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Organize Care Around Medical Conditions - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
outcomes, the IPU needs to have a focus on costs of care delivery and needs to regularly review the costs of the processes of care being utilized. This is best accomplished by regularly reporting care... View Details
- 16 May 2023
- HBS Case
How KKR Got More by Giving Ownership to the Factory Floor: ‘My Kids Are Going to College!’
company set up financial literacy workshops and tied dividends to ongoing financial performance. What makes an ownership mindset? But the payout seemed far off for many, and previous private equity promises had been cheap. Stavros and Bangert wrung their hands over... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 12 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 12, 2016
internalize the social costs of higher leverage in the form of greater bankruptcy losses (moral hazard) and are subject to a regulatory capital requirement. In contrast, shadow bank liabilities are subject to runs and credit risk and thus... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 May 2023
- What Do You Think?
How Should Artificial Intelligence Be Regulated—if at All?
that will relieve humanity of mind-numbing desk work with attendant improvements in quality and reductions in cost and allow people to pursue more creative and interesting work? Or a tool so powerful that it begins to crowd out even the... View Details
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Key Concepts - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Measure Outcomes & Cost for Every Patient Aligning Reimbursement with Value Systems Integration Geography of Care Information Technology Key Concepts Value-based health care is one of the most important topics in health care... View Details
- June 2024
- Article
Redistributive Allocation Mechanisms
By: Mohammad Akbarpour, Piotr Dworczak and Scott Duke Kominers
Many scarce public resources are allocated at below-market-clearing prices, and sometimes for free. Such "non-market" mechanisms sacrifice some surplus, yet they can potentially improve equity. We develop a model of mechanism design with redistributive concerns. Agents... View Details
Akbarpour, Mohammad, Piotr Dworczak, and Scott Duke Kominers. "Redistributive Allocation Mechanisms." Journal of Political Economy 132, no. 6 (June 2024): 1831–1875. (Authors' names are in certified random order.)
- 26 Jul 2016
- Working Paper Summaries
The Impact of the Entry of Biosimilars: Evidence from Europe
- November 1993 (Revised September 2018)
- Case
Rudi Gassner and the Executive Committee of BMG International (A)
By: Linda Hill and Katherine Seger Weber
Explores the roles of CEO Rudi Gassner and the 9-person executive committee in leading BMG International. BMG International is the international music subsidiary of Bertlesmann, a German company that is the second-largest media conglomerate in the world. Describes a... View Details
Keywords: Managerial Roles; Management Teams; Decision Making; Business Plan; Growth and Development Strategy; Global Strategy; Leadership Style; Organizational Culture; Business Subsidiaries; Business Conglomerates; Cost Management; Change Management; Music Industry; Media and Broadcasting Industry; Germany
Hill, Linda, and Katherine Seger Weber. "Rudi Gassner and the Executive Committee of BMG International (A)." Harvard Business School Case 494-055, November 1993. (Revised September 2018.)
- 2021
- Working Paper
The Business of K-12 Education in China
By: Geoffrey Jones and Yuhai Wu
This working paper examines the evolution of K-12 education in China, especially between 1985 and the present day, drawing extensive interviews with participants in the educational sector. China has been hugely successful in reaching almost 100 percent literacy,... View Details
Keywords: K-12 Education; China; Real Estate; Early Childhood Education; Performance Evaluation; Teaching; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Personal Development and Career; Social Issues; Nonprofit Organizations; Private Sector; Education Industry; Real Estate Industry; China
Jones, Geoffrey, and Yuhai Wu. "The Business of K-12 Education in China." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 22-022, October 2021.
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International Students - MBA
Student Loans 101 International Students Tuition Assistance Additional Harvard Funding External Funding Student Loans 101 Domestic Students International Students Evaluating Sponsorships Annual Cost of Attendance Summer Fellowships Career... View Details
- 09 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Unilever—A Case Study
The issue of control is examined, as is the related question of the "stickiness" of knowledge within large international firms. The discussion draws on a case study of the Anglo-Dutch consumer goods manufacturer Unilever, which... View Details
- November 2019
- Case
Hapag-Lloyd AG:Complying with IMO 2020
By: Benjamin C. Esty, Mette Fuglsang Hjortshoej and Emer Moloney
A new environmental regulation known as IMO 2020 was creating what one industry analyst called “the biggest shakeup for the oil and shipping industries in decades.” According to the new regulation, all ocean-going ships would have to limit their sulfur emissions by... View Details
Keywords: Valuation; Ship Transportation; Strategic Planning; Game Theory; Pollutants; Supply Chain; Corporate Accountability; Capital Budgeting; Environmental Sustainability; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Governance Compliance; Shipping Industry; Transportation Industry; Germany
Esty, Benjamin C., Mette Fuglsang Hjortshoej, and Emer Moloney. "Hapag-Lloyd AG: Complying with IMO 2020." Harvard Business School Case 220-003, November 2019.
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Named Fellowship Funds - Alumni
Fellowship Lucinda Bhavsar and Avanish "Av" Bhavsar (both MBA 1997) established this fellowship in honor of their 20th Reunion to provide support to students who would otherwise be unable to afford the cost of an education at the School.... View Details
- August 2018 (Revised April 2019)
- Case
Fair Value Accounting at Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (A)
By: Jonas Heese, Suraj Srinivasan, Francois Brochet and Christine Johnson
In May 2018, Berkshire Hathaway announced an unprecedented loss of more than $1 billion for the first quarter of 2018. Warren Buffett blamed this loss on the new accounting rules for equity securities which he criticized. In the case ‘Fair Value Accounting at Berkshire... View Details
Keywords: Equity Securities; FASB; Fair Value Accounting; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Financial Services Industry
Heese, Jonas, Suraj Srinivasan, Francois Brochet, and Christine Johnson. "Fair Value Accounting at Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (A)." Harvard Business School Case 119-030, August 2018. (Revised April 2019.)
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Health Care - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
stakeholders to agree on a single overarching goal: improving health outcomes for patients while controlling the costs to deliver that care. Competition has failed in health care for the simple reason that... View Details
- 28 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 28, 2009
the situation where waste becomes a source of profit, our research shows that it is almost never optimal to maintain the same operating regime as under the old paradigm where waste was a cost burden and merely convert the existing waste... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Finance - Faculty & Research
higher bond volatility, and, for USD investors, higher FX-FI correlations are associated with stronger hedging. Even after controlling for these correlations, we observe an increase in hedging after the 2008 global financial crisis across... View Details
- 26 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
High-Stakes Decision Making: The Lessons of Mount Everest
control that particular day. Several explanations compete: human error, weather, all the dangers inherent in human beings pitting themselves against the world's most forbidding peak. A single cause of the 1996 tragedy may never be known,... View Details
Keywords: by Michael A. Roberto
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Overview
My focus is empirical financial accounting research, with particular interests in governance, valuation, M&A, and short-sellers. All three of my papers to date fall under the broad heading of “alternative governance mechanisms”—studies of how accounting information is... View Details
- 05 Dec 2023
- Research & Ideas
Are Virtual Tours Still Worth It in Real Estate? Evidence from 75,000 Home Sales
virtual tour can cost as little as $300 or less, or many thousands for realtors willing to hire a professional to photograph a large home. Roughly 22 percent of houses used virtual tours. To break down those listings further, the authors... View Details