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    The Challenge of Shared Prosperity

    In the 2015 survey on U.S. competitiveness, HBS alumni weigh in on the current state and future trajectory of U.S. competitiveness as well as the structural strengths and weaknesses of the U.S. business environment. In addition, alumni delve deeper into two aspects... View Details

    • 05 Oct 2010
    • News

    The more the murkier

    • 26 Oct 2020
    • Video

    Shirley Zinn

    Shirley Zinn, the Non-Executive Director of Sanlam and former Head of Human Resources at Standard Bank South Africa, explains the hardships of growing up in Cape Town’s Cape Flats in the 1960s, and the importance of possessing strong values and intent in the struggle... View Details
    • 05 Feb 2013
    • News

    The Social Sector Needs to Take More Risk and Accept Failure

    • Research Summary

    Multinational Enterprises and Corporate Responsibility

    By: Nien-he Hsieh

    Multinational enterprises, especially those operating in developing economies, face wide-ranging demands to help persons whose basic needs are unmet. Pharmaceutical companies, for example, are asked to provide access to life-saving therapies to patients in countries... View Details

    • March 2013 (Revised April 2014)
    • Case

    Barnes & Noble: Managing the E-Book Revolution

    By: Alan MacCormack, Brian Kimball Dunn and Chris F. Kemerer
    The case describes competition in the market for E-Books, and Barnes & Noble's Strategy in this industry. As a traditional retailer, B&N was challenged by the introduction of digital technologies that allow books to be published, distributed and sold to consumers... View Details
    Keywords: Innovation; Technology Strategy; Platform Competition; Innovation Strategy; Information Technology; Product Development; Digital Platforms; Standards; Disruptive Innovation; Retail Industry; Publishing Industry; North America
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    Toward Resource Independence—Why State-Owned Entities Become Multinationals: An Empirical Study of India's Public R&D Laboratories

    By: Prithwiraj Choudhury and Tarun Khanna
    In this paper, we build on the standard resource dependence theory and its departure suggested by Vernon to offer a novel explanation for why state-owned entities (SOEs) might seek a global footprint and global cash flows: to achieve resource independence from... View Details
    Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management; Resource Allocation; Supply Chain; State Ownership; Growth and Development Strategy; India
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    Distance and Political Boundaries: Estimating Border Effects under Inequality Constraints

    By: Fernando Borraz, Alberto Cavallo, Roberto Rigobon and Leandro Zipitria
    The border effects literature finds that political boundaries have a large impact on relative prices across locations. In this paper we show that the standard empirical specification suffers from selection bias, and propose a new methodology based on binned-quantile... View Details
    Keywords: Border Effects; Prices
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    • October 2002 (Revised March 2013)
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    Intermountain Health Care

    By: Richard M.J. Bohmer, Amy C. Edmondson and Laura Feldman
    Intermountain Health Care (IHC), an integrated delivery system based in Utah, has adopted a new strategy for managing health care delivery. The approach focuses management attention not only on the facilities where care takes place but also on physician decision making... View Details
    Keywords: Ethnicity; Innovation Strategy; Cost Management; Information Technology; Organizational Structure; Technology Adoption; Performance Improvement; Problems and Challenges; Adoption; Change Management; Cost vs Benefits; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry; Utah
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    • 07 Nov 2018
    • News

    The Hidden Costs of Initial Coin Offerings

    • 04 Jan 2016
    • Video

    The Challenge of Shared Prosperity - Boston, MA

    • January 2024
    • Case

    Net Zero Insurance Alliance: An Alliance in Crisis

    By: Peter Tufano and Karina Val
    The Net Zero Insurance Alliance (NZIA), a UN-convened alliance of major global insurers, was formed in 2021, but by 2023 had lost over 60% of its members. While NZIA had enjoyed a rapid and productive start by setting standards for the industry and sharing best... View Details
    Keywords: Climate Change; Insurance; Standards; Alliances; Business and Government Relations; Cooperation; Insurance Industry
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    • 18 Feb 2019
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Diagnostic Bubbles

    Keywords: by Pedro Bordalo, Nicola Gennaioli, Spencer Yongwook Kwon, and Andrei Shleifer; Financial Services
    • 17 May 2013
    • News

    Making the United States Competitive

    • 01 Oct 2012
    • News

    Harvard Business School to Convene More Than 400 Leaders in Chicago to Discuss Paths Forward for Improving U.S. Competitiveness

    • 19 Oct 2022
    • News

    Number One in Formula One

    • 21 Sep 2011
    • News

    Innovators don't ignore customers

    • 15 Jun 2016
    • News

    Why Harvard Business School teaches students about whaling

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    Finance I

    By: Archie L. Jones

    This course examines the role of finance in supporting the functional areas of a firm, and fosters an understanding of how financial decisions themselves can create value.

    Topics covered include:

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    Anti-Competitive Financial Contracting

    Joint work with Giacinta Cestone, Institut d'Analisi Economica, Barcelona

    This paper presents the first model where entry deterrence takes place through financial rather than product-market channels. In standard models of the interaction between product and... View Details