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Fatima Albassam

realized that this is what I want to do the rest of my life, run a social business,” says Fatima. “But I felt that the nonprofits I was working with were limiting their impact because of a lack of management and finance skills.” A... View Details

    Controlling Versus Enabling

    Many firms can choose between an employment mode, in which the firm controls service provision by employing professionals, sales representatives or other types of agents, and an agency (or platform) mode, in which these agents take control... View Details

    • 08 Mar 2004
    • Research & Ideas

    Creating Value in Your Business Ecosystem

    have created, balancing their generosity with the need to keep some of that value for themselves. Achieving this balance may not be as easy as it seems. Keystone organizations must make sure that the value... View Details
    Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien
    • 16 Feb 2023
    • HBS Case

    ESG Activists Met the Moment at ExxonMobil, But Did They Succeed?

    The impact-investment hedge fund Engine No. 1 made a big splash in May 2021 when it managed to get three nominees elected to the ExxonMobil board of directors. It was an open effort to prod the oil giant toward renewable energy and test whether activist investing could... View Details
    Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Financial Services
    • November 2009
    • Article

    Is it Fair to Blame Fair Value Accounting for the Financial Crisis?

    By: Robert C. Pozen
    When the credit markets seized up in 2008, many heaped blame on "mark to market" accounting rules, which require banks to write down their troubled assets to the prices they'd fetch if sold on the open market - at the time, next to nothing. Recording those assets below... View Details
    Keywords: Cost Accounting; Fair Value Accounting; Financial Crisis; Assets; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Crisis Management; Standards; Banking Industry
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    • 29 Nov 2021
    • News

    How Bonuses Get Employees to Choose Work Over Family

    • 2024
    • Working Paper

    Does the Case for Private Equity Still Hold?

    By: Nori Gerardo Lietz and Philipp Chvanov
    Private Equity (“PE”) received a 10-fold increase in capital flows since the Great Financial Crisis (“GFC”) Investors sought higher nominal returns relative to those they could obtain in the public capital markets. This paper questions the fundamental assumptions... View Details
    Keywords: Private Equity; Investment Return; Investment Portfolio; Financial Markets
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    • July 1996 (Revised August 2024)
    • Case

    Innovative Opportunities to Manage Health Care Delivery

    By: Regina E. Herzlinger and D. Scott Lurding
    The purpose of this case is: To familiarize the students with the changing landscape of health care delivery, through chains of retail medical centers and those offering value-based care (VBC).

    To discuss fundamental managerial decisions about their... View Details
    Keywords: Managed Care; Capitation; Strategy
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    • 2018
    • Working Paper

    Show or Tell? Improving Agent Decision Making in a Tanzanian Mobile Money Field Experiment

    By: Jason Acimovic, Chris Parker, David F. Drake and Karthik Balasubramanian
    When workers make operational decisions, the firm's global knowledge and the workers’ domain-specific knowledge complement each other. Oftentimes workers have the final decision-making power. Two key decisions a firm makes when designing systems to support these... View Details
    Keywords: Employees; Decision Making; Training; Performance Improvement; Money; Mobile Technology; Developing Countries and Economies; Financial Services Industry
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      Maya Roy

      Maya Roy is a doctoral student in the Business Economics program. Her interests include labor and health. She graduated from MIT in 2020 with a B.S. in Computer Science, Economics, and Data Science. View Details
      • 05 Jul 2022
      • What Do You Think?

      Have We Seen the Peak of Just-in-Time Inventory Management?

      facing new challenges posed by the rise of what John referred to as the “tribal spectrum” and the polarization that accompanies it. Perhaps the most significant question raised by respondents was that of balance. To what extent should a... View Details
      Keywords: by James Heskett; Manufacturing; Shipping; Transportation
      • 27 Sep 2018
      • Research & Ideas

      Religion in the Workplace: What Managers Need to Know

      weddings. We all desire fair and equal treatment, and that’s why we’re here today.” The Supreme Court justices asked a lot of questions, like: Would wedding invitations, floral arrangements, or catered meals... View Details
      Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Food & Beverage; Apparel & Accessories
      • 24 Jun 2002
      • Research & Ideas

      Four Keys of Enduring Success: How High Achievers Win

      satisfying when the individuals were grappling with all four satisfactions almost constantly. Stevenson said it wasn't a balancing act, because the four satisfactions provide contradictory emotions and... View Details
      Keywords: by Martha Lagace
      • 11 Jun 2013
      • First Look

      First Look: June 11

        Publications 2006 Journal of International Business Studies Firm Rivalry, Knowledge Accumulation, and MNE Location Choices By: Alcácer, Juan, Cristian Deszo, and Minyuan Zhao Abstract—The international... View Details
      Keywords: Carmen Nobel

        Eliminating unintended bias in personalized policies using Bias Eliminating Adapted Trees (BEAT) - PNAS

        An inherent risk of algorithmic personalization is disproportionate targeting of individuals from certain groups (or demographic characteristics such as gender or race), even when the decision maker does not intend to discriminate based on those... View Details

        • 24 Feb 2021
        • Lessons from the Classroom

        What History's Biggest Wars Teach Us About Leading in Peace

        balancing perseverance and flexibility when implementing a strategy. He says this war also demonstrates the potential impact of leadership transition on strategy, and the... View Details
        Keywords: by Lane Lambert
        • Web

        2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

        Behavioral Finance and Financial Stability Project, have made tremendous strides in predicting financial market crashes, panics, and crises. Participants left this session... View Details
        • 2017
        • Working Paper

        Intermediation in the Supply of Agricultural Products in Developing Economies

        By: Kris J. Ferreira, Joel Goh and Ehsan Valavi
        Problem Definition: Farmers face several challenges in agricultural supply chains in emerging economies that contribute to extreme levels of poverty. One common challenge is that farmers only have access to one channel, often an auction, for which to sell their crops.... View Details
        Keywords: Developing Countries; Agricultural Supply Chain; Intermediation; Multiple Cahnels; Walrasian Auction; Developing Countries and Economies; Supply Chain; Distribution Channels; Profit; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry
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        • April 2009
        • Article

        How to Market in a Downturn

        By: John A. Quelch and Katherine Jocz
        This article includes a one-page preview that quickly summarizes the key ideas and provides an overview of how the concepts work in practice along with suggestions for further reading. Because no two recessions are exactly alike, marketers find themselves in poorly... View Details
        Keywords: Customers; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Spending; Marketing Strategy; Consumer Behavior; Segmentation
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        • 07 Oct 2015
        • HBS Seminar

        Florian Ederer, Assistant Professor of Economics, Yale School of Management