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  • November 2008 (Revised March 2009)
  • Case

South Pole Carbon Asset Management-Going for Gold?

By: Forest L. Reinhardt, Jost Hamschmidt and Mikell Hyman
In late 2008, Christoph Sutter, CEO of South Pole Carbon Asset Management, reflects on his firm's early success at originating carbon credits in developing nations and selling them to governments and firms that seek to offset their greenhouse gas emissions voluntarily... View Details
Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Non-Renewable Energy; Entrepreneurship; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Environmental Sustainability; Corporate Strategy
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  • December 2009
  • Article

Restructuring Within an Academic Health Center to Support Quality and Safety: The Development of the Center for Quality and Safety at the Massachusetts General Hospital

By: Richard Bohmer, Jonathan David Bloom, Elizabeth Mort MD, Akinluwa Demehin and Gregg Meyer MD
Recent focus on the need to improve the quality and safety of health care has created new challenges for academic health centers (AHCs). Whereas previously quality was largely assumed, today it is increasingly quantifiable and requires organized systems for... View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Organizational Design; Performance Improvement; Quality; Safety; Massachusetts
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    John A. Quelch

    John A. Quelch is Executive Vice Chancellor and Distinguished Professor of Social Science at Duke Kunshan University. He is also John DeButts Professor at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business.  Between 2017 and 2023 he was the Leonard M. Miller University... View Details

    Keywords: advertising; broadcasting; consumer products; e-commerce industry; fashion; fast food; federal government; financial services; food; food processing; health care; high technology; marketing industry; media
    • 12 Sep 2006
    • First Look

    First Look: September 12, 2006

    through successive stages of industry evolution. We then show how this strategy was used by Sun Microsystems against Apollo Computer in the 1980s and by Dell against Compaq and other personal computer makers in the 1990s. Download working paper:... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • October 2008 (Revised October 2009)
    • Case

    New Century Financial Corporation

    By: Krishna G. Palepu, Suraj Srinivasan and Aldo Sesia
    After years of rapid growth and stock price appreciation, New Century Financial Corporation, one of the largest subprime loan originators in the U.S., reported accounting problems in early 2007. The resulting liquidity crisis forced the company to file for Chapter 11... View Details
    Keywords: Accounting Audits; Financial Reporting; Business Model; Financial Crisis; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Mortgages; Financial Services Industry; United States
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    • 31 May 2023
    • Video

    Martine Rothblatt: Making Implausible Dreams Reality

    • 13 Mar 2018
    • First Look

    March 13, 2018

    https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54087 February 2018 Management Science Patent Publication and the Market for Ideas By: Hegde, Deepak, and Hong Luo Abstract—In this paper, we study the effect of invention disclosure through... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 15 Jun 2020
    • Research & Ideas

    A Mass Crisis Can Overwhelm Health Care. Liberia Found a Solution.

    If one thing has been made clear by the COVID-19 pandemic, it is this: The health care system in the United States (and most other nations) is not set up to respond to a large-scale medical emergency that affects tens of thousands of citizens simultaneously. But there... View Details
    Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Health
    • 27 Mar 2018
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research, March 27, 2018

    Abstract—We investigate whether top managers affect the performance of large public sector organizations. As our case study we examine CEOs of English public hospitals, which are large, complex organizations... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 21 Oct 2014
    • First Look

    First Look: October 21

    sustainability solutions to a range of client organizations. Megaprojects are finite-duration initiatives involving multiple diverse entities in the design and delivery of a large-scale development, such as a brand new ecologically sustainable city. Drawing on four... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

      Stephen P. Bradley

      Professor Bradley is the William Ziegler Professor of Business Administration Emeritus at the Harvard Business School. In addition to teaching Management and Strategy in the Owner President Management Program and leading an... View Details

      Keywords: e-commerce industry; financial services; health care; high technology; internet; pharmaceuticals; telecommunications
      • 25 Jul 2007
      • Lessons from the Classroom

      The Evolution of Apple

      In the context of the computer industry at large, professor David Yoffie explores the ups and downs of a company that's always been a bit different in "Apple Computer, 2006." The case poses this question: Given its 2 percent... View Details
      Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Computer; Technology

        Joseph L. Bower

        JOSEPH L. BOWER, Donald K. David Professor Emeritus, has been a leader in general management at Harvard Business School for 51 years. He also served on the faculty of the Harvard Kennedy School during its first decade.  He has served in many administrative roles... View Details

        Keywords: banking; chemical; electronics; financial services; home appliances; hotels ＆ motels; information technology industry; insurance industry; private equity (LBO funds); retailing
        • 08 Aug 2006
        • First Look

        First Look: August 8, 2006

        source of inferences about and precursors to perceived justice. The study offers implications for the management of queues as well as other artifacts.   Cases & Course MaterialsChoicePoint (A) Harvard... View Details
        Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
        • Research Summary

        Integrating: A managerial practice that enables implementation in fragmented healthcare environments [Under Review]

        In this paper with Michaela Kerrisey, Sara Singer, Nicholas Leydon, and Gordon Schiff, we identify the factors that enabled primary care clinics to overcome implementation barriers and explain how clinic managers can integrate those factors across roles. Our... View Details

        • Article

        Operations Research in the Public Sector and Nonprofit Organizations

        By: Zilla Sinuany-Stern and H. David Sherman
        Public sector and nonprofit organizations (NPO) have been growing substantially in number and size since the turn of the millennium. In light of the ongoing economic crises these sectors are expected to grow even more with expanded demands for services, increased need... View Details
        Keywords: Third Sector; Operations; Public Sector; Nonprofit Organizations
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        • 15 Apr 2008
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        First Look: April 15, 2008

          Working PapersOrganizational Design and Control across Multiple Markets: The Case of Franchising in the Convenience Store Industry Authors:Dennis Campbell, Srikant M. Datar, and Tatiana Sandino Abstract Many companies operate units... View Details
        Keywords: Martha Lagace
        • January 2014
        • Article

        China's 'New Regionalism': Subnational Analysis in Chinese Political Economy

        By: Meg Rithmire
        The study of Chinese political economy has undergone a sea change since the late 1990s; instead of debating the origins and direction of national reform, scholars have turned to examining the origins of local economic variation. This essay reviews recent work in... View Details
        Keywords: China; Political Economy; Economy; Government and Politics; China
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        • 16 Oct 2007
        • First Look

        First Look: October 16, 2007

        disclosed by a social rating agency, we find empirical evidence that supports our hypotheses. We present implications for theory and public policy. Download paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-025.pdf   Cases & Course... View Details
        Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
        • 04 Jun 2013
        • First Look

        First Look: June 4

        Emotional Benefits of Prosocial Spending By: Aknin, Lara B., Elizabeth W. Dunn, Ashley V. Whillans, Adam M. Grant, and Michael I. Norton Abstract—When does giving lead to happiness? Here, we present two studies demonstrating that the... View Details
        Keywords: Sean Silverthorne