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- 12 Dec 2023
- Research & Ideas
COVID Tested Global Supply Chains. Here’s How They’ve Adapted
Global supply chains took some heat during the COVID-19 pandemic, with consumers waiting months for goods and politicians wringing their hands over trade policy. “Reshoring” is one of the hottest new corporate buzzwords, as many companies look to move some... View Details
Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis
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Assessing the Food and Drug Administration's Risk-Based Framework for Software Precertification with Top Health Apps in the United States: Quality Improvement Study
By: Noy Alon, Ariel Dora Stern and John Torous
BACKGROUND: As the development of mobile health apps continues to accelerate, the need to implement a framework that can standardize categorizing these apps to allow for efficient, yet robust regulation grows. However, regulators and researchers are faced with numerous... View Details
Keywords: Mobile Health; Smartphone; Food And Drug Administration; Risk-based Framework; Health Care and Treatment; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Applications and Software; Framework
Alon, Noy, Ariel Dora Stern, and John Torous. "Assessing the Food and Drug Administration's Risk-Based Framework for Software Precertification with Top Health Apps in the United States: Quality Improvement Study." JMIR mHealth and uHealth 8, no. 10 (October 2020).
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Courses - Entrepreneurship
under conditions of profound uncertainty and do so while balancing great risks against potentially attractive rewards. Moreover, they operate without the benefit of well-defined processes for making such... View Details
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Accounting & Management - Faculty & Research
results indicate that high-climate solution firms, whose business benefits as climate transition risks materialize, hedge investors against such risks. October 2024 Case Lanco Medical Group: Fostering Happiness for Growth By: Susanna... View Details
- 03 Nov 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
Adding Value Through Venture Capital in Latin America and the Caribbean
- 31 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 31
whether improvements to firm operational efficiency aggravate or alleviate the impact of disruptions. Improved operational efficiency may leave firms more exposed when a disruption occurs, or it may improve... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- TeachingInterests
Strategy Execution
By: Dennis Campbell
This course takes strategy as given and teaches what students need to know to execute and win in highly competitive markets. Using fundamental building blocks based on accountability systems and structures, this course is divided into seven modules:
1.... View Details
- 14 Feb 2022
- Research & Ideas
Curiosity, Not Coding: 6 Skills Leaders Need in the Digital Age
to share in decision-making and creating a culture that makes people feel safe enough to take risks and act on behalf of organizational interests. It’s also about earning trust from and offering trust to increasingly diverse stakeholders... View Details
- November 1997 (Revised May 2002)
- Case
MicroAge, Inc.: Orchestrating the Information Technology Value Chain
By: Lynda M. Applegate and Kirk A. Goldman
MicroAge, Inc. started as a storefront in Tempe, AZ in 1976 selling personal computer kits to hobbyists. During their first year of operation, founders Jeff McKeever and Alan Hald sold $1.5 million worth of computer kits, priced at under $1,000 each. Twenty years... View Details
Keywords: Transformation; Growth Management; Risk Management; Product; Opportunities; Horizontal Integration; Information Infrastructure; Information Technology; Internet and the Web; Technology Industry; Arizona
Applegate, Lynda M., and Kirk A. Goldman. "MicroAge, Inc.: Orchestrating the Information Technology Value Chain." Harvard Business School Case 398-068, November 1997. (Revised May 2002.)
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Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
More Info Rethinking Operational Risk Capital Requirements By: Peter Sands, Gordon Liao & Yueran Ma DEC 2016 | BFFS WP #006 In a BFFS working paper, Sands, Ma, and Liao assess the latest Basel Committee... View Details
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Finance - Faculty & Research
management and a shift away from banks to lending by nonbank financial intermediaries. We interpret both the growth of the sector and the recent evolution as reflecting a continued transition to a more market-based financial system, with View Details
- 27 Feb 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
In Strange Company: The Puzzle of Private Investment in State-Controlled Firms
- 2012
- Other Unpublished Work
Towards Efficiencies in Canadian Internet Traffic Exchange
By: Benjamin Edelman and Bill Woodcock
Canadian Internet access is heavily and unnecessarily dependent upon foreign infrastructure, especially U.S. infrastructure. This dependence imposes significant burdens upon Canadian Internet users:
* Service prices are higher than would be the case if... View Details
* Service prices are higher than would be the case if... View Details
Keywords: Networks; Canada; Privacy; Technology Networks; Rights; Communication Technology; Internet; Ethics; Telecommunications Industry; Canada
Edelman, Benjamin, and Bill Woodcock. "Towards Efficiencies in Canadian Internet Traffic Exchange." Canadian Internet Registration Authority, September 2012.
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Africa - Global
firm currently only gets involved with credit support for projects that have cleared the inception stage – but there is a very small flow of incoming deals that qualify for InfraCredit’s guarantees. Accordingly, the firm contemplates backward integrating its View Details
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Named Fellowship Funds - Alumni
Turkey, Işik led several mergers and acquisitions projects throughout Europe and the United States as director of corporate development for Bertelsmann AG. She is the founder of Shaya Turkey, a multibrand retail operation that led the... View Details
- June 1994 (Revised September 1994)
- Background Note
Commercializing Technology: Imaginative Understanding of User Needs
The transformation of technology into commercially successful products is a process fraught with risk and uncertainty, and increasing pressure on time to market is exacerbating the difficulties. This note first describes a study conducted by Hewlett-Packard to improve... View Details
Keywords: Transformation; Communication Strategy; Customers; Design; Marketing; Consumer Behavior; Product Development; Research; Risk and Uncertainty; Commercialization; Technology Adoption
Leonard, Dorothy A. "Commercializing Technology: Imaginative Understanding of User Needs." Harvard Business School Background Note 694-102, June 1994. (Revised September 1994.)
- 17 Jan 2007
- Op-Ed
Learning from Private-Equity Boards
oversee the ongoing business. Private-equity directors typically spend more time with their companies after the buyout than many of their public company counterparts. Private-equity boards are typically small working groups composed of individuals with relevant View Details
- 26 Sep 2024
- HBS Seminar
Garrett Van Ryzin, Columbia & Amazon
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Latin America - Global
investment vehicle that enables investor groups to back entrepreneurs (searchers) looking to identify and acquire privately held companies. Searchers' primary goal is to find promising businesses—typically in the lower middle market—and take over its View Details
- 30 Apr 2024
- Book
When Managers Set Unrealistic Expectations, Employees Cut Ethical Corners
ethically lax cultures are another feature of the more recent cases as well as the earlier ones. Perhaps the most striking recent example is Odebrecht, the Brazilian conglomerate caught up in Operation Car Wash (Lava Jato in Portuguese),... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman