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March 2023
Teaching Note

Hikma Pharmaceuticals Governance Journey

Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 318108. The case opens with Said Darwazah, chairman and CEO of Hikma Pharmaceuticals, the multinational generics company, anticipating the company’s 2017 AGM and reflecting on changes made over the previous year to address concerns... View Details

Keywords: Jordan; Emerging Market; Private Sector; For-profit Firms; Boards Of Directors; Pharmaceuticals; Remuneration; Shareholder Engagement; Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Business and Shareholder Relations; Executive Compensation; Business Growth and Maturation; Pharmaceutical Industry; Jordan

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2010
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Reversing the Null: Regulation, Deregulation, and the Power of Ideas

By: David Moss

It has been said that deregulation was an important source of the recent financial crisis. It may be more accurate, however, to say that a deregulatory mindset was an important source of the crisis—a mindset that, to a very significant extent, grew out of profound... View Details

Keywords: Financial Crisis; Financial Markets; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Government and Politics; Failure; Business and Government Relations; Financial Services Industry; United States

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30 May 2018
What Do You Think?

Should Intellectual Property be Protected in International Trade?

China to buy more American goods—gets the publicity. But it’s likely to have less long-term impact than if China would agree to relax Chinese ownership requirements on American firms desiring to do business in that country through View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Technology

30 Oct 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 30, 2018

lifetimes, this book looks at the past of green business to identify lessons for the future. It provides rich new evidence and insights on green business as it examines its variation between industries and... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

19 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

Wrapping Your Alliances In a World Wide Web

industries remain infinitely focused on creating and selling the next generation of our fast changing technologies, and thus we have not taken the time, effort, or collective resolve to develop a set of industry-wide electronic View Details

Keywords: by Andrew McAfee

Research Summary

Understanding Customers

In conventional business case studies, protagonists almost never have the option of stepping back to seek a new understanding of the customer. But to be effective in practice, managers need both the self-assurance and ability to initiate and pursue, with rigor and... View Details

05 Jul 2006
What Do You Think?

How Important Is “Executive Intelligence” for Leaders?

about issues from a systems-oriented, conceptual perspective It's not one or the other." The issue of recognizing the trait arose as well. Le Anh Tuan commented, "The reality is that people are so busy that they usually fail to... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

14 Jan 2019
Op-Ed

These 4 CEOs Created a New Standard of Leadership

experience and perspective, these leaders will influence business and society for decades to come. Now global leaders such as General Motors’s Mary Barra, Merck’s Ken Frazier, BlackRock’s Larry Fink, and... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George; Health; Banking; Food & Beverage; Consumer Products

22 Mar 2021
Research & Ideas

How to Learn from the Big Mistake You Almost Make

What if businesses could learn from their worst mistakes without actually making them? How might the same progress and innovation occur, without firms incurring the costs associated with such errors? The results of a recent study about... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Health

12 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

Entrepreneurship and Multinationals Drive Globalization

positions. Worse still, many businesses were based on concessions from local dictators. This had the effect of reinforcing local institutional constraints on domestic entrepreneurship rather than removing them. There was the more View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Beauty & Cosmetics; Manufacturing; Consumer Products; Pharmaceutical

05 Apr 2016
Blog Post

Summer Internships in the JD/MBA Program

business in other languages and cultures. While both law and business were of interest to me in college, the importance of an integrated, multidisciplinary approach became clear in my first job after... View Details

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Terms of Use - Alumni

Help Terms of Use 14ms Harvard Business School has provided a suite of alumni services through its Alumni Website for the benefit of the HBS community. Services exclusive to the HBS community are protected by HBS Login and require a... View Details

04 Dec 2013
Research & Ideas

The Fantastic Horizon: How to Invest in a New City

Editor's Note: Rapid urbanization and resource scarcity pose problems—and opportunities—for businesses and governments all over the world. But who can best lead the building and developing of these municipalities? One model: promotion and... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber; Construction; Real Estate

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Events & Presentations - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

January 9-13, 2023 January 2023 VBHC Intensive Seminar HBS Campus, Boston, MA The annual one-week Value-Based Health Care Delivery Intensive Seminar is a non-credit, graduate-level program held at Harvard Business School using in-depth... View Details

25 May 2023
News

Brazil’s Nubank Turns 10

these products will help propel the company into its second decade, as it transforms into a money platform that serves individual and business customers by connecting them with financial and non-financial services, according to the... View Details

Keywords: Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance

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Events - Creating Emerging Markets

on July 15, 2016. The full-day event was focused on how the new materials generated by the Creating Emerging Markets project could transform research and teaching in management studies and business history... View Details

08 Aug 2005
Research & Ideas

Decision Rights: Who Gives the Green Light?

for executives there to absorb and react to it, reduced the company's ability to respond to bid requests on a timely basis. Alert to this change, a European rival added a 24-hour limit to its competing bids, forcing quick decisions from clients—and winning new View Details

Keywords: by Peter Jacobs

15 Aug 2022
Book

University of the Future: Finding the Next World Leaders in Higher Ed

Today the United States is considered the world leader in higher education. Yet the country could risk losing that top spot, particularly with China opening some of the most innovative educational centers across the globe in recent years, says Harvard View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Education

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Polaroid: At The Intersection of Science & Art: Edwin H. Land and the Polaroid Corporation

Home Site map Map / Directions Search: General Information HBS Home About Annual Report Campus Commencement Dean Nohria Employment Fifty Years of Women Give News New Construction Academic Programs Doctoral Programs Executive Education MBA... View Details

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Globalization - Faculty & Research

freelancing platforms seemed to portend a radical transformation of labor markets into on-demand, flexible talent pools. Even though several Fortune 500 companies-including Microsoft, Samsung, and General Electric-embraced digital labor... View Details

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