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  • February 2022
  • Case

Leading The UK Vaccine Task Force

By: Amy C. Edmondson and Claudia Pienica
This case describes the first six months of the UK Vaccine Taskforce, under the leadership of Kate Bingham. With a career spent in the private sector as a biotech investor, Bingham’s appointment within the government was considered unusual. The overarching brief given... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19; Vaccine; Government; Health Pandemics; Health Care and Treatment; Science; Innovation and Invention; Groups and Teams; Leadership; Decision Making; Government and Politics; Health; Innovation and Management; Governance; Change; Government Administration; Health Industry; Financial Services Industry; Public Administration Industry; Europe; United Kingdom
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  • September 2008 (Revised June 2013)
  • Case

Odyssey Healthcare

By: Robert F. Higgins, Virginia Fuller and Umer Raffat
In January 2001, Dick Burnham, CEO of Odyssey Healthcare, and Odyssey's Board of Directors were considering selling the hospice care company to a larger provider or making an initial public offering (IPO). With 38 hospice locations in 21 states, Odyssey had been... View Details
Keywords: Liquidity; Venture Creation/development; Hospice; Venture Capital; Financial Liquidity; Business Exit or Shutdown; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Plan; Entrepreneurship; Health Industry; United States
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  • July 2008 (Revised January 2010)
  • Case

Affinity Labs, Inc.

By: Joseph B. Lassiter III and Elizabeth Kind
In November 2006, Chris Michel left Military.com, which he founded in 1999, to start Affinity Labs, a global network of online communities. That month, Michel raised a Series A round of venture funding and established a partnership with Monster, which he had sold... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Demand and Consumers; Partners and Partnerships; Social and Collaborative Networks; Online Technology
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    Design and Analysis of Switchback Experiments

    Switchback experiments, where a firm sequentially exposes an experimental unit to random treatments, are among the most prevalent designs used in the technology sector, with applications ranging from ride-hailing platforms to online marketplaces. Although... View Details
    • 25 Jan 2000
    • Research & Ideas

    Strategic Alliances

    a mutual course benefiting each of their strategies, HBS professor James Austin, head of the School's Initiative on Social Enterprise (ISE), took note. "Here was a new arena," he says, "in which the goals of different kinds of... View Details
    Keywords: by Nancy O. Perry
    • 01 Mar 2024
    • News

    3-Minute Briefing: Ilana D. Weinstein (MBA 1995)

    Weinstein: Standing tall and seeing all of the strategic possibilities in a highly competitive industry. I grew up in New York City and worked in every store along our 10-block radius. I learned how to sell... View Details
    Keywords: Edited by Julia Hanna; Photo by Chris Sorensen; search firm; entrepreneurship; hedge funds
    • 24 Oct 2016
    • Research & Ideas

    Bernie Madoff Explains Himself

    amount of uninterrupted call time that the prison would allow. The professor and the felon shared a genuine, geeky interest in financial economics. Sometimes they discussed the early days of Madoff’s career, which began in 1960. Other... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services
    • 20 Oct 2015
    • First Look

    October 20, 2015

    William R., and Martin Mandorff Abstract—We study the relationship between ethnicity, occupational choice, and entrepreneurship. Immigrant groups in the United States cluster in specific business sectors. For example, Koreans are 34 times... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • Web

    Creating Shared Value - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

    the launch of countless corporate social responsibility initiatives in recent decades. Now more than ever—in the midst of a global economic crisis that has strained the capacity of governments and NGOs to address complex societal challenges—it is View Details
    • 23 Mar 2020
    • Research & Ideas

    Product Disasters Can Be Fertile Ground for Innovation

    including a 20-article investigative series in the New York Times that discovered similar cases at other hospitals. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) started... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health; Medical Devices & Supplies
    • Web

    2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

    industry (and the financial sector more generally). Love and Money Rachel Greenwald , Founder & CEO, Elevated Connections + More Info – Less Info Relationships are big business. Rachel Greenwald (MBA 1993) is a celebrity matchmaker, an executive fellow at HBS, and a... View Details
    • 16 Jan 2006
    • Research & Ideas

    What Customers Want from Your Products

    frequently bought milk shakes. Next, they invited people who fit this profile to evaluate whether making the shakes thicker, more chocolaty, cheaper, or chunkier would satisfy them better. The panelists gave clear feedback, but the consequent improvements to the... View Details
    Keywords: by Clayton M. Christensen, Scott Cook & Taddy Hall; Consumer Products
    • 18 Jun 2001
    • Research & Ideas

    When In-House Research Isn’t Enough

    For many decades, corporate research and development has been pretty much an "inside job." The road to innovative new products and services began and ended with a company's internal R&D. But according to HBS assistant... View Details
    Keywords: by Jim Aisner
    • 11 Mar 2019
    • Research & Ideas

    Branding Sells Cereal, Handbags, and Vacations. Can It Sell a Country?

    culture, setting off a K-Drama (Korean television drama) and K-Pop (Korean pop music) craze, with music exports, for example, expanding ninefold to $277 million in 2013. Think virally and socially. When New View Details
    Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Tourism
    • 05 Aug 2014
    • First Look

    First Look: August 5

    https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/download.aspx?name=15-001.pdf   Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 414-078 The Sustainability Accounting Standards Board In 2014, as the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) has just brought former... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 26 Feb 2008
    • First Look

    First Look: February 26, 2008

    Direct Channels Authors:Jill Avery, Thomas J. Steenburgh, John A. Deighton, and Mary Caravella Abstract We assess the effects of opening physical retail stores on direct-to-consumer channel sales. Our data come from a leading U.S. retailer which opened four View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 01 Sep 2020
    • Blog Post

    6 Ways to Support COVID-Weary Employees

    with the adequate reactions of Tsai Ing-Wen (president of Taiwan) and Jacinda Ardern (the prime minister of New Zealand), who took timely government actions to prevent the spread of the virus in their... View Details
    Keywords: All Industries
    • Web

    Asia Pacific - Global

    presence, the School has been able to enhance the breadth and depth of faculty research and case studies in the Asia-Pacific region. Locations Harvard Center Shanghai Shanghai, China Asia-Pacific Research Center: Singapore Singapore Asia-Pacific Research Center: Hong... View Details
    • 24 Dec 2013
    • First Look

    First Look: December 24

    differs by firm ownership. We study CEOs in the Indian manufacturing sector, where family ownership is widespread and the productivity dispersion across firms is substantial. Time use analysis of 356 CEOs of listed firms yields three sets... View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel
    • 02 Jan 2001
    • Research & Ideas

    Gurus in the Garage

    aren't direct, one-to-one transactions. Bread cast upon the water returns in another form at another time from other people. "You can see it coming back to you," Johnson explains. "Like with Grassroots [his own recent... View Details
    Keywords: by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap