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- 05 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
Are Consumers the Cure for Broken Health Insurance?
patient-protection legislation promising to set off a round of expensive lawsuits, and costly genomic technologies on the horizon, the price of insurance is almost certain to continue its upward spiral in the years ahead. And what do... View Details
Keywords: by Regina E. Herzlinger
- 11 Jan 2000
- Lessons from the Classroom
New Game, New Rules: Developing Managers for a Competitive World
respond rapidly whenever necessary. As information technology escalates the pace and complexity of business everywhere, managers can ill afford to operate according to the bureaucratic dictates of the past.... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Teens and Magazines: Where There's Smoke, There's Advertising
authors noted, among other things, that last year, magazine advertising for the three cigarette brands most popular with young people on average reached more than 80 percent of American youth seventeen times per brand. King and Siegel concluded that "the Master... View Details
- 2023
- Chapter
Generalized Matching: Contracts and Networks
By: John William Hatfield, Ravi Jagadeesan, Scott Duke Kominers, Alexandru Nichifor, Michael Ostrovsky, Alexander Teytelboym and Alexander Westkamp
Keywords: Matching; Matching With Contracts; Matching Markets; Matching Platform; Market Design; Digital Platforms; Economics; Networks
Hatfield, John William, Ravi Jagadeesan, Scott Duke Kominers, Alexandru Nichifor, Michael Ostrovsky, Alexander Teytelboym, and Alexander Westkamp. "Generalized Matching: Contracts and Networks." Chap. 14 in Online and Matching-Based Market Design, edited by Federico Echenique, Nicole Immorlica, and Vijay Vazirani, 303–322. Cambridge University Press, 2023.
- June 2020
- Article
Frenemies in Platform Markets: Heterogeneous Profit Foci as Drivers of Compatibility Decisions
By: Ron Adner, Jianqing Chen and Feng Zhu
We study compatibility decisions of two competing platform owners that generate profits through both hardware sales and royalties from content sales. We consider a game-theoretic model in which two platforms offer different standalone utilities to users. We find that... View Details
Keywords: Compatibility; Platform Competition; Profit Foci; Digital Platforms; Competition; Profit; Decision Making
Adner, Ron, Jianqing Chen, and Feng Zhu. "Frenemies in Platform Markets: Heterogeneous Profit Foci as Drivers of Compatibility Decisions." Management Science 66, no. 6 (June 2020): 2432–2451.
- Article
Value-based Healthcare: Implications for Thyroid Cancer
By: A.K. Ying, T.W. Feeley and M. E. Porter
Today's delivery of care to thyroid cancer patients is complex, and costly, with uneven outcomes that can be improved. The incidence of thyroid cancer is rising and requires coordinated, multidisciplinary care with high volume centers that is not always available in... View Details
Keywords: Bundled Reimbursement; Healthcare Reform; Integrated Practice Units; Outcomes; Patient-reported Outcomes; Thyroid Cancer; Health Care and Treatment; Cost; Information Technology; Value
Ying, A.K., T.W. Feeley, and M. E. Porter. "Value-based Healthcare: Implications for Thyroid Cancer." International Journal of Endocrine Oncology 3, no. 2 (May 2016): 115–129. (e-Pub 4/2016.)
- 2018
- Working Paper
Need for Speed: The Impact of Website Performance on Online Retail
By: Santiago Gallino, Nil Karacaoglu and Antonio Moreno
The share of e-commerce sales is rapidly increasing and so are the associated losses generated by website outages and slow websites. We leverage novel retail and website performance data to investigate the impact of website performance on online sales. This question is... View Details
Keywords: Online Retail; Quasi-experiments; Abandonment; Synthetic Control; Internet and the Web; Performance; Service Operations
Gallino, Santiago, Nil Karacaoglu, and Antonio Moreno. "Need for Speed: The Impact of Website Performance on Online Retail." Working Paper, October 2018.
- Article
Some Uses of Happiness Data in Economics
By: Rafael Di Tella and Robert MacCulloch
Di Tella, Rafael, and Robert MacCulloch. "Some Uses of Happiness Data in Economics." Journal of Economic Perspectives 20, no. 1 (Winter 2006): 25–46.
- November 2006
- Article
Self-Restraint as an Online Entry-Deterrence Strategy
By: Liu Yunchuan, Sunil Gupta and John Zhang
Yunchuan, Liu, Sunil Gupta, and John Zhang. "Self-Restraint as an Online Entry-Deterrence Strategy." Management Science 52, no. 11 (November 2006): 1799–1809.
- November 1980
- Case
New England Farmers Cooperative, Inc. (A)
Cash, James I., Jr. "New England Farmers Cooperative, Inc. (A)." Harvard Business School Case 181-043, November 1980.
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Harvard’s Next Frontier
John A. Paulson (MBA 1980), founder and president of the investment management firm Paulson & Co., has made the largest gift in the University’s history—a $400 million endowment to support the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), which will be renamed the... View Details
Keywords: Drew Faust
- 28 Apr 2015
- News
Sir Peter Ogden: Making A Difference
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Capitalizing the Corner Shop
Amazon of Africa”; at the time of its IPO last April, it was valued at $1.3 billion. A year later, Kehinde and fellow Jumia executive Ercin Eksin went on to found Africa Courier Express (ACE), a logistics company meant to meet the growing last-mile delivery needs of... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
INK: Taking Care
The sad and unfortunate fact is that one in every two people will develop cancer in their lifetime, Kathy Giusti (MBA 1985) writes in her new book, Fatal to Fearless: 12 Steps to Beating Cancer in a Broken Medical System. It first happened to her more than 25 years... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Welcome to the Future
building was of paramount importance to the planners. All architectural details, the open and private meeting spaces, and even the tools to facilitate learning (such as multimedia technology and movable furniture) were designed to create... View Details
- 07 Jun 2004
- What Do You Think?
How Important are Big Ideas?
controversial—essentially argues that information technology is highly overrated in providing competitive advantage and should not be regarded as an important source going forward, at least at the level of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- Career Coach
Sarah Bua
Sarah (HBS ’98) is an executive coach and career advisor with 15+ years of experience coaching students, alumni and executives at Harvard Business School. She has a diverse business background, having worked across multiple industries and... View Details
- August 2016 (Revised November 2019)
- Supplement
eSig: Growth Analysis
By: Mark N. Roberge and Thomas R. Eisenmann
eSig, an early-stage startup, offers an electronic signature application as a "freemium" product, i.e., users can upgrade from a free basic version to a premium version by paying a subscription fee. Using 9 months of data from 50,000 user activations, available as a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Case Study: Your Data, Your Health
potential fertility with her ob-gyn, Tariyal was told that she could come back for a clinical workup after she had tried and failed to conceive for a year. Determined to give women more agency over their health, Tariyal cofounded NextGen Jane in 2014 with patented... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint