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The Institutional Foundations of Lending: Indirect Regulation and State-Building

The Institutional Foundations of Lending: Indirect Regulation and State-Building makes two main theoretical contributions to the scholarship on credit markets and institutional development. First, the book demonstrates that opportunistic lenders can take... View Details

May 1994 (Revised November 2001)
Case

Concord Center

By: William J. Poorvu and John H. Vogel Jr.

A major shopping center developer and an insurance company form a joint venture to develop a 900,000 square foot super-regional shopping center. Describes the nine-year struggle to deal with market, regulatory, and financial issues to get the project ready for... View Details

Keywords: Buildings and Facilities; Design; Joint Ventures; Construction; Partners and Partnerships; Governance Controls; Market Entry and Exit; Projects; Equity; Corporate Finance; Retail Industry

07 Oct 2008
Working Paper Summaries

Securing Online Advertising: Rustlers and Sheriffs in the New Wild West

Keywords: by Benjamin G. Edelman; Advertising

01 Feb 2001
News

HBS and Stanford in Online Collaboration

the world," said Dean Kim B. Clark in announcing the partnership in late November. "We also share a commitment to using technology in management education. We are enthusiastic about the opportunity to deliver online an incomparable... View Details

Keywords: HBS Interactive; e-learning; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools

February 2016 (Revised May 2016)
Case

Blue Origin, NASA, and New Space (A)

By: Matthew Weinzierl and Angela Acocella

Jeff Bezos, six years after starting a revolution in retailing with Amazon.com, turned his life-long passion for space into a start-up, Blue Origin. Blue (as it was called) was a part of the New Space industry, a collection of startup aerospace engineering companies... View Details

Keywords: Cost vs Benefits; Partners and Partnerships; Transportation; Business Startups; Government and Politics; Business and Government Relations; Aerospace Industry

Web

CSV in Practice - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Shared Value in Products & Markets Novo Nordisk developed diabetes training programs for Chinese physicians in partnership with government, NGOs, and opinion leaders to disseminate the latest thinking on... View Details

30 Mar 2009
Research & Ideas

Professional Networks in China and America

trust, individuals express care for the welfare of their partners and believe in the intrinsic value of such relationships. There is usually genuine emotional investment in relationships based on this type... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

25 Jul 2023
Research & Ideas

Could a Business Model Help Big Pharma Save Lives and Profit?

cross-sector and cross-border partnerships needed to execute the model. Adding new information about how pharmaceutical companies handle global public health challenges. Jessica Martinez, a former Big Pharma... View Details

Keywords: by Esther Schrader; Pharmaceutical; Health

May 2018 (Revised July 2018)
Case

EY China (A): Strengthening Presence in a Critical Market

By: Ashish Nanda, Das Narayandas and Lisa Rohrer

Soon after being named regional managing partner for Ernst & Young (EY) China in September 2009, Albert Ng reflects on the enormity of challenges facing EY China. Despite EY Global's commitment to the China practice, EY China’s growth agenda has been reversed, post... View Details

Keywords: Professional Services; International Management; Big Four; Strategy And Execution; Emerging Market; Strategy; Leadership; Global Range; Growth and Development Strategy; Emerging Markets; Accounting Industry; China

August 2011
Case

Denise Frazer and Paolo Canto: A Case Vignette on Feedback - Paolo Canto's Perspective

By: Joshua D. Margolis and Anthony J. Mayo

Denise Frazer and Paolo Canto, two HBS students, have decided to give each other feedback on their class participation. While Paolo believes that he has been sensitive to Denise in providing feedback, he does not feel that Denise is reciprocating. Her feedback seems to... View Details

Keywords: Interpersonal Communication; Perspective; Outcome or Result; Performance Evaluation

September 1997 (Revised November 1997)
Teaching Note

Cleveland Turnaround, The: Case and Video TN

By: James E. Austin

Teaching Note for (9-796-151), (9-796-152), (9-796-153), (9-796-154), and (9-797-501). View Details

Keywords: Social Enterprise; Government Administration; Business and Community Relations; Business and Government Relations; Crisis Management; Corporate Accountability; Economic Sectors; Problems and Challenges; Opportunities; Development Economics; Leadership; Partners and Partnerships

Web

Advancing Global, Public, and Societal Health - Health Care

Impact Advancing Global, Public, and Societal Health Building Affordable Health Care in Paradise Re: Tarun Khanna Health Minute: How Can Companies Bring "Missing Drugs" to Market? More “Developing Nations” stories Faculty Focus Global... View Details

01 Dec 2000
News

The Birds and Bees in China

and other youth-oriented entertainment. It's all designed to create a friendly, nonthreatening environment in which to explore a generally taboo subject. The Chinese Family Planning Association has even agreed to View Details

Keywords: News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services

February 2017
Teaching Note

Oversight Systems

By: Frank Cespedes

This Teaching Note accompanies the case, set in May 2016, which discusses sales strategy and channel partnerships at Oversight Systems, an early stage software firm that developed analytics for organizations to monitor their data for errors, fraud, and operational... View Details

Keywords: Sales; Sales Strategy; Entrepreneurial Sales; Entrepreneurial Sales And Marketing; Software Sales; Marketing; Marketing Management; Pricing; Salesforce Management; Distribution Channels; Marketing Strategy; Technology Industry; North America

09 May 2017
First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 9

leadership changes, increased communication, new partnership deals, and a focus on digital, sought speed, innovation, and accountability to better fulfill Sesame's educational... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

24 Feb 2022
Op-Ed

Want to Prevent the Next Hospital Bed Crisis? Enlist the SEC

billing rule that hospitals had ignored, it imposed a tangle of new requirements and directed the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to help prevent excess out-of-network charges. View Details

Keywords: by Regina Herzlinger and Richard Boxer; Health

April 12, 2022
Article

Evaluation of Individual and Ensemble Probabilistic Forecasts of COVID-19 Mortality in the United States

By: Estee Y. Cramer, Evan L. Ray, Velma K. Lopez, Johannes Bracher, Andrea Brennen, Alvaro J. Castro Rivadeneira, Michael Lingzhi Li and et al.

Short-term probabilistic forecasts of the trajectory of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States have served as a visible and important communication channel between the scientific modeling community and both the general public and decision-makers. Forecasting models... View Details

Keywords: COVID-19; Forecasting and Prediction; Health Pandemics; Mathematical Methods; Partners and Partnerships