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  • 5 Nov 2013
  • Other Presentation

The New Competitive Advantage: Creating Shared Value

By: Michael E. Porter
This presentation draws on ideas from Professor Porter's articles and books, in particular, The Competitive Advantage of Nations (The Free Press, 1990), "Building the Microeconomic Foundations of Competitiveness," in The Global Competitiveness Report (World Economic... View Details
Keywords: Society; Brazil
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  • 26 Jun 2014
  • News

Shifting toward Defined Contributions — Predicting the Effects

  • 28 Apr 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Earth Day Reflections

federal government reacted with the passage of the National Environmental Policy Act, which requires all projects licensed by the government to file an environmental impact statement. The Clean Air Act, a powerful law against air... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 27 Jun 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Asian and American Leadership Styles: How Are They Unique?

very much in charge. This style is very common in Asia. Participative leadership, which involves close teamwork with others, is more common in Europe, where it is sometimes required by law (as in northern Europe, especially Germany) than in America. It is also common... View Details
Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills

    Roberto Verganti

    Roberto Verganti (rverganti@hbs.edu) is in the Technology and Operations Management Unit at Harvard Business School. He teaches Design Theory and Practice for the View Details

    Keywords: automotive; computer; consumer products; electronics; fashion; food; furniture; high technology; home appliances; industrial goods; pharmaceuticals; semiconductor; software; telecommunications; textiles
    • 23 Oct 2008
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Economic Impacts of Immigration: A Survey

    Keywords: by Sari Pekkala Kerr & William R. Kerr
    • 2016
    • Article

    Integrated Care from the Patient's Perspective and its Relationship to Medical Group Attributes.

    By: Michaela Kerrissey, Jonathan Clark, Ashley-Kay Fryer, Wei Jiang, Maryaline Catillon, Patricia Ramsay, Stephen Shortell, Lawrence Casalino, Mark Friedberg and Sara J. Singer
    Integrating care for patients with multiple chronic conditions is essential to improving quality. Yet little is known about care integration from the patient’s perspective and how it relates to medical group characteristics. We created a nationally representative... View Details
    Keywords: Care Coordination; Integrated Care; Health; Health Care and Treatment; Quality; Perspective; Health Industry
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    • February 2015
    • Article

    The Great Recession, Insurance Mandates, and the Use of In Vitro Fertilization Services in the United States

    By: Sorapop Kiatpongsan, Robert S. Huckman and Mark D. Hornstein
    Objective: To investigate the relationship between economic activities, insurance mandates, and the use of in vitro fertilization (IVF) in the United States.

    Design: We examined the correlation between the coincident index (a proxy for overall economic... View Details
    Keywords: Macroeconomics; Recessions; Medical Care; In Vitro Fertilization; Health Industry; United States
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    Front-line Staff Perspectives on Opportunities for Improving the Safety and Efficiency of Hospital Work Systems

    By: Anita L. Tucker, Sara J. Singer, Jennifer E. Hayes and Alyson Falwell

    Objective To link safety-related concerns raised by frontline staff about hospital work systems (operational failures) to the safety and efficiency of hospitals, and to contrast these concerns with national patient safety initiatives.

    Data... View Details

    Keywords: Perspective; Opportunities; Safety; Performance Efficiency; System; Failure; Conferences; Employees; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Experience and Expertise; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry; United States
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    • 2024
    • Working Paper

    The Consequences of Export Controls in Target Countries

    By: Xueyue Liu, Yu Liu and Jaya Y. Wen
    Export controls are a common instrument of national security, but their economic consequences are not well understood. This paper evaluates how these controls affect firm performance and adaptation in targeted countries. We use variation in a 2007 US policy,... View Details
    Keywords: National Security; Trade; Business and Government Relations; Policy; Performance Productivity; Adaptation
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    • 28 Sep 2009
    • Research & Ideas

    Improving Accountability at the World Bank

    institutions of global governance and, compared to others—such as the International Monetary Fund, the World Trade Organization, various United Nations agencies, and other multilateral development banks, to name just a few—one of the most... View Details
    Keywords: by Alnoor Ebrahim

      Stephen A. Greyser

      Stephen A. Greyser is Richard P. Chapman Professor (Marketing/Communications) Emeritus, of the Harvard Business School, specializes in brand marketing, advertising, corporate communications, the business of sports, and nonprofit management.  A... View Details

      Keywords: sports
      • Research Summary

      The Politics of Consumer Credit

      By: Gunnar Trumbull
      A combination of factors has dramatically increased consumer access to and reliance upon credit across the OECD. These factors include financial liberalization and deregulation, improvements in consumer credit information and its analysis, and a growth in debt... View Details
      • Research Summary

      Energy Strategy

      By: Forest L. Reinhardt
      Forest L. Reinhardt is writing cases and other materials on the strategic problems and opportunitites faced by firms in the energy industry. Significant economies of scale and scope, combined with rapid technological change, present firms in the industry with a... View Details
      • May 2024
      • Article

      Refugees Are Hosted in Highly Vulnerable Communities

      By: C. Austin Davis, Paula Lopez-Peña, A. Mushfiq Mobarak and Jaya Y. Wen
      Low- and middle-income nations host 76 percent of the world's refugees. This study uses original data to explore within-country spatial variability in refugee-hosting responsibilities. We find that hosting responsibilities for the displaced Rohingya people in... View Details
      Keywords: Refugees; Political Elections; Equality and Inequality; Immigration; Developing Countries and Economies; Income
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      • June 2021
      • Case

      CFM International (A): Building a Durable Partnership That Works

      By: Ranjay Gulati, Yves Doz, Kim Wilkinson and Kerry Herman
      It is spring 1995, and the CFM partnership—a joint venture between GE Aviation and France’s jet engine manufacturer Snecma—is facing difficult challenges. The parent companies must decide whether and how to renew their nascent partnership agreement, in the face of... View Details
      Keywords: Joint Ventures; Partners and Partnerships; Decision Making
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      • Fall 1997
      • Article

      Little Machines in Their Gardens: A History of School Gardens in America, 1891 to 1920

      By: Brian Trelstad
      “Little Machines in their Gardens: A History of School Gardens in America, 1891 to 1920” explores the rise and decline of the school garden movement in the United States. The paper first documents the early history of the gardens and establishes them as a national... View Details
      Keywords: School Garden Movement; United States
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      • December 2017
      • Case

      Clover Food Lab in 2016

      By: Lena G. Goldberg, Sonia Smith and Sandra Bahous
      Ayr Muir, founder and CEO of Clover Food Lab, has grown his restaurant chain from a single food truck to 11 thriving stores but he has no interest in running a regional chain. His ambition is to change the way America eats and his goal is national expansion. As he... View Details
      Keywords: Restaurant Industry; Food; Growth Management; Strategic Planning; Brands and Branding; Marketing Strategy; Innovation and Management; Customer Satisfaction; Small Business; Expansion; Decision Choices and Conditions; Food and Beverage Industry
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      • January 2002 (Revised June 2003)
      • Case

      Abelli and Saviotti at Banca Commerciale Italiana (A)

      By: Tiziana E. Casciaro, Kathleen L. McGinn and Massimiliano Belingheri
      In 1999, a powerful struggle amidst complex corporate and interpersonal networks led to the failed merger between Banca Commerciale Italiana and Unicredito Italiano--two of Italy's largest banking groups. This case analyzes the actions of Abelli and Saviotti, co-CEOs... View Details
      Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Networks; Banks and Banking; Business Strategy; Power and Influence; Crisis Management; Government and Politics; International Finance; Failure; Banking Industry; Italy
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      • February 2001 (Revised December 2002)
      • Case

      Marshall Field and the Rise of the Department Store

      By: Nancy F. Koehn
      Analyzes Marshall Field's efforts to develop a market for mass retailing in late 19th-century Chicago. Examines Chicago's expansion in the 1860s and, within this context, how Field struck out on his own to, build a wholesale and retail business. Concentrates on the... View Details
      Keywords: Fluctuation; Industry Growth; Corporate Strategy; Entrepreneurship; Brands and Branding; Society; Distribution Industry; Retail Industry; Chicago
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