Filter Results:
(2,446)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(2,446)
- People (4)
- News (446)
- Research (1,673)
- Events (3)
- Multimedia (5)
- Faculty Publications (835)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(2,446)
- People (4)
- News (446)
- Research (1,673)
- Events (3)
- Multimedia (5)
- Faculty Publications (835)
- 2000
- Other Unpublished Work
Cutting Red Tape: Lessons from a Case-based Approach to Improving the Investment Climate in Mozambique
By: L. T. Wells Jr. and Timothy S. Buehrer
Wells, L. T., Jr., and Timothy S. Buehrer. "Cutting Red Tape: Lessons from a Case-based Approach to Improving the Investment Climate in Mozambique." Foreign Investment Advisory Service Occasional Paper, January 2000. (Condensed as "Reduzir a burocracia: Licoes da Mozal para o melhoramento do clima de investimentos em Mocambique," Discussion Paper No. 3, Gabinete de Estudos Ministerio do Plano e Financas Republica de Mocambique, 2000; and reprinted in condensed form as a chapter in A Economia Mocambicana Contemporanea: Ensaios, Gabinete de Estudos, edited by Cassio Rolim, Antonio S. Franco, Bruce Bolnick and Per-Ake Andersson. Mozambique: Ministerio do Plano e Financas, 2002.)
- December 2015 (Revised July 2020)
- Technical Note
Some Strategy Ingredients: Scale, Learning, and Market Structure
This note introduces students to some economic concepts and ideas that are important ingredients for strategy, such as scale, learning, and the effects of market structure on competition. The note approaches these ideas really from a strategy perspective with a focus... View Details
Van den Steen, Eric. "Some Strategy Ingredients: Scale, Learning, and Market Structure." Harvard Business School Technical Note 716-439, December 2015. (Revised July 2020.)
- Web
Strategy for Health Care Delivery - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Align your organization around a value-based strategy: Build a firm foundation for exploring and implementing strategy transformation Manage the issues that arise when implementing new approaches Lead... View Details
- Program
Strategy for Health Care Delivery—Virtual
Design and implement a bundled payment system to reduce health care spending and increase quality of care Explore strategy transformation, geographic expansion, and the process of introducing new measurement... View Details
- December 2006 (Revised October 2016)
- Case
eClinicalWorks: The Paths to Growth
By: Robert F. Higgins and Mark Rennella
In January 2006, eClinicalWorks (eCW) had an acquisition opportunity that could fundamentally change the way they had done business since the inception of the company in 1999. eClinicalWorks was a privately run business in the healthcare information technology field... View Details
Keywords: Young Companies; Strategic Revelation; Strategy And Execution; Strategy Development; Strategy And Leadership; Financing Strategy; Financing Risk; Financing; Expansion; Business Growth and Maturation; Organizational Culture; Financing and Loans; Customer Focus and Relationships; Acquisition; Growth and Development Strategy; Information Technology Industry; Health Industry; Massachusetts
Higgins, Robert F., and Mark Rennella. "eClinicalWorks: The Paths to Growth." Harvard Business School Case 807-025, December 2006. (Revised October 2016.)
- January 2008
- Article
Seek Strategy the Right Way at the Right Time
By: G. Gavetti and Jan W. Rivkin
Deliberate, emergent, and analogical approaches to finding the best strategy all have their advan-tages, depending on where an industry is in its life cycle. Be open to the best option at each juncture and wise enough to make the right call. View Details
Gavetti, G., and Jan W. Rivkin. "Seek Strategy the Right Way at the Right Time." Special Issue on HBS Centennial. Harvard Business Review 86, no. 1 (January 2008).
- Web
Strategy in Emerging Economies - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
in Emerging Economies Strategy is important for companies operating in developing and emerging economies. These businesses face distinct challenges and need to adopt a new View Details
A Practical Approach to Sales Compensation: What Do We Know Now? What Should We Know in the Future?
Personal selling represents one of the most important elements in the marketing mix, and appropriate management of the sales force is vital to achieving the organization’s objectives. Among the various instruments of sales management, compensation plays a pivotal... View Details
- 09 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
The UK Needs a Bold Strategy Around Competition to Survive Brexit
UK has failed to grasp the regional approach to development that has been so important to success in other economies,” Porter argues. Slow growth... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 2016
- Working Paper
Algorithmic Foundations for Business Strategy
By: Mihnea Moldoveanu
I introduce algorithmic and meta-algorithmic models for the study of strategic problem solving, aimed at illuminating the processes and procedures by which strategic managers and firms deal with complex problems. These models allow us to explore the relationship... View Details
Moldoveanu, Mihnea. "Algorithmic Foundations for Business Strategy." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 17-036, October 2016.
- 09 Jan 2020
- Book
Rethinking Business Strategy in the Age of AI
more akin to an Apple, a Tesla, or a Nest, or a GoPro—where it’s a consumer product that has the foundation of sexy hardware technology and sexy software technology,” he is quoted in a book published today, Competing in the Age of AI:... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- March 2005
- Article
Sovereign Debt As a Contingent Claim: A Quantitative Approach
By: Laura Alfaro and Fabio Kanczuk
We construct a dynamic equilibrium model with contingent service and adverse selection to quantitatively study sovereign debt. In the model, benefits of defaulting are tempered by higher future interest rates. For a wide set of parameters, the only equilibrium is one... View Details
Keywords: Sovereign Finance; Borrowing and Debt; Interest Rates; Balance and Stability; Risk and Uncertainty; Risk Management; Mathematical Methods; Management Style; Segmentation; Debt Securities; Banking Industry
Alfaro, Laura, and Fabio Kanczuk. "Sovereign Debt As a Contingent Claim: A Quantitative Approach." Journal of International Economics 65, no. 2 (March 2005).
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
How a Short-Term Strategy Can Backfire
- 2016
- Working Paper
Notes on Developing a Strategy and Designing a Company
By: Kevin J. Boudreau
The practice and teaching of business strategy today exist largely as a set of alternative views and frameworks not entirely connected to one another. These notes contribute an integrated sequence of steps for creating or evaluating a strategy and associated company... View Details
Keywords: Business Strategy
Boudreau, Kevin J. "Notes on Developing a Strategy and Designing a Company." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 16-131, May 2016. (Revised June 2016.)
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Action Plan: Portfolio Strategy
people’s lives.” And he did, first as a consultant to the airline industry and then as chief commercial officer at a low-cost Brazilian airline. But when the company’s IPO was called off and it was sold, Sadiq took a step that has come... View Details
- February 2018
- Case
Rosslyn Resource: Monetization and Sales Strategy
By: Robert J. Dolan and Sunru Yong
Rosslyn Resource identifies exploration targets (potential mineral deposits) in the mining industry and advances them until the project can be monetized, usually through sale to a larger mining company, in return for an upfront fee and a royalty on future revenues.... View Details
Keywords: Strategy; Decision Choices and Conditions; Business Model; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Mining Industry
Dolan, Robert J., and Sunru Yong. "Rosslyn Resource: Monetization and Sales Strategy." Harvard Business School Brief Case 918-509, February 2018.
- October 1999
- Case
Intel Labs (A): Photolithography Strategy in Crisis
Intel has evolved a new approach to managing its industrial research, the distributed labs model. The benefits and limits of this model are explored. View Details
Chesbrough, Henry W. "Intel Labs (A): Photolithography Strategy in Crisis." Harvard Business School Case 600-032, October 1999.
- August 2017 (Revised August 2018)
- Case
The Oakland Athletics: Strategy & Metrics for a Budget
By: Srikant M. Datar and Caitlin N. Bowler
This case considers Oakland Athletics General Manager Billy Beane’s data driven and, in baseball circles unconventional, approach to winning games over the duration of the long Major League Baseball season. Beane’s critical approach to crafting strategy within his... View Details
Keywords: Data Analysis; Metrics; Data Science; Analytics and Data Science; Analysis; Measurement and Metrics; Competitive Strategy; Organizational Culture; Sports Industry
Datar, Srikant M., and Caitlin N. Bowler. "The Oakland Athletics: Strategy & Metrics for a Budget." Harvard Business School Case 118-010, August 2017. (Revised August 2018.)
- 23 Nov 1999
- Research & Ideas
What’s Your Strategy for Managing Knowledge?
we dug deeper, however, we found that effective firms excelled by focusing on one of the strategies and using the other in a supporting role. They did not try to use both View Details
- March 1982 (Revised January 1990)
- Background Note
Note on Pricing Strategies for Industrial Products
Used as a background reading for a course or course module on pricing, this note describes the several basic parameters relevant for price determination. Provides a conceptual approach to formulating pricing strategy, dealing with such topics as skimming versus... View Details
Corey, E. Raymond. "Note on Pricing Strategies for Industrial Products." Harvard Business School Background Note 582-124, March 1982. (Revised January 1990.)