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- 2024
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Do Information Frictions and Corruption Perceptions Kill Competition? A Field Experiment on Public Procurement in Uganda
By: Emanuele Colonnelli, Francesco Loiacono, Edwin Muhumuza and Edoardo Teso
We study whether information frictions and corruption perceptions deter firms from doing business with the government. We conduct two nationwide randomized controlled trials (RCTs) in collaboration with the national public procurement supervisory and anti-corruption...
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Keywords:
Knowledge Use and Leverage;
Government and Politics;
Crime and Corruption;
Trust;
Perception;
Business and Government Relations
Colonnelli, Emanuele, Francesco Loiacono, Edwin Muhumuza, and Edoardo Teso. "Do Information Frictions and Corruption Perceptions Kill Competition? A Field Experiment on Public Procurement in Uganda." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 32170, February 2024.
- February 2024
- Case
FIGS: Scrubbing the Status Quo
By: Jeffrey F. Rayport and Nicole Tempest Keller
In October 2023, FIGS had revolutionized the medical scrubs industry with its fashionable and functional designs, but the venture was at a critical juncture. The digitally native vertical brand (DNVB) had gone public in a successful IPO in 2021 and reached $500 million...
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- Winter 2024
- Article
Is Pay Transparency Good?
By: Zoë B. Cullen
Countries around the world are enacting pay transparency policies to combat pay discrimination. Since 2000, 71 percent of OECD countries have done so. Most are enacting transparency horizontally, revealing pay between coworkers doing similar work within a firm. While...
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Keywords:
Policy;
Wages;
Knowledge Sharing;
Job Design and Levels;
Negotiation;
Performance Productivity;
Compensation and Benefits;
Motivation and Incentives
Cullen, Zoë B. "Is Pay Transparency Good?" Journal of Economic Perspectives 38, no. 1 (Winter 2024): 153–180.
- February 2024
- Article
Pricing Power in Advertising Markets: Theory and Evidence
By: Matthew Gentzkow, Jesse M. Shapiro, Frank Yang and Ali Yurukoglu
Existing theories of media competition imply that advertisers will pay a lower price in equilibrium to reach consumers who multi-home across competing outlets. We generalize, extend, and test this prediction. We find that television outlets whose viewers watch more...
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Gentzkow, Matthew, Jesse M. Shapiro, Frank Yang, and Ali Yurukoglu. "Pricing Power in Advertising Markets: Theory and Evidence." American Economic Review 114, no. 2 (February 2024): 500–533.
- January 2024
- Case
CloudEats: Revolutionizing the Cloud Kitchen in Southeast Asia
By: Paul A. Gompers and Adina Wong
Philippines-headquartered cloud kitchen CloudEats harbored the ambition of becoming the largest cloud kitchen in Southeast Asia, but it was considering several strategic paths forward.
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- January 2024
- Case
ECOALF: Fashion for the Future
By: Elizabeth A. Keenan, Diego Aparicio, Carlota Moniz and María José Satrústegui
ECOALF, a Spanish fashion brand and sustainability pioneer, aimed to tackle the industry's challenges of excessive consumption and production. The brand's mission was to create timeless apparel exclusively from recycled and eco-responsible materials, matching the...
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Keywords:
Business Growth and Maturation;
Business Model;
Decisions;
Business Earnings;
Profit;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Communication Intention and Meaning;
Values and Beliefs;
Mission and Purpose;
Competition;
Climate Change;
Environmental Sustainability;
Social Marketing;
Marketing Channels;
E-commerce;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Fashion Industry;
Spain;
Germany;
Italy;
Europe;
United States
Keenan, Elizabeth A., Diego Aparicio, Carlota Moniz, and María José Satrústegui. "ECOALF: Fashion for the Future." Harvard Business School Case 524-057, January 2024.
- 2024
- Working Paper
Antitrust Platform Regulation and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from China
By: Ke Rong, D. Daniel Sokol, Di Zhou and Feng Zhu
Many jurisdictions have launched antitrust enforcement and brought in regulation of large tech platforms. The swift and strict implementation of China’s Anti-Monopoly Guidelines for the Platform Economy (Platform Guidelines) provides a quasi-natural experiment...
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Keywords:
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Competition;
Venture Capital;
Market Entry and Exit;
Supply and Industry;
China
Rong, Ke, D. Daniel Sokol, Di Zhou, and Feng Zhu. "Antitrust Platform Regulation and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from China." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 24-039, January 2024.
- January 2024 (Revised March 2024)
- Case
Tesla Motors in 2024--Turbulence Ahead?
By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Kate Stoppiello
Over its 20 years in existence, Tesla had become nearly synonymous with electric vehicles, and the company assumed an enviable market position. By 2023, however, Tesla faced intense competition. Traditional carmakers and EV upstarts were expected to introduce close to...
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Keywords:
Competitive Strategy;
Product Positioning;
Competition;
Industry Growth;
Auto Industry;
North America;
Europe;
China;
Australia
Oberholzer-Gee, Felix, and Kate Stoppiello. "Tesla Motors in 2024--Turbulence Ahead?" Harvard Business School Case 724-446, January 2024. (Revised March 2024.)
- January 2024
- Case
Deion Sanders: The Prime Effect
By: Hise O. Gibson, Nicole Gilmore and Alicia Dadlani
In 2023, Deion Sanders, known as “Coach Prime,” became head football coach of the University of Colorado Boulder (CU). Sanders was tasked with leading CU’s struggling football program, which had only achieved one winning season in the last 15 years, back to glory. Many...
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Keywords:
Leadership Style;
Leading Change;
Management Style;
Race;
Prejudice and Bias;
Sports;
Experience and Expertise;
Sports Industry;
United States;
Colorado
Gibson, Hise O., Nicole Gilmore, and Alicia Dadlani. "Deion Sanders: The Prime Effect." Harvard Business School Case 624-001, January 2024.
- January 2024 (Revised March 2024)
- Case
Uncle Nearest: Creating a Legacy
By: Hise Gibson, Archie L. Jones, Nicole Gilmore and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone
Fawn Weaver, as a Black woman and industry outsider in a capital-intensive, highly regulated, competitive and male-dominated spirits industry, successfully overcame numerous obstacles to launch a premium American whiskey brand, Uncle Nearest in 2017, which became the...
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Keywords:
Advertising;
Business Startups;
Customer Focus and Relationships;
Decisions;
Forecasting and Prediction;
Age;
Ethnicity;
Gender;
Corporate Entrepreneurship;
Entrepreneurship;
Working Capital;
Innovation Leadership;
Innovation Strategy;
Intellectual Property;
Trademarks;
Leadership Style;
Growth and Development;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Marketing;
Product Marketing;
Product Launch;
Marketing Strategy;
Mission and Purpose;
Organizational Culture;
Private Ownership;
Performance Effectiveness;
Strategic Planning;
Problems and Challenges;
Prejudice and Bias;
Social Issues;
Strategy;
Competition;
Competitive Strategy;
Expansion;
Food and Beverage Industry;
Tourism Industry;
United States;
Tennessee;
France
Gibson, Hise, Archie L. Jones, Nicole Gilmore, and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone. "Uncle Nearest: Creating a Legacy." Harvard Business School Case 824-047, January 2024. (Revised March 2024.)
- December 12, 2023
- Article
Prices for Common Services at Quaternary vs Nonquaternary Hospitals
By: Brandon W. Yan, Maximilian J. Pany and Leemore S. Dafny
Using commercial health insurance claims data from 2017-2019, we assessed whether quaternary hospitals charged higher prices for common, unspecialized services also offered by nonquaternary hospitals. We found quaternary-hospital price premiums of 8.2 percent, on...
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Yan, Brandon W., Maximilian J. Pany, and Leemore S. Dafny. "Prices for Common Services at Quaternary vs Nonquaternary Hospitals." JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association 330, no. 22 (December 12, 2023): 2211–2213.
- December 2023
- Case
Santa Elena: Table Grape Production in Chile's Water-Challenged Regions
By: Forest Reinhardt, Jenyfeer Martinez Buitrago and Mariana Cal
In the fiscal year ending in September 2022, Santa Elena, Chile’s fifth-ranking table grape exporter, a grape producer and exporter since 1980, had exported around 3.5 million boxes (18-pound each). But, due to a 13-year-long drought that plagued table grape-growing...
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Keywords:
Plant-Based Agribusiness;
Climate Change;
Environmental Regulation;
Environmental Sustainability;
Natural Resources;
Food;
Environmental Law;
Problems and Challenges;
Weather;
Adaptation;
Business Strategy;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry;
Chile;
South America;
Latin America
- December 2023 (Revised April 2024)
- Case
Yellow Corporation: On the Verge of Bankruptcy
By: Benjamin C. Esty and Edward A. Meyer
Yellow Corporation, one of the country’s oldest and largest less-than-truckload (LTL) carriers, was nearing its 100th anniversary in 2024. Whether it would reach that milestone, however, was uncertain as the company was attempting to restructure its operations to...
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Keywords:
Labor Unions;
Labor and Management Relations;
Capital Structure;
Restructuring;
Financial Management;
Ethics;
Borrowing and Debt;
Insolvency and Bankruptcy;
Financial Strategy;
Truck Transportation;
Change Management;
Transportation Industry;
Shipping Industry;
United States
Esty, Benjamin C., and Edward A. Meyer. "Yellow Corporation: On the Verge of Bankruptcy." Harvard Business School Case 224-028, December 2023. (Revised April 2024.)
- December 2023
- Case
Microsoft Azure and the Cloud Wars (B)
By: Andy Wu and Matt Higgins
By 2023, the global market for cloud infrastructure had consolidated into a three-horse race. As of Q4 2022, Amazon, Microsoft, and Google collectively accounted for 66% of the global market. AWS had a market share of 33%, Microsoft Azure had 23%, and Google Cloud had...
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- December 2023 (Revised December 2023)
- Case
Research In Motion: Launching and Scaling the World's First Smartphone Empire (A)
By: Tatiana Sandino and Samuel Grad
In 2005, Research In Motion’s (RIM) BlackBerry smartphone was a sensation. After its launch in 1999, the groundbreaking BlackBerry had captured the hearts and minds of corporate America through its secure wireless email service. The device was so addictive and...
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Keywords:
Business Growth and Maturation;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Mobile and Wireless Technology;
Innovation and Management;
Technological Innovation;
Business or Company Management;
Management Style;
Product Development;
Managerial Roles;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Technology Industry;
United States;
Canada
- December 2023
- Article
Association of Hospital System Affiliation with COVID-19 Capacity Burden
By: Zachary Levin, Pinar Karaca-Mandic, Richard J. Boxer and Regina E. Herzlinger
What is the message? The COVID-19 pandemic exposed the highly variable and uncoordinated responses by hospitals. The authors found that while the non-top ten system affiliated hospitals had a larger COVID-19 share index relative to independent hospitals, top-ten system...
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Keywords:
COVID-19 Pandemic;
Resource Allocation;
Health Pandemics;
Demographics;
Health Care and Treatment;
Health Industry
Levin, Zachary, Pinar Karaca-Mandic, Richard J. Boxer, and Regina E. Herzlinger. "Association of Hospital System Affiliation with COVID-19 Capacity Burden." Health Management, Policy and Innovation 8, no. 3 (December 2023).
- November 2023
- Case
From Imitation to Innovation: Zongshen Industrial Group (Abridged)
By: Willy Shih and Nancy Dai
Like other small shops based in Chongqing, China, Zongshen Industrial Group started by assembling motorcycles from "standard" parts. The quality of its early products was good enough for rural Chinese buyers, though wealthier consumers usually purchased premium...
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Keywords:
Disruptive Innovation;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Competitive Strategy;
Supply Chain;
Product Positioning;
Manufacturing Industry;
Motorcycle Industry;
China
Shih, Willy, and Nancy Dai. "From Imitation to Innovation: Zongshen Industrial Group (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 624-056, November 2023.
- November 2023
- Case
Apple Inc. in 2023
By: David B. Yoffie and Sarah von Bargen
Under CEO Tim Cook, Apple became the first trillion dollar market cap company, the first two trillion dollar company, and the first three trillion dollar company. Since the COVID pandemic, Apple gained over 20% of the world smartphone market and 50% of the U.S. market,...
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Keywords:
Competitive Advantage;
Product Positioning;
Emerging Markets;
Competitive Strategy;
Technological Innovation;
Revenue;
Technology Industry
Yoffie, David B., and Sarah von Bargen. "Apple Inc. in 2023." Harvard Business School Case 724-419, November 2023.
- November 2023 (Revised January 2024)
- Case
Bridgit: Persevere or Pivot?
By: Reza Satchu and Patrick Sanguineti
In late 2012, Mallorie Brodie and Lauren Lake, two young women in their final year of college, founded Bridgit, a technology startup that developed solutions to simplify vital but laborious processes within the construction industry. In the Fall of 2013, after months...
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- November 2023
- Teaching Plan
Geely SEA: New Electric Vehicle Platforms
By: Willy Shih
Teaching Plan for HBS Case No. 622-001. Kent Bovellan, the Chief Engineer and Head of the Vehicle Architecture Center for Geely Holding, the Hangzhou, China headquartered global automotive group, was debating the platform choice for an upcoming "D" segment midsized...
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