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  • July 2002 (Revised August 2014)
  • Case

WellSpace Treatment Centers for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (A)

By: Regina E. Herzlinger, Jun HuangPu and Bing Lin
How should WellSpace, a venture capital-backed purveyor of alternative health services, expand? Although it was nearing breakeven in its first location, the right business model remained unclear. View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Health Care and Treatment; Innovation and Invention; Service Delivery; Health Industry
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Jason A. Kilar

expressing a desire to start his own media and technology company someday. Rayport told him about the Amazon case and mentioned its founder, Jeff Bezos. “He seems very sharp,” Rayport said. “Why don’t you think about... View Details

    Nancy F. Koehn

    Nancy F. Koehn is a historian at the Harvard Business School where she holds the James E. Robison chair of Business Administration. Koehn's research focuses on crisis leadership and how leaders and their teams rise to the challenges of high-stakes situations. Her... View Details

    Keywords: media; media; media; media; media; media; media; media; media; media
    • 23 Apr 2019
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, April 23, 2019

    managers have to learn how to lead others rather than do the work themselves, to win trust and respect, to motivate, and to strike the right balance between delegation and control. Many fail to make the transition successfully. In this... View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
    • 27 Apr 2021
    • Research & Ideas

    New Research: Surviving Bankruptcy, Useful Economics, and Retirement

    Published Papers Do the Right Firms Survive Bankruptcy? Journal of Financial Economics Samuel Antill “In United States, Chapter 11 bankruptcy cases, firms are either reorganized, acquired, or liquidated. I show that decisions to liquidate... View Details
    • 27 Mar 2012
    • First Look

    First Look: March 27

    Publication:Quarterly Journal of Economics (forthcoming) Abstract We argue that social capital as proxied by trust increases aggregate productivity by affecting the organization of firms. To do this we collect new data on the... View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel
    • July–August 2016
    • Article

    How to Pay for Health Care

    By: Michael E. Porter and Robert S. Kaplan
    The United States stands at a crossroads in how to pay for health care. Fee for service, the dominant model in the United States and many other countries, is now widely recognized as perhaps the biggest obstacle to improving health care delivery. A battle is currently... View Details
    Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Finance; Health Industry; United States
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    Lisa Cousins

    achieve. I entered HBS open to a variety of paths, and when I attended the introductory meeting for the Hospitality & Travel Industry Club, it became clear to me right away that the hotel industry was where I was meant to be - I was... View Details
    Keywords: Entertainment / Media; Entertainment / Media
    • September 2001 (Revised July 2009)
    • Case

    Buenos Aires Embotelladora S.A. (BAESA): A South American Restructuring

    By: Stuart C. Gilson and Gustavo A. Herrero
    In 1998, BAESA, PepsiCo's largest bottler and distributor outside North America, experienced severe financial difficulty and had to restructure its debt and business operations to avoid bankruptcy or liquidation. Based in Argentina, with operations throughout South... View Details
    Keywords: Restructuring; Borrowing and Debt; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Bonds; Stocks; Multinational Firms and Management; Laws and Statutes; United States; Argentina; Brazil
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    • 15 May 2013
    • Research & Ideas

    From McRibs to Maseratis: The Power of Scarcity Marketing

    Editor's note: Think money can't buy happiness? Behavioral economists Elizabeth Dunn and Michael Norton beg to differ. It actually can, they say—but only if we spend it the right way. In their book released this week, Happy Money: The... View Details
    Keywords: Re: Michael I. Norton
    • January 2009 (Revised July 2010)
    • Case

    iZumi

    By: Robert F. Higgins, Jacob Ian Broder-Fingert, Eliot Sherman and Sidhartha Palani
    Presents the issues faced while building an innovative company in an emerging space with new intellectual property from the perspective of a venture capitalist. Beth Seidenberg, a partner at the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB), had helped... View Details
    Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Globalized Markets and Industries; Innovation and Management; Intellectual Property; Rights; Genetics; Financial Services Industry; Health Industry
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      Christina R. Wing

      Christina Wing is a Senior Lecturer in the Technology and Operations Management Unit at the Harvard Business School. Her research focuses primarily on topics surrounding families in business, and the course she created, titled Demystifying the Family... View Details

      • 11 Sep 2000
      • Research & Ideas

      Riding the Internet Fast Track

      a single quarter last year, invested $3.8 billion in Internet start-ups. But, is the get-big-fast strategy right for everyone? To what extent is its payoff dependent on speculative excess in the capital... View Details
      Keywords: by Peter Jacobs
      • 30 Sep 2022
      • Blog Post

      Latina Women in Leadership: Jacqueline Burgos (MBA 2014)

      works at Google in their Go-to-Market organization supporting the largest media advertising agencies in the world. Tell us about your life before HBS. Before HBS, I worked at HBO as a New Media Analyst in... View Details

        Suraj Srinivasan

        Suraj Srinivasan is the Philip J. Stomberg Professor of Business Administration, a member of the Accounting and Management faculty unit, and chair of the View Details

        Keywords: accounting industry; financial services
        • August 2020 (Revised November 2022)
        • Case

        George Soros: The Stateless Statesman

        By: Geoffrey Jones and Wendy Ying
        This case traces the business career and philanthropic activities of George Soros. The Hungarian-born Soros made a fortune as a hedge fund investor after establishing Quantum Fund on the tax haven island of Curaçao in the Netherlands Antilles in 1973 where he was... View Details
        Keywords: Hedge Fund; Philanthropy; Populism; Finance; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Political Elections; Personal Development and Career; Leadership Style; Financial Services Industry; Europe; Hungary; United Kingdom; North and Central America; United States
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        • 23 May 2012
        • Research & Ideas

        Five Ways to Make Your Company More Innovative

        In a hypercompetitive global economy, creativity has never been more important for success . But how do you create a company that unleashes and capitalizes on innovation? For answers, writers at the HBS Alumni Bulletin turned to five HBS... View Details
        Keywords: by Garry Emmons, Julia Hanna & Roger Thompson
        • 14 Feb 2005
        • Research & Ideas

        Desktop Search and Revenue Streams

        panelists where search competitors could gain the most distinct advantage. "I think for us at Yahoo right now, we see an opportunity in helping users manage their personal information," said Bradley Horowitz, director of Yahoo's... View Details
        Keywords: by Julie Jette
        • May 2019
        • Background Note

        Founders' Agreements

        By: Shikhar Ghosh, Shweta Bagai and Sanchali Pal
        Crafting a Founders’ Agreement is an important component of startup infrastructure as it documents a complex set of decisions that build a company’s roots. Its four key elements are: roles and responsibilities, rights (decision rights, rewards, position on board),... View Details
        Keywords: Founders' Agreements; Team Management; Contingency Planning; Business Startups; Equity; Entrepreneurship
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        • 10 Jul 2018
        • Blog Post

        Successful Internship Matchmaking: “With Citadel, I could be myself.”

        She wasn’t just seeking potential companies, but promising visions and missions. “I was thinking of human capital in terms of people, talent and culture,” Sarah explains. “I needed to find organizations that already got it and saw people... View Details