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  • 2017
  • Working Paper

Internalizing Global Value Chains: A Firm-Level Analysis

By: Laura Alfaro, Pol Antràs, Davin Chor and Paola Conconi
In recent decades, advances in information and communication technology and falling trade barriers have led firms to retain within their boundaries and in their domestic economies only a subset of their production stages. A key decision facing firms worldwide is the... View Details
Keywords: Global Value Chains; Sequential Production; Incomplete Contracts; Demand and Consumers; Customer Value and Value Chain; Globalization
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  • 14 May 2019
  • HBS Seminar

Patti Williams, Wharton, University of Pennsylvania

    Dorothy A. Leonard

    Dorothy Leonard*, the William J. Abernathy Professor of Business Administration Emerita, joined the Harvard faculty in 1983 after teaching for three years at the Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She has taught MBA courses in... View Details

    Keywords: information technology industry; information technology industry; information technology industry; information technology industry; information technology industry; information technology industry; information technology industry; information technology industry; information technology industry
    • 17 Jun 2014
    • First Look

    First Look: June 17

    http://ssrn.com/abstract=2444741   Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 614-058 Hospital Clínic de Barcelona No abstract available. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/product/hospital-clinic-de-barcelona/an/614058-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • March 2024
    • Teaching Note

    'Storrowed': A Generative AI Exercise

    By: Mitchell Weiss
    Teaching Note for HBS Exercise No. 824-188. “Storrowed” is an exercise to help participants raise their proficiency with generative AI. It begins by highlighting a problem: trucks getting wedged underneath bridges in Boston, Massachusetts on the city’s Storrow Drive.... View Details
    Keywords: AI and Machine Learning; Entrepreneurship; Innovation and Invention; Government Administration; Transportation Industry; Public Administration Industry
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    • Research Summary

    Engaging supply chains in climate change and sustainability issues

    This research aims to develop a better understanding of the dynamics between supply chain partners in issues regarding climate change and sustainability.  I am particularly interested in better understanding factors that motivate suppliers to share climate change... View Details
    • September 8, 2015
    • Article

    Making Better Decisions in Your Family Business

    By: Josh Baron, Rob Lachenauer and Sebastian Ehrensberger
    Family businesses face complex decisions, from CEO succession to business strategies. A "four-room" model helps structure decision-making in these businesses: Owner Room (ownership goals and board election), Board Room (performance monitoring and CEO appointment),... View Details
    Keywords: Family Business; Decisions; Business Strategy; Goals and Objectives; Management Succession; Talent and Talent Management
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    • April–June 2015
    • Article

    It Doesn't Matter If Competitors Know Your Strategy

    By: Frank V. Cespedes
    It is difficult for people to implement what they don't understand. Yet, research indicates that, on average, more than 50% of employees in organizations say they do not understand their organization's strategy. Further, the percentage of people reporting ignorance of... View Details
    Keywords: Strategy; Sales
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    • May 2015
    • Case

    Transforming Alkermes into a Global Biopharmaceutical Company

    By: C. Fritz Foley and Nicholas Haas
    In the summer of 2011, Jim Frates, CFO of Alkermes faced choices about how to finance the acquisition of Dublin, Ireland-based Elan Drug Technologies (EDT)—a deal that was expected to close in the fall. The case describes the history of Alkermes, provides information... View Details
    Keywords: Financing; Debt; Merger; CFO; Financial Management; Biotechnology Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; United States; Europe
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    • March 2014 (Revised May 2016)
    • Technical Note

    Angel Investments in Europe and Recent Developments in Crowdfunding

    By: Lynda Applegate, Vincent Dessain, Emilie Billaud and Daniela Beyersdorfer
    This technical note provides information on the evolution and current state of angel investing in Europe. The note first describes the role and types of angel investors, focusing on their investment preferences and practices. It then details the new trends in the... View Details
    Keywords: Angel Investors; Crowdfunding; Financing and Loans; Investment; Financial Services Industry; Europe
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    • 2010
    • Working Paper

    Overconfidence by Bayesian Rational Agents

    By: Eric Van den Steen
    This paper derives two mechanisms through which Bayesian-rational individuals with differing priors will tend to be relatively overconfident about their estimates and predictions, in the sense of overestimating the precision of these estimates. The intuition behind one... View Details
    Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Measurement and Metrics; Game Theory; Forecasting and Prediction
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    • 28 Oct 2014
    • News

    There’s No Excuse for Avoiding Strategy

    • 07 Mar 2022
    • News

    Risks to the Brain

    • 10 Apr 2021
    • News

    With Georgia Voting Law, the Business of Business Becomes Politics

    • January 2011 (Revised January 2012)
    • Case

    The Case of the Unidentified Healthcare Companies2010

    By: Richard Bohmer, Ethan Bernstein, Margarita Krivitski and Srinidhi Reddy
    This case presents financial statements and selected ratios for 14 unidentified healthcare organizations and asks that each set of financial information be matched with one of the following healthcare companies: a biotechnology firm, a community nursing company, a... View Details
    Keywords: Financial Reporting; Financial Statements; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry
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    • 06 Mar 2015
    • Video

    An Economy Doing Half Its Job - Boston, MA

    • 2020
    • Working Paper

    Accounting for Product Impact in the Consumer Finance Industry

    By: George Serafeim and Katie Trinh
    We apply the product impact measurement framework of the Impact-Weighted Accounts Initiative (IWAI) in two competitor credit card providers within the consumer finance industry. We design a monetization methodology that allows us to calculate monetary impact estimates... View Details
    Keywords: Product Innovation; Impact; Impact Investing; Impact Measurement; ESG; ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) Performance; ESG Ratings; Social Corporate Responsibility; Corporate Social Responsibility; Social Impact; Consumer Finance; Financial Services; Financial Inclusion; Product; Product Design; Product Positioning; Society; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Personal Finance; Credit Cards; Financial Services Industry
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      Iavor I. Bojinov

      Iavor Bojinov is an Assistant Professor of Business Administration and the Richard Hodgson Fellow at Harvard Business School. He is the co-PI of the AI and Data Science Operations Lab and a faculty affiliate in the Department of Statistics at Harvard University and... View Details

        David B. Yoffie

        Professor David B. Yoffie is the Max and Doris Starr Professor of International Business Administration at Harvard Business School. A member of the HBS faculty since 1981, Professor Yoffie received his Bachelor's degree summa cum laude and Phi Beta... View Details

        Keywords: information; information; information; information; information; information; information; information; information; information; information; information; information
        • June 2006 (Revised September 2006)
        • Case

        Tech Data Corporation

        Tech Data is a global supplier of logistics management services and one of the world's largest distributors of information technology equipment. Operational execution is key for the company, which has gross margins in the 5% range. At the end of 2005, the company had... View Details
        Keywords: Competition; Information Infrastructure; Operations; Growth and Development Strategy
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