamic alternative to one-size-fits-all strategies that don't match... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

08 Jan 2020
Research & Ideas

NFL Head Coaches Are Getting Younger. What Can Organizations Learn?

Post article, a mindset shift has occurred among owners and general managers responsible for hiring coaches: They are starting to embrace innovative offensive tactics, and to empower head coaches who can implement them. “For years,”... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Evan M.S. Hecht, and Abhijit Naik; Sports

20 Jan 2010
First Look

First Look: Jan. 20

self-report of a licensee. Self-reporting gives rise to demand for auditing by the licensor or third-party attestation by the licensee. We characterize the optimal royalty contract, accounting system choice by the licensee, and audit View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

12 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019

states were able to build with religion have generated long-term repercussions. Fatefully, both state policies that seek to facilitate equality through the recognition of religious difference and state policies that seek to eradicate such... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

15 Aug 2005
HBS Case

Classic Cases Live On at HBS

was still a low-cost producer. HBS professor emeritus Norm Berg, who developed the case along with research assistant Norman Fast (HBS DBA '77), was at the time course head of Business Policy, the School's required general management... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

26 Jan 2016
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January 26, 2016

highly consistent with that of the pre-fee aggregate private equity index. The passive replicating strategy represents an economically large improvement in risk- and liquidity-adjusted returns over direct allocations to private equity... View Details