Publications

December 2009 (Revised April 2010)
Case

Rabobank: The Global Food and Agriculture Bank

By: David E. Bell, Ray A. Goldberg, Mary Louise Shelman and Aldo Sesia

Rabobank decides to focus primarily on food and agriculture firms and farms on a global basis. View Details

Keywords: Agribusiness; Banks and Banking; Food; Globalization; System; Banking Industry

Article

Financial Incentives for Exercise Adherence in Adults: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

By: Marc S. Mitchell, Jack M. Goodman, David A. Alter, Leslie K. John, Paul I. Oh, Maureen T. Pakosh and Guy E. Faulkner

Context Less than 5% of U.S. adults accumulate the required dose of exercise to maintain health. Behavioral economics has stimulated renewed interest in economic-based, population-level health interventions to address this issue. Despite widespread implementation of... View Details

Keywords: Exercise; Health; Behavior; Motivation and Incentives

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12 Apr 2011
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First Look: April 12

Universal Health Care Is the Best Solution Authors: Regina E. Herzlinger Publication: In Current Controversies: Health Care, edited by Noel Merino. Farmington Hills, MI: Greenhaven Press, 2010 Abstract The best way to achieve universal... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

Article

Private Enterprise for Public Health

By: Michael Chu and David E. Bloom

By many measures, the world today is a healthier place than ever before, yet a daunting set of deficits and disparities remains to be tackled. For various reasons, it is not clear that the traditional tandem of government and civil society are up to those challenges.... View Details

Keywords: Private Ownership; Social Enterprise; Public Sector; Private Sector; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry

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April 2006 (Revised October 2006)
Case

Chrysanthemum and Dragon: JAFCO Asia in China

By: Rawi E. Abdelal and David Lane

In the autumn of 2002, JAFCO Asia, a subsidiary of JAFCO Co., Ltd., became the first foreign private equity firm to open an office in Beijing's Haidian Science Park. JAFCO was the only Japanese private equity firm operating in China. As such, Managing Director Vincent... View Details

Keywords: History; International Relations; Business and Shareholder Relations; Business and Government Relations; Expansion; Market Entry and Exit; Performance Effectiveness; Foreign Direct Investment; Business Strategy; Financial Services Industry; China; Beijing; Japan

August 2003 (Revised September 2003)
Case

Merchant Card Services, Inc. (C)

By: Constance E. Bagley and David Lane

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

July 2003 (Revised September 2003)
Case

Merchant Card Services, Inc. (B)

By: Constance E. Bagley and David Lane

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

01 Mar 2011
First Look

First Look: March 1

Angel Investor with an Agenda Authors:Regina E. Herzlinger and Beatriz Muñoz-Seca Publication:Harvard Business Review 89, no. 3 (March 2011) An abstract is unavailable at this time. Read the paper:... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

21 Jan 2009
First Look

First Look: January 21, 2009

stringency and diligent recollection of moral rules. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-078.pdf The Ethical Mirage: A Temporal Explanation as to Why We Aren't as Ethical as We Think We Are (revised) Authors:Ann E.... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

20 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 20, 2008

Advantage Authors:Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton Publication:Harvard Business School Press, forthcoming Abstract In a world of stiffening competition, business strategy is more crucial than ever. Yet most organizations struggle in... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

07 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 7

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/13-009.pdf The Need for (long) Chains in Kidney Exchange Authors:Itai Ashlagi, David Gamarnik, Michael A. Rees, and Alvin E. Roth Abstract It has been previously shown that... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

Article

Social Technology: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Improving Care for Older Adults

By: Arthur Kleinman, Hongtu Chen, Sue E. Levkoff, Ann Forsyth, David E. Bloom, Winnie Yip, Tarun Khanna, Conor J. Walsh, David Perry, Ellen W. Seely, Anne S. Kleinman, Yan Zhang, Yuan Wang, Jun Jing, Tianshu Pan, Ning An, Zhenggang Bai, Jiexiu Wang, Qing Liu and Fawwaz Habbal

Population aging is a defining demographic reality of our era. It is associated with an increase in the societal burden of delivering care to older adults with chronic conditions or frailty. How to integrate global population aging and technology development to help... View Details

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Age; Service Delivery; Information Technology; Collaborative Innovation and Invention

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August 1999
Article

Choice and the Internet: From Clickstream to Research Stream

By: Randolph E. Bucklin, James Lattin, Asim Ansari, David Bell, Eloise Coupey, Sunil Gupta, John D.C. Little, Carl Mela, Alan Montgomery and Joel Steckel

Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Online Technology; Research

03 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 3, 2009

Working Papers Goals Gone Wild: The Systematic Side Effects of Over-Prescribing Goal Setting Authors: Lisa D. Ordonez, Maurice E. Schweitzer, Adam D. Galinsky, and Max H. Bazerman Abstract Goal setting is one of the most replicated and... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

24 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 24, 2009

document how performers both engage and disengage when doing these tasks, unearth multiple forms of interpersonal justice, and identify four styles of response for handling necessary evils. Market Culture: How Rules Governing Exploding Offers Affect Market Performance... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Chapter

Bank-Based versus Market-Based Financial Systems

By: Brian J. Hall and David E. Weinstein

Keywords: Banks and Banking; Financial Markets; Finance

November 1990 (Revised September 1991)
Case

The Transformation of IBM

By: Andrall E. Pearson and David B. Yoffie

John Akers, IBM's chairman, must confront how to transform a $60 billion, full line, global computer company that is the leader in every market it serves, yet losing share across the board. The case explores senior management's perspective on the process of... View Details

Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Transformation; Corporate Strategy; Adoption; Management Teams; Information Infrastructure; Information Technology; Multinational Firms and Management; Computer Industry

30 Jun 2009
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First Look: June 30

Working PapersWellsprings of Creation: How Perturbation Sustains Exploration in Mature Organizations (revised) Authors:David James Brunner, Bradley R. Staats, Michael L. Tushman, and David M. Upton Abstract Organizations struggle to... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

May 2021
Article

Value-Based Healthcare in Urology: A Collaborative Review

By: Chanan Reitblat, Paul A. Bain, Michael E. Porter, David N. Bernstein, Thomas W. Feeley, Markus Graefen, Santosh Iyer, Matthew J. Resnick, C.J. Stimson, Quoc-Dien Trinh and Boris Gershman

Context:
In response to growing concerns over rising costs and major variation in quality, improving value for patients has been proposed as a fundamentally new strategy for how healthcare should be delivered, measured, and... View Details

Keywords: Value-based Healthcare; Integrated Practice Units; Outcome Measurement; Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing; Health Care and Treatment; Value; Cost Management; Strategy; Outcome or Result; Measurement and Metrics