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  • January 2022
  • Background Note

The Florange Law: Encouraging Long-Termism in Equity Markets?

By: Charles C.Y. Wang and Tonia Labruyere
This note provides background information on a French law (“the Florange law”) passed in 2014 that the French government said would encourage long-term shareholdings. The note describes the law, what led to it, the reactions it evoked, and similar initiatives in other... View Details
Keywords: Equity; Financial Markets; Investment Activism; Institutional Investing; Corporate Governance; Policy; Rights; Laws and Statutes; Business and Government Relations; Accounting Industry; France
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  • 26 Sep 2023
  • Book

Digital Strategy: A Handbook for Managing a Moving Target

information may be low and declining (Menz et al., 2021). Accordingly, in the digital age, firms and organizations of all kinds face an extremely strong incentive to increase their market shares, especially... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Information Technology; Information Technology
  • May 2025
  • Case

stc Group: DARE to Transform

By: Sunil Gupta and Sadika El Hariri
Established as a government-owned entity in 1998, stc Group was the sole telecommunications operator in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). Soon after it was privatized in 2003, regional players started entering the Saudi market. To deal with the competition and to... View Details
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  • July–August 2021
  • Article

SPACs: What You Need to Know

By: Max Bazerman and Paresh Patel
Special purpose acquisition companies, or SPACs, have been around in various forms for decades, but during the past two years they’ve taken off in the United States. In 2019, 59 were created, with $13 billion invested; in 2020, 247 were created, with $80 billion... View Details
Keywords: Special Purpose Acquisition Companies; SPACs; Mergers and Acquisitions; Going Public; Investment
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  • Oct 2020
  • Conference Presentation

Optimal, Truthful, and Private Securities Lending

By: Emily Diana, Michael J. Kearns, Seth Neel and Aaron Leon Roth
We consider a fundamental dynamic allocation problem motivated by the problem of securities lending in financial markets, the mechanism underlying the short selling of stocks. A lender would like to distribute a finite number of identical copies of some scarce resource... View Details
Keywords: Differential Privacy; Mechanism Design; Finance; Mathematical Methods
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  • 2013
  • Teaching Note

The COFCO Group (TN)

By: F. Warren McFarlan, Zheng Xiaoming and Ziqian Zhao
COFCO was China's sole legitimate window for agricultural foreign trade before 1987. The reform of China's foreign trade system beginning in 1987 cost COFCO its monopoly position. Subsequently, the SOE giant capitalized on its foreign trade expertise to strategically... View Details
Keywords: China; Food; China
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    Valuing Snap After the IPO Quiet Period

    Snap, the disappearing message app, went public at $17 per share on March 2, 2017, making its two 20-something founders the youngest self-made billionaires in the country. Over the next three weeks, 14 analysts make investment recommendations on Snap: two with buy... View Details

      Innovation Without Borders; Innovations, Summer 2007

      The willingness to connect with an external network is key in an environment where products and services are themselves increasingly inter-connected. We see trends in this direction for a variety of reasons, either because uses of multiple products are complementary... View Details

      • February 2002
      • Case

      NeuroTherapy Ventures: Catalyzing Neurologic Innovations

      Discusses the impact of limited market size on epilepsy therapies and shows how an early-stage venture fund can catalyze faster development of new treatments. View Details
      Keywords: Information Technology; Commercialization; Innovation and Management; Business Startups; Pharmaceutical Industry
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      • 21 Aug 2018
      • First Look

      New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018

      https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54887 forthcoming Production and Operations Management The Operational Value of Social Media Information By: Cui, Ruomeng, Santiago Gallino, Antonio Moreno, and Dennis J. Zhang... View Details
      Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
      • Article

      The Cost Structure, Customer Profitability, and Retention Implications of Self-Service Distribution Channels: Evidence from Customer Behavior in an Online Banking Channel

      By: Dennis Campbell and Frances X. Frei
      This paper uses the context of online banking to investigate the consequences of employing self-service distribution channels to alter customer interactions with the firm. Using a sample of retail banking customers observed over a 30-month period at a large U.S. bank,... View Details
      Keywords: Cost; Service Operations; Distribution Channels; Consumer Behavior; Internet and the Web; Banks and Banking; Technology Adoption; Service Delivery; Market Transactions; Market Participation; Profit; Retail Industry; Banking Industry; United States
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      • September 2013 (Revised October 2016)
      • Background Note

      A Note on Healthcare IT and Applications to the Healthcare Industry

      By: Robert F. Higgins and Diana Maichin
      This note provides an overview of three key healthcare IT areas: electronic medical records and electronic health records, revenue cycle management, and telemedicine. This note also contains a glossary of key terms and acronyms in this space as well as exhibits... View Details
      Keywords: Health Care; Health Care Industry; Healthcare IT; Healthcare; Healthcare Technology; Healthcare Ventures; Electronic Medical Records; Electronic Health Records; Revenue Cycle Management; Telemedicine; Health; Health Care and Treatment; Information Technology; Information Management; Information Technology Industry; Information Technology Industry; United States
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      • 2016
      • Book

      Consumers, Corporations, and Public Health: A Case-Based Approach to Sustainable Business

      By: John A. Quelch
      The public health footprint associated with corporate behavior has come under increased scrutiny in the last decade, with an increased expectation that private profit not come at the expense of consumer welfare.

      Consumers, Corporations, and Public... View Details
      Keywords: Consumer; Corporate Culture; Public Health; Consumer Behavior; Marketing Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Health; Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Management; Supply Chain Management; Information Industry; Information Industry; Information Industry; Information Industry; Information Industry; Information Industry; Information Industry; Information Industry; Information Industry; Information Industry; Information Industry; Information Industry; Information Industry; Information Industry; Information Industry; Information Industry; Information Industry; Information Industry; Information Industry; Information Industry; Information Industry; Asia; Oceania; North and Central America; Middle East; Latin America; Europe
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      • April 2019
      • Article

      Internalizing Global Value Chains: A Firm-Level Analysis

      By: Laura Alfaro, Pol Antràs, Davin Chor and Paola Conconi
      In recent decades, advances in information and communication technology and falling trade barriers have led firms to retain within their boundaries and in their domestic economies only a subset of their production stages. A key decision facing firms worldwide is the... View Details
      Keywords: Global Value Chains; Sequential Production; Incomplete Contracts; Demand and Consumers; Customer Value and Value Chain; Globalization
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      • 2017
      • Working Paper

      Internalizing Global Value Chains: A Firm-Level Analysis

      By: Laura Alfaro, Pol Antràs, Davin Chor and Paola Conconi
      In recent decades, advances in information and communication technology and falling trade barriers have led firms to retain within their boundaries and in their domestic economies only a subset of their production stages. A key decision facing firms worldwide is the... View Details
      Keywords: Global Value Chains; Sequential Production; Incomplete Contracts; Demand and Consumers; Customer Value and Value Chain; Globalization
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      • February 2003 (Revised February 2009)
      • Case

      Yahoo!: Becoming a Competitor in the Career Listings Space (B)

      By: Kathleen L. McGinn and Nicole Nasser
      After weighing the pros and cons of making an unsolicited bid for HotJobs.com (an online recruiting company already under contract to be acquired by TMP Worldwide), the executive team of Yahoo! decides to make an immediate move rather than wait for the Federal Trade... View Details
      Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Management Teams; Bids and Bidding; Negotiation Process; Strategy
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      • 2019
      • White Paper

      Impact-Weighted Financial Accounts: The Missing Piece for an Impact Economy

      By: George Serafeim, T. Robert Zochowski and Jennifer Downing
      Reimagining capitalism is an imperative. We need to create a more inclusive and sustainable form of capitalism that works for every person and the planet. Massive environmental damage, growing income and wealth disparity, stress, and depression within developed... View Details
      Keywords: Impact-Weighted Accounts; IWAI; Background; Economic Systems; Economy; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Measurement and Metrics; Financial Statements
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      • June 1994 (Revised October 2001)
      • Case

      Mrs. Fields, Inc. (1988-1992)

      By: Lynda M. Applegate, Keri O. Pearlson and Randi Wade Purchia
      Continues the story of Mrs. Fields Cookies. Explores the new challenges the company faced managing its geographic growth and its expansion of products and markets through combination stores. Details the decision of Debbi and Randy Fields to delegate management... View Details
      Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Expansion; Growth Management; Organizational Structure; Globalization; Information Management; Food and Beverage Industry
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      • January 2011 (Revised May 2011)
      • Case

      Paydiant

      By: Jose B. Alvarez, Elizabeth C. Williamson and James Weber
      Kevin Laracey, founder of Paydiant, needed to figure out how to launch a payment processing company with a new technology based on smart phones. Consumers had increasingly turned to electronic payment methods such as credit cards and debit cards to make purchases.... View Details
      Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Credit Cards; Product Marketing; Product Launch; Market Entry and Exit; Industry Structures; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Cooperation; Technology Adoption; Retail Industry
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      • 07 Oct 2013
      • Research & Ideas

      The Case for Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking

      If you ask any given environmentalist to identify the biggest threat to the planet, you may expect to hear about man-made climate change, consumerism, or overpopulation. But if you ask Harvard Business School's Joseph B. Lassiter, he'll toss in another: single-issue... View Details
      Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Energy; Utilities