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Corporate Strategy - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

HBS ISC Strategy Strategy Strategy Explained Business Strategy Creating a Successful Strategy Corporate Strategy The Role of Leaders Related Topics Corporate Strategy Corporate Strategy Big companies aren’t necessarily more successful than small ones. Growing,... View Details

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Systems Integration - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

the system. Map showing locations of centers in New Yor Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware The Rothman Institute in Philadelphia, a regional orthopedic practice, represents a different type of a value oriented regional expansion. They... View Details

March 2025 (Revised April 2025)
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Moving Science: The Rowland Institute at Harvard

By: Maria Roche

Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 724-441. View Details

Keywords: Optics; Engineering; Higher Education; Strategy; Science; Buildings and Facilities; Research and Development; Real Estate Industry; Biotechnology Industry

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Studying Elites in Institutions of Higher Education

By: Scott Snook and Rakesh Khurana

Keywords: Organizational Research; Research; Organizations

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1999
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Unemployment Shocks and Endogenous Labor Market Institutions

By: Rafael Di Tella and Robert MacCulloch

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2000
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Environmental Destruction: Individual, Organizational, and Institutional Explanations

By: M. H. Bazerman and A. J. Hoffman

Keywords: Situation or Environment; Organizational Design; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Behavior

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October 2020 (Revised April 2022)
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When Institutions Fail: HIV/AIDS in the 1980s

By: Tom Nicholas and Christian Godwin

During the early 1980s, young gay men in urban centers such as San Francisco and New York City began contracting a mysterious illness that would come to be known as HIV/AIDS. A diagnosis meant almost certain death, with a less than 1% survival rate. Conflicting... View Details

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Private Regulation, Institutional Entrepreneurship and Climate Change: A Business History Perspective

By: Ann-Kristin Bergquist and Geoffrey Jones

Private regulatory systems, including voluntary efforts by firms to restrain their own behavior are the primary form of global climate change governance. However, when environmental challenges first rose up on the scientific and political agendas during the 1970s, the... View Details

Keywords: Certification; Climate Change; Environmental Regulation; Business History; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Policy

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December 2011 (Revised September 2014)
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The Kid Grows Up: Decisions at the Sundance Institute

By: Mukti Khaire and Eleanor Kenyon

The Sundance case raises the question of how markets for innovative cultural products can be created and what the role of intermediaries in creative industries ought to be. The case describes the history of the Sundance Institute, which was founded by actor/director... View Details

Keywords: Entertainment; Entrepreneurship; Decision Making; Film Entertainment; Motion Pictures and Video Industry; United States

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Making Strategic Trade-offs - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

HBS ISC Strategy Strategy Strategy Explained Business Strategy Creating a Successful Strategy Corporate Strategy The Role of Leaders Related Topics Creating a Successful St... Creating a Successful Strategy Unique Value Proposition Distinctive Value Chain Making... View Details

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The Value Chain - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

HBS ISC Strategy Strategy Strategy Explained Business Strategy Creating a Successful Strategy Corporate Strategy The Role of Leaders Related Topics Business Strategy Business Strategy The Five Forces Strategic Positioning The Value Chain Operational Effectiveness vs.... View Details

12 Feb 2015
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Stayin’ Alive: Technology and the End of Institutions

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Cluster Studies - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Development in Inner Cities Economic Development in Rural Areas Cluster Studies International Cluster Competitiveness Profiles Cluster Studies Cluster Studies Clusters are geographic concentrations of interconnected companies, specialized suppliers, service providers,... View Details

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Environmental Quality - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

environmental regulation on business by declaring that well designed regulation could actually enhance competitiveness. Since then, Professor Porter and the Institute have continued to explore how new government regulations, as well as... View Details

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The Post-Pandemic Future for Corporations for Institutions and Civic Society

Please join us for a fireside chat on The Post-Pandemic Future for Corporations for Institutions and Civic Society. Hosted by the Harvard Club of the Philippines, this event will feature a conversation between former HBS Dean Nitin Nohria, Atlantic Media Company... View Details