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20 Jan 2023
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Free Spirits

choice, now that startups like Tilden and the titans of the beverage industry are taking a fresh look at what a NA beverage can be and making use of new innovations in brewing technology. Low-alcohol beer has been around as long as humans... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality

07 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

What Customers Need to Hear from You During the COVID Crisis

consumers; 71 percent of those surveyed promised that brands and companies that placed their profits before people during the crisis would lose their trust forever. How can brands help during a crisis? Educate the public by transforming... View Details

Keywords: by Jill Avery and Richard Edelman

September 2013 (Revised August 2015)
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Leadership and Teaming

By: Ethan Bernstein

Small differences in the leadership of teams can have large consequences for the success of their efforts. Many initiatives fail not because of a fatal error in judgment or insufficient ideas, knowledge, motivation, or capabilities to deliver a solution. They fail... View Details

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April 2023
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Performance on Patient Experience Measures of Former Chief Medical Residents as Physician Exemplars Chosen by the Profession

By: Lucy Chen and J. Michael McWilliams

OBJECTIVE To compare care for patients of primary care physicians (PCPs) who were former chiefs with care for patients of nonchief PCPs.

DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS Using 2010 to 2018 Medicare Fee-For-Service Consumer Assessment of Healthcare... View Details

Keywords: Performance Evaluation; Forecasting and Prediction; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Competency and Skills; Surveys; Health Industry

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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

now, and how will they use their power? Will we see bigger bets on likely blockbusters, more intense competition in areas such as streaming and esports, and more industry consolidation? Drawing on dozens of recent case studies, Professor... View Details

02 Jul 2013
First Look

First Look: July 2

capture important information seemingly ignored by the market. A long-short portfolio based on these legislators' views earns abnormal returns of over 90 basis points per month following the passage of legislation. Industries that we... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

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Mastering Strategy Execution

By: Robert Simons

Professor Robert Simons’ research encompasses three areas of management accountability that are the foundation for successful strategy execution: organization design, performance measurement and control, and risk management. In addition, Simons is interested in the... View Details

January 2016
Case

Haiti Hope: Innovating the Mango Value Chain

By: Amy C. Edmondson and Jean-François Harvey

This case study examines a market-based approach to economic development through the eyes of NGO TechnoServe's project manager, implementing a US$9.5 million five-year public-private partnership between Coca-Cola, IDB, and USAID. The case ends at the beginning of the... View Details

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01 Sep 2012
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An Intellectual Capital: Some Influential HBS Ideas, at a Glance

1911 HBS establishes the Bureau of Business Research to write cases. 1922 Founding of Harvard Business Review (HBR). 1930s Elton Mayo and Fritz Roethlisberger conduct pioneering studies establishing the importance of field-based View Details

Keywords: Professor Elton Mayo: Professor Fritz Roethlisberger; George M. Moffett Professor of Agriculture and Business, Professor Emeritus Ray A. Goldberg; Professor Abraham Zaleznik; Professor Alfred Chandler; Professor Michael Porter; Professor Robert S. Kaplan; Professor Michael C. Jensen; Professor C. Roland Christensen; Professor Robert Menton; Educational Services; Educational Services

09 Mar 2016
Lessons from the Classroom

In This Classroom, Beer Can Improve Your Grade

combined into one “industry” in which those teams compete, independent from the other industry groupings. With each round, teams can see how they’re faring and how their rivals are performing, altering their path as needed. The game... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Education; Education

25 Feb 2015
Lessons from the Classroom

Scholars and Students Unpack the Digital Business Revolution

would be a hierarchical, top-down model like venture capital," he says. Companies like Kickstarter-a crowdfunding site that anyone can access and participate in—have changed that view. An additional course focus is digital transformation, or how companies across... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education; Education

November 1979 (Revised May 1993)
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Davis Graduate School

By: Regina E. Herzlinger

Keywords: Business Education; Higher Education; Education Industry

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01 Mar 2004
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Drug Imports a Hot Topic at Alumni Health-Care Conference

FDA Commissioner Mark B. McClellan doesn’t approve of Americans buying low-cost prescription drugs from Canada or over the Internet. But he understands what drives them to do so. At the HBS Health Industry Alumni Association’s fourth... View Details

Keywords: Educational Services; Educational Services

01 Apr 2001
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Professor Thomas Kennedy Remembered

of Tom’s classes could ever forget him.” Kennedy developed an expertise in international labor relations while teaching from 1976 to 1978 in an Executive Education program then offered by HBS in Switzerland. He also participated in... View Details

Keywords: Educational Services; Educational Services