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Key Stakeholders - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

understanding the expected outcomes. Health Plans Maximize value for patients, minimize paperwork, and compete for subscribers based on the ability to achieve positive health outcomes. Employers Focus on... View Details

01 Jan 2011
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Karen Gordon Mills, MBA 1977

with a portfolio of more than $90 billion in loan guarantees, the SBA is responsible for ensuring that 23 percent of all government contracts are awarded to small businesses. "That's $100 billion dollars a... View Details

11 Feb 2020
Sharpening Your Skills

10 Rules Entrepreneurs Need to Know Before Adopting AI

However, that’s not the reality of the enterprise world. Big enterprises by default are averse to change unless they are convinced the alternative is worth their business... View Details

Keywords: by Rocio Wu

19 Sep 2005
Research & Ideas

Rethinking Company Loyalty

Few business leaders would deny the importance of organizational loyalty; perhaps fewer still believe they can achieve it the way they once did. After all, the lifetime View Details

Keywords: by Lauren Keller Johnson

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HBS - Key Metrics

Solid Waste is the trash hauled from buildings from typical campus operations. It does not include construction waste, recycling, electronic waste, waste disposed of as part of contracted services, or... View Details

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Our Team - Social Impact Collaboratory

Project on Impact Investments and the Social Impact Collaboratory Jonah Zahnd is the Manager for the Project on Impact Investments and the Social... View Details

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Case Studies - Social Impact Collaboratory

to design use investment capital to create social change. Key Themes: The social impact bond is a unique financial contract that allows investors to fund social service organizations with View Details

15 Jun 2007
Research & Ideas

Remembering Alfred Chandler

network of individual contracts or the vision of its entrepreneur. The people inside firms learned, developed effective routines, and innovated. While we have sophisticated... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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Is AI Coming for Your Job?

irrelevant construct when considering how to harness generative AI capabilities. Processes ranging from negotiating contracts with vendors to developing marketing messages will be redesigned from the ground... View Details

23 Mar 2023
Blog Post

Arla Foods: How Sustainable Can A Dairy Company Be?

In January 2023, Professors Willy Shih and Mike Toffel led more than 40 HBS MBA students on site visits to witness the energy transition and innovative sustainable production activities throughout Denmark and View Details

01 Oct 1997
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Brice Cutrer Jones

New York attorney. "We shook hands on the corner of 57th and Lex on September 17, 1972," recalls Jones. "He said, 'You go do it and I'll get the equity,' and that's been our only View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

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Globalization and Emerging Markets (Elective Course) The world order has changed significantly in the last two decades. The influence of western-style varieties of capitalism has been challenged by new forms of capitalism that rely less on private enterprise and on the... View Details

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Technology & Operations Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Production and Operations Management for “Managing the Performance Tradeoffs from Partner Integration: Implications of Contract Choice in R&D Projects” (October 2015) with Anant Mishra. Edward McFowland III... View Details

01 Mar 2024
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Giving All Stakeholders a Voice

“Now with blockchain, network effects are turbocharged, while bringing back principles of open innovation that Web 1.0 had,” Wu says. Read more about Building open-source applications with logic encoded in smart contracts helps businesses... View Details

Keywords: April White

28 May 2020
Research & Ideas

Coronavirus Could Create a 'Bankruptcy Pandemic'

that have other so-called executory contracts like supply agreements and collective bargaining agreements which receive similar favorable treatment under the Bankruptcy Code; and those that have deeper... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Financial Services; Banking

21 Feb 2005
Op-Ed

Is Business Management a Profession?

institutions to enforce them, as part of their implicit contract with society. "Trust us to exercise jurisdiction over an important occupational category," these professions essentially state. "In return, we will make every... View Details

Keywords: by Rakesh Khurana, Nitin Nohria & Daniel Penrice

30 Mar 2018
What Do You Think?

What Should Mark Zuckerberg Do?

reason, his staff had been reduced, he had been refused a request to report directly to Zuckerberg, and he had announced that he would be leaving Facebook in August. Making the company’s privacy policy part of its terms of service View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Web Services; Information Technology

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Richard P. Melnick | About

University CIO) that evaluates the business, technical and financial case for major university administrative technology investments. He sits on several Executive Committees that manage the implementation of... View Details

23 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Building a Better Buyer-Seller Relationship

the relationship," he said. In their paper, they developed nine propositions and identified five processes. They found that the contract stage in industrial markets leads... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

11 Apr 2023
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BTG Bioliquids: Creating Fast Pyrolysis Bio-Oil from Biomass Residue Streams

willing to contract to purchase the energy with a price escalator based on input price increases. However, offtakers may not be willing to internalize such variability in expenses and may indeed look to... View Details

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