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  • 17 Aug 2020
  • Research & Ideas

What the Stockdale Paradox Tells Us About Crisis Leadership

survivor begins to function again. “He becomes someone again,” as Leach puts it. People who are in the consolidation phase are able to make jokes, to help others, to articulate their values and live them out in appropriate new ways in... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
  • Web

The Founding of U.S. Steel and the Power of Public Opinion | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Steel, American Steel Hoop, American Tin Plate, American Bridge, and the Lake Superior Consolidated Iron Mines. In the following decades other companies came into the corporation’s fold. Some of the nation’s most influential leaders of... View Details
  • 26 Sep 2023
  • Book

Digital Strategy: A Handbook for Managing a Moving Target

providing firms with a wide variety of strategic solutions. The book was coedited by Feng Zhu, the MBA Class of 1958 Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, along with Carmelo Cennamo of Copenhagen Business School... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Information Technology; Technology
  • 2024
  • Working Paper

Does Private Equity Have Any Business Being in the Health Care Business?

By: Nori Gerardo Lietz and Zirui Song
Private Equity (“PE”) has come under increased scrutiny by the press, academics, and policymakers, as well as the public, for its investments in health care delivery. This scrutiny has been exacerbated by recent high profile hospital bankruptcies following PE... View Details
Keywords: Private Equity; Government Administration; Acquisition; Health Industry
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  • February 2003 (Revised April 2004)
  • Case

Pharmaceutical Industry, The: Challenges in the New Century

By: Stephen P. Bradley and James Weber
Provides a broad overview of the numerous internal and external forces that were driving change in the global pharmaceutical industry in 2003. These forces--including downward price pressures, political and social pressures, increased development costs, new... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Change; Cost; Price; Globalization; Government and Politics; Brands and Branding; Industry Growth; Society; Competition; Consolidation; Technology; Pharmaceutical Industry
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  • February 1998 (Revised August 2006)
  • Case

House of Tata, 1995: The Next Generation (A)

By: Tarun Khanna, Krishna G. Palepu and Danielle Melito Wu
The Tata Group began the 1990s as a confederation of loosely coupled firms. This case considers the rise to prominence of the new CEO of Tata Group, Ratan Tata, and his attempts to strengthen the inter-relationships among the group companies at a time when critics... View Details
Keywords: Business or Company Management; Business Conglomerates; Organizations; Corporate Strategy; Consolidation; Business Strategy; Alignment; Consumer Products Industry; Service Industry
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  • 25 Oct 2020
  • Research & Ideas

The Dark Side of Fintech Borrowing

from one of the three major credit reporting agencies over several years. This offered an in-depth look at borrowers that either used a fintech company or a bank to obtain a personal loan. (A personal loan is an unsecured loan that is usually View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services; Banking
  • Research Summary

The Institutional Foundations of Lending: Indirect Regulation and State-Building

The Institutional Foundations of Lending: Indirect Regulation and State-Building makes two main theoretical contributions to the scholarship on credit markets and institutional development. First, the book demonstrates that opportunistic lenders can take... View Details
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Understanding Health Systems, Payors, and Regulation - Health Care

Teisberg. Competition and the Intersection of Industry and Policy is at the heart of Professor Leemore Dafny’s research which examines competitive interactions among payers and providers of health care services. Her current projects... View Details
  • 24 Jan 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: January 24, 2017

industry observers believed the growth and consolidation would continue, providing many opportunities for investors. However, few health club chains were publicly listed, and the leading listed company,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Mar 2020
  • Blog Post

The Road Untraveled: VC Perspectives on COVID-19

COVID-19" – a project he hopes will provide insights directly from the VC industry to founders and investors on how to manage their business and financial expectations through these unprecedented times. These are some key... View Details
  • 31 Aug 2021
  • Book

Feeling Powerless at Work? Time to Agitate, Innovate, and Orchestrate

If a person has something other people really want, that person has power. Consolidation—decreasing the number of alternatives that allow people to get something they value. A person has little power if their attractive resource can be View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
  • 16 Apr 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Breaking the Code of Change

overhead, and it was planning an additional layoff of 8,300 employees at the time Dunlap took over. At the same time it invested in new paper machines and attempted to consolidate its global position by acquiring several foreign... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Beer & Nitin Nohria
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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship

About Rock Advisory Board The Rock Center’s Advisory Board is responsible for providing strategic direction for the Rock Center and its staff. The Advisory Board includes HBS entrepreneurial alumni, HBS faculty, and HBS staff. Paul Baier... View Details
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Partners - Case Method Project

U.S. History, History of 1968, Exploring Global Antiquity 600 BCE-600 CE, Consolidating Powers and Expanding Connections 600 CE-1400 CE MA 68 of 159 Sarah Hogoboom Tabor Academy Marion, MA MA 69 of 159 Wendy Holm Boston Latin School... View Details
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Teacher Profiles - Case Method Project

School Pine Grove, WV NC Zac Bygum Providence Day School Charlotte, NC SC Angie Byrd Wando High School Mount Pleasant, SC DC Brandi Byrd Anacostia High School Washington, DC Subjects: Sociology, Social Studies TLI, US History, AP US... View Details
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HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information

2022 Annual Report From The Dean Key Metrics Financials PDF Downloads Financials From the CFO Financial Highlights Statement of Activity & Cash Flows Consolidated Balance Sheet Supplemental Financial Information Financials From the CFO... View Details
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Design Thinking Course | HBS Online

innovation problem of your own choosing, or a provided scenario 6-7 hrs Module 3 Content Week - Ideate, Part 1: Tools for Generating Ideas Develop design principles to create user-focused ideas, experiment with ideation tools, and explore... View Details
  • 01 Apr 2000
  • News

New Home for External Relations

five-story building at 230 Western Avenue (see map). "We're excited about the move, which has allowed us to consolidate our operations and to help provide additional faculty office space on campus," notes ER... View Details
  • 13 Dec 2021
  • Research & Ideas

The Unlikely Upside of Mergers: More Diverse Management Teams

acquisitions, along with M&A consultants. He said their observations provided him with “a direct sense of what happens during an acquisition and restructuring.” Based on his research findings and insights gleaned from the interviews,... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert