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  • 07 Jun 2012
  • Working Paper Summaries

How Short-Termism Invites Corruption--And What to Do About It

Keywords: by Malcolm S. Salter
  • 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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  • June 2007 (Revised March 2011)
  • Case

The CW: Launching a Television Network

By: Anita Elberse and S. Mark Young
In May 2006, Dawn Ostroff, president of entertainment of the newly formed CW Television Network, was faced with the task of choosing the final set of programs for the 2006 fall schedule, which she would present to advertisers at the annual "upfront" market in New York... View Details
Keywords: Advertising; Customer Relationship Management; Decision Choices and Conditions; Television Entertainment; Brands and Branding; Product Launch; Strategic Planning; Networks; Media and Broadcasting Industry
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    Better, Simpler Strategy: A Value-Based Guide to Exceptional Performance

    Get to better, more effective strategy.

    In nearly every business segment and corner of the world economy, the most successful companies dramatically outperform their rivals. What is their secret? In "Better, Simpler Strategy," Harvard... View Details
    • 14 Sep 2021
    • Blog Post

    Top 5 Myths About HBS

    family-like element that exists in your day-to-day life, people you take the same classes with and that you really grow a bond with. You spend a lot of time outside of the classroom getting to know them, their partners, their families,... View Details
    • 06 Dec 2022
    • Research & Ideas

    Latest Isn’t Always Greatest: Why Product Updates Capture Consumers

    idea, showing that the less time they gave people to examine a choice, the more likely they were to go for the newer option. “When you are under time pressure, you are even less likely to scrutinize the... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Consumer Products; Retail
    • 02 Nov 2023
    • News

    Seeding Startups

    Shirish Nadkarni (MBA 1987) was the director of product planning for Microsoft’s MSN when he decided he was ready to become an entrepreneur. He had recently led the growing internet portal’s 1997 acquisition of Hotmail, the first free, web-based email solution, and the... View Details
    Keywords: April White
    • Web

    Alumni Engagement | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

    resources on governance. Sign Up For OnBoard Program Updates The Leadership Collaborative The Leadership Collaborative is designed to connect and support alumni deeply engaged in social impact as a career and who are currently working full View Details
    • Web

    Course Overview - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

    the board Communicating with internal and external constituencies Setting the right tone and values Self-assessment: where are you most/least prepared? Dealing with your predecessor Managing time and commitments Establishing legitimacy as... View Details
    • Web

    Hiring at HBS: How Summer Interns Make an Impact at Bridges Fund Management - Recruiting

    “With an internship, you don't have a long time to make an impact,” said Sullivan. “The key is to ask questions to understand what is going on quickly and identify where you can contribute.” Cheung referred to this trait as the ability to... View Details
    • Web

    Events - Business History

    transcripts and video materials for teaching in different institutional contexts in Europe, India, Latin America, and the United States. Each session included time for discussion and debate, as the conference sought to lay the foundation... View Details
    • 25 Jun 2012
    • Research & Ideas

    Collaborating Across Cultures

    other person necessarily even realizing it. A Learnable Habit The good news is that cultural metacognition is not fixed, but rather it is a mental habit that can be learned over time and through different circumstances. "People who have a... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding
    • 24 Feb 2016
    • Research & Ideas

    Why It's Best to Take Tests Early in the Day

    Gino, a behavioral scientist, was working on a project about how time of day affects job interviews. (Note to job-hunters: Try to book a morning interview slot.) “As it turns out, the later one interviews in the day, the lower the score... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education
    • 31 May 2007
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Organizational Designs and Innovation Streams

    Keywords: by Michael Tushman, Wendy K. Smith, Robert Chapman Wood, George Westerman & Charles O'Reilly
    • 05 Jul 2006
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Governance and CEO Turnover: Do Something or Do the Right Thing?

    Keywords: by Ray Fisman, Rakesh Khurana & Matthew Rhodes-Kropf
    • TeachingInterests

    Immersive Field Course: China and Taiwan

    By: Willy C. Shih
    I designed this course to enable students to examine cross-strait issues between the Peoples Republic of China and the Republic of China—(Taiwan) at a critical juncture. Many products produced for the global marketplace—televisions, computers and computer components,... View Details
    • June 2023 (Revised January 2024)
    • Case

    Chipmaking in the Desert: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company's Global Expansion

    By: William C. Kirby and Noah B. Truwit
    On December 6, 2022, in Phoenix, Arizona, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) Executive Chairman Mark Liu outlined the company’s ambitious plans to invest $40 billion to build semiconductor manufacturing plants in Phoenix. The event also celebrated the... View Details
    Keywords: Geopolitical Units; Government and Politics; Government Legislation; Expansion; Market Entry and Exit; Semiconductor Industry; Taiwan; United States
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    • July 2022
    • Article

    What Do I Make of the Rest of My Life? Global and Quotidian Life Construal across the Retirement Transition

    By: Jeff Steiner and Teresa M. Amabile
    Retirement means relinquishing the daily structure that work provides and the career-dependent meanings that it offers life narratives. The retirement transition can therefore involve contemplating both how to spend newly-freed daily time and the implications of... View Details
    Keywords: Retirement Transition; Life Narrative; Construal Level Theory; Global Construal; Quotidian Construal; Meanings Of Work And Retirement; Retirement; Transition; Perspective
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    Optimal Capital-Gains Taxation under Limited Information

    By: Jerry R. Green and Eytan Sheshinski
    Taxation of capital gains at realization may distort individuals' decisions regarding holding or selling during an asset's lifetime. This creates the problem of designing a tax structure for capital gains so as to induce efficient patterns of holding and selling.... View Details
    Keywords: Capital Gains; Optimal Taxation; Taxation
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    • May 2019
    • Article

    Corporate Debt, Firm Size and Financial Fragility in Emerging Markets

    By: Laura Alfaro, Gonzalo Asis, Anusha Chari and Ugo Panizza
    The post-Global Financial Crisis period shows a surge in corporate leverage in emerging markets and a number of countries with deteriorated corporate financial fragility indicators (Altman’s Z-score). Firm size plays a critical role in the relationship between... View Details
    Keywords: Corporate Debt; Firm Size; Financial Fragility; Emerging Market; Organizations; Borrowing and Debt; Financial Condition; Emerging Markets; System Shocks
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