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  • 12 PM – 1 PM EST, 12 Dec 2019
  • Webinars: Career

From Private Equity to Private Debt: Key Trends in Alternative Investments

Private equity industry has expanded substantially to include new strategies, new players, and new funding models. Professor Victoria Ivashina will explore new trends, limits to disintermediation, growth potential, and what to keep in mind if you are exploring these... View Details
  • 06 Oct 2015
  • First Look

October 6, 2015

systems. The links between multinational firms form a distinct type of international system for the private sector—one that is simultaneously enmeshed in geopolitics and international markets even as it is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 PM – 1 PM EDT, 12 Sep 2018
  • Webinars: Trending@HBS

Responding to Digital Disruption

As a follow-up to his 2017 webinar and building upon his proposed recipe for digital disruption, Associate Professor Thales Teixeira proposes a new framework to help established businesses respond to digital disruptors. View Details
  • July 1997 (Revised September 1997)
  • Case

USAA: Catastrophe Risk Financing

By: Kenneth A. Froot and Mark Seasholes
Describes the first major risk financing using catastrophe bonds. Provides a basis for discussing the securitization of insurance risks. View Details
Keywords: Financial Management; Insurance; Capital Markets; Natural Disasters; Risk Management; Bonds; Insurance Industry; Financial Services Industry; United States
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  • 2023
  • Report

The 2023 India Cluster Panorama

By: Christian Ketels, Amit Kapoor, Bibek Debroy and Subhanshi Negi
The India Cluster Panorama 2023 provides unique new insights into the cluster structure of the Indian economy. It leverages powerful data from the Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS), which has comprehensive coverage of the Indian labour force and granular data... View Details
Keywords: Clusters; Industry Clusters; Economic Growth; India
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  • 22 Aug 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Balancing the Future Against Today’s Needs

needs to know that the exploitive crowd is paying the bills." This helps affirm the message "We're all in this together." Embracing The Long View In George's growth model, as you build the core, you should also be looking at three longer-term areas of... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Michelman
  • 27 Feb 2020
  • Blog Post

Taking the LEAP into the Case Method

Dr. Baozhong Su now is an Asian Fellow at Ash Center for Demo Governance and Innovation, Harvard Kennedy School. As a professor, he comes from the College of Economics and Management, China Agricultural University (CAU) in Beijing, P.R.... View Details
  • 2013
  • Working Paper

Increased Speed Equals Increased Wait: The Impact of a Reduction in Emergency Department Ultrasound Order Processing Time

By: Jillian Berry Jaeker, Anita L. Tucker and Michael H. Lee
We exploit an exogenous process change at two emergency departments (EDs) within a health system to test the theory that increasing capacity in a discretionary work setting increases wait times due to additional services being provided to customers as a consequence of... View Details
Keywords: Technology; Demand and Consumers; Service Delivery; Health Care and Treatment; Business Processes; Health Industry
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  • June 2009 (Revised November 2010)
  • Case

HTC Corp. in 2009

By: David B. Yoffie and Renee Kim
Taiwan-based HTC Corp. had emerged as the world's fourth largest smartphone manufacturer by 2009. CEO Peter Chou was extremely proud of the remarkable achievements his company had made over the last 12 years since starting off as an unknown manufacturer of PDAs for... View Details
Keywords: Global Strategy; Growth and Development Strategy; Brands and Branding; Product Positioning; Competitive Advantage; Mobile Technology; Telecommunications Industry; Taiwan
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  • 07 Apr 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Excerpt: ‘The Art of Negotiation’

positive sense of a willingness to abandon the status quo and venture into the unknown, at least partway. For a negotiator, that could be voicing a novel idea or being more (or less) confrontational than... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael A. Wheeler
  • 05 Jul 2004
  • What Do You Think?

Work-Life: Is Productivity in the Balance?

the cafeteria plan for medical benefits offered by many organizations. Others favor the more traditional approach of clearly prescribed benefits for everyone with a certain amount of seniority. The debate... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • March 2014
  • Technical Note

Sustainability of Competitive Advantage

By: Eric Van den Steen
This note introduces a framework for analyzing the sustainability of competitive advantage. (While it applies more broadly, it was developed as a component of the PVA framework.) View Details
Keywords: Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Monopoly
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  • 17 Dec 2017
  • News

Indie bookstores’ surprising revival based on giving customers ‘an experience’

  • 2016
  • Working Paper

Refugee Resettlement

By: David Delacretaz, Scott Duke Kominers and Alexander Teytelboym
Over 100,000 refugees are permanently resettled from refugee camps to hosting countries every year. Nevertheless, refugee resettlement processes in most countries are ad hoc, accounting for neither the priorities of hosting communities nor the preferences of refugees... View Details
Keywords: Refugees; Marketplace Matching; Mathematical Methods
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  • Blog

Exceptional Learning—Wherever You Are

Can a virtual learning experience be as dynamic, energetic, and powerful as a classroom session? With its Live Online Classroom, HBS proves that the answer is a resounding yes. Through an initiative that started long before COVID-19 mandated a new landscape View Details
  • 31 Jan 2017
  • Research & Ideas

The Dow at 20,000: What's That All About?

that the markets expect strong deregulation, and that impacts every other sector that is highly regulated in the economy. So you saw the rising stock prices of financials, for example, as well as energy... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
  • 28 Apr 2016
  • Blog Post

3 Concerns I Had about HBS

I have a confession: attending HBS wasn't a life-long dream for me. Choosing to attend business school required some hard decisions along the way, and real thought about what I wanted from my career and from the HBS experience. I was... View Details
  • 14 Aug 2007
  • First Look

First Look: August 14, 2007

and practice of modern contingent claims analysis (CCA). The paper provides a new framework for adapting the CCA model to the sovereign balance sheet in a way that can help forecast credit spreads and evaluate the impact of View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 26 Sep 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Behind India’s Economic and Political Woes

The Indian economy has been teetering on the brink for the past few months. The most manifest of these problems has been the crash of the Indian rupee, which has shown a decline of approximately 20 percent against the US dollar in a short... View Details
Keywords: by Zeenat Potia
  • 14 Oct 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Should You Bring Advertising Expertise In-House?

reasons include structural changes in the advertising industry such as the unbundling of agency services, and improved communication tools that make it easier and more cost efficient for firms to manage some aspect of their own... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Advertising