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The Essential Porter - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Competitive positioning and sustainable competitive advantage for corporations, business units, and leaders. Learn more about Strategy Key Frameworks & Concepts Value-based Health Care Delivery Drivers of Competiveness The Diamond View Details
  • 26 Apr 2011
  • First Look

First Look: April 26

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-106.pdf Signaling to Partially Informed Investors in the Newsvendor Model Authors:Vishal Gaur, Richard Lai, Ananth Raman, and William Schmidt Abstract We investigate a puzzling phenomenon in which firms... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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What Do Nongovernmental Organizations Do?

By: Eric D. Werker and Faisal Z. Ahmand
Nongovernmental organizations are one group of players who are active in the efforts of international development and increasing the welfare of poor people in poor countries. Nongovernmental organizations are largely staffed by altruistic employees and volunteers... View Details
Keywords: Non-Governmental Organizations; Growth and Development; Welfare or Wellbeing; Poverty; Service Delivery; Crime and Corruption; Social Entrepreneurship; Decision Making; Resource Allocation; Product Development; Framework
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  • 14 Sep 2018
  • Blog Post

10 Things I Learned During My First Month in the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program

Business Modeling The last part of the course revolved around modeling and analyzing a company using the tools covered in prior classes. We learned how to apply an engineering approach to representing... View Details
  • 02 Dec 2002
  • Research & Ideas

The Secret of How Microsoft Stays on Top

along with it—in essence, defining the way that applications should interact with its preexisting software components. It extended the model to its application business, sharing increasing amounts of code between products like Word and... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Sep 2022
  • Blog Post

To Go-Go: A Foodtech Startup Serves Up Scale in Latin America

enrolled in the course Challenges and Opportunities in the Restaurant Industry. In it, Izquierdo began sketching the outline of a tech-enabled business model that would eliminate everything she disliked about restaurants; namely, that... View Details
  • 23 Sep 2014
  • First Look

First Look: September 23

714-510 Health City Cayman Islands Narayana Health (NH) had been successfully delivering affordable high quality tertiary care to the masses in India through its chain of hospitals for over a decade. To encourage the adoption of the NH affordable care View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship

entrepreneurship, branding, and innovation expertise. Bluemercury’s innovative retailing and human resource model has been the topic of numerous books, including Shopping: Why We Love it and How Retailers Can Create the Ultimate Customer... View Details
  • 04 Jun 2001
  • What Do You Think?

What’s the Future of the Subscription Model?

Summing Up The Subscription Model: Down but Not Out Just as manufacturing organizations are once again adopting a subscription model as a means of pricing product-service packages marketed as solutions, it appears that Internet-based... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
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Organizational Leadership Course | HBS Online

"I found the content of the course to be extremely informative and applicable to the real challenges of being a leader. I loved the frameworks and the case study model of the course, and I thought the course was very manageable on top of... View Details
  • November 2022
  • Case

The Battle Among Channels for Marketing Pharmaceuticals: UpScript, Pharmacy Benefit Managers, and Direct-to-Consumer Sales

By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Tiffany Farrell
Can an online, direct-to-consumer pharmacy both improve the quality and speed of care for patients who need branded drugs and stabilize profits for pharmaceutical manufacturers? UpScript, after years spent achieving legal and regulatory compliance and simultaneous... View Details
Keywords: DTC; Internet and the Web; Marketing Channels; Customer Value and Value Chain; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Competitive Strategy; Service Delivery; Growth and Development Strategy; Pharmaceutical Industry; Health Industry; Retail Industry
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The 20th Century Zeitgeist - Leadership

Government Intervention Labor Global Events Influence: High 1900 s 19 8.8 million immigrants arrive throughout decade Cities expand Population grows from 76 to 92 million Rural Free Delivery routes added Influence: Medium 10 1910 s 19... View Details
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Cases & Teaching Notes - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

institution for cancer care, education, and research. Since 1996, it had successfully reorganized itself from a cancer hospital that was physically organized around clinical... Feb 2017 (Revised Apri 2018) HBS Case Collection Oak Street Health: A New View Details
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Published CSV Cases - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

its retail stores. In 2015, the U.S. health care system continued to evolve. Health systems were expanding and consolidating, new health care delivery models were emerging, reimbursement was changing, while... View Details
  • 30 Oct 2019
  • Research & Ideas

How to Recover Gracefully After Shutting Down Your Startup

is doing, but “sideways” is rarely the right direction. For example, in early 2016, leaders of the package delivery venture Shyp were refining the company’s business model and dialing back earlier expansion... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
  • 21 Feb 2012
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 21

entrepreneurship. Then, to reconcile these divergent empirical findings, we develop a theoretical model that explains when user innovations are commercialized by users, by manufacturers, or not commercialized at all. At the core of our... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Oct 2012
  • First Look

First Look: October 30

the more than thirty units that had previously delivered acute stroke care. This case profiles the rollout of the new care delivery model in North Central London, where acute stroke care had previously been... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Spring 2019
  • Article

Fluid Teams and Knowledge Retrieval: Scaling Service Operations

By: Melissa A. Valentine, Tom Fangyun Tan, Bradley R. Staats and Amy C. Edmondson
To scale service operations requires retrieving knowledge across the organization. However, prior work highlights that individuals on the periphery of organizational knowledge networks may struggle to access useful knowledge at work. A knowledge repository has the... View Details
Keywords: Teaming; Teams; Groups and Teams; Knowledge Management; Service Delivery; Knowledge Use and Leverage
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  • 06 Feb 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018

communities) and the moderating effects of team leader experience. We test our moderated mediation model in a sample of 121 teams that filed patents in a Fortune 50 company’s India R&D center between 2005 and 2015 using proprietary... View Details
  • 22 Aug 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Can Amazon Remake Health Care?

deploy to buy another company. So, this is actually a very small acquisition for Amazon—very, very small. This aside, the idea behind the business model of One Medical is twofold: to make health care easier to access, and through... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette; Health