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- January 2024
- Teaching Note
Frank Cornelissen: The Great Sulfite Debate (A) & (B)
By: Tiona Zuzul
Teaching Note for HBS Case Nos. 724-391 and 724-398. In 2018, artisanal Italian vineyard Frank Cornelissen was one of the world’s leading natural wine vineyards. Its founder, Frank Cornelissen, faced weather related conditions that forced him to have to decide between...
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Keywords:
Budgets and Budgeting;
Business Earnings;
Agribusiness;
Plant-Based Agribusiness;
Family Business;
For-Profit Firms;
Small Business;
Change Management;
Transition;
Communication Strategy;
Decision Making;
Cost vs Benefits;
Financial Management;
Financial Strategy;
Profit;
Revenue;
Spending;
Globalization;
Global Strategy;
Goods and Commodities;
Innovation Strategy;
Crisis Management;
Goals and Objectives;
Growth Management;
Success;
Strategic Planning;
Problems and Challenges;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Cognition and Thinking;
Reputation;
Strategy;
Adaptation;
Expansion;
Mission and Purpose;
Values and Beliefs;
Food and Beverage Industry;
Europe;
Italy
- January 2024
- Supplement
Frank Cornelissen: The Great Sulfite Debate (B)
By: Tiona Zuzul and Susan Pinckney
In 2018, artisanal Italian vineyard Frank Cornelissen was one of the world’s leading natural wine vineyards. Its founder, Frank Cornelissen, faced weather related conditions that forced him to have to decide between staying true to the tenets of the natural wine...
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Keywords:
Budgets and Budgeting;
Business Earnings;
Plant-Based Agribusiness;
Business Startups;
Family Business;
For-Profit Firms;
Small Business;
Change Management;
Transition;
Communication;
Cost vs Benefits;
Decisions;
Entrepreneurship;
Environmental Sustainability;
Values and Beliefs;
Financial Management;
Financial Strategy;
Profit;
Revenue;
Spending;
Global Strategy;
Goods and Commodities;
Innovation Strategy;
Crisis Management;
Goals and Objectives;
Growth Management;
Success;
Strategic Planning;
Problems and Challenges;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Cognition and Thinking;
Reputation;
Adoption;
Expansion;
Weather;
Mission and Purpose;
Food and Beverage Industry;
Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry;
Europe;
Italy
Zuzul, Tiona, and Susan Pinckney. "Frank Cornelissen: The Great Sulfite Debate (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 724-398, January 2024.
- January 2024
- Background Note
Evaluating Innovations in the Organization of Primary Care: What Type of Innovation Is It and How Well Does It Align with the Six Factors?
By: Regina E. Herzlinger and James Wallace
How can we evaluate if innovative health care ventures can do good—benefit society—and do well—become financially viable? This question is the topic of the first module in the Innovating in Health Care course book.
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- January 2024 (Revised February 2024)
- Case
OpenAI: Idealism Meets Capitalism
By: Shikhar Ghosh and Shweta Bagai
In November 2023, the board of OpenAI, one of the most successful companies in the history of technology, decided to fire Sam Altman, its charismatic and influential CEO. Their decision shocked the corporate world and had people wondering why OpenAI had designed a...
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Keywords:
AI;
AI and Machine Learning;
Governing and Advisory Boards;
Ethics;
Strategy;
Technological Innovation;
Leadership
Ghosh, Shikhar, and Shweta Bagai. "OpenAI: Idealism Meets Capitalism." Harvard Business School Case 824-134, January 2024. (Revised February 2024.)
- 2023
- Working Paper
Can Digitalization Improve Public Services? Evidence from Innovation in Energy Management
By: Robyn C. Meeks, Jacquelyn Pless and Zhenxuan Wang
This paper examines how digitalization impacts public service provision through a study of the U.S. power sector. We exploit the staggered timing of electric utilities’ investments in “smart” meters and find that electricity losses per unit sold decrease by 3.6%. This...
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Keywords:
Electric Utility;
Energy Management;
Smart Meters;
Energy;
Climate Change;
State Ownership;
Private Ownership;
Technology Adoption;
Energy Industry;
Utilities Industry;
United States
Meeks, Robyn C., Jacquelyn Pless, and Zhenxuan Wang. "Can Digitalization Improve Public Services? Evidence from Innovation in Energy Management." MIT CEEPR Working Paper Series, No. 2023-22, December 2023.
- October 2023 (Revised April 2024)
- Case
ghSMART & Co: Building and Scaling a Time Smart Firm
By: Ashley Whillans and Sara Coronel Rodriguez
"For ghSMART, freedom is the first principle from which all good things flow” – Geoff Smart, Chairman and Founder, ghSMART. ghSMART was a leadership advisory firm that was grounded in the principle of freedom. Talented Consultants and Partners could work remotely from...
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Whillans, Ashley, and Sara Coronel Rodriguez. "ghSMART & Co: Building and Scaling a Time Smart Firm." Harvard Business School Case 924-009, October 2023. (Revised April 2024.)
- September 2023
- Teaching Note
Roche: ESG and Access to Healthcare
By: George Serafeim
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 123-075. In May 2022, Roche Group, one of the largest healthcare companies in the world, hosted its first ESG investor event focused exclusively on its efforts to impact access to healthcare. While Roche had recently set an ambitious goal...
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- July 2023 (Revised February 2024)
- Case
India Stack: Digital Public Infrastructure for All
By: Tarun Khanna, Anjali Raina and Rachna Chawla
Amitabh Kant, India Sherpa in the year of India's G20 Presidency, and Nandan Nilekani iconic tech entrepreneur wondered how to share India's model of digital public infrastructure to build social and economic inclusion. 'India Stack', the umbrella term for India's DPI...
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- June 2023
- Supplement
Roche: ESG and Access to Healthcare
By: George Serafeim
In May 2022, Roche Group, one of the largest healthcare companies in the world, hosted its first ESG investor event focused exclusively on its efforts to impact access to healthcare. While Roche had recently set an ambitious goal to double the number of patients that...
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Keywords:
ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) Performance;
Sustainable Finance;
Growth Strategy And Execution;
Sustainability Targets;
Impact Evaluation;
Healthcare Access;
Healthcare Innovation;
Healthcare Systems;
Healthcare Operations;
Finance;
Strategy;
Health Testing and Trials;
Health Care and Treatment;
Growth Management;
Measurement and Metrics;
Innovation Strategy;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Health Industry;
Pharmaceutical Industry;
Switzerland;
North America;
Europe;
Asia;
Latin America;
Africa
Serafeim, George. "Roche: ESG and Access to Healthcare." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Supplement 123-713, June 2023.
- June 2023 (Revised March 2024)
- Case
Creating World-Class Board Governance at SECO
By: Krishna G. Palepu and Emer Moloney
In Spring 2023, SECO CEO Massimo Mauri had the ambition to grow the €200 million revenue technology company to a €1 billion company by 2030. Founded in Italy in the 1970s, the family-owned company had gone through a period of growth and internationalization,...
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Keywords:
Family Business;
Business Model;
Acquisition;
Business Growth and Maturation;
Talent and Talent Management;
Customer Focus and Relationships;
Engineering;
Governance;
Corporate Governance;
Governing and Advisory Boards;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Compensation and Benefits;
Retention;
Innovation and Invention;
Technological Innovation;
Going Public;
Strategic Planning;
Business and Shareholder Relations;
Business Strategy;
Information Infrastructure;
Information Technology;
Value Creation;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Computer Industry;
Electronics Industry;
Industrial Products Industry;
Information Technology Industry;
Technology Industry;
Italy;
Europe;
Germany;
United States;
China
Palepu, Krishna G., and Emer Moloney. "Creating World-Class Board Governance at SECO." Harvard Business School Case 123-082, June 2023. (Revised March 2024.)
- June 2023
- Case
Block: Creating an Ecosystem of Ecosystems
By: Lauren Cohen, Richard Ryffel, Grace Headinger and Ruoshi Qi
At Investor Day 2022, Block announced a new vision for its businesses: creating an ecosystem of ecosystems. Outside the norm for many public growth companies, Block had recently acquired a variety of new business streams in the creator economy and Bitcoin despite a...
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Keywords:
Business Growth;
Fintech;
Company Management;
Growth Strategy;
Innovation And Strategy;
Acquisition;
Business Growth and Maturation;
Business Model;
Change;
Finance;
Growth Management;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Innovation Strategy;
Technological Innovation;
Communication Strategy;
Corporate Strategy;
Business Strategy;
Financial Services Industry;
Technology Industry;
United States;
California;
San Francisco
Cohen, Lauren, Richard Ryffel, Grace Headinger, and Ruoshi Qi. "Block: Creating an Ecosystem of Ecosystems." Harvard Business School Case 223-055, June 2023.
- 3 Jun 2023
- Talk
Health Care Innovation Opportunities Created by COVID-19 and How to Make Them Happen
The crush of patients created by COVID enabled the creation of sites for care outside the traditional hospital, such as retail pharmacies, ambulatory surgery centers, urgent care centers, telemedicine, and wireless sensors. Public policy mirrored these changes by...
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Keywords:
Policy;
Health Pandemics;
Health Care and Treatment;
Innovation and Invention;
Health Industry;
Insurance Industry
Herzlinger, Regina E. "Health Care Innovation Opportunities Created by COVID-19 and How to Make Them Happen." Harvard Business School Alumni Reunion, Boston, MA, June 3, 2023. (Link to cases described in this talk.)
- June 2023
- Article
Managing Medical Device Liability Through Innovation: A Strategic Approach
By: Alberto Galasso and Hong Luo
In this article, we discuss several aspects of the relationships among product liability risk, safety, and innovation strategies of medical device companies.
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Galasso, Alberto, and Hong Luo. "Managing Medical Device Liability Through Innovation: A Strategic Approach." Health Management, Policy and Innovation 8, no. 1 (June 2023).
- June 2023
- Case
Verve Therapeutics: Taking DNA Editing to Heart
By: Shikhar Ghosh and Shweta Bagai
Verve Therapeutics, a public biotech company based in Boston, created a novel approach to addressing cardiovascular disease (CVD) - a leading cause of deaths globally. The company's approach was a single shot treatment to permanently lower cholesterol, thus reducing...
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Keywords:
AI;
Genetic Engineering;
Medicine;
Health Care and Treatment;
Genetics;
Innovation Strategy;
Business and Stakeholder Relations;
Medical Specialties;
Innovation and Invention;
Entrepreneurship;
Biotechnology Industry
Ghosh, Shikhar, and Shweta Bagai. "Verve Therapeutics: Taking DNA Editing to Heart." Harvard Business School Case 823-113, June 2023.
- April 5, 2023
- Article
We Need an Operation Warp Speed for Long COVID
By: Esther K. Choo and Scott Duke Kominers
With millions of people affected and at least $1 trillion of economic value at stake, long COVID is our next national health emergency.
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Keywords:
COVID;
COVID-19;
COVID-19 Pandemic;
Scientific Research;
Policy;
Health Policy;
Innovation;
Science;
Public Finance;
Public Health;
Health Disorders;
Health Care and Treatment;
Human Capital
Choo, Esther K., and Scott Duke Kominers. "We Need an Operation Warp Speed for Long COVID." Scientific American (website) (April 5, 2023).
- April 2023 (Revised February 2024)
- Case
AI Wars
By: Andy Wu, Matt Higgins, Miaomiao Zhang and Hang Jiang
In February 2024, the world was looking to Google to see what the search giant and long-time putative technical leader in artificial intelligence (AI) would do to compete in the massively hyped technology of generative AI. Over a year ago, OpenAI released ChatGPT, a...
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Keywords:
AI;
Artificial Intelligence;
AI and Machine Learning;
Technology Adoption;
Competitive Strategy;
Technological Innovation
Wu, Andy, Matt Higgins, Miaomiao Zhang, and Hang Jiang. "AI Wars." Harvard Business School Case 723-434, April 2023. (Revised February 2024.)
- March 2023
- Case
Roche: ESG and Access to Healthcare
By: George Serafeim, Susanna Gallani and Benjamin Maletta
In May 2022, Roche Group, one of the largest healthcare companies in the world, hosted its first ESG investor event focused exclusively on its efforts to impact access to healthcare. While Roche had recently set an ambitious goal to double the number of patients that...
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Keywords:
ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) Performance;
Sustainable Finance;
Growth Strategy And Execution;
Sustainability Targets;
Impact Evaluation;
Healthcare Access;
Healthcare Innovation;
Healthcare Systems;
Healthcare Operations;
Finance;
Strategy;
Health Testing and Trials;
Health Care and Treatment;
Growth Management;
Measurement and Metrics;
Innovation Strategy;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Health Industry;
Pharmaceutical Industry;
Switzerland;
North America;
Europe;
Asia;
Latin America;
Africa
Serafeim, George, Susanna Gallani, and Benjamin Maletta. "Roche: ESG and Access to Healthcare." Harvard Business School Case 123-075, March 2023.
- March 2023
- Article
Not from Concentrate: Collusion in Collaborative Industries
By: Jordan M. Barry, John William Hatfield, Scott Duke Kominers and Richard Lowery
The chief principle of antitrust law and theory is that reducing market concentration—having more, smaller firms instead of fewer, bigger ones—reduces anticompetitive behavior. We demonstrate that this principle is fundamentally incomplete.
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Keywords:
Antitrust;
Antitrust Law;
Antitrust Theory;
Law And Economics;
Collusion;
Collaboration;
Collaborative Industries;
Regulation;
"Repeated Games";
IPOs;
Initial Public Offerings;
Underwriters;
Real Estate;
Real Estate Agents;
Realtors;
Syndicated Markets;
Syndication;
Brokers;
Market Concentration;
Competition;
Law;
Economics;
Collaborative Innovation and Invention;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Game Theory;
Initial Public Offering
Barry, Jordan M., John William Hatfield, Scott Duke Kominers, and Richard Lowery. "Not from Concentrate: Collusion in Collaborative Industries." Iowa Law Review 108, no. 3 (March 2023): 1089–1148.
- 2023
- Working Paper
Public Perception and Autonomous Vehicle Liability
By: Julian De Freitas, Xilin Zhou, Margherita Atzei, Shoshana Boardman and Luigi Di Lillo
The deployment of autonomous vehicles (AVs) and the accompanying societal and economic benefits will greatly depend on how much liability AV firms will have to carry for accidents involving these vehicles, which in turn impacts their insurability and associated...
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Keywords:
Autonomous Vehicles;
Moral Judgment;
Liabilities;
Harm;
Insurance;
Moral Sensibility;
Legal Liability;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Technological Innovation;
Public Opinion
De Freitas, Julian, Xilin Zhou, Margherita Atzei, Shoshana Boardman, and Luigi Di Lillo. "Public Perception and Autonomous Vehicle Liability." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 23-036, January 2023. (Revised January 2023.)
- 2023
- Working Paper
Achieving Universal Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: Addressing Market Failures or Providing a Social Floor?
By: Katherine Baicker, Amitabh Chandra and Mark Shepard
The United States spends substantially more on health care than most developed countries, yet leaves a greater share of the population uninsured. We suggest that incremental insurance expansions focused on addressing market failures will propagate inefficiencies and...
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Baicker, Katherine, Amitabh Chandra, and Mark Shepard. "Achieving Universal Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: Addressing Market Failures or Providing a Social Floor?" NBER Working Paper Series, No. 30854, January 2023.