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    Dennis A. Yao

    Dennis Yao is the Lawrence E. Fouraker Professor of Business Administration and Chair of the Doctoral Programs at Harvard Business School. He joined the faculty in 2004 after having been at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. From 1991-1994 he served as... View Details

    Keywords: automotive; defense; federal government; high technology
    • June 2013
    • Teaching Note

    Elasto Therm: The Next Step

    By: Jim Sharpe
    Keywords: Entrepreneurial Organizations; Entrepreneurs; Careers; Empowerment; Job Design; Sales Channels; Sales Force Management; Pricing Strategy; Pricing; Pricing Policies; Employee Empowerment; Customer Focus; Entrepreneurship; Salesforce Management; Customer Focus and Relationships; Rubber Industry; United States
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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; Education Industry; China
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    • October 2014
    • Case

    Progressive, 2007-2013

    By: John R. Wells and Galen Danskin
    In 2013, Progressive was the fourth largest player in the auto insurance market, having lost the third position to GEICO in 2008. As the industry shifted from agency to online sales, GEICO's direct selling model positioned it strongly for growth. Progressive's direct... View Details
    Keywords: Strategic Change; Insurance Companies; Insurance; Strategy; Insurance Industry; North America
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      Josh Lerner

      Josh Lerner graduated from Yale College with a special divisional major. He worked for several years on issues concerning technological innovation and public policy at the Brookings Institution, for a public-private task force in Chicago, and on... View Details

      Keywords: venture capital industry; venture capital industry; venture capital industry
      • February 2023 (Revised May 2023)
      • Case

      CalPERS Private Equity 2.0

      By: Josh Lerner, John D. Dionne and Alys Ferragamo
      Yup Kim, the Head of Investments, Private Equity at the California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS), reflected on the pension fund’s private equity strategy. In July of 2022, the fund was in the midst of a multi-year turnaround strategy with the goal to... View Details
      Keywords: Private Equity; Investment Portfolio; Retirement; Leadership; Strategy; Public Sector
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      • December 2008
      • Article

      The Teaching of Strategy: From General Manager to Analyst and Back Again?

      By: Joseph L. Bower
      Courses in strategy are an outgrowth of the business policy course first taught at Harvard Business School in 1912. This article examines how the teaching of a course concerned with the development and implementation of the goals and policies of a firm changed during... View Details
      Keywords: Business Education; Curriculum and Courses; Teaching; Policy; Business History; Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Corporate Strategy
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      • 12 Feb 2015
      • Video

      Reading the Tea Leaves: Sourcing News from Chinese Social Media

      • July 1997 (Revised September 2004)
      • Case

      Depreciation at Delta Air Lines and Singapore Airlines (A)

      By: William J. Bruns Jr. and Jeremy Cott
      Depreciation policies at Delta Air Lines and Singapore Airlines are compared and contrasted against a summary of operating data from each airline. Questions focus attention on differing depreciation policies. View Details
      Keywords: Cost Accounting; Policy; Financial Statements; Air Transportation Industry
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      • 2022
      • Chapter

      Capitalism and the Environment

      By: Geoffrey Jones
      Capitalism drove the environmental decimation of the planet. The environment was seen as a free good, while the consequences of dirty industrial and agricultural processes were seen as external to the firm. Public policies largely allowed this to happen, as politicians... View Details
      Keywords: History; Environment; Sustainability; Capitalism; Ethics; Business History; Environmental Sustainability; Green Technology; Pollution; Climate Change
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      The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Financial Regulation for the Twenty-First Century

      By: Leonard J. Kennedy, Patricia A. McCoy and Ethan S. Bernstein
      After existing regulatory systems failed to prevent the recent financial crisis, Congress passed the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, a sweeping reform designed to alleviate the crisis and prevent its recurrence. Out of this Act, the Consumer... View Details
      Keywords: Consumer Financial Protection Bureau; Dodd-Frank; CFPB; Financial Crisis; Reform; New Agency; Market-based Approach; Evidence-based Analysis; Innovative Technologies And Transparency Policies; BEST Practices; Government and Politics; Government Administration; Finance; Financial History; Law; Markets; Organizations; Organizational Design; Business and Government Relations; Balance and Stability; Strategy; Financial Services Industry; Financial Services Industry; United States
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      Overview

      By: William C. Kirby
      A historian by training, Professor Kirby examines contemporary China's business, economic, and political development in an international context. He writes and teaches on the growth of modern companies in China (Chinese and foreign; state-owned and private); Chinese... View Details
      Keywords: China; Internationalization; Educational Policy And Politics; Infrastructure; Government And Business; The Revival Of Family Business In China; China’s Infrastructure Exports: The ‘Belt And Road’ Initiative; Agribusiness; Education; Entrepreneurship; Globalization; Governance; Government and Politics; History; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Social Enterprise; Auto Industry; Auto Industry; Auto Industry; Auto Industry; Auto Industry; Asia; Europe; North and Central America
      • 01 Nov 2022
      • What Do You Think?

      Why Aren’t Business Leaders More Vocal About Immigration Policy?

      (iStockphoto/Sundry Photography) Most people agree that US immigration policy is a mess. At times, it is hard to even know what it is. Immigration policy differences divide us as a nation and produce a great... View Details
      Keywords: by James Heskett
      • 06 Mar 2017
      • News

      When America Was Most Innovative, and Why

      • 11 Sep 2008
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Competing Complements

      Keywords: by Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Barry Nalebuff & David B. Yoffie
      • 20 Oct 2010
      • Op-Ed

      Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic

      other policies to change relative prices can provide a countervailing force by subsidizing exports. But they increase the costs of imports, hurting both domestic consumption and export-oriented industries... View Details
      Keywords: by Christian Ketels
      • Teaching

      Overview

      By: Leemore S. Dafny
      U.S. Healthcare Strategy

      The U.S. healthcare sector accounts for 17 percent of GDP, and encompasses a diverse set of industries with public, nonprofit, and for-profit buyers and sellers. There are significant concerns about high and rising spending, and... View Details
      • 18 Oct 2011
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Historical Trajectories and Corporate Competences in Wind Energy

      Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Loubna Bouamane; Energy; Utilities
      • 18 Oct 2017
      • Research & Ideas

      How Economic Clusters Drive Globalization

      leading research universities, low cost or highly trained labor, and geographic bounty. Understanding how clusters work can help governments develop effective policies for creating them, as well as direct entrepreneurs to the best... View Details
      Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Agriculture & Agribusiness

        Michael E. Porter

        Michael Porter is an economist, researcher, author, advisor, speaker and teacher. Throughout his career at Harvard Business School, he has brought economic theory and strategy concepts to bear on many of the most challenging problems facing corporations, economies... View Details

        Keywords: e-commerce industry; e-commerce industry; e-commerce industry; e-commerce industry; e-commerce industry; e-commerce industry; e-commerce industry; e-commerce industry; e-commerce industry