Publications

30 Oct 2015
News

DraftKings raised $200m in investments in summer

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Leadership Execution and Action Planning (LEAP) - Course Catalog

range of organizational challenges. While traditional leadership courses contemplate “what” is leadership, LEAP focuses on “how” leaders must take action at critical moments to shape their organizations and... View Details

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Porter Prize South Korea - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

of shared value by recognizing creative economic and social problem-solving. Public and private sector View Details

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Advanced Negotiation: Great Dealmakers, Diplomats, and Deals - Course Catalog

insights from private sector dealmaking inform public and not-for-profit sector negotiations and vice versa. The objective of this approach is to... View Details

March 2024
Case

ixigo

By: Ranjay Gulati and Rachna Tahilyani

Ixigo is India’s second-largest online travel aggregator (OTA) and the market leader among private train OTAs. It has overcome numerous near-death crises to emerge as a customer-centric, profitable firm. It aspires to become the leading OTA in the next billion Internet... View Details

Keywords: Initial Public Offering; Profit; Growth and Development; Product Positioning; Travel Industry; India

April 2021
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Glass-Shattering Leaders: Barbara Hackman Franklin

By: Boris Groysberg and Colleen Ammerman

Barbara Hackman Franklin was one of the first women to earn an MBA from Harvard Business School. She went on to break barriers in the private and public sectors, rising to leadership positions in business and government. In the 1970s, she led a successful White House... View Details

Keywords: Glass Ceiling; Leadership; Gender; Power and Influence

Jason Pananos is a Senior Lecturer of Business Administration in the Finance Department. Jason currently teaches and was the co-creator of a second-year field course titled “Value Creation in Small and Medium Firms”. Jason is also an active collaborator and guest... View Details

20 Feb 2019
Blog Post

Part 1: Military Transition and the JD/MBA - Setting Career Goals

programs offered by organizations like the COMMIT Foundation (full disclosure: I volunteer with COMMIT) and many private sector companies through which you can get exposed to... View Details

01 Aug 2018
What Do You Think?

Are Free Trade and Free Markets Quaint Ideas From the Past?

pressures from globalization have very different outcomes in terms of, say, income and wage inequality.” This suggests, he continued, that domestic social and political choices View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

10 Nov 2014
HBS Case

How Restaurants in Lima and Copenhagen Became Best in the World

year. Just as much a cultural pioneer, Peruvian Gastón Acurio and his wife founded upscale restaurant Astrid & Gastón in Lima 20 years ago, and has since spread their dining empire. Now consisting of 32... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Food & Beverage

24 Aug 2016
Research & Ideas

Can Obamacare Be Saved?

merger between Aetna and Humana, two of the largest health insurers in the United States. The 838,000 consumers who were insured by Aetna exchange plans in 2016 will be forced to select other public exchange... View Details

Keywords: by John A. Quelch and Emily Boudreau; Insurance; Health

20 Feb 2013
Research & Ideas

Big Deal: Reflections on the Megamerger of American and US Airways

privately or in multiple non-bankruptcy courts. The American-US Airways deal is part of American's plan of reorganization and will have to be approved by its creditors and... View Details

Keywords: Re: Rosabeth M. Kanter & Stuart C. Gilson; Air Transportation

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The Global Health Delivery Project - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

faculty to join the private community on GHDonline to discuss case-based global health delivery education. Research: Research cases explore the impact of global health initiatives on national health systems with commissions from the World... View Details

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A historical study of the international NGO industry in the US

This project, joint with Eric Werker, aims to build a new dataset on government-funded NGOs with overseas programs to understand the development, funding, and goals of these organizations as well as their interactions with the private sector. View Details

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Challenges and Opportunities in the Restaurant Industry - Course Catalog

an important source of employment: the industry is the 2nd largest private employer in the US, employing over 15 million people in 2023, with over 60% of adults and 70% of millennials in the US having worked... View Details

April 2019 (Revised June 2019)
Case

Ariadne Labs: Building Impactful Partnerships

By: Ariel D. Stern and Sarah Mehta

In September 2018, the executive team at Ariadne Labs (Ariadne), a Boston-based organization dedicated to improving health systems through the discovery and implementation of simple tools, faced a number of strategic decisions. Chief among them, the seven-year-old... View Details

Keywords: Health; Health Care and Treatment; Innovation and Invention; Social Enterprise; Nonprofit Organizations; Partners and Partnerships; Health Industry; Boston

Bob White is a Senior Lecturer in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at the Harvard Business School where he teaches courses in the MBA program (Required and Elective curricula) and the Executive Education program. Courses taught include Entrepreneurial... View Details

December 2007 (Revised January 2008)
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Transforming Arizona's Health Care System: Developing and Implementing the Health-e Connection Roadmap

By: Lynda M. Applegate, Ajay Vinze, T.S. Raghu and Minu Ipe

Addresses the issues of leadership and change management in the process of transforming an industry through an innovative public-private partnership approach to policy making. In 2005, the Governor of Arizona issued an Executive Order to create a roadmap for the state... View Details

Keywords: Change Management; Transformation; Private Sector; Public Sector; Health Care and Treatment; Service Delivery; Partners and Partnerships; Information Technology; Health Industry; Service Industry