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  • Research Summary

Reverse Innovation

VG and Chris Trimble reveal a bold discovery with far-reaching implications in REVERSE INNOVATION: Create Far From Home, Win Everywhere (Harvard Business Review Press; April 10, 2012;... View Details

  • 14 Jun 2016
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June 14, 2016

the High Intensity Workplace: An 'Always Available' Culture Breeds a Variety of Dysfunctional Behaviors By: Reid, Erin and Lakshmi Ramarajan Abstract—People today are under intense pressure to be “ideal workers”—totally committed to their... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • January 2018
  • Case

John Rogers, Jr.—Ariel Investments Co.

By: Steven Rogers and Greg White
John Rogers Jr., the founder and CEO of Ariel Investments, an enormously successful finance firm with $12 billion of invested capital, is one of the few African Americans in the asset management industry. As one of the high profile leaders in the black business... View Details
Keywords: Advocacy; Diversity; Investment Management; Affirmative Action; Disruption; Cost vs Benefits; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Fairness; Moral Sensibility; Values and Beliefs; Corporate Accountability; Leading Change; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Problems and Challenges; Financial Services Industry; Chicago
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  • December 2021
  • Case

Danish Crown: Feeding the Future

By: David E. Bell, Damien P. McLoughlin, Daniela Beyersdorfer and Mette Fuglsang Hjortshoej
Danish Crown, one of the world’s largest exporters of pork meat and one of Europe’s top five producers of beef, faced increasing headwinds in 2021, making CEO Jais Valeur feel like the core of the meat business was under attack. As a cooperative and prominent player in... View Details
Keywords: Agribusiness; Animal-Based Agribusiness; Food; Environmental Management; Climate Change; Environmental Sustainability; Nutrition; Cooperative Ownership; Change Management; Transition; Leadership; Leading Change; Marketing; Product Marketing; Corporate Strategy; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Europe; Denmark
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  • 09 Nov 2012
  • Working Paper Summaries

Securities Litigation Risk for Foreign Companies Listed in the US

Keywords: by Beiting Cheng, Suraj Srinivasan & Gwen Yu
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Faculty & Research

for democratic legitimacy. Building on a simple cost-benefit model of voting, we then review (quasi)-experimental work studying the effects of voting procedures and of other election rules. Voting procedures (which determine how people vote) primarily affect the View Details
  • 17 Dec 2007
  • Research & Ideas

The Rise of Medical Tourism

Patients with resources can easily go where care is provided. "Historically doctors moved from Africa and India to London and New York to provide care. Now we are basically flipping it around and saying, 'Why don't the patients move? It's not as difficult as it... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health; Medical Devices & Supplies
  • August 2018
  • Article

An Introduction to the Competition Law and Economics of 'Free'

By: Benjamin Edelman and Damien Geradin
Many of the largest and most successful businesses today rely on providing services at no charge to at least a portion of their users. For consumers, it is easy to celebrate free service. At least in the short term, free services are often high quality, and users find... View Details
Keywords: Cost; Quality; Competition; Economics
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  • March 1994 (Revised August 1997)
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Raychem Corp.: Interconnection Systems Division

By: Clayton M. Christensen
Describes the highly successful efforts of a management team to turn around the performance of a $30 million Raychem division that manufactures electronic connectors. The original manufacturing system was a batch operation, with a broad product line, high inventories,... View Details
Keywords: Cost Management; Time Management; Production; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Success; Performance; Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Electronics Industry
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  • 22 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 22

equal or greater positive impact on their own happiness, is also presented. Publisher's link: http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/rudd%20aaker%20norton_f755239e-42e7-41ed-9ee0-76e85c19445d.pdf   Working Papers High School... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 31 Jan 2012
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First Look: Jan. 31

negative emotions, lower intrinsic motivation, and less favorable perceptions of the organization-with negative consequences for performance. These actions include signaling low expectations for innovation; switching strategic direction... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel
  • May 2017
  • Article

Experimental Evidence of Pooling Outcomes Under Information Asymmetry

By: William Schmidt and Ryan W. Buell
Operational decisions under information asymmetry can signal a firm's prospects to less-informed parties, such as investors, customers, competitors, and regulators. Consequently, managers in these settings often face a tradeoff between making an optimal decision and... View Details
Keywords: Behavioral Decision Research; Information Asymmetry; Signaling; Decision Choices and Conditions; Alignment
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  • April 2017
  • Supplement

Imprimis (C)

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Karen Elterman and Marc Appel
This case is a supplement to Imprimis (A & B). Set in 2015, it first describes Imprimis’s decision to introduce its own line of compounded eye drop medication called LessDrops. The case then examines the moral dilemma faced by CEO Mark Baum, who was struck by the... View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Cost; Moral Sensibility; Competitive Strategy; Decision Choices and Conditions; Pharmaceutical Industry; United States
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    Benjamin C. Esty

    Benjamin Esty is the Roy and Elizabeth Simmons Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Over the years, he has taught a variety of courses ranging from advanced corporate finance and project finance to competitive strategy and leadership. He... View Details

    Keywords: banking; asset management; investment banking industry; consumer products; shipping; wine; financial services
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    The Role of Institutions in Overcoming Imperfect Monitoring in Relational Contracting (with Carmit Segal)

    In a world in which firms can be hit by transitory adverse shocks it may be too costly for any single worker to verify the true state of the world. In this case, it may not be possible for firms to lower wages in response to adverse shocks and still have the workers... View Details
    • 2024
    • Working Paper

    Capital Market Integration and Growth across the United States

    By: Leonardo D'Amico and Maxim Alekseev
    What drives the integration of national financial markets and what are its consequences for regional growth? We digitize and collect US state-level banking data from 1953 to 1983 and document a tight link between high nominal short rates and financial integration,... View Details
    Keywords: Interest Rates; Financial Markets; Economic Growth; Banks and Banking; Analytics and Data Science
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    • 23 Feb 2011
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    First Look: Feb. 23

    Hospitals have the option of enrolling only their hard-to-match patient-donor pairs, while conducting easily arranged exchanges internally. This behavior has already started to be observed. We show that the cost of making it individually... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • June 2020
    • Supplement

    RBC: Transforming Transformation (B)

    By: Ethan Bernstein, Francesca Gino and Aldo Sesia
    In 2017, the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC), a Canadian financial icon, mandated a swat team of “enablers of collaboration” (their job description) to support the personal and commercial bank in the enterprise-wide RBC Cultural Transformation initiative. Historically,... View Details
    Keywords: Service Delivery; Information Technology; Transformation; Change Management; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Management; Decision Making; Human Resources; Management Systems; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Groups and Teams; Management Teams; Banking Industry; Financial Services Industry; Canada
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    • 24 Jul 2006
    • Research & Ideas

    How Kayak Users Built a New Industry

    forms: It can be time and effort, knowledge, or money. But the cost has to be reasonably low, and the perceived psychic reward to the user has to be high enough to justify the cost. Perceived rewards are... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Entertainment & Recreation
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    Find Answers - MBA

    unformatted version of the final document. Is there an application fee and can it be waived? There is a nonrefundable application fee (credit card only) of $250 (USD)* for the MBA application and a reduced $100 (USD) fee for the 2+2 deferred admissions application to... View Details