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  • April 2018
  • Exercise

Stoy Foods: Role Information for Milan Stoyanovic

By: John Beshears
In this simulation exercise, four family members must negotiate over the future of the family business. Should the business be sold to a strategic buyer, or should the family retain control? If the business is sold, how should the proceeds of the sale be distributed... View Details
Keywords: Succession; Sale Of Business; Understanding Interests; Value Creation; Family Business; Business Exit or Shutdown; Negotiation; Ownership Stake; Perspective; Agreements and Arrangements
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  • Research Summary

Mastering Strategy Execution

By: Robert Simons

Professor Robert Simons’ research encompasses three areas of management accountability that are the foundation for successful strategy execution: organization design, performance measurement and control, and risk management. In addition, Simons is interested in the... View Details

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    Keywords: health care
    • February 2016 (Revised June 2016)
    • Case

    Janalakshmi Financial Services' HR Dilemma

    By: Doug J. Chung and Radhika Kak
    Janalakshmi Financial Services (JFS), an Indian microfinance institution, had grown rapidly by providing financial products to its main customer base, the urban poor. However, the company was facing several challenges. JFS’s productivity was declining, and it was... View Details
    Keywords: Microfinance; Salesforce Management; Compensation and Benefits; Sales; Strategy; Financial Services Industry
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    • 2025
    • Working Paper

    Balancing Engagement and Polarization: Multi-Objective Alignment of News Content Using LLMs

    By: Mengjie Cheng, E. Ofek and Hema Yoganarasimhan
    We study how media firms can use LLMs to generate news content that aligns with multiple objectives—making content more engaging while maintaining a preferred level of polarization/slant consistent with the firm’s editorial policy. Using news articles from The New... View Details
    Keywords: Large Language Models; Content Creation; Media; Polarization; Generative Ai; Direct Preference Optimization; AI and Machine Learning; News; Perspective; Digital Marketing; Policy; Media and Broadcasting Industry
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    • Article

    Best Practices for Differentiated Products Demand Estimation with PyBLP

    Differentiated products demand systems are a workhorse for understanding the price effects of mergers, the value of new goods, and the contribution of products to seller networks. Berry, Levinsohn, and Pakes (1995) provide a flexible random coefficients logit model... View Details
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    • 10 Jan 2022
    • News

    The Secret Ingredient of Thriving Companies? Human Magic.

    • 12 Aug 2020
    • Research & Ideas

    Why Investors Often Lose When They Sue Their Financial Adviser

    proliferation of arbitration Companies from internet service providers to nursing home operators use arbitration to shield themselves from expensive, protracted lawsuits. Proponents say the approach resolves disputes faster than the court View Details
    Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Financial Services
    • January 2, 2020
    • Article

    Changes in Quality of Care After Hospital Mergers and Acquisitions

    By: Nancy Dean Beaulieu, Leemore S. Dafny, B. E. Landon, Jesse Dalton, Ifedayo Kuye and J. Michael McWilliams
    Background: The hospital industry has consolidated substantially during the past two decades and at an accelerated pace since 2010. Multiple studies have shown that hospital mergers have led to higher prices for commercially insured patients, but research about effects... View Details
    Keywords: Hospitals; Mergers and Acquisitions; Health Care and Treatment; Quality
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    • March 2010 (Revised June 2010)
    • Case

    Whose Money Is It Anyway? (A)

    By: V.G. Narayanan, Richard G. Hamermesh and Rachel Gordon
    The Brigham and Women's Physician's Organization (BWPO) and its corporate parent disagree over who has jurisdiction over significant legacy funds. Are they controlled by the BWPO or do they belong to BWPO's corporate parent? The BWPO and its corporate parent must... View Details
    Keywords: Accounting; Investment Funds; Governance Controls; Agreements and Arrangements; Boundaries; Health Industry
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    • Article

    Active World Model Learning with Progress Curiosity

    By: Kuno Kim, Megumi Sano, Julian De Freitas, Nick Haber and Daniel Yamins
    World models are self-supervised predictive models of how the world evolves. Humans learn world models by curiously exploring their environment, in the process acquiring compact abstractions of high bandwidth sensory inputs, the ability to plan across long temporal... View Details
    Keywords: World Models; Mathematical Methods
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    • August 2016
    • Case

    VMD Medical Imaging Center

    By: Susanna Gallani and Eva Labro
    VMD Medical Imaging Center, a local independent provider of medical imaging services, is facing some important challenges. Despite efficiency improvements and cost cutting initiatives carried out over the past few years, their profitability is shrinking; their prices... View Details
    Keywords: Costing; Death Spiral; Transfer Pricing; Activity Based Costing and Management; Competitive Strategy; Medical Specialties; Health Industry
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    • 16 Oct 2008
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Opening Platforms: How, When and Why?

    Keywords: by Thomas R. Eisenmann, Geoffrey Parker & Marshall Van Alstyne
    • November 2018 (Revised April 2019)
    • Case

    Zespri Grows

    By: David E. Bell and Natalie Kindred
    Controlling about a third of global kiwifruit exports by volume and nearly half by value in 2018, Zespri was a grower-owned “corporatized cooperative” with the exclusive right to export New Zealand-grown kiwifruit (except to Australia). Zespri did not grow fruit but... View Details
    Keywords: Agribusiness; Kiwi; Kiwifruit; Agriculture; Global Supply Chain; Branding; Produce; Coordinated Industry Structure; Industry Coordination; Countercyclical Supply; New Product Development; Product Strategy; Differentiation; Food; Quality; Trade; Brands and Branding; Marketing; Strategy; Global Strategy; Change Management; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Globalization; Globalized Firms and Management; Competitive Strategy; Resource Allocation; Product Development; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; New Zealand
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    • 26 Nov 2019
    • News

    Who Killed Healthcare? Dr Regina Herzlinger Knows Who’s Guilty

    • April 2023 (Revised July 2023)
    • Case

    Fermenting Accounting Problems at Vermont Kombucha Corp.

    By: Tatiana Sandino and Marshal Herrmann
    Founded in 2005, Vermont Kombucha Corp. (V-Ko) was an early mover in the fledgling U.S. market for kombucha, a drink brewed for its health benefits. Early on, the company captured more than 90% of market share. Under the leadership of its founder and CEO, Joe Williams,... View Details
    Keywords: Going Public; Business Model; Financial Reporting; Ethics; Corporate Governance; Stock Shares; Food and Beverage Industry
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    • May 2013
    • Article

    Hybrid Innovation in Meiji Japan

    By: Tom Nicholas
    Japan's hybrid innovation system during the Meiji era of technological modernization provides a useful laboratory for examining the effectiveness of complementary mechanisms to patents. Patents were introduced in 1885, and by 1911, 1.2 million mostly non-pecuniary... View Details
    Keywords: Prizes; Technological Innovation; System; Patents; Knowledge; Value; Cost vs Benefits; Factories, Labs, and Plants; Performance Effectiveness; Japan
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    • May 2022
    • Case

    Rawbank's Illico Cash: Can 'Fast Money' Overcome Cash Dependency in the DRC?

    By: Lauren Cohen and Grace Headinger
    Thomas de Dreux-Brézé, the Head of Strategy and Project Management at Rawbank Congo in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), was perplexed as he reviewed annual adoption rates for the bank’s launch of Illico Cash 2.0. As the bank’s mobile money app, Illico Cash... View Details
    Keywords: Fintech; Inflation; Deflation; Rural; Urban; Emerging Market; Mobile Technology; Finance; Money; Inflation and Deflation; Business Growth and Maturation; Decision Choices and Conditions; Demographics; Developing Countries and Economies; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Behavioral Finance; Currency; Banks and Banking; Commercial Banking; Financial Strategy; Rural Scope; Urban Scope; Innovation Strategy; Emerging Markets; Network Effects; Consumer Behavior; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Technology Adoption; Banking Industry; Financial Services Industry; Technology Industry; Congo, Democratic Republic of the
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    • October 2009 (Revised April 2010)
    • Supplement

    Societe Generale (B): The Jerome Kerviel Affair

    By: Francois Brochet
    This case illustrates the tension/balance that firms with complex and risky business models must consider in designing their internal controls. It describes the environment in which a derivatives trader engaged in massive directional positions on major European stocks... View Details
    Keywords: Risk Management; Governance Controls; Crisis Management; Financial Services Industry
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    • March 2023
    • Case

    Ransomware Attack at Colonial Pipeline Company

    By: Suraj Srinivasan and Li-Kuan Ni
    On the morning of May 7, 2021, Colonial Pipeline Company became aware that the company had been the victim of a malicious ransomware attack that had stolen and locked up company data. The extortionists demanded 75 bitcoins (worth about $4.4 million at the time) in... View Details
    Keywords: Disruption; Communication; Communication Strategy; Decision Making; Decision Choices and Conditions; Judgments; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Disclosure; Corporate Governance; Governance Controls; Policy; Employees; News; Cybersecurity; Digital Strategy; Information Infrastructure; Information Management; Internet and the Web; Crisis Management; Business or Company Management; Resource Allocation; Risk Management; Negotiation Tactics; Failure; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Attitudes; Behavior; Perception; Reputation; Trust; Public Opinion; Social Issues; Infrastructure; Distribution Industry; United States; Alabama
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