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  • 18 Oct 2011
  • First Look

First Look: October 18

environmentally beneficial functions: it diverts waste from landfill and it produces renewable energy. At the same time, the waste-to-energy firm serves and collects revenue from two types of customers: waste generators who pay for waste... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Profile

Emily Schlichting

issue," she says. "I'm somebody who's really good at managing processes and getting things done. The HBS curriculum is designed to explore all the different business functions, giving you a strong foundation in general... View Details
Keywords: Healthcare/Biotech; Nonprofit/Government/Education
  • 20 Dec 2013
  • Working Paper Summaries

Zooming In: A Practical Manual for Identifying Geographic Clusters

Keywords: by Juan Alcácer & Minyuan Zhao
  • 21 Feb 2013
  • Working Paper Summaries

Developing the Guts of a GUT (Grand Unified Theory): Elite Commitment and Inclusive Growth

Keywords: by Lant Pritchett & Eric D. Werker
  • 08 Mar 2012
  • Working Paper Summaries

Customer-Driven Misconduct: How Competition Corrupts Business Practices

Keywords: by Victor Manuel Bennett, Lamar Pierce, Jason A. Snyder & Michael W. Toffel; Auto
  • Research Summary

Developing Organizational Capabilities to Compete

By: Michael Beer

Michael Beer’s current research focuses on the question of what makes an Effective Organization. Based on his extensive research and practice about this question Beer has identified six highly interrelated core capabilities:

  1. Capacity of the... View Details
  • 2016
  • Working Paper

Operations in the On-Demand Economy: Staffing Services with Self-Scheduling Capacity

By: Itai Gurvich, Martin Lariviere and Antonio Moreno
Motivated by recent innovations in service delivery such as ride-sharing services and work-from-home call centers, we study capacity management when workers self-schedule. Our service provider chooses capacity to maximize its profit (revenue from served customers minus... View Details
Keywords: Strategic Servers; On-demand Economy; Independent Capacity; Distributed Systems; Uber; Service Operations; Performance Capacity
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  • March 2015 (Revised December 2016)
  • Case

American Well: The DTC Decision

By: Elie Ofek and Natalie Kindred
In late 2013, telehealth company American Well, which developed a digital platform that allowed patients to conduct online medical consultations with physicians, is considering pursuing a direct-to-consumer (DTC) strategy. Founded in 2006, American Well had, to date,... View Details
Keywords: Health Care; Telehealth; Telemedicine; American Well; Schoenberg; Boston; Israel; Technology; Online Care; Direct-to-consumer; DTC; Health Insurance; Affordable Care Act; Health Care Reform; Accountable Care Organizations; Technology Change; Innovation ＆ Entrepreneurship; Digital Marketing; Strategy; Competition; Information Technology; Marketing; Technological Innovation; Technology Adoption; Entrepreneurship; Marketing Strategy; Health Industry; Technology Industry; Boston; Massachusetts; United States; Israel
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  • 2010
  • Book

Seven Strategy Questions: A Simple Approach for Better Execution

By: Robert L. Simons
To stay ahead of the pack, you must translate your organization's competitive strategy into day-to-day actions that will enable your company to win in the marketplace. This means channeling resources into the right efforts, striking a balance between innovation and... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Innovation and Management; Resource Allocation; Business Processes; Organizational Culture; Competitive Strategy
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  • August 2007 (Revised September 2007)
  • Case

Gome: Bidding for China Paradise

Gome, China's largest electronics retailer, has the opportunity to acquire China Paradise, the number three player in the Chinese electronic retailer industry. This happened in the general context of a great market development and potential consolidation of the... View Details
Keywords: Acquisition; Trade; Market Entry and Exit; Performance; Opportunities; Competition; Consolidation; Corporate Strategy; Electronics Industry; Retail Industry; China
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  • 26 Jan 2024
  • Blog Post

Career Advice from the Guests of the HBS Climate Rising Podcast

People are generally receptive to talking about their careers and the choices they made that helped get them where they are today. In addition, be sure to also network outside of your target industry to get exposure to more perspectives... View Details
  • Web

Course History - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

current invitees. Since the program’s inception, over 200 new CEOs have participated from world-leading companies such as Amgen, BASF, Cathay Pacific, ConocoPhillips, Corning, Electrolux, Foot Locker, General Mills, Humana, Kaiser... View Details
  • 05 Jul 2006
  • Research & Ideas

The Accidental Innovator

takes a considerable capability to see the value in an accident, and to build upon it to create even more value. I became interested in this subject when I was interviewing artists about their creative processes and discovered that many of them seemed to rely on... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
  • Web

James Sharpe | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Transcript (PDF) James “Jim” Sharpe, HBS 1976, spent the early part of his career at General Electric, where he eventually had P&L responsibility for $15 million in sales and 100 employees. He then joined Hoover Universal, where he had... View Details
  • 03 May 2010
  • Research & Ideas

What Is the Future of MBA Education?

director of research. Garvin, the C. Roland Christensen Professor of Business Administration, teaches courses for MBAs and executives on leadership, general management, and operations. Garvin is also faculty chair of the School's... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education
  • 24 Nov 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Developing Your Next CEO for the Family Business

built a manufacturing company for Manitowoc Cranes as an Outsider CEO before buying that company and selling it, then being recruited by his family’s fifth generation hot sauce maker, McIlhenny Company. These family members have the right... View Details
Keywords: Retail; Auto
  • 29 Oct 2006
  • Research & Ideas

The History and Influence of Andy Grove

most fun place to work. He guided the company through one of the great transitions in tech history, changing a maker of memory chips into a microprocessor powerhouse, but also had failures such as Intel's response to the floating point issue. What do you think managers... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Computer
  • 18 Oct 2017
  • Research & Ideas

How Economic Clusters Drive Globalization

suggests that economic clusters—usually used to explain development in local economies—have had a much wider impact on world economics than generally recognized. Harvard-Newcomen Fellow Valeria Giacomin calls clusters “the building blocks... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Agriculture & Agribusiness
  • 08 Nov 2021
  • News

New Director Named for Mid-US Research Office

Alicia Dadlani (MBA 2003) has been announced as director of the School’s new Mid-US Research Office. The Mid-US Research Office joins 10 HBS research centers and five regional offices located around the world. In order to capitalize on the varied geographic,... View Details
  • 28 May 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Coronavirus Could Create a 'Bankruptcy Pandemic'

directed, allow significant numbers of businesses to avoid bankruptcy. There are also massive amounts of private sector capital potentially available to support businesses in need. Bank balance sheets are generally sound, and hedge funds... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Financial Services; Banking