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  • 28 Oct 2008
  • First Look

First Look: October 28, 2008

(0.74%). Even after controlling for filers' demographic factors and self-revealed savings intent, the likelihood of tax-site savings was 5.5 percentage points higher at treatment sites as compared with View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 06 Jun 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Why Leaders Lose Their Way

important issues. Values-centered Leadership Leading is high stress work. There is no way to avoid the constant challenges of being responsible for people, organizations, outcomes, and uncertainties in the environment. Leaders who move up... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
  • Web

Degrees, Certifications & Alumni Status | About

Administration-International Development from HKS Alumni Status : Yes The mission of the three-year HBS/HKS joint degree programs is to develop leaders, skilled in management and the shaping of innovative... View Details
  • July 2019 (Revised May 2021)
  • Case

Acelerex

By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock
In early 2019, Randell Johnson, Founder and Chief Executive of Acelerex, was reflecting on the company’s first year of rapid growth and the challenges of scaling the business that lay ahead. Acelerex was riding the waves of change taking place in electrical power grids... View Details
Keywords: Energy; Energy Sources; Growth Management; Expansion; Global Strategy; Cash Flow; Energy Industry; Web Services Industry; Consulting Industry
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  • 29 Nov 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Is There a Method to Musk’s Madness on Twitter?

Prior to the acquisition, Twitter as a company was much weaker than most people realize. They’ve struggled with profitability for many years, and they’ve been quite slow at innovating on new features View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette; Technology
  • September 2011 (Revised January 2012)
  • Case

Telemonitoring at Visiting Nurse Health System

By: F. Warren McFarlan, Mark Keil and Mala Kaul
The Telemonitoring at Visiting Nurse Health System case presents one home healthcare organization's efforts to use telemonitoring to improve the quality of care provided to at-risk patients who were discharged from hospitals and needed home care. After two years of... View Details
Keywords: Capital Budgeting; Cost vs Benefits; Risk Management; Technology Adoption; Technological Innovation; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Competitive Strategy; Health Industry; Technology Industry
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  • 10 Jan 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: January 10, 2017

Eastern agreements. These include the opening to China after decades of mutual hostility with the United States; détente and the first nuclear arms control treaty with the Soviets at the height of the Cold... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 May 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Are Banks the ‘Bad Guys’? Overdraft Fees Are Crushing Low-Income Customers

down accounts, which often happens if a customer fails to repay overdraft fees and other outstanding balances for two months. That black mark can prevent a consumer from opening a bank account elsewhere for... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services
  • October 2015
  • Case

Clearwater Seafoods

By: Forest L. Reinhardt
Clearwater sought to market value-added shellfish products in a traditionally commodities based industry, while facing supply uncertainties and regulatory, environmental, and foreign exchange challenges. Clearwater harvested lobsters, clams, scallops, shrimp, and other... View Details
Keywords: Agribusiness; Profit; Goods and Commodities; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Product Marketing; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Sustainability; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Canada
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    Dutch Leonard

    Herman B. ("Dutch") Leonard is Eliot I. Snider and Family Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School and the George F. Baker, Jr. Professor of Public Sector Management at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. In... View Details

    Keywords: education industry; federal government; health care; nonprofit industry; state government
    • 30 Apr 2024
    • Book

    When Managers Set Unrealistic Expectations, Employees Cut Ethical Corners

    accounts—notwithstanding the company’s various compliance programmes, ethical business practices initiative, and espoused long-term customer focus. During this period, the bank had a total shareholder return of more than 100 percent,... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
    • 12 Oct 2021
    • Research & Ideas

    What Actually Draws Sports Fans to Games? It's Not Star Athletes.

    potentially worth tens of millions of dollars in additional revenue for the league.” Unique aspects of the AFL, whose strict policies aim to keep player rosters evenly matched—made it a natural setting to examine this question. The AFL emphasizes competitive View Details
    Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Sports
    • 26 Aug 2002
    • Research & Ideas

    High-Stakes Decision Making: The Lessons of Mount Everest

    decisions. The Everest analysis suggests that leaders must pay close attention to how they balance competing pressures in their organizations, and how their words and actions... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael A. Roberto
    • 02 Apr 2013
    • First Look

    First Look: April 2

      Publications 2006 Nature Reviews Beyond Magic Bullets: True Innovation in Health Care By: Narayan, Vaibhav A., Marco Mohwinckel, Gary Pisano, Michael Yang, and Husseini Manji Abstract—The molecular... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • Web

    Teaching by the Case Method - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

    both. Case method teachers learn to balance planning and spontaneity. In practice, they pursue opportunities and "teachable moments" that emerge throughout the discussion,... View Details
    • 07 Jun 2016
    • First Look

    June 7, 2016

    Medicaid Services (CMS) indicated that CMS embraces value as a priority. Nonetheless, serious questions remain as to whether the ACA has improved the value Americans receive in cancer care. Value in cancer care balances outcomes that... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 27 Jan 2009
    • First Look

    First Look: January 27, 2009

    innovations that allow local sectors to catch up with frontier technology. In poor countries, catching up requires the cooperation of a foreign investor who is familiar with the frontier technology and a... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 26 Jul 2016
    • First Look

    July 26, 2016

    and clinician-reported outcomes. These need to be used for internal improvement in health care delivery organizations, as well as for public reporting, so that patients can make informed choices about their health care. We need to do a... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • November 2009
    • Article

    Is it Fair to Blame Fair Value Accounting for the Financial Crisis?

    By: Robert C. Pozen
    When the credit markets seized up in 2008, many heaped blame on "mark to market" accounting rules, which require banks to write down their troubled assets to the prices they'd fetch if sold on the open market - at the time, next to nothing. Recording those assets below... View Details
    Keywords: Cost Accounting; Fair Value Accounting; Financial Crisis; Assets; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Crisis Management; Standards; Banking Industry
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    Curriculum - Case Method Project

    Buren. The case culminates in a decision over whether the state legislature should continue to control the creation of each new bank in the state—through the so-called bank chartering system—or relinquish this authority View Details