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  • June 2008 (Revised October 2008)
  • Case

International Carbon Finance and EcoSecurities

By: Andre F. Perold, Forest L. Reinhardt and Mikell Hyman
In late 2007, EcoSecurities had to decide whether to undertake a new Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) project in China. EcoSecurities was an aggregator of carbon credits and also invested directly in projects that produced carbon credits. Governments and firms... View Details
Keywords: Non-Renewable Energy; Cost Management; Investment Return; Business and Government Relations; Risk and Uncertainty; Investment; Cash Flow; Valuation; Pollutants; Environmental Sustainability; Financial Services Industry; China
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  • 2023
  • Working Paper

Healthcare Provider Bankruptcies

By: Samuel Antill, Jessica Bai, Ashvin Gandhi and Adrienne Sabety
Healthcare firms are increasingly filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Using two strategies, we show causal evidence that bankruptcies harm patients through increased worker turnover. First, in an online experiment, experienced nurses assess hypothetical employers and... View Details
Keywords: Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Health Care and Treatment; Outcome or Result; Retention; Health Industry
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    Roy D. Shapiro

    Roy D. Shapiro is the Philip Caldwell Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration.  He is currently the faculty co-chair of the School's Technology and Operations Management Unit... View Details

    • 13 Sep 2013
    • HBS Seminar

    Nirupama Rao, NYC Wagner School of Public Service

    • 13 Sep 2013
    • HBS Seminar

    Nirupama Rao, NYU Wagner School of Public Service

    • May 2016 (Revised August 2022)
    • Case

    RegionFly: Cutting Costs in the Airline Industry

    By: Susanna Gallani and Eva Labro
    RegionFly is a small, private airline specializing in ultra-premium services. Founded shortly after the "Golden Age of airline travel," RegionFly's financial performance had been strong for several decades. More recently, however, the results have taken a downward... View Details
    Keywords: Recession; Downsizing; Profitability; Cost Management; Profit; Luxury; Competitive Strategy; Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Divisions; Logistics; Decision Making; Strategic Planning; Air Transportation Industry
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    • 2017
    • Chapter

    Getting Started with Ambidexterity

    By: Andrew Binns and Michael Tushman
    This paper demonstrates the value of thinking about ambidexterity as having three distinct moments—ideation, incubation, and scaling—that share common features for success, such as the role of the senior team, and that also have distinct disciplines. Incubation is a... View Details
    Keywords: Corporate Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Innovation and Invention
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    • 2020
    • Working Paper

    Digital Experimentation and Startup Performance: Evidence from A/B Testing

    By: Rembrand Koning, Sharique Hasan and Aaron Chatterji
    Recent work argues that experimentation is the appropriate framework for entrepreneurial strategy. We investigate this proposition by exploiting the time-varying adoption of A/B testing technology, which has drastically reduced the cost of experimentally testing... View Details
    Keywords: Experimentation; A/B Testing; Data-driven Decision-making; Entrepreneurship; Strategy; Business Startups; Information Technology; Performance
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    • August 2018
    • Case

    Enfoca: Private Equity in Peru

    By: Victoria Ivashina and Jeffrey Boyar
    This case follows Enfoca, Peru’s largest local private equity firm and its portfolio company Maestro, a leading player in Peru’s hardware retail market. Peru’s GDP growth between 2008 and 2014 was the highest of any Latin American country. Growth of the Peruvian middle... View Details
    Keywords: Private Equity; Emerging Markets; Capital Markets; Transition; Strategy; Peru
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    • 13 Aug 2012
    • Research & Ideas

    When Good Incentives Lead to Bad Decisions

    readily be reclaimed by investors in the firm who lost money." In a new research paper, coauthored with World Bank economists Martin Kanz and Leora Klapper, Cole explores how various performance... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Banking
    • 30 Mar 2003
    • Research & Ideas

    The Future of IT Consulting

    say, a product firm. Consequently, a product firm may not be attractive to various knowledge workers who prefer to work in the consulting environment. A fourth driver is the demand for process and behavior change that IT implementation... View Details
    Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston; Consulting
    • October 2023 (Revised March 2024)
    • Case

    Fortinet: Cybersecurity Pioneer Ken Xie Considers the Long Game

    By: Tsedal Neeley, Jeff Huizinga and Emily Grandjean
    Ken Xie, cofounder of cybersecurity giant Fortinet, faced a critical decision that would validate his leadership. Fortinet became the industry’s second-largest pureplay cybersecurity firm by developing differentiated hardware and investing in R&D. However, after a... View Details
    Keywords: Leadership Development; Leadership Style; Marketing Strategy; Communication Strategy; Cybersecurity; Competitive Advantage; Information Technology Industry; United States; Sunnyvale
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    • 12 Feb 2018
    • Research & Ideas

    Customers at the Back of the Line Are Anxious—Can You Keep Them from Leaving?

    —Buell explains in a new working paper, “Last Place Aversion in Queues.” "If I can’t look behind me and see someone else is willing to wait longer than me, I start to question whether waiting in line is worthwhile” Buell’s research... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Retail; Service
    • July–August 2017
    • Article

    Why Outlet Stores Exist: Averting Cannibalization in Product Line Extensions

    By: Donald Ngwe
    Outlet stores are a large and growing component of many firms' retailing strategies, particularly in the fashion industry. Outlet stores offer attractive prices in locations far from central shopping districts. The main perspectives on why outlet stores exist can be... View Details
    Keywords: Fashion; Industrial Organization; Outlet Stores; Price Discrimination; Retail; Channel Management; Luxury; Product Marketing; Price; Retail Industry; Fashion Industry
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    • 11 Apr 2012
    • Research & Ideas

    The High Risks of Short-Term Management

    Companies that manage for short-term gain rather than long-term growth have been blamed for everything from popularizing celebrity CEOs to causing a significant chunk of the current financial crisis. Now new research findings suggest that... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services
    • Editorial

    Why ESG Funds Fail to Scale

    By: Gabriel Karageorgiou and George Serafeim
    You’ve seen the headlines about the growth in environmental, social, and governance funds. Many investment professionals might read these and believe that launching a new ESG investment firm or ESG offering will be an automatic success. Our analysis of the data shows... View Details
    Keywords: ESG; ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) Performance; ESG Disclosure; ESG Disclosure Metrics; ESG Ratings; ESG Reporting; Investment Management; Investment Strategy; Investments; Investment Fund; Sustainability; Sustainable Finance; Sustainable Investing; Investment; Management; Strategy; Investment Portfolio; Finance; Growth and Development; Failure
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    • September 2015
    • Technical Note

    FIELD 2: Situation Analysis

    By: Jill Avery
    In this note, we present a method, the 5 C's Analysis, for collecting and analyzing information about the internal and external environments that firms face. This analysis will enable you to develop design ideas for a new product or service for your Global Partner that... View Details
    Keywords: Design Thinking; Innovation; Market Research; Marketing; Customers
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    • 17 Jan 2013
    • News

    Private equity: Shift-Ctrl-Dell

    • Research Summary

    The Value of Family Ownership, Control, and Management

    In collaboration with Professor Raphael Amit of Wharton, Belén Villalonga is investigating how family ownership, control, and management affect firm value. Their forthcoming Journal of Financial... View Details

    • May 2003
    • Case

    Renault-Nissan Alliance, The

    By: Michael Y. Yoshino and Perry Fagan
    On Wednesday, May 29, 2002, the board of directors of Renault-Nissan BV (RNBV) met for the first time to discuss the state of the alliance between Renault SA and Nissan Motors-two of the world's largest automakers. RNBV was a 50/50 joint venture company established in... View Details
    Keywords: Joint Ventures; Global Strategy; Organizational Culture; Alliances; Business or Company Management; Mergers and Acquisitions; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Auto Industry
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