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Strategy for Universities & Nonprofits - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Strategies for Universities & Nonprofits What is strategy for a nonprofit organization? Historically, many organizations have confused mission statements or aspirations with strategies. Their performance has suffered as a result. Using many of the same strategic... View Details

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Shared Value Measurement - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

HBS ISC Creating Shared Value CSV Creating Shared Value CSV Explained Emerging Topics CSV in Practice Published CSV Cases Emerging Topics Emerging Topics Shared Value Measurement Shared Value & Investors Shared Value Measurement Shared Value Measurement When companies... View Details

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Work With Us - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

value-based care. For further information send a brief overview to us at isc@hbs.edu . Positions From time to time the Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness has positons on the value-based health care team as researchers. These are... View Details

November 2011 (Revised February 2012)
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China Novartis Institute for Biomedical Research: Building a Sustainable, Globally Integrated Research Enterprise

By: Vicki Sato, Christoph Jaeker and Pooja Mehta Solanki

As the head of the Novartis Institute for Biomedical Research in China, En Li was shepherding a $1 billion R&D investment in China. So far he had been able to attract a large number of Chinese-born but US-trained scientists to play a critical role in establishing the... View Details

Keywords: Globalized Firms and Management; Research; Corporate Strategy; Pharmaceutical Industry; Health Industry; China

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Loan Officers Impede Graduation From Microcredit: Evidence from a Large Microfinance Institution

By: Natalia Rigol and Benjamin N. Roth

Graduating microcredit borrowers to larger loans can increase livelihoods. We demonstrate that loan officers impede borrower graduation due to common features of their compensation. Through an experiment with one of Chile’s largest microfinance institutions (MFIs), we... View Details

Keywords: Loan Officers; Strategic Behavior; Strategic Disclosure; Microfinance; Financial Institutions; Financing and Loans

September 2023
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Top Talent, Elite Colleges, and Migration: Evidence from the Indian Institutes of Technology

By: Prithwiraj Choudhury, Ina Ganguli and Patrick Gaulé

We study migration in the right tail of the talent distribution using a novel dataset of Indian high school students taking the Joint Entrance Exam (JEE), a college entrance exam used for admission to the prestigious Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT). We find a... View Details

Keywords: Higher Education; Immigration; Talent and Talent Management; India

December 2010
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Acquisitions as Exaptation: The Legacy of Founding Institutions in the U.S. Commercial Banking Industry

By: Christopher Marquis and Zhi Huang

This study focuses on the imprinting of institutional environments, particularly how founding institutions impact intra-organizational capabilities and how such imprints may have different external manifestations in subsequent historical eras. We introduce the concept... View Details

Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Commercial Banking; Organizations; Theory; Policy; Government and Politics; Management Practices and Processes; Strategy; Competency and Skills; United States

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BiGS Fellows | Institute for Business in Global Society

group-based discrimination and disparities. She aims to leverage her research to bolster understanding of and willingness to address inequality. Current Climate Fellows Matteo Gasparini DPhil (PhD) candidate at University of Oxford's Smith School for Enterprise and... View Details

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Spanning the Institutional Abyss: The Intergovernmental Network and the Governance of Foreign Direct Investment

By: Juan Alcacer and Paul Ingram

Global economic transactions such as foreign direct investment must extend over an institutional abyss between the jurisdiction, and therefore protection, of the states involved. Intergovernmental organizations (IGOs), whose members are states, represent an important... View Details

Keywords: Globalization; Market Transactions; Foreign Direct Investment; Government and Politics; Risk and Uncertainty; Networks; Culture; Complexity; Public Administration Industry

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Medium and Message: The Role of the Media in Establishing Institutional Logics

By: Mukti Khaire and Erika Richardson

Research on industry institutional logics has provided insights into the factors that influence organizational behavior and actions. However, we still lack a detailed understanding of how industry logics emerge from societal-level values, get disseminated, and become... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Values and Beliefs; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Media; Organizations; Behavior; Societal Protocols; Fashion Industry; India

2009
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The Role of Resources in Institutional Entrepreneurship: Insights for an Approach to Strategic Management That Combines Agency and Institution

By: Julie Battilana and Bernard Leca

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Resource Allocation; Corporate Strategy; Management Style

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Introduction to HBS's Institute for the Study of Business in Global Society

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Michael Horn, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Clayton Christensen Institute of Disruptive Innovation

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Cases & Teaching Notes - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

institution for cancer care, education, and research. Since 1996, it had successfully reorganized itself from a cancer hospital that was physically organized around clinical... Feb 2017 (Revised Apri 2018) HBS Case Collection Oak Street... View Details

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Fit Across the Value Chain - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

HBS ISC Strategy Strategy Strategy Explained Business Strategy Creating a Successful Strategy Corporate Strategy The Role of Leaders Related Topics Creating a Successful St... Creating a Successful Strategy Unique Value Proposition Distinctive Value Chain Making... View Details

Summer 1998
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A New Approach to Capital Budgeting for Financial Institutions

By: K. A. Froot and J. Stein

Keywords: Catastrophe Risk; Corporate Finance; Cost Of Capital; Banking And Insurance; Asset Pricing; Hedging; Banking; Decision Choice And Uncertainty; Financial Markets; Insurance; Policy; Risk Management; Natural Disasters; Insurance Industry

1983
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Federal and State Infrastructure Banking: Political and Institutional Issues

By: Dutch Leonard and Richard P. Nathan

Keywords: Government and Politics; Infrastructure; Sovereign Finance