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Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Institute data resources Twitter Connect with Michael Porter Essential Reading In health care, the days of business as usual are over. Around the world, every health care system is struggling with rising costs and uneven quality despite... View Details
  • Research Summary

Monica Higgins' research, teaching, and course development activities all focus on the study of careers. Her work speaks to a particular subfield within the careers academic audience-one that adopts a 'relational' approach to career theory. A relational model is... View Details
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Research Focus

By: Anita Elberse
My research focuses on "creative industries," defined as industries that supply goods that we commonly associate with artistic, cultural, or entertainment value -- including book and magazine publishing, film, music, television, video games, the performing... View Details
  • March 29, 2021
  • Editorial

Research: A Little Recognition Can Provide a Big Morale Boost

By: Shibeal O'Flaherty, Michael Sanders and A.V. Whillans
As organizations large and small face the twin challenges of increasingly strained budgets and burned out workforces, what can managers do to keep employees engaged—without breaking the bank? In this piece, the authors share new research on the power of symbolic awards... View Details
Keywords: Motivation; Psychology; Work; Employees; Motivation and Incentives; Social Psychology
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  • April 2001 (Revised March 2003)
  • Case

XUMA

By: Andrew P. McAfee and Kerry Herman
XUMA is a Silicon Valley start-up that builds customized eBusiness software suites for its corporate clients. This market is crowded with large players, including the major consulting and systems integration companies. To date, building these suites has been a very... View Details
Keywords: Production; Software; Business Startups; Innovation and Invention; Information Technology Industry; California
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  • August 1994 (Revised May 1995)
  • Case

Engineering Inspection & Insurance Company

By: Robert H. Hayes
Engineering Inspection & Insurance Co. (EIIC) is a small but highly successful company that offers machinery and boiler inspection and insurance services. After years of above-average growth and profits, both are retreating toward the industry average, policy delivery... View Details
Keywords: Service Operations; Business Strategy; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Insurance; Strategic Planning; Problems and Challenges; Insurance Industry; United States
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    The Everything Token: How NFTs and Web3 Will Transform the Way We Buy, Sell, and Create

    A Harvard Business School professor and a16z crypto research partner and a career marketer and Web3 entrepreneur demystify the coming digital revolution, showing how NFTs will transform our online and offline... View Details
    • October 2024 (Revised November 2024)
    • Case

    SWEN Blue Ocean: Impact Investing Goes to Sea

    By: Vikram S Gandhi and David Allen
    In August 2023, SWEN Blue Ocean, a €170 million impact fund that invested in startups contributing to ocean sustainability, faced a critical investment decision. Part of SWEN Capital Partners, an €8 billion, Paris-based private equity fund, Blue Ocean was co-founded in... View Details
    Keywords: Communication Technology; Environmental Sustainability; Green Technology; Finance; Capital; Venture Capital; Private Equity; Investment; Investment Funds; Science-Based Business; Financial Services Industry; France; Paris; Italy
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    • 06 Oct 2023
    • Book

    Yes, You Can Radically Change Your Organization in One Week

    communication culprits. Often, people didn't honor the past. A new leader will come in and essentially say, ‘In the past, people were dumb and lazy, but now I'm here with my new ideas, and it's going to be good.’ People who were in the... View Details
    Keywords: by Kristen Senz
    • 11 Dec 2012
    • First Look

    First Look: Dec. 11

      PublicationsHow Much Is Sweat Equity Worth? Authors:Marquis, Christopher, and Joshua D. Margolis Publication:Harvard Business Review 90, no. 12 (December 2012) Abstract The article presents a case study of a business decision related to the valuing of sweat equity in... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 12 Oct 2022
    • Video

    Elizabeth M. Adams: Civic Tech as Advocacy Work

    • February 2025
    • Tutorial

    Preparing Business Leaders for an Era of Climate Instability: Understanding and Managing Physical Climate Risk

    By: Michael W. Toffel and Spencer Glendon
    In this compelling video, Spencer Glendon, founder of Probable Futures and Executive Fellow at Harvard Business School, describes the profound implications of climate change for businesses, the economy, and societies around the world. Drawing from his background in... View Details
    Keywords: Risk; Uncertainty; Modeling; Climate Change; Adaptation; Risk and Uncertainty; Risk Management
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    • October 2024
    • Case

    Parexel: Scaling Up and Industry Dynamics

    By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Ben Creo
    Through the lens of biopharmaceutical contract research organization (CRO) PAREXEL, this case traces the evolution of the firm as it reinvents itself in response to the transformation of the CRO sector from a small, secondary cluster of firms into a major player with... View Details
    Keywords: Research; Innovation and Invention; Business Model; Transformation; Globalization; Information Technology; Competitive Advantage; Pharmaceutical Industry
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    Signing at the Beginning vs at the End Does Not Decrease Dishonesty

    By: Ariella S. Kristal, A.V. Whillans, Max Bazerman, Francesca Gino, Lisa Shu, Nina Mazar and Dan Ariely
    Honest reporting is essential for society to function well. However, people frequently lie when asked to provide information, such as misrepresenting their income to save money on taxes. A landmark finding published in PNAS (Shu, Mazar, Gino, Ariely, and Bazerman,... View Details
    Keywords: Morality; Nudge; Policy-making; Replication; Honesty; Moral Sensibility; Behavior; Policy
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    • 2017
    • Other Teaching and Training Material

    Organizational Behavior Reading: Negotiation

    By: Max Bazerman, Francesca Gino and Katherine Shonk
    Core Curriculum in Organizational Behavior is a series of readings that cover fundamental course material in Organizational Behavior. Readings include videos and interactive illustrations to help students master complex concepts. Managerial, executive, and... View Details
    Keywords: Negotiation; Negotiation Preparation; Analysis; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues
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    • January 2014
    • Article

    Pareto Efficiency in Robust Optimization

    By: Dan Iancu and Nikolaos Trichakis
    This paper formalizes and adapts the well-known concept of Pareto efficiency in the context of the popular robust optimization (RO) methodology for linear optimization problems. We argue that the classical RO paradigm need not produce solutions that possess the... View Details
    Keywords: Robust Optimization; Pareto Optimality; Resource Allocation; Game Theory
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    • July 2004 (Revised July 2004)
    • Case

    Man Group plc

    By: Andre F. Perold and Herve Duteil
    In 2004, Man Group was the world's largest packager and distributor of investment vehicles tied to hedge funds. The firm had an equity market capitalization of $10 billion and funds under management of $38 billion. Man's offerings spanned a wide range of risk/reward... View Details
    Keywords: Capital Markets; Investment; Investment Return; Investment Funds; Global Strategy; Distribution; Product Development; Financial Services Industry
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      The Underdog Effect: The Marketing of Disadvantage and Determination through Brand Biography

      We introduce the concept of an underdog brand biography to describe an emerging trend in branding in which firms author a historical account of their humble origins, lack of resources, and determined struggle against the odds. We identify two essential... View Details

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      Finance for Senior Executives

      Summary When you can speak the language of finance, you have the power to build stronger strategies, expand your influence, and make better business decisions. Finance for Senior Executives delivers a foundation in corporate finance that is View Details
      • 03 Oct 2006
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Cartels and Competition: Neither Markets nor Hierarchies

      Keywords: by Jeffrey Fear