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  • March 2004 (Revised June 2004)
  • Case

Blackout: August 14, 2003

By: Thomas R. Eisenmann and Ryland Matthew Willis
On August 14, 2003, an electricity blackout cascaded throughout the northeastern United States and Canada. Describes the structure, technology, and economics of the electric utility industry and how gradual deregulation beginning in the 1970s placed unprecedented, and... View Details
Keywords: Information Technology; Performance Improvement; Infrastructure; Energy Sources; Business and Government Relations; Networks; Emerging Markets; Failure; Economics; Utilities Industry; Canada; Northeastern United States
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  • April 2008 (Revised December 2008)
  • Case

North Goes East

By: Nicolas P. Retsinas, Daniela Beyersdorfer and Elena Corsi
In August 2006, Magnus Lofgren and Robert Provine, managing directors and co-founders of the "North Real Estate Opportunities Fund," need to decide which real estate investment the Fund should pursue as its first project. The Fund's target region, Central and Eastern... View Details
Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Investment Funds; Risk Management; Emerging Markets; Opportunities; Real Estate Industry; Europe
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  • 16 Feb 2024
  • Research & Ideas

As AI Upends Recruiting, Job Seekers Need a Waze App for Careers

transition is urgently required if more young people are to launch successful careers that will lead to economic security. “What’s left are the things that are hard to automate, called foundational or human skills.” Even as unemployment... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Information Technology; Technology
  • Research Summary

Competition and Collusion in Ocean Shipping

The liner shipping industry has been dominated by cartels since the late 19th century. Rich Sicotte's research builds on his 1997 Ph.D. thesis and employs analytical tools of industrial organization and economic history. He is examining the sources of variation in... View Details
  • January 2015 (Revised July 2019)
  • Case

CVS Health: Promoting Drug Adherence

By: Leslie John, John Quelch and Robert Huckman
Email mking@hbs.edu for a courtesy copy.

The case describes a program that CVS Health recently implemented to improve medication adherence, an important problem from a societal, public policy, and firm... View Details
Keywords: Medication Adherence; Affordable Care Act (ACA); Marketing Strategy; Communication Strategy; Customer Value and Value Chain; Decisions; Health Care and Treatment; Goals and Objectives; Resource Allocation; Marketing Communications; Consumer Behavior; Measurement and Metrics; Service Delivery; Behavior; Motivation and Incentives; Social Issues; Information Technology; Value Creation; Health Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; Insurance Industry; Public Relations Industry; Retail Industry; United States
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  • 2019
  • Chapter

Network Effects

By: Andrei Hagiu and David B. Yoffie
Network effects are a key economic and strategic phenomenon in 'new economy' industries. They can, but do not necessarily, lead to market tipping, unless they outweigh customers' benefits from differentiation and are accompanied by high switching and multi-homing... View Details
Keywords: Network Effects
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  • 26 Feb 2015
  • News

The Alarming, Long-Term Consequences of Workplace Stress

  • 13 Oct 2021
  • News

Executive Education Courses in Social Entrepreneurship and Nonprofit Leadership

  • 09 Jun 2020
  • News

Fed action, debt markets and stocks

  • 22 Apr 2024
  • Research & Ideas

When Does Impact Investing Make the Biggest Impact?

23 percent less economic output—$9,400 per capita—than those of mainstream companies. Impact-only investments may require more patience, with a roughly 25 percent longer time to reach success. “It's not simply greenwashing in the sense... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • June 2012 (Revised July 2013)
  • Exercise

Competition Simulator Exercise: Instructions

By: Eric Van den Steen
In the Competition Simulator Exercise, students explore through trial and error some important economic foundations of competitive strategy and managerial economics. In particular, the nine simulator exercises let students explore horizontal differentiation with and... View Details
Keywords: Competitive Strategy; Economics; Strategy; Game Theory
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  • Research Summary

Non-Financial Incentives

My research shows how firms combine many facets of internal governance to motivate managers. A perspective that underlies much of my research is that managers are not motivated by financial rewards alone: “it’s not just about the... View Details

  • Web

Technology & Innovation - Faculty & Research

driver of wealth creation and economic growth. Partnerships to foster the translational processes from public research organizations, such as universities and hospitals, to private firms are a policy tool that has attracted increased... View Details
  • 2021
  • Case

Leading Through Challenging Times: Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms

By: Michael Norris, Rawi Abdelal and Kimberlyn Leary
Keisha Lance Bottoms took office as Mayor of Atlanta in 2018 with a progressive agenda and hopes to “keep Atlanta moving forward, leaving no one behind.” She was an Atlanta native, had previously served as a local judge and city councilor, and came into office with... View Details
Keywords: Leadership; City; Problems and Challenges; Health Pandemics; Social Issues; Economy; Atlanta; United States
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  • 21 Nov 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Buy Now, Pay Later: How Retail's Hot Feature Hurts Low-Income Shoppers

Online shopping features that let consumers pay for goods in interest-free installments exploded during the pandemic, but new research questions the riskiness of such services: Are people getting in over their heads? Buy now, pay later (BNPL) financing has snowballed... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Retail; Financial Services; Technology
  • 2014
  • Article

Corporate Governance and the Financial Crisis in Italy

By: Dante Roscini
The financial crisis hit Italy harder than many other Eurozone countries. In part this was due to the fact that the crisis came upon a system that was weakened by years of sub-par economic growth. One of the several endogenous factors that explain the stagnation of the... View Details
Keywords: Financial Crisis; Corporate Governance; Italy; European Union
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  • 16 May 2007
  • Working Paper Summaries

Growth and the Quality of Foreign Direct Investment: Is All FDI Equal?

Keywords: by Laura Alfaro & Andrew Charlton
  • October 2014 (Revised September 2017)
  • Case

The National Football League and Brain Injuries

By: Richard G. Hamermesh and Matthew G. Preble
The National Football League (NFL) was both the most popular spectator sport in the U.S. and a major economic entity, taking in roughly $10 billion a year in revenue. However through the early twenty-first century, an increased understanding of the long-term effects of... View Details
Keywords: Employee Safety; Safety; Employees; Sports; Health; Ethics; Sports Industry; United States
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  • February 2018
  • Case

The Golden Triangle: Back in Business (A)

By: Joseph Fuller, William Kerr, Manjari Raman and Donald Maruyama
The Golden Triangle Region (GTR) is a three-county area in rural Mississippi that suffered a steep decline as manufacturing companies faced pressures from automation and overseas competition. Between the mid 1980s and late 1990s, several textile, toy, and tubing... View Details
Keywords: Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Development Economics; Change; Leadership; Success; Mississippi
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  • Web

Impact Investments

Mainstream Investors” (World Economic Forum, September 2013), http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_II_FromMarginsMainstream_Report_2013.pdf . Abhilash Mudaliar and Hannah Dithrich, “Sizing the Impact Investing Market” (Global Impact Investing... View Details