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Presentation The Future of Value-Based Health Care Delivery The Future of Value-Based Health Care Delivery Michael Porter: ASCO Opening Session (May 30, 2015) 12 May 2015 Presentation Shared Value and View Details

January 2025
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Davivienda Bank's Upskilling and Reskilling Strategy in Colombia (Abridged)

By: Jorge Tamayo, Raffaella Sadun and Jenyfeer Martinez Buitrago

Set in 2022, this abridged case examines the digital transformation strategy of Davivienda—a leading player in Colombia’s commercial banking sector and one of the companies belonging to Grupo Bolívar, a major Colombian conglomerate—and the bank’s upskilling and... View Details

08 Apr 2010
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Multinational Strategies and Developing Countries in Historical Perspective

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones

April 2003 (Revised December 2003)
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Intervention Strategy

Develops a framework linking the diagnosis of conflict dynamics to the design of intervention strategies. To intervene effectively, managers must determine whether they are dealing with an acute or chronic conflict. Using this analysis as a foundation, they can define... View Details

Keywords: Conflict Management; Managerial Roles

2008
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The Economics and Strategy of Standards and Standardization

By: Shane Greenstein and Victor Stango

December 2015 (Revised July 2020)
Technical Note

Some Strategy Ingredients: Scale, Learning, and Market Structure

By: Eric Van den Steen

This note introduces students to some economic concepts and ideas that are important ingredients for strategy, such as scale, learning, and the effects of market structure on competition. The note approaches these ideas really from a strategy perspective with a focus... View Details

Keywords: Scale; Market Structure; Strategy; Markets; Learning

April 1993 (Revised June 1995)
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Diverse Classroom: Teaching Challenges and Strategies

September 1986
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Dilemmas of Developing and Communicating Strategy

By: Joseph L. Badaracco Jr.

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Roundtable Discussion: Business Strategy and Antitrust

By: Cynthia A. Montgomery, Dennis Yao and Toby E. Stuart

Keywords: Business Strategy; Policy

01 Dec 2008
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The CEO and the Functions of Leadership

a number of categories that will prove important when considering the CEO’s role: Direction: A core function of leadership is setting the strategy for the organization, and... View Details

May 2021
Case

Megan Ming Francis: Leadership and Racial Injustice

By: Francesca Gino and Frances X. Frei

In this multimedia case, Megan Ming Francis, a professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Washington (UW) and a visiting professor at the Harvard Kennedy School, discusses the roots of racial injustice and the need for change. Through... View Details

Keywords: Racial Injustice; Race; Prejudice and Bias; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Leadership

2010
Chapter

A Contingency Theory of Leadership

By: Jay W. Lorsch

The idea of a contingency theory of leadership is not novel. In the 1960s several scholars conducted research and proposed such an approach arguing that the style of leadership that would be most effective depended upon the situation (Fiedler, Tannenbaum and Schmidt,... View Details

Keywords: Leadership Style; Situation or Environment; Behavior; Theory

March 1999 (Revised January 2000)
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Interactive Technologies and Relationship Marketing Strategies

By: Youngme E. Moon

Outlines the role of interactive technologies in the development of relationship marketing strategies. View Details

Keywords: Marketing Strategy; Customer Relationship Management; Technology

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Publications - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Utilizing time-driven activity-based costing to determine open radical cystectomy and ileal conduit surgical episode cost drivers by Janet Baack Kukreja, M.D., M.P.H.a,b, Mohamed A. Seif, M.D.a, Marissa W. Mery, M.D.c, James R.... View Details

2023
Working Paper

Going Beyond the ‘Self’ in Self-Control: Interpersonal Consequences of Commitment Strategy Use

By: Ariella Kristal and Julian Zlatev

Commitment strategies are effective mechanisms individuals can use to overcome self-control problems. Across seven studies (and three supplemental studies), we explore the negative interpersonal consequences of commitment strategy use. In Study 1, using an incentivized... View Details

Keywords: Self-control; Willpower; Commitment Strategies; Goals and Objectives; Behavior; Strategy; Perception

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2006
Casebook

Corporate Information Strategy and Management: Text and Cases

By: Lynda M. Applegate, Robert D. Austin and F. Warren McFarlan

Keywords: Information; Strategy; Management; Cases

February 2010
Module Note

Strategies of Influence

By: Deepak Malhotra

Strategies of Influence (SOI) is a stand-alone session that teaches students about the psychology of persuasion. Students are presented a series of mini-case vignettes, each of which illustrates a specific strategy that negotiators can use to make their ideas, offers,... View Details

Keywords: Leadership; Management Teams; Negotiation; Groups and Teams; Power and Influence; Strategy