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      Joseph Fuller (photo by Russ Campbell) Joseph Fuller (photo by Russ Campbell) American businesses can’t afford to ignore the reality: The nature of...
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      • February 2021
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      Brainlab: Imaging A MedTech Future

      By: Regina E. Herzlinger, Gregory P. Licholai and Federica Gabrieli
      Can Brainlab, a privately held firm, compete with giants like Medtronic and Amazon in delivering the Digital Operating Room of the future? The CEO is pondering solutions for secure exchange of medical information, pricing a new robotic imaging device, and reorganizing...  View Details
      Keywords: Acquisition; Surgery; Robotics; Business Growth And Maturation; Growth And Development Strategy; Business Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Health; Health Care; Health Care And Treatment; Innovation And Invention; Innovation And Management; Technological Innovation; Innovation And Strategy; Private Healthcare; Software; Hardware; Information Technology; Technology Platform; Europe; Germany; Acquisition; Business Growth And Maturation; Growth And Development; Business Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Health Care And Treatment; Health; Innovation And Invention; Innovation And Management; Innovation Strategy; Technological Innovation; Software; Hardware; Information Technology; Health Industry; Europe; Germany; Munich
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      Herzlinger, Regina E., Gregory P. Licholai, and Federica Gabrieli. "Brainlab: Imaging A MedTech Future." Harvard Business School Case 321-087, February 2021.
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      The EU's Unsustainable Approach to Stakeholder Capitalism

      By: Jesse M. Fried and Charles C.Y. Wang
      A recent report by the EU claims that investor-driven short-termism is encouraging firms to return cash rather than invest it, which reduces capital available for investment in growth. The authors show that the data behind the report do not support its claims and...  View Details
      Keywords: Short-termism; Sustainability; Capital; Investment; Decision Making; Business And Stakeholder Relations; European Union
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      Fried, Jesse M., and Charles C.Y. Wang. "The EU's Unsustainable Approach to Stakeholder Capitalism." Harvard Business Review Digital Articles (January 29, 2021).
      • January 2021
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      Hester Pharmaceuticals (A): A Pricing Dilemma

      By: Dante Roscini and John Masko
      In August 2019, the leadership of Hester Pharmaceuticals (Hester) had a problem. Italy promised to be a key market for their new breakthrough oncology drug Akrozumab, but for almost two years, its single-payer healthcare system had been unable to agree with Hester on a...  View Details
      Keywords: Macroeconomics; Trade; Price; Global Range; Global Strategy; Globalized Markets And Industries; Health Care And Treatment; Patents; Monopoly; Negotiation; Business And Government Relations; Risk And Uncertainty; Human Needs; Business Strategy; Commercialization; Pharmaceutical Industry; Italy
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      Roscini, Dante, and John Masko. "Hester Pharmaceuticals (A): A Pricing Dilemma." Harvard Business School Case 721-001, January 2021.
      • January 11, 2021
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      The Breach of the U.S. Capitol Was a Breach of Trust

      By: Sandra J. Sucher and Shalene Gupta
      This article frames the January 6th attack of the U.S. Capitol as a betrayal of our trust in government. Using Sucher and Gupta’s trust framework, the article explains how the attacks were a failure of the four elements of trust: competence, motives, fair means, and...  View Details
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      Sucher, Sandra J., and Shalene Gupta. "The Breach of the U.S. Capitol Was a Breach of Trust." Harvard Business Review Digital Articles (January 11, 2021).
      • January–February 2021
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      Compensation Packages That Actually Drive Performance

      By: Boris Groysberg, Sarah Abbott, Michael R. Marino and Metin Aksoy
      By aligning executives’ financial incentives with company strategy, a firm can inspire its management to deliver superior results. But it can be hard to get pay packages right. In this article four experts break down the key elements of compensation and explain how to...  View Details
      Keywords: Executive Compensation; Compensation And Benefits; Motivation And Incentives; Strategy; Performance
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      Groysberg, Boris, Sarah Abbott, Michael R. Marino, and Metin Aksoy. "Compensation Packages That Actually Drive Performance." Harvard Business Review 99, no. 1 (January–February 2021): 102–111.
      • Winter 2021
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      Trust: The Foundation of Leadership

      By: Frances Frei and Anne Morriss
      The authors contend that if leadership is about empowering others, in your presence and your absence, then trust is the emotional framework that allows that service to be freely exchanged. Based on their experiences advising individuals and organizations, their basic...  View Details
      Keywords: Trustworthiness; Authenticity; Empathy; Trust; Leadership; competency And Skills; Behavior
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      Frei, Frances, and Anne Morriss. "Trust: The Foundation of Leadership." Leader to Leader 99 (Winter 2021): 20–25.
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      How Long Can a Company Thrive Doing Just One Thing?

      By: Andy Wu and Scott Duke Kominers
      The news that the chat app Slack was being sold to veteran customer relationship management company Salesforce for $27.7 billion raised a lot of eyebrows. Why sell after a year of explosive growth? The deal, however, epitomizes a question facing so-called best-of-breed...  View Details
      Keywords: Best-of-breed Companies; Competitive Advantage; Competitive Strategy
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      Wu, Andy, and Scott Duke Kominers. "How Long Can a Company Thrive Doing Just One Thing?" Harvard Business Review Digital Articles (December 10, 2020).
      • 2020
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      Hidden Truths: What Leaders Need to Hear But Are Rarely Told

      By: David G. Fubini
      Hidden Truths delivers profound and rarely discussed insights about C-suite jobs that provide aspiring leaders with practical, new skills that will equip them for the immense challenges of their desired jobs. Through 14 illuminating chapters, accomplished...  View Details
      Keywords: Executive Development; Leadership; Managerial Roles; competency And Skills
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      Fubini, David G. Hidden Truths: What Leaders Need to Hear But Are Rarely Told. Wiley, 2020.
      • 2020
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      Dog Eat Dog: Measuring Network Effects Using a Digital Platform Merger

      By: Chiara Farronato, Jessica Fong and Andrey Fradkin
      Digital platforms are increasingly the subject of regulatory scrutiny. In comparison to multiple competitors, a single platform may increase consumer welfare if network effects are large or may decrease welfare due to higher prices or reduction in platform variety. We...  View Details
      Keywords: Digital Platforms; Market Platforms; Network Effects; Measurement And Metrics
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      Farronato, Chiara, Jessica Fong, and Andrey Fradkin. "Dog Eat Dog: Measuring Network Effects Using a Digital Platform Merger." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 28047, November 2020.
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      Going It Alone: Competition Increases the Attractiveness of Minority Status

      By: Erika L. Kirgios, Edward H. Chang and Katherine L. Milkman
      Past research demonstrates that people prefer to affiliate with others who resemble them demographically. However, we posit that when competing for scarce opportunities, strategic considerations moderate the strength of this tendency toward homophily. Across six...  View Details
      Keywords: Homophily; Group Selection; Diversity; Gender; Race; Competition
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      Kirgios, Erika L., Edward H. Chang, and Katherine L. Milkman. "Going It Alone: Competition Increases the Attractiveness of Minority Status." Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes 161 (November 2020): 20–33.
      • October 2020
      • Case

      The Walt Disney Company: The 21st Century Fox Acquisition and Digital Distribution

      By: David J. Collis
      This case describes the acquisition of 21st Century Fox by the Walt Disney Company and the subsequent launch by Disney of three streaming channels to compete with Netflix.  View Details
      Keywords: Disney; Streaming; Corporate Strategy; Mergers And Acquisitions; Distribution; Competitive Strategy; Vertical Integration; Media And Broadcasting Industry
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      Collis, David J. "The Walt Disney Company: The 21st Century Fox Acquisition and Digital Distribution." Harvard Business School Case 721-408, October 2020.
      • October 2020 (Revised November 2020)
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      The Akamai Technical Academy

      By: Lynda M. Applegate and James Barnett
      By January 2020, Akamai Technologies had completed eight Akamai Technical Academy training programs in the U.S., Costa Rica, and Poland. Academy programs trained individuals without a traditional STEM degree for technically oriented jobs at Akamai. With aims to improve...  View Details
      Keywords: competency And Skills; Experience And Expertise; Talent And Talent Management; Demographics; Education; Ethics; Jobs And Positions; Technology Industry; United States; Costa Rica; Poland
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      Applegate, Lynda M., and James Barnett. "The Akamai Technical Academy." Harvard Business School Case 821-021, October 2020. (Revised November 2020.)
      • October 2020
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      What Goes Down When Advice Goes Up: Younger Advisers Underestimate Their Impact

      By: Ting Zhang and Michael S. North
      Common wisdom suggests that older is wiser. Consequently, people rarely give advice to older individuals—even when they are relatively more expert—leading to missed learning opportunities. Across six studies (N=3,445), we explore the psychology of advisers when they...  View Details
      Keywords: Advice; Expertise; Knowledge Sharing; Experience And Expertise; Age; Perception
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      Zhang, Ting, and Michael S. North. "What Goes Down When Advice Goes Up: Younger Advisers Underestimate Their Impact." Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 46, no. 10 (October 2020): 1444–1460.
      • September 2020
      • Case

      Walmart Health: Scaling During a Pandemic

      By: Robert S. Huckman, Yoonjin Min and Marissa Thiel
      Amidst the onset of COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, Marcus Obsborne, Vice President for Health and Wellness Transformation at Walmart was planning to scale its new health care clinic business, Walmart Health, to additional locations in Georgia and beyond....  View Details
      Keywords: Health Care And Treatment; Health Pandemics; Health; Service Delivery; Growth And Development Strategy; Health Industry; United States; Arkansas; Georgia (state, Us); Texas
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      Huckman, Robert S., Yoonjin Min, and Marissa Thiel. "Walmart Health: Scaling During a Pandemic." Harvard Business School Case 621-061, September 2020.
      • September 2020
      • Case

      Apple Bets on Augmented Reality

      By: Rory McDonald, David Lane and Mel Martin
      In 2020, augmented reality (AR) was still a nascent technology with blockbuster potential, one which Apple was actively developing as its iPhone franchise waned. But the emergence of AR was uneven, including the disappointing Google Glass and the unexpected viral...  View Details
      Keywords: Augmented Reality; Industry Structures; Product Development; Commercialization; Competition; Corporate Strategy; Diversification; Technology; Technology Adoption; Information Technology Industry; Technology Industry; Video Game Industry
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      McDonald, Rory, David Lane, and Mel Martin. "Apple Bets on Augmented Reality." Harvard Business School Case 621-007, September 2020.
      • Fall 2020
      • Article

      Competing on Customer Outcomes

      By: Marco Bertini and Oded Koenigsberg
      Customers ultimately want to pay for meaningful outcomes, not the products and services that presumably deliver them. Today, companies can be increasingly accountable for those outcomes with three kinds of technologically-enhanced revenue models. Adopt one to better...  View Details
      Keywords: Market Positioning; Revenue Strategy; Customer Satisfaction; Marketing Strategy; Business Model; Value Creation
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      Bertini, Marco, and Oded Koenigsberg. "Competing on Customer Outcomes." MIT Sloan Management Review 62, no. 1 (Fall 2020).
      • September 2020
      • Teaching Note

      Uber: Competing Globally

      By: Alexander J. MacKay
      Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 720-404.  View Details
      Keywords: Business Ventures; Business Growth And Maturation; Business Model; Geography; Geographic Location; Geographic Scope; Global Strategy; Globalization; Multinational Firms And Management; Globalized Markets And Industries; Governance; Governance Controls; Governing Rules, Regulations, And Reforms; Innovation And Invention; Disruptive Innovation; Innovation Strategy; Law; Management; Growth And Development; Growth Management; Markets; Demand And Consumers; Consumer Behavior; Network Effects; Emerging Markets; Market Design; Market Entry And Exit; Market Participation; Supply And Industry; Industry Structures; Planning; Strategic Planning; Relationships; Business And Community Relations; Business And Government Relations; Business And Stakeholder Relations; Labor And Management Relations; Networks; Adaptation; Strategy; Business Strategy; Competition; Competitive Advantage; Competitive Strategy; Expansion; Technology; Mobile Technology; Technology Platform; Transportation Networks; Transportation; Transportation Industry; Technology Industry; Africa; Ghana; Asia; China; Shanghai; Shanghai Shi; India; New Delhi; Europe; United Kingdom; London; England; Latin America; North And Central America; United States; New York (city, Ny); New York (state, Us); South America; Colombia
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      MacKay, Alexander J. "Uber: Competing Globally." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 721-387, September 2020.
      • September–October 2020
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      Managing Churn to Maximize Profits

      By: Aurelie Lemmens and Sunil Gupta
      Customer defection threatens many industries, prompting companies to deploy targeted, proactive customer retention programs and offers. A conventional approach has been to target customers either based on their predicted churn probability or their responsiveness to a...  View Details
      Keywords: Churn Management; Defection Prediction; Loss Function; Stochastic Gradient Boosting; Customer Relationship Management; Consumer Behavior; Profit
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      Lemmens, Aurelie, and Sunil Gupta. "Managing Churn to Maximize Profits." Marketing Science 39, no. 5 (September–October 2020): 956–973.
      • 2020
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      Time and the Value of Data

      By: Ehsan Valavi, Joel Hestness, Newsha Ardalani and Marco Iansiti
      This paper investigates the effectiveness of time-dependent data in improving the quality of AI-based products and services. Time-dependency means that data loses its relevance to problems over time. This loss causes deterioration in the algorithm's performance and,...  View Details
      Keywords: Economics Of Ai; Machine Learning; Non-stationarity; Perishability; Value Depreciation
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      Valavi, Ehsan, Joel Hestness, Newsha Ardalani, and Marco Iansiti. "Time and the Value of Data." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-016, August 2020.
      • August 2020
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      24M Technologies

      By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock
      In early 2020, 24M Technologies (24M) announced that two of its strategic investors had commenced building plants to produce lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries based on 24M’s novel semi-solid electrode technology. This promised to halve the cost of conventional Li-ion...  View Details
      Keywords: Lithium-ion Batteries; Technological Innovation; Commercialization; Growth And Development Strategy; Competitive Strategy
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      Wells, John R., and Benjamin Weinstock. "24M Technologies." Harvard Business School Case 721-386, August 2020.
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