Publications

December 1997
Case

Bluewater Aquaculture

By: Ray A. Goldberg and Tom Clay

An entrepreneurial shrimp farm in Belize is evaluating its future growth strategy in every segment of the vertical value-added food chain. View Details

Keywords: Animal-Based Agribusiness; Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development; Performance Evaluation; Expansion; Vertical Integration; Food and Beverage Industry

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Work With Us - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

interested in working with individuals and organizations who are doing action based research in value-based health care. We are interested in projects that involve integrated practice units, outcomes measurement, cost measurement, bundled... View Details

14 Feb 2007
Op-Ed

Tata-Corus: India’s New Steel Giant

profitable, if not the most profitable, steel companies in the world, and is acquiring from a position of strength amid a boom in the world steel market. This will buy it valuable experimenting time and learning space. Third, there was much difficulty in View Details

Keywords: by Tarun Khanna

summer 1997
Article

Which Takeovers are Profitable: Strategic or Financial?

By: Paul M. Healy, Krishna G. Palepu and Richard S. Ruback

Keywords: Integration; Profit; Strategy; Finance

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2016
Working Paper

Controlling Versus Enabling

By: Andrei Hagiu and Julian Wright

Revenue sharing between principals and agents is commonly used to balance double-sided moral hazard. We provide a theory of how, when such revenue-sharing is optimal, a principal allocates control rights over decisions that either party could make. We show that the... View Details

Keywords: Control Rights; Decision Authority; Employment; Independent Contractors; Organizational Theory; Digital Platforms; Governance Controls; Ethics; Vertical Integration

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Policymakers - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Creating a Value-Based Health Care Delivery System: Implications for Policymakers Reduce regulatory obstacles to care coordination and integration across the care cycle like the Stark and anti-kickback laws, HIPAA, and EMTALA Create a... View Details

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1.1 HBS Community Values | MBA

when they join the HBS community. In doing so, they agree to abide by the following Community Values: Respect for the rights, differences, and dignity of others Honesty and integrity in dealing with all members of the community... View Details

03 Apr 2012
First Look

First Look: April 3

this note:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/812098-PDF-ENG Integrated Assurance at Philips Electronics N.V. Robert G. Eccles and Daniela SaltzmanHarvard Business School Case 412-054 Philips Electronics is a leader in View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

17 Mar 2015
First Look

First Look: March 17

affected when the choice of contract is misaligned with the scope and objectives of the partnering relationship? Our study addresses these questions using data from 172 R&D projects that involve partners. We find that i) greater partner View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

02 Mar 2010
First Look

First Look: March 2

Michael C. Jensen, and Steve Zaffron Abstract We present a positive model of integrity that, as we distinguish and define integrity, provides powerful access to increased performance for individuals, groups, organizations, and societies.... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

June 2017
Teaching Note

The De Beers Group: Exploring the Diamond Reselling Opportunity

By: Benjamin C. Esty, Daniel P. Gross and Lauren G. Pickle

In September 2014, Tom Montgomery (SVP of strategic initiatives at the De Beers Group) and his team launched a pilot program in the United States to explore $1 billion diamond market for pre-owned (recycled) diamonds. According to Montgomery, the motivation for the... View Details

August 2000
Case

Manila Water Company (A)

By: Michael Beer and Elizabeth Weldon

On February 3, 1997, the east zone of the Manila Metropolitan Water and Sewerage System (MWSS) was taken over by the Manila Water Co. (MWC), a newly created joint venture between the Ayala Corp., a large Filipino conglomerate; Bechtel Enterprises, Inc., an American... View Details

Keywords: Change Management; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Horizontal Integration; Privatization; Problems and Challenges; Utilities Industry

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Launch Lab/Capstone 1 - Course Catalog

ENG-SCI 292A The MS/MBA Capstone is an intensive project that requires teams of students to apply and integrate the skills they have learned across core disciplines developed in the program curriculum. Specifically, teams will be expected... View Details

August 2017
Case

Infection Control at Massachusetts General Hospital (Abridged)

By: Robert S. Huckman and Nikolaos Trichakis

The case explores the challenges facing Massachusetts General Hospital concerning the adoption of a new infection control policy, which promises to improve operational performance, patient safety, and profitability. The new policy requires coordination between... View Details

Keywords: Safety; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Integration; Health Care and Treatment; Policy; Health Industry; Boston

January 1999
Case

Bell Atlantic and the Union City Schools (D): Results and Replication

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Ellen Pruyne

The last in a five-part series about Bell Atlantic Corp.'s technology-in-education partnership with the Union City, New Jersey school system. Reviews the various outcomes of the partnership called Project Explore, from the perspective of Bell Atlantic managers and... View Details

Keywords: Mobile and Wireless Technology; Strategic Planning; Change Management; Leadership Development; Outcome or Result; Horizontal Integration; Partners and Partnerships; Trends; Education; Technological Innovation; Telecommunications Industry; Education Industry; New Jersey

24 Apr 2014
News

Creating a path out of poverty through entrepreneurship

Annie Bertrand (MBA 2007) tallks about helping create the India School Fund to integrate entrepreneurship skills with other educational goals to give poor rural Indian children a path out of poverty. (Published April 2014) View Details

2013
Chapter

Luxembourg: A Sustainable Society Starts Here

By: Robert G. Eccles and George Serafeim

Keywords: Environmental Sustainability; Integrated Corporate Reporting; City; Luxembourg