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- February 2008 (Revised December 2011)
- Case
Sealed Air China
By: Regina Abrami, William C. Kirby, F. Warren McFarlan and Tracy Yuen Manty
With a 10-year history of doing business in China, Sealed Air was now betting on the country to help propel its growth as a global company. The company identified China as one of the initial investments in the company's Global Manufacturing Strategy that aimed to...
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Keywords:
Investment Return;
Multinational Firms and Management;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Production;
Manufacturing Industry;
Shanghai
Abrami, Regina, William C. Kirby, F. Warren McFarlan, and Tracy Yuen Manty. "Sealed Air China." Harvard Business School Case 308-051, February 2008. (Revised December 2011.)
- May 2021
- Simulation
Customer Compatibility Exercise Application
By: Ryan W. Buell
Customers impose considerable variability on the operating systems of service organizations. They show up when they wish (arrival variability), they ask for different things (request variability), they vary in their willingness and ability to help themselves (effort...
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- Article
Professionalism, Fiduciary Duty, and Health-Related Business Leadership
Expanding fiduciary duty to leaders of health-related businesses can help leaders meet the challenges of caring for not only the corporation and shareholders but also the patients and medical professionals. How should leaders of health-related businesses weigh the...
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Margolis, Joshua D. "Professionalism, Fiduciary Duty, and Health-Related Business Leadership." JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association 313, no. 18 (May 12, 2015): 1819–1820.
- August 2008 (Revised May 2009)
- Case
Consumer Payment Systems — Japan
By: Benjamin Edelman and Andrei Hagiu
In 2008, the Japanese consumer payments landscape featured ongoing widespread use of cash, limited use of credit cards and rapid rise of e-money systems based on contactless technology embedded in cards and especially mobile phones. The case details the alliances that...
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Keywords:
Personal Finance;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Digital Platforms;
Alliances;
Competitive Strategy;
Information Infrastructure;
Mobile and Wireless Technology;
Japan
Edelman, Benjamin, and Andrei Hagiu. "Consumer Payment Systems — Japan." Harvard Business School Case 909-007, August 2008. (Revised May 2009.) (request a courtesy copy.)
- May 1994
- Background Note
Managing Market Complexity: A Three-Ring Circus
Proposes models of organization that address the various product-market environments posed by the product life cycle. Frames these changes along the two dimensions of uncertainty and diversity. Offers three sets of organizational characteristics to reflect the three...
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Keywords:
Business Processes;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Complexity;
Organizational Structure;
Organizational Culture;
Product Marketing;
Markets;
Product
Rangan, V. Kasturi. "Managing Market Complexity: A Three-Ring Circus." Harvard Business School Background Note 594-119, May 1994.
- 20 Feb 2019
- News
Operational Transparency
- 5 Nov 2005 - 8 Nov 2005
- Conference Presentation
New Perspectives on the Business Value of IT
By: David James Brunner, Bradley R. Staats and Marco Iansiti
We sought to unravel the link between IT investment and firm performance by examining deployed IT functionality (ITF). First, ITF appears to be an important link in the IT spend to business value chain. Second, ITF does not seem to be a commodity and has...
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- May–June 2020
- Article
The Agenda for the Next Generation of Health Care Information Technology
By: Thomas W. Feeley, Zachary Landman and Michael E. Porter
As the diffusion of value-based health care efforts accelerates globally, the need for interoperable information technology systems that support value-based care is essential. Such systems are needed to facilitate dramatic improvements in patient outcomes and...
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Keywords:
Value-based Health Care;
Health Care and Treatment;
Information Technology;
Integration;
Performance Improvement;
Performance Efficiency
Feeley, Thomas W., Zachary Landman, and Michael E. Porter. "The Agenda for the Next Generation of Health Care Information Technology." NEJM Catalyst Innovations in Care Delivery 1, no. 3 (May–June 2020).
- 27 Jan 2015
- Working Paper Summaries
College Admissions as Non-Price Competition: The Case of South Korea
- 17 Oct 2016
- Working Paper Summaries
Self-Employment Dynamics and the Returns to Entrepreneurship
- Research Summary
Collaborative Planning, Forecasting and Replenishment (CPFR)
Conducting research on new management concepts in supply chain management like CPFR. Identifying best practices in the nine-step-CPFR process. Major differences in CPFR-implementation in the U.S., Europe, South America, Asia and Africa.Linking e-marketplaces in the...
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- Research Summary
Do Equity Covariances Reflect Financial Leverage?
No arbitrage option pricing theory and the efficient market hypothesis predict that firms with higher financial leverage should have higher equity betas, all else equal. This paper finds little support in the data for this prediction. Within industry, there is large...
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Portfolio Betas Do Not Make for Better Asset Pricing Tests
Many papers claim that because using portfolios instead of individual stocks as test assets minimizes idiosyncratic volatility, their use also yields more precise estimates of risk premia. I show that while portfolio formation does lead to more efficient beta...
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- November 1992 (Revised December 1994)
- Case
BEA Associates: Enhanced Equity Index Funds
By: Andre F. Perold
BEA's enhanced index fund product uses derivatives and cash market securities to find the most efficient way to "track an index." The considerations involve transaction costs, custodial fees, withholding taxes on dividends, and fees from securities lending. In this...
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Keywords:
Credit Derivatives and Swaps;
Investment Portfolio;
Management;
Investment Banking;
Competitive Advantage;
Cost Management
Perold, Andre F. "BEA Associates: Enhanced Equity Index Funds." Harvard Business School Case 293-024, November 1992. (Revised December 1994.)
- 2014
- Working Paper
The Rising Cost of Consumer Attention: Why You Should Care, and What You Can Do about It
By: Thales S. Teixeira
Attention is a necessary ingredient for effective advertising. The market for consumer attention (or "eyeballs") has become so competitive that attention can be regarded as a currency. The rising cost of this ingredient in the marketplace is causing marketers to waste...
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Teixeira, Thales S. "The Rising Cost of Consumer Attention: Why You Should Care, and What You Can Do about It." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 14-055, January 2014.
- May 2017 (Revised February 2024)
- Case
Battle for the Soul of Capitalism: Unilever and the Kraft Heinz Takeover Bid (A)
By: William W. George and Amram Migdal
This case describes Kraft Heinz Company’s (KHC) February 2017 unsolicited $143 billion takeover offer to acquire Unilever. The offer was made to Unilever CEO Paul Polman by KHC chairman Alexandre Behring, who was also co-founder and CEO of Brazilian-based 3G Capital...
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George, William W., and Amram Migdal. "Battle for the Soul of Capitalism: Unilever and the Kraft Heinz Takeover Bid (A)." Harvard Business School Case 317-127, May 2017. (Revised February 2024.)
- August 2017
- Article
The First Deal: The Division of Founder Equity in New Ventures
By: Thomas F. Hellmann and Noam Wasserman
We examine the trade-off between efficiency and equality within the context of entrepreneurial founding teams. Using a formal theory where founders may have preferences over relative outcomes, we derive predictions about the antecedents and consequences of dividing...
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Hellmann, Thomas F., and Noam Wasserman. "The First Deal: The Division of Founder Equity in New Ventures." Management Science 63, no. 8 (August 2017): 2647–2666.
- June 2009
- Article
Level Playing Fields in International Financial Regulation
By: Lucy White and Alan Morrison
We analyze the desirability of level playing fields in international financial regulation. In general, level playing fields impose the standards of the weakest regulator upon the best-regulated economies. However, they may be desirable when capital is mobile because...
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Keywords:
Economy;
International Finance;
Multinational Firms and Management;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Standards;
Banking Industry
White, Lucy, and Alan Morrison. "Level Playing Fields in International Financial Regulation." Journal of Finance 64, no. 3 (June 2009): 1099–1142.
- 01 Nov 2006
- News