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Rigorous research, rooted in practice | About
Rigorous research, rooted in practice The most pressing challenges and interesting opportunities facing the world today cannot be addressed without business playing a significant role. Harvard Business School faculty conduct research on... View Details
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Interviewing - Alumni
which you are interviewing. What You Need to Know Prepare. The work and research you do prior to your interview conversation is essential to a successful interview. Meaningful preparation leads to a productive and positive conversation.... View Details
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Curriculum - Business & Environment
Acquisitions, Value Creation Under Polman's leadership, Unilever focused on long-term shareholder value accretion with a multi-stakeholder approach that emphasized global growth in revenues and earnings through deep penetration in rapidly growing emerging View Details
- September 1991 (Revised August 1994)
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Note on Pharmaceutical Industry Regulation
Traces the evolution of U.S. regulatory policy towards the pharmaceutical industry over the course of the twentieth century. A major theme is the steady shift away from a policy of 'let the buyer beware' to the creation of a complex and time-consuming review process,... View Details
Keywords: Safety; Industry Growth; Marketing; Research and Development; Health Testing and Trials; Economics; Pharmaceutical Industry; United States
Emmons, Willis M., III. "Note on Pharmaceutical Industry Regulation." Harvard Business School Background Note 792-002, September 1991. (Revised August 1994.)
- 12 Feb 2013
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First Look: Feb. 12
PublicationsOne-Switch Conditions for Multiattribute Utility Functions Authors:Abbas, Ali E., and David E. Bell Publication:Operations Research Abstract We introduce a variety of new independence conditions for multiattribute utility... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Sep 2015
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September 29, 2015
innovations from industry outsiders who saw economic opportunities where others didn’t—and how these mainstream firms had no choice but to innovate themselves. New models were tried: some succeeded, some failed. Commercial markets turned... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Breaking the Code of Change
academics from different fields frame research questions in a way that will lead to an integrative theory of change. Such a theory would clarify the trade-offs between different approaches to change and would aid in defining choices and... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Beer & Nitin Nohria
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About - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
Harvard Business School and launched in July 2016, supports research collaborations between faculty and students across Harvard to understand, predict, and prevent financial instability. The BFFS project occasionally invites globally... View Details
- 13 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Dark Side of Trust
Oberholzer-Gee saw in TrapGuard, being marketed for the first time to plumbers in Philadelphia, an interesting way to better understand the link between trust and diffusion of new products. With Victor Calanog, a doctoral student at the... View Details
- 27 Nov 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
Secrets for Creating a Long-Lasting Brand
media marketing that attempts to engage consumers with a playful approach can end up not funny at all. Research Papers Assessing the Impact of CEO ActivismEvidence on how CEO activism can influence public... View Details
- 26 May 2022
- HBS Case
Apple vs. Feds: Is iPhone Privacy a Basic Human Right?
they can trust the company, say the authors. Hsieh wrote the original case and its 2021 revision and expansion with Henry McGee, senior lecturer of business administration at HBS; Christian Godwin, a researcher in the HBS case writing... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 20 Oct 2009
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First Look: October 20
Working PapersGray Markets and Multinational Transfer Pricing (revised) Authors:Romana Autrey and Francesco Bova Abstract Gray markets arise when a manufacturer's products are sold outside of its... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 15
cost of excess inventory. Investors, lenders, and suppliers interpret this statistic for signs of the retailer's health, future sales prospects, and impending costs. While prior research on inventory has typically focused primarily on the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jan 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
What Do Development Banks Do? Evidence from Brazil, 2002-2009
- 13 Dec 2016
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December 13, 2016
exception. Yet providers and payers continue to try to stymie competition. Many are actively pursuing consolidation, buying up market share, and increasing their bargaining power. In this article, the authors argue that health care payers... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 17 Jan 2020
- Blog Post
Going the Distance for Investment Excellence
basis, Cameron typically works behind the scenes, researching macroeconomic and market crosscurrents to inform clients’ long-term investment decision making—not unlike preparing a case at HBS and then... View Details
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Engaged with field work in South Asia and East Africa, Professor Hussam places a focus on exploring questions with strong theoretical motivation in the economics literature as well as relevant downstream policy implications. Her research spans four broad interests.... View Details
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Doing Business with China: Early American Trading Houses - A Chronicle of the China Trade
Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy &... View Details
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Knowledge-based Innovation: Emergence and Embedding of New Practice Areas in Management Consulting Firms
By: Heidi K. Gardner, N. Anand and Tim Morris
How do innovative knowledge-based structures emerge and become embedded in organizations? We drew on theories of knowledge-intensive firms, communities of practice, and professional service firms to analyze multiple cases of new practice area creation in management... View Details