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- 01 Dec 1996
- News
An Entrepreneurial Journey
$15-billion corporation. McGowan's vision transformed the monopolistic long-distance telecommunications business into today's highly competitive industry. "I recognized the risk," said McGowan, "but gambler that I was, I also calculated... View Details
- 12 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
Investors Have More Than Money to Offer Entrepreneurs
financing to make the diligence process easier for new investors. They may even have models or frameworks that other portfolio companies use that you can borrow. Not sure whether your compensation packages are competitive or fair? Or how... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
- 08 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile
country is home to a range of internationally competitive firms, from Falabella, the largest department store chain in Latin America, to LATAM, the largest airline group and a member of the One World Alliance. Q: Do you foresee any better... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 12, 2008
in addition to the already competitive mobile communication segment where the company's once dominant market share was heavily eroded. Mao had to decide on the pricing strategies for the company's various product lines, including fixed... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 18, 2008
growth, stagnant GDP growth, and high public debt. As of early 2007, the country's global competitiveness has plummeted and its debt remains well above the level allowed by the EU's Maastricht treaty. Historical and structural reasons for... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Fixing Corporate Governance: A Roundtable Discussion at Harvard Business School
that ensured their executives would receive above-average pay even though all executives can't be above average. The market for executives is not one in which there are strong competitive pressures to keep compensation down; so, in the... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Look at Globalization Now
standardized products. Yet the bulk of the related literature, which focuses on whether consumers prefer global brands, misses out on supply-side considerations related to costs. Q: How can the study of strategy and competition contribute... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- Web
From the Chief Financial Officer | Annual Report 2024
increased competition and higher costs to acquire online learners continue to create revenue headwinds. The School’s annual endowment distribution revenue for fiscal 2024 increased by $12 million, or 6 percent, to $220 million, accounting... View Details
- Web
HBS - Financials | From the Chief Financial Officer
in the prior year, primarily reflecting higher customer acquisition costs amid increased competition in the educational technology market. Total enrollment grew to 40,667 participants, 5 percent higher than the prior year. Although down... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
The Wise Men
finance, when more attention should be paid to getting out in the field to find out what’s really going on and why. If teaching becomes largely quantitative and the computer is the dominant resource, case writing and field research become relatively less important, and... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The One That Got Away
percent stake, which would have been a much smaller ownership position than we usually get. So it was an “off-strategy” investment. It was also in the highly competitive space of lead generation, where companies are paid a referral fee if... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Life in Lockdown
to handle daily chores like picking up dry cleaning, watering plants, grocery shopping, and making their beds. Doorman morphed into Hello Alfred, which went on to win the School’s New Venture Competition in 2014 and then, later that year,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Over the Top
through the workings of the ‘invisible hand,’ to be consistent with a globally competitive economy. “This system — and the predictably reckless choices made by some of its most powerful players — has brought our economy to the brink of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
MBA vs. MBA
conservative values,” he says. Both parties have made winning the district a priority. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has designated the race as one of its competitive “Frontline 10” elections. Collegio calls it “one of... View Details
- November 2020 (Revised April 2021)
- Case
Roll-Ups and Surprise Billing: Collisions at the Intersection of Private Equity and Patient Care
By: Trevor Fetter and Kira Seiger
This case describes the increasing investment by private equity (PE) firms in patient care and other healthcare services. The case focuses on investments in physician staffing firms and roll-up strategy investments in physician practice management (PPM). Included in... View Details
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Fetter, Trevor, and Kira Seiger. "Roll-Ups and Surprise Billing: Collisions at the Intersection of Private Equity and Patient Care." Harvard Business School Case 321-049, November 2020. (Revised April 2021.)
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
A Summit Higher Than Everest
Katahdin was itself one for the record books, the first-known winter ascent of the mountain. Moore was well suited for the gentleman’s hobby—lean and strong, with an unbridled curiosity—and for the mountaineering community, a convivial and View Details
- 31 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 31, 2009
it articulated a set of foundational concepts. As early as 1900, some firms chose to differentiate their products in order to do a better job of satisfying customers' diverse needs. In subsequent years, the marketing discipline developed increasingly sophisticated... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
The system won the first annualHBS Association of Nigeria New Venture Competition for the West Africa region last year. Workers at a Nestlé distribution center in Lagos unload maize produced by one of Kola Masha's Babban Gona farms. But... View Details
- 12 Jul 2020
- Book
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2020
the Age of AI: Strategy and Leadership When Algorithms and Networks Run the World For the first time in 100 years, new technologies such as artificial intelligence are causing firms to rethink their competitive strategy and organizational... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 08 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 8
surplus and welfare, sometimes to such an extent that the existence of the intermediary can be harmful. Specifically, lower consumer surplus and welfare result from inflated retail prices, over-investment in providing benefits to buyers, and excessive adoption of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne