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  • 04 Jun 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?

for this to happen. Q: There's an interesting phenomenon going on, and that's basically outsourcing fairly complex surgeries to India for much cheaper prices. Does this actually pose a threat to the institutionalized health care View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Health
  • Article

State Activism and the Hidden Incentives Behind Bank Acquisitions

By: Christopher Marquis, Doug Guthrie and Juan Almandoz
A number of studies have shown that, as a result of the ambiguity of U.S. legal mandates, organizations have considerable latitude in how they comply with regulations. In this paper, we address how the different agendas of the federal and state governments increase... View Details
Keywords: Organizations; Opportunities; Government Legislation; Acquisition; Forecasting and Prediction; Banks and Banking; Motivation and Incentives; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Management Practices and Processes; Research; United States
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  • 2012
  • Working Paper

Conflict Policy and Advertising Agency-Client Relations: The Problem of Competing Clients Sharing a Common Agency

By: Alvin J. Silk
What restrictions should be placed on advertising agencies with respect to serving accounts or clients that are competitors of one another in order to avoid conflicts in interest? In recent decades, the advertising and marketing services industry has undergone a number... View Details
Keywords: Advertising; Service Delivery; Competition; Conflict of Interests; Policy; Practice; Advertising Industry; United States
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  • Web

Placement - Doctoral

experienced coaches. HBS coaches teach students writing, presentation, and slide design skills. Faculty advisors are there every step of the way to help students navigate the complex job market. HBS students can also access resources... View Details
  • 09 Mar 2009
  • Research & Ideas

How to Revive Health-Care Innovation

similar way, write the authors. "There is little dispute that we need a system that is competitive, responsive, and consumer-driven, with clear metrics of value per dollar spent." In the following excerpt, they outline three... View Details
Keywords: by Clayton M. Christensen, Jerome H. Grossman, M.D. M.D. & Jason Hwang; Health

    Jerry R. Green

    Jerry R. Green

    David A. Wells Professor of Political Economy

    John Leverett Professor in the University

    Harvard University

     

    Jerry Green is the John Leverett Professor in the University and the David A. Wells... View Details

    Keywords: aerospace; education industry; insurance industry; professional services
    • 09 Aug 2024
    • Blog Post

    Addressing Inequities in Education: Social Enterprise Summer Fellow Amal Tariq (MBA 2025)

    organizations driving systemic changes in public education. City Fund partners with local leaders across the country to build innovative public school systems aimed at moving children out of poverty and into... View Details
    • May 2009
    • Case

    Tokyo Electron Ltd.

    By: Willy C. Shih and Andrew A. King
    Tokyo Electron Ltd. operates in a constrained innovation environment, defined by modular boundaries that are long standing in the industry that it serves, the global semiconductor manufacturing industry. While the original motivation for these boundaries was division... View Details
    Keywords: Globalized Markets and Industries; Governance Controls; Technological Innovation; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Boundaries; Manufacturing Industry; Semiconductor Industry
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    • 2012
    • Article

    Conflict Policy and Advertising Agency-Client Relations: The Problem of Competing Clients Sharing a Common Agency

    By: Alvin J. Silk
    What restrictions should be placed on advertising agencies with respect to serving accounts or clients that are competitors of one another in order to avoid conflicts of interest? In recent decades, the advertising and marketing services industry has undergone a number... View Details
    Keywords: Advertising Agency; Competitors; Marketing Services Industry; Structural Changes; Agency-client Relationships; Hybrid Conflict Policies; Safeguards; Advertising; Advertising Industry; Europe; Latin America; North and Central America
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    • 01 Aug 2023
    • What Do You Think?

    As Leaders, Why Do We Continue to Reward A, While Hoping for B?

    Mixed Signals, presents research findings that remind us again about failures to understand the complexities surrounding incentives and ways of avoiding or minimizing their unintended consequences. Most business leaders would probably... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett
    • August 2002
    • Article

    Creativity Under the Gun

    By: Teresa Amabile, Constance N. Hadley and Steven J. Kramer
    If you're like most managers, you've worked with people who swear they do their most creative work under tight deadlines. You may use pressure as a management technique, believing it will spur people on to great leaps of insight. You may even manage yourself this way.... View Details
    Keywords: Creativity; Innovation and Invention; Time Management; Working Conditions; Performance Evaluation
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    • September 2008
    • Article

    Firm Heterogeneity and Credit Risk Diversification

    By: Samuel G. Hanson, M. Hashem Pesaran and Til Schuermann
    This paper examines the impact of neglected heterogeneity on credit risk. We show that neglecting heterogeneity in firm returns and/or default thresholds leads to under estimation of expected losses (EL), and its effect on portfolio risk is ambiguous. Once EL is... View Details
    Keywords: Volatility; Credit; Investment Return; Outcome or Result; Risk and Uncertainty; Loss; Diversification; Complexity; United States
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    • February 2019 (Revised January 2020)
    • Case

    Pierre Foods Acquisition of Advance Foods (A)

    By: Guhan Subramanian and Mike Harmon
    This case (A), and its related cases (B-E), establish a setting to discuss an M&A transaction and some of the key legal contracts that are associated with it. In 2010, private equity backed food manufacturer Pierre Foods is contemplating the acquisition of a key... View Details
    Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Contracts; Agreements and Arrangements; Negotiation; Complexity
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    • 2012
    • Book

    Harder Than I Thought: Adventures of a Twenty-First Century Leader

    By: Robert D. Austin, Richard L. Nolan and Shannon O'Donnell
    Being a great leader today is much harder than you think—meet Jim Barton. He's a newly minted CEO, rising leader of a firm in transition, and manager of massive complexity—thanks to our incredibly networked and increasingly unpredictable world of business. What if you... View Details
    Keywords: Leadership; Complexity; Crisis Management; Problems and Challenges; Volatility
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    • 21 Dec 2009
    • Research & Ideas

    Good Banks, Bad Banks, and Government’s Role as Fixer

    funds, Pozen writes with authority and unusual clarity about complex issues in Too Big to Save? How to Fix the U.S. Financial System (John Wiley & Sons). Roger Thompson: How does the government figure... View Details
    Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Banking; Financial Services
    • 16 Apr 2019
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, April 16, 2019

    all become consumers of the health care industry. Indeed, health care affects everyone and encompasses a diverse set of services from childbirth, to illness prevention, to the management of chronic disease and end-of-life care. Health care in the United States is... View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
    • 06 Feb 2007
    • First Look

    First Look: February 6, 2007

    technology was used illegally on 70-80 percent of the soybean area in southern Brazil. Under pressure from U.S. soybean growers, who were paying to license the technology, the firm implemented an innovative delivery-based collection View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • Web

    Lifelong Learning - Alumni

    industries, and enable ownership of digital assets? 377 01 Mar 2024 HBS Alumni Bulletin On the Radar An early warning system for the next generation of biosecurity threats Re: Matthew McKnight (MBA 2012); By: Janine White 713 01 Mar 2024... View Details
    • Article

    Mission-Driven Governance

    By: Raymond Fisman, Rakesh Khurana and Edward Martenson

    The purpose of this paper is to provide a useful, easily applied theory of governance performance. The existing model is fundamentally adversarial, rooted in the paradigm of principal-agent conflict. At its base is an image of governance as a never-ending struggle... View Details

    Keywords: Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Knowledge Management; Standards; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Performance Effectiveness; Performance Evaluation
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    • 09 Jan 2024
    • In Practice

    Harnessing AI: What Businesses Need to Know in ChatGPT’s Second Year

    limitations of generative AI solutions, discerning optimal use cases, and establishing boundary conditions will be pivotal. Responsible AI and AI ethics. As integration of AI systems deepens into society, businesses, and education, an... View Details
    Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Information Technology