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of strategy over time. Our research, course development, and teaching draws on multiple disciplines, including economics, sociology, and political science, and focuses on both domestic and global competition. The objective of the work is to generate findings and... View Details

06 Nov 2006
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How South Africa Challenges Our Thinking on FDI

at maximum efficiency because they didn't have much competition from abroad, but given the environment within South Africa, the strongest ones had come to survive and existed in the form of large conglomerates. When the economy opened up... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

28 Sep 2009
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Improving Accountability at the World Bank

marginalized groups; The Identification and Preparation and Appraisal stages should be based on participatory identification of options and risks, comprehensive and public analyses of alternatives (including no-project options), assessment of distributional impacts and... View Details

Keywords: by Alnoor Ebrahim

15 Aug 2011
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A New Model for Business: The Museum

many ways Facebook is taking over big chunks of what we used to do using more open technologies: web search, content consumption, even e-mail. Increasingly, Facebook is valuable to many people because it represents a more orderly... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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HBS ISC Resources Resources Video Courses Data Events & Presentations Frameworks News Publications Publications Resources 20 Nov 2020 Article Utilizing time-driven activity-based costing to determine open radical cystectomy and ileal... View Details

05 Sep 2023
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Thriving After Failing: How to Turn Your Setbacks Into Triumphs

open the door to major success down the road. In 1993, as a doctoral student at Harvard, Edmondson conducted a study at two local hospitals, where she hypothesized that teams that worked better together would make fewer medical errors.... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

20 Jul 2009
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Markets or Communities? The Best Ways to Manage Outside Innovation

"secrets." Instead of invoking secrecy every step of the way, firms may want to ask, "Why are we not more open about this issue?" Finally, it's important to note that external innovation systems do not produce deterministic results: They... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology

05 Dec 2011
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It’s Alive! Business Scholars Turn to Experimental Research

open to do field experiments," Larkin says. "I think it's a big, untapped way for companies to optimize not just their marketing but also how they design incentives, their employee feedback design, and also the different elements of... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

10 Jan 2011
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Is Groupon Good for Retailers?

practical steps that merchants can take to prevent multiple purchases? A: In practice, it's not easy to prohibit the purchase of multiple vouchers. A voucher service can configure its systems so that a single account only lets a user purchase a given offer once. But... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Advertising; Technology

03 Oct 2023
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Build the Life You Want: Arthur Brooks and Oprah Winfrey Share Happiness Tips

want these things as well. And by explaining it and sharing it is how we actually get it done. One of the concepts of emotional self-management is the word that we just used, which is metacognition. That's understanding your own thinking.... View Details

Keywords: by HBS Staff

25 Sep 2006
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How Software Platforms Revolutionize Business

of Management at MIT Sloan School of Management. We asked Hagiu to discuss the book. To learn more about Hagiu's early-stage research into the concept of multi-sided markets, of which many software platforms are a manifestation, see this... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Video Game; Web Services

July 2019 (Revised May 2021)
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Acelerex

By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock

In early 2019, Randell Johnson, Founder and Chief Executive of Acelerex, was reflecting on the company’s first year of rapid growth and the challenges of scaling the business that lay ahead. Acelerex was riding the waves of change taking place in electrical power grids... View Details

Keywords: Energy; Energy Sources; Growth Management; Expansion; Global Strategy; Cash Flow; Energy Industry; Web Services Industry; Consulting Industry

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19 Apr 2011
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First Look: April 19

the concept of threat rigidity to the class and explore some of the team behaviors that result from this condition. Book: http://www.amazon.com/Group-Communication-Analysis-Appreciation-Application/dp/0757582958/ref=cm_cmu_up_thanks_hdr... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Blavatnik Fellowship in Life Science Entrepreneurship - Health Care

Harvard-affiliated postdoctoral researchers within the first 5 years of their training program in a Harvard program or research lab. Postdocs can continue technical and commercial development of their existing scientific research during the fellowship year. The... View Details

19 Sep 2006
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First Look: September 19, 2006

Abstract Are the doors of access open equally for all in business? Are talent and hard work really enough to make it to the top? As much as we would like to believe in the American meritocracy, an elusive class system exists where a small... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

06 Oct 2009
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First Look: October 6

for a new business can have unintended legal consequences and expectations about founder status and ownership shares may diverge widely. Using facts from a litigated case, the concept of inadvertent formation of a partnership is explored.... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Organize Care Around Medical Conditions - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

HBS ISC Health Care Health Care Value-Based Health Care Health Care Courses Fast Facts Value-Based Health Care Value-Based Health Care Cases & Teaching Notes Key Concepts Key Stakeholders Publications Team Work With Us Presentations Key... View Details

23 Feb 2009
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Creative Entrepreneurship in a Downturn

Cost cutting can severely impair your ability to be competitive or could cause you to lose customers. This creates an opening for entrepreneurs who think holistically. They consider mutually reinforcing changes in the entire business... View Details