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- August 2012 (Revised February 2021)
- Case
Hub and Spoke, HealthCare Global and Additional Focused Factory Models for Cancer Care
By: Regina E. Herzlinger, Amit Ghorawat, Meera Krishnan and Naiyya Saggi
This case compares and contrasts four different models for delivering cancer care in India and the US. Students are asked to select the best model in its alignment with the Six Forces in those two countries and Africa, to which one of the models is considering... View Details
Keywords: Cancer Care Services; Focused Factories For Cancer Care; Hub And Spoke Cancer Care; Cancer Care In The U.S.; Cancer Care In Africa; Cancer Care In India; Health Care and Treatment; Business Model; Six Sigma; Health Disorders; Health Industry; United States; India; Africa
Herzlinger, Regina E., Amit Ghorawat, Meera Krishnan, and Naiyya Saggi. "Hub and Spoke, HealthCare Global and Additional Focused Factory Models for Cancer Care." Harvard Business School Case 313-030, August 2012. (Revised February 2021.)
- September 2009
- Article
Hidden Roadblocks in Cross-Border Talks
While most analysts and dealmakers are aware of "cultural" differences in negotiations that cross national borders--different protocol and process expectations, differences in the role of the individual versus the group, differences in attitudes toward risk and time,... View Details
Keywords: Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Negotiation Tactics; Risk Management; Time Management; Strategy; Governance; Performance Expectations; Attitudes; Culture; Decision Making
Sebenius, James K. "Hidden Roadblocks in Cross-Border Talks." Negotiation 12, no. 9 (September 2009): 8.
- Article
Caste and Entrepreneurship in India
By: Lakshmi Iyer, Tarun Khanna and Ashutosh Varshney
It is now widely accepted that the lower castes have risen in Indian politics. Has there been a corresponding change in the economy? Using comprehensive data on enterprise ownership from the Economic Censuses of 1990, 1998, and 2005, we document substantial caste... View Details
Iyer, Lakshmi, Tarun Khanna, and Ashutosh Varshney. "Caste and Entrepreneurship in India." Economic & Political Weekly 48, no. 6 (February 9, 2013): 52–60.
- 16 Mar 2023
- Research & Ideas
Why Business Travel Still Matters in a Zoom World
nonstop flights—matters most when collaborators are in different time zones or overcoming cultural distance. “It seems that, if the two locations are in the same time zone and... View Details
- May 2006
- Case
Nokia in 2003
By: Paul M. Healy
Examines the challenges facing a money manager who owns stock in Nokia, the leading wireless handset provider. Two analysts covering the stock make very different predictions about the economies of the industry, Nokia's future performance, and stock recommendations.... View Details
- 2007
- Working Paper
Competition in Modular Clusters
By: Carliss Y. Baldwin and C. Jason Woodard
The last twenty years have witnessed the rise of disaggregated "clusters," "networks," or "ecosystems" of firms. In these clusters the activities of R&D, product design, production, distribution, and system integration may be split up among hundreds or even thousands... View Details
Keywords: Price; Profit; Digital Platforms; Industry Clusters; Competition; Horizontal Integration; Vertical Integration
Baldwin, Carliss Y., and C. Jason Woodard. "Competition in Modular Clusters." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 08-042, December 2007.
- 28 Jan 2008
- Research & Ideas
Billions of Entrepreneurs in China and India
of stories about social entrepreneurs, political entrepreneurs, and others whom we study in business schools—investors, capitalists, and so on. Q: What's different about entrepreneurship View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 17 Jan 2008
- Working Paper Summaries
Competition in Modular Clusters
- 29 Mar 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
An Exploration of Luxury Hotels in Tanzania
- 29 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
Race Does Matter in Mentoring
In a three-year research project, I studied the career trajectories of minority and white professionals at three major U.S. corporations. The story of one of the participants—Stephen Williams—sheds light on many of the View Details
Keywords: by David A. Thomas
- 11 May 2017
- Working Paper Summaries
Coordination Frictions in Venture Capital Syndicates
- 27 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
IBM Finds Profit in Diversity
understand differences among the groups and find ways to appeal to a broader set of employees and customers," according to HBS professor David A. Thomas. Since then, the number of female executives in... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Thomas
- March 2022
- Article
Gender Gaps in Venture Capital Performance
By: Paul A. Gompers, Vladimir Muhkarlyamov, Emily Weisburst and Yuhai Xuan
We explore gender differences in performance in a comprehensive sample of venture capital investments in the United States. Investments by female venture capital investors have significantly lower success rates than investments by their male colleagues when controlling... View Details
Gompers, Paul A., Vladimir Muhkarlyamov, Emily Weisburst, and Yuhai Xuan. "Gender Gaps in Venture Capital Performance." Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis 57, no. 2 (March 2022): 485–513.
- April 2003 (Revised May 2003)
- Case
Valuation Ratios in the Airline Industry
By: Paul M. Healy, Krishna G. Palepu and Jonathan Barnett
Four firms in the airline industry illustrate the underlying differences in valuation multiples (price-earnings and price-to-book). View Details
Keywords: Valuation; Activity Based Costing and Management; Accounting Audits; Air Transportation Industry
Healy, Paul M., Krishna G. Palepu, and Jonathan Barnett. "Valuation Ratios in the Airline Industry." Harvard Business School Case 103-002, April 2003. (Revised May 2003.)
- August 2014
- Case
Netflix in 2011
By: Willy Shih and Stephen Kaufman
Reed Hastings founded Netflix to provide a home movie service that would do a better job satisfying customers than the traditional retail rental model. But as it encountered challenges it underwent several major strategy shifts, ultimately developing a business model... View Details
Keywords: Netflix; DVD; DVD-by-mail; Streaming; Online Entertainment; Online Video; Disruptive Innovation; Innovation and Management; Innovation Strategy; Business Model; Disruption; Operations; Service Operations; Entertainment; Film Entertainment; Television Entertainment; Media; Strategy; Business or Company Management; Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Corporate Strategy; Expansion; Technology; Technology Adoption; Technology Platform; Web; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; United States
Shih, Willy, and Stephen Kaufman. "Netflix in 2011." Harvard Business School Case 615-007, August 2014.
- 2009
- Other Unpublished Work
Choice-based Measures of Conflict in Preferences
By: Katherine Baldiga and Jerry R. Green
We propose a family of measures of difference between ordinal preference relations. The difference between two preferences is the probability that they would disagree about the optimal choice from a random available set. It is in this sense that these measures are... View Details
- January 2018
- Case
Partners In Health: Costing Primary Care in Haiti
By: Robert S. Kaplan and Mahek A. Shah
Partners in Health, a global NGO focused on delivering health care to residents of rural underserved communities, conducts a project on the cost of primary care at five sites in the Central Highlands of Haiti. It devises a simple approach for tracking the resources... View Details
Keywords: Global Health; Public Health; Health Care and Treatment; Activity Based Costing and Management; Cost Accounting; Rural Scope; Health Industry; Haiti
Kaplan, Robert S., and Mahek A. Shah. "Partners In Health: Costing Primary Care in Haiti." Harvard Business School Case 118-051, January 2018.
- June 2017
- Technical Note
Issues in Non-Profit Governance
Non-profit governance at its core is very different from for-profit governance. Certain aspects of non-profit governance are widely pervasive across all non-profits, while all others are idiosyncratic to specific sub-groups of non-profits. After identifying these... View Details
McFarlan, F. Warren. "Issues in Non-Profit Governance." Harvard Business School Technical Note 917-413, June 2017.
- January 2004 (Revised March 2005)
- Case
Valuation Ratios in the Restaurant Industry
By: Paul M. Healy and Krishna G. Palepu
Examines factors underlying differences in valuation multiples (price-earnings and price-to-book) across four firms in the restaurant industry. View Details
Healy, Paul M., and Krishna G. Palepu. "Valuation Ratios in the Restaurant Industry." Harvard Business School Case 104-066, January 2004. (Revised March 2005.)
- December 2010
- Article
Life in the Fast Lane: Origins of Competitive Interaction in New vs. Established Markets
By: Eric L. Chen, Riitta Katila, Rory McDonald and Kathleen M. Eisenhardt
Prior work examines competitive moves in relatively stable markets. In contrast, we focus on less stable markets where competitive advantages are temporary and R&D moves are essential. Using evolutionary search theory and an experiential simulation with in-depth... View Details
Chen, Eric L., Riitta Katila, Rory McDonald, and Kathleen M. Eisenhardt. "Life in the Fast Lane: Origins of Competitive Interaction in New vs. Established Markets." Special Issue on The Age of Temporary Advantage. Strategic Management Journal 31, no. 13 (December 2010): 1527–1547.