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Strategy for Health Care Delivery - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Clinic) as part of their business model Senior executives from nonprofit organizations that deliver health care services Executives from health care insurance companies, government entities that pay for... View Details

23 Jul 2001
Research & Ideas

How the Giants of Enterprise Seized the Future

want to congratulate you on being the richest man in the world." He had come a long way from $1.20 a week. Not every giant of enterprise started life with a clear idea of where he was heading. When George Eastman was forced to enter the View Details

Keywords: by Richard S. Tedlow

01 Sep 2021
What Do You Think?

Can We Train for Trust?

academics call transactional “friction.” As a result, decisions are made and implemented faster and at lower cost, something critical in an age where speed takes on greater and greater value. At a 2019 business conference, Brian Chesky,... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

09 Jan 2006
Research & Ideas

What Really Drives Your Strategy?

process at every level happens in ways that are not always intuitive to people who think about strategy as a top-down planning process. For example, customers can capture what gets considered in a formal budgeting meeting because the pricing and margin implications... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Jun 2022
News

A Sustainable Solution for Fashion

sell toothpicks; you can just follow a linear regression line. But if you are trying to sell a three-quarter-length floral print dress that’s only available for one season, you need more sophisticated models to predict inventory needs.”... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Jun 2023
News

An Engine of Innovation

Startup life can often feel like a solo sport, says Matt Segneri (MBA 2010), the Bruce and Bridgitt Evans Executive Director of the Harvard Innovation Labs: “What the three labs in our ecosystem do is to make building a venture something that happens within a truly... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

04 Feb 2014
First Look

First Look: February 4

leaving questions about future procurement. Finally, Amul's farmers form a large vote bank in the state of Gujarat, and its cooperative structure risks being compromised by vested political interests. Should Amul continue with the View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne

15 Aug 2019
Blog Post

Stan Chang: “A Guided Experience into the World of Entrepreneurship”

state-of-the-art enterprise B2B software utilizing SaaS business models inspired him to seek more. Going to HBS, with its start-up support system, would give Stan, “a guided experience into the world of... View Details

Keywords: Technology; Entrepreneurship

31 Mar 2002
Research & Ideas

You’re Wasting Your Employees! What You Can Do About It

internal strategic resources, many companies continue to have outmoded strategic perspectives. There is a surplus of capitalchasing a scarcity of talented peopleand the knowledge they possess.— Christopher A. Bartlett & Sumantra Ghoshal In the competitive-strategy... View Details

Keywords: by Christopher A. Bartlett & Sumantra Ghoshal

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What are the best finance interview prep resources?

PE/VC compensation report (Print only) Preqin private capital compensation and employment review (Print only) Financial modeling Interactive financial View Details

30 Aug 2016
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August 30, 2016

variation generated by the experimental treatments, we model sales force performance to identify the effectiveness of various forms of conditional and unconditional compensation. We account for salesperson heterogeneity by using a... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

19 Dec 2012
Research & Ideas

How to be Extremely Productive

HBS senior lecturer Robert Pozen is living proof of the adage "If you want to get something done, ask a busy person." Throughout a distinguished career that has included often-overlapping leadership roles in business, teaching,... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg

15 Mar 2021
Blog Post

REFLECTIONS ON MY TIME AS BEI DIRECTOR

understanding, we connect and mobilize. BEI, and HBS, are catalysts. And today we name the primary environmental challenge for business and society: climate change. Second, the Initiatives model that BEI... View Details

28 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 28

prematurely pressured into decisions that went against their open-platform philosophy, they also knew that in order to fulfill their mission to democratize education, they had to eventually build a revenue-generating business. But what View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

12 Nov 2024
HBS Case

Inside One Startup's Journey to Break Down Hiring (and Funding) Barriers

Launching a social justice startup takes more than a moving story. Ask Harley Blakeman, the 32-year-old founder of Honest Jobs. He has perfected his elevator pitch, but that doesn’t mean launching his business has been easy. A... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman; Employment

30 Oct 2006
First Look

First Look: October 31, 2006

contingent claims analysis (CCA). We illustrate how to use the CCA approach to model and measure sectoral and national risk exposures, and analyze policies to offset their potentially harmful effects. This new framework provides economic... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

03 Apr 2007
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First Look: April 3, 2007

and how to create a sustainable business model for a social venture. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=807122 Wyeth Pharmaceuticals: Spurring Scientific... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

27 Mar 2005
Research & Ideas

Should I Pay the Bribe?

At Harvard Business School, one of professor Rafael Di Tella's areas of study is how political corruption and common crime can be controlled in a variety of contexts. So it was only natural that Di Tella would be asked to comment when the... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia D. Churchwell

December 2021 (Revised March 2022)
Case

Collaboration Wars: Slack vs. Microsoft Teams

By: David B. Yoffie, Kriti Gupta, Mehek Punatar, Poonam Sacheti and Poorvi Vijay

In 2021, Slack was acquired by Salesforce. While widely viewed as the best corporate collaboration and messaging software, Slack was being challenged by Microsoft, which was giving away its competitive product, Microsoft Teams, for free with a subscription to... View Details

Keywords: Information Technology; Applications and Software; Technology Adoption; Acquisition; Business Model; Business Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Competition; Expansion; Technology Industry

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28 Mar 2012
What Do You Think?

Are Factory Jobs Important to the Economy?

infrastructure, technology, and education that seek to bring tradable jobs ("work for middle-income people") back to US shores. One model that he cites is Germany between 2000 and 2005, during which it sought to become more competitive by... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Manufacturing

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