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- 03 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Web Services
service technologies from a provider, customer, and investor perspective. Customers are concerned with integration and driving down costs, said Steven Lewis, Microsoft's general manager of .net market development. "There is a lot of...
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Peter Tufano
Peter Tufano is a Baker Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School and Senior Advisor to the Harvard Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability. From 2011 to 2021, he served as the Peter Moores Dean at View Details
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asset management;
banking;
brokerage;
credit card;
education industry;
energy;
federal government;
financial services;
insurance industry;
investment banking industry;
microfinance;
mining;
nonprofit industry;
oil & gas;
petroleum;
real estate;
retail financial services;
state government;
utilities;
video games
- 07 Feb 2007
- Working Paper Summaries
The Value of Openness in Scientific Problem Solving
- February 2023 (Revised June 2023)
- Case
Doing Business in Santiago, Chile
By: Willis Emmons, Leonard A. Schlesinger and Ruth Costas
The case uses the example of the opening of the first IKEA furniture store in Chile – which is operated by Chilean group Falabella – to discuss the opportunities and challenges of doing business in the country. It gives readers an overview of Chile’s economic...
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Business Cycles;
Development Economics;
Developing Countries and Economies;
Economic Growth;
Economic Sectors;
Economy;
Macroeconomics;
Business History;
Chile;
Latin America
Emmons, Willis, Leonard A. Schlesinger, and Ruth Costas. "Doing Business in Santiago, Chile." Harvard Business School Case 323-085, February 2023. (Revised June 2023.)
Incentives versus Reciprocity: Insights from a Field Experiment
We conduct a field experiment in which we vary the sales force compensation scheme at an Asian enterprise that sells consumer durable goods. With variation generated by the experimental treatments, we model sales force performance to identify the effectiveness of... View Details
- 28 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, February 28
simultaneously generate attractive market-rate financial returns for investors. This case examines the evolution of Vox Capital, across understanding the landscape, launching, raising funds, selecting investees, structuring deals,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Program
The Business of Entertainment, Media, and Sports
enterprises Brand managers, promoters, investors, and others who are active in the entertainment industry Learning and Living at HBS When you participate in an Executive Education program on the HBS campus, you enter an immersive experience where every aspect of the...
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- Career Coach
Philippe Taieb
impact and on using hybrid business models to generate social and environmental value. Work Experience: Social Impact Consulting & Coaching - Principal; City Year (youth development) -Director of...
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- 16 May 2018
- HBS Seminar
Juan Carlos Suárez Serrato, Duke University, Economics
- November 1999 (Revised April 2000)
- Case
Cresud S.A.
By: Ray A. Goldberg, Jonathan West and David Benedict Pearcy
Cresud, a listed Argentine agricultural company, generates value by operating farms and through land appreciation. This case describes Cresud's business model, industry, and country context. Can a corporate farmer in agriculture use public funds to compete in both the...
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Keywords:
Agribusiness;
Business Model;
Value;
Corporate Accountability;
Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry
Goldberg, Ray A., Jonathan West, and David Benedict Pearcy. "Cresud S.A." Harvard Business School Case 900-010, November 1999. (Revised April 2000.)
- Program
Senior Executive Leadership Program—India
leaders, or general managers leading successful, established companies in India and South Asia with 10+ years of experience who want to sharpen their management and leadership skills and are preparing to assume new responsibilities or...
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- April 2010
- Article
Low-energy Limit for Tunnelling Subject to an Eckart Potential Barrier
By: Samuel H Lipoff and Dudley R Herschbach
For two-body s-wave collisions subject to tunnelling though an Eckart potential barrier, cross-sections and rate coefficients in the low-energy regime can be evaluated in analytic form. These provide criteria for approach to the Wigner limit and a generic plot...
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Lipoff, Samuel H., and Dudley R Herschbach. "Low-energy Limit for Tunnelling Subject to an Eckart Potential Barrier." Molecular Physics 108, nos. 7-9 (April 2010): 1133–1143.
- June 2008
- Journal Article
Strategic Alliances: Bridges Between 'Islands of Conscious Power'
By: George P. Baker, Robert Gibbons and Kevin J. Murphy
Strategic alliances range from unstructured collaborations, through consortia and joint ventures that superimpose new governance structures on existing firms, to transactions that restructure firm boundaries and asset ownership. In this paper, we draw on detailed...
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Baker, George P., Robert Gibbons, and Kevin J. Murphy. "Strategic Alliances: Bridges Between 'Islands of Conscious Power'." Journal of the Japanese and International Economies 22, no. 2 (June 2008): 146–163.
Fiscal Risk and the Portfolio of Government Programs
This paper proposes a new approach to social cost-benefit analysis using a model in which a benevolent government chooses risky projects in the presence of market failures and tax distortions. The government internalizes market failures and therefore perceives project...
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- 06 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Power of Leadership Groups for Staying on Track
fundamental reassessment of leadership and leadership development. The command-and-control model so prevalent in the twentieth century has ceased to be effective because it fails to motivate people, particularly younger View Details
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by Bill George
- 13 Aug 2024
- Op-Ed
Can AI Save Physicians from Burnout?
patients during visits, plus more accurate visit notes. However, clinicians’ well-being is unfortunately not always the top priority for hospital executives. Currently, most US hospitals generate revenue based on “fee-for-service" payment...
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- 24 Jan 2024
- Op-Ed
Why Boeing’s Problems with the 737 MAX Began More Than 25 Years Ago
older airplane models at the expense of all-new aircraft. Secondly, in 2001 Condit moved Boeing’s headquarters from its original home in Seattle to Chicago—all to gain $60 million in state and local tax credits over 20 years. With none of...
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- 29 Jan 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
An Exploration of the Japanese Slowdown during the 1990s
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by Diego A. Comin
- 03 Oct 2018
- HBS Seminar