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- 16 Jul 2014
- HBS Case
Marketing Obamacare
It's safe to say that the rollout of the Affordable Care Act was not pretty. Plagued by technical problems on Healthcare.gov, and stymied by a lack of political support in around half of the 50 states, the federal healthcare exchange set... View Details
- 19 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
Public Education Goes to School
achieving results across the entire system, moving from planning to action and ensuring fidelity of implementation on such an enormous scale is very difficult. Redesigning the structures and systems of a district so that they are coherent... View Details
- 16 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 16
Alan Morrison Abstract—Existing studies suggest that systemic crises may arise because banks either hold correlated assets or are connected by interbank lending. This paper shows that common regulation is also a conduit for interbank... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 26 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Best Practices of Global Innovators
practices and generate descriptive data to help assess performance. Platforms: Leading firms invest in an infrastructure—a set of development tools, technical standards, and working methods—to facilitate distributed work. The more View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
Making Credibility Your Strongest Asset
Lots of people have great ideas for new products and services, but most lack the imagination and doggedness to actually get them launched. Darren Rovell is a notable exception. As a college student, he had a passion for the business of sports—licensing deals, View Details
Keywords: by Michael Wheeler
- 14 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Time that Government Reopens for Business
stimulative enough—and they were worried about their reelection prospects. Now you've got a world capital market that is acutely sensitive about what the Fed does. One thing underreported in the media is that when the Fed flooded the US banking View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 26 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 26
it into a standalone business, continue publishing in academic journals, license their content to an established medical vendor, or some combination of these? This case allows students to develop and evaluate approaches to disseminating simple and proven innovations... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 21
management. Publisher's link: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2400618 October 2014 Leading Sustainable Change: An Organizational Perspective How Purpose-based Companies Master Change for Sustainability: A Systemic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 26
Empowerment By: Huckman, Robert S., and Mark A. Kelley M.D. Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=45889 Working Papers Managers and Market Capitalism By: Henderson, Rebecca M., and Karthik Ramanna Abstract—In... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Aug 2018
- Research & Ideas
Supersmart Manufacturing Tools are Lowering Prices on TVs, Bulbs, and Solar Panels
tough challenge. As the tools get better and cheaper, it’s not enough to just crank out products with them. You have to add value in other ways, maybe with differentiating software or wrap-around services, or you have to move upstream to more View Details
- April 2011
- Teaching Note
Office of Technology Transfer - Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences (TN)
By: Willy Shih and Sen Chai
Teaching Note for 611057. View Details
- 20 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Using Investor Relations Proactively
linked to politics, economics, and ecology. Any bit of news, such as an oil tanker spill, a technical problem at a plant, or a political crisis in 1 of their sourcing countries, can send their share prices into a tailspin. Even good news... View Details
- 19 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Do I Dare Say Something?
fairly radical change in this company, where technical excellence was seen as the primary basis for promotion. Although senior management did not act on this suggestion, which would have been, admittedly, very difficult in their... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 01 Dec 2021
- What Do You Think?
How Will the Metaverse Affect Productivity?
known as “the Library,” where it is organized into an alternative environment. The Library was formerly the Library of Congress, but it long since has evolved from information in books to complex computer files. "Mark Zuckerberg reminded... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 28 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 28, 2007
Merchants Bank Harvard Business School Case 307-081 Founded in 1987, China Merchants Bank (CMB) is a pioneer in the use of technical innovation and IT as a competitive tool in the rapidly evolving Chinese banking sector. With a relatively... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 11
implementing a national evaluation system of green GDP, and before forming the system complexity model, the easiest issues first can be taken to establish the evaluation View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
IT Links for Boundaryless Companies
said, it's time for a new kind of standards to emerge: standards not just for how computers communicate, but for how business processes work. Even an advanced technical protocol like XML, said Upton, "with all its cleverness, doesn't... View Details
Keywords: by Kenneth Liss
- 28 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, February 28
2017 Advancing Organizational Theory in a Complex World Getting Started with Ambidexterity By: Binns, Andrew, and Michael Tushman Abstract—This paper demonstrates the value of thinking about ambidexterity as having three distinct... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 2
Evidence from a Field Experiment Authors: Kevin Boudreau, Tom Brady, Ina Ganguli, Patrick Gaule, Eva Guinan, Karim Lakhani, and Tony Hollenberg Abstract We present the results of a field experiment conducted within the Harvard Medical School View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
Transitions of Power Are Difficult. What Joe Biden and Other Incoming Leaders Need to Know.
a human tendency but not an inevitability. Leaders can do something about this. When people belong to more than one overlapping group (what is technically called pluralism), it’s harder to put “others” into a box and categorically hate... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne