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- 2012
- Article
The Architecture of Transaction Networks: A Comparative Analysis of Hierarchy in Two Sectors
By: Jianxi Luo, Carliss Y. Baldwin, Daniel E. Whitney and Christopher L. Magee
Many products are manufactured in networks of firms linked by transactions, but comparatively little is known about how or why such transaction networks differ. This article investigates the transaction networks of two large sectors in Japan at a single point in time.... View Details
Keywords: Transactions; Hierarchy; Industry Architecture; Innovation; Networks; Market Transactions; Vertical Integration; Industry Structures; Innovation and Invention; Auto Industry; Electronics Industry; Japan
Luo, Jianxi, Carliss Y. Baldwin, Daniel E. Whitney, and Christopher L. Magee. "The Architecture of Transaction Networks: A Comparative Analysis of Hierarchy in Two Sectors." Industrial and Corporate Change 21, no. 6 (December 2012): 1307–1335.
- 2011
- Other Unpublished Work
Innovation and Regulative Ambiguities in the U.S. Geothermal Power Sector
By: Shon R. Hiatt
While prior institutional research has focused on institutional ambiguity as an exogenous condition under which organizations exercise agency, this study examines the state's exercise of agency in making legal institutions more or less ambiguous and its impact on... View Details
- Jul 2005 - 2005
- Conference Presentation
Implementing Public Sector Reforms: The Role of Institutional Entrepreneurs
By: Julie Battilana
- 2002
- Chapter
Cross Sector Collaboration: Lessons from the International Trachoma Initiative
By: Diana Barrett, James E. Austin and Sheila McCarthy
Keywords: Health Disorders; Health Care and Treatment; Public Sector; Private Sector; Business and Government Relations; International Relations; Health Industry
Barrett, Diana, James E. Austin, and Sheila McCarthy. "Cross Sector Collaboration: Lessons from the International Trachoma Initiative." In Public-Private Partnerships for Public Health, edited by Michael R. Reich.Harvard Series on Population and International Health. Harvard University Press, 2002.
- 2024
- Working Paper
Deregulation, Market Power, and Prices: Evidence from the Electricity Sector
By: Alexander MacKay and Ignacia Mercadal
We construct a novel dataset on electricity generation, wholesale transactions, and retail
sales to assess the shift from cost-of-service regulation to deregulated, market-based prices
in the context of the U.S. electricity sector. Consistent with earlier studies, we... View Details
Keywords: Deregulation; Market Power; Markups; Prices; Electricity; Energy; Markets; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Price; Utilities Industry
MacKay, Alexander, and Ignacia Mercadal. "Do Markets Reduce Prices? Evidence from the Electricity Sector." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-095, February 2021. (Revised March 2024. Direct download.)
- 04 Feb 2015
- News
Staples, top rival agree to unite as sector convulses
- 07 Jan 2016
- News
Mass. Launches Partnership Aimed At Boosting Digital Health Sector
- 15 Nov 2016
- News
Transferring Skills From The Military to the Private Sector
Rebecca Greenbaum (photo by Ann Hermes) Rebecca Greenbaum (photo by Ann Hermes) It was the “opportunity to be part of something bigger than myself” that drew Rebecca Greenbaum (MBA 2017) to the US Naval Academy. After graduating and earning a master’s degree, her early... View Details
- Article
Building and Valuing Brands in the Nonprofit Sector
By: Nathalie Laidler-Kylander, John A. Quelch and Bernard L. Simonin
Laidler-Kylander, Nathalie, John A. Quelch, and Bernard L. Simonin. "Building and Valuing Brands in the Nonprofit Sector." Nonprofit Management & Leadership 17, no. 3 (Spring 2007): 253–277.
- 29 May 2006
- What Do You Think?
How Important Is the “Service Sector Effect” on Productivity?
Summing Up Do increases in social sector productivity, which seem to prevail at least in the U.S., benefit consumers at the expense of workers? Or is the scale weighted in favor of the latter who may benefit two ways, in terms of both an... View Details
- May 2004
- Article
A Few First Principles for a Booming Third Sector
By: James E. Austin
Keywords: Finance
Austin, James E. "A Few First Principles for a Booming Third Sector." Times Higher Education Supplement (May 2004).
- 13 May 2011
- News
Do politicians use public sector banks to win elections?
- May–June 1999
- Article
The Social Sector as Beta Site for Business Innovation
By: R. M. Kanter
Kanter, R. M. "The Social Sector as Beta Site for Business Innovation." Harvard Business Review 77, no. 3 (May–June 1999).
- 13 Aug 2014
- News
NFIB: Small Business Sector Unable to 'Pull its Weight'
- 25 Aug 2013
- News
El impacto del ahorro en los sectores más vulnerables
- August 2003 (Revised August 2006)
- Case
New Sector Alliance (A): An Entry into Health Care?
By: Regina E. Herzlinger, Stacy Smollin Schwartz and Jeffrey Cronin
Describes the structure of the U.S. health care system and presents a study of a nonprofit consulting firm that hopes to enter the health care system. Includes descriptions of hospitals, doctors, insurers, medical technology providers, medical devices, pharmaceuticals,... View Details
Keywords: Health; Health Care and Treatment; Health Disorders; Nonprofit Organizations; Health Industry; United States
Herzlinger, Regina E., Stacy Smollin Schwartz, and Jeffrey Cronin. "New Sector Alliance (A): An Entry into Health Care?" Harvard Business School Case 304-004, August 2003. (Revised August 2006.)
- December 1978 (Revised January 1979)
- Background Note
Note on Technological Change in Telecommunications: An Emerging Sector
Graham, Margaret B.W. "Note on Technological Change in Telecommunications: An Emerging Sector." Harvard Business School Background Note 679-067, December 1978. (Revised January 1979.)
- August 2003 (Revised September 2008)
- Background Note
Note on Financing of the U.S. Health Care Sector
By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Jeff Grahling
This course describes the public and private sources of financing of the U.S. health-care sector,and identifies the characteristics of insurance policies, their costs, the structure of the insurance industry, and the role of consultants and brokers. The insurance... View Details
Keywords: Economic Sectors; Financing and Loans; Insurance; Industry Structures; Health Industry; Insurance Industry; United States
Herzlinger, Regina E., and Jeff Grahling. "Note on Financing of the U.S. Health Care Sector." Harvard Business School Background Note 304-039, August 2003. (Revised September 2008.)