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- 08 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 8, 2015
increased service quality competition lead to customer defection, and which customers are most likely to defect? Our empirical analysis of 82,235 customers exploits the varying competitive dynamics in 644 geographically isolated markets... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Sep 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching Climate Change to Skeptics
A few years ago, Joseph B. Lassiter traveled to San Francisco, Houston, and New York to hold discussions with Harvard alumni on the topic of business and the environment. Each time, he surveyed the audience about the touchy subject of climate change and how society... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 16 Jul 2008
- Op-Ed
What Should Employers Do about Health Care?
co-pays and deductibles on essential medications for chronic conditions can reduce adherence to therapy, leading to expensive hospitalizations, complications, and the like. Here, so-called consumer-driven health plans not only failed to... View Details
- 12 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
‘Let the Buyer Beware’ Doesn’t Protect Investors
leading investment banker during the bubble. About him Forbes wrote: "...in Quattrone's shop research was expected to serve the bankers' interests. The Internet craze had led analysts at every investment bank to issue glowing reports... View Details
Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills
- 17 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
The Fifth Year of Short Intensive Programs (SIPs) at HBS
The SIP format provided a powerful forum for discussion and debate with many leaders in higher education. It also provided me with enormous personal and professional clarity.” The course culminated with individual and team presentations... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
M.I.A. Boards
leadership, told us, “The few people on the Lehman board who actually had relevant experience were kind of like an all-star team from the 1980s back for an old-timers game in which they weren’t even up on the new rules and equipment. Fuld... View Details
- 19 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 19, 2007
external environment, which was necessitating the change (shift from delivering a low-cost product to providing a business solution). Also, explores whether this new approach can lead to a substantial competitive advantage. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Apr 2017
- HBS Case
This Turkish Debt Collector Is Customer-friendly
turn-around artist who had saved many companies from financial distress, Guvenal started by learning as much as he could about Turkasset’s debtors. He and his team discovered many of them were small-business owners suffering from poor... View Details
- 10 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
A New Case at Harvard Business School Highlights the Real-World Issues for Latinx Considering an MBA
Latinx culture, and is the result of years of collective effort to bolster the number of Latinx applying to business schools and thereby in leadership roles worldwide. In 2015, a culmination of efforts headed by HBS Dean Nitin Nohria and the MBA Admissions View Details
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Institute Associates - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Associate Arturo Condo is President of INCAE Business School ( www.incae.edu ), a leading business school and think-tank in Latin America. He is a Full Professor in business strategy, international business, and competitiveness as well as... View Details
- 18 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 18
major technologies, looking across 55 countries, from 1870 to 2000. We find that greater depth in financial markets leads to faster technology diffusion for more capital-intensive technologies, but only in periods closer to the invention... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
Is Greed Ruining Private Equity Firms?
performance doesn’t merit higher rewards. This creates a ripple effect, where other senior partners become resentful, disenchanted, and leave their jobs, causing instability that spooks potential investors and could lead to a firm’s... View Details
- 21 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Bio-Piracy: When Western Firms Usurp Eastern Medicine
art." Choudhury recently teamed up with colleague Tarun Khanna, the Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor at HBS, to examine and highlight the history of herbal patent applications. From a policy perspective, they wanted to challenge a common... View Details
- 08 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
The Critical Computer Science Principles Every Strategic Leader Needs to Know
the App Store and its ecosystem of services. Eight of the 10 most valuable companies in the world are currently pursuing platform strategies, Wu says. Ultimately, platform strategies lead to the greatest outcome in business, “which is... View Details
- 14 Jan 2022
- Blog Post
Want Hybrid Work to Succeed? Trust, Don’t Track, Employees
innovation, specific collaboration needs, or team building—meeting in person may be preferable. But rather than dictate a one-size-fits-all approach, Neeley says, business leaders should allow individuals and managers to figure out the... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 30 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Driving Social Impact Through Consumer Behavior: Nonprofit to Finance to Retail with Nicole Krantz (MBA 2022)
watched her aunt lead her own nonprofit foundation which sowed the seeds for Krantz’s interest in social impact. She then translated this passion to the world of international relations and government at Duke University as an... View Details
Keywords: Retail
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Delving Deeper into Development with the Joint MBA/MPA-ID Program | MBA
accounting expertise. At Deloitte, I designed and tested risk controls for leading Enterprise Technology companies. During that time, an Ebola outbreak ravaged West African countries. I feared that during and after the outbreak... View Details
- 13 Oct 2016
- News
Adding Muscle to the Fight Against Disease
company’s scientists and management team have shown “extraordinary commitment” to Cytokinetics. “Attrition is a constant challenge in biotech,” he observes. “The bar for continuity in management is pretty low—usually a few years. But the... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faculty Q&A: Playing the Hits
entertainment executives do is spend a large chunk of all their production and advertising budgets on a small portion of their total output. It can lead to big failures, of course, but it's the best strategy in the long run. When you look... View Details
- 08 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 8
since both types of acquirer (and the target) can access misvalued debt markets. However, moral hazard and insurance effect differences between types of buyers interact with potential debt misvaluation debt, leading to a dominance of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel