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- 24 Nov 2014
- Research & Ideas
Corrupting Silence: Companies Must Speak Up Against Bribes
million bribe to secure the $1.3 billion contract to construct the McGill University Health Centre in Montreal. The company billed the Quebec government for $191 million in cost overruns, for which it is unlikely to be reimbursed. In...
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by Michael Blanding
- 04 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
Don’t Lose Money With Customers
managing customer relationships in the business-to-business environment into four distinct phases: defining and building a portfolio of customers the firm wants to serve, crafting and implementing relationship-management strategies, monitoring the status and View Details
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by Peter K. Jacobs
- March 2007 (Revised December 2007)
- Background Note
Alleviating Poverty and Malnutrition: Successful Models
By: Ray A. Goldberg, Laura Winig and Kerry Herman
Provides successful models of private-public sector cooperatives in alleviating poverty and malnutrition.
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Business Model;
Nutrition;
Cooperative Ownership;
Business and Government Relations;
Non-Governmental Organizations;
Poverty;
Welfare
Goldberg, Ray A., Laura Winig, and Kerry Herman. "Alleviating Poverty and Malnutrition: Successful Models." Harvard Business School Background Note 907-412, March 2007. (Revised December 2007.)
- December 2008 (Revised April 2010)
- Case
Proteus Biomedical: Making Pigs Fly
By: Richard G. Hamermesh, Lauren Barley and Ginger Graham
Proteus is a healthcare start-up that has developed technology to embed electronics for computing and sensing in existing medical devices and drugs. The technology could potentially change the basis of competition in the pharmaceutical industry. The company is...
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Business Startups;
Entrepreneurship;
Technological Innovation;
Rights;
Negotiation Deal;
Business Strategy;
Health Industry;
Health Industry;
Health Industry
Hamermesh, Richard G., Lauren Barley, and Ginger Graham. "Proteus Biomedical: Making Pigs Fly." Harvard Business School Case 809-051, December 2008. (Revised April 2010.)
- 29 Jan 2015
- Op-Ed
The Fall of Greece
allocated in competitive markets) is far superior to a centrally planned economy where the means of production are controlled by the political process. And the superiority does not come only in terms of economic growth, but also employment, access to View Details
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by George Serafeim
- 13 May 2014
- Op-Ed
The Alibaba Effect
ago. It has done more for China's small- and medium-sized enterprises than any government policy, ministry, or bank. Alibaba's only limits are those imposed by the speed at which these enterprises continue to grow. Health and welfare...
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- 12 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 12
simple, easy-to-use tools that provide a relatively reliable, inexpensive way to confirm diagnoses of malaria. In addition to ensuring that patients' febrile illnesses are properly diagnosed and treated, confirming malaria diagnoses has broader public View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 29
defining societal issue of the 21st century. The debate over “who gets what’ underlies policy debates ranging from taxation to health care to wages and permeates society at all levels, attracting increasing interest from policymakers,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jul 2015
- Op-Ed
The Future of the Greek Economy
government needs to reach an agreement with creditors as soon as possible. Every day that goes by, it is getting closer to going back to the drachma or striking a worse deal with its creditors. As the economic health of Greece...
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- 14 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 14
physical assets (such as health records); combining data within and across industries (to, say, coordinate supply chains); trading data (as mobile providers do with information on users' whereabouts); and codifying best-in-class...
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Sean Silverthorne
- June 2024
- Case
SnapTravel: Betting on 'Super.com'
By: Reza Satchu and Tom Quinn
This case explores SnapTravel, a travel startup offering discounted hotel rooms, and its founders’ desire to pivot to a “super app” that saved customers money across many different purchase types. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Hussein Fazal and Henry Shi saw SnapTravel...
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Business Growth and Maturation;
Business Plan;
Business Startups;
Change Management;
Disruption;
Transformation;
Volatility;
Customer Focus and Relationships;
Customer Value and Value Chain;
Decisions;
Income;
Entrepreneurship;
Geographic Scope;
Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues;
Health Pandemics;
Surveys;
Knowledge Acquisition;
Knowledge Use and Leverage;
Leading Change;
Crisis Management;
Goals and Objectives;
Risk Management;
Consumer Behavior;
Game Theory;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Adaptation;
Diversification;
Expansion;
System Shocks;
Accommodations Industry;
Technology Industry;
Canada;
United States;
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- 11 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
Economic Jitters Push Pandemic Job Seekers to Big Companies, Not Startups
when researchers excluded applicants from California and Massachusetts, two geographic areas with a higher concentration of tech and health tech startups than the rest of the nation. In fact, more experienced job seekers pivoted their job...
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by Rachel Layne
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Value Judgments: Business Ethics Across Borders
such as support for schools, health centers, sewage disposal, and forest preservation — to be socially responsible within that setting." A series of cases on the Haier Group describes a Chinese refrigerator and white goods maker...
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by Judith A. Ross
- 28 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
Earth Day Reflections
opportunity to engage in a virtual dialogue on these matters. Some major corporations are starting to take the lead in this effort, including United Technologies Corporation, Philips (the Dutch electronics and health care giant), the...
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by Staff
- 21 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 21
9001 Quality Management System standard predicts changes in organizational outcomes such as profits. This is the first large-scale study to explore how employee outcomes such as employment, earnings, and health and safety change when...
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Martha Lagace
- 03 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 3
employees are more likely to speak up and offer solutions when organizations launch information campaigns to promote process improvement and when managers engage in process-improvement activities themselves. We test our hypotheses in the View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 17 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 17
failed to institute a ban on serving sizes of large sugary beverages. Obesity posed a large public health risk to the city. Mayor Bloomberg's proposed ban was one of many attempts to combat the rising threat of obesity. The case discusses...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 23
staff, and graduate students affiliated with Harvard Medical School are already world class and at the top of the medical research game, with approximately $1.4 billion in annual funding from the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH)....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 20
is a network of successful private health clinics that primarily serve middle-income populations but which have the potential to reach low-income markets. On what basis should Acumen decide whether or not to invest? What performance...
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Martha Lagace
- 05 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
In Praise of Marketing
messages to those who are not interested in their products or services. It is now possible for chief marketing officers to calculate return on marketing investment and to report regularly to the corporate board progress against three or four brand and consumer View Details