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- June 2017
- Case
Obesity Management at Kaiser Permanente: A New Mindset for Healthcare Delivery?
By: Kevin Schulman, Gregory Leya and Christina Beveridge
Kaiser Permanente (KP) is the largest managed care organization in the United States with over 10 million members. KP evolved from a prepayment or capitation model that focuses the organization around the efficiency of care and the health of the population it serves....
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Keywords:
Operations;
Health Care and Treatment;
Business Model;
Strategy;
Health Industry;
United States
Schulman, Kevin, Gregory Leya, and Christina Beveridge. "Obesity Management at Kaiser Permanente: A New Mindset for Healthcare Delivery?" Harvard Business School Case 317-106, June 2017.
- Article
Reimagining the Balanced Scorecard for the ESG Era
By: Robert S. Kaplan and David McMillan
Companies are increasingly aware that their customers and society in general expect businesses to adopt and work towards social and environmental objectives as well as the traditional financial ones. This involves not only re-evaluating firms’ models but re-imagining...
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Keywords:
ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) Performance;
Business Ecosystems;
Balanced Scorecard;
Adaptation;
Business Model;
Business and Stakeholder Relations
Kaplan, Robert S., and David McMillan. "Reimagining the Balanced Scorecard for the ESG Era." Harvard Business Review Digital Articles (February 3, 2021).
- October 1996
- Background Note
Building Effective One-on-One Work Relationships
By: Linda A. Hill
Addresses how to build effective one-on-one work relationships. Spells out the importance of analyzing your network and understanding on whom you are dependent. Also provides some criteria for assessing the quality of your relationships. Finally, it discusses how to...
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Hill, Linda A. "Building Effective One-on-One Work Relationships." Harvard Business School Background Note 497-028, October 1996.
- 05 Dec 2013
- HBS Seminar
Tsedal Neeley, Harvard Business School
- January 1996
- Background Note
Creativity and Innovation in Organizations
Creativity, the production of new and useful ideas by individuals or teams, can appear in many forms and many functions within firms of all kinds--from entrepreneurial start-ups to well-established enterprises. This note describes the varieties of creativity in...
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Keywords:
Change Management;
Entrepreneurship;
Collaborative Innovation and Invention;
Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques;
Organizational Design;
Situation or Environment;
Creativity
Amabile, Teresa M. "Creativity and Innovation in Organizations." Harvard Business School Background Note 396-239, January 1996.
- 07 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
Innovation Corrupted: How Managers Can Avoid Another Enron
the rewards were great. This initial success prompted Enron to extrapolate its business model to other markets. In 1994, Enron officials started trading wholesale electricity after Congress deregulated the industry; Enron analysts...
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- February 2011 (Revised September 2013)
- Case
Sarvajal: Water for All
By: John D. Macomber and Mona Sinha
Entrepreneur wrestles with business model using SMS and RFID technology, franchising, and leasing to rapidly grow off-the-grid water purification business without subsidies. The company seeks to provide potable water services to rural and urban India where the public...
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Keywords:
Business Subsidiaries;
Business Model;
Communication Technology;
Private Sector;
Social Entrepreneurship;
Cost Management;
Rural Scope;
Emerging Markets;
Infrastructure;
Problems and Challenges;
Information Infrastructure;
India
Macomber, John D., and Mona Sinha. "Sarvajal: Water for All." Harvard Business School Case 211-028, February 2011. (Revised September 2013.)
- Article
On the Correspondence of Contracts to Salaries in (Many-to-Many) Matching
In this note, I extend the work of Echenique (2012) to show that a model of many-to-many matching with contracts may be embedded into a model of many-to-many matching with wage bargaining whenever (1) all agentsʼ preferences are substitutable and (2) the matching with...
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Keywords:
Many-to-Many Matching;
Stability;
Substitutes;
Contract Design;
Unitarity;
Market Design;
Contracts;
Marketplace Matching;
Balance and Stability;
Economics
Kominers, Scott Duke. "On the Correspondence of Contracts to Salaries in (Many-to-Many) Matching." Games and Economic Behavior 75, no. 2 (July 2012): 984–989.
- December 2018
- Case
DraftKings and the Future of Fantasy Sports
By: Robert F. Higgins and Julia Kelley
Founded in 2012, DraftKings helped change the fantasy sports landscape by popularizing daily fantasy sports (DFS), or short-term fantasy sports tournaments that offered big cash prizes to winners. The company’s valuation exceeded $1 billion by 2015, but DraftKings soon...
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Keywords:
Fantasy Sports;
Daily Fantasy Sports;
DraftKings;
FanDuel;
Supreme Court;
Sports Betting;
Sports Gambling;
Sports;
Business Model;
Government Legislation;
Lawsuits and Litigation;
Laws and Statutes;
Business Strategy;
Internet and the Web;
Mobile and Wireless Technology;
Games, Gaming, and Gambling;
Sports Industry;
Entertainment and Recreation Industry;
United States;
Massachusetts;
Boston
Higgins, Robert F., and Julia Kelley. "DraftKings and the Future of Fantasy Sports." Harvard Business School Case 819-074, December 2018.
- December 2022 (Revised August 2023)
- Case
Circles.Life at a Crossroads of Growth
By: Juan Alcácer and Adina Wong
In June 2022, the founders of Singapore mobile operator Circles.Life had a crucial decision to make. Circles.Life developed a new business model in mobile telecommunications—a digital telco—built around its proprietary operating system. After expanding its brand in...
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Keywords:
Business Model;
Decisions;
Technological Innovation;
Applications and Software;
Business Strategy;
Telecommunications Industry;
Singapore
Alcácer, Juan, and Adina Wong. "Circles.Life at a Crossroads of Growth." Harvard Business School Case 723-404, December 2022. (Revised August 2023.)
- 09 Aug 2018
- News
Two Million Fake Accounts: Sales Misconduct at Wells Fargo
- April 2011
- Supplement
Reinsurance Negotiation: Confidential Information for Brack Re (CW)
By: Robert C. Pozen and Henoch Senbetta
Excel model to complement a three-party negotiation exercise.
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- 2015
- Case
Advanced Leadership Pathways: Robert Meaney and Technology for Agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Renee Vuillaume
Two Valmont Industries (an international leader in infrastructure products and services) colleagues, Robert (Bob) Meaney and Richard Berkland hoped to improve the lives of small and medium-sized farmers in the developing world through modern irrigation technology. In...
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Keywords:
Developing World;
Farm;
Farming;
Small-scale Farmers;
Agriculture;
Agricultural Production;
Water Management;
Water;
Leadership Skills;
Agribusiness;
Information Technology;
Technology Adoption;
Leadership;
Development Economics;
Developing Countries and Economies;
Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry;
Africa;
Ghana;
Tanzania;
Rwanda
Kanter, Rosabeth Moss, and Renee Vuillaume. "Advanced Leadership Pathways: Robert Meaney and Technology for Agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa." Harvard Business Publishing Case 316-059, 2015. (Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative.)
- January 2009 (Revised February 2009)
- Case
F-Secure Corporation: Software as a Service (SaaS) in the Security Solutions Market
By: Lynda M. Applegate, Robert D. Austin, Kalle Lyytinen, Esko Penttinen and Timo Saarinen
Describes the development of a business model based on "software as a service" (SaaS) for security solution distributed through Internet Service Providers (ISPs). F-Secure disruptively entered a mature business with dominant players by executing an innovative new...
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Keywords:
Business Growth and Maturation;
Business Model;
Disruptive Innovation;
Service Delivery;
Internet;
Information Technology Industry
Applegate, Lynda M., Robert D. Austin, Kalle Lyytinen, Esko Penttinen, and Timo Saarinen. "F-Secure Corporation: Software as a Service (SaaS) in the Security Solutions Market." Harvard Business School Case 809-099, January 2009. (Revised February 2009.)
- July 2015 (Revised March 2016)
- Teaching Note
Uber and Stakeholders: Managing a New Way of Riding
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Daniel Fox
This case provides a vehicle to analyze stakeholder relations as a company grows, particularly in the context of new business models that challenge established industries. It introduces the dilemmas posed by rapid growth, new technologies, regulatory uncertainty, and...
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- June 2005 (Revised August 2013)
- Case
Amazon.com's European Distribution Strategy
By: Janice Hammond and Claire Chiron
Describes how Amazon's distribution system evolved from the company's inception. In 2003, Amazon Europe must decide how to reconfigure its distribution network in light of expected growth, products proliferation, and geographical expansion in Europe. Examines how...
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Keywords:
Business Model;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Growth and Development;
Business or Company Management;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Supply and Industry;
Distribution;
Supply Chain;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Expansion;
Web Services Industry
Hammond, Janice, and Claire Chiron. "Amazon.com's European Distribution Strategy." Harvard Business School Case 605-002, June 2005. (Revised August 2013.)
- 09 Jun 2020
- News
Fed action, debt markets and stocks
- 08 Dec 2020
- News
Uber’s Strategy for Global Success
- 22 Sep 2016
- Video
A Step by Step Demo
Alberto F. Cavallo
Alberto Cavallo is the Thomas S. Murphy Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, where he teaches in the Business, Government, and the International Economy (BGIE) unit, a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a... View Details