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- 20 Sep 2018
- News
Did Entrepreneur Ernesto Tornquist Help or Hurt Argentina?
- August 2007 (Revised January 2008)
- Case
Dollar General Going Private
Intended to improve students' understanding and encourage their use of financial statement analysis. The context is Dollar General Corporation's acquisition by private equity sponsor KKR, which took the company private in 2007. Although the proposed merger generated a... View Details
Keywords: Financial Statements; Mergers and Acquisitions; Private Equity; Price; Privatization; Valuation; Retail Industry
Katz, Sharon P. "Dollar General Going Private." Harvard Business School Case 108-015, August 2007. (Revised January 2008.)
- 21 Apr 2016
- News
What both Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump get wrong about finance
- 2015
- Working Paper
How Should We Pay for Health Care?
By: Michael E. Porter and Robert S. Kaplan
Improving the way we pay for health care must be a central component in health care reform. Payment reform must link provider reimbursement and accountability to improving patient value: better health outcomes delivered at lower cost. Today’s deeply flawed... View Details
Porter, Michael E., and Robert S. Kaplan. "How Should We Pay for Health Care?" Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 15-041, December 2014. (Revised February 2015.)
- 31 May 2017
- News
We need to 'humanize' finance: Harvard professor
- 22 Oct 2014
- Video
Social Impact Investing: Challenges Ahead
- 10 Sep 2017
- News
The Top 10 Books to Read This Fall
Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance in Emerging Markets
Emerging markets play an increasingly important role in the global economy, accounting for 31% of global GDP and more than 50% of global foreign direct investment in 2012. However, doing business in emerging markets remains subject to a high degree of "policy risk,"... View Details
- March 1990 (Revised June 1993)
- Case
Analog Devices, Inc.: The Half-Life System
By: Robert S. Kaplan
The company has committed to major improvements in quality, cost, and on-time delivery performance. Despite strong senior management support, however, the actual rate of improvement was disappointing until a new measurement philosophy was introduced. The new approach... View Details
Keywords: Quality; Performance Improvement; Earnings Management; Financial Reporting; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Performance Productivity; Business or Company Management; Cost Management; Measurement and Metrics; Management Teams; Semiconductor Industry
Kaplan, Robert S. "Analog Devices, Inc.: The Half-Life System." Harvard Business School Case 190-061, March 1990. (Revised June 1993.)
- 25 Apr 2023
- Cold Call Podcast
Using Design Thinking to Invent a Low-Cost Prosthesis for Land Mine Victims
- July 2023 (Revised May 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... View Details
- 29 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 29
http://www.francescagino.com/uploads/4/7/4/7/4747506/gino_shea_deception_chapter_2012.pdf Stock Price Fragility Authors:Robin Greenwood and David Thesmar Publication:Journal of Financial Economics... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jul 2020
- Working Paper Summaries
Social Interactions in Pandemics: Fear, Altruism, and Reciprocity
- 21 Aug 2019
- Video
Naina Lal Kidwai
Naina Lal Kidwai, former head of HSBC India and founder of the India Sanitation Coalition, reflects on her experience as a woman trying to start a career in chartered accountancy in India in the 1970s, and... View Details
- June 1991 (Revised March 1995)
- Case
Becton Dickinson (D): Strategic Human Resource Management Profiling
By: Michael Beer
Describes a strategic human resource management process applied at the business unit and corporate level. The purpose of the process is to provide a means for aligning human resource management policies and practices with strategy and to hold managers accountable for... View Details
Keywords: Change Management; Human Resources; Business or Company Management; Strategic Planning; Corporate Strategy; Health Industry
Beer, Michael. "Becton Dickinson (D): Strategic Human Resource Management Profiling." Harvard Business School Case 491-155, June 1991. (Revised March 1995.)
- 05 Nov 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
Medium Term Business Cycles in Developing Countries
- 2016
- Working Paper
Henry Kissinger's Negotiation Campaign to End the Vietnam War
By: James K. Sebenius and Eugene B. Kogan
President Richard M. Nixon was elected in 1968 with the widespread expectation that he would bring about an end to the costly and unpopular war in Vietnam. The task largely fell to National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger. When the negotiations began, North Vietnam... View Details
Keywords: Kissinger; Negotiation; Negotiation Campaign; Bargaining; Diplomacy; Coercive Diplomacy; Multiparty Negotiations; Dispute Resolution; Mediation; Negotiation Process; War; Negotiation Types; International Relations; Negotiation Deal; Viet Nam; United States
Sebenius, James K., and Eugene B. Kogan. "Henry Kissinger's Negotiation Campaign to End the Vietnam War." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 17-053, December 2016.
- 25 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
How Chapter 11 Saved the US Economy
truth is anything but— "it's about reviving companies," says Gilson, author of the 2010 book Creating Value through Corporate Restructuring: Case Studies in Bankruptcies, Buyouts, and Breakups . Reviving The Economy Taking a... View Details
- 07 May 2014
- Video