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- November 2001 (Revised December 2002)
- Case
Tracking Stocks at Genzyme (A)
Genzyme, a tracking stock pioneer, has used its innovative capital structure as a way to frame and grow its R&D-intensive business. Facing the question of how best to integrate a new acquisition into its tracking stock structure, Genzyme's top management is forced to...
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Integration;
Value Creation;
Motivation and Incentives;
Conflict of Interests;
Stocks;
Capital Structure;
Research and Development;
Corporate Governance;
Biotechnology Industry
Salter, Malcolm S. "Tracking Stocks at Genzyme (A)." Harvard Business School Case 902-023, November 2001. (Revised December 2002.)
- 19 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 19, 2009
In addition, we provide details on the leading sources of energy in China as well as information on the rise of alternative energy. Purchase this note: http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=309057 Corporate Solutions...
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Martha Lagace
- 21 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
The New Math of Customer Relationships
to have packaged and measured the relationships in a way that made sense to a lot of people. Q: Many companies approach creating a good customer experience as a discrete action: a customer satisfaction program, for example. But your books detail an integrated set of...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Small Businesses Can Survive the Coronavirus Outbreak
businesses often have less than 20 days’ worth. While forecasts vary, many public health experts don’t expect the coronavirus outbreak to subside for at least eight weeks, assuming that social distancing and other mitigation efforts can...
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- 16 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Resolving Patent Disputes that Impede Innovation
is thus imperfect. "Sometimes this vagueness (and the consequent inability of parties to agree on a negotiated, 'reasonable' license) will lead to expensive litigation whose cost and risk can impede the adoption of a socially...
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- 05 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019
findings can help explain a variety of behavioral phenomena including the structure of social insurance programs, patterns of public good provision, and why transactions that turn money into time are often deemed repugnant. Download...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Oct 2016
- What Do You Think?
Can the US Economy Regain the Growth and Prosperity of the Past?
he said "our best policy is to promote economic liberty so that individuals and corporations can adjust to changes in society, technology, the economy, the environment and politics stop trying to make government the engine of growth,...
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by James Heskett
- 12 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Michael Porter’s Prescription For the High Cost of Health Care
responsibility for their choices. But co-pays would be the same inside and outside of the network. Antitrust authorities would scrutinize system participants so that one hospital system or health plan did not unfairly dominate an...
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- 03 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Business History around the World
structures of large manufacturing corporations remains important, but a new generation of researchers has explored business networks, the family firm, knowledge creation and transfer, public policy and business, and a host of other...
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by Cynthia Churchwell
- 23 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard
assets, including customer relationships; innovative products and services; high-quality and responsive operating processes; skills and knowledge of the workforce; the information technology that supports the workforce and links the firm...
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by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
- 24 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 24, 2007
backdated stock options, insufficiently independent corporate board members, poor responsiveness to shareholders concerns, and a lack of transparency in the activities and decisions of boards. The AFL-CIO...
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Martha Lagace
- 27 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 27
intensive companies, and blind review of solution submissions. We find that technical and social marginality, being a source of different perspectives and heuristics, plays an important role in explaining individual success in problem...
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Martha Lagace
- December 2019 (Revised December 2021)
- Supplement
Negotiating for Equal Pay: The U.S. Women's National Soccer Team (B)
By: Christine Exley, John Beshears, Manuela Collis and Davis Heniford
Supplements the (A) case and describes the events following it
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Equal Pay;
Negotiation;
Compensation and Benefits;
Equality and Inequality;
Gender;
Prejudice and Bias;
Ethics;
Negotiation Tactics;
Corporate Governance;
Lawsuits and Litigation;
Sports;
Sports Industry;
United States
Exley, Christine, John Beshears, Manuela Collis, and Davis Heniford. "Negotiating for Equal Pay: The U.S. Women's National Soccer Team (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 920-030, December 2019. (Revised December 2021.)
- 09 Sep 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching Climate Change to Skeptics
dramatic consequences if indeed it is man-made may be worth trying to do something about it." Take BEI faculty cochair Rebecca Henderson's response to some readers who left naysaying comments in regard to the article View Details
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by Carmen Nobel
- 29 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
Pride Goeth Before a Profit
to employees' identity and self-worth. Caring About Accuracy Dave Thompson was appointed a measurement technician at El Segundo, CA-based Unocal's Van, TX, oil field in 1993. He was responsible for making sure that the amounts of oil and...
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by Theodore Kinni
- 22 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Mind of the Market: Extending the Frontiers of Marketing Thought
ZMET in addition to digital imaging, for corporate clients as well as MBA and Executive Education students. He's also involved in Harvard's interdisciplinary initiative Mind/Brain/Behavior, and studies neuroimaging techniques as applied...
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by Martha Lagace
- 11 Jan 2000
- Lessons from the Classroom
New Game, New Rules: Developing Managers for a Competitive World
corporate management, and how PGL helps executives address these critical issues. Q: How are fundamental changes occurring in the global business environment driving change at the organizational level? A: These are turbulent times for...
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by Staff
- 12 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Creating Online Ads We Want to Watch
unobtrusively measured their eye movements. The researchers parsed the camera data with the help of computer vision software that evaluated emotional response based on variations in facial features. Click to watch. Meanwhile, the eye...
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- 07 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 7
corporate environmental ratings that guide investors to select "socially responsible," and avoid "socially irresponsible," companies. We examine how several hundred firms respond to View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS
that Al's research has moved from railroads to giant corporations and now to computers and consumer electronics underscores his eminent position as the historian of industries at the center of national interest in each era he studies. All...
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by Jim Aisner