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- 30 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 30, 2016
Rapidly Developed Patient-Centered Outcome Measures By: Shah, Kevin P., Tracy E. Spinks, and Thomas W. Feeley Abstract—In 2014, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center created a streamlined process for developing measure sets... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
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Entrepreneurship - Faculty & Research
competitive Darwinian contest. Instead, a few investors make decisions that are impacted by incentive, agency, and coordination problems, often before a new idea even has a chance to compete in a market. We contend that costs and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Money Does Grow on (Family) Trees
For 17 years, Andre Kearns (MBA 1999) has been tracing his family tree. One by one, he has added branches, grounding himself in a long and sometimes complicated lineage. Through family stories, forgotten heirlooms, and vital records, Kearns has traveled back through... View Details
- 10 Jan 2024
- Research & Ideas
Technology and COVID Upended Tipping Norms. Will Consumers Keep Paying?
If you’ve recently ordered food or coffee on an app, you’re probably familiar with the prompt to tip your barista, delivery driver, or sandwich maker. Or even more commonly, when ordering at a casual dining counter, you’ve been asked to leave a tip on the screen used... View Details
Keywords: by Anna Lamb, Harvard Gazette
- March 2014
- Case
Babcock International Plc
By: John R. Wells and Galen Danskin
In 2013, Babcock International Plc (Babcock) was the largest engineering services provider in the UK with sales of over £3 billion. Under the leadership of CEO Peter Rogers, Babcock had grown revenues and profits nearly tenfold over the previous decade as it benefited... View Details
Keywords: Strategic Change; Strategy And Leadership; Diversification; United Kingdom; Military; Nuclear Power; Nuclear; Engineering And Construction; Conglomerates; Strategic Planning; Competitive Strategy; Global Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Construction Industry; Energy Industry; United Kingdom
Wells, John R., and Galen Danskin. "Babcock International Plc." Harvard Business School Case 714-496, March 2014.
- 12 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 12
real actions to boost earnings to meet different types of earnings benchmarks. We estimate that marketing actions can be used to boost quarterly net income by up to 5% depending on the depth and duration of promotion. However, there is a price to pay, with the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Business & Environment - Faculty & Research
2025 | Chapter | Faculty Research This chapter argues that since the nineteenth century capitalism has created much wealth, but at the cost of massive ecological destruction, which has been particularly severe in Latin America. During the... View Details
- December 1993 (Revised March 1995)
- Case
Medical Products Co.
By: Robert H. Hayes
In early 1990, the company is contemplating changes in its European plant network for producing hypodermic products, including the total production capacity to be provided, the number and location of plants over which to spread this capacity, and which products should... View Details
Keywords: Factories, Labs, and Plants; Decision Making; Forecasting and Prediction; Cost; Production; Performance Capacity; Performance Effectiveness; Strategic Planning; Competitive Strategy; Health Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Europe
Hayes, Robert H. "Medical Products Co." Harvard Business School Case 694-065, December 1993. (Revised March 1995.)
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California - Global
on the app not only helped users master a language but also drove subscription growth and reduced costs for Duolingo. To date, Duolingo had focused almost exclusively on language learning with an estimated market size of $17 billion in... View Details
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2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
measure of company returns but are deeply flawed. We propose an alternative measure that isolates operational performance from financial engineering, titled Core Operating Shareholders Returns (COSRs). In the process of disentangling... View Details
- 19 Feb 2008
- Research & Ideas
Radical Design, Radical Results
sort of research process and then launches products based on its findings. Wait and see. The company allows others to experiment with various products, observes what is most successful, and reacts accordingly. In Verganti's study of the... View Details
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Technology & Innovation - Faculty & Research
heterogeneous telecommunication costs arising from different regulatory regimes) strengthens our results. 2014 Working Paper Bridging Science and Technology Through Academic-Industry Partnerships By: Sen Chai and Willy C. Shih Scientific... View Details
- January 2019
- Case
Data.gov (Abridged)
By: Karim R. Lakhani, Robert D. Austin and Yumi Yi
This case presents the logic and execution underlying the launch of Data.gov, an instantiation of President Obama's initiative for transparency and open government. The process used by Vivek Kundra, the federal CIO, and his team to rapidly develop the website and to... View Details
Keywords: Safety; Rights; Analytics and Data Science; Internet and the Web; Ethics; Cost vs Benefits; Innovation and Management; Information Management; Public Administration Industry; Information Industry; United States
Lakhani, Karim R., Robert D. Austin, and Yumi Yi. "Data.gov (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 619-043, January 2019.
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
How To Make Restructuring Work for Your Company
restructuring process be managed and the many barriers to restructuring overcome so that as much value is created as possible? 3. Marketing. How should the restructuring be explained and portrayed to investors so that value created inside... View Details
Keywords: by Stuart C. Gilson
- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
advertising agency's decision to unbundle its services as a tradeoff between the fixed cost to the advertiser of establishing and maintaining a relationship with an advertising agency and pecuniary economies of scale available in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
“Too Big To Fail”: Reining In Large Financial Firms
use tools they already had, or they neglected to request new tools to meet the challenges of an evolving financial system." -David Moss Among the proposed new regulations: higher capital requirements; leverage limits; FDIC-like insurance charges; and, when all else... View Details
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Health Care - Faculty & Research
They also introduce bundled payment contracts with three insurers for orthopedic surgeries, and join a multi-hospital study for applying time-driven activity-based costing to identify process improvement and... View Details
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Aligning Reimbursement with Value - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
lengthier times to payment. Once IT systems can support bundled reimbursement, sending a single bill and processing a single claim will dramatically reduce the administrative costs of fee-for-service... View Details
- 18 Mar 2013
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: LEGO
components. While the number of LEGO-branded items grew, sales did not, and in 1998 the company suffered its first financial loss. "Their top-line growth was slowing down but their cost was accelerating, so they were starting to lose... View Details
- 24 May 2021
- Op-Ed
Can Fabric Waste Become Fashion’s Resource?
COVID-19 has broken fashion’s supply chain. As a result, an already wasteful industry has become more wasteful. Even before the pandemic, the global apparel industry was producing about 92 million tons of textile waste a year. That’s about one garbage truck’s worth of... View Details