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Jeffrey F. Rayport
Jeffrey F Rayport is a faculty member in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at Harvard Business School, where he teaches in the School’s MBA and Executive Education Programs and on HBS Online. His primary focus in teaching and research is growth-stage technology... View Details
- 16 Aug 2018
- Blog Post
A Day in the Life as a ‘Spreadsheet Ranger’
Olivia Staffon, MBA 2019, shares a day in the life during her summer internship at the National Park Service, Dinosaur Park. Her project is focused on evaluating opportunities for sharing operational resources such as equipment, labor, or... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
- 27 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Employee-Suggestion Programs That Work
policy at the Harvard School of Public Health. Trained as an industrial engineer, Tucker is interested in the perspective of frontline workers in productivity and process improvement, including how internal supply chains and other... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Guttry
- 26 Mar 2014
- HBS Seminar
Brian Kahin, MIT
- 16 Sep 2020
- Blog Post
Turning a Moment into a Movement: How the Anti-Racism Fund Co-Founders are Fighting Racism and Encouraging Other Companies to Do Their Part
heartbreaking events, watching alongside the rest of the world as Ahmaud Arbery, Christian Cooper, George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Tony McDade were targeted in public places for the color of their skin. These were not the first... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 02 Jul 2019
- Blog Post
Fast-track to Better Outcomes: Yoonjin Min and RapidSOS
During her three years at Boston Consulting Group (BCG), Yoonjin Min, MBA 2020, made the shift from serving as a generalist to a specialist in healthcare strategy. “I liked working on projects where success wasn’t just profit-oriented,”... View Details
- 13 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 13, 2016
Standards, Collusion, and Internal Trade in the 19th Century U.S. By: Gross, Daniel P. Abstract—Technology standards are pervasive in the modern economy, and a target for public and private investments, yet evidence on their economic... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- March 2024
- Article
Medicare Price Negotiation and Pharmaceutical Innovation Following the Inflation Reduction Act
By: Matthew Vogel, Pragya Kakani, Amitabh Chandra and Rena M. Conti
The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) requires Medicare to negotiate lower prices for some medicines with high Medicare spending. Using historical data from public and proprietary sources to apply the IRA's negotiation criteria retrospectively, we identify all drugs that... View Details
Keywords: Policy; Government Legislation; Health Care and Treatment; Negotiation; Price; Pharmaceutical Industry
Vogel, Matthew, Pragya Kakani, Amitabh Chandra, and Rena M. Conti. "Medicare Price Negotiation and Pharmaceutical Innovation Following the Inflation Reduction Act." Nature Biotechnology 42, no. 3 (March 2024): 406–412.
- January 2019 (Revised January 2021)
- Case
The Louvre
By: Rohit Deshpandé, Francois-Lucien Vulliermet and Daniela Beyersdorfer
Once a royal residence and today one of the most photographed Parisian landmarks, the Louvre, home of iconic masterpieces, was the world’s largest and most visited museum in 2017. Its President Director Jean-Luc Martinez had since 2013 spearheaded its development and... View Details
Keywords: Customer-centricity; Cultural Organizations; Museum; Brand; Customer Focus and Relationships; Mission and Purpose; Culture; Education; Brands and Branding; Marketing; Fine Arts Industry
Deshpandé, Rohit, Francois-Lucien Vulliermet, and Daniela Beyersdorfer. "The Louvre." Harvard Business School Case 519-045, January 2019. (Revised January 2021.)
- 18 Jan 2021
- Book
How Thinking Like a Startup Helps Governments Solve More Problems
he has learned during his years in public service: Officials don’t cut projects loose when they are failing, nor do they scale projects when they are succeeding. “Anybody who... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- Research Summary
Corporate transparency and information disclosure strategies
This research focuses on transparency and information disclosure strategies, a topic of growing importance in environmental sustainability, corporate strategy, stakeholder relations, and public policy. My prior research in this area explored why... View Details
- 15 Mar 2010
- HBS Case
Developing Asia’s Largest Slum
unregistered businesses that would quickly turn public opinion against the project. "Government is not one person, obviously; it's many people with many agendas, particularly in India," says Iyer. "That's why this View Details
Jan W. Rivkin
Jan W. Rivkin is a Professor in the Strategy Unit at Harvard Business School. In the past, he has served as Faculty Chair of the MBA Program, Senior Associate Dean for Research, and head of the Strategy Unit. His research, course development, and teaching focus on... View Details
- 20 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Acquirers
When it comes to mergers and acquisitions, private equity firms are in high-stakes competition with public companies to identify takeover targets. During some M&A waves, public companies dominate while... View Details
- 10 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
High Commitment, High Performance Management
firms are able to avoid defensiveness and resulting blindness. HCHP firms institutionalize what I call Learning and Governance Systems, a means for having honest, collective, and public conversations with... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 16 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
Flatiron School: Reflections from Summer 2020
In the summer of 2020, HBS Career & Professional Development (CPD) partnered with Flatiron School to provide students with an opportunity to gain practical skills, statistics fundamentals, and real-life data science project... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- January 2016
- Case
Haiti Hope: Innovating the Mango Value Chain
By: Amy C. Edmondson and Jean-François Harvey
This case study examines a market-based approach to economic development through the eyes of NGO TechnoServe's project manager, implementing a US$9.5 million five-year public-private partnership between Coca-Cola, IDB, and USAID. The case ends at the beginning of the... View Details
Keywords: Sustainability; Economic Development; Corporate Social Responsibility; Emerging Country; Teaming; Public-private Partnership; Inter-organizational Relationships; Collaboration; Strategy Implementation; Agricultural Commodity; Plant-Based Agribusiness; Public Sector; Supply Chain Management; Customer Value and Value Chain; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Learning; Partners and Partnerships; Private Sector; Developing Countries and Economies; Social Enterprise; Food and Beverage Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Haiti
Edmondson, Amy C., and Jean-François Harvey. "Haiti Hope: Innovating the Mango Value Chain." Harvard Business School Case 616-040, January 2016.
- March 1994 (Revised October 1994)
- Case
Reading Energy
Reading Energy builds facilities that produce energy from nontraditional fuels. A privately held, entrepreneurial organization, it has spent six years developing a plan to build a waste-to-energy plant in the town of Robbins, Illinois. The plant would burn municipal... View Details
Keywords: Energy Generation; Wastes and Waste Processing; Business and Community Relations; Business Plan; Agreements and Arrangements; Contracts; Risk and Uncertainty; Government and Politics; Environmental Sustainability; Business Strategy; Energy Industry; Utilities Industry; Illinois
Reinhardt, Forest L. "Reading Energy." Harvard Business School Case 794-102, March 1994. (Revised October 1994.)
- 2015
- Chapter
Government and the Minimalist Platform: Business at the Kumbh Mela
By: John D. Macomber and Tarun Khanna
India's Kumbh Mela, a religious festival occurring once every 12 years at the confluence of the Ganges and Yamuna rivers, attracts over 80 million pilgrims to a temporary "pop-up megacity" over the course of two months. A team of faculty and students from five Harvard... View Details
Macomber, John D., and Tarun Khanna. "Government and the Minimalist Platform: Business at the Kumbh Mela." In Kumbh Mela, January 2013: Mapping the Ephemeral Mega City, edited by Rahul Mehrotra and Felipe Vera. Ostfildern, Germany: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2015.
- 07 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
Election 2024: Why Demographics Won't Predict the Next President
Pundits love a political horse race, parsing the latest polls to predict who might win an election. And in the final runup to the US presidential contest, these forecasts can influence markets and shape public opinion and policies. But as... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald