Publications

Publications

Filter Results: (2,494) Arrow Down
Filter Results: (2,494) Arrow Down Arrow Up

Show Results For

Show Results For

← Page 17 of 2,494 Results →
  • February 12, 2021
  • Article

The Commercial Space Age Is Here

By: Matt Weinzierl and Mehak Sarang
In May of 2020, SpaceX made history as the first private company to send humans into space. This marks not only a tremendous technological achievement, but also the first indication that an entirely new “space-for-space” industry—that is, goods and services designed to... View Details
Keywords: Space Economy; New Markets; Emerging Markets; Opportunities; Entrepreneurship; Commercialization; Aerospace Industry
Related
  • 02 Sep 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Food Stamp Entrepreneurs: How Public Assistance Enables Business Bootstrapping

welfare services leads to an increase in the formation of new companies. (The paper cites a related example: author J. K. Rowling, who wrote the first Harry Potter novel while receiving welfare benefits in the United Kingdom.)... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health
  • February 2001
  • Case

California PERS (B)

By: Jay O. Light, Jay W. Lorsch, James O. Sailer and Katharina Pick
The largest state pension fund continues the evolution of its approach to corporate governance contemplating "relationship investing" and other new approaches. View Details
Keywords: Investment; Corporate Governance; Financial Management; Asset Management; Business and Shareholder Relations; Investment Funds; Financial Services Industry; California
Related
  • April 2023
  • Case

Strive Asset Management

By: Suraj Srinivasan, Lynn S. Paine and Aldo Sesia
Strive Asset Management, which launched in 2022, was actively targeting several leading U.S. companies in the upcoming 2023 proxy voting season to stop acquiescing to those large asset managers and other institutional shareholders who were pressing those companies to... View Details
Keywords: ESG; Shareholder Activism; Asset Management; Investment Funds; Corporate Governance; Risk Management; Climate Change; Diversity; Equity; Financial Services Industry; United States
Related
  • 15 Jan 2020
  • Video

Hüsnü Özyeğin

Hüsnü Özyeğin, chair of the Turkish financial services company Fiba Holding, describes how the government's policies contributed to the financial crisis in Turkey of 1994. View Details

    Lauren H. Cohen

    Lauren Cohen is the L.E. Simmons Professor in the Finance & Entrepreneurial Management Units at Harvard Business School and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is an Editor of the Review of Financial... View Details

    Keywords: financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services
    • November 2020 (Revised February 2022)
    • Case

    CommonSpirit Health: Integrating a Merger of Equals

    By: Robert S. Huckman, Hise Gibson and Nicole Gilmore
    Soon after closing the 2019 merger of Catholic Health Initiatives (CHI) and Dignity Health to create CommonSpirit Health, Lloyd Dean and Kevin Lofton-–jointly appointed to the role of CEO—must make several operational and strategic decisions related to the integration... View Details
    Keywords: Health Care Delivery; Hospital; Merger; Merger Integration; Hospital Mergers; Health Information Technology; CEOs; Health Care and Treatment; Mergers and Acquisitions; Integration; Leadership; Customer Value and Value Chain; Decision Choices and Conditions; Governance; Information Technology; Health Industry; United States
    Related
    • 10 Nov 2014
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Crony Capitalism, American Style: What Are We Talking About Here?

    Keywords: by Malcolm S. Salter

      Adrian Gore

      Keywords: Financial services
      • Research Summary

      Managing Networked Businesses

      By: Thomas R. Eisenmann
      Platform-based businesses that leverage network effects face a distinctive set of management challenges. A platform encompasses components and rules that facilitate interactions between the platform's users. A platform-based product or service exhibits a network... View Details
      • 26 Aug 2009
      • Op-Ed

      Where Cash for Clunkers Ran Off the Road

      have attracted the older, most fuel inefficient used cars. Instead, a $4,500 incentive attracted many perfectly serviceable vehicles. Because of government concerns over fraudulent recycling of trade-ins,... View Details
      Keywords: by John Quelch; Auto
      • 29 Sep 2015
      • Research & Ideas

      Work 3.0: Redefining Jobs and Companies in the Uber Age

      as Lyft, Postmates, Upwork, TaskRabbit, and scores of others like them—connect large numbers of independent contractors providing services with customers seeking those services. The companies profit by taking a cut of the revenue for... View Details
      Keywords: by Andrei Hagiu; Web Services; Web Services
      • 19 Nov 2012
      • Research & Ideas

      LEED-ing by Example

      In the debate over whether to increase or decrease the stringency of environmental regulations, the possibility that government agencies might use purchasing to stimulate market demand for "green" products and View Details
      Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Construction; Real Estate; Energy; Utilities
      • October 2018 (Revised January 2019)
      • Case

      The Financial Crisis: Timothy Geithner and the Stress Tests

      By: Samuel G. Hanson, Robin Greenwood, David Scharfstein and Adi Sunderam
      In February and March 2009, the U.S. economy was in the midst of a terrifying financial and economic crisis. Between the beginning of 2008 and early 2009, four of the 25 largest U.S. financial institutions had failed, and nine of these 25 institutions had taken... View Details
      Keywords: Bailout; Regulation; Stress Test; Financial Crisis; History; Economy; Policy; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Decision Making; Financial Services Industry; Financial Services Industry; Financial Services Industry; United States
      Related
      • 04 Apr 2011
      • Research & Ideas

      Attention Medical Shoppers: What Health Care Can Learn from Walmart and Amazon

      that the system isn't set up to incentivize health care workers to do that. "The reason it's never done is that nobody gets paid to do it .there's no incentive to do anything," Cutler said. Services Not Emphasized In terms of... View Details
      Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health
      • November 2010 (Revised September 2015)
      • Case

      American International Group - 2010

      By: Jay W. Lorsch and Melissa Barton
      The AIG Board underwent significant restructuring after the company was bailed out by the U.S. government in September 2008 in the midst of the financial crisis. View Details
      Keywords: Financial Crisis; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Business and Government Relations; Governing and Advisory Boards; Management Teams; Restructuring; Financial Services Industry
      Related
      • Winter 2019
      • Article

      Value-based Health Care: Lessons for the Anesthesiologist

      By: J.A. Martin, B.L. Potter, T.F. Flanagan and T.W. Feeley
      At one point or another in our life, we 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.... View Details
      Keywords: Value-based Health Care; Anesthesiologists; Health Care and Treatment; Value; Cost Management; Problems and Challenges; Health Industry; United States
      Related
      • 23 Feb 2011
      • First Look

      First Look: Feb. 23

      Incumbents Fare in the Face of Increased Service Competition? Authors:Ryan W. Buell, Dennis Campbell, and Frances X. Frei Abstract We explore the conditions under which service competition leads to customer... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • Web

      The Five Forces - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

      Five Forces Threat of Substitute Products or Services Bargaining Power of Suppliers Bargaining Power of Buyers Threat of New Entrants Rivalry Among Existing Competitors The Five Forces is a framework for understanding the competitive... View Details

        Benjamin C. Esty

        Benjamin Esty is the Roy and Elizabeth Simmons Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Over the years, he has taught a variety of courses ranging from advanced corporate finance and project finance to competitive strategy and leadership. He... View Details

        Keywords: financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services