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  • 01 Mar 2024
  • News

Vital Signs

had taken aim at this market, but none had fully addressed the specific challenge of empowering front-line health workers, she adds.) Gresser had seen firsthand its potential utility: After getting her MBA and pursuing a career in... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance
  • 20 Sep 2011
  • First Look

First Look: September 20

lines in order to illuminate the ways that U.S. states take advantage of federal ambiguity and are able to shape corporate practices to their benefit. We specifically examine how patterns of bank acquisitions are shaped by the crucial... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Jan 2022
  • Research & Ideas

How Eliminating Non-Competes Could Reshape Tech

Harvard Business School says. As part of a sweeping executive order aimed at promoting competition in the American economy, US President Joe Biden specifically called out non-compete agreements as hurtful to innovation and workers. Issued... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Technology
  • 17 Jun 2011
  • HBS Case

KFC’s Explosive Growth in China

dough sticks, egg tarts (which Shelman raves are "to die for"), shrimp burgers, and soymilk drinks, as well as foods tailored to the tastes of specific regions within China. The large selection of menu items is meant to appeal... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish; Food & Beverage
  • 14 Aug 2009
  • Working Paper Summaries

Insider Trading Preceding Goodwill Impairments

Keywords: by Karl A. Muller III, Monica Neamtiu & Edward J. Riedl
  • Research Summary

Research overview

By: Julie Battilana

How can actors – be they individuals or organizations – diverge from deeply-seated norms and develop new ones, when their beliefs and actions are shaped by these very norms? This question lies at the heart of Professor Battilana’s research. To address it, she... View Details

  • June 2024
  • Module Note

Value Creation Potential of New Business Models

By: David J. Collis
A business model is composed of three elements. These describe a generic way of creating value and identify the maximum potential value of that model for customers. The elements of a business model are the “job to be done” for the customer, the asset configuration, or... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Corporate Strategy; Mission and Purpose; Competitive Strategy; Value Creation
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The Relationship Between Workplace Stressors and Mortality and Health Costs in the United States

By: Joel Goh, Jeffrey Pfeffer and Stefanos A. Zenios
Even though epidemiological evidence links specific workplace stressors to health outcomes, the aggregate contribution of these factors to overall mortality and health spending in the United States is not known. In this paper, we build a model to estimate the excess... View Details
Keywords: Occupational Health; Health Costs; Mortality; Applied Optimization; Health
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  • June 2014
  • Supplement

Chung and Dasgupta: Supplemental Information on Jordan Ramirez and Casey Clark

By: Ian Larkin and Karen Huang
The "Promotion Process at Chung and Dasgupta, LLP" set of cases explores the roles of general and firm-specific human capital in employee performance measurement, feedback, and promotion/compensation decisions. In the cases, a leading law firm must decide whether to... View Details
Keywords: Performance Appraisal; Performance Measurement; Employee Feedback; Motivation; Promotions; Human Capital; Performance Evaluation; Management Systems; Compensation and Benefits; Retention; Legal Services Industry; United States; Massachusetts
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  • June 2014
  • Supplement

Chung and Dasgupta: Information for Casey Clark

By: Ian Larkin and Karen Huang
The "Promotion Process at Chung and Dasgupta, LLP" set of cases explores the roles of general and firm-specific human capital in employee performance measurement, feedback, and promotion/compensation decisions. In the cases, a leading law firm must decide whether to... View Details
Keywords: Human Capital; Performance Evaluation; Management Systems; Compensation and Benefits; Retention; Legal Services Industry; United States; Massachusetts
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  • June 2014
  • Case

The Promotion Process at Chung and Dasgupta, LLP

By: Ian Larkin and Karen Huang
The "Promotion Process at Chung and Dasgupta, LLP" set of cases explores the roles of general and firm-specific human capital in employee performance measurement, feedback, and promotion/compensation decisions. In the cases, a leading law firm must decide whether to... View Details
Keywords: Performance Appraisal; Performance Measurement; Employee Feedback; Motivation; Promotions; Human Capital; Performance Evaluation; Management Systems; Compensation and Benefits; Retention; Legal Services Industry; United States; Massachusetts
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  • June 2010 (Revised September 2011)
  • Background Note

An Overview of Project Finance and Infrastructure Finance--2009 Update

By: Benjamin C. Esty and Aldo Sesia
Provides an introduction to the fields of project finance and infrastructure finance and gives a statistical overview of project-financed investments over the years from 2005 to 2009. Examples of project-financed investments include the $1.4 billion Mozal aluminum... View Details
Keywords: Project Finance; Infrastructure; Investment; Projects; Trends
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  • 26 Nov 2019
  • News

The Ritual Effect

savoring a meal to coping with grief, his research shows that rituals produce a truly astonishing array of psychological and emotional responses that are specific to—and often specifically helpful... View Details
Keywords: rituals
  • 31 Jan 2014
  • Working Paper Summaries

The Diseconomies of Queue Pooling: An Empirical Investigation of Emergency Department Length of Stay

Keywords: by Hummy Song, Anita L. Tucker & Karen L. Murrell; Health
  • 21 Apr 2010
  • Working Paper Summaries

Why Do Firms Use Non-Linear Incentive Schemes? Experimental Evidence on Sorting and Overconfidence

Keywords: by Ian Larkin & Stephen Leider
  • 09 Dec 2009
  • Working Paper Summaries

Mental Health in the Aftermath of Conflict

Keywords: by Quy-Toan Do & Lakshmi Iyer
  • 2004
  • Book

Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital

By: Amar Bhidé
Academics and practitioners readily admit the importance of entrepreneurs for the wealth of nations. However, the relationship between the economic and social environment, entrepreneurship and value creation is not yet well understood. Moreover, at the micro-level, the... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneur; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Corporate Finance
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  • 2014
  • Working Paper

Non-Adherence in Health Care: A Positive and Normative Analysis

By: Mark Egan and Tomas J. Philipson
Non-adherence in health care results when a patient does not initiate or continue care that a provider has recommended. Previous research identifies non-adherence as a major source of waste in US health care, totaling approximately 2.3% of GDP, and have proposed a... View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Behavior; Economics; Analysis; Mathematical Methods
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  • 01 Oct 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Better by the Bundle?

research that culminated in their paper The Dynamic Effects of Bundling as a Product Strategy. Kumar and Derdenger studied the handheld video game market between 2001 and 2005, specifically Nintendo's Game Boy Advance and Game Boy Advance... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 12 Mar 2021
  • News

My Favorite Case

Edited by Jen McFarland Flint; illustration by Taylor Callery Scroll the main story to read all alumni submissions or jump to a specific case here: “Suzuki Samurai” Paige Arnof-Fenn (MBA 1991) “Johnson & Johnson: The Tylenol Tragedy”... View Details
Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services