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- 09 Nov 2011
- News
Despite Critics, Mortgage Deduction Resists Change
- 28 Aug 2020
- Video
Ian Fuhr
Ian Fuhr, who later founded Sorbet, the largest chain of beauty salons in South Africa, describes how he was sent to a refinery owned by the Murray & Roberts group in the 1990s and encountered appalling racism at the top management. The CEO eventually took steps to...
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- 01 Apr 2009
- News
New Book Looks at the Life of a CIO
- February 2016 (Revised February 2017)
- Case
Alvogen
By: Daniel Isenberg and William Kerr
Alvogen is a young Icelandic generic pharmaceutical company, whose CEO believes that his global strategy will give them an edge in this competitive industry.
Robert Wessman, Alvogen’s CEO, was also previously the CEO of Actavis, another Icelandic generics... View Details
Robert Wessman, Alvogen’s CEO, was also previously the CEO of Actavis, another Icelandic generics... View Details
Keywords:
Pharmaceutical Companies;
Generic Drugs;
Entrepreneurship;
Globalization;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Pharmaceutical Industry;
Iceland
Isenberg, Daniel, and William Kerr. "Alvogen." Harvard Business School Case 816-064, February 2016. (Revised February 2017.)
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Reinventing Marketing
Professor Robert J. Dolan, whose research focuses on pricing, will oversee the required Marketing course in the 1996-97 academic year. The elective curriculum has also been restructured, based in part on feedback from student focus...
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- 19 Oct 2022
- Video
Health Minute Series
- 02 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 2
an instrumental variables and a simultaneous equations approach. Finally, we show that the relation is driven by both the social and the environmental dimension of CSR. Read the paper:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 2001
- Case
Stora Enso North America (SENA)
By: Vijay Govindarajan, Jesse Johnson and Chris Trimble
Robert Leach, VP of information technology for SENA had a vision of building an IT infrastructure that connected all of the participants in the paper supply chain and launching new service businesses enabled by the new infrastructure. Through a detailed description of...
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Govindarajan, Vijay, Jesse Johnson, and Chris Trimble. "Stora Enso North America (SENA)." 2001. (Case No. 2-0001.)
- September 2010 (Revised January 2012)
- Case
OPOWER: Increasing Energy Efficiency through Normative Influence (A)
By: Amy J.C. Cuddy, Kyle Todd Doherty and Maarten W. Bos
The case profiles OPOWER, an energy efficiency software company that applies Cialdini's principles of social influence to successfully encourage consumers to reduce their energy usage. OPOWER was co-founded in 2008 by two young Harvard graduates, Dan Yates and Alex...
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Mathematical Methods;
Applications and Software;
Attitudes;
Entrepreneurship;
Energy Conservation;
Power and Influence;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Energy Industry;
United States
Cuddy, Amy J.C., Kyle Todd Doherty, and Maarten W. Bos. "OPOWER: Increasing Energy Efficiency through Normative Influence (A)." Harvard Business School Case 911-016, September 2010. (Revised January 2012.)
- 04 Apr 2023
- HBS Seminar
Leslie Marx, Duke University Fuqua School of Business
- October 2012 (Revised March 2022)
- Case
Kleiner-Perkins and Genentech: When Venture Capital Met Science
By: Felda Hardymon and Tom Nicholas
Genentech is a rare success story in the biotechnology industry. Hundreds of billions of dollars of venture capital have been invested without the expected transformational effects. Established in 1976, Genentech was to develop the new science of recombinant DNA into...
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Keywords:
Innovation & Entrepreneurship;
Venture Capital;
Innovation and Invention;
Entrepreneurship;
Information Technology;
Science;
Biotechnology Industry;
United States
Hardymon, Felda, and Tom Nicholas. "Kleiner-Perkins and Genentech: When Venture Capital Met Science." Harvard Business School Case 813-102, October 2012. (Revised March 2022.)
- 03 Dec 2012
- News
When Time is of the Essence, Try “Extreme Productivity”
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Industry Dynamics in Post-Socialist Economies
Robert E. Kennedy is studying industry dynamics in post-Socialist economies, primarily Poland. His research to date has focused on how structural factors influence industry transitions. In Poland he has found two distinct patterns: rapid transition, driven primarily...
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- November 2013 (Revised January 2015)
- Case
Obamacare
By: Matthew Weinzierl and Katrina Flanagan
One vote in June, 2012, decided the fate of President Barack Obama's crowning first-term achievement: universal health insurance. Chief Justice John Roberts of the U.S. Supreme Court cast the deciding vote to uphold the keystone of the reform: the mandate to purchase...
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Keywords:
Universal Health Insurance;
Adverse Selection;
Leviathan;
Courts and Trials;
Judgments;
Insurance;
Health Care and Treatment;
Government and Politics;
Insurance Industry;
Public Administration Industry;
Health Industry;
United States
Weinzierl, Matthew, and Katrina Flanagan. "Obamacare." Harvard Business School Case 714-029, November 2013. (Revised January 2015.)
- 20 Apr 2014
- Video
The Music of this Place
- November 2010
- Case
Lessons Learned? Brooksley Born & the OTC Derivatives Market (A)
By: Clayton S. Rose and David Lane
On May 7, 1998, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, chaired by Brooksley Born, issued a "Concept Release" inviting public comment on the relevance and appropriateness of existing regulation of the over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives market, a market with a...
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Keywords:
Financial Crisis;
Credit Derivatives and Swaps;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Policy;
Business and Government Relations;
Financial Services Industry;
Public Administration Industry;
District of Columbia
Rose, Clayton S., and David Lane. "Lessons Learned? Brooksley Born & the OTC Derivatives Market (A)." Harvard Business School Case 311-044, November 2010.
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- 29 Mar 2013
- News
Tackle Big Projects Productively: 5 tips
- 23 Jun 2016
- News