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Reinventing State Capitalism: Leviathan in Business, Brazil and Beyond

Part of the fear and misunderstanding of state capitalism in the post-Berlin Wall era stems from the fact that most observers see state-owned enterprises (SOEs) as inefficient soviet companies. In Reinventing State Capitalism: Leviathan in Business, Brazil and... View Details

Keywords: State Capitalism; State-owned Enterprises; Development Banks; State Ownership; Development Economics; Management; Energy Industry; Banking Industry; Brazil; China; Europe; Latin America; Asia
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Integrated Reporting and Investor Clientele

By: George Serafeim
In this paper, I examine the relation between Integrated Reporting (IR) and the composition of a firm's investor base. I hypothesize and find that firms that practice IR have a more long-term oriented investor base with more dedicated and fewer transient investors.... View Details
Keywords: Integrated Reporting; Sustainability Reporting; Long-term Investing; Short-termism; Accounting; Integrated Corporate Reporting; Environmental Sustainability; Investment; Corporate Governance
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    Lynn S. Paine

    Lynn Sharp Paine is a Baker Foundation Professor and John G. McLean Professor of Business Administration, Emerita, at Harvard Business School. A member and former chair of the General Management unit, she has served in numerous leadership positions including Senior... View Details

    • 28 Apr 2009
    • First Look

    First Look: April 28, 2009

    Financial Management of Family and Closely Held Firms: Overview of the Course Harvard Business School Course Overview 209-137 Most companies around the world are controlled by their founding families,... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • Winter 2019
    • Article

    Value-based Health Care: Lessons for the Anesthesiologist

    By: J.A. Martin, B.L. Potter, T.F. Flanagan and T.W. Feeley
    At one point or another in our life, we all become consumers of the health care industry. Indeed, health care affects everyone and encompasses a diverse set of services from childbirth, to illness prevention, to the management of chronic disease and end-of-life care.... View Details
    Keywords: Value-based Health Care; Anesthesiologists; Health Care and Treatment; Value; Cost Management; Problems and Challenges; Health Industry; United States
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    • 2017
    • Working Paper

    Business and Green Knowledge Production in Sweden 1960s–1980s

    By: Ann-Kristin Bergquist and Kristina Söderholm
    This working paper contributes to the burgeoning historical literature that has transformed our understanding about the relationship between big business and the environmental regulation. Previously, it was believed that corporate managers resisted the extra costs... View Details
    Keywords: Environmental Sustainability; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Business and Government Relations; Research and Development; History; Sweden
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    • 19 Dec 2013
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Innovating Without Information Constraints: Organizations, Communities, and Innovation When Information Costs Approach Zero

    Keywords: by Elizabeth J. Altman, Frank Nagle & Michael L. Tushman
    • March 2020
    • Case

    ZEISS Group: Organize by Customer Culture?

    By: Willy C. Shih
    How should ZEISS, the German manufacturer of precision optical and optoelectronic systems manage two historic businesses that operated fairly autonomously? The Industrial Quality Solutions (IQS) business sold measurement equipment to manufacturing companies in sectors... View Details
    Keywords: Organizational Structure; Organizational Culture; Manufacturing Industry; Europe; Germany
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    • May 2004 (Revised May 2006)
    • Case

    AsiaInfo: The IPO Decision

    The cofounder and CEO of AsiaInfo, a Chinese system integrator that built 70% of China's Internet backbone, must decide whether to list equity in the United States to fund future growth. Describes the company and the decision. A rewritten version of a previous case. View Details
    Keywords: Decisions; Initial Public Offering; Growth Management; Internet and the Web; Entrepreneurship; Equity; Information Technology Industry; China; United States
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    • March 1993 (Revised June 1994)
    • Case

    Intel Corporation: Going into OverDrive

    In May 1992, Intel Corp., the leading supplier of microprocessors for IBM-compatible personal computers, announced the retail availability of OverDrive processors, a new line of performance upgrades for the Intel 486 series of microprocessors. The case chronicles the... View Details
    Keywords: Change Management; Expansion; Product Marketing; Computer Industry; Semiconductor Industry; Retail Industry
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    • August 2022
    • Supplement

    Atlanta Ransomware Attack (B)

    By: Amit Goldenberg and Julian Zlatev
    This case describes the March 2018 Ransomware attack on the information technology (IT) systems of the city of Atlanta and the response by Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms and her administration. The case includes a brief background on Bottoms and her young administration at... View Details
    Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Decision Making; Cost vs Benefits; Decision Choices and Conditions; Decisions; Ethics; Values and Beliefs; Government and Politics; Government Administration; Information Technology; Cybersecurity; Information Management; Leadership; Management; Crisis Management; Management Teams; Negotiation; Risk and Uncertainty; Social Psychology; Perception; Personal Characteristics; Perspective; Power and Influence; Society; Public Administration Industry; United States; Atlanta; Georgia (state, US)
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    • May 2004 (Revised April 2006)
    • Case

    Ultra: The Quest for Leadership (A)

    By: Dwight B. Crane and Ricardo Reisen de Pinho
    Ultra is one of a small group of competing Brazilian petrochemical companies, each of which buys raw material and is a minority owner of Copene, a "cracking" company that provides ethylene and other materials. Because of an industry restructuring, an auction of shares... View Details
    Keywords: Capital; Capital Budgeting; Investment; Risk and Uncertainty; Risk Management; Industry Structures; Cash Flow; Cost of Capital; Valuation; Bids and Bidding; Economy; Ownership Stake; Chemical Industry; Brazil
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    Faculty & Advisors | MBA

    Technology Chris leads MPM Capital’s public market investing as portfolio manager for BioImpact Equities (formerly known as Burrage Capital) and the Oncology Impact Funds. Previously, Chris was a health care analyst at Fidelity... View Details
    • 31 Aug 2011
    • Research & Ideas

    Improving Fairness in Flight Delays

    Assistant Professor Douglas Fearing doesn't have the magic bullet to make this painful part of air travel a thing of the past. But his research on evaluating and improving the performance of complex systems such as air traffic View Details
    Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Entertainment & Recreation; Air Transportation
    • October 2018 (Revised May 2019)
    • Teaching Note

    Intuit: Turbo Tax PersonalPro - A Tale of Two Entrepreneurs

    By: Joseph Fuller, Shikhar Ghosh and Monica Baraldi
    Teaching Note for HBS No. 816-048. The case tells the story of a product manager within Intuit who develops an idea for a new product that spans two of the company's existing business units—professional tax software, sold to accountants, and the consumer focused... View Details
    Keywords: Business Units; Business or Company Management; Applications and Software; Accounting; Product Development; Financial Services Industry
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    • March 2016 (Revised February 2020)
    • Teaching Note

    Compass Group: The Ascension Health Decision

    By: Ryan W. Buell
    In 2012, Compass Group (Compass) was on the verge of closing a $2 billion deal with Ascension Health (Ascension), one of the largest healthcare systems in the United States. Under the deal, Compass would provide foodservice management and cleaning services for 86 of... View Details
    Keywords: Operations Strategy; Sectorization; Operational Focus; Customer Compatibility; Service Operations; Service Delivery; Operations; Customer Focus and Relationships; Service Industry; Health Industry; United States
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    • 26 Jul 2011
    • First Look

    First Look: July 26

    percentage increase in nurses' perceptions of safety improvement were no better than that of 48 control hospitals. Thus, we investigated drivers of successful program implementation within the set of treatment hospitals. We found that... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • February 1998
    • Case

    Creating the International Trade Organization

    By: David A. Moss, George R. Appling and Andrew D Archer
    In the late 1940s, officials at the U.S. State Department began campaigning for the creation of an International Trade Organization (ITO). This new organization would oversee global negotiations on trade liberalization, foreign direct investment, cartels, and commodity... View Details
    Keywords: Mission and Purpose; Trade; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Policy; Globalized Economies and Regions; Agreements and Arrangements; Foreign Direct Investment; Economic Systems; International Relations
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    • August 2013 (Revised November 2013)
    • Case

    Ford vs. GM: The Evolution of Mass Production (A)

    By: Willy Shih

    This case explores the very different paths taken by the Ford Motor Company and the General Motors Corporation in the first three decades of the twentieth century. Henry Ford's Model T was a car for the masses. After considerable experimentation, Ford Motor... View Details

    Keywords: Innovation; Exploration; Dominant Design; Business Growth and Maturation; Business History; Innovation and Management; Innovation Strategy; Technological Innovation; Leading Change; Growth and Development Strategy; Product Positioning; Product Design; Product Development; Business Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Vertical Integration; Auto Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Michigan
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    • September 1991 (Revised February 1993)
    • Case

    Burroughs Wellcome and AZT (A)

    By: Willis M. Emmons III
    Burroughs Wellcome Co., developer of AZT, the first drug approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), finds itself under siege in September 1989 by AIDS activists and various segments of the U.S.... View Details
    Keywords: Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Ethics; Business and Government Relations; Communication Strategy; Health Care and Treatment; Monopoly; Intellectual Property; Research and Development; Price; Pharmaceutical Industry; London
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