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  • 09 May 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Called Back to the Office? How You Benefit from Ideas You Didn't Know You Were Missing

biology, physics, economics, and nanotechnology, among others. As part of that effort, Duede and team had surveyed authors of papers in their dataset in 2018, asking them to rate the degree to which their scientific thinking was... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand

    Reinventing State Capitalism

    In this book we study the evolution of corporate governance arrangements that governments have adopted for their state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in the last 20 years. We show that the process of privatization and liberalization of the 1990s and early 2000s created... View Details

    • December 1995 (Revised February 1997)
    • Case

    Student Educational Loan Fund, Inc.

    By: Peter Tufano
    Rick Melnick oversees the Student Educational Loan Fund (SELF), which provides loans to Harvard Business School students. SELF is changing the terms of student loans from variable-rate with semiannual payments to fixed-rate loans with equal monthly payments. Melnick... View Details
    Keywords: Risk Management; Financing and Loans; Interest Rates; Financial Services Industry
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    • 2017
    • Working Paper

    Identifying Sources of Inefficiency in Health Care

    By: Amitabh Chandra and Douglas O. Staiger
    In medicine, the reasons for variation in treatment rates across hospitals serving similar patients are not well understood. Some interpret this variation as unwarranted and push standardization of care as a way of reducing allocative inefficiency. However, an... View Details
    Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Performance Efficiency; Performance Productivity; Mathematical Methods
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    • 19 Jan 2011
    • First Look

    First Look: Jan. 18

    http://press.princeton.edu/titles/9390.html Why You Aren't Buying Venezuelan Chocolate Author:Rohit Deshpandé Publication:Harvard Business Review 88, no. 12 (December 2010) Abstract The article discusses the "provenance paradox," wherein consumers are... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 01 Dec 2015
    • HBS Seminar

    Nicola Lacetera, University of Toronto

    • July 2019 (Revised May 2021)
    • Case

    Acelerex

    By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock
    In early 2019, Randell Johnson, Founder and Chief Executive of Acelerex, was reflecting on the company’s first year of rapid growth and the challenges of scaling the business that lay ahead. Acelerex was riding the waves of change taking place in electrical power grids... View Details
    Keywords: Energy; Energy Sources; Growth Management; Expansion; Global Strategy; Cash Flow; Energy Industry; Web Services Industry; Consulting Industry
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    • 03 Jun 2008
    • First Look

    First Look: June 3, 2008

    association, fair pay practices) and whether these codes have affected their business outcomes (e.g., staff turnover and absenteeism, product defect rates, sales growth). In this paper, we review the existing evaluations of other private... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • May 2020
    • Article

    Identifying Sources of Inefficiency in Health Care

    By: Amitabh Chandra and Douglas O. Staiger
    In medicine, the reasons for variation in treatment rates across hospitals serving similar patients are not well understood. Some interpret this variation as unwarranted and push standardization of care as a way of reducing allocative inefficiency. However, an... View Details
    Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Performance Efficiency; Performance Productivity; Mathematical Methods
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    • March 2016 (Revised May 2018)
    • Case

    ASOS PLC

    By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth
    Launched in 2000, ASOS was one of the world’s largest online fashion specialists in 2018. Focusing on young consumers aged 16–25 years, the company offered over 85,000 items on its websites, many times more than the largest fashion stores, and added several thousand... View Details
    Keywords: ASOS; AsSeenOnScreen; Online Fashion; Online Apparel; Nick Beighton; Nick Robertson; E-commerce; E-Commerce Strategy; Online Retail; Multichannel Retailing; Omnichannel; Social Media; Marketplaces; Shipping; Advertising; Digital Marketing; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; Business Startups; For-Profit Firms; Customer Focus and Relationships; Age; Gender; Currency Exchange Rate; Profit; Revenue; Geography; Geographic Scope; Global Range; Global Strategy; Globalized Firms and Management; Globalized Markets and Industries; Business History; Selection and Staffing; Journals and Magazines; Human Capital; Business or Company Management; Crisis Management; Goals and Objectives; Growth and Development; Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Management Succession; Brands and Branding; Marketing Channels; Marketing Communications; Marketing Strategy; Product Positioning; Social Marketing; Media; Distribution; Distribution Channels; Order Taking and Fulfillment; Infrastructure; Logistics; Public Ownership; Problems and Challenges; Strategy; Adaptation; Business Strategy; Competition; Competitive Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Expansion; Vertical Integration; Segmentation; Internet and the Web; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Fashion Industry; Retail Industry; United Kingdom; England; London
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    • 22 Oct 2009
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Strategies to Fight Ad-sponsored Rivals

    Keywords: by Ramon Casadesus-Masanell & Feng Zhu; Advertising
    • 03 May 2011
    • First Look

    First Look: May 3

    authors provide a checklist that managers can use on a daily basis to monitor their progress-enhancing behaviors. Read the article: http://hbr.org/2011/05/the-power-of-small-wins/ar/1 The Best Way to Name Your Product 2.0 Authors:Marco... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 15 May 2024
    • Research & Ideas

    A Major Roadblock for Autonomous Cars: Motorists Believe They Drive Better

    Think you’re a better driver than most people? You’re not alone. And you may be one reason self-driving cars haven’t taken off. About 77 percent of participants surveyed in a new study rated themselves superior to automated vehicles,... View Details
    Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Transportation; Auto
    • 16 May 2023
    • HBS Case

    How KKR Got More by Giving Ownership to the Factory Floor: ‘My Kids Are Going to College!’

    The incentives were not aligned: Companies wanted faster, more productive work, while workers sought more hours and a chance to earn overtime pay. “My colleagues and I actively tried to hamper the success of the firm because we were so... View Details
    Keywords: by Avery Forman
    • 23 Jun 2023
    • HBS Case

    This Company Lets Employees Take Charge—Even with Life and Death Decisions

    patients as they see fit. A new Harvard Business School case study explores Buurtzorg’s decentralized model in depth, with lessons for institutions struggling with morale and productivity. Buurtzorg’s approach has yielded patient satisfaction View Details
    Keywords: by Annelena Lobb; Health
    • Web

    Podcast - Business & Environment

    redesigning iconic products like the Billy bookcase to make them easier to disassemble and repair, how secondhand retail pilot programs at IKEA stores are reaching new customers, and how investments like RetourMatras are developing... View Details
    • Research Summary

    Putting Patients First: Marketing Strategies for Treating HIV in Developing Nations

    It is more than mere coincidence that the highest rates of HIV occur in the world’s poorest countries. Of the over 40 million people currently living with HIV, 95 percent are in the developing world. The first half of this paper explores the economics of HIV and... View Details
    • 2009
    • Chapter

    Do Private Equity-owned Firms Have Better Management Practices?

    By: Nicholas Bloom, Raffaella Sadun and John Van Reenen
    We use an innovative survey tool to collect management practice data from over 4,000 medium sized manufacturing firms across Asia, Europe and the US. These measures of managerial practice are strongly associated with firm-level performance (e.g. productivity,... View Details
    Keywords: Private Equity; Management Practices and Processes; Production; Private Ownership; Performance Improvement; Performance Productivity
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    • 09 Dec 2002
    • Research & Ideas

    Unilever—A Case Study

    organizational complexity was compounded by Unilever's wide portfolio of products and by the changes in these products over time. Edible fats, such as margarine, and soap and detergents were the historical... View Details
    Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Consumer Products; Consumer Products; Consumer Products; Consumer Products; Consumer Products
    • May 2004
    • Background Note

    56K Modem Battle

    By: David B. Yoffie and Deborah Freier
    Examines the battle to set the standard for the 56K modem. Set in 1996, this case looks at how computers accessed the Internet via a telephone line, or dial-up connection, and a hardware modem. In 1995, there were 18.6 million total modem unit shipments, with market... View Details
    Keywords: Announcements; Revenue; Patents; Product Launch; Network Effects; Standards; Competition; Information Infrastructure; Internet and the Web; Technology Industry; Illinois
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