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- 24 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 24
Management Accounting and Control: Lessons for and from the World's Tiniest Businesses Authors:Srikant M. Datar, Marc J. Epstein, and Kristi Yuthas Publication:Strategic Finance (November 2009) Abstract The article discusses skills...
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Martha Lagace
- July 2019 (Revised October 2022)
- Case
Jai Vakeel Foundation: Addressing Disability
By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Kairavi Dey
Jai Vakeel, a nonprofit organization in India, serves individuals with Intellectual Disability (ID), those with an IQ below 70. The organization was founded by the parents of a child with Down Syndrome, and they (and their next generation) steadily built the...
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Keywords:
Social Enterprise;
Nonprofit Organizations;
Transition;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Family Business;
Health Care and Treatment;
India
Rangan, V. Kasturi, and Kairavi Dey. "Jai Vakeel Foundation: Addressing Disability." Harvard Business School Case 520-010, July 2019. (Revised October 2022.)
- 27 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 27
explain how to generate ideas with these skills, collaborate with "delivery-driven" colleagues to implement ideas, and build innovation skills throughout your organization to sharpen its competitive edge. They also provide a...
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Sean Silverthorne
- September 2008 (Revised June 2013)
- Case
Odyssey Healthcare
By: Robert F. Higgins, Virginia Fuller and Umer Raffat
In January 2001, Dick Burnham, CEO of Odyssey Healthcare, and Odyssey's Board of Directors were considering selling the hospice care company to a larger provider or making an initial public offering (IPO). With 38 hospice locations in 21 states, Odyssey had been...
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Keywords:
Liquidity;
Venture Creation/development;
Hospice;
Venture Capital;
Financial Liquidity;
Business Exit or Shutdown;
Business Growth and Maturation;
Business Plan;
Entrepreneurship;
Health Industry;
United States
Higgins, Robert F., Virginia Fuller, and Umer Raffat. "Odyssey Healthcare." Harvard Business School Case 809-052, September 2008. (Revised June 2013.)
- 18 Oct 2019
- News
Companies’ Non-GAAP Adjustments to Net Income Have Soared
- October 2018
- Supplement
JetBlue: Relevant Sustainability Leadership (B)
By: George Serafeim and David Freiberg
The case outlines JetBlue's decision to disclose according to the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) standards and the ESG metrics they began reporting. Data on resulting changes in institutional ownership are also provided.
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Sustainability;
Metrics;
Leadership And Change Management;
Airlines;
Innovation;
Purpose;
ESG;
ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) Performance;
Sustainability Reporting;
Change Management;
Leadership;
Mission and Purpose;
Financial Reporting
Serafeim, George, and David Freiberg. "JetBlue: Relevant Sustainability Leadership (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 119-044, October 2018.
- 2008
- Book
On Competition
By: M. E. Porter
Competition is one of society's most powerful forces for making things better in many fields of human endeavor. The study of competition and the creation of value, in their full richness, have preoccupied me for several decades. Competition is pervasive, whether it...
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Porter, M. E. On Competition. Updated and Expanded Ed. Boston: Harvard Business School Publishing, 2008.
- 24 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Can Obamacare Be Saved?
company to pull out of the exchanges. The largest health insurer in the US, UnitedHealth Group, never really embraced the exchanges in the first place and has also suspended the sale of many of its plans on the exchanges for 2017. Obamacare needs assistance from...
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- September 2009 (Revised May 2011)
- Supplement
Acumen Fund: Measurement in Impact Investing (B)
By: Alnoor Ebrahim and V. Kasturi Rangan
As Acumen Fund, a global venture philanthropy firm, moves forward with an investment portfolio exceeding $22 million, it runs into two critical measurement problems. First, how should it track the performance of each investment when its interest is not just the bottom...
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Keywords:
Venture Capital;
Investment Portfolio;
Philanthropy and Charitable Giving;
Standards;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Performance Evaluation;
Social Enterprise;
Competition;
Financial Services Industry;
Kenya
Ebrahim, Alnoor, and V. Kasturi Rangan. "Acumen Fund: Measurement in Impact Investing (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 310-017, September 2009. (Revised May 2011.)
- July 2023
- Teaching Note
Belden and Digital Transformation: From Product Sales to Solutions Sales
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 823-002. Belden manufactures devices such as switches, cables, adapters, and connectors. Faced with market changes, the firm initiated a new Enhanced Solutions Delivery (ESD) initiative. In November 2022 executives are evaluating the...
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- February 2008 (Revised November 2011)
- Case
The International Monetary Fund in Crisis
By: Rawi Abdelal, David Moss and Eugene Kintgen
When Dominique Strauss-Kahn became the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund in late 2007, he faced a number of significant changes. The organization had lost much of its legitimacy over the previous decade, and countries seemed increasingly reluctant to...
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Keywords:
History;
Globalized Economies and Regions;
Problems and Challenges;
Developing Countries and Economies;
Borrowing and Debt;
Government and Politics;
Financial Institutions;
Business Strategy;
Macroeconomics;
Financial Services Industry
Abdelal, Rawi, David Moss, and Eugene Kintgen. "The International Monetary Fund in Crisis." Harvard Business School Case 708-035, February 2008. (Revised November 2011.)
- 15 Jun 2015
- News
Target to sell its drugstores to CVS for $1.9b
- 08 Nov 2018
- Blog Post
Career Choices for the Class of 2018
The Class of 2018 has continued the trend of finding opportunities in diverse sectors across the landscape of MBA hiring, including positions in hospitality, real estate and health care delivery in addition to roles in consulting, private...
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All Industries
- 2009
- Working Paper
Taking a 'Deep Dive': What Only a Top Leader Can Do
By: Howard H. Yu and Joseph L. Bower
Unlike most historical accounts of strategic change inside large firms, empirical research on strategic management rarely uses the day-to-day behaviors of top executives as the unit of analysis. By examining the resource allocation process closely, we introduce the...
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Keywords:
Leading Change;
Management Practices and Processes;
Resource Allocation;
Business Processes;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Organizational Culture;
Organizational Structure
Yu, Howard H., and Joseph L. Bower. "Taking a 'Deep Dive': What Only a Top Leader Can Do." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 09-109, April 2009. (Revised February 2010, May 2010.)
- 16 Jul 2014
- HBS Case
Marketing Obamacare
It's safe to say that the rollout of the Affordable Care Act was not pretty. Plagued by technical problems on Healthcare.gov, and stymied by a lack of political support in around half of the 50 states, the federal healthcare exchange set...
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- July 2000 (Revised August 2005)
- Case
Deaconess-Glover Hospital (A)
Chronicles the initial efforts to teach a health care organization to manage itself according to the principles of the Toyota Production System (TPS). Describes the decision and dilemmas that arose from the implementation experiment. Builds on Bowen and Spear's earlier...
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Spear, Steven J., and John Kenagy. "Deaconess-Glover Hospital (A)." Harvard Business School Case 601-022, July 2000. (Revised August 2005.)
- March 2023 (Revised June 2023)
- Teaching Note
Ransomware Attack at Springhill Medical Center
By: Suraj Srinivasan and Li-Kuan (Jason) Ni
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 123-065. In July, 2019, Springhill Medical Center (“SMC”) in Mobile, Alabama fell prey to a malicious ransomware attack that crippled the hospital’s internal network systems and public-facing web page. While the hospital rushed to...
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Keywords:
Disruption;
Communication;
Communication Strategy;
Decision Making;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Judgments;
Corporate Accountability;
Corporate Disclosure;
Corporate Governance;
Governance Controls;
Policy;
Employees;
News;
Cybersecurity;
Digital Strategy;
Information Infrastructure;
Information Management;
Internet and the Web;
Crisis Management;
Business or Company Management;
Resource Allocation;
Risk Management;
Negotiation Tactics;
Failure;
Business and Stakeholder Relations;
Attitudes;
Behavior;
Perception;
Reputation;
Trust;
Public Opinion;
Social Issues;
Health Industry;
Alabama;
United States
- 20 Nov 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, November 20, 2018
organizations is based on value, on average. While three-quarters of their revenue remains fee-for-service, we see a remarkable change to a reimbursement system that was static for decades. In particular, survey respondents’ View Details
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Dina Gerdeman
- 16 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 16, 2019
all become consumers of the health care industry. Indeed, health care affects everyone and encompasses a diverse set of services from childbirth, to illness prevention, to the management of chronic disease...
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Dina Gerdeman