Publications

15 Dec 2010
Other Presentation

Value-Based Health Care Delivery

By: Michael E. Porter

This presentation draws on Redefining Health Care: Creating Value-Based Competition on Results (with Elizabeth O. Teisberg), Harvard Business School Press, May 2006; ―A Strategy for Health Care Reform—Toward a Value-Based System, New England Journal of Medicine, June... View Details

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; United States

1 Mar 2012
Other Presentation

Redefining German Health Care

By: Michael E. Porter

This presentation draws on Redefining Health Care: Creating Value-Based Competition on Results (with Elizabeth O. Teisberg), Harvard Business School Press, May 2006; ―A Strategy for Health Care Reform—Toward a Value-Based System, New England Journal of Medicine, June... View Details

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Germany

03 Jul 2010
News

Hedge-Fund Lending Draws Scrutiny

24 Jul 2024
Video

Andy Hoffman: It’s time for business schools to respond to a changing world

25 Mar 2022
Video

Omobola Johnson

Omobola Johnson, the former Minister of Communication Technology in Nigeria, explains how the non-profit organization WimBiz seeks to increase the representation of women on corporate boards, spotlighting the WimBoard Executive Database. View Details

August 2021
Case

Apax Digital

By: Jo Tango and Alys Ferragamo

The Apax Digital team faced important decisions as they contemplated raising a second fund. Apax Digital Fund I was a $1.1 billion vehicle focused on mid-market growth equity and growth buyouts in the technology sector. The fund had performed well, and the Managing... View Details

Keywords: Growth and Development Strategy; Acquisition; Investment Portfolio; Decision Choices and Conditions; Venture Capital; Technology Industry; Technology Industry; United States

Matthew Rabin is the Pershing Square Professor of Behavioral Economics in the Harvard Economics Department and Harvard Business School.

Before that, he spent 25 years at the wonderful University of California, Berkeley Economics Department. His research... View Details

January 1999
Case

Bell Atlantic and the Union City Schools (C1): Project Explore

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Ellen Pruyne

The third in a five-part series about Bell Atlantic Corp.'s technology-in-education partnership with the Union City, New Jersey school system. Describes Bell Atlantic's efforts to identify an appropriate site for testing emerging telecommunications technology and its... View Details

Keywords: Partners and Partnerships; Education; Business and Community Relations; Wireless Technology; Education Industry; Telecommunications Industry; New Jersey

15 Sep 2010
Working Paper Summaries

From Bench to Board: Gender Differences in University Scientists’ Participation in Commercial Science

Keywords: by Waverly W. Ding, Fiona Murray & Toby E. Stuart; Biotechnology

October 2020 (Revised February 2024)
Case

Divesting Harvard's Endowment

By: Daniel Green, Luis M. Viceira and Holly Fetter

By early 2020 Harvard University was facing growing pressure from students, faculty, and alumni to divest its $40 billion endowment of financial stakes in fossil fuel producers. Its previous policy of avoiding the issue was quickly becoming outdated—$21 trillion of... View Details

Keywords: Divestment; Harvard University; ESG; Higher Education; Investment Portfolio; Environmental Sustainability; Strategy; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact

November 2013
Article

Organizational Ambidexterity: Past, Present and Future

By: Charles A. O'Reilly III and Michael Tushman

Organizational ambidexterity refers to the ability of an organization to both explore and exploit—to compete in mature technologies and markets where efficiency, control, and incremental improvement are prized and to also compete in new technologies and markets where... View Details

Keywords: Organizational Ambidexterity; Organization Design; Innovation; Leadership; Organizational Design; Innovation and Invention

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Jim joined the HBS Faculty in 2019 and teaches the EC courses Entrepreneurial Finance and Tough Tech Ventures and is a faculty affiliate of the Business & Environment Initiative. He is an active investor, and Board director & advisor for... View Details

05 Nov 2024
Research & Ideas

AI Can Help Leaders Communicate, But Can't Make Employees Listen

the machine wins. The three researchers worked with an unnamed, 800-employee technology company to construct a new game that imitated a specific human: the company’s CEO. They designed a field experiment to assess the potential for AI to... View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand; Information Technology; Information Technology

17 Apr 2019
Cold Call Podcast

Would You Live in a Smart City Where Government Controls Privacy?

26 Jul 2016
Research & Ideas

Where will Pokémon Go with Your Personal Information?

prior to coming to HBS in 2007. A member of the School’s Technology and Operations Management unit, Shih closely studies disruptive technology and View Details

Keywords: Re: Willy C. Shih; Video Game; Entertainment & Recreation

2017
Chapter

Are Founder CEOs Good Managers?

By: Victor Manuel Bennett, Megan Lawrence and Raffaella Sadun

We investigate the management practices adopted by firms where the founders are also the CEOs using data from the World Management Survey. We find that founder CEO firms have the lowest management scores of any owner-manager pair type and that this difference is... View Details

Keywords: Management Practices and Processes; Performance

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Leslie A. Perlow is the Konosuke Matsushita Professor of Leadership in the Organizational Behavior Unit at Harvard Business School. She leads the LIFE Special Project, dedicated to helping individuals make purposeful life choices while gathering insights that will... View Details

October 2009 (Revised June 2010)
Case

Hulu: An Evil Plot to Destroy the World?

By: Anita Elberse and Sunil Gupta

In July 2009, Jason Kilar, the chief executive officer of Hulu, is debating whether the online video aggregator should move away from a purely advertising-supported model, and whether it should participate in an industry-wide initiative to develop and test... View Details

Keywords: Advertising; Business Model; Television Entertainment; Distribution Channels; Service Operations; Internet and the Web; Media and Broadcasting Industry; Motion Pictures and Video Industry

August 2014 (Revised February 2021)
Case

Hospital for Special Surgery (A)

By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Stacy Schwartz

Hospital for Special Surgery, a focused factory for orthopedics and joint disease, is contemplating various growth options: further growth in the United Kingdom's National Health Services, management of hospitals in the United States, and/or hospital consulting.... View Details

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Nonprofit Organizations; Growth and Development Strategy; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Expansion; Health Industry; United Kingdom; United States