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  • November–December 2010
  • Article

A Method for Defining Value in Healthcare Using Cancer Care as a Model

By: Thomas W. Feeley, Heidi Albright, Ronald Walters and Thomas W. Burke
Value-based healthcare delivery is being discussed in a variety of healthcare forums. This concept is of great importance in the reform of the US healthcare delivery system. Defining and applying the principles of value-based competition in healthcare delivery models... View Details
Keywords: Value Creation; Cancer Care In The U.S.; Healthcare; Health; Management; Measurement and Metrics; Health Industry; North and Central America
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  • August 2007 (Revised November 2010)
  • Case

Grand Central Publishing

By: Anita Elberse
In April 2007, Grand Central's publisher Jamie Raab and editor Karen Kosztolnyik were involved in a frantic bidding war for a proposed book on the life of cat Dewey, billed as the feline answer to the best-selling "Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst... View Details
Keywords: Acquisition; Product Launch; Bids and Bidding; Product Development; Publishing Industry
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  • October 2015 (Revised October 2016)
  • Case

Building Watson: Not So Elementary, My Dear! (Abridged)

By: Willy C. Shih
This case is set inside IBM Research's efforts to build a computer that can successfully take on human challengers playing the game show Jeopardy! It opens with the machine named Watson offering the incorrect answer "Toronto" to a seemingly simple question during the... View Details
Keywords: Analytics; Big Data; Business Analytics; Product Development Strategy; Machine Learning; Machine Intelligence; Artificial Intelligence; Product Development; AI and Machine Learning; Information Technology; Analytics and Data Science; Information Technology Industry; United States
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  • 13 Nov 2012
  • First Look

First Look: November 13

multinational firms. Our analysis shows that the emerging offshore clusters of multinationals are not a simple reflection of domestic industrial clusters. Location fundamentals including market access and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Nov 2013
  • First Look

First Look: November 5

the nascent smart cities industry and find that firm leaders engaged in a set of legitimation activities intended to help external stakeholders understand and appreciate the firm and its industry. Our View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Driving Impact in Emerging Markets with HBS Alum Nneka Chime (MBA 2015) - Recruiting

a U.S. citizen and considered staying in the United States, which had also begun to feel like home. She explored consulting and private equity as potential paths forward, leveraging MBA internships and exposure to various industries that... View Details
  • 17 May 2011
  • First Look

First Look: May 17

founders. To motivate the empirical analysis we develop a simple theory of costly bargaining, where founders trade off the simplicity of accepting an equal split, with the costs of negotiating a differentiated allocation of founder... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Mar 2008
  • Research & Ideas

The Lessons of Business History: A Handbook

entrepreneurship, and the role of the state, also concerned Chandler, but they were not central to his concerns. There are also chapters on topics that Chandler had little or nothing to say, including corporate governance, industrial... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • December 2015 (Revised September 2016)
  • Supplement

ANA (B)

By: Doug J. Chung and Mayuka Yamazaki
All Nippon Airways (ANA) became the largest airline in Japan in 2013. Having been designated as a domestic carrier by the Japanese government till the mid-1980s and Japan being the sixth largest domestic airline market, two-thirds of ANA’s passenger revenue came from... View Details
Keywords: Demand and Consumers; Analysis; Economics; Price; Marketing Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Product; Policy; Air Transportation Industry; Japan
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  • 12 Mar 2021
  • News

My Favorite Case

oil industry. I came full circle with both of those cases, having spent my career in the oil industry and as CEO of a company involved in the Macondo well disaster in 2010. Going through the Macondo crisis and looking back on the... View Details
Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
  • Research Summary

Corporate Lobbying Strategy and Foreign MNEs

“U.S. Defense Contracts and the Lobbying Strategies of Foreign MNEs: The Liability of Foreignness and Make-or-Buy Decisions about Political Goods”

Many firms engage in lobbying with the expectation that their lobbying efforts will... View Details

Keywords: Non-market Strategy; Political Strategy; Lobbying; Make V. Buy; Multinational Enterprise; Global Strategy; United States
  • 30 Oct 2007
  • First Look

First Look: October 30, 2007

statistical analysis of consumer populations. In each period, reformers sought to extend methods for uncovering side effects from the clinic to the market, yet a fundamental lack of consensus on how to determine the scope and magnitude of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Serving the Public Interest Through Competition: British Railroads - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School

Railroads Finance Management Business Analysts Mass Distribution Mergers & Syndicates Research Links Serving the Public Interest Through Competition: British Railroads Through comparative analysis of railroads in the United States and... View Details
  • 29 Jan 2013
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 29

Become Influential? A Field Study of Toolmaking and Expertise in Two Financial Institutions Authors:Hall, Matthew, Anette Mikes, and Yuval Millo Abstract In this study, we examine transformations in the influence of risk managers in two large UK banks over a period of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • February 2014
  • Article

Developing a System to Track Meaningful Outcome Measures in Head and Neck Cancer Treatment

By: Ronald S. Walters, Heidi W. Albright, Randal S. Weber, Thomas W. Feeley, Ehab Y. Hanna, Scott B. Cantor, Carol M. Lewis and Thomas W. Burke
The health care industry, including consumers, providers, and payers of health care, recognize the importance of developing meaningful, patient-centered measures. This article describes our experience using an existing electronic medical record largely based on free... View Details
Keywords: Cancer Treatment; Cancer Care In The U.S.; Outcomes Measurement; Health Care and Treatment; Measurement and Metrics; Health Industry; North and Central America
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  • March 2009 (Revised May 2011)
  • Case

The Credit Suisse/Gerson Lehrman Group Alliance

By: Robert G. Eccles and Laura Winig
The equity research department of Credit Suisse and the expert network firm of Gerson Lehrman Group, historically competitors, have established a strategic alliance which both believe will give them a competitive advantage. Under the leadership of its head of equity... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Financial Crisis; Investment Banking; Innovation and Invention; Alliances; Social and Collaborative Networks; Competitive Advantage; Banking Industry
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  • 20 Oct 2010
  • Op-Ed

Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic

other policies to change relative prices can provide a countervailing force by subsidizing exports. But they increase the costs of imports, hurting both domestic consumption and export-oriented industries with high import content. More... View Details
Keywords: by Christian Ketels
  • 21 May 2021
  • Blog Post

Alumni Spotlight: Cissy Chen (MBA 2019)

equities? What were some challenging or surprising aspects? After graduation, I returned to Singapore and the finance industry and I’m currently working for Nomura Securities. Since my time back I had a chance to do work on the side with... View Details
  • Summer 2012
  • Article

Epistemic Contests and the Legitimacy of the World Trade Organization: The Brazil–USA Cotton Dispute and the Incremental Balancing of Interests

By: Arthur A. Daemmrich
The World Trade Organization (WTO) features prominently in studies of international institutions, often cast either as a tool of rich-world domination over the poorer South or as a neutral mediator facilitating a tariff-free world of economic prosperity. This article... View Details
Keywords: Organizations; Trade; Conflict and Resolution; Consumer Products Industry; Brazil; United States
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  • 15 Jul 2014
  • First Look

First Look: July 15

company's sources of advantage over time. The analysis suggests that the effectiveness of a particular business model depends not only on its design (its levers and how they relate to one another) but also, most importantly, on its... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel