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- 12 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Rocket Science Retailing: A Practical Guide
when Boss's products were in short supply. By taking the in-stock rate close to 100 percent, Boss reassured retailers that certain SKUs would never be out of stock. Many retailers responded by dropping the insurance brand from their...
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- 30 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 30
dream to have his own business. The case is a rewritten version of a previous case 899-212, updating the dates and financial data to 2012 timeframe. Purchase this case:http://hbr.org/search/813045-PDF-ENG Paul Thomson: Walker Insurance...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Teaching Interest
Cities, Structures, and Climate Shocks
By: John D. Macomber
This course is about building sustainable and resilient cities, future proofing real estate and infrastructure assets, and examining how businesses and investors find opportunities in climate adaptation.
The world faces substantial challenges in the face of... View Details
- 08 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 8, 2008
of luck is the share of the oil industry in the state's economy multiplied by the price of oil. The correlation is negative, suggesting that more reliance on luck is correlated with less individualism. We provide three short models that...
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Martha Lagace
- 19 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 19
traditional Chinese private business was launched and developed into a globalizing, multi-industry corporation. It also highlights how second generation entrepreneurs successfully developed an innovative industry model to sustain a green...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 2015
- Working Paper
Markets with Price Coherence
By: Benjamin Edelman and Julian Wright
In markets with price coherence, the purchase of a given good via an intermediary is constrained to occur at the same price as a purchase of that same good directly from the seller (or through another competing intermediary). We examine ten markets with price...
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Intermediaries;
Platforms;
Two-Sided Markets;
Vertical Restraints;
Price;
Distribution Channels;
Business History;
Financial Services Industry;
Financial Services Industry;
Financial Services Industry;
Financial Services Industry;
Financial Services Industry
Edelman, Benjamin, and Julian Wright. "Markets with Price Coherence." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 15-061, January 2015. (Revised March 2015.)
- 17 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 17
for systemically risky firms that would take a holistic look at the five systems to identify weaknesses, make recommendations to managers and boards, and set regulatory policies, including assessing charges for insuring against losses....
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Martha Lagace
- Web
America on the Move - U.S. Competitiveness
Harvard Business School, "America on the Move: Transportation and Infrastructure for the 21st Century." The Summit included many industries and sectors that do not often appear together, and discussions emphasized the perspective of...
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- May 25, 2016
- Comment
How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health
By: John A. Quelch
Healthcare and education are two issues in which citizens around the world, rich and poor, are passionately interested. It has long been appreciated that the way that a society treats its youngest and oldest members says much about its moral maturity. Economic...
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Healthcare;
Consumer Power;
Innovation In Healthcare Delivery;
Mobile Healthcare;
Transition;
Transformation;
Trends;
Customer Satisfaction;
Customer Value and Value Chain;
Health Care and Treatment;
Information;
Collaborative Innovation and Invention;
Independent Innovation and Invention;
Innovation and Management;
Innovation Leadership;
Management;
Marketing;
Markets;
Planning;
Problems and Challenges;
Biotechnology Industry;
Biotechnology Industry;
Biotechnology Industry;
Biotechnology Industry;
Biotechnology Industry;
Biotechnology Industry;
Biotechnology Industry;
Biotechnology Industry;
Biotechnology Industry;
Biotechnology Industry;
Biotechnology Industry;
Biotechnology Industry;
South America;
North and Central America;
Middle East;
Europe;
Asia
Quelch, John A. "How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health." Harvard Business School Working Knowledge (May 25, 2016).
- 14 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 14
https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/415066-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 815-088 John D. Rockefeller: The Richest Man in the World By the late nineteenth century, scale and managerial hierarchies had extended to several major View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
car company. You need to go to business school.” In 2006, during his first year at HBS, Rogers sought out sectionmate Jeff Jones (MBA 2007), who had just left a job at Ford. On a run along the Charles one day, Jones laid out the state of the automotive View Details
- 10 Aug 2022
- News
Skydeck Live: Stage Not Age
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes This is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Susan Wilner Golden (PMD 59, 1990) had a very frustrating experience caring for her aging mother. With her background as a graduate of the HBS Program for Management...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
rapid technological change and industry consolidation, Bob has championed a wide range of causes. Those include racial and gender equity, LGBTQ rights, and early childhood education. He has also significantly diversified the bank’s...
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- 08 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017
intuitions from industrial organization can be reversed: Collusion may become easier as market concentration falls, and market entry may in fact facilitate collusion. In particular, price collusion can be sustained by a strategy in which...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
Strategy and Execution for Emerging Markets
reasonable prices are in demand. One example: In health care, GE is producing a computerized tomography (CT) scan machine that is functional without a lot of bells and whistles. It was designed originally for the Chinese market where patients without View Details
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by Martha Lagace
- 08 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 8
M. Howitt Publication:In Integrative Risk Management: Advanced Disaster Recovery, edited by Simon Woodward. Zürich, Switzerland: Swiss Re Centre for Global Dialogue, 2010 Abstract Societies face a wide array of significant hazards—ranging from the possibility of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 28
annual public outcomes report. They also introduce bundled payment contracts with three insurers for orthopedic surgeries and join a multi-hospital study for applying time-driven activity-based costing to identify process improvement and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
certain a size and scale or in a certain industry or location to get world-class talent in certain emerging areas—let’s just say digital skills, generally—because they’re not preferred employers, or there isn’t a big pool of available...
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- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
population is increasing faster than any other nation in history, while its birthrate is shrinking. That double whammy is reducing both the workforce to care for the elderly and the tax base to support its universal health insurance...
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Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
September 11: A Community Reflects
Anthony Demas (39th PMD) Anthony Demas (39th PMD) of New York City and Madison, Connecticut, was managing director at Aon Corporation, a Chicago-based insurance and risk-management firm with offices in the World Trade Center. Demas was a...
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Susan Young;Deborah Blagg