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  • 29 Nov 2010
  • News

On Creative Accounting: Two Creativity Myths

  • 07 Mar 2017
  • News

Hospitals could bear the financial brunt of the American Health Care Act

  • January 2008 (Revised March 2008)
  • Supplement

Bidding on Martha's Vineyard (B)

By: James Sebenius
To buy a desirable Martha's Vineyard property, Robert and Sally Franklin must craft a bidding strategy informed by their assessment of their competitor. The "A" case sets up the situation and bidding history to date, describes how they assessed their valuations and... View Details
Keywords: Bids and Bidding; Property; Competitive Strategy; Real Estate Industry; Martha's Vineyard
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  • 17 May 2010
  • News

Eight HBS Students Honored for Service to the School and Society

  • 09 Nov 2011
  • News

Despite Critics, Mortgage Deduction Resists Change

  • 28 Aug 2020
  • Video

Ian Fuhr

Ian Fuhr, who later founded Sorbet, the largest chain of beauty salons in South Africa, describes how he was sent to a refinery owned by the Murray & Roberts group in the 1990s and encountered appalling racism at the top management. The CEO eventually took steps to... View Details
  • 01 Jul 2025
  • Video

90 Years of Alcoholics Anonymous: How Bill Wilson Changed the World

  • February 2016 (Revised February 2017)
  • Case

Alvogen

By: Daniel Isenberg and William Kerr
Alvogen is a young Icelandic generic pharmaceutical company, whose CEO believes that his global strategy will give them an edge in this competitive industry.
Robert Wessman, Alvogen’s CEO, was also previously the CEO of Actavis, another Icelandic generics... View Details
Keywords: Pharmaceutical Companies; Generic Drugs; Entrepreneurship; Globalization; Risk and Uncertainty; Pharmaceutical Industry; Iceland
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  • 30 May 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Health Care Under a Research Microscope

operating room, have been studied by HBS faculty. Amy Edmondson has looked at organizational learning in hospital intensive care units; Gary Pisano and Robert Huckman studied technology adoption and teamwork... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Health; Biotechnology

    Levers of Organization Design

    The design of an organization—the accountability system that defines roles, rights, and responsibilities throughout the firm—has a direct impact on the performance of every employee. Yet, few leaders devote focused attention to how this design is chosen, implemented,... View Details
    • 19 Oct 2022
    • Video

    Health Minute Series

    • 01 Apr 2009
    • News

    New Book Looks at the Life of a CIO

    • 06 Sep 2004
    • What Do You Think?

    How Do We Prepare for a World Without Cheap Oil?

    headed by Robert Stobaugh and Daniel Yergin. Starting from a premise stated in the title of the first chapter, "The End of Easy Oil," the project team went on to recognize the importance of a... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett
    • 02 Feb 2004
    • What Do You Think?

    Leadership: A Matter of Sustaining or Eliminating Groupthink?

    doers at the senior levels of management." Advice to leaders in formulating decisions was provided by Keith Pinto, who opined that "Encouraging mavericks, risk takers, and soul searching questions is part of the chaos that... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett
    • September 2010 (Revised January 2012)
    • Case

    OPOWER: Increasing Energy Efficiency through Normative Influence (A)

    By: Amy J.C. Cuddy, Kyle Todd Doherty and Maarten W. Bos
    The case profiles OPOWER, an energy efficiency software company that applies Cialdini's principles of social influence to successfully encourage consumers to reduce their energy usage. OPOWER was co-founded in 2008 by two young Harvard graduates, Dan Yates and Alex... View Details
    Keywords: Mathematical Methods; Applications and Software; Attitudes; Entrepreneurship; Energy Conservation; Power and Influence; Growth and Development Strategy; Energy Industry; United States
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    • 03 Mar 2010
    • What Do You Think?

    To What Degree Does “Identity” Affect Economic Performance?

    Summing Up Is "identity" a victim of competitiveness? A recent study of organizational behavior published by Timothy Kieningham and Lerzan Toksoy shows that employees' perceptions of their employers' levels of commitment to them... View Details
    Keywords: by Jim Heskett
    • 22 Feb 2000
    • Research & Ideas

    Social Capital Markets: Creating Value in the Nonprofit World

    of the Roberts Enterprise Development Fund (REDF) in SanFrancisco. Created by George Roberts, one of the founders of the New Yorkinvestment firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts &... View Details
    Keywords: by Anne Kavanagh
    • 18 Jun 2001
    • Lessons from the Classroom

    Why Leaders Need Great Books

    year, will eventually earn them a decent funeral by the time they die. The problem, though, is that if they miss even two weeks' worth of payments, they forfeit everything they've contributed to date. Big Demand According to Joseph L.... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace
    • 06 Apr 2016
    • What Do You Think?

    As Tim Cook, How Would You Tackle Apple's Next Challenge?

    123 felt that in the entire matter, “Apple should be less concerned about the security issue... and be more concerned about the damage to its reputation for refusing to assist in serious criminal & terrorist investigation.” Robert... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett; Computer
    • 26 Nov 2001
    • Research & Ideas

    Women Entrepreneurs Use Springboard for Funding

    What do a health food manufacturer, an infectious-diseases specialist and a content-management expert have in common? Answer: All are women, all are entrepreneurs. And by virtue of being women and entrepreneurs they share one... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace