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Strategy for Health Care Delivery—Virtual
book Redefining Health Care—as a template for restructuring health care delivery around value. The process starts with providers and expands into strategies for health plans, employers, suppliers, and governmental entities. By exploring...
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Named Fellowship Funds - Alumni
Business Club Fellowship The Africa Business Club Fellowship was established through the generosity of the Africa Business Club at HBS. This fellowship will support students...
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- July 2004 (Revised July 2005)
- Case
Activision: The 'Kelly Slater's Pro Surfer' Project
By: Alan D. MacCormack, Enrico D"Angelo and Kerry Herman
Mike Ward, the producer in charge of developing the Kelly Slater's Pro Surfer game for Activision, must decide whether to launch the game in time for the 2002 Christmas season. Complicating his decision are the lukewarm response from consumers to TV test spots of the...
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Keywords:
Games, Gaming, and Gambling;
Product Development;
Customer Satisfaction;
Projects;
Business or Company Management;
Product Launch;
Marketing Strategy;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Industry Structures;
Innovation Strategy;
Entertainment and Recreation Industry;
United States
MacCormack, Alan D., Enrico D"Angelo, and Kerry Herman. "Activision: The 'Kelly Slater's Pro Surfer' Project." Harvard Business School Case 605-020, July 2004. (Revised July 2005.)
- 17 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Teaming in the Twenty-First Century
Even as academic journals and business sections of bookstores fill up with titles devoted to teams, teamwork, and team players, Harvard Business School Professor Amy C. Edmondson wonders if many might be...
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by Maggie Starvish
- August 2017
- Supplement
Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation in Motion: Video Supplement
By: Boris Groysberg and Sarah L. Abbott
Evan Siddall, newly appointed CEO of Canada Mortgage Housing Corporation, a governmental organization focused on the residential housing market, is charged with leading change at the organization. The case follows this process of change step by step and looks at the...
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Keywords:
Leading Change;
Organization Behavior;
Government;
Performance;
Leadership;
Change;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Organizational Culture;
Nonprofit Organizations;
Government Administration;
Restructuring;
Risk Management;
Financial Services Industry;
Canada
Groysberg, Boris, and Sarah L. Abbott. "Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation in Motion: Video Supplement." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Supplement 418-701, August 2017.
What is Disruptive Innovation?
For the past 20 years, the theory of disruptive innovation has been enormously influential in business circles and a powerful tool for predicting which industry entrants will succeed. Unfortunately, the theory has also been widely misunderstood, and the "disruptive"... View Details
- 2013
- Working Paper
The Dynamics of Firm Lobbying
By: William R. Kerr, William F. Lincoln and Prachi Mishra
We study the determinants of the dynamics of firm lobbying behavior using a panel data set covering 1998–2006. Our data exhibit three striking facts: (i) few firms lobby, (ii) lobbying status is strongly associated with firm size, and (iii) lobbying status is highly...
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Lobbying;
Political Economy;
H-1B;
Business Ventures;
Policy;
Government Legislation;
Immigration;
Business and Government Relations;
Research;
Prejudice and Bias
Kerr, William R., William F. Lincoln, and Prachi Mishra. "The Dynamics of Firm Lobbying." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 12-034, October 2011. (Revised August 2013.)
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Strategy - Faculty & Research
similarities. Each place on the continuum requires a different kind of organizational structure and specific management processes to support it. To succeed at execution, you need to determine where on the spectrum your View Details
- August 2018 (Revised May 2019)
- Case
Rev. Georgiette Morgan-Thomas & The American Hat Factory
By: Steven Rogers and Ariel Rogers
On a sunny Monday morning, Rev. Morgan-Thomas walked into her newly acquired hat factory thinking, “What have I gotten myself into? Things are worse than I imagined. Can I ever turn this company around given all of the known and unknown problems? Can I make it...
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Millinery;
Factory;
B-to-B;
B-to-C;
Women's Hats;
Crowns;
Brims;
Hat Maker;
Custom;
Wholesale;
Arts;
Buildings and Facilities;
Business Ventures;
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Financial Crisis;
Business History;
Apparel and Accessories Industry;
Fashion Industry;
Manufacturing Industry;
Retail Industry;
Pennsylvania
Rogers, Steven, and Ariel Rogers. "Rev. Georgiette Morgan-Thomas & The American Hat Factory." Harvard Business School Case 319-009, August 2018. (Revised May 2019.)
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
What Makes a Good Leader
slickness. Simple and clear go a long way." On Jack Welch: "His is the most astonishing story of a business leader. It's unbelievable." Photo courtesy of HBS Communications A stroll through the business...
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Management
- 17 Jan 2008
- Research & Ideas
If Marketing Experts Ran Elections
Editor's Note: Harvard Business School professor John Quelch writes a blog on marketing issues, called Marketing Know: How, for Harvard Business Online. It is reprinted on HBS Working Knowledge.For all the...
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by John A. Quelch
- Forthcoming
- Article
The Anatomy of a Hospital System Merger: The Patient Did Not Respond Well to Treatment
By: Raffaella Sadun, Martin Gaynor, Adam Sacarny, Chad Syverson and Shruthi Venkatesh
Despite the continuing US hospital merger wave, it remains unclear how mergers change, or fail to change, hospital behavior and performance. We open the “black box” of hospital practices through a mega-merger between two for-profit chains. Benchmarking the merger's...
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Sadun, Raffaella, Martin Gaynor, Adam Sacarny, Chad Syverson, and Shruthi Venkatesh. "The Anatomy of a Hospital System Merger: The Patient Did Not Respond Well to Treatment." Review of Economics and Statistics (forthcoming). (Pre-published online October 23, 2023.)
- 13 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Kind of Blue: Pushing Boundaries with Miles Davis
past success and strove for even greater heights. But what do his efforts for Kind of Blue have in common with business innovation? Rob Austin: We conceived the case to get at questions about how the creative View Details
- April 2017
- Supplement
CIC: Catalyzing Entrepreneurial Ecosystems (B)
By: William R. Kerr, Sari Kerr and Alexis Brownell
CIC engages in "guerrilla warfare," offering free or highly discounted rates in order to get its empty offices filled before the opening day of its St. Louis branch. Opening day is a huge success, and CIC St. Louis grows rapidly, even opening a second building. In the...
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Start-ups;
Boston;
Cambridge;
St. Louis;
CIC;
Cambridge Innovation Center;
Co-working Space;
Entrepreneurial Ecosystems;
Innovation Ecosystems;
Entrepreneurship;
Business Startups;
Expansion;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Boston;
Cambridge;
St. Louis
Kerr, William R., Sari Kerr, and Alexis Brownell. "CIC: Catalyzing Entrepreneurial Ecosystems (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 817-127, April 2017.
- June 2007 (Revised January 2009)
- Case
Nextel Partners: Put Option
By: Timothy A. Luehrman and Douglas Scott
Nextel Partners' shareholders have voted to exercise a put option that will require the company's largest shareholder, Sprint Nextel Corp., to purchase all the shares it does not already own. However, the put option does not stipulate a price to be paid, but rather a...
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Luehrman, Timothy A., and Douglas Scott. "Nextel Partners: Put Option." Harvard Business School Case 207-128, June 2007. (Revised January 2009.)
- 19 Oct 2010
- Working Paper Summaries
The Impact of Supply Learning on Customer Demand: Model and Estimation Methodology
- Other Article
Sustainable Strategies and Net-Zero Goals
By: Mark L. Frigo, Robert S. Kaplan and Karthik Ramanna
In a recent Harvard Business Review article, Kaplan and Ramanna describe a rigorous approach, the E-liability method, for companies’ ESG reporting, especially as it pertains to GHG emissions measurements. They argue that the current standards for measuring...
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Keywords:
Measurement;
Sustainability;
Net-zero Emissions;
Environmental Sustainability;
Integrated Corporate Reporting;
Measurement and Metrics;
Strategy
Frigo, Mark L., Robert S. Kaplan, and Karthik Ramanna. "Sustainable Strategies and Net-Zero Goals." Special Issue on Sustainability. Strategic Finance 103, no. 10 (April 2022): 42–49.
- 05 Nov 2014
- HBS Seminar
CV Harquail, Authentic Organizations and Stevens Institute of Technology
- July 2012 (Revised August 2012)
- Case
Global Knowledge Management at Danone (A) (Abridged)
By: Amy C. Edmondson and David Lane
This case explores French consumer goods company Danone's novel approach to knowledge management. In 2007, Human Resource Chief (Executive Vice President) Franck Mougin assesses the company's knowledge-sharing tools and considers his options going forward. Through...
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Keywords:
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Employee Relationship Management;
Knowledge Management;
Knowledge Sharing;
Social and Collaborative Networks;
Expansion;
Consumer Products Industry;
France
Edmondson, Amy C., and David Lane. "Global Knowledge Management at Danone (A) (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 613-003, July 2012. (Revised August 2012.)
- February 1985 (Revised July 1986)
- Case
Applichem (A)
Applichem has six plants in different countries making the same chemical product. The purpose of this case is to allow students to think about what costs are relevant to management in this process industry environment, about how to define a comparison of costs and...
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Keywords:
Business or Company Management;
Multinational Firms and Management;
Performance Productivity;
Operations;
Performance Improvement;
Chemical Industry
Flaherty, Marie-Therese M. "Applichem (A)." Harvard Business School Case 685-051, February 1985. (Revised July 1986.)