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Economic Strategy - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

environment can be distinctive strengths relative to peers? What strong or emerging clusters can be built upon? How Should States Compete with Each Other? Related Resources 04 May 2012 BusinessWeek “Why America Needs an Economic Strategy” View Details

February 2013 (Revised May 2013)
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Juan Valdez: Innovation in Caffeination

By: Michael I. Norton and Jeremy Dann

Corporate entrepreneurs attempt to revive Colombia's famous Juan Valdez brand in the age of Starbucks, with café chain and packaged coffee ventures. In the 1970s and 80s, the iconic "Juan Valdez" ingredient brand was the most recognized in the world of coffee. The... View Details

Keywords: Innovation; Branding; Global Business; Sales; Marketing; Retailing; Corporate Strategy; Organizational Change; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Brands and Branding; Innovation and Invention

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Skydeck - Alumni

organization How to Judge Your Next Job Michael Horn (MBA 2006) and Associate Professor Ethan Bernstein —coauthors of the new book Job Moves: 9 Steps for Making Progress in Your Career —on how to make sure your next career move is the... View Details

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Events & Presentations - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

improvement in health care delivery. Participants gain insights and capabilities to direct the strategic implementation of value-based health care in their organizations. Health Care jan 2020 Value-Based Health Care Delivery: Systems Integration and Growth View Details

June 2008 (Revised May 2017)
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Cook Composites and Polymers Co.

By: Deishin Lee, Michael W. Toffel and Rachel Gordon

This case describes how a company improves resource efficiency and process quality in its manufacturing process by developing a waste by-product into a new product. The case describes how CCP cleans production equipment between batches using styrene, which becomes a... View Details

Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Product Development; Business Processes; Performance Efficiency; Natural Environment; Wastes and Waste Processing; Pollutants; Environmental Sustainability; Chemical Industry; Manufacturing Industry

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Faculty & Researchers - Managing the Future of Work

Program Director and Senior Researcher for the U.S. Competitiveness Project, co-chaired by Professor Michael E. Porter and Professor Jan W. Rivkin. In that capacity, she supports the Young American Leaders... View Details

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HBS Health Care Initiative - Blog: Health Supplement

Michael Schrader Author Alumni tag Biotech/pharma Clinical Trials Health Care Entrepreneurship Health Care Innovation Health Care at HBS As an HBS student in Professor Vicki Sato’s Commercializing Science class, I wanted to tackle an... View Details

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2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

Reunions 2023 Reunion Presentations At Reunions, HBS faculty and other thought leaders address a range of issues facing business and society. Program recordings and materials (slide deck, handouts, etc.) are made available only when permission is given View Details

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The Gift of Global Talent

29 Sep 2018 | The Hill HBS Prof Pens Book On Talent Pipeline & The Threats It Faces Marc Ethier 26 Sep 2018 | Poets & Quants In America, Immigrants Really Do Get The Job Done Michael Blanding 01 Aug 2018 |... View Details

May 2022
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The Impact of COVID-19 on Digital Communication Patterns

By: Evan DeFilippis, Stephen Michael Impink, Madison Singell, Jeff Polzer and Raffaella Sadun

We explore the impact of COVID-19 on employees’ digital communication patterns through an event study of lockdowns in 16 large metropolitan areas in North America, Europe, and the Middle East. Using de-identified, aggregated meeting and email meta-data from 3,143,270... View Details

Keywords: Meetings; Email; COVID-19 Pandemic; Communication Technology; Health Pandemics; Time Management

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Publications - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

treatment;... 01 Jan 2021 Integrated Practice Units: A Playbook for Health Care Leaders by Michael E. Porter, PhD, MBA, Thomas H. Lee, MD, MSc The playbook for assembling and integrating a successful... View Details

14 Jun 2016
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After Mass Shootings, It’s Often Easier to Buy a Gun

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HBR Classics - Alumni

HBR CLASSICS Through the years, a number of Harvard Business Review articles written by Harvard Business School faculty and others have risen to “classics” status – articles that are so groundbreaking in their scope or elemental in their... View Details

March 2017 (Revised June 2019)
Case

CEO Activism (A)

By: Michael W. Toffel, Aaron K. Chatterji and Julia Kelley

This case introduces CEO activism, a phenomenon in which business leaders engage in political or social issues that do not relate directly to their companies. The case uses several examples to describe why business leaders are engaging in CEO activism and the potential... View Details