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  • 23 Oct 2007
  • First Look

First Look: October 23, 2007

agribusiness companies. Headquartered in White Plains, NY, the company has traditionally possessed a strong presence in Brazil. Describes Bunge's tradeoff between efficiency of global operations and local responsiveness in an uncertain business environment. View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 2022
  • Working Paper

Regulatory Incentives for Innovation: The FDA's Breakthrough Therapy Designation

By: Amitabh Chandra, Jennifer Kao, Kathleen Miller and Ariel D. Stern
Regulators of new products confront a tradeoff between speeding a new product to market and collecting additional product quality information. The FDA’s Breakthrough Therapy Designation (BTD) provides an opportunity to understand if a regulator can use new policy to... View Details
Keywords: Research and Development; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Product Development
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  • 2017
  • Working Paper

Private and Public Disclosures in Countries with Weak Institutional Environments: Evidence from Shanghai-Hong Kong Connect

By: Aaron Yoon
I study firms’ use of disclosure to build investor confidence when they operate in a market where the institutions that support the supply of credible information are weak. Using the announcement of a regulation that allowed foreigners to invest in select Shanghai... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Disclosure; Reputation; Institutional Investing; Trust
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  • November 1997 (Revised July 1999)
  • Case

Guidant: Cardiac Rhythm Management Business (A)

By: Steven C. Wheelwright and Mikelle Eastley
Examines the choices Guidant must make in research and development spending and new product development. More specifically, CEO Jay Graf considers the payoffs and tradeoffs of using product development skills that he learned in CPI's core business when applied to a... View Details
Keywords: Marketing Strategy; Product Marketing; Product Development; Business or Company Management; Management Skills; Research and Development; Business Strategy; Communication; Product Design; Market Design; Organizational Design; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry
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  • July 1994
  • Case

Microsoft: Multimedia Publications (A)

By: Marco Iansiti and Ellen Stein
Microsoft Corp. has built a highly successful business around computer software (both applications and system software) using a particular organizational structure. Now that the company has chosen to enter the consumer market with a CD-ROM product, how should Microsoft... View Details
Keywords: Product Development; Organizational Structure; Applications and Software; Design; Expansion; Consumer Products Industry; Information Technology Industry; Washington (state, US)
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  • 2018
  • Working Paper

Semi-Parametric Estimation of Dynamic Discrete Choice Models

By: David Hao Zhang
I develop a new method for estimating counterfactuals in dynamic discrete choice models, a widely used set of models in economics, without requiring a distributional assumption on utility shocks. Applying my method to the canonical Rust (1987) setting, I find that the... View Details
Keywords: Semiparametrics; Dynamic Discrete Choice; Consumer Choice; Mathematical Methods
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  • 28 Jan 2014
  • First Look

First Look: January 28

  Publications August 2013 Princeton University Press Fortune Tellers: The Story of America's First Economic Forecasters By: Friedman, Walter A. Abstract—The period leading up to the Great Depression witnessed the rise of the economic forecasters, pioneers who sought... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Jun 2023
  • What Do You Think?

Is the Anxious Achiever a Post-Pandemic Relic?

(iStockphoto/Anchiy) The late Professor Anthony Athos, an unforgettable member of the Harvard Business School faculty to all who knew him, used to have a favorite non-activity. He would take a break, leave the office, and take a seat on a... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett

    Tarun Khanna

    Tarun Khanna is the Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor at the Harvard Business School. For almost three decades, he has studied entrepreneurship as a means to social and economic development in emerging markets. At HBS since 1993, after obtaining degrees from Princeton... View Details

    • January 1999
    • Case

    Bell Atlantic and the Union City Schools (C1): Project Explore

    By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Ellen Pruyne
    The third in a five-part series about Bell Atlantic Corp.'s technology-in-education partnership with the Union City, New Jersey school system. Describes Bell Atlantic's efforts to identify an appropriate site for testing emerging telecommunications technology and its... View Details
    Keywords: Partners and Partnerships; Education; Business and Community Relations; Wireless Technology; Education Industry; Telecommunications Industry; New Jersey
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      Michael A. Wheeler

      Mike Wheeler joined the HBS faculty in 1993 and has taught extensively in its MBA, Executive, and distance learning programs. His highly interactive 8-week/40-hour HBS Online Negotiation... View Details

      Keywords: arts; construction; e-commerce industry; energy; federal government; green technology; internet; legal services; nonprofit industry; petroleum; pharmaceuticals; publishing industry; real estate; service industry; sports; state government; utilities
      • January 2013 (Revised March 2016)
      • Case

      The Private Company Council

      By: Karthik Ramanna and Luis M. Viceira
      Financial Accounting Foundation chairman Jack Brennan is under pressure from private-company interests to set up a new body—the Private Company Council—to determine separate GAAP for private companies. PCC advocates—including the US Chamber of Commerce—argue that... View Details
      Keywords: FASB; Lobbying; Political Economy; Accounting; Government and Politics; Leadership; Financial Markets; Accounting Industry; Financial Services Industry; Public Administration Industry
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      • March 2024 (Revised April 2024)
      • Case

      Coursera's Foray into GenAI

      By: Suraj Srinivasan, Michael Parzen and Radhika Kak
      In early 2023, Maggioncalda, CEO of US EdTech firm Coursera, launched Project Genesis to develop a strategy for incorporating GenAI capabilities into the firm's offerings, asking his teams to focus on value to the firm and cost of implementation. The team identified... View Details
      Keywords: Business Model; AI and Machine Learning; Brands and Branding; Business Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Technological Innovation; Education Industry; Technology Industry; United States
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      • 26 Jan 2011
      • News

      Dean’s Priorities (pdf)

      • 01 Jun 2015
      • Research & Ideas

      The Surprising Benefits of Oversharing

      research studies by Harvard Business School faculty explore this brave new world of "oversharing" — asking what it means to organizations and to reputation when we decide to buck the trend and keep personal information, well,... View Details
      Keywords: by Michael Blanding
      • October 2020
      • Case

      Michael Phelps: 'It's Okay to Not Be Okay'

      By: Boris Groysberg, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Michael Norris
      In 2020, Michael Phelps, the most decorated Olympian of all time, with 28 medals in various swimming events, was now retired. As he looked back on his 20+ year athletic career, he considered what had gone into making him the greatest of all time—the highs and lows,... View Details
      Keywords: Mental Health; Talent and Talent Management; Training; Health; Success; Performance Improvement; Personal Development and Career; Family and Family Relationships; Sports; Competition; Sports Industry; United States; Baltimore; Arizona; Sydney; Athens; Beijing; London
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      • 29 Aug 2013
      • News

      Wagaroo update: designing a mechanism to identify responsible sources for pet dogs

      • 11 Dec 2023
      • Blog Post

      Building Iconic Brands and Brighter Futures: Interview with Glossier CEO, Kyle Leahy

      that personally inspired me.” To make this career transition, Leahy made the move from New York back to her home state of Massachusetts to attend Harvard Business School. “HBS opened up my global... View Details

        Lindsay N. Hyde

        Lindsay is a Senior Lecturer at Harvard Business School in the Entrepreneurial Management unit. She teaches Avoiding Startup Failure, Launching Technology Ventures, and Startup Bootcamp. Lindsay also serves as the HBS Faculty co-chair of the View Details

        • May 2014
        • Article

        Making 'Freemium' Work: Many Start-ups Fail to Recognize the Challenges of This Popular Business Model

        By: Vineet Kumar
        The article discusses the "freemium" business model, which is used by some Internet businesses and smartphone application developers to give users free basic features of a digital product and access to premium functionality for a subscription fee. The discussion topics... View Details
        Keywords: Freemium; Startups; Product Design; Business Model; Marketing; Business Startups
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