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  • 11 Apr 2012
  • Research & Ideas

The High Risks of Short-Term Management

profits (or worse, the short-term benefits come at the expense of long-term value creation). This phenomenon does not come out of the blue, but is attributable to fundamental frictions in capital markets related to the uncertainty of... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services
  • January 1998 (Revised February 2006)
  • Background Note

Creating Competitive Advantage

By: Pankaj Ghemawat and Jan W. Rivkin
A firm such as Schering-Plough that earns superior, long-run financial returns within its industry is said to enjoy a competitive advantage over its rivals. This note examines the logic of how firms create competitive advantage. It emphasizes two themes: First, to... View Details
Keywords: Competitive Advantage; Competitive Strategy; Management; Business Strategy; Growth and Development Strategy; Innovation Strategy; Management Practices and Processes; Value Creation; Pharmaceutical Industry
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  • May 2021 (Revised August 2021)
  • Case

Airbnb During the Pandemic: Stakeholder Capitalism Faces a Critical Test

By: Benjamin C. Esty and Allison Ciechanover
As the COVID pandemic spread in early 2020, global travel ground to a halt. For Airbnb, the San Francisco-based platform for renting accommodations, the impact was both swift and severe as revenues plummeted more than 70% over the prior year. Responding to the sudden... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19 Pandemic; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Corporate Governance; Crisis Management; Leadership; Digital Platforms; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mission and Purpose; Value Creation; Decision Making; Goals and Objectives; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Travel Industry; Tourism Industry; Service Industry; United States
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  • 11 Jan 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Mixing Open Source and Proprietary Software Strategies

product used in econometrics, is a good example of this. “Our research plainly shows that value creation doesn't necessarily lead to value capture.” In cases where View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Web Services
  • 17 Jan 2019
  • Blog Post

MBA Curriculum Spotlight: Short Intensive Programs (SIPs)

developments in artificial intelligence are creating similar shocks to the economy – from new perspectives on value creation and value capture, to radical transformations of... View Details
  • Web

Courses by Faculty Unit - Course Catalog

listed under Entrepreneurial Management and General Management) John Dionne Spring 2026 Q3Q4 3.0 Field Course: Public Markets Investing Seminar Sara Fleiss Spring 2026 Q3Q4 3.0 Field Course: Value Creation... View Details
  • Blog

Is AI Coming for Your Job?

ask for images of "a man," it is very likely to create an image of a white man, likely because of the data on which it was trained. This issue of perpetuating biases raises a lot of interesting policy questions about who should be monitoring the outcomes and what rules... View Details
  • Web

ICIC - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Delivery Project The Institute for Cancer Care Innovation MOC Network ICIC U.S. Cluster Mapping Project U.S. Competitiveness Project FSG Shared Value Initiative Social Progress Imperative AllWorld Network ICIC Initiative for a Competitive... View Details
  • 28 Jun 2022
  • Book

The Moral Enterprise: How Two Companies Profit with Purpose

How can government and business work together in this fractious political moment, when finding solutions to pressing problems like inequality and climate change are more urgent than ever? Rebecca Henderson, Harvard University’s John and Natty McArthur University... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
  • Web

Organizational Leadership Course | HBS Online

communication techniques 6-8 hrs Module 4 Leader as Architect: Designing to Deliver Value Understand the critical design choices to align the people, systems and structure, and culture in your division, unit, or organization to deliver... View Details

    Roy D. Shapiro

    Roy D. Shapiro is the Philip Caldwell Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration.  He is currently the faculty co-chair of the School's Technology and Operations Management Unit... View Details

    • 09 Jan 2006
    • Research & Ideas

    When Benchmarks Don’t Work

    cost reduction. Few companies, however, attempt to seek competitive advantage by lowering the cost of any of these standard processes. No matter what, these tasks must be done cheaply, reliably, and in a timely fashion. The opportunity for View Details
    Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan; Service
    • 25 Aug 2003
    • Research & Ideas

    Why IT Does Matter

    should be focused on the creation of strategic advantage through extending competitive scope, partnerships (customers and other parties), the changing of the rules of competition, and the provision of new IT-based services to extend the... View Details
    Keywords: by F. Warren McFarlan & Richard L. Nolan
    • 25 Mar 2014
    • First Look

    First Look: March 25

    ambiguity of profits and power, as well as the often-jealous interactions between different solutions to the problem of empire. The book presents a powerful mosaic of imperial theories and practices contributing to the creation of the... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 15 Mar 2011
    • First Look

    First Look: March 15

    self-made products. Participants saw their amateurish creations—of both utilitarian and hedonic products—as similar in value to the creations of experts and expected others to share their opinions. Our... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 02 Jun 2009
    • First Look

    First Look: June 2, 2009

      Working PapersTruth in Giving: Experimental Evidence on the Welfare Effects of Informed Giving to the Poor Authors:Christina Fong and Felix Oberholzer-Gee Abstract It is often difficult for donors to predict the value of charitable... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 15 Nov 2018
    • Book

    Can the Global Food Industry Overcome Public Distrust?

    JamesBrey Food is the largest segment of the global economy. It is also widely recognized as more critical for human health than any pharmaceutical drug on the planet. But significant changes in the industry are making people lose trust in many institutions involved in... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Agriculture & Agribusiness
    • Profile

    Ahmed Alimi

    Advisory Services, FBN Capital, and Helios Investment Partners. "At Helios," Ahmed says, "I had a unique opportunity to work on deals as well as support value creation efforts at our portfolio... View Details
    Keywords: Consulting; Financial Services
    • July 2022 (Revised September 2022)
    • Case

    Birla Carbon Egypt: Building Soft Power in a Foreign Country

    By: Jeremy Friedman and Malini Sen
    Birla Carbon, a flagship business of the nearly $60-billion global conglomerate and India-headquartered Aditya Birla Group (ABG), is one of the world's top manufacturers and suppliers of high-quality carbon black. The largest among its 16 manufacturing plants is Birla... View Details
    Keywords: Acquisition; Family Business; Disruption; Transformation; Diversity; Trade; Energy; Values and Beliefs; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Global Strategy; Government and Politics; Private Ownership; Civil Society or Community; Risk and Uncertainty; Value Creation; Industrial Products Industry; Rubber Industry; Egypt; Africa; India; Asia; Atlanta; United States
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    • 21 Feb 2005
    • Op-Ed

    Is Business Management a Profession?

    enforcing it. In comparing management with the more traditional professions of law and medicine along these criteria, one inevitably finds it wanting. (We say this despite the inroads made by market values at the expense of traditionally... View Details
    Keywords: by Rakesh Khurana, Nitin Nohria & Daniel Penrice