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- 2023
- Working Paper
When Should Public Programs Be Privately Administered? Theory and Evidence from the Paycheck Protection Program
By: Alexander Bartik, Zoë B. Cullen, Edward L. Glaeser, Michael Luca, Christopher Stanton and Adi Sunderam
What happens when public resources are allocated by private companies whose objectives may be
imperfectly aligned with policy goals? We study this question in the context of the Paycheck
Protection Program (PPP), which relied on private banks to disburse aid to small...
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Keywords:
Paycheck Protection Program;
Targeting;
Impact;
Entrepreneurship;
Health Pandemics;
Small Business;
Financing and Loans;
Outcome or Result;
United States
Bartik, Alexander, Zoë B. Cullen, Edward L. Glaeser, Michael Luca, Christopher Stanton, and Adi Sunderam. "When Should Public Programs Be Privately Administered? Theory and Evidence from the Paycheck Protection Program." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-021, August 2020. (Revised July 2023.)
- August 2020
- Background Note
U.S. Private Equity Firms: ESG and Impact (A)
By: Lynn S. Paine and Holly Fetter
This Note has two parts. The first part (A) explores how U.S. private equity firms are incorporating ESG (Environmental, Social, & Governance) factors and impact objectives into their investment strategies and firm practices. It is based on publicly available...
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Keywords:
Private Equity;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Social Issues;
Financial Services Industry;
United States
Paine, Lynn S., and Holly Fetter. "U.S. Private Equity Firms: ESG and Impact (A)." Harvard Business School Background Note 321-036, August 2020.
- August 2020
- Background Note
U.S. Private Equity Firms: ESG and Impact (B)
By: Lynn S. Paine and Holly Fetter
This is the second part of a two-part note. The first part (A) explores how US private equity firms are incorporating ESG (Environmental, Social, & Governance) factors and impact objectives into their investment strategies and firm practices. It is based on publicly...
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Keywords:
Private Equity;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Social Issues;
Financial Services Industry;
United States
Paine, Lynn S., and Holly Fetter. "U.S. Private Equity Firms: ESG and Impact (B)." Harvard Business School Background Note 321-037, August 2020.
- August 2020 (Revised October 2021)
- Case
India 2020 – Governance and Growth
In January 2012, the government of India faced significant challenges to achieving three key objectives of high growth, inclusive development, and improved governance. The economy was experiencing a growth slowdown, persistently high inflation, and infrastructure and...
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Vietor, Richard H. K. "India 2020 – Governance and Growth." Harvard Business School Case 721-002, August 2020. (Revised October 2021.)
- Aug 2020
- Conference Presentation
Impacting Grand Challenges: A 'Both/And' Approach
By: Natalie Slawinski, Wendy K. Smith, Robin J. Ely, Tobias Hahn, Andrew J. Hoffman and Anita M. McGahan
In this panel symposium, we seek to build on growing efforts by management scholars to engage with grand challenges and the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Reflective of the All- Academy Theme description, we note that research and scholarship...
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Slawinski, Natalie, Wendy K. Smith, Robin J. Ely, Tobias Hahn, Andrew J. Hoffman, and Anita M. McGahan. "Impacting Grand Challenges: A 'Both/And' Approach." Paper presented at the Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Virtual, August 2020.
- July 2020
- Background Note
Gender Diversity on Boards: Views from Norway
By: Aiyesha Dey
The issue of gender diversity on boards has received increased attention in U.S markets over the past few years. In 2018, California introduced a law which required boards of U.S-listed firms with headquarters in California to include at least one female director by...
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Keywords:
Board Of Directors;
Board Decisions;
Gender;
Diversity;
Governing and Advisory Boards;
Norway;
United States
Dey, Aiyesha. "Gender Diversity on Boards: Views from Norway." Harvard Business School Background Note 120-065, July 2020.
- Article
Assessing the Food and Drug Administration's Risk-Based Framework for Software Precertification with Top Health Apps in the United States: Quality Improvement Study
By: Noy Alon, Ariel Dora Stern and John Torous
BACKGROUND: As the development of mobile health apps continues to accelerate, the need to implement a framework that can standardize categorizing these apps to allow for efficient, yet robust regulation grows. However, regulators and researchers are faced with numerous...
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Keywords:
Mobile Health;
Smartphone;
Food And Drug Administration;
Risk-based Framework;
Health Care and Treatment;
Mobile and Wireless Technology;
Applications and Software;
Framework
Alon, Noy, Ariel Dora Stern, and John Torous. "Assessing the Food and Drug Administration's Risk-Based Framework for Software Precertification with Top Health Apps in the United States: Quality Improvement Study." JMIR mHealth and uHealth 8, no. 10 (October 2020).
- July 2020
- Case
Michael Solomonov: Jerusalem in a Bowl
By: Boris Groysberg, Evan M.S. Hecht and Katherine Connolly Baden
Before the COVID-19 pandemic hit, Michael Solomonov and Steven Cook had begun to wonder whether it might be time to rethink their opportunistic approach to the expansion of their small restaurant empire in Philadelphia, CooknSolo. The pandemic, however, caused an...
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Keywords:
Restaurant Industry;
Entrepreneur;
COVID-19;
Crisis;
Crisis Response Plans;
Entrepreneurship;
Food;
Health Pandemics;
Crisis Management;
Innovation and Invention;
Leadership;
Creativity;
Strategy;
Ownership;
Problems and Challenges;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Situation or Environment;
Food and Beverage Industry;
United States
Groysberg, Boris, Evan M.S. Hecht, and Katherine Connolly Baden. "Michael Solomonov: Jerusalem in a Bowl." Harvard Business School Case 421-016, July 2020.
- Article
Oracle Efficient Private Non-Convex Optimization
By: Seth Neel, Aaron Leon Roth, Giuseppe Vietri and Zhiwei Steven Wu
One of the most effective algorithms for differentially private learning and optimization is objective perturbation. This technique augments a given optimization problem (e.g. deriving from an ERM problem) with a random linear term, and then exactly solves it....
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Neel, Seth, Aaron Leon Roth, Giuseppe Vietri, and Zhiwei Steven Wu. "Oracle Efficient Private Non-Convex Optimization." Proceedings of the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 37th (2020).
- July 2020 (Revised April 2022)
- Case
Paris Saint-Germain: Building One of the World's Top Sports Brands
By: Anita Elberse and David Moreno Vicente
In March 2020, Nasser Al-Khelaifi, the president of French soccer club Paris Saint-Germain (‘PSG’) sees his team clinch a spot among the last eight clubs to compete in the UEFA Champions League. Established in 1970 and initially a club with only moderate success, PSG’s...
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Keywords:
Soccer;
Football;
Superstars;
Talent;
Talent Development;
General Management;
Sports;
Entertainment;
Media;
Talent and Talent Management;
Globalization;
Brands and Branding;
Marketing;
Strategy;
Sports Industry;
Europe
Elberse, Anita, and David Moreno Vicente. "Paris Saint-Germain: Building One of the World's Top Sports Brands." Harvard Business School Case 521-006, July 2020. (Revised April 2022.)
- Article
Quantifying the Benefits from a Care Coordination Program for Tracheostomy Placement in Neonates
By: Christen Caloway, Alisa Yamasaki, Kevin M. Callans, Mahek Shah, Robert S. Kaplan and Christopher Hartnick
Value-based care models are becoming instrumental in structuring clinical care delivery in our healthcare climate. Our objective was to determine the value associated with implementation of a Family-Centered Care Coordination (FCCC) program for neonates undergoing...
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Keywords:
Family-centered Care;
Value-based Healthcare;
Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing;
Health Care and Treatment;
Value;
Activity Based Costing and Management
Caloway, Christen, Alisa Yamasaki, Kevin M. Callans, Mahek Shah, Robert S. Kaplan, and Christopher Hartnick. "Quantifying the Benefits from a Care Coordination Program for Tracheostomy Placement in Neonates." International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology 134 (July 2020).
- July 2020
- Article
The Role of Interdependence in the Microfoundations of Organization Design: Task, Goal, and Knowledge Interdependence
By: Marlo Raveendran (formerly Goetting), Luciana Silvestri and Ranjay Gulati
Interdependence is a core concept in organization design, yet one that has remained consistently understudied. Current notions of interdependence remain rooted in seminal works, produced at a time when managers’ near-perfect understanding of the task at hand drove the...
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Keywords:
Interdependence;
Organizational Behavior;
Work Design;
Organizational Design;
Goals and Objectives;
Knowledge Sharing
Raveendran (formerly Goetting), Marlo, Luciana Silvestri, and Ranjay Gulati. "The Role of Interdependence in the Microfoundations of Organization Design: Task, Goal, and Knowledge Interdependence." Academy of Management Annals 14, no. 2 (July 2020): 828–868.
- June 2020
- Case
Breakthroughs at Blueprint Medicines
By: Richard G. Hamermesh, Kathy Giusti and Susie L. Ma
Precision medicine company Blueprint Medicines was building a successful track record for bringing drug therapies to market 40% faster than average. The company had spent $40 million dollars and two years building a compound library that became its drug development...
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Keywords:
Precision Medicine;
Cancer;
Biotechnology;
Drug Development;
Strategy;
Expansion;
Science;
Genetics;
Information Technology;
Entrepreneurship;
Organizational Culture;
Management;
Growth and Development;
Pharmaceutical Industry;
United States;
Cambridge;
Massachusetts
Hamermesh, Richard G., Kathy Giusti, and Susie L. Ma. "Breakthroughs at Blueprint Medicines." Harvard Business School Case 820-001, June 2020.
- 2021
- Working Paper
Two Case Studies on the Financing of Forest Conservation
By: Andrew Baxter, Connor Cash, Josh Lerner and Ratnika Prasad
A variety of factors is leading to fresh approaches to the ownership and management of forestland, with an emphasis on the combination of conservation goals and private investments. But the barriers to successfully achieving attractive financial returns and desirable...
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Baxter, Andrew, Connor Cash, Josh Lerner, and Ratnika Prasad. "Two Case Studies on the Financing of Forest Conservation." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-137, June 2020. (Revised February 2021.)
- June 2020
- Case
TransDigm: The Acquisition of Aerosonic Corp.
By: Benjamin C. Esty and Daniel W. Fisher
In April 2013, TransDigm, a company that manufactured a wide range of highly engineered aerospace parts for both military and commercial aircraft, announced an agreement to acquire Aerosonic Corporation for $39 million in cash (1.2 times Aerosonic’s sales of $31...
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Keywords:
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Growth Management;
Business Strategy;
Competitive Strategy;
Value Creation;
Valuation;
Negotiation;
Cash Flow;
Contracts;
Aerospace Industry;
Air Transportation Industry;
United States
Esty, Benjamin C., and Daniel W. Fisher. "TransDigm: The Acquisition of Aerosonic Corp." Harvard Business School Case 720-480, June 2020.
- June 2020 (Revised May 2022)
- Case
Vanguard Retail Operations (A)
By: Willy C. Shih and Antonio Moreno
The first two cases in this series are set in the financial services industry, and explore whether it is better for back-office workers to be generalists who provide the flexibility of being able to handle the complete range of transactions that the company faces or...
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Keywords:
Pooling;
Generalist Model;
Specialist Model;
Operations;
Service Operations;
Management;
Job Design and Levels;
Financial Services Industry;
United States
Shih, Willy C., and Antonio Moreno. "Vanguard Retail Operations (A)." Harvard Business School Case 620-104, June 2020. (Revised May 2022.)
- June 2020 (Revised August 2020)
- Supplement
Vanguard Retail Operations (B)
By: Willy C. Shih and Antonio Moreno
The first two cases in this series are set in the financial services industry, and explore whether it is better for back-office workers to be generalists who provide the flexibility of being able to handle the complete range of transactions that the company faces or...
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Keywords:
Pooling;
Generalist Model;
Specialist Model;
Service Operations;
Management;
Financial Services Industry;
United States
Shih, Willy C., and Antonio Moreno. "Vanguard Retail Operations (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 620-105, June 2020. (Revised August 2020.)
- June 2020
- Case
What IKEA Do We Want?
By: Juan Alcácer, Cynthia A. Montgomery, Emilie Billaud and Vincent Dessain
In 2018, Swedish furniture maker IKEA was undergoing a significant transformation. Challenged by the rise of online shopping and changing consumer behavior, and mourning the death of its founder, the Company's top executives knew they had to step out of their comfort...
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Keywords:
Business Strategy;
Transformation;
Leading Change;
Mission and Purpose;
Business Model;
Emerging Markets;
Customer Focus and Relationships;
Organizational Culture;
Disruption;
Consumer Products Industry;
Retail Industry;
Europe;
Netherlands;
Sweden;
China;
India;
United States
Alcácer, Juan, Cynthia A. Montgomery, Emilie Billaud, and Vincent Dessain. "What IKEA Do We Want?" Harvard Business School Case 720-429, June 2020.
- June 2020 (Revised September 2020)
- Case
Shellye Archambeau: Becoming a CEO (A)
By: Tsedal Neeley and John Masko
With the economy in a freefall, MetricStream is losing customers, hemorrhaging cash and struggling to make payroll. Several board members are threatening to quit. Others are pressing to sell the company even at dismally low valuations. It’s 2008 and lightning has...
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Keywords:
Leadership;
Race;
Gender;
Leadership Style;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Change;
Prejudice and Bias;
Decision Making;
Personal Development and Career;
Technology Industry;
California
Neeley, Tsedal, and John Masko. "Shellye Archambeau: Becoming a CEO (A)." Harvard Business School Case 420-071, June 2020. (Revised September 2020.)
- June 2020
- Supplement
Shellye Archambeau: Becoming a CEO (B)
By: Tsedal Neeley and Briana Richardson
With the economy in a freefall, MetricStream is losing customers, hemorrhaging cash and struggling to make payroll. Several board members are threatening to quit. Others are pressing to sell the company even at dismally low valuations. It’s 2008 and lightning has...
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Keywords:
Race;
Gender;
Leadership Style;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Change;
Prejudice and Bias;
Decision Making;
Personal Development and Career;
Technology Industry;
California
Neeley, Tsedal, and Briana Richardson. "Shellye Archambeau: Becoming a CEO (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 420-073, June 2020.