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- 26 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Strategic Way to Go to Market
Business School marketing professor V. Kasturi "Kash" Rangan in his new book, Transforming Your Go-to-Market Strategy. The auto industry, he says, is a stark example of why go-to-market strategies need high-level attention and...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- May 1997
- Teaching Note
Product Development Process, Organization and Improvement, Instructor's Note
By: Marco Iansiti
Explores how development projects fit (or do not fit) within a firm's development strategy and its wider competitive goals. Module materials, and this note, focus on two broad approaches to process design (sequential and flexible) that were originally introduced in the...
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- January 2007 (Revised April 2011)
- Case
Farmacias Similares: Private and Public Health Care for the Base of the Pyramid in Mexico
By: Michael Chu and Regina Garcia-Cuellar
Farmacias Similares, serving Mexico's low-income sector, grew to $600 million sales and 3,400 drugstores while deep reforms to help the poor swept the public health system. Adjacent to each store, for $2 per visit, medical clinics provided access to doctors for 2.3...
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Private Sector;
Public Sector;
Health Care and Treatment;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Poverty;
Pharmaceutical Industry;
Retail Industry;
Mexico
Chu, Michael, and Regina Garcia-Cuellar. "Farmacias Similares: Private and Public Health Care for the Base of the Pyramid in Mexico." Harvard Business School Case 307-092, January 2007. (Revised April 2011.)
- 06 Dec 2017
- Working Paper Summaries
Trials and Terminations: Learning from Competitors' R&D Failures
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by Joshua Lev Krieger
- Research Summary
Implications of Limits of Arbitrage (with James Choi)
In this project we investigate the relationship between limits to arbitrage facing mutual fund managers and asset pricing anomalies. We measure changes in the limits to arbitrage by computing the average of slopes on current and past returns in quarterly...
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- 2016
- Case
Advanced Leadership Pathways: Harvey Freishtat and Conversations about End-of-Life Care
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Ai-Ling Jamila Malone and Oludamilola Aladesanmi
Former law firm chairman/CEO Harvey Freishtat was actively involved in the formation of The Conversation Project, a national public engagement campaign to promote earlier end-of-life care discussions among loved ones and then with providers to ensure that end-of-life...
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Health Care Education;
Health Care Reform;
Health Care Policy;
Health;
Health Care and Treatment;
Leadership;
Health Industry
Kanter, Rosabeth Moss, Ai-Ling Jamila Malone, and Oludamilola Aladesanmi. "Advanced Leadership Pathways: Harvey Freishtat and Conversations about End-of-Life Care." Harvard Business Publishing Case 316-050, 2016. (Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative.)
- November 2013
- Article
The Performance of Corporate Alliances: Evidence from Oil and Gas Drilling in the Gulf of Mexico
By: John Beshears
I use data on oil and gas drilling in the Gulf of Mexico to measure how a corporate alliance—a group of firms that jointly develops an offshore tract—performs relative to a solo firm. I employ a regression discontinuity strategy based on bids in first-price sealed-bid...
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Organizational Form;
Corporate Alliances;
Oil And Gas Production;
Lease Auctions;
Regression Discontinuity;
Alliances;
Organizational Structure;
Auctions;
Performance;
Energy Sources;
Leasing;
Energy Industry
Beshears, John. "The Performance of Corporate Alliances: Evidence from Oil and Gas Drilling in the Gulf of Mexico." Journal of Financial Economics 110, no. 2 (November 2013): 324–346.
- 29 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
'Green Bonds' May Be Our Best Bet for Environmental Damage Control
Municipalities have been selling bonds to pay for public works projects—fire stations, parking garages,sewage treatment systems—for 200 years. It’s only in the past decade or so, however, that they’ve been selling them with an extra perk: helping the environment. In...
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- September 1990 (Revised March 1991)
- Case
Mod IV Product Development Team
By: Anne Donnellon and Joshua D. Margolis
Focuses sharply on a crossfunctional product development team at Honeywell's Building Controls Division. Traces the history of teams at the division, which introduced them as a response to intensifying competition and the need for faster development. Reveals the...
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Business Divisions;
Collaborative Innovation and Invention;
Management Teams;
Product Development;
Organizational Structure;
Groups and Teams;
Competitive Strategy
Donnellon, Anne, and Joshua D. Margolis. "Mod IV Product Development Team." Harvard Business School Case 491-030, September 1990. (Revised March 1991.)
William C. Kirby
William C. Kirby is T. M. Chang Professor of China Studies at Harvard University and Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. He is a Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor. He serves as Chairman of the Harvard... View Details
- 08 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 8
Business Speaks English: Why You Need a Language Strategy Now Author:Tsedal Neeley Publication:Harvard Business Review 90, no. 5 (May 2012) Abstract An abstract is unavailable at this time. Book:...
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Carmen Nobel
William R. Kerr
William Kerr is the D’Arbeloff Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Bill is Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Research, co-director of Harvard’s Managing the Future of Work initiative, and faculty chair of the... View Details
- July 2023
- Case
Moderna: Everything, Everywhere, All at Once
By: Satish Tadikonda, Shikhar Ghosh and William Marks
Coming out of the COVID-19 pandemic, Moderna was riding the successes of developing a vaccine in record time and helping stem the tide of the crisis. However, the company had grown at an incredible rate, more than doubled its number of employees, and had to put on hold...
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Tadikonda, Satish, Shikhar Ghosh, and William Marks. "Moderna: Everything, Everywhere, All at Once." Harvard Business School Case 824-021, July 2023.
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Globalization of Human Capital
By: Nitin Nohria
One of the most significant dimensions of the current wave of globalization is the globalization of human capital. Whether it is low cost, skilled manufacturing workers in China, software and customer service professionals in India, or highly skilled employees in...
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- 28 Jan 2022
- News
Helping Trapped Low-Wage Workers, Employers Struggling to Fill Spots
- July 1997
- Case
We've Got Rhythm! Medtronic Corporation's Cardiac Pacemaker Business
By: Clayton M. Christensen
Illustrates how a new management team at Medtronic's Cardiac Pacemaker business reversed a steep decline in market share by adopting certain management principles for new product development: clarifying strategy, aggregating project planning, accommodating the number...
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Management Teams;
Innovation Strategy;
Innovation and Management;
Product Development;
Health;
Technology;
Change Management;
Medical Devices and Supplies Industry;
United States
Christensen, Clayton M. "We've Got Rhythm! Medtronic Corporation's Cardiac Pacemaker Business." Harvard Business School Case 698-004, July 1997.
Yoon Jae Shin
Yoonjae Shin is a PhD student in the Organizational Behavior Unit at the Harvard Business School. His primary interests are labor market, corporate governance, and social inequality. Prior to beginning his PhD, Yoonjae worked in the project team at Seoul National...
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- 18 Apr 2000
- Research & Ideas
Learning in Action
"The most effective learning strategy depends on the situation," writes David A. Garvin. "There is no stock answer, nor is there a single best approach." In Learning in Action, he illustrated the diversity of learning organization View Details
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by David A. Garvin
- 01 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
Sometimes Success Begins at Failure
they have much more rarely considered the false negatives. This is because the damage created by false positives is much easier to recognize, and to quantify. It can be both expensive and embarrassing when a project goes through the...
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- 24 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 24
conjunction with ICCs to make more robust inferences about expected returns. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1967706 The Challenges and Enhancing Opportunities of Global Project Management: Evidence from Chinese and Dutch...
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Sean Silverthorne