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- September 2020
- Case
Walmart Health: Scaling During a Pandemic
By: Robert S. Huckman, Yoonjin Min and Marissa Thiel
Amidst the onset of COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, Marcus Obsborne, Vice President for Health and Wellness Transformation at Walmart was planning to scale its new health care clinic business, Walmart Health, to additional locations in Georgia and beyond....
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Keywords:
Health Care and Treatment;
Health Pandemics;
Health;
Service Delivery;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Health Industry;
United States;
Arkansas;
Georgia (state, US);
Texas
Huckman, Robert S., Yoonjin Min, and Marissa Thiel. "Walmart Health: Scaling During a Pandemic." Harvard Business School Case 621-061, September 2020.
- 2020
- Working Paper
Why Do Firms Automate Production, and How Do They Adjust? Evidence from the Bell Telephone System over the 20th Century
By: Daniel P. Gross and James J. Feigenbaum
Over the course of the 20th century, AT&T's operating companies replaced telephone operators with mechanical switching and dial telephones. Yet it took AT&T 30 years from the invention of the technology to begin using it, and another 60 years to finish installing it...
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Partners - Case Method Project
Partners Partners AK HI WA OR CA ID NV UT AZ MT WY CO NM ND SD NE KS OK TX MN IA MO AR LA WI IL IN KY TN MS MI OH WV NC AL PA VA SC GA NY NJ MD DC FL VT MA CT DE ME NH RI 1000 teachers across the country See if teachers are already using...
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- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Preparing Global Leaders
Illustration by Davide Bonazzi The importance HBS places on fostering a global perspective among its students, program participants, and faculty members is evident when one looks at the numbers: During the past academic year, 52 percent of HBS cases published were...
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The Not-So-Common-Wealth of Australia: Evidence for a Cross-Cultural Desire for a More Equal Distribution of Wealth.
By: Michael I. Norton, David T. Neal, Cassandra L. Govan, Dan Ariely and Elise Holland
Recent evidence suggests that Americans underestimate wealth inequality in the United States and favor a more equal wealth distribution (Norton & Ariely, 2011). Does this pattern reflect ideological dynamics unique to the United States, or is the phenomenon evident in...
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Norton, Michael I., David T. Neal, Cassandra L. Govan, Dan Ariely, and Elise Holland. "The Not-So-Common-Wealth of Australia: Evidence for a Cross-Cultural Desire for a More Equal Distribution of Wealth." Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy 14, no. 1 (December 2014): 339–351.
- March 2022 (Revised July 2022)
- Case
Climate Action in Miami
The Miami metropolitan area is a global epicenter of climate risk from heat and sea level rise, but leaders have only recently mobilized for action to respond to this systemic challenge. Resilient 305 began a collaboration across officials in the cities of Miami and...
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Keywords:
Climate Change;
Climate Impact;
Change;
Leadership;
Cross-sector Collaboration;
Coalition;
Ecosystem;
Greenhouse Gas Emissions;
Green Business;
Adaptation;
Environmental Sustainability;
Infrastructure;
Green Technology;
Environmental Management;
Miami
Kanter, Rosabeth Moss. "Climate Action in Miami." Harvard Business School Case 322-101, March 2022. (Revised July 2022.)
- Web
Hiring at HBS: How Summer Interns Make an Impact at Bridges Fund Management - Recruiting
and gain a deeper understanding of the projects they are working on. Setting Interns Up for Success In previous iterations of the Bridges MBA internship program, student interns were assigned to a discrete project working View Details
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Student Research - Doctoral
Santiago Gallino and Antonio Moreno The rapid growth of on-demand delivery services, particularly in the food and grocery sectors, has driven the expansion of hyperlocal fulfillment centers (FCs). This paper uses data from an on-demand grocery delivery platform in...
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- April 2013
- Article
The International Politics of IFRS Harmonization
By: Karthik Ramanna
The globalization of accounting standards as seen through the proliferation of IFRS worldwide is one of the most important developments in corporate governance over the last decade. I offer an analysis of some international political dynamics of countries' IFRS...
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Keywords:
Accounting Standards;
IASB;
IFRS;
Politics;
International Accounting;
Globalization;
Standards;
Corporate Governance;
Canada;
China;
India
Ramanna, Karthik. "The International Politics of IFRS Harmonization." Accounting, Economics and Law 3, no. 2 (April 2013): 1–46. (Published in a dedicated issue of the journal together with four discussions, including two by the chairpersons of the national accounting standards bodies of France and Japan.)
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Online Finance & Accounting Courses | HBS Online
never experienced such an immersive platform online. It was more effective at building and solidifying knowledge than some in-person courses I've taken. Ryan Dumlao MBA Candidate Financial Accounting What sets HBS Online apart? Our...
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- 19 Sep 2023
- Research & Ideas
What Chandrayaan-3 Says About India's Entrepreneurial Approach to Space
use is the cheapest in India partly because of the system’s technological underpinnings. We still are a very poor country. It’s encouraging nonetheless that several scientists across several domains have been able to compete and...
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- 22 Feb 2018
- Book
The New History of American Capitalism
global history as a thriving research field, one in which economic issues play a central role. Flows of capital, labor, and science linked developments across oceans; trade bound national economies to one another; and financial...
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Manufacturing
- 25 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Harvard Business School Class of 2021 Student Profiles
the value of HR to people who don’t necessarily understand it.” She decided to pursue an MBA because, “I need to meet people where they are – understanding people’s worlds is the most important thing I need to do.” HOME REGION Memphis,...
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- August 2024
- Case
Lucky Ones Coffee: Employing People with Disabilities
By: Richard S. Ruback, Robin Greenwood, Joe Higgins, Matthew Preble and Dave Habeeb
Katie Holyfield and Taylor Matkins founded The Lucky Ones Coffee in 2017 with a mission to create jobs in Park City, Utah for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. The company quickly earned strong support from the local community, and by early 2023...
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Keywords:
Service Industry;
Tourism Industry;
Retail Industry;
Food and Beverage Industry;
Utah;
United States
Ruback, Richard S., Robin Greenwood, Joe Higgins, Matthew Preble, and Dave Habeeb. "Lucky Ones Coffee: Employing People with Disabilities." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Case 225-702, August 2024.
- February 2005 (Revised April 2006)
- Case
Rx Depot: Importing Drugs from Canada
By: Debora L. Spar
In 2002, a handful of entrepreneurs began to ship drugs from Canada into the United States, taking advantage of regulatory and price differentials across the neighboring countries. Using the Internet and a low-cost network of Canadian pharmacies, firms like Rx Depot...
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Keywords:
Courts and Trials;
Entrepreneurship;
Intellectual Property;
Laws and Statutes;
Pharmaceutical Industry;
Canada;
United States
Spar, Debora L., and Adam Day. "Rx Depot: Importing Drugs from Canada." Harvard Business School Case 705-010, February 2005. (Revised April 2006.)
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Organizational Behavior Curriculum - Faculty & Research
Organizational Behavior Overview Faculty Curriculum Seminars & Conferences Awards & Honors Doctoral Students MBA Required Curriculum (FIRST YEAR) Leadership and Organizational Behavior (LEAD) This course focuses on how managers become...
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- June 2020
- Teaching Note
Global Brand Management of Anheuser Busch InBev's Budweiser
By: Jill Avery
Brian Perkins, chief architect of the $6 billion Budweiser brand, was excited about 2018, in which the company would launch Budweiser into several new markets in Africa and Latin America. He was feeling the pressure to finalize a global brand strategy that would define...
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- 16 Feb 2023
- HBS Case
ESG Activists Met the Moment at ExxonMobil, But Did They Succeed?
The impact-investment hedge fund Engine No. 1 made a big splash in May 2021 when it managed to get three nominees elected to the ExxonMobil board of directors. It was an open effort to prod the oil giant toward renewable energy and test whether activist investing could...
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By: William C. Kirby
A historian by training, Professor Kirby examines contemporary China's business, economic, and political development in an international context. He writes and teaches on the growth of modern companies in China (Chinese and foreign; state-owned and private); Chinese...
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Keywords:
China;
Internationalization;
Educational Policy And Politics;
Infrastructure;
Government And Business;
The Revival Of Family Business In China;
China’s Infrastructure Exports: The ‘Belt And Road’ Initiative;
Agribusiness;
Education;
Entrepreneurship;
Globalization;
Governance;
Government and Politics;
History;
Philanthropy and Charitable Giving;
Social Enterprise;
Auto Industry;
Education Industry;
Food and Beverage Industry;
Health Industry;
Semiconductor Industry;
Asia;
Europe;
North and Central America
- August 2021 (Revised April 2022)
- Case
KKR
By: Jo Tango and Alys Ferragamo
In June of 2021, KKR’s executive team convened to prepare for an upcoming board meeting. From a small, three-person partnership that started in 1976 and invested only in U.S. LBOs, the firm 45 years later was a public company that employed over 1,600 people and managed...
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