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- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Making A Difference: HBS Club of Puget Sound Reaches Out to Young Alumni
Northwest Harvest, Washington’s largest food bank, to help distribute food to people in need in Seattle. “It’s important for the club to give back to the community,” notes Kwiker, who also feels the event provided members with a memorable... View Details
Keywords: Elena N. Berg
- 02 Jun 2011
- News
Serious Fun
self-confidence in financial skills improved by significant amounts, jumping as much as 50 to 60 percent. As an unexpected side benefit, Maynard notes that middle school and high school teachers are also using the games to teach students about different aspects of... View Details
- February 2016 (Revised March 2022)
- Case
Express Scripts: Promoting Prescription Drug Home Delivery (B)
By: John Beshears, Patrick Rooney and Jenny Sanford
The pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) sector processes prescription drug claims on behalf of companies that offer a prescription drug benefit to their employees. This case follows Bob Nease, Chief Scientist at Express Scripts, as he considers methods to promote home... View Details
Keywords: Pharmaceuticals; Prescription Drugs; Pharmacy Benefit Manager; PBM; Healthcare; Behavioral Economics; Choice Architecture; Active Choice; Health Care and Treatment; Service Delivery; Decision Choices and Conditions; Order Taking and Fulfillment; Compensation and Benefits
Beshears, John, Patrick Rooney, and Jenny Sanford. "Express Scripts: Promoting Prescription Drug Home Delivery (B)." Harvard Business School Case 916-040, February 2016. (Revised March 2022.)
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Buy Now, Pay Later: Credit, Information, and the Courts
plagiarized their laboriously collected credit reports and distributed them under their own names. To foil this type of piracy, firm leaders asserted strong legal rights over the Agency’s data, and even included fictitious credit ratings... View Details
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HBS - From The Dean
financial need, fully recognizing that talent is more evenly distributed than opportunity. You’ll read about all of this and more in this annual report, along with a deep dive into our financials and some other key metrics on the health... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Inside MTV’s Global Fame
bar at 5 a.m. singing “Born in the USA.” Or his wrestling match with the deputy mayor of Leningrad on the floor of the Winter Palace. When the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, Roedy was a few blocks away securing distribution for his fledgling... View Details
- 15 Feb 2000
- Lessons from the Classroom
Delivering Information Services: A 30-Year Perspective
organizations are taking advantage of "e-commerce," an entirely new distribution channel. EE: Can you give some examples of these cases? Nolan: We've recently put together a series of cases on Cisco Systems, Inc., perhaps the... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 15 Aug 2007
- Op-Ed
3 Steps to Reduce Financial System Risk
acting as a catalyst for the creation of these products by banks. Indeed, given the considerable fees involved, banks' business models are being reorientated away from the traditional structuring and holding of individual loans. Instead, the emphasis is now on... View Details
- 06 May 2002
- What Do You Think?
What’s Driving the “New Marketing?”
so few eyebrows. Comments from readers of this column suggest that marketing has, in practice, moved beyond the product development, promotion, pricing, and distribution activities that defined the field five decades ago. Alternatively,... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Leadership in the Digital Age
modern day requires distributed leadership and decision making. “The democratization of data is critical to creating an organization that is agile and can continuously learn,” Hill notes. But regional gatherings also highlighted issues... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 29 Jul 2013
- News
Opening New Markets for Black South African Winemakers
In addition to traditional wine distribution in the United States, Cuffe made deals with several US airlines to carry Heritage Link wines. "Our first contract created 200 jobs on the ground," Cuffe says proudly. "And ours was the first... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The City Solution
Issue Focus: Business and the Environment The Earth At Night, 2009: Cities may occupy just 2 percent of the planet’s landmass but they hold half the world’s people and produce much of its carbon emissions. Image by NASA/Corbis Issue Focus The Business and Environment... View Details
- 17 Jun 2020
- News
Toronto Copes with COVID-19 Via Webinars; Alumni Respond to Pandemic in Philippines
to promote new behaviors and monitor symptoms. They man quarantine control points 24/7 and attend to patients that need to be isolated at village health stations. Many operate without light at night and lose communications when they cannot charge their phones. HSSI is... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Arnon Mishkin (MBA 1989)
Edited by Julia Hanna; photo by Chris Sorensen I remember watching the Kennedy-Nixon debate when I was five years old. In 1964, I distributed leaflets in my neighborhood, Brooklyn Heights, for the presidential campaign. I was nine and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Tradition and Outreach at HBS Club de France
Château de Versailles. The French club took European unity a step further in 1972, publishing the first European HBS directory, which was distributed free of charge to seven thousand European alumni. Today the club also publishes a French... View Details
Keywords: Amy E. Dean
- 02 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
‘Retail Revolution’ Excerpt: The Scale of the Ecommerce Threat
take their place and the need for stocking or tidying up merchandise at store level doesn't exist. Without a store network, real estate costs are confined to a handful of distribution centers. Inventory aggregation at a few key points of... View Details
- 21 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 21
who are at the very top of the ability distribution (non-superstars), react positively to increased competition from superstars. For them, we find some evidence of increased effort and no increase in errors of logic, consistent with both... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Why Innovations Sit on the Shelf
Several managers praised this as an excellent idea, but it was never implemented. It was apparent that conflicts between the sales department and the distribution department were to blame—but no one was willing to confront the conflicts... View Details
- 29 May 2020
- Op-Ed
How Leaders Are Fighting Food Insecurity on Three Continents
climate change and other crises,” Ndidi Nwuneli says. “There is an urgent need to transform and strengthen our food ecosystems.” AACE Food Processing & Distribution Ltd., cofounded by the Nwunelis in 2009, processes, packages, and... View Details
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Impact Stories - Business & Environment
opportunity to pull all of the pieces of distributed and clean energy together for customers into an individualized, integrated solution that makes sense for them." Dan McCready MBA 2011 | Funding Solar's Future "Solar isn’t just cleaner,... View Details