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- July 1990 (Revised August 1995)
- Case
Symantec--1982-90
By: Nitin Nohria
As Symantec grew from a small, upstart software development company to a major player in the software development industry, the channels of information flow and the internal communication needs of the company became more complex. The geographically-dispersed structure...
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Keywords:
Applications and Software;
Communication Technology;
Communication;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Employee Relationship Management;
Growth and Development;
Knowledge Dissemination;
Knowledge Sharing;
Knowledge Management;
Information Technology Industry;
United States
Nohria, Nitin. "Symantec--1982-90." Harvard Business School Case 491-010, July 1990. (Revised August 1995.)
- September 2011
- Article
How to Solve the Cost Crisis in Health Care
By: Robert S. Kaplan and Michael E. Porter
Existing health care costing systems have serious flaws that make it impossible to measure costs accurately at the individual patient and medical condition level. This gap has severely limited meaningful cost reduction throughout the system. The paper describes a new...
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Keywords:
Cost;
Health Care and Treatment;
Measurement and Metrics;
Service Delivery;
Outcome or Result;
Quality;
Health Industry
Kaplan, Robert S., and Michael E. Porter. "How to Solve the Cost Crisis in Health Care." Harvard Business Review 89, no. 9 (September 2011): 47–64.
- July 1985 (Revised January 1988)
- Case
American Hospital Supply Corp.: The ASAP System (A)
American Hospital Supply, the largest firm in the U.S. hospital supply industry, has achieved success in part through the use of information systems. Changes in the hospital marketplace suggest a shift in strategy would be appropriate. What role should information...
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Keywords:
Information Technology;
Order Taking and Fulfillment;
Distribution Industry;
Health Industry;
United States
Vitale, Michael R. "American Hospital Supply Corp.: The ASAP System (A)." Harvard Business School Case 186-005, July 1985. (Revised January 1988.)
- May 2020 (Revised July 2020)
- Case
COVID-19: The Global Shutdown
By: Laura Alfaro and Sarah Jeong
In the first months of 2020, a pandemic overwhelmed the world. COVID-19, commonly known as the coronavirus, spread from China and created a severe public health emergency across countries. While an immediate fear of the disease’s impact on human life permeated society,...
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Keywords:
Trade;
Microeconomics;
Macroeconomics;
Financial Crisis;
Economy;
Economic Systems;
Economic Slowdown and Stagnation;
Economic Sectors;
Health Pandemics
Alfaro, Laura, and Sarah Jeong. "COVID-19: The Global Shutdown." Harvard Business School Case 320-108, May 2020. (Revised July 2020.)
- Fall 2013
- Article
Engaging Supply Chains in Climate Change
By: Chonnikarn Fern Jira and Michael W. Toffel
Suppliers are increasingly being asked to share information about their vulnerability to climate change and their strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Their responses vary widely. We theorize and empirically identify several factors associated with suppliers...
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Keywords:
Knowledge Sharing;
Motivation and Incentives;
Risk Management;
Climate Change;
Supply Chain Management;
Environmental Sustainability
Jira, Chonnikarn Fern, and Michael W. Toffel. "Engaging Supply Chains in Climate Change." Special Issue on the Environment. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management 15, no. 4 (Fall 2013): 559–577.
- July 2017
- Article
Inflation Expectations, Learning, and Supermarket Prices: Evidence from Survey Experiments
By: Alberto Cavallo, Guillermo Cruces and Ricardo Perez-Truglia
Information frictions play a central role in the formation of household inflation expectations, but there is no consensus about their origins. We address this question with novel evidence from survey experiments. We document two main findings. First, individuals in...
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Keywords:
Inflation Expectations;
Survey Experiment;
Rational Inattention;
Supermarkets;
Macroeconomics;
Household;
Inflation and Deflation;
Policy
Cavallo, Alberto, Guillermo Cruces, and Ricardo Perez-Truglia. "Inflation Expectations, Learning, and Supermarket Prices: Evidence from Survey Experiments." American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics 9, no. 3 (July 2017): 1–35.
- July 2004
- Tool
Developmental Network Questionnaire (CW)
By: Monica C. Higgins, John Galvin and Denis Saulnier
Solicits information about the network of people who provided career developmental assistance for respondents and presents information about the structure and diversity of the developmental network.
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- 2023
- Book
How the Harvard Business School Changed the Way We View Organizations
By: Jay W. Lorsch
The story of the field of organizational behavior (which overlaps considerably with the origin story of Harvard Business School) and how it created the “medical model” of systems thinking—anchored in the practices of listening, observing, testing, and only then...
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Keywords:
Organizational Behavior;
Systems Thinking;
Medical Model;
Organizations;
Behavior;
System;
History
Lorsch, Jay W. How the Harvard Business School Changed the Way We View Organizations. Business Expert Press, 2023.
- June 2007
- Article
Merchant or Two-Sided Platform?
By: Andrei Hagiu
This paper provides a first pass at clarifying the economic tradeoffs between two polar strategies for market intermediation: the "merchant" mode, in which the intermediary buys from sellers and resells to buyers; and the "two-sided platform" mode, under which the...
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Hagiu, Andrei. "Merchant or Two-Sided Platform?" Review of Network Economics 6, no. 2 (June 2007): 115–133.
Arthur C. Brooks
Arthur C. Brooks is the Parker Gilbert Montgomery Professor of the Practice of Public Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School, and Professor of Management Practice at the Harvard Business School, where he teaches courses on leadership, happiness, and... View Details
- 01 Jan 2014
- News
Competing with Privacy
- 2020
- Chapter
Team Reflexivity
By: Michaéla Schippers, Amy C. Edmondson and Michael A. West
Many teams face the problem of process loss, or suboptimal functioning, with sometimes serious consequences, such as medical errors. Team reflexivity—a deliberate process of discussing team goals, processes, or outcomes—can aid in optimizing team performance. In the...
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Keywords:
Team Reflexivity;
Groups and Teams;
Performance Improvement;
Information;
Goals and Objectives;
Learning
Schippers, Michaéla, Amy C. Edmondson, and Michael A. West. "Team Reflexivity." In The Oxford Handbook of Group and Organizational Learning, edited by Linda Argote and John M. Levine. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2020.
Jeff Gortmaker
Jeff Gortmaker is a doctoral student in the Business Economics program. Previously, he studied at Columbia University and worked as a research analyst at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. His research interests include industrial organization, finance, and...
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- April 2011 (Revised June 2011)
- Case
Internet Securities, Inc.: Path to Sustainability
By: Lynda M. Applegate, William R. Kerr and Ryan Johnson
Founded in 1994 when the Internet was still a "toy for techies," the case is set in 1998 when Internet IPOs were red-hot. Internet Securities provides hard-to-find financial, business, economic, and political information on emerging markets. Information from over 600...
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Keywords:
Acquisition;
Business Model;
Business Startups;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Venture Capital;
Cash Flow;
Initial Public Offering;
Analytics and Data Science;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Valuation
Applegate, Lynda M., William R. Kerr, and Ryan Johnson. "Internet Securities, Inc.: Path to Sustainability." Harvard Business School Case 811-098, April 2011. (Revised June 2011.)
Wilbur Townsend
Wilbur Townsend studied economics, mathematics and philosophy at Victoria University of Wellington. Since, he has worked at Stanford and Harvard universities, and at Motu Economic and Public Policy Research. He is interested in labor, econometrics, theory and IO.
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- 26 Jan 2024
- Blog Post
Access real-world employment data from HBS alumni with the Career Trends tool
information submitted by alumni and is completely confidential. Keep in mind the more filters you add to a query, the fewer data points will meet the parameters. When the number falls under a certain threshold, the query will not yield...
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- April 2021 (Revised December 2022)
- Case
Capitalism, Slavery, and Reparations
By: Sophus A. Reinert and Cary Williams
The birth of “Modern Economic Growth” constituted a watershed in human history, allowing societies to escape the Malthusian impasse and permanently raise living standards. While the new growth regime had lifted billions of people out of extreme poverty over the last...
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Keywords:
Reparations;
Living Standards;
Poverty;
Social Issues;
Economic Growth;
Equality and Inequality;
Globalized Economies and Regions;
Human Needs
Reinert, Sophus A., and Cary Williams. "Capitalism, Slavery, and Reparations." Harvard Business School Case 721-044, April 2021. (Revised December 2022.)
Yaxuan Chen
Yaxuan is a fifth-year doctoral student at Harvard Business School. Her research broadly examines design choices of management control systems, with a special focus on organizational culture as an informal control mechanism and how it interacts with other formal... View Details
- 19 Aug 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #8: The Role of Solar and Wind Farming (and Other Tools) in the United States’ Clean Energy Future
difficult it is to align on transmission planning and cost allocation rules with so many competing resources, state policies, and economic interests at play. It leads to literal gridlock in more ways than one. Transmission is the...
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- January 1991 (Revised November 1994)
- Case
Black Caucus Groups at Xerox Corp. (A)
In 1970 Xerox had a very progressive affirmative action program yet, once hired, black employees faced serious problems, due both to overt discrimination and to their exclusion from the informal networks of support, information and mentoring that the other salespeople...
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Keywords:
Prejudice and Bias;
Alliances;
Race Characteristics;
Employees;
Consumer Products Industry;
Electronics Industry;
United States
Friedman, Raymond A. "Black Caucus Groups at Xerox Corp. (A)." Harvard Business School Case 491-047, January 1991. (Revised November 1994.)