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  • September 2008 (Revised September 2010)
  • Case

Ithmar Capital

By: Josh Lerner and Ann Leamon
The founders of Ithmar Capital, a mid-market private equity fund targeting businesses in and addressing the Gulf Co-operation Council countries, are about to raise their third fund, targeting $1 billion. The firm's current strategy as demonstrated in Funds I ($70... View Details
Keywords: Private Equity; Financial Management; Investment Funds; Investment Portfolio; Financial Services Industry
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Lerner, Josh, and Ann Leamon. "Ithmar Capital." Harvard Business School Case 809-032, September 2008. (Revised September 2010.)
  • 11 May 2009
  • Research & Ideas

The IT Leader’s Hero Quest

procedures?" "Such as they are." This confused Barton. He'd heard, time and time again, about the call lists and emergency procedures that assured business continuity in a crisis. "What do you mean, 'Such as they... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 03 Dec 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Cut Payroll Costs with Transparency, Fairness, and Compassion

a 20 percent reduction. After it was forced to close many of its stores, Columbia Sportwear’s CEO Tim Boyle announced he would reduce his compensation to $10,000 (from $3 million compensation in 2018). Other employees would continue to be... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott
  • 30 Oct 2012
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First Look: October 30

the challenges of staying competitive and profitable in the new and increasingly digital media landscape. Purchase this case:http://hbr.org/search/713423-PDF-ENG Reconfiguring Stroke Care in North Central London Michael E. Porter, James... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Apr 2022
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How to Avoid the 'Ethical Slide' That Leads Companies Astray

Good ethical practices don’t just happen; everyone within a corporation has to continuously work on them. “People are not always comfortable talking about ethics,” Nelson says. “Some have been dismissing ethics as, ‘I don’t have to think... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert

    Robert S. Kaplan

    Robert S. Kaplan is Senior Fellow and Marvin Bower Professor of Leadership Development, Emeritus at the Harvard Business School. He joined the HBS faculty in 1984 after spending 16 years on the faculty of the business school at Carnegie-Mellon University, where he... View Details

    Keywords: health care; health care
    • spring 1991
    • Article

    Breaking the Cycle of Failure in Services

    By: Leonard A. Schlesinger and James Heskett
    Most managers recognize that good service is a direct result of having effective, productive people in customer contact positions. However, most service companies perpetuate a cycle of failure by tolerating high turnover and expecting employee dissatisfaction. This... View Details
    Keywords: Goals and Objectives; Service Delivery; Success; Failure; Management Skills; Service Industry
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    Schlesinger, Leonard A., and James Heskett. "Breaking the Cycle of Failure in Services." MIT Sloan Management Review 32, no. 3 (spring 1991): 17–28.
    • April 2018 (Revised January 2019)
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    WeWork

    By: Jeffrey F. Rayport, Sarah Gulick and Matthew G. Preble
    WeWork co-founder Miguel McKelvey was concerned about the culture of his rapidly expanding global venture. In particular, he wanted to ensure that WeWork continued to be a great place to work, both because he cared about WeWork's people and because a better work... View Details
    Keywords: Organizational Culture; Employee Relationship Management; Working Conditions
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    Rayport, Jeffrey F., Sarah Gulick, and Matthew G. Preble. "WeWork." Harvard Business School Case 818-101, April 2018. (Revised January 2019.)
    • 31 Mar 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    Can a ‘Basic Bundle’ of Health Insurance Cure Coverage Gaps and Spur Innovation?

    continuing to address health insurance problems piecemeal will only create further fractures. The US needs to work on fostering “universal access to innovative care in an affordable system,” they say. You... View Details
    Keywords: by Kasandra Brabaw; Insurance; Health
    • 11 Jan 2022
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    Feeling Seen: What to Say When Your Employees Are Not OK

    trust,” Yu says, “because if there is an expectation, especially that the leader is supposed to take care of their employees, and this is such a difficult time, staying silent can be harmful.” [Image: iStockphoto/Rattankun Thongbun]... View Details
    Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
    • June 2024
    • Case

    Aidoc: Building a Hospital-Centric AI Platform

    By: Ariel D. Stern and Susan Pinckney
    In 2023, Israel-based AI health care company Aidoc evaluated its future. The company, founded in 2016, had grown from commercializing a single AI product for radiologists to a software platform that could detect 20 conditions and immediately notify care teams of... View Details
    Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; Business Organization; Business Startups; Disruption; Cost vs Benefits; Decision Choices and Conditions; Decisions; Private Sector; Entrepreneurial Finance; Global Range; Global Strategy; Globalized Markets and Industries; Governance Compliance; Governance Controls; Governing and Advisory Boards; Policy; Medical Specialties; AI and Machine Learning; Digital Platforms; Digital Transformation; Technology Adoption; Disruptive Innovation; Innovation and Management; Innovation Strategy; Laws and Statutes; Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Distribution; Product Development; Success; Performance Efficiency; Strategic Planning; Research and Development; Risk and Uncertainty; Business Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Value Creation; Health Industry; Israel
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    Stern, Ariel D., and Susan Pinckney. "Aidoc: Building a Hospital-Centric AI Platform." Harvard Business School Case 624-046, June 2024.
    • 04 Jun 2024
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    Navigating Consumer Data Privacy in an AI World

    advocate for what they want, often under scrutiny from their peers. You also have citizen groups piping up, cautioning, "Hey, let's be careful about that." Eventually, the government steps in, saying, "We'll chat with big tech to make... View Details
    Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Technology; Information Technology
    • August 14, 2020
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    How Has COVID-19 Affected Health Insurance Offered by Small Businesses in the U.S.? Early Evidence from a Survey

    By: Leemore S. Dafny, Yin Wei Soon, Zoë Cullen and Christopher T. Stanton
    As the COVID-19 pandemic stretches toward its third quarter, loss of health insurance coverage has not figured prominently in the public debate. Data in this report demonstrate why that is, but also suggest that the apparent stability is fragile, with potentially... View Details
    Keywords: Health Pandemics; Health Care and Treatment; Insurance; Small Business; Surveys; United States
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    Dafny, Leemore S., Yin Wei Soon, Zoë Cullen, and Christopher T. Stanton. "How Has COVID-19 Affected Health Insurance Offered by Small Businesses in the U.S.? Early Evidence from a Survey." NEJM Catalyst (August 14, 2020). (Commentary.)
    • 16 Jul 2008
    • Op-Ed

    What Should Employers Do about Health Care?

    ignored health care altogether, leaving it to government or dutifully paying their mandated health contributions. Many U.S. employers are dropping health benefits or hoping for reforms that will transfer responsibility for health... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael E. Porter, Elizabeth O. Teisberg & Scott Wallace; Health
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    Luc Sirois

    The health care industry needs so much improvement, it will take a whole movement to fix it. “The more leaders, the better,” says Luc Sirois (MBA 1997), who sees progress coming not through a single organization, but rather from groups of... View Details
    Keywords: Health Care; Health Care; Health Care
    • 17 Jun 2019
    • Research & Ideas

    What Hospitals Must Learn to Compete

    Harvard Business School professors Raffaella Sadun and Leemore Dafny are both economists who have studied hospitals extensively—Sadun’s research has looked at the economics of management, while Dafny’s examines interactions between health View Details
    Keywords: by Alumni Bulletin Staff; Health
    • 07 Jun 2016
    • First Look

    June 7, 2016

    strategic, financial, and operational objectives. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51110 May 2016 Oncology How the Affordable Care Act Has Affected Cancer Care in the United... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • Forthcoming
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    The Anatomy of a Hospital System Merger: The Patient Did Not Respond Well to Treatment

    By: Raffaella Sadun, Martin Gaynor, Adam Sacarny, Chad Syverson and Shruthi Venkatesh
    Despite the continuing US hospital merger wave, it remains unclear how mergers change, or fail to change, hospital behavior and performance. We open the “black box” of hospital practices through a mega-merger between two for-profit chains. Benchmarking the merger's... View Details
    Keywords: Performance Improvement; Mergers and Acquisitions; Health Industry
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    Sadun, Raffaella, Martin Gaynor, Adam Sacarny, Chad Syverson, and Shruthi Venkatesh. "The Anatomy of a Hospital System Merger: The Patient Did Not Respond Well to Treatment." Review of Economics and Statistics (forthcoming). (Pre-published online October 23, 2023.)
    • September 2011 (Revised January 2012)
    • Case

    Telemonitoring at Visiting Nurse Health System

    By: F. Warren McFarlan, Mark Keil and Mala Kaul
    The Telemonitoring at Visiting Nurse Health System case presents one home healthcare organization's efforts to use telemonitoring to improve the quality of care provided to at-risk patients who were discharged from hospitals and needed home care. After two years of... View Details
    Keywords: Capital Budgeting; Cost vs Benefits; Risk Management; Technology Adoption; Technological Innovation; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Competitive Strategy; Health Industry; Technology Industry
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    McFarlan, F. Warren, Mark Keil, and Mala Kaul. "Telemonitoring at Visiting Nurse Health System." Harvard Business School Case 112-030, September 2011. (Revised January 2012.)
    • 06 Sep 2019
    • Blog Post

    The Business of Medicine: MD/MBA Students Having an Impact

    investigation with market research to evaluate access to cancer biopsy devices in East Africa. With her dual degree, Wagner plans to continue her work in health care delivery and her career in improving... View Details
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