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    Improving the Rhythm of Your Collaboration

    Winner of the annual MIT Sloan Management Review Richard Beckhard Memorial Prize, for the most outstanding MIT SMR article on planned change and organizational development. Chosen by MIT Sloan faculty judges Deborah Ancona, John Van Maanen, and Cyrus... View Details

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    Information Technology and Vertical Integration: Evidence from Plant-level Data (with Chris Forman)

    We study the relationship between different margins of information technology (IT) use and vertical integration using plant-level data from the U.S. Census of Manufactures. Focusing on the short-run decision of whether to allocate production output to downstream plants... View Details
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    Studying the Historical Impact of Globalization on Argentina and Chile

    A major priority of the business history group within the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at Harvard Business School is the globalization of the research and teaching of business history. Within this broad context, the overall aim of this two-year project is to... View Details
    • November 2015
    • Article

    Multi-Sided Platforms

    By: Andrei Hagiu and Julian Wright
    We study the economic tradeoffs that drive organizations to position themselves closer to or further away from a multi-sided platform (MSP) business model, relative to three traditional alternatives: vertically integrated firms, resellers or input suppliers. These... View Details
    Keywords: Two Sided Markets; Reseller; Multi-Sided Platforms; Vertical Integration
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    • 2014
    • Working Paper

    Entrepreneurship as Experimentation

    By: William R. Kerr, Ramana Nanda and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf
    Entrepreneurship research is on the rise but many questions about its fundamental nature still exist. We argue that entrepreneurship is about experimentation: the probabilities of success are low, extremely skewed and unknowable until an investment is made. At a macro... View Details
    Keywords: Experiments; Innovation; Entrepreneurship; Innovation and Invention
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    • July 2022
    • Teaching Plan

    Wellthy: The Economics of Caring

    By: Brian Trelstad
    Teaching Plan for HBS Case No. 320-028. In 2014, Lindsay Jurist-Rosner (MBA ’09) founded Wellthy, a B2C business that coordinates care for working professionals seeking help to support loved ones with chronic diseases or aging parents. With personal experience as a... View Details
    Keywords: B2B Vs. B2C; Future Of Work; Health; Social Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development Strategy; Health Care and Treatment; Recruitment; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Health Industry; United States
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    • 2014
    • Book

    Aligning Strategy and Sales: The Choices, Systems, and Behaviors That Drive Effective Selling

    By: Frank V. Cespedes
    There are many books that provide strategy advice and selling methodologies. But there is a gap in the management literature when it comes to linking sales efforts with strategy. Part 1 of this book provides data indicating how and why sales remain (by far) the biggest... View Details
    Keywords: Strategy; Sales
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    • May 2012 (Revised November 2015)
    • Case

    The National Geographic Society (A) (Abridged)

    By: David A. Garvin and Annelena Lobb
    In January 2010, John Fahey, president, CEO, and chairman of the board of trustees' executive committee of the Washington, D.C.–based National Geographic Society (NGS), must decide how best to organize the 121-year old mission-driven organization for a world of... View Details
    Keywords: General Management; Change Management; Media And Publishing; Digital Convergence; Strategy Development; Business Models; Information Publishing; Online Technology; Business Model; Organizational Structure; Business Strategy; Publishing Industry
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    • August 2011
    • Supplement

    An Interview with John Fahey, President and CEO of National Geographic Society

    By: David Garvin
    In January 2010, John Fahey, president, CEO, and chairman of the board of trustees' executive committee of the Washington, D.C.-based National Geographic Society (NGS), must decide how best to organize the 121-year old mission-driven organization for a world of... View Details
    Keywords: Transformation; Leadership Style; Business or Company Management; Brands and Branding; Problems and Challenges; Sales; Natural Environment; Business Strategy; Web Sites
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    • August 2011
    • Supplement

    John Fahey, President and CEO of National Geographic Society, In-Class Comments, 2/11/11

    By: David Garvin
    In January 2010, John Fahey, president, CEO, and chairman of the board of trustees' executive committee of the Washington, D.C.-based National Geographic Society (NGS), must decide how best to organize the 121-year old mission-driven organization for a world of... View Details
    Keywords: Transformation; Leadership Style; Business or Company Management; Brands and Branding; Sales; Environmental Sustainability; Business Strategy; Web Sites; Publishing Industry; Washington (state, US)
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    • October 2009 (Revised January 2010)
    • Case

    The Joslin Diabetes Center

    By: Michael E. Porter, Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg and Scott Wallace
    The Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston, Massachusetts is a leading center for diabetes care, clinician training, and research. The incidence of diabetes is rising precipitously worldwide, challenging quality of life with its complications and rapidly accelerating health... View Details
    Keywords: Integration; Service Delivery; Medical Specialties; Health Care and Treatment; Outcome or Result; Corporate Finance; Health Industry; Boston
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    • May 2009
    • Article

    Synchronicity and Firm Interlocks in an Emerging Market

    By: Tarun Khanna and Catherine Thomas
    Stock price synchronicity has been attributed to poor corporate governance and a lack of firm-level transparency. This paper investigates the association between different kinds of firm interlocks, control groups, and synchronicity in Chile. A unique data set... View Details
    Keywords: Stocks; Price; Corporate Governance; Governance Controls; Governing and Advisory Boards; Resource Allocation; Emerging Markets; Ownership Stake; Chile
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    • 21 May 2014
    • HBS Seminar

    Robert Kraut, Carnegie Mellon

      Ray A. Goldberg

      A native of North Dakota, Dr. Goldberg received his A.B. from Harvard University in 1948, his MBA from the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration in 1950 and his Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics from the University of Minnesota in 1952.

      ... View Details

      Keywords: agribusiness; agriculture; fast food; food; food processing; forest products; grocery; high technology; information; restaurant; retailing; soft drink; textiles; tobacco; transportation; wholesale; wine
      • Program

      Strategy: Building and Sustaining Competitive Advantage

      strategic tradeoffs as you identify the resources and changes needed to execute your strategy Execute and coordinate strategy across multiple lines of business and global markets Expand your personal and professional network Extend your... View Details
      • January 1998 (Revised March 2000)
      • Case

      Reading Rehabilitation Hospital: Implementing Patient-Focused Care

      Reading Rehab Hospital has experimented with a popular new concept in health care--patient-focused care--intended to increase quality and reduce costs by organizing care delivery around particular diagnoses or "service lines," rather than around the functions or... View Details
      Keywords: Demand and Consumers; Production; Service Operations; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry
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        Accounting for Crises

        While neoclassical models suggest that improving the quality of financial information tightens the link between the realization of the information and the underlying fundamentals, models of recent crises suggest that higher information quality can generate... View Details
        • 25 May 2007
        • Working Paper Summaries

        Self-Regulatory Institutions for Solving Environmental Problems: Perspectives and Contributions from the Management Literature

        Keywords: by Andrew King & Michael W. Toffel
        • Research Summary

        Research Focus

        By: Anita Elberse
        My research focuses on "creative industries," defined as industries that supply goods that we commonly associate with artistic, cultural, or entertainment value -- including book and magazine publishing, film, music, television, video games, the performing... View Details
        • June 1998
        • Article

        The Politics of Monetary Leadership and Followership: Stability in the European Monetary System Since the Currency Crisis of 1992

        By: Rawi Abdelal
        Despite widespread scepticism, there is a fundamental continuity in the stability of the European Monetary System (EMS) before and after the 1992 crisis. Although speculative pressures provoked European leaders to widen the fluctuation bands of the Exchange Rate... View Details
        Keywords: Money; Leadership; System; Balance and Stability; Europe
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