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  • 2023
  • Working Paper

Data Governance, Interoperability and Standardization: Organizational Adaptation to Privacy Regulation

By: Sam (Ruiqing) Cao and Marco Iansiti
The increasing availability of data can afford dynamic competitive advantages among data-intensive corporations, but governance bottlenecks hinder data-driven value creation and increase regulatory risks. We analyze the role of two technological features of data... View Details
Keywords: Organizations; Information Technology; Performance Productivity; Growth and Development; Transformation
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  • July 2016
  • Supplement

Mahindra Tool: Project Economics

By: Joseph B. Fuller and Christopher Payton
The case describes Mahindra Lifespace Developers’ (MLDL), a unit of Indian conglomerate Mahindra and Mahindra, foray into the affordable housing segment. MLDL sees a huge opportunity in selling apartments to the burgeoning population of urban workers, which is badly... View Details
Keywords: Business Conglomerates; Business Startups; Development Economics; Developing Countries and Economies; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Social Entrepreneurship; Housing; Emerging Markets; Business and Government Relations; Human Needs; Social Issues; Urban Development; Real Estate Industry; India
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    Patent Trolls: Evidence and Proposed Solutions

     

    The Growing Problem of Patent Trolling • SCIENCE • VIDEO

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    • June 2020
    • Teaching Note

    Armarium: Luxury Fashion Brands for Rent

    By: Jill Avery and David Fubini
    Armarium, a two-sided digital platform that offered consumers the opportunity to rent the most coveted, current season high fashion clothing and accessories from the top global luxury brands, had emerged from its first sales season with two distinct customer segments:... View Details
    Keywords: Luxury Brand; Fashion; Sharing Economy; Two-sided Marketplace; Target Market; Customer Selection; Marketing; Brands and Branding; Luxury; Two-Sided Platforms; Business Model; Growth and Development Strategy; Customer Value and Value Chain; Fashion Industry; Consumer Products Industry; United States; North America
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    • April 2019 (Revised March 2020)
    • Case

    Handy: The Future of Work? (A)

    By: Nien-hê Hsieh and Kieron Stopforth
    Witnessing numerous lawsuits alleging that online platform companies misclassified workers as contractors when they were actually employees, Handy’s founders faced a series of decisions. Handy was an online platform business that enabled customers to book appointments... View Details
    Keywords: Employment; Working Conditions; Entrepreneurship; Compensation and Benefits; Internet and the Web; Ethics; Fairness; Service Industry; United States
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    • December 2018 (Revised June 2021)
    • Supplement

    Bulb 2017: Launch

    By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock
    On August 21, 2015, Amit Gudka and Hayden Wood, co-founders of Bulb Ltd. (Bulb) launched a new business to supply energy to the United Kingdom’s 27 million residential homes with a promise of 100% renewable electricity at affordable prices. By the end of March 2017,... View Details
    Keywords: Green Energy; Start-up; Launch; Customer Acquisition; Customer Churn; Customer Engagement; Electricity; Resources; Growth Strategy; B-Corp; Entrepreneurial Management; Entrepreneurial Journey; Entrepreneurial Financing; Renewable Energy; Business Startups; Growth and Development Strategy; Business Model; Working Capital; Product Launch; Customers; Growth Management; Business Plan; Decision Making; United Kingdom
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    • April 2013
    • Article

    Rx: Human Nature: How Behavioral Economics Is Promoting Better Health Around the World

    By: Nava Ashraf
    Why doesn't a woman who continues to have unwanted pregnancies avail herself of the free contraception at a nearby clinic? What keeps people from using free chlorine tablets to purify their drinking water? Behavioral economics has shown us that we don't always act in... View Details
    Keywords: Behavior; Economics; Motivation and Incentives; Zambia
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    • 05 Sep 2017
    • News

    Narrow Networks On The Health Insurance Marketplaces: Prevalence, Pricing, And The Cost Of Network Breadth

    • 05 Feb 2007
    • Research & Ideas

    Business and the Global Poor

    responsibilities. Companies cannot afford to treat their social license callously. Q: Long term, what impact could the private sector have towards alleviating global poverty? A: The private sector brings a performance-driven culture when... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
    • Web

    CSV Explained - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

    affordable housing and financial security, and other key measures of societal wellbeing. Only business can create economic prosperity by meeting needs and making a profit, creating infinitely scalable and self-sustaining solutions . Key... View Details
    • October 2010 (Revised November 2010)
    • Case

    YES BANK: Mainstreaming Development into Indian Banking

    By: Michael Chu and Namrata Arora
    YES BANK, founded in 2003 and highly successful, has consistently been profitable meeting the Indian government's Priority Sector Lending (PSL) requirements, unlike virtually all other private sector banks, which view PSL activity as a necessary but loss-making part of... View Details
    Keywords: Development Economics; Private Equity; Microfinance; Investment; Governing and Advisory Boards; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Sustainability; Expansion; Banking Industry; India
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    • 24 Oct 2008
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Signaling Firm Performance Through Financial Statement Presentation: An Analysis Using Special Items

    Keywords: by Edward J. Riedl & Suraj Srinivasan
    • December 2023
    • Case

    Davivienda Bank's Upskilling and Reskilling Strategy in Colombia

    By: Jorge Tamayo, Raffaella Sadun and Jenyfeer Martinez Buitrago
    Set in 2022, this case describes the digital transformation strategy of Davivienda— a leading player in Colombia’s commercial banking and one of the companies belonging to Grupo Bolívar, a major Colombian financial conglomerate—and the bank’s upskilling and reskilling... View Details
    Keywords: Change Management; Transformation; Decision Choices and Conditions; Digital Strategy; Digital Transformation; Internet and the Web; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Innovation and Management; Innovation Strategy; Growth and Development Strategy; Business Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Organizational Culture; Talent and Talent Management; Training; Banking Industry; Latin America; Central America; South America; Colombia
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    • Article

    Creating Value in the Age of Distributed Capitalism

    By: Shoshana Zuboff
    Capitalism is a book of many chapters—and we are beginning a new one. Every century or so, fundamental changes in the nature of consumption create new demand patterns that existing enterprises can't meet. When a majority of people want things that remain priced at a... View Details
    Keywords: Value Creation; Economic Systems; Transformation
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    • 09 Apr 2013
    • HBS Seminar

    Andrew Stephen, University of Pittsburgh

    • 15 Mar 2024
    • HBS Case

    Let's Talk: Why It's Time to Stop Avoiding Taboo Topics at Work

    financial differences on a team. “We go out for after-work drinks without acknowledging that some colleagues may not be able to afford it. We pretend colleagues doing the same job earn the same amount of money—even though there is often a... View Details
    Keywords: by Avery Forman
    • 2022
    • White Paper

    The American Opportunity Index: A Corporate Scorecard of Worker Advancement

    By: Matt Sigelman, Joseph Fuller, Nik Dawson and Gad Levanon
    The American Opportunity Index: A Corporate Scorecard of Worker Advancement is a new effort to give companies and other stakeholders a set of robust tools that measure how well major employers are doing in fostering economic mobility for workers and how they could do... View Details
    Keywords: Upward Mobility; Career Advancement; Personal Development and Career; Compensation and Benefits; Employees; Wages; Human Capital; Recruitment
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    • 2023
    • Working Paper

    El Dorado Lost: Local Elites, Real Estate and the Education Business in China

    By: Geoffrey Jones and Yuhai Wu
    This working paper examines the evolving, complex and multifaceted relationship between the real estate industry and the education sector in China. The current crises in the private education and real estate sectors caused by policy shifts reflect the inter-meshing of... View Details
    Keywords: Business and Government Relations; Policy; Government and Politics; Economic Sectors; Education Industry; Real Estate Industry; China
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    • Article

    Narrow Networks on the Health Insurance Marketplaces: Prevalence, Pricing, and the Cost of Network Breadth

    By: Leemore S. Dafny, Igal Hendel, Victoria Marone and Christopher Ody
    Anecdotal reports and systematic research highlight the prevalence of narrow-network plans on the Affordable Care Act’s health insurance Marketplaces. At the same time, Marketplace premiums in the period 2014–2016 were much lower than projected by the Congressional... View Details
    Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Insurance; Cost; United States
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    • November 2023 (Revised April 2025)
    • Case

    Norse Atlantic Airways

    By: Willy Shih
    Bjørn Tore Larsen, Norse Atlantic Airways' founder and CEO, hadn't planned to get into the airline business. But when the COVID-19 pandemic depressed the global demand for air travel and the lease rates for jetliners, he realized if ever he was going to get into the... View Details
    Keywords: Business Model; Business Startups; Market Entry and Exit; Leasing; Business Strategy; Segmentation; Interest Rates; Air Transportation Industry; Europe; North America; Norway; United Kingdom; United States
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