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  • 29 Jun 2016
  • Research & Ideas

The $1 Trillion Link Between Mental Health and Economic Productivity

In April, the World Health Organization released a groundbreaking study that established a definitive link between mental health and economic productivity. The findings were both depressing and hopeful. On the downside, depression and anxiety disorders View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • February 2013
  • Teaching Note

Australia: Commodities and Competitiveness (TN)

By: Laura Alfaro, Richard H.K. Vietor and Hilary White
For the past few decades, Australia has dealt with the benefits and costs of repeated mining booms—inflation, a housing bubble, a current account deficit and growing dependence on China. Between 1996 and 2007, however, Australia had most of these issues under control... View Details
Keywords: Competitiveness; Inflation; Mining; Current Account; Exchange Rates; Trade; Capital Flows; Commodities; Environment; Carbon Tax; Goods and Commodities; Australia
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  • 12 Apr 2021
  • News

Healthier by Design

  • 22 Sep 2016
  • HBS Seminar

Hunt Allcott, Stanford University

  • 02 Nov 2016
  • Working Paper Summaries

The Structure of Board Committees

Keywords: by Kevin D. Chen and Andy Wu
  • June 1999
  • Case

Matching Dell (A)

By: Jan W. Rivkin, Michael E. Porter, Charles E. Bruin, Markus Chappel, Thomas M Galizia and Laila J Worrell
After years of success with its vaunted "Direct Model" for computer manufacturing, marketing, and distribution, Dell Computer Corp. faces efforts by competitors to match its strategy. This case describes the evolution of the personal computer industry, Dell's strategy,... View Details
Keywords: Cost vs Benefits; Competitive Strategy; Industry Structures; Adoption; Computer Industry
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  • November 2010
  • Supplement

Magna International, Inc. (B)

By: Timothy A. Luehrman and Yuhai Xuan
Magna International, Inc., a Canadian-based automotive parts manufacturer, is considering whether and how to unwind its dual-class ownership structure. A family trust controlled by the founder owns a 0.65% economic interest in the company but has 66% of the votes via a... View Details
Keywords: Business and Shareholder Relations; Value Creation; Voting; Family Ownership; Cost; Cost vs Benefits; Stock Shares; Governance Controls; Governing and Advisory Boards; Manufacturing Industry; Auto Industry; Canada
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    Best-selling and New Cases by Ben Esty

    Best-Selling (MOST POPULAR) Cases:  

      1) Eaton: Portfolio Transformation & Cost of... View Details

    • 10 Jun 2010
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Corporate Governance and Internal Capital Markets

    Keywords: by Zacharias Sautner & Belén Villalonga
    • August 2012
    • Article

    Consumer Response to Versioning: How Brands' Production Methods Affect Perceptions of Unfairness

    By: Andrew Gershoff, Ran Kivetz and Anat Keinan
    Marketers often extend product lines by offering limited-capability models that are created by removing or degrading features in existing models. This production method, called versioning, has been lauded because of its ability to increase both consumer and firm... View Details
    Keywords: Brands and Branding; Production; Competency and Skills; Welfare or Wellbeing; Cost vs Benefits; Perception; Customers; Performance Evaluation; Fairness; Business Ventures
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    • July 2021 (Revised December 2021)
    • Case

    Pershing Square's Pandemic Trade (A)

    By: Emil N. Siriwardane, Luis M. Viceira, Dean Xu and Lucas Baker
    This case explores the decision that Bill Ackman, CEO and founder of the hedge fund Pershing Square Capital, was considering in late February 2020 about hedging the exposure of the fund’s portfolio from the potential financial fallout ensuing from an extreme event like... View Details
    Keywords: Health Pandemics; Financial Liquidity; Cost Management; Decision Choices and Conditions; Risk Management
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    • 11 Nov 2014
    • First Look

    First Look: November 11

    separating activities that people are used to co-consuming-new digital businesses are disrupting retailing, telecom, and other industries. Decoupling allows consumers to benefit from the value created at a lower View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 2009
    • Book

    Designing Care: Aligning the Nature and Management of Health Care

    By: Richard Bohmer
    Today's health-care providers face growing criticism - from policy makers and patients alike. As costs continue to spiral upward and concerns about quality of care escalate, the debate has focused on how to finance health care. Yet funding solutions can't... View Details
    Keywords: Cost Management; Health Care and Treatment; Service Delivery; Business Processes; Organizational Culture
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    • 14 Aug 2013
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Firm Competitiveness and Detection of Bribery

    Keywords: by George Serafeim
    • 2023
    • Working Paper

    Fencing Off Silicon Valley: Cross-Border Venture Capital and Technology Spillovers

    By: Ufuk Akcigit, Sina T. Ates, Josh Lerner, Richard Townsend and Yulia Zhestkova
    The treatment of foreign investors is a contentious topic in U.S. entrepreneurship policy. We model a setting where foreign corporate investments in Silicon Valley may allow U.S. entrepreneurs to pursue technologies that they could not otherwise, but may also lead to... View Details
    Keywords: Innovation; Corporate Venture Capital; Knowledge Spillovers; Innovation and Invention; Foreign Direct Investment; Venture Capital; Entrepreneurship; Policy; United States
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    • 2016
    • Working Paper

    Capital Requirements, Risk Choice, and Liquidity Provision in a Business Cycle Model

    By: Juliane Begenau
    This paper develops a quantitative dynamic general equilibrium model in which households' preferences for safe and liquid assets constitute a violation of Modigliani and Miller. I show that the scarcity of these coveted assets created by increased bank capital... View Details
    Keywords: Capital Requirement; Bank Regulation; Demand For Safe Assets; Business Cycles; Bank Lending; Risk Management; Financial Liquidity; Financing and Loans; Capital; Banks and Banking
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    • November 1992 (Revised December 1992)
    • Case

    Deere & Co. (A): The Computer Aided Manufacturing Services Division - A Window to the World (Abridged)

    By: Robert H. Hayes
    The Computer-Aided Manufacturing (CAM) Services Division of John Deere has just received approval to sell their software and computer systems to external customers. These tools, initially developed for internal use, have been widely used throughout Deere. Still,... View Details
    Keywords: Information Infrastructure; Applications and Software; Machinery and Machining; Technological Innovation; Markets; Marketing Strategy; Product Launch; Outcome or Result; Computer Industry; Manufacturing Industry
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    • December 2006 (Revised October 2007)
    • Case

    Embrapa

    By: David E. Bell and Mary L. Shelman
    Brazil's national agricultural research corporation, Embrapa, has developed an integrated crop and livestock production system that will allow farmers and ranchers to intensify production and improve profitability. Broad adoption of the technology would provide the... View Details
    Keywords: Agribusiness; Policy; Business and Government Relations; Environmental Sustainability; Technology Adoption; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Brazil
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    • April–May 2019
    • Article

    Disclosure Incentives When Competing Firms Have Common Ownership

    By: Jihwon Park, Jalal Sani, Nemit Shroff and Hal D. White
    This paper examines whether common ownership – i.e., instances where investors simultaneously own significant stakes in competing firms – affects voluntary disclosure. We argue that common ownership (i) reduces proprietary cost concerns of disclosure, and (ii)... View Details
    Keywords: Voluntary Disclosure; Externalities; Corporate Disclosure; Ownership
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    • 25 Jul 2016
    • Research & Ideas

    Who is to Blame for 'The Great Training Robbery'?

    you have to make judgments about the extent and timing of the overlap depending on the circumstance. We are recommending a sequence that our research and experience show leads to more rapid and cost effective change. The important point... View Details
    Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Education