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  • 1998
  • Journal Article

Ford's Model-T: Pricing over the Product Life Cycle

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell
The pricing decisions monopolistic firms make over time are determined to a large extent by the complex interplay of two distinct sets of elements: demand- and supply-based considerations. Demand factors include the possibilities of (a) exercising dynamic price... View Details
Keywords: Experience and Expertise; Decisions; Forecasting and Prediction; Cost; Price; Information; Demand and Consumers; Monopoly; Product; Sales; Complexity; Auto Industry
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  • May 2021
  • Article

Preparing for a Pandemic: Accelerating Vaccine Availability

By: Amrita Ahuja, Susan Athey, Arthur Baker, Eric Budish, Juan Camilo Castillo, Rachel Glennerster, Scott Duke Kominers, Michael Kremer, Jean Lee, Canice Prendergast, Christopher M. Snyder, Alex Tabarrok, Brandon Joel Tan and Witold Wiecek
Vaccinating the world’s population quickly in a pandemic has enormous health and economic benefits. We analyze the problem faced by governments in determining the scale and structure of procurement for vaccines. We analyze alternative approaches to procurement, arguing... View Details
Keywords: Vaccines; Procurement; Health Pandemics; Health Care and Treatment; Acquisition; Cooperation
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  • July 2013 (Revised May 2017)
  • Case

European Integration: Meeting the Competitiveness Challenge

By: Michael E. Porter and Christian Ketels
The case discusses the origins and development of the European Integration process from the post-war period up to 2007, focusing particularly on the efforts of the Lisbon-agenda under way since 2000 to enhance Europe's competitiveness. It discusses the different policy... View Details
Keywords: Integration; Globalized Economies and Regions; Competition; Development Economics; Global Range; Policy; Failure; European Union; Europe
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  • 23 Jan 2024
  • Video

Harvard Dialogues: Leading When It’s Difficult

  • Program

Families in Business

enterprise who meet any of the above criteria are also invited to apply on their own. Learning and Living at HBS When you participate in an Executive Education program on the HBS campus, you enter an immersive View Details
  • May 2013
  • Article

Health Care's Service Fanatics: How the Cleveland Clinic Leaped to the Top of the Patient-satisfaction Surveys

By: James Merlino and Ananth Raman
The Cleveland Clinic has long had a reputation for medical excellence. But in 2009 the CEO acknowledged that patients did not think much of their experience there, and he decided to act. Since then the Clinic has leaped to the top tier of patient-satisfaction surveys,... View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Customer Satisfaction; Health Industry; Cleveland
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  • 2024
  • Working Paper

Incorporating Micro Data into Differentiated Products Demand Estimation with PyBLP

We delineate a general framework for incorporating many types of micro data from summary statistics to full surveys of selected consumers into Berry, Levinsohn, and Pakes (1995) style estimates of differentiated products demand systems. We extend recommended practices... View Details
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  • 10 Jan 2018
  • News

Publicly engaged PhDs shift the notion of the ivory tower

  • March 2010 (Revised October 2011)
  • Case

Highland District County Hospital: Gastroenterology Care in Sweden

By: Michael E. Porter, Jennifer F Baron and Martin Rejler
Sweden's Highland District County Hospital, similar to a community hospital in the US, undertook a major restructuring to integrate care delivery for medical conditions served by the Department of Medicine. Each subspecialty within the Department would form a single,... View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Sweden
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  • Article

The Effects of Media Slant on Firm Behavior

By: Vishal P. Baloria and Jonas Heese
The media can impose reputational costs on firms because of its important role as an information intermediary and its ability to negatively slant coverage. We exploit a quasi-natural experiment that holds constant the information event across firms, but varies the... View Details
Keywords: Media Slant; Reputational Capital; Strategic Corporate Decisions; Media; News; Communication Strategy; Reputation
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  • 21 Oct 2021
  • News

Four Leadership Principles That Reflect the True Heart of Business

    The Poor Payoff of Pleasure Postponed

    A need to feel efficient, and a tendency to feel guilty when we do something “just for fun,” may be universally human. But the Israeli-born Keinan says productivity-obsessed Americans take this to an extreme, viewing pleasurable pastimes as wasteful, irresponsible,... View Details

    • October 2019 (Revised February 2025)
    • Case

    A Conversation with Ellen J. Kullman, Chairman & CEO of DuPont, 2009-2015

    By: Lynn S. Paine and Will Hurwitz
    Ellen J. Kullman, the retired Chairman and CEO of DuPont, describes how she guided the storied science and technology company through a contentious proxy battle with activist investor Trian Partners, which acquired DuPont shares in 2013 and sought to break up the... View Details
    Keywords: Agribusiness; Capital Structure; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Governance; Institutional Investing; Leadership; Leadership Style; Management; Transformation; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; United States
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    • 03 Oct 2023
    • What Do You Think?

    Do Leaders Learn More From Success or Failure?

    leaders most effectively to enter the real world. I can add a personal experience to those that Edmondson cites. In 1990, a colleague, HBS Professor John Kotter, and I began a study of the impact of an... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett
    • Program

    Disruptive Innovation

    Education program on the HBS campus, you enter an immersive experience where every aspect of the learning model has been carefully designed to facilitate your growth. Your learning will take place on your own, in your living group, View Details
    • 12 Sep 2024
    • Blog Post

    4 Things You Need to Know about Immersive FIELD Courses at HBS

    second-year MBA students who were eager to lend their support to those affected in the region spearheaded the first “immersive,” off-campus field experience to New Orleans. Not only were these students driven by the opportunity to help,... View Details
    • 23 Nov 2015
    • HBS Seminar

    Gad Allon, Professor of Managerial Economics & Decision Sciences, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University

    • 19 Nov 2013
    • News

    Q&A With Harvard’s Top Entrepreneurship Professor

    • 08 Mar 2013
    • News

    Feeling worried? Be wary of advice you receive

    • Career Coach

    Meredith Hamilton

    Meredith [she/her] has served as a mentor and coach to innumerable mid-career staff as well as several CEOs in the social sector. She is committed to creating a safe space for students and alumni to explore... View Details
    Keywords: Education; Entrepreneurship; Impact Investing; Financial Services (All); Government; Real Estate; Social Enterprise