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- Simulation
Pricing Simulation: Universal Car Rental
This web-based simulation presents an engaging context in which students develop their knowledge of pricing by managing a rental car operation (Universal) in Florida and improve regional performance by developing a pricing strategy. The simulation involves three...
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Competition;
Consumer Behavior;
Price;
Profit;
Renting or Rental;
Auto Industry;
Service Industry;
Miami;
Orlando;
Tampa
- 16 Jul 2018
- Research & Ideas
Kids of Working Moms Grow into Happy Adults
money. Among the women who responded to the survey in the United States in 2012, employed daughters of employed moms earned an average of $1,880 more per year than employed daughters of moms who stayed home full time. What about sons of...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 11 Apr 2023
- Op-Ed
The First 90 Hours: What New CEOs Should—and Shouldn't—Do to Set the Right Tone
and the way unexpected crises can emerge rapidly, leaders must move faster and display more strategic agility than ever before. Much of Watkins’ advice about how company officials should assume a leadership post still holds true. It’s...
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by John Quelch
- Web
Podcast - Business & Environment
Podcast Podcast Business and policy leaders join Harvard Business School faculty to discuss what businesses are doing, can do, and should do to confront climate change. Follow on Apple Podcasts Follow on Spotify iHeart Pocket Casts Amazon Music Podcasts More View Details
- March 2015
- Case
The I-PASS Patient Handoff Program
By: Robert S. Huckman and Michael Norris
In 2015, the I-PASS Patient Handoff Program Team, led by six pediatricians around the U.S., had to determine the best way to disseminate their program that had been proven to reduce communication errors in patient handoffs in hospital settings. Should they turn it into...
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Health Care;
Hospitals;
Operations Improvement;
Entrepreneurship;
Health Care and Treatment;
Health Industry;
United States
Huckman, Robert S., and Michael Norris. "The I-PASS Patient Handoff Program." Harvard Business School Case 615-069, March 2015.
- Web
General Management - Faculty & Research
General Management Overview Faculty Curriculum Awards & Honors Doctoral Students September 2024 Case Epic: The Future of Health Information Technology By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Brian L. Walker September 19, 2024 Article How to Build a Life: The Right View Details
- 17 Feb 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
How Entrepreneurs Can Find the Right Problem to Solve
out their process and highlight how they feel along the way can pinpoint exactly where they are most frustrated in their process. This is also a great technique if you can’t observe the prospect in the setting where the problem exists....
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by Julia Austin
- 10 Oct 2023
- Research & Ideas
In Empowering Black Voters, Did a Landmark Law Stir White Angst?
the Voting Rights Act, we see that areas where the effects of the law were stronger displayed more negative racial attitudes.” The 1965 passage of the Voting Rights Act, a federal law that cracked down on discriminatory voting practices across the southern View Details
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by Rachel Layne
- Web
Organizational Behavior - Faculty & Research
Investigation By: Ranjay Gulati, Ryan Raffaelli, and Jan Rivkin More Information About the Unit Through its research, teaching, and course development, the Organizational Behavior Unit creates and...
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- January 2024 (Revised May 2024)
- Case
Pioneer Natural Resources: Enhancing the Capital Return Strategy with Variable Dividends
In February 2021, Scott Sheffield, the CEO of Pioneer Natural Resources (an independent oil and gas company based in Texas), was considering the possibility of enhancing the firm’s capital return strategy by introducing a variable dividend tied to cash flows in...
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Corporate Finance;
Cash Flow;
Financial Management;
Financial Strategy;
Value Creation;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Investment Return;
Profit;
Policy;
Business and Shareholder Relations;
Energy Industry;
United States;
North America;
Texas
Esty, Benjamin C., Elisabeth Kempf, and E. Scott Mayfield. "Pioneer Natural Resources: Enhancing the Capital Return Strategy with Variable Dividends." Harvard Business School Case 224-001, January 2024. (Revised May 2024.)
- 15 May 2024
- Research & Ideas
A Major Roadblock for Autonomous Cars: Motorists Believe They Drive Better
for marketers is to make such interventions short, memorable, and motivational—as when Metro Trains in Melbourne, Victoria, successfully launched a viral ad campaign on railway safety called “Dumb ways to die.” 4. Get concrete. People...
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- 20 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 20, 2016
development, (2) the meaningfulness of the work to those carrying it out, (3) affect, and (4) synergistic extrinsic motivation. Throughout, we propose ways in which the components underlying individual and team creativity can both...
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Carmen Nobel
- 17 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 17
power, hard and soft, to protect American investments all around the globe. Why did the United States get into the business of defending its citizens' property rights abroad? The Empire Trap looks at how modern U.S. involvement in the...
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Carmen Nobel
- 03 May 2024
- Research & Ideas
How Much Does Proximity Influence Startup Innovation? 20 Meters' Worth to Be Exact
unlikely to speak to people who are very different from us unless there is some sort of mechanism that brings us together.” The work provides a deeper understanding of the importance of physical proximity as organizations seek the best View Details
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by Ben Rand
- 29 Jul 2020
- Blog Post
To New Beginnings: Reflecting on Transitioning Careers and Starting a Family while at HBS
Erin Kaivan is a member of the Class of 2020. Prior to starting at Harvard Business School, she served for seven years as a Military Intelligence Officer in the United States Army. Since graduating from HBS, she is working as a consultant...
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- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
Sam Walton: Great From the Start
Sam Walton's first store was a second-rate store in a second-rate town in what no one would have classified as a first-rate state. Millions, literally, of small stores failed during the course of the twentieth century in America. There were about 1.7 million retail...
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Organize Care Around Medical Conditions - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
organized around medical conditions over the full cycle of care and delivered in integrated practice units (IPUs) . Integrated practice units will achieve scope and scale by growing locally and...
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- 14 Feb 2023
- Research & Ideas
When a Vacation Isn’t Enough, a Sabbatical Can Recharge Your Life—and Your Career
people access to finance, live up to their potential, and help their families,” he says. DiDonna spent years living out of a suitcase while jetting around the world to talk to bankers and meet inspiring entrepreneurs. “It was an incredible journey,” he says. “It was...
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by Michael Blanding
- 08 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Return of the Salesman
seeing its real importance. It didn't help that economists also thought that selling was unimportant in influencing markets and that door-to-door selling declined in the United States in the final decades of the 20th century. But scholars...
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- March 1999 (Revised February 2000)
- Case
Patient Care Delivery Model at the Massachusetts General Hospital, The
By: Amy C. Edmondson, Richard M.J. Bohmer and Emily Heaphy
Examines the implementation of a new patient care delivery model at Massachusetts General Hospital. Uses clinical and financial data to examine different choices for staffing non-physician health care professionals and to understand the challenges of managing change...
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Change Management;
Service Delivery;
Health Care and Treatment;
Health Industry;
Massachusetts
Edmondson, Amy C., Richard M.J. Bohmer, and Emily Heaphy. "Patient Care Delivery Model at the Massachusetts General Hospital, The." Harvard Business School Case 699-154, March 1999. (Revised February 2000.)