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Motivated Inferences of Price and Quality in Healthcare Decisions

By: Emily Prinsloo, Kate Barasz and Peter A. Ubel
Policy makers have increasingly advocated for healthcare price transparency, whereby prices are made salient before services are rendered. While such policies may empower consumers, they also bring price to the forefront of healthcare choices as never before, with yet... View Details
Keywords: Healthcare; Price Transparency; Health Care and Treatment; Price; Quality; Perception; Consumer Behavior; Decisions; Insurance
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  • February 2010 (Revised October 2010)
  • Case

Re-THINK-ing THINK: The Electric Car Company

By: Joseph B. Lassiter III and David Kiron
On January 5, 2010, 48-year-old Richard Canny was on his way to meet the governor of Indiana. He was reading his newly issued press release announcing that THINK planned to start automobile production in Elkhart County, Indiana to launch its THINK City battery-operated... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Investment; Global Strategy; Market Entry and Exit; Product Development; Production; Pollutants; Environmental Sustainability; Auto Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Norway; Indiana
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  • 2007
  • Chapter

Microeconomic Determinants of Location Competitiveness for MNEs

By: Christian H.M. Ketels
The concept of microeconomic competitiveness based on the frameworks developed by Michael Porter since 1990 are popular with policy makers interested in improving the attractiveness and economic performance of their countries and regions. This concept also has many... View Details
Keywords: Microeconomics; Geographic Location; Multinational Firms and Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Competition
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  • July/September 2005
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Le consensus de Paris: la France et les règles de la finance mondiale

By: Rawi Abdelal
This article is about the institutional foundations of the globalization of finance. These institutional foundations are both informal and formal. Until the 1980s the formal rules of the international financial architecture – most consequentially in the European Union... View Details
Keywords: Policy; International Finance; Globalization; France; European Union
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  • August 2011 (Revised November 2011)
  • Case

The U.S. Military Academy at West Point

By: Anat Keinan
The case examines an iconic institution's decision on whether or not to undertake a branding initiative. Founded in 1802, West Point has played a key role in America's history. It is one of the nation's oldest institutions of higher learning and is well known for... View Details
Keywords: Surveys; Resource Allocation; Brands and Branding; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Competitive Strategy; Education Industry; United States
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  • 10 Feb 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Commodity Busters: Be a Price Maker, Not a Price Taker

with beating Microsoft. His battle was futile. He left the company as Novell began a long downward slide. The fighter pilot mentality of several U.S. airlines led to a price war in which billions of dollars were lost. Even in small protected niche View Details
Keywords: by Benson P. Shapiro
  • 21 Jul 2015
  • First Look

First Look: July 21, 2015

professionals can make and investments that only the firm can make, while at the same time minimizing distortions in decisions that either party could make (e.g., promotion and marketing of professionals' services, price setting, choice... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Mar 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Incubators: The New Venture Capitalists?

you're ahead at that point. "So at the end of the day, can you play market maker, can Cambridge Incubator and Lycos and Intend Change play market maker for you by getting... View Details
Keywords: by Kenneth Liss
  • 01 Dec 2015
  • First Look

December 1, 2015

provide experimental evidence on the choices made by decision makers in such settings. Equilibrium assumptions that are commonly applied to analyze these situations yield the least cost separating outcome as the unique equilibrium. In... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • May 2004 (Revised April 2006)
  • Case

Ultra: The Quest for Leadership (A)

By: Dwight B. Crane and Ricardo Reisen de Pinho
Ultra is one of a small group of competing Brazilian petrochemical companies, each of which buys raw material and is a minority owner of Copene, a "cracking" company that provides ethylene and other materials. Because of an industry restructuring, an auction of shares... View Details
Keywords: Capital; Capital Budgeting; Investment; Risk and Uncertainty; Risk Management; Industry Structures; Cash Flow; Cost of Capital; Valuation; Bids and Bidding; Economy; Ownership Stake; Chemical Industry; Brazil
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Faculty & Advisors | MBA

Technology Chris leads MPM Capital’s public market investing as portfolio manager for BioImpact Equities (formerly known as Burrage Capital) and the Oncology Impact Funds. Previously, Chris was a health care analyst at Fidelity... View Details
  • 2008
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Industrial Specialization and Regional Clusters in the Ten New EU Member States

By: Orjan Solvell, Christian H.M. Ketels and Goran Lindqvist
Purpose—The purpose of this paper is to provide an analysis of regional concentration patterns within ten new European Union (EU) member states, EU10, and make comparisons with EU15 and the US economy.
Design/methodology/approach—Industrial... View Details
Keywords: Geographic Location; Policy; Employment; Industry Clusters; Industry Structures; European Union; United States
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  • Research Summary

Overview

Having grown up in a developing country, Professor Sikochi’s research focus is driven by a desire to understand how capital flows to firms and entrepreneurs with the ultimate goal to help build capital markets in the developing economies. To this end, he conducts... View Details

  • Mar 2012
  • Article

Shattering the Myths About U.S. Trade Policy

A free and fair global trading system can result in economic win-wins. Open borders allow companies to grow in foreign markets and, simultaneously, ensure that businesses remain competitive at home. That’s why U.S. policy View Details
  • 16 Aug 2011
  • Working Paper Summaries

Managing Political Risk in Global Business: Beiersdorf 1914-1990

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Christina Lubinski; Beauty & Cosmetics
  • 05 Dec 2013
  • Op-Ed

Encourage Breakthrough Health Care by Competing on Products Rather Than Patents

Like many people interested in the tangled connections between health care progress and intellectual property rights, I avidly followed the Myriad Genetics case, decided by the Supreme Court this June 13. In sum, molecular diagnostics View Details
Keywords: by Richard G. Hamermesh; Biotechnology; Health
  • 08 Mar 2016
  • First Look

March 8, 2016

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50668 forthcoming Journal of Marketing Research Design of Search Engine Services: Channel Interdependence in Search Engine Results By: Edelman, Benjamin, and Zhenyu Lai Abstract—The authors... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Feb 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: February 7

unknown entrepreneurs in markets where he saw great potential. Unlike other venture capitalists of the time that focused on finding outstanding entrepreneurs or groundbreaking technology, Valentine took a different approach. He focused... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Oct 2006
  • Research & Ideas

The Success of Reverse Leveraged Buyouts

business press and savvy business experts such Warren Buffett. It didn’t help when one of the most publicized RLBOs—Refco—collapsed in 2005 shortly after its initial public offering. And on September 21, a 70-million share offering for drug View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Banking; Financial Services
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Courses - Entrepreneurship

how executives should approach making critical decisions during the different phases of an entrepreneurial company's life. Starting from the vantage point of the individual , we will put ourselves in the shoes of decision makers ranging... View Details