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- February 2019 (Revised November 2021)
- Case
MoviePass
By: Willy Shih
Mitch Lowe, the CEO of MoviePass, was having trouble convincing people of the viability of the company's business model. The company was building a multi-sided platform and was planning to extract value from increasing traffic to movie theaters through a number of...
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Keywords:
Start-up;
Start-up Growth;
Start-ups;
Business Model Innovation;
Business Model;
Innovation and Invention;
Multi-Sided Platforms;
Business Startups;
Planning;
Motion Pictures and Video Industry;
United States
Shih, Willy. "MoviePass." Harvard Business School Case 619-052, February 2019. (Revised November 2021.)
- 17 Dec 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Rise of Medical Tourism
first for-profit hospital in the southern city of Chennai in 1983. Today the Apollo Hospitals Group manages more than 30 hospitals and treats patients from many different countries, according to the case. Tarun Khanna, View Details
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Publications - Faculty & Research
and Anne Morriss outline five strategies to help leaders tackle their hardest problems and quickly make change. Their final strategy is to execute your plan with a sense of urgency. They argue that most......
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- March 2009
- Article
Loyalty-Based Portfolio Choice
By: Lauren Cohen
I evaluate the effect of loyalty on individuals' portfolio choice using a unique dataset of retirement contributions. I exploit the statutory difference that in 401(k) plans stand alone employees can invest directly in their division, while conglomerate employees must...
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Keywords:
Investment;
Retirement;
Decisions;
Employees;
Performance Evaluation;
Business Conglomerates;
Compensation and Benefits
Cohen, Lauren. "Loyalty-Based Portfolio Choice." Review of Financial Studies 22, no. 3 (March 2009): 1213–1245.
- August 2001 (Revised March 2003)
- Background Note
Comments on the Second Toyota Paradox: With appendix on modularity for managing complex-systems design
Two groups of people start out with the same task, equipped with the same resources and the same initial conditions. One, however, consistently beats the other. What are the differences between what the two groups are doing, and what can we adopt from the better...
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Spear, Steven J. "Comments on the Second Toyota Paradox: With appendix on modularity for managing complex-systems design." Harvard Business School Background Note 602-035, August 2001. (Revised March 2003.)
- 2023
- Working Paper
'De Gustibus' and Disputes about Reference Dependence
By: Thomas Graeber, Pol Campos-Mercade, Lorenz Goette, Alexandre Kellogg and Charles Sprenger
Existing tests of reference-dependent preferences assume universal loss aversion. This paper examines the implications of heterogeneity in gain-loss attitudes for such tests. In experiments on labor supply and exchange behavior we measure gain-loss attitudes and then...
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Graeber, Thomas, Pol Campos-Mercade, Lorenz Goette, Alexandre Kellogg, and Charles Sprenger. "'De Gustibus' and Disputes about Reference Dependence." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 24-046, January 2024.
- 18 Jun 2007
- Op-Ed
Leveling the Executive Options Playing Field
Harvard Business School professor Mihir A. Desai argues that investors and regulators are served poorly by the U.S. corporate financial reporting system, which allows companies to declare different profit figures to the IRS than they...
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by Mihir Desai
- 30 Aug 2010
- News
Samsung's Lee Shifts Strategy in Challenge to Apple
- 9 AM – 10 AM EDT, 21 Aug 2019
- HBS Online
HBS Online Disruptive Strategy
Make innovation a reality with strategies from two-time World's Most Innovative Business Thinker, Clayton Christensen. Program Dates: August 21, 2019 - October 02, 2019
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- 23 Jun 2020
- News
Applying Porter’s Five Forces to Fix U.S. Politics
- September 2007
- Case
Kohl Industries
By: John A. Davis
Describes a compensation dilemma with a father and his three children, who work in different businesses under the family holding companies. The father, James Cole, must set compensation that meets the needs of the family and the business.
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Keywords:
Business Subsidiaries;
Family Business;
Compensation and Benefits;
Family and Family Relationships
Davis, John A. "Kohl Industries." Harvard Business School Case 808-078, September 2007.
- Video
Fola Folowosele
- 2017
- Book
Extreme Teaming: Lessons in Complex, Cross-Sector Leadership
By: Amy C. Edmondson and Jean-François Harvey
Today's global enterprises increasingly involve collaborative work by teams of experts operating across different professions, organizations, and industries. Extreme Teaming provides new insights into the world of complex, cross-industry projects and the ways...
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Edmondson, Amy C., and Jean-François Harvey. Extreme Teaming: Lessons in Complex, Cross-Sector Leadership. Emerald Group Publishing, 2017.
- 9 AM – 10 AM EDT, 30 Oct 2019
- HBS Online
HBS Online Disruptive Strategy
Make innovation a reality with strategies from two-time World's Most Innovative Business Thinker, Clayton Christensen. Program Dates: October 30, 2019 - December 11, 2019
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- March 2011 (Revised October 2011)
- Case
If We Ran the World
By: Hanna Halaburda, Radka Dohnalova and Aldo Sesia
Cindy Gallop launched IfWeRanTheWorld (IWRTW) in February 2010, as what the tech world called minimum viable product, in order to real-world test Gallop's "business of the future" concept while development was ongoing. IWRTW was conceived to bring together human good...
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Keywords:
Business Model;
Outcome or Result;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Network Effects
Halaburda, Hanna, Radka Dohnalova, and Aldo Sesia. "If We Ran the World." Harvard Business School Case 711-490, March 2011. (Revised October 2011.)
- December 2018 (Revised December 2020)
- Module Note
What Is Strategy?
By: Ashish Nanda
This note introduces the first module of the RC Strategy course, What Is Strategy? It helps students develop their perspective on what is a strategy, what is a good strategy, and how strategy development differs across contexts.
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Strategy
Nanda, Ashish. "What Is Strategy?" Harvard Business School Module Note 719-453, December 2018. (Revised December 2020.)
- 04 Mar 2020
- News
Medicarried Away?
- September 2000 (Revised October 2000)
- Exercise
Drivers of Industry Financial Structure
By: Dwight B. Crane and Indra Reinbergs
This case contains common-size balance sheets and financial ratios for 10 companies, each representative of a different industry. Students are asked to identify the industries from the structure of the financial statements.
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Finance
Crane, Dwight B., and Indra Reinbergs. "Drivers of Industry Financial Structure." Harvard Business School Exercise 201-039, September 2000. (Revised October 2000.)
- April 1998
- Case
X-IT Products, LLC
By: Marco Iansiti, Myra M. Hart and Barbara Feinberg
Two entrepreneurs, Andrew Ive and Aldo DiBerlardino, are poised to launch their first product. The decisions they make will have a crucial impact on the future of their company.
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Iansiti, Marco, Myra M. Hart, and Barbara Feinberg. "X-IT Products, LLC." Harvard Business School Case 698-084, April 1998.
- May 2005 (Revised January 2006)
- Case
Mortgage Backs at Ticonderoga
Ticonderoga is a small hedge fund that trades in mortgage-backed securities--securities created from pooled mortgage loans. They often appear as straightforward so-called "pass-throughs," but can also be pooled again to create collateral for a mortgage security known...
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Chacko, George C., Peter A. Hecht, Vincent Dessain, and Anders Sjoman. "Mortgage Backs at Ticonderoga." Harvard Business School Case 205-122, May 2005. (Revised January 2006.)