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  • 02 Feb 2021
  • Blog Post

Finding My Focus in Health care Amidst a Global Pandemic

decade, legislators have passed countless health care policies that impact how hospitals, insurance companies and pharmaceutical manufacturers deliver services to patients. Even more, the ongoing SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has uncovered major... View Details
  • 24 Jan 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Rethinking Activity-Based Costing

practical capacity is grossly in error, the process of running the time-driven ABC system will reveal the error over time. The capacity of most resources is measured in terms of time availability. Returning to our example, let's assume that the customer View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & Steven R. Anderson
  • Web

Corporate Strategy - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

products and services – Limited-edition merchandise from Consumer Products offered through theme parks and catalogs Horizontal mechanisms enable highly effective coordination and sharing – “Synergy department” coordinates projects across... View Details

    Robert C. Merton

    Robert C. Merton is the School of Management Distinguished Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

    Merton is University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University and was the George Fisher Baker Professor of... View Details

    Keywords: financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services
    • 16 Feb 2023
    • HBS Case

    ESG Activists Met the Moment at ExxonMobil, But Did They Succeed?

    The impact-investment hedge fund Engine No. 1 made a big splash in May 2021 when it managed to get three nominees elected to the ExxonMobil board of directors. It was an open effort to prod the oil giant toward renewable energy and test whether activist investing could... View Details
    Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Financial Services

      Rowan Clarke

      Rowan Clarke is a PhD candidate at Harvard Business School in the Strategy Unit. He researches entrepreneurship and technology/AI for economic development and social impact. His work assists small business entrepreneurs, and high-growth technology... View Details

      Keywords: financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services
      • Web

      Faculty & Research - Health Care

      with one another. “ We are moving toward global competition for health care services driven by high costs in the United States and the lack of access to care in countries with governmentally controlled systems. ” Regina E. Herzlinger... View Details
      • Web

      Topics - HBS Working Knowledge

      Uncertainty (36) SWOT Analysis (5) Safety (13) Salesforce Management (18) Sales (30) Satisfaction (11) Saving (5) Science-Based Business (7) Science (237) Search Technology (22) Segmentation (1) Selection and Staffing (10) Service... View Details
      • 05 Jun 2007
      • First Look

      First Look: June 5, 2007

      supplement: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=807158 Westin Hotels and Resorts: Operations of a Lifestyle Experience Harvard Business School Case 607-129 Westin Hotels and Resorts adopted a new "lifestyle" brand strategy which... View Details
      Keywords: Martha Lagace
      • 07 Mar 2023
      • HBS Case

      ChatGPT: Did Big Tech Set Up the World for an AI Bias Disaster?

      Her Gender Shades project with Joy Buolamwini found that facial recognition services offered by IBM, Microsoft, and other companies misidentified Black women as much as 35 percent of the time while performing nearly perfectly with white... View Details
      Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis; Technology
      • Web

      Economic Development in Inner Cities - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

      Shared Value Almost all big companies have active charitable programs and give to social service organizations. But they rarely grasp that helping revitalize their local communities can enhance their competitiveness. Such strategies... View Details
      • February 2024
      • Supplement

      JTC: Stronger Together with Shared Ownership: What JTC Did and Its Impact

      By: Ethan Bernstein
      Nigel Le Quesne, CEO of Jersey-based financial services firm JTC, firmly believed that "shared ownership" was at the heart of his company’s successful track record. The firm had seen its revenues, profits, and number of clients and staff grow steadily throughout its... View Details
      Keywords: Employee Stock Ownership Plan; Leadership Style; Organizational Culture; Going Public; Employee Ownership; Financial Services Industry
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      • June 2019 (Revised July 2019)
      • Case

      Building a Meritocracy at Alghanim Industries

      By: Paul M. Healy, Susanna Gallani and Esel Çekin
      Building on his father’s legacy, Omar Alghanim (MBA 2002) had been working on strengthening a performance-driven culture based on meritocracy in the family business, Alghanim Industries. The task had been particularly challenging because of traditional Middle East... View Details
      Keywords: Meritocracy; Social Norms; Family Business; Organizational Culture; Performance; Diversity; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Middle East; Kuwait
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      • August 2015
      • Article

      A Comparative-Advantage Approach to Government Debt Maturity

      By: Robin Greenwood, Samuel G. Hanson and Jeremy C. Stein
      We study optimal government debt maturity in a model where investors derive monetary services from holding riskless short-term securities. In a setting where the government is the only issuer of such riskless paper, it trades off the monetary premium associated with... View Details
      Keywords: Sovereign Finance; Debt Securities
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      • February 2009 (Revised April 2011)
      • Supplement

      Mistry Architects (C)

      By: Amy C. Edmondson, Robert G. Eccles and Mona Sinha
      This case is a follow-up to "Mistry Architects: Innovating for Sustainability (A)" (Case 609-044) and (B) (Case 609-064). In Case (A) Sharukh and Renu Mistry founded and run an architectural firm dedicated to being both client-oriented and environmentally responsible.... View Details
      Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Growth and Development Strategy; Management Succession; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business and Community Relations; Nonprofit Organizations; Environmental Sustainability
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      • October 2007
      • Case

      iPhone vs. Cell Phone

      By: David B. Yoffie and Michael Slind
      The launch of Apple's iPhone marked a pivotal new chapter in the story of mobile music (the uniting of digital music players with mobile phones). The iPhone combined an iPod music player, a cell phone, and a mobile Internet device, along with a camera and other... View Details
      Keywords: Communication Technology; Music Entertainment; Product Launch; Partners and Partnerships; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Communications Industry; Music Industry
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      • January 2003 (Revised August 2003)
      • Case

      General Mills and the Hawthorne Huddle (A)

      Examines the role of General Mills in the formation and leadership of the Hawthorne Huddle. The Huddle was in the Hawthorne neighborhood in Northern Minneapolis, which in 1997 was plagued with high crime and poverty. The Huddle served as a forum, held the first... View Details
      Keywords: Leadership; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Management Succession; Social Issues; Consumer Products Industry; Minneapolis
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      • August 1997
      • Case

      Orbital Sciences Corporation: ORBCOMM

      By: Das Narayandas and John A. Quelch
      In late 1993, Orbital Communications Corp. (OCC), a subsidiary of Orbital Sciences Corp., is developing a global two-way wireless data communications system, called "ORBCOMM," based on a 26-satellite constellation in low earth orbit. Service is scheduled to begin in... View Details
      Keywords: Business Subsidiaries; Business Model; Business Startups; Price; Global Strategy; Marketing Strategy; Demand and Consumers; Partners and Partnerships; Salesforce Management; Telecommunications Industry
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      • February 2022 (Revised March 2022)
      • Case

      National Electric Vehicles Sweden (NEVS): Materializing a Vision

      By: Shane Greenstein and Elena Corsi
      In 2021, the car manufacturer National Electric Vehicle Sweden (NEVS) faced the challenge of securing funding from its investor to launch an innovative mobility solution based on fleets of shared autonomous driving (AD) cars. The system was complex as it required the... View Details
      Keywords: Autonomous Vehicles; Product Design; Sustainable Cities; Transportation Networks; Auto Industry; Sweden; Europe
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      • July 2020
      • Case

      CSL Capital Management: Patriot Proppants (A)

      By: Victoria Ivashina and Yury Kapko
      This two-part case series follows CSL Capital’s 2009 investment in the greenfield manufacturing company, Patriot Proppants. CSL, a recently established investment firm, employs a unique investment model, funding new ("green field") energy service businesses that serve... View Details
      Keywords: Investment; Renewable Energy; Business Model; Decision Making
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