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  • 22 Jul 2002
  • Research & Ideas

How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”

an "invisible hand" that was largely beyond the control of individual firms. Competitive theory has been advanced at Harvard Business School, shown here under construction. The scope for strategy... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
  • 03 Mar 2014
  • Blog Post

Align Your Social Media and Recruiting Strategies

About.me and Twitter are great places to start, but many candidates are now creating blogs of their own, providing organizations with a way to dig deep into the knowledge and ideas View Details
  • May 1990 (Revised September 1994)
  • Background Note

Note on Financial Reporting Strategy and Analysis When Managers Have Proprietary Information

By: Krishna G. Palepu
Provides a framework that helps explain these real-world observations about accounting and financial statement analysis. When managers have superior information on firms' strategies, and when investors suspect that managers have incentives not to fully disclose this... View Details
Keywords: Financial Reporting; Strategy; Knowledge Management
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Articles - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

not fully understand the importance of complying with all aspects of their recommended treatments, which eventually leads to deteriorating health and higher treatment costs. In... View Details
  • 21 Apr 2020
  • Research & Ideas

7 Successful Battle Strategies to Beat COVID-19

business applications, aimed at empowering teams to better respond to changing customer and competitive threats, are already au fait with this idea of using military strategy to guide project... View Details
Keywords: by Euvin Naidoo
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FAQs - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Involved Videos Books FAQs FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS (FAQS) Benefits of TDABC for Health Care Q: How is Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing (TDABC) useful in health care? A: TDABC provides accurate and actionable data that improves... View Details
  • June 2024
  • Article

Defining Who You Are by Whom You Serve? Strategies for Prosocial–Professional Identity Integration with Clients

By: Lakshmi Ramarajan and Julie Yen
Many professionals want to both achieve professional success and contribute to society. Yet, in some professional contexts, these aims are in tension because serving elite clients is considered the pinnacle of professional success, but professionals themselves may view... View Details
Keywords: Identity; Experience and Expertise; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Behavior; Social Entrepreneurship
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  • March 2024 (Revised May 2025)
  • Case

Governing OpenAI (A)

By: Lynn S. Paine, Suraj Srinivasan and Will Hurwitz
In late November 2023, OpenAI’s new board of directors took stock of the situation. The company, which sought to develop artificial general intelligence (AGI)—computer systems with capabilities exceeding human abilities—was looking to regain its footing after a chaotic... View Details
Keywords: Artificial Intelligence; Board Of Directors; Board Decisions; Board Dynamics; Corporate Boards; Governance Changes; Governance Structure; Leadership Change; Legal Aspects Of Business; Nonprofit Governance; Strategy And Execution; Technological Change; AI and Machine Learning; Corporate Governance; Leadership; Management; Mission and Purpose; Technological Innovation; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Governing and Advisory Boards; Resignation and Termination; Ethics; Nonprofit Organizations; Open Source Distribution; Partners and Partnerships; Technology Industry; San Francisco; United States
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MOC Affiliate Network - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

HBS ISC Resources Resources Video Courses Data Events & Presentations Frameworks News Publications Courses Microeconomics of Competitiveness In 2002, the Microeconomics of Competitiveness (MOC) course was... View Details
  • January 2025
  • Supplement

A Winning Strategy (B): Innovation in Olympic Speed Skating

By: Rebecca Karp, Maria Roche, Maisie Wiltshire-Gordon and Tom Quinn
This case describes the aftermath of decisions made by two innovators in the Olympic sport of speed skating: the U.S. Men’s team, which devised a new approach to the team pursuit event; and Nils van der Poel, a Swedish skater who created a new training plan that defied... View Details
Keywords: Sports; Disruptive Innovation; Innovation Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Knowledge Sharing; Performance Improvement; Sports Industry; United States; Sweden; Netherlands; Norway
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You've Got Mail! The Late 19th-Century U.S. Postal Service Expansion, Firm Creation, and Firm Performance

By: Astrid Marinoni and Maria P. Roche
This paper examines the impact of the expansion of the US Postal Service in the late 19th century on firm creation and performance. Utilizing newly digitized archival data on historic business establishments, post office locations, and road networks in California,... View Details
Keywords: Institutional Innovation; Knowledge Exchange; US Postal Service; Firm Performance; Infrastructure; Expansion; Government Administration; Communication; Business History; Entrepreneurship; Public Administration Industry; California
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Porter Prize India - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

initiative centered in India. The Prize is administered by the Institute for Competitiveness, India, which is dedicated to enlarging and disseminating the body of research and knowledge on competition and... View Details
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Affiliated Organizations & Institutions - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Delivery Project The Global Health Care Delivery Project systematizes the study of global health delivery and rapidly disseminates knowledge through a range of coordinated... View Details
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Online Digital Marketing Strategy Course | HBS Online

Ligenza, Podcaster / Influencer Show Hide Details Concepts Owned Media Earned Media Influencer Marketing Featured Exercises Explore the unique advantages of owned media Test your knowledge View Details
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MOC Network - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

distinctive course platform developed at Harvard Business School by Professor Michael Porter and a team of colleagues at the Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness. The course, which is concerned with... View Details
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Teaching Cases - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

joint venture with a community hospital to establish Hoag Orthopedic Institute, a for-profit hospital and two ambulatory service centers. By controlling and integrating all aspects of the patients' medical... View Details
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Cases & Teaching Notes - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

2017 (Revised Apr 2018) HBS Case Collection The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia: Network Strategy 2016 by Michael E. Porter, Thomas W. Feeley and Toyin J. Okanlawon Children’s Hospital View Details
  • 03 Oct 2023
  • HBS Case

Layoffs Can Be Bad Business: 5 Strategies to Consider Before Cutting Staff

The pattern has become painfully predictable in recent years: As the economy shows signs of a slowdown, companies hand out layoff notices to stabilize profitability and calm investor fears. That cycle seems to be in place in the... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand; Telecommunications; Technology; Financial Services; Manufacturing
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Organize Care Around Medical Conditions - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

teams and services that all manage aspects of breast cancer over the full cycle of care. This would be surgical oncologists, medical oncologists, radiation oncologists,... View Details
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Charting Tariff Pain: Small Businesses Brace for Job Cuts, Falling Sales | Working Knowledge

precisely tailored to address the challenges you are tackling today. More about Working Knowledge Strategy and Innovation More like this Social Responsibility More like this Data and Technology More like... View Details