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      • May 2012 (Revised February 2013)
      • Teaching Note

      Innovating into Active ETFs: Factor Funds Capital Management LLC (TN)

      By: Lauren Cohen, Kenneth Froot and Timothy Gray
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      Cohen, Lauren, Kenneth Froot, and Timothy Gray. "Innovating into Active ETFs: Factor Funds Capital Management LLC (TN)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 212-085, May 2012. (Revised February 2013.)
      • 2012
      • Working Paper

      Organization Design for Distributed Innovation

      By: Carliss Y. Baldwin
      Systems of distributed innovation—so-called business ecosystems—have become increasingly prevalent in many industries. These entities generally encompass numerous corporations, individuals, and communities that might be individually autonomous but related through their... View Details
      Keywords: Organizational Design; Innovation and Management; Social and Collaborative Networks; Intellectual Property; Rights; Governance Controls
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      Baldwin, Carliss Y. "Organization Design for Distributed Innovation." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 12-100, May 2012.
      • April 2012
      • Case

      Danish National Advanced Technology Foundation

      By: Willy Shih and Margaret Pierson
      Danish National Advanced Technology Foundation (DNATF), a government agency, invests in public-private partnerships to stimulate commercialization of Danish scientific research within the country's industry. DNATF established a process for evaluating proposals, making... View Details
      Keywords: Leadership; Commercialization; Management Practices and Processes; Experience and Expertise; Innovation and Invention; Public Ownership; Business and Government Relations; Technology Industry; Denmark
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      Shih, Willy, and Margaret Pierson. "Danish National Advanced Technology Foundation." Harvard Business School Case 612-091, April 2012.
      • April 2012
      • Article

      Bouncing Out of the Banking System: An Empirical Analysis of Involuntary Bank Account Closures

      By: Dennis Campbell, F. Asis Martinez-Jerez and Peter Tufano
      Using a new database, we document the factors that relate to the extent of involuntary consumer bank account closure resulting from excessive overdraft activity. Consumers who have accounts involuntarily closed for overdraft activity may have limited or no access to... View Details
      Keywords: Mathematical Methods; Customers; Social Issues; Outcome or Result; Budgets and Budgeting; Forecasting and Prediction; Competition; Banks and Banking; Policy; Personal Characteristics; Credit; Employment; United States
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      Campbell, Dennis, F. Asis Martinez-Jerez, and Peter Tufano. "Bouncing Out of the Banking System: An Empirical Analysis of Involuntary Bank Account Closures." Journal of Banking & Finance 36, no. 4 (April 2012): 1224–1235.
      • March 2012 (Revised January 2013)
      • Case

      Boston Children's Hospital: Measuring Patient Costs

      By: Robert S. Kaplan, Mary L. Witkowski and Jessica A. Hohman
      The case describes two pilot projects on applying activity-based costing to measuring the cost of treating patients. It presents process maps and financial data relating to the processes used during (1) an office visit to a plastic surgeon for three different diagnoses... View Details
      Keywords: Health Care; Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing; Costing; Hospitals; Activity Based Costing and Management; Mathematical Methods; Health Industry
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      Kaplan, Robert S., Mary L. Witkowski, and Jessica A. Hohman. "Boston Children's Hospital: Measuring Patient Costs." Harvard Business School Case 112-086, March 2012. (Revised January 2013.)
      • March 2012 (Revised December 2014)
      • Case

      Schön Klinik: Measuring Cost and Value

      By: Robert S. Kaplan, Mary L. Witkowski and Jessica A. Hohman
      The case illustrates how a leading German hospital group has invested deeply in the measurement of patient-level outcomes and costs, the foundations of a health care value framework. The company launches a pilot project to use time-driven activity-based costing (TDABC)... View Details
      Keywords: Health Care; Costing; Activity-Based Costing; Hospitals; Activity Based Costing and Management; Value; Health Care and Treatment; Outcome or Result; Health Industry; Germany
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      Kaplan, Robert S., Mary L. Witkowski, and Jessica A. Hohman. "Schön Klinik: Measuring Cost and Value." Harvard Business School Case 112-085, March 2012. (Revised December 2014.)
      • March 2012
      • Article

      Choosing the United States

      By: Michael E. Porter and Jan W. Rivkin
      The U.S. is not winning its appropriate share of location decisions, even those involving the high-value-adding activities that the country has long been able to attract. In part, this is because U.S. policy makers are not addressing weaknesses in the national business... View Details
      Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; United States
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      Porter, Michael E., and Jan W. Rivkin. "Choosing the United States." Harvard Business Review 90, no. 3 (March 2012): 80–91.
      • March 2012
      • Article

      Managing Political Risk in Global Business: Beiersdorf 1914-1990

      By: Geoffrey Jones and Christina Lubinski
      This article is concerned with business strategies of political risk management during the twentieth century. It focuses especially on Beiersdorf, a pharmaceutical and skin care company in Germany. During World War I, the expropriation of its brands and trademarks... View Details
      Keywords: Business Strategy; Government and Politics; Risk Management; Brands and Branding; Problems and Challenges; Communication Technology; Cost; Trademarks; Strategy; Pharmaceutical Industry; Germany
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      Jones, Geoffrey, and Christina Lubinski. "Managing Political Risk in Global Business: Beiersdorf 1914-1990." Enterprise & Society 13, no. 1 (March 2012): 85–119.
      • 2012
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      Selection, Reallocation, and Knowledge Spillover: Identifying the Sources of Productivity Gains from Multinational Activity

      By: Laura Alfaro and Maggie X. Chen
      The impact of multinational activity on host-country productivity has been a major topic of economic research. A positive impact can be attributed to knowledge spillovers from foreign multinational to domestic firms or a less stressed, alternative explanation—firm... View Details
      Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management; Performance Productivity; Supply and Industry; Knowledge; Manufacturing Industry
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      Alfaro, Laura, and Maggie X. Chen. "Selection, Reallocation, and Knowledge Spillover: Identifying the Sources of Productivity Gains from Multinational Activity." 2012.
      • 2012
      • Chapter

      The Confederacy of Heterogeneous Software Organizations and Heterogeneous Developers: Field Experimental Evidence on Sorting and Worker Effort

      By: Kevin J. Boudreau and Karim R. Lakhani
      Software development occurs in a patchwork or "confederacy" of different types of institutions (universities, small start-ups, multinational enterprises, government agencies, etc.) utilizing varied work approaches. Here we speculate on one possible explanation for this... View Details
      Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Applications and Software; Product Development; Organizations; Employees; Behavior; Competition; Cooperation; Creativity; Information Technology Industry
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      Boudreau, Kevin J., and Karim R. Lakhani. "The Confederacy of Heterogeneous Software Organizations and Heterogeneous Developers: Field Experimental Evidence on Sorting and Worker Effort." In The Rate and Direction of Inventive Activity Revisited, edited by Josh Lerner and Scott Stern, 483–502. University of Chicago Press, 2012.
      • 2012
      • Book

      The Rate and Direction of Inventive Activity Revisited

      By: Josh Lerner and Scott Stern
      While the importance of innovation to economic development is widely understood, the conditions conducive to it remain the focus of much attention. This volume offers new theoretical and empirical contributions to fundamental questions relating to the economics of... View Details
      Keywords: Technological Innovation; Opportunities; Nonprofit Organizations; Resource Allocation; Economic Growth; Research and Development
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      Lerner, Josh and Scott Stern, eds. The Rate and Direction of Inventive Activity Revisited. University of Chicago Press, 2012.
      • 2012
      • Working Paper

      When Performance Trumps Gender Bias: Joint versus Separate Evaluation

      By: Iris Bohnet, Alexandra van Geen and Max H. Bazerman
      We examine a new intervention to overcome gender biases in hiring, promotion, and job assignments: an "evaluation nudge," in which people are evaluated jointly rather than separately regarding their future performance. Evaluators are more likely to focus on individual... View Details
      Keywords: Prejudice and Bias; Selection and Staffing; Behavior; Groups and Teams; Decision Making; Performance Evaluation; Gender
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      Bohnet, Iris, Alexandra van Geen, and Max H. Bazerman. "When Performance Trumps Gender Bias: Joint versus Separate Evaluation." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 12-083, March 2012.
      • 2012
      • Other Book

      Redefining German Health Care: Moving to a Value-Based System

      By: Michael E. Porter and Clemens Guth
      The German health care system is on a collision course with budget realities. Costs are high and rising, and quality problems are becoming ever more apparent. Decades of reforms have produced little change to these troubling trends. Why has Germany failed to solve... View Details
      Keywords: Health
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      Porter, Michael E., and Clemens Guth. Redefining German Health Care: Moving to a Value-Based System. Heidelberg: Springer, 2012.
      • 2012
      • Case

      UFIDA (F)

      By: F. Warren McFarlan, Donghong Li and Guo Jia
      As an extension of UFIDA (A-E), UFIDA (F) using early 2012 as the time node, looks at UFIDA's major steps taken during 2010-2011, accomplishments, and major future opportunities and challenges. The case focuses on the new market development of Cloud Computing and the... View Details
      Keywords: China; Strategy; China
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      McFarlan, F. Warren, Donghong Li, and Guo Jia. "UFIDA (F)." Tsinghua University Case, 2012.
      • 2012
      • Teaching Note

      UFIDA (F) (TN)

      By: F. Warren McFarlan, Donghong Li and Guo Jia
      As an extension of UFIDA (A-E), UFIDA (F), using early 2012 as the time node, looks at UFIDA's major steps taken during 2010-2011, accomplishments, and major future opportunities and challenges. The case focuses on the new market development of Cloud Computing and... View Details
      Keywords: China; Strategy; China
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      McFarlan, F. Warren, Donghong Li, and Guo Jia. "UFIDA (F) (TN)." Tsinghua University Teaching Note, 2012.
      • 2012
      • Book

      Venture Capital, Private Equity, and the Financing of Entrepreneurship

      By: Josh Lerner, Ann Leamon and Felda Hardymon
      Venture Capital, Private Equity, and the Financing of Entrepreneurship stems from a realization that private equity overall—defined in this volume as venture capital and buyouts but excluding hedge funds—has become a vastly more sizable and influential part of the... View Details
      Keywords: Venture Capital; Private Equity; Financing and Loans; Entrepreneurship
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      Lerner, Josh, Ann Leamon, and Felda Hardymon. Venture Capital, Private Equity, and the Financing of Entrepreneurship. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2012.
      • 2013
      • Contribution

      Work

      By: Nien-he Hsieh
      This chapter has two aims. First, in light of the continued dominance of market capitalism, one aim of the chapter is to examine contemporary approaches to traditional concerns about the impact of market capitalism on the manner in which work is carried out. By the... View Details
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      Hsieh, Nien-he. "Work." Contribution to Chap. 65 Routledge Companion to Social and Political Philosophy, edited by Gerald F. Gaus, Fred D'Agostino, and Ryan Muldoon. London: Routledge, 2013.
      • 17 Dec 2011
      • Conference Presentation

      Unified Modeling of User Activities on Social Networking Sites

      By: Himabindu Lakkaraju and Angshu Rai
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      Lakkaraju, Himabindu, and Angshu Rai. "Unified Modeling of User Activities on Social Networking Sites." Paper presented at the 25th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), Workshop on Computational Science and the Wisdom of Crowds, Granada, Spain, December 17, 2011.
      • December 2011 (Revised September 2015)
      • Case

      Carl Icahn and Clorox

      By: Jay W. Lorsch and Kathleen Durante
      This case outlines the takeover attempt by activist investor, Carl Icahn, for the Clorox Company. The board of the company repeatedly rejected Icahn's offers as inadequate. He made three bids over the course of three months. View Details
      Keywords: Investment Activism; Governing and Advisory Boards
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      Lorsch, Jay W., and Kathleen Durante. "Carl Icahn and Clorox." Harvard Business School Case 412-078, December 2011. (Revised September 2015.)
      • December 2011 (Revised May 2015)
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      Aviva Investors

      By: George Serafeim
      The Aviva Investors case describes the challenge of integrating sustainability considerations into the strategy and business practices of companies and into the decision making process of the investment community. Steve Waygood, Chief Responsible Investment Officer at... View Details
      Keywords: Investing; Investment Management; Shareholder Activism; Disclosure; Stock Exchanges; Sustainability; Sustainable Development; Sustainability Reporting; ESG; ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) Performance; Social Impact; Activism; Investment; Management; Business and Shareholder Relations; Environmental Sustainability; United Kingdom
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      Serafeim, George, Robert G. Eccles, and Kyle Armbrester. "Aviva Investors." Harvard Business School Case 112-047, December 2011. (Revised May 2015.)
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