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  • 01 Apr 2014
  • News

‘Management by Walking Around’ programs in hospitals may do more harm than good

  • March 2014 (Revised May 2014)
  • Teaching Note

Demarketing Soda in New York City

By: John A. Quelch
In 2013, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg tried and failed to institute a ban on serving sizes of large sugary beverages. Obesity posed a large public health risk to the city. Mayor Bloomberg's proposed ban was one of many attempts to combat the rising threat of... View Details
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  • 18 May 2018
  • News

Share buybacks are soaring - is this a sign of market turmoil ahead?

  • March 2014
  • Background Note

Setting Price Effectively

By: Nava Ashraf and Kristin Johnson
Price is one of the most powerful instruments a manager can use to influence the take-up of her product, especially in a subsidized and noncompetitive market as is common for global health products. However, the question of whether and how to price has been the subject... View Details
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  • 28 Sep 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Improving Accountability at the World Bank

democratic decision-making and accountability," Ebrahim told the committee. As author of NGOs and Organizational Change: Discourse, Reporting, and Learning (Cambridge University Press, 2003), co-editor of Global Accountabilities:... View Details
Keywords: by Alnoor Ebrahim
  • May 2008 (Revised September 2009)
  • Case

IBM's Dynamic Workplace

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter
IBM already competed for talent by being a best workplace. It was one of the first companies to provide paid vacations, health insurance, sick leave, job sharing, and domestic partner benefits. Its human resources portfolio included a full array of progressive policies... View Details
Keywords: Values and Beliefs; Globalized Firms and Management; Leading Change; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Organizational Culture; Social Enterprise
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    What Makes a Building Healthy?

    The pandemic spawned by the novel coronavirus has forced a global reckoning with the awesome power of infectious diseases to grind economies to a halt. The forced lockdowns and retreat into home isolation has also given us a heightened awareness of the role our... View Details
    • January 2011 (Revised April 2014)
    • Case

    Uptake of Malaria Rapid Diagnostic Tests

    By: Nava Ashraf, Natalie Kindred and Richard Sedlmayr
    This case describes barriers to adoption of malaria rapid diagnostic tests in Zambia and highlights the importance of understanding end users in promoting product adoption. Rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) are simple, easy-to-use tools that provide a relatively reliable,... View Details
    Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Health Pandemics; Technology; Health Care and Treatment; Policy; Behavior; Prejudice and Bias; Health Industry; Zambia
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    • December 2007 (Revised April 2008)
    • Case

    Alltech...naturally

    By: David E. Bell and Mary L. Shelman
    Entrepreneur Pearse Lyons had built Alltech into the fastest growing company in the global animal health industry through innovative technology, creative marketing, and strong branding. Sel-Plex, a proprietary Alltech product, had shown important health benefits for... View Details
    Keywords: Brands and Branding; Leadership Development; Customer Focus and Relationships; Expansion; Technological Innovation; Intellectual Property; Sales; Value Creation; Business Model; Growth and Development Strategy; Health Industry
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    • March 2023 (Revised May 2025)
    • Case

    On

    By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Karolin Frankenberger and Sascha Mader
    Founded in 2010, in just one decade, the Swiss company On had established itself as a main player in global sports footwear and apparel. Based on an unconventional strategy which one of the founders labeled as “obsessively distinct,” On grew its sales with a compound... View Details
    Keywords: Brands and Branding; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; Business Startups; Business Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Competitive Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Customer Focus and Relationships; Customer Satisfaction; Digital Marketing; Disruptive Innovation; Distribution Channels; Entrepreneurship; Environmental Sustainability; Global Strategy; Initial Public Offering; Innovation and Invention; Innovation Strategy; Market Entry and Exit; Marketing Strategy; Product Design; Product Development; Product Marketing; Social Media; Strategy; Supply Chain Management; Technological Innovation; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Retail Industry; Sports Industry; Europe; Switzerland; Germany; United States
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    • 2012
    • Working Paper

    FollowMe.IntDev.Com: International Development in the Blogosphere

    By: Ryann Manning
    This article explores online blogs as a new forum for discussing ideas and practices in international development. Based on a qualitative study of conversations that take place across multiple blogs, I conclude that the blogosphere combines features of a public sphere,... View Details
    Keywords: Development Economics; Interpersonal Communication; Knowledge Acquisition; Experience and Expertise; Globalization; Blogs
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    • 11 Sep 2008
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Competing Complements

    Keywords: by Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Barry Nalebuff & David B. Yoffie
    • March 30, 2020
    • Article

    Why Is the U.S. Behind on Coronavirus Testing?

    By: Stefan Thomke
    Coronavirus testing is needed to address the uncertainty in making decisions about patient treatment, resource allocation, policy, and so much more. Answers to questions such as “When should we relax social distancing measures—and for whom?” or “How many ventilators... View Details
    Keywords: Testing; Coronavirus; Culture; Trump; Data; Experiments; Health Pandemics; Health Testing and Trials; Government and Politics; United States
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    • 16 Jun 2009
    • First Look

    First Look: June 16

    investment in the yet-to-be-formed liberalized and deregulated electricity market in Russia. Purchase this case: http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=709046 Global Health Partner:... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 23 Jun 2009
    • News

    How Boomers Can Change the World (Again)

    • 01 Oct 2020
    • News

    Does Your Company Need a Chief Medical Officer?

      John D. Dionne

      John D. Dionne has been a Senior Lecturer of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School since 2014 and is a recently retired Senior Managing Director and Senior Advisor to Blackstone. He is also Managing Partner of Franconia Capital, a... View Details

        Vikram Gandhi

        Vikram S. Gandhi is the Gerald P. Kaminsky Senior Lecturer of Business Administration in the General Management Unit. He has developed and teaches two new courses in the Elective Curriculum of the MBA Program. The first is a finance and investing course, Sustainable... View Details

        Keywords: financial services
        • Research Summary

        Current research

        Professor Pomeranz's research is situated at the intersection of development economics and public finance. Her current work focuses in particular on corporate taxation and public procurement, the two key ways in which government finance affects firms and entrepreneurs.... View Details
        • 2024
        • Working Paper

        The Value of Open Source Software

        By: Manuel Hoffmann, Frank Nagle and Yanuo Zhou
        The value of a non-pecuniary (free) product is inherently difficult to assess. A pervasive example is open source software (OSS), a global public good that plays a vital role in the economy and is foundational for most technology we use today. However, it is... View Details
        Keywords: Valuation; Open Source Distribution; Applications and Software
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