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- November 2005 (Revised November 2005)
- Case
Massachusetts General Hospital and the Enbrel Royalty
By: David S. Scharfstein and Darren R. Smart
Massachusetts General Hospital is considering selling its royalty interest in Enbrel, Amgen's blockbuster drug for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis. In assessing whether to sell, and at what price, the hospital must determine its value to a potential buyer as well... View Details
Keywords: Valuation; Price; Investment Return; Capital; Value; Revenue; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry; Biotechnology Industry; Massachusetts
Scharfstein, David S., and Darren R. Smart. "Massachusetts General Hospital and the Enbrel Royalty." Harvard Business School Case 206-075, November 2005. (Revised November 2005.)
- February 2005 (Revised June 2006)
- Case
UAL, 2004: Pulling Out of Bankruptcy
By: Daniel Baird Bergstresser, Kenneth A. Froot and Darren Robert Smart
UAL is a large air transportation company with roots that go back to the 1920s. As a legacy carrier, going back to before the 1978 deregulation of air transportation markets, United Airlines is burdened with cost structures that make it difficult to compete with newer... View Details
Keywords: Bankruptcy; Compensation; Costs; Loans; Reorganization; Cost; Restructuring; Financing and Loans; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Compensation and Benefits; Air Transportation Industry; United States
Bergstresser, Daniel Baird, Kenneth A. Froot, and Darren Robert Smart. "UAL, 2004: Pulling Out of Bankruptcy." Harvard Business School Case 205-090, February 2005. (Revised June 2006.)
- February 2005 (Revised November 2012)
- Supplement
UAL 2004: Pulling Out of Bankruptcy (CW)
By: Daniel Baird Bergstresser, Kenneth A. Froot and Darren Robert Smart
UAL is a large air transportation company with roots that go back to the 1920s. As a legacy carrier, going back to before the 1978 deregulation of air transportation markets, United Airlines is burdened with cost structures that make it difficult to compete with newer... View Details
- 10 Jul 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: It’s a Bad Idea to Ban Customers From Recording Videos
Now, the evidence is quickly posted to social media for the world to critique—potentially blown out of proportion. “If a customer feels strongly enough to make a recording and perhaps tell friends, that’s a problem a smart retailer would... View Details
- 14 Oct 2016
- Other Presentation
Is the Eurozone Crisis Over?
By: Dante Roscini, Jeffry Frieden, Peter A. Hall, Hans-Helmut Kotz and Christopher Smart
- 20 Mar 2005
- Research & Ideas
Lessons of Successful Entrepreneurs
listen," said Fialkow, a college dropout who helped create UPromise and a number of other successful ventures. The goal is to get to market as quickly as possible, Fialkow continued. If you have a good idea, put smart people around a... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Apr 2005
- What Do You Think?
Can an Organization’s “Deep Smarts” Be Preserved?
workforce, a lot of companies have eliminated the accumulated wisdom of older workers." Saira Somani-Mendelin points to another possible cause: The failure to preserve deep smarts "... goes much deeper than the bottom line. It... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Nov 2024
- In Practice
Layoffs Surging in a Strong Economy? Advice for Navigating Uncertain Times
stations,” the Journal reported. “Doing a layoff for the right reason is not just smart strategically, it’s smart organizationally.” Two months earlier, in July, Intuit CEO Sasan Goodarzi published a note in... View Details
- 31 May 2016
- HBS Case
Who Owns Space?
launch their careers with New Space. “The space sector is full of smart technical people. By its own admission, it’s short on smart business people, and short on social scientists,” Weinzierl says. “Right... View Details
- 19 Mar 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
8 Ways To Be An Environmentally Conscious Manager
Business MBA students participating in Harvard Business School’s Climate Change Challenge offer ideas on how companies can negate impacts from a changing environment. Understand that solutions don’t come easily ‘Big Teaming,’ Audacious Innovation, and the Uncompleted... View Details
- 14 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
How to Profit from Scarcity
smart marketing strategy. Creating the illusion of scarcity is a far different situation than marketers genuinely underestimating demand for a new product. One well-known example of this misstep occurred in 1998, when Volkswagen... View Details
- 18 Mar 2009
- Research & Ideas
Marketing After the Recession
permission. Most companies will not begin reinvesting until the Wall Street Journal or Ben Bernanke officially declare the recovery underway. Get ahead of the crowd. Craft your recovery plan now, and pull the trigger when your lead indicators say go. View Details
- 24 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for Debora L. Spar
that both business and government need to realize that, at some stage, they will be working together. Smart businesses will realize that a completely apolitical strategy—a strategy that assumes governments will simply go away or get out... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 31 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 31
and James WeberHarvard Business School Case 511-065 Kevin Laracey, founder of Paydiant, needed to figure out how to launch a payment processing company with a new technology based on smart phones. Consumers had increasingly turned to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Feb 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Saving the Planet
"The fact that the benefits of addressing the problem of climate change almost certainly outweigh the costs ... does not make concerted global action to address the problem easy." —Climate Change in 2018: Implications for Business If there is one positive... View Details
- 13 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 13
create an audience for independent cinema. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/812051-PDF-ENG Enterprise Risk Management at Hydro One (B): How Risky Are Smart Meters? Anette Mikes and Dominique HamelHarvard Business... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Mar 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Rise of Innovation in Asia
started with the need to find software smarts to prepare for Y2K, but now include a shortage of qualified, technically trained people in the States. India Favored Respondents said they are likely to send work to the following countries:... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Customer Loyalty Programs That Work
The customer rewards cards that clutter wallets and clog key chains of many a shopper may soon be no more, as retailers move from physical to digital (read: mobile apps) forms of loyalty program member identification. It's a smart... View Details
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Knowledge Coach
organization viable. As they put it, "Deep smarts are the engine of your organization. You cannot progress without them, and you will manage more effectively if you understand what they are, how they are built and cultivated, and the... View Details
Keywords: by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap
- 30 Dec 2013
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: What Warren Buffett Saw in Newspapers
In 2012, legendary investor Warren Buffett made a bid to buy a troubled Southeastern US newspaper business just three years after declaring that his influential holding company, Berkshire Hathaway, would no longer invest in newspapers "at any price."... View Details