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  • 31 Aug 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Why Competition May Not Improve Credit Rating Agencies

professor of finance at Washington University in St. Louis, tested the potential problem of raters that compete for business favoring the issuers and providing less reliable ratings. Their HBS working paper "Reputation and... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services
  • 2021
  • Working Paper

The Origins of CE Marking: Standards, Business, and the European Market in the 1980s–1990s

By: Grace Ballor
Many products—from consumer electronics to machinery to children’s toys—bear the CE Mark, the symbol of conformity to the ‘essential requirements’ of European standards governed by the process of CE Marking. This working paper traces the development of the system of... View Details
Keywords: Business And Government; Market Liberalization; Standards; Markets; Trade; Integration; Business History; Globalization; Business and Government Relations; Europe; European Union
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    Best-selling and New Cases by Ben Esty

    Best-Selling Cases:  

      1) Eaton: Portfolio Transformation & Cost of... View Details

    • Article

    Power, Competitiveness, and Advice Taking: Why the Powerful Don't Listen

    By: L. P. Tost, F. Gino and R. Larrick
    Four experiments test the prediction that feelings of power lead individuals to discount advice received from both experts and novices. Experiment 1 documents a negative relationship between subjective feelings of power and use of advice. Experiments 2 and 3 further... View Details
    Keywords: Advice Taking; Power; Expertise; Confidence; Competitive Mindset; Competition
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    • 04 Sep 2013
    • What Do You Think?

    How Relevant is Long-Range Strategic Planning?

    the pace of change it can also be cleverly leveraged to facilitate an iterative, evergreen process of strategy formulation and implementation." David Wittenberg added, "Strategic planning, especially long-term strategic... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett
    • Web

    Program Requirements - Doctoral

    Health Policy (Management) Program Requirements Students in the Health Policy (Management) program will learn how theories and concepts from fields such as technology and operations management, organizational behavior, organizational economics, and competitive View Details
    • 23 Nov 2021
    • Book

    What It Takes to Build an Organizational Culture That Wins

    pandemic, for which no plan could be made. Agility, not long-range planning, is the answer to hard-to-predict events. Finally, effective culture is especially important for organizations in the start-up phase of their development in which several business models or... View Details
    Keywords: by Avery Forman
    • March 2011 (Revised October 2011)
    • Case

    If We Ran the World

    By: Hanna Halaburda, Radka Dohnalova and Aldo Sesia
    Cindy Gallop launched IfWeRanTheWorld (IWRTW) in February 2010, as what the tech world called minimum viable product, in order to real-world test Gallop's "business of the future" concept while development was ongoing. IWRTW was conceived to bring together human good... View Details
    Keywords: Business Model; Outcome or Result; Growth and Development Strategy; Decision Choices and Conditions; Network Effects
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    • 05 Jun 2007
    • First Look

    First Look: June 5, 2007

    supplement: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=807158 Westin Hotels and Resorts: Operations of a Lifestyle Experience Harvard Business School Case 607-129 Westin Hotels and Resorts adopted a new "lifestyle" brand View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • July–August 2018
    • Article

    Learning by Contributing: Gaining Competitive Advantage Through Contribution to Crowdsourced Public Goods

    By: Frank Nagle
    As the economy becomes more information based, firms are increasingly using crowdsourced public goods as inputs for innovation and production. Counterintuitively, some firms pay their employees to contribute to the creation of these goods, which can be used freely by... View Details
    Keywords: Open Source Distribution; Applications and Software; Competitive Strategy; Learning; Competitive Advantage
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    • Web

    Podcast - Business & Environment

    operating companies like Circular Services. She shares how their private equity, venture capital, and catalytic credit strategies are helping scale recycling, reuse, and circular supply chains.Lauren also explores the critical role of... View Details
    • 2019
    • Working Paper

    Industrial Change, the Boundary of the Firm, and Racial Employment Segregation

    By: John-Paul Ferguson and Rembrand Koning
    Racial employment segregation between large workplaces in America has grown over the last generation. We know little about how changes in patterns of employment by economic sector have contributed to this growth, though. While there are many stylized narratives about... View Details
    Keywords: Workplace Segregation; Firm Boundaries; Organizations; Employees; Segmentation; Race; Change; United States
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    • September 2014
    • Case

    Radiometer, 2003

    By: John R. Wells and Galen Danskin
    In 2003, Radiometer was the world's leading supplier of blood gas analysis equipment and accessories for critical care patients. Based in Denmark, Radiometer sold through a combination of sales subsidiaries and distributors around the world, and generated sales of over... View Details
    Keywords: Medical Devices; Medical Equipment ＆ Devices; Mergers ＆ Acquisitions; Strategic Analysis; Strategic Change; Family Business; Strategy; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Denmark; United States
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    • October 2010 (Revised January 2011)
    • Case

    Toyota Recalls (A): Hitting the Skids

    By: John A. Quelch, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Ryan Johnson
    In the fall of 2009, Toyota Motor Corporation, once revered for its commitment to quality and reliability, faced a highly publicized series of recalls in the United States representing approximately a year's worth of sales in one of its most important markets. While... View Details
    Keywords: Communication Strategy; Crisis Management; Brands and Branding; Quality; Public Opinion; Auto Industry; Japan; United States
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    • 16 May 2023
    • HBS Case

    How KKR Got More by Giving Ownership to the Factory Floor: ‘My Kids Are Going to College!’

    road.” When KKR bought CHI Overhead Doors in 2015, it offered a test case for an idea Stavros had been toying with since he was a student at HBS. He made every employee an owner, promising each a payout of at least $15,000 if the company... View Details
    Keywords: by Avery Forman
    • 20 Jan 2015
    • First Look

    First Look: January 20

    following a prosocial norm and self-regulation. We tested 433 children between 6 and 13 years of age in two variations of the Dictator Game (DG). Children were asked what they should or would give in the game and then played an actual DG.... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • October 2021 (Revised February 2022)
    • Case

    upGrad: Delivering Career Outcomes Online: Degree by Degree

    By: John J-H Kim, Anjali Raina and Rachna Chawla
    In August 2021, the founders of upGrad, the latest unicorn in the Indian higher education online space, were deciding how to best use the funds to execute on their ambitious growth plans. Ronnie Screwvala, Mayank Kumar and Phalgun Kompalli had envisioned upGrad as an... View Details
    Keywords: Unicorns; COVID-19 Pandemic; Higher Education; Internet and the Web; Spending; Growth and Development Strategy; Education Industry; India
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    • May–June 2014
    • Article

    Paradigm-Changing vs. Paradigm-Deepening Innovation: How Firm Scope Influences Firm Technological Response to Shocks

    By: Gautam Ahuja, Curba Morris Lampert and Vivek Tandon
    We examine the direction of firms' research efforts as they respond to the shock of a sharp increase in the price of a key input. In terms of direction, firms can respond to this shock with paradigm-changing investments that develop technologies to use substitute... View Details
    Keywords: Technological Change; Innovation; Evolutionary Approaches; Shocks; Technological Innovation; System Shocks; Corporate Strategy
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    • 2012
    • Article

    The Internalization of Advertising Services: An Inter-Industry Analysis

    By: Sharon Horsky, Steven C. Michael and Alvin J. Silk
    This study investigates the extent to which U.S. advertisers use in-house rather than independent advertising agencies and examines inter-industry variation in such internalization. Contrary to the widely held impression that use of an in-house advertising agency is... View Details
    Keywords: Advertisers; In-house Advertising; Inter-industry Variation; Internalization; Scale Economies; Transaction Costs; Vertical Integration; Advertising Costs; Creative Industries; Marketing Strategy; Advertising Industry; Europe; North and Central America
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    • 2025
    • Working Paper

    Turning Away from the State: Trade Shocks and Informal Insurance in Brazil

    By: Paula Rettl
    How does economic globalization affect vote choices? Conventional wisdom holds that voters who lose from economic integration support parties that propose expanding the welfare state. However, in the Global South, where the state is frequently weak or under-resourced,... View Details
    Keywords: Global Strategy; Globalized Economies and Regions; Governance; Government Administration; Political Elections; Voting; Latin America; Brazil; South America
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