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- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Hansjörg Wyss, MBA 1965
manager for Chrysler in Pakistan, Turkey, and the Philippines before coming to HBS. But it did not prepare him for the economic disparity and differences in political systems he witnessed in these countries. "I was shocked," he says. In...
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- 13 Jun 2014
- Op-Ed
World Cup Soccer: 770 Billion Minutes of Attention
they do on 50 million viewers. So FIFA drives up the value of those eyeballs by selling exclusive broadcasting rights to only one broadcaster per country rather than splintering attention among multiple outlets. In Brazil for example, the...
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- 28 Oct 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Nick Soman (MBA 2010)
if you are in control of the information you share.” What have been the best and most challenging parts of launching your company? “The most challenging and best parts are the same—building a company is hard, so the learning curve is...
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- 16 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 16
between bundling and indirect network effects, we find that they act as substitute strategies, with a lower relative effectiveness for bundling when network effects are stronger. 2013 pub From Social Control to Financial Economics: The...
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Anna Secino
- 09 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Challenge of the Multi-site Nonprofit
rational decision making. Nonprofits often have a cultural opposition to structure. A lack of theory of management practice exists for nonprofits. These characteristics lead to a number of disputes between headquarters and affiliates, according to Grossman and Rangan....
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Riding It Out
But Westley was just one horse in a stable full of horses, each with its own nutritional needs. Sometimes he got his vitamins, sometimes he didn’t. After talking to the barn’s owner, Minard began to appreciate how complicated it can be to keep track of View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Faculty Books
to avoid them. He explains how to anticipate, avoid, or recover from disastrous mistakes that can strip founders of control and leave them without a financial payoff for their hard work and ideas.
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Make clear where we stand and where we aim to go. - Advancing Racial Equity
for HBS itself to attract the most promising talent and have its greatest impact, we cannot tolerate social systems and structures that hold back individuals because of their race. Racism is a direct contradiction to our mission....
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- 01 Apr 2020
- News
What My Time in Vietnam Taught Me About Dealing with Shortages
shortages, we set up a special system called “Flagpole Reports.” (“Run it up the flagpole so everyone can see it.”) The first reports from Vietnam identified emerging shortages in aircraft flares, 40-mm ammunition, collapsible petroleum...
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- 25 Jul 2012
- News
Movie Magic
convenience items, including DVD rentals. By 2005, McDonald’s had allowed Kaplan to spin off Redbox and seek outside investors for the business (which came to focus exclusively on DVD rentals); in 2009, McDonald’s sold its share to Coinstar, an early investor that now...
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- 08 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
How to Fix a Broken Marketplace
An economic handyman of sorts, Alvin E. Roth fixes broken markets. As a Nobel Prize-winning pioneer in the field of market design, the Harvard Business School professor cofounded a kidney donation matching system for New England,...
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- 15 Nov 2010
- Lessons from the Classroom
Connecting Goals and Go-To-Market Initiatives
Cespedes: For most firms, the largest, most difficult, and increasingly expensive part of strategy implementation is aligning field behaviors and go-to-market systems with espoused strategic goals. It's the largest because doing this well...
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- 01 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Slow, Steady Battle to Fix Cancer Care
if we take on the responsibility, we'll work to control our own costs. Health care is 17 percent of our gross domestic product. If we can drive down costs while improving outcomes, that will be much more favorable to our economy and to...
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- 2023
- Book
The State and Capitalism in China
By: Meg Rithmire, Margaret M. Pearson and Kellee S. Tsai
This element explains China's political economic evolution from state socialist economy to a reform era state capitalism model to a more politicized, risk management approach we call "party-state capitalism." We emphasize the internal and external sources of perceived...
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China's Political Economy;
State Capitalism;
State-business Relations;
State Ownership;
Economic Systems;
Government and Politics;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Business and Government Relations;
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Rithmire, Meg, Margaret M. Pearson, and Kellee S. Tsai. The State and Capitalism in China. Cambridge Elements, Elements in Politics and Society in East Asia. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2023.
- 05 Dec 2016
- News
The Dragon’s Tale
early 1970s. China, however, had to wait to get out from under Mao’s control before it could make the moves that ultimately enabled it to catch up. Under Deng Xiaoping and then Jiang Zemin, government support for economic expansion really...
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Deborah Blagg
- 09 Jul 2018
- Research & Ideas
Overcoming the Challenges of Selling Brand New Technology (Hey, Need a 3-D Printer?)
you should approach a product launch as an organizational process, and start with the buyers, not the product.” The good news is that there are now a multiplicity of ways for new companies to contact customers through the web, social...
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- 13 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 13, 2015
Here we explore the effects of "sleeping on it" on preference-based decisions among multiple options. In two studies, individuals viewed several attributes describing a set of items and were asked to select their preferred item...
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- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance
500 are incorporated) have made it clear that maximizing shareholder return is required only when the breakup of the corporation has become inevitable or there is a change of control. For this purpose, a merger of two publicly held firms will not result in a change in...
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by Carla Tishler
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Marjorie M.T. Yang (MBA '76)
the company-and never left. The original business model reflects how far the world economy has come in just over two decades. "Mainland China was just opening up," Yang says. "Although joint ventures, not to mention private ownership, were not possible at that time,...
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- 01 Mar 2024
- News
The Exchange: Takeaways from the Takedown
Professors Eugene Soltes and Aiyesha Dey; image by John Ritter When Sam Bankman-Fried was convicted in 2023 of all seven charges against him related to the cryptocurrency exchange FTX, the jury needed less than five hours to deliberate after a months-long trial. The...
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