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  • 2005
  • Working Paper

Wintel: Cooperation or Conflict

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and David B. Yoffie
We study the incentives of complementors (producers of complementary products) to cooperate vs. compete and how these interact. In a system of complements, like the PC, the value of the final product depends on how well the different components work together. This, in... View Details
Keywords: Investment; Price; Time Management; Product; Product Development; Research and Development; Conflict and Resolution; Motivation and Incentives; Value
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  • Research Summary

Manager Specific Human Capital Investment: A Model of Block Trading and Firm Stability

I develop a model in which workers can undertake specific human capital investments in the firm and in the manager employed by the firm. If the manager leaves the firm, a worker has to decide whether to join her in the new firm or stay in the old firm. In case of... View Details
  • Article

Regulatory, Legal, and Market Aspects of Smart Wearables for Cardiac Monitoring

By: Jan Benedikt Brönneke, Jennifer Müller, Konstantinos Mouratis, Julia Hagen and Ariel Dora Stern
In the area of cardiac monitoring, the use of digitally driven technologies is on the rise. While the development of medical products is advancing rapidly, allowing for new use-cases in cardiac monitoring and other areas, regulatory and legal requirements that govern... View Details
Keywords: Wearables; Regulatory Changes; Medical Technology; Medical Devices; Market Access; Market Entry and Exit; Information Technology; Health Care and Treatment; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; United States; Germany; Belgium
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  • Forthcoming
  • Book

Innovating in Healthcare: Creating Breakthrough Tech, Services, Drugs, Products, and Business Models

By: Regina E. Herzlinger
Innovating in Healthcare offers effective approaches for designing, reworking, and implementing innovative healthcare services, products, and business models. It will help anyone working in healthcare service or product development, from hospitals to startups,... View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Service Delivery; Product Development; Business Model; Innovation and Invention; Health Industry
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Come Together: Firm Boundaries and Delegation

By: Laura Alfaro
We develop an incomplete-contracts model to jointly study firm boundaries and the allocation of decision rights within them. Integration has an option value: it gives firm owners authority to delegate or centralize decision rights, depending on who can best solve... View Details
  • February 2024
  • Article

Come Together: Firm Boundaries and Delegation

By: Laura Alfaro, Nick Bloom, Paola Conconi, Harald Fadinger, Patrick Legros, Andrew F. Newman, Raffaella Sadun and John Van Reenen
We develop an incomplete-contracts model to jointly study firm boundaries and the allocation of decision rights within them. Integration has an option value: it gives firm owners authority to delegate or centralize decision rights, depending on who can best solve... View Details
Keywords: Boundaries; Decision Choices and Conditions; Risk and Uncertainty
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  • March 2015
  • Case

West Coast Chill

By: William A. Sahlman, Robert F. White and Stephanie Puzio
The fall of 2010 marked the 20th year that Mitchell Joseph, a fourth generation beverage executive, serial entrepreneur, and the founder of the Joseph Company (the "Company"), had been working on developing the technology for a self-chilling can. Mitchell was at an... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurial Finance; Entrepreneurship; Finance; Food and Beverage Industry; United States
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  • 2011
  • Chapter

The Embeddedness of Social Entrepreneurship: Understanding Variation across Local Communities

By: Christian Seelos, Johanna Mair, Julie Battilana and M. Tina Dacin
Social enterprise organizations (SEOs) arise from entrepreneurial activities with the aim to achieve social goals. SEOs have been identified as alternative and/or complementary to the actions of governments and international organizations to address poverty and... View Details
Keywords: Social Entrepreneurship; Civil Society or Community; Local Range
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    Why Do Firms Respond to Environmental Regulation the Way That They Do?

    A regulator’s ability to incentivize environmental improvement among firms is a vital lever in achieving long-term sustainability. How a firm will respond to such regulation depends, in part, on the expected cost of noncompliance, which is a product of the stated... View Details

    • 05 Jul 2006
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Implementing New Practices: An Empirical Study of Organizational Learning in Hospital Intensive Care Units

    Keywords: by Anita L. Tucker, Ingrid M. Nembhard & Amy C. Edmondson; Health
    • 2010 - 2010
    • Conference Presentation

    Teams at the Top: Revisiting the Structure and Effects of Strategic Work in Top Management

    By: James R. Dillon
    This paper examines the usage and effects of small work groups by top management in the course of guiding an organization's strategy process. Reviewing evidence from research literatures on strategy process, strategic leadership, and small groups, I propose that a... View Details
    Keywords: Management Teams; Strategy; Leadership; Practice; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques
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    • 01 Mar 2010
    • Op-Ed

    A Golden Opportunity for Ford and GM

    board chair. Since that time, he has acted decisively, removing Fritz Henderson as CEO and assuming the mantle himself. Whitacre quickly reorganized the company from top to bottom, cut out layers of middle management, initiated new View Details
    Keywords: by Bill George; Auto
    • Research Summary

    Managing Marketspace Service Interfaces

    By: Jeffrey F. Rayport

    Jeffrey F. Rayport is focusing on the strategic challenges that face businesses selling information-intensive products and services. A key strategic issue in such businesses is the dematerialization of information-intensive products and services as a consequence of... View Details

    • 13 Jun 2011
    • HBS Case

    Mobile Banking for the Unbanked

    In many developing countries it's common for a person to have a mobile phone but not a bank account. In fact, more than 1 billion people fit this description, and the number is only likely to increase. To that end, many companies are... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Banking; Communications; Telecommunications
    • March 17, 2017
    • Article

    How Economics Can Shape Precision Medicines

    By: Ariel Dora Stern, Brian M. Alexander and Amitabh Chandra
    Many public and private efforts in coming years will focus on research in precision medicine, developing biomarkers to indicate which patients are likely to benefit from a certain treatment so that others can be spared the cost—financial and physical—of being treated... View Details
    Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Research; Economics; Motivation and Incentives
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    • 2014
    • Other Unpublished Work

    Evolution of Land Distribution in West Bengal 1967-2004: Role of Land Reform and Demographic Changes

    By: Pranab Bardhan, Michael Luca, Dilip Mookherjee and Francisco Pino
    This paper examines the indirect effect of land reform and demographic changes on land inequality operating through induced household divisions and land market transactions. We develop an intra-household model of joint production where divisions, out-migration or land... View Details
    Keywords: Inequality; Land Reform; Household Division; Land Markets; Equality and Inequality; Property; Household; Change; West Bengal
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    • September–October 1998
    • Article

    How to Kill Creativity

    By: T. M. Amabile
    The article addresses the topic of business creativity, its benefits, and how managers can inspire it. The author's research shows that it is possible to develop the best of both worlds: organizations in which business imperatives are attended to and creativity... View Details
    Keywords: Creativity; Situation or Environment; Motivation and Incentives; Organizational Culture; Management Practices and Processes
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    • 09 Jan 2023
    • Blog Post

    How I Spent My HBS 2+2 Deferral: Sam Perez Diarte

    The HBS 2+2 program is a deferred admission process for current students in their final year of study, either in college or a full-time master’s degree program. If you are admitted through 2+2, you work for two to four years in a field of... View Details
    • June 2005 (Revised August 2013)
    • Case

    Amazon.com's European Distribution Strategy

    By: Janice Hammond and Claire Chiron
    Describes how Amazon's distribution system evolved from the company's inception. In 2003, Amazon Europe must decide how to reconfigure its distribution network in light of expected growth, products proliferation, and geographical expansion in Europe. Examines how... View Details
    Keywords: Business Model; Decision Choices and Conditions; Growth and Development; Business or Company Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Supply and Industry; Distribution; Supply Chain; Risk and Uncertainty; Expansion; Web Services Industry
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    • July 2001 (Revised May 2002)
    • Case

    Making a Doctor

    Three doctors were interviewed to learn how they were trained to be a physicians. One was a family practice senior resident, one was a critical care pediatric chief resident, and one was an orthopedic staff surgeon 18 months out of residency. All three were interviewed... View Details
    Keywords: Personal Development and Career; Health Care and Treatment; Business Processes; Health Industry
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