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  • June 2001
  • Teaching Note

Role of Intermediaries in Supply Chains TN

By: Ananth Raman
Describes the role of intermediaries in the Coordinating and Managing Supply Chains elective course at HBS. Contrary to many observers' predictions, intermediaries have continued to survive and even grow. This module examines the ways in which intermediaries can add... View Details
Keywords: Cost of Capital; Cost Management; Labor; Supply Chain Management; Motivation and Incentives
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  • 18 Mar 2014
  • News

Massachusetts' Hard Look at Hospital Mergers

    Louis T. Wells

    Professor Louis T. Wells is the Herbert F. Johnson Professor of International Management at the Harvard Business School. He has served as consultant to governments of a number of developing countries, as well as to international organizations and private firms. His... View Details

    Keywords: mining; telecommunications; utilities

      Crystal Guo

      Crystal Guo is a doctoral student in the Health Policy Management PhD program at Harvard. Prior to pursuing her PhD, Crystal received her B.A. in English and Economics from the University of California, Berkeley in 2019 and completed her Health Policy and Management,... View Details
      Keywords: health care
      • January 2014 (Revised August 2014)
      • Case

      The Kursk Submarine Rescue Mission

      By: Anette Mikes
      The Kursk, a Russian nuclear-powered submarine sank in the relatively shallow waters of the Barents Sea in August 2000, during a naval exercise. Numerous survivors were reported to be awaiting rescue, and within a week, an international rescue party gathered at the... View Details
      Keywords: Risk Management; Moral Sensibility; Leadership; Organizational Structure; Crisis Management; Failure; Cooperation; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Norway; United Kingdom; Russia
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      • October 1997 (Revised March 2000)
      • Case

      Oxford Health Plans: Specialty Management (A)

      By: James L. Heskett, Jody H. Gittell and James Slayton
      Describes an innovative approach to organizing health care proposed by Oxford CEO Steve Wiggins. Wiggins contends that the primary care physician "gatekeeper" model typically used by health maintenance organizations to control access to and coordinate specialist care... View Details
      Keywords: Business Model; Groups and Teams; Innovation and Management; Medical Specialties; Health Care and Treatment; Cooperation; Management Teams; Health Industry; United States
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      • 01 Jul 2009
      • News

      Harvard Business School Offers Custom Program for Multicultural Executives

      • March 2007 (Revised August 2009)
      • Case

      Will RacingThePlanet Ltd. Reach the Finish Line?

      Mary Gadams, founder and CEO of RacingThePlanet is facing one of the many logistical crises that her young Hong Kong-based venture faces as it stages its popular 4Deserts(tm) adventure marathon series in Atacama Chile, Gobi Desert Mongolia, Sahara Desert Egypt, and... View Details
      Keywords: Global Range; Business or Company Management; Logistics; Entrepreneurship; Globalization; Sports Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Hong Kong; Egypt; Mongolia; Chile; Antarctica
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      • 2013
      • Working Paper

      Separating Homophily and Peer Influence with Latent Space

      By: Joseph P. Davin, Sunil Gupta and Mikolaj Jan Piskorski
      We study the impact of peer behavior on the adoption of mobile apps in a social network. To identify social influence properly, we introduce latent space as an approach to control for latent homophily, the idea that "birds of a feather flock together." In a series of... View Details
      Keywords: Social Influence; Social Network; Mobile App; Peer Effects; Latent Homophily; Latent Space; Proxy Variables; Familiarity; Behavior; Consumer Behavior; Applications and Software; Social and Collaborative Networks; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Power and Influence; Social Media
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        Edward B. Berk

        Ted Berk is the Barry and Teri Volpert Fellow and a Senior Lecturer of Business Administration in the Finance Unit at Harvard Business School. He teaches Private Equity Finance in the elective curriculum and Finance I & II in the required curriculum.

        Ted... View Details

        • October 1992 (Revised October 1993)
        • Case

        MCI Communications Corporation: National Accounts Program (Condensed)

        By: Frank V. Cespedes
        Concerns the early stages of a major-account program at MCI, a telecommunications firm seeking to penetrate the corporate-account market. Among the issues are: 1) coordination of field sales efforts with national account selling efforts; 2) sales strategy for major... View Details
        Keywords: Accounting; Decision Choices and Conditions; Training; Compensation and Benefits; Management Practices and Processes; Marketing Strategy; Groups and Teams; Sales
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        • January–February 2017
        • Article

        The Truth about Blockchain

        By: Marco Iansiti and Karim R. Lakhani
        Contracts, transactions, and records of them provide critical structure in our economic system, but they haven’t kept up with the world’s digital transformation. They’re like rush-hour gridlock trapping a Formula 1 race car. Blockchain promises to solve this problem.... View Details
        Keywords: Technological Innovation; Technology Adoption; Information Management; Information Technology Industry
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        • 08 Apr 2016
        • Blog Post

        Working With Organizations That Recruit at HBS: An Interview with Harley Munsell

        student programming and coordinated the office’s event planning. It’s really interesting to have experienced two different departments around campus and I’m glad to have had the opportunity. What is the best part about working with... View Details
        Keywords: Consulting
        • 2006
        • Working Paper

        Managing Functional Biases in Organizational Forecasts: A Case Study of Consensus Forecasting in Supply Chain Planning

        To date, little research has been done on managing the organizational and political dimensions of generating and improving forecasts in corporate settings. We examine the implementation of a supply chain planning process at a consumer electronics company, concentrating... View Details
        Keywords: Prejudice and Bias; Business or Company Management; Supply Chain Management; Forecasting and Prediction; Planning; Electronics Industry
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          Roy D. Shapiro

          Roy D. Shapiro is the Philip Caldwell Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration.  He is currently the faculty co-chair of the School's Technology and Operations Management Unit... View Details

          • July 2014
          • Article

          Project Complexity and Systems Integration: Constructing the London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics Games

          By: Andrew Davies and Ian Mackenzie
          Our study of the London Olympics 2012 construction programme showed that systems integration is one of the major challenges involved in delivery of a complex "system of systems"—or array—project. Organizations cope with complexity by decomposing a project into... View Details
          Keywords: Integration; Construction; Complexity; Sports; Projects; Construction Industry; Sports Industry; London
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          • 15 May 2012
          • First Look

          First Look: May 15

            PublicationsThe Two Facets of Collaboration: Cooperation and Coordination in Strategic Alliances Authors:Ranjay Gulati, Franz Wohlgezogen, and Pavel Zhelyazkov Publication:The Academy of Management Annals (forthcoming) Abstract This... View Details
          Keywords: Carmen Nobel
          • Research Summary

          Overview

          By: Goran Calic
          What makes some organizations more innovative than others? Innovation follows from strategy and structure. A good strategy allows individuals to impose their own imagination towards organizational goals in a coordinated way. Good structure adds incentives that... View Details
          • 18 Oct 2020
          • News

          Tax Increase for Corporations Looks More Likely as Election Nears

          • 24 Jul 2024
          • News

          Know Your HBS Staff: Andy Martinez