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  • July 2005
  • Article

Price Improvement in Dealership Markets

By: Matthew Rhodes-Kropf
Price improvement refers to the practice whereby dealers order executions that improve on quoted prices. Why are these improvements given? Standard thinking is that competition causes dealers to give better prices to customers with less information. This paper... View Details
Keywords: Price; Markets; Competition; Information; Customers; Negotiation; Mission and Purpose; Practice; Theory; Performance Improvement; Bids and Bidding; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms
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Rhodes-Kropf, Matthew. "Price Improvement in Dealership Markets." Journal of Business 78, no. 4 (July 2005): 1137–1172.
  • December 2006 (Revised August 2008)
  • Case

Pervasis Therapeutics, Inc.

By: Robert F. Higgins and Virginia Fuller
In May 2005, Steve Bollinger was about to become president and chief operating officer of Pervasis Therapeutics, a small cell therapy start-up in Cambridge, Mass. If proven successful, Pervasis' product, Vascugel, could change the way vascular disease is treated and... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Venture Capital; Financial Strategy; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Health Care and Treatment; Health Testing and Trials; Health Industry; Cambridge
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Higgins, Robert F., and Virginia Fuller. "Pervasis Therapeutics, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 807-026, December 2006. (Revised August 2008.)
  • Portrait Project

Chirag Shah

institution of good medicine is something to which I aspire. While I strive towards that vision, I plan to make every small step count. Although I cannot control the condition of the path I will take, I will never give up my right to... View Details
  • 01 May 2006
  • Research & Ideas

What Companies Lose from Forced Disclosure

the one hand, more measures provide more dials to turn to get the manager to take actions consistent with the firm's best interests. On the other hand, more public information imposes more risk on the manager (more chances for things beyond the manager's View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services
  • 11 Nov 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Women Entrepreneurs Usher in the Next Generation

ability to control one's own environment, agreed Donna Lopiano, of the Women's Sports Foundation. The power of knowledge can give you access to anything, she said, such as an entry-level job or the means for girls to participate in... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 05 Jul 2017
  • What Do You Think?

Can Innovation Save Us From Ourselves?

failed to live up to the billing it is currently receiving from some inside and outside the tech communities. Worse yet, the price to be paid for progress in innovations such as artificial intelligence may be greater than the benefit without work on innovative ideas to... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Technology
  • 01 Feb 2000
  • News

Executives Convene to Discuss Consumer-Driven Health Care

U.S. consumers more power over decisions related to health care. Those who advocate consumer-driven health care - including conference chair Professor Regina E. Herzlinger - believe that shifting control of health-care purchasing... View Details
  • May 2024
  • Article

Tepid Uptake of Digital Health Technologies in Clinical Trials by Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Firms

By: Caroline Marra and Ariel D. Stern
Digital health technologies (DHTs) can enable more patient-centric therapeutic development by generating evidence that captures how patients feel and function, enabling decentralized trial designs that increase participant inclusivity and convenience, and collecting... View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Technological Innovation; Product Development; Health Testing and Trials; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms
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Marra, Caroline, and Ariel D. Stern. "Tepid Uptake of Digital Health Technologies in Clinical Trials by Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Firms." Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics 115, no. 5 (May 2024): 988–992.
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Is It Time for Auditor Independence Yet?

By: M. H. Bazerman and D. A. Moore
Well before the collapse of Enron and Arthur Andersen, we argued that the auditing system had been corrupted by the incentives auditors face to please their clients. We stated that even honest auditors were incapable of independence within the current regulatory... View Details
Keywords: Accounting Audits; Change; Crime and Corruption; Customer Satisfaction; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Failure; Motivation and Incentives
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Bazerman, M. H., and D. A. Moore. "Is It Time for Auditor Independence Yet?" Accounting, Organizations and Society 36, nos. 4-5 (May–July 2011): 310–312.
  • April 2008
  • Case

Chunghwa Telecom Co., Ltd. (A)

By: Paul W. Marshall, Michael Shih-ta Chen and Keith Chi-ho Wong
In late November 2000, Chunghwa Telecom Co., Ltd., the once-monopolized telecom operator owned by the Taiwanese government, was on its way to privatization. Mr. C.K. Mao, Chairman of the company, who headed the job only three months earlier, after its prior chairman... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Employee Relationship Management; Leading Change; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Privatization; Competition; Telecommunications Industry; Taiwan
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Marshall, Paul W., Michael Shih-ta Chen, and Keith Chi-ho Wong. "Chunghwa Telecom Co., Ltd. (A)." Harvard Business School Case 808-137, April 2008.
  • 25 Aug 2015
  • Blog Post

Why an MD/MBA from HBS and HMS?

few courses in health policy, I realized that clinical care was controlled and confined by forces that were greater than the intimate interaction between a physician and patient. In fact, the discourse about these forces were amongst... View Details
  • 11 May 2020
  • News

Better Than Cash

to an account in her name, her savings are less susceptible to theft and she can maintain control of the funds to ensure they are spent on school fees. When she then pays the school via digital transfer, the mother begins to build a... View Details
  • 01 Feb 1997
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Mexico on the Brink: A Conversation with Juan Enriquez-Cabot (MBA '86)

first agree on the outlines of a new Mexico so they can unite against the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), which has controlled the country for the last 68 years. Only then will there be a strong enough social consensus to... View Details
  • 01 Dec 1997
  • News

Short Takes

companies gain flexibility in the range of projects they may undertake. "Hiring outside contractors is a way for managers to access the talent they need to get the work done," says Bradach. Independent contractors reported a greater sense of accomplishment, as well as... View Details
Keywords: Judith Ross
  • 01 Oct 1998
  • News

Short Takes

who doesn't stockpile at all risks getting an inferior deal the next time around. Retailers' ability to control their inventory storage costs also plays an important role in this balancing act. As Chun writes, "A higher inventory holding... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
  • 2012
  • Other Unpublished Work

What Are We Meeting For? The Consequences of Private Meetings with Investors

By: Eugene F. Soltes and David H. Solomon
Executives of publicly-traded firms spend considerable time meeting privately with investors, despite regulation restricting their ability to convey material nonpublic information. Using a set of records of all one-on-one meetings between senior management and... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Investment; Investment Funds; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Management Teams; Public Ownership; Business and Shareholder Relations
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Soltes, Eugene F., and David H. Solomon. "What Are We Meeting For? The Consequences of Private Meetings with Investors." September 2012.
  • March 2009 (Revised September 2010)
  • Case

HOYA Corporation (A)

By: W. Carl Kester and Masako Egawa
In 2007, HOYA of Japan must decide whether to change its friendly exchange offer for Pentax into a hostile cash tender offer. A surprising sequence of events had caused a friendly merger agreement to fall apart, resulting in a boardroom coup at Pentax and the... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Investment Activism; Corporate Governance; Governance Controls; Governing and Advisory Boards; Negotiation Tactics; Business and Shareholder Relations; Valuation; Japan
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Kester, W. Carl, and Masako Egawa. "HOYA Corporation (A)." Harvard Business School Case 209-065, March 2009. (Revised September 2010.)
  • 16 May 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Ideas and Research, May 16

governance (ESG) information in China, Denmark, Malaysia, and South Africa using differences-in-differences estimation with propensity score matched samples. We find that relative to propensity score matched control firms, treated firms... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
  • 06 Mar 2019
  • News

Making Sabbaticals Mainstream

imagining a world where I wasn't running this business that we had started, and where I couldn't necessarily control if it was going to be successful or not, that was really helpful to experience that versus just theoretically... View Details
  • 10 Jun 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Disruption: The Art of Framing

When we perceive a competitor's groundbreaking innovation as a threat, we may act defensively and hastily. But if we see that same event as an opportunity, our response might be more deliberate and unhurried. As a leader, how you frame that challenge inside your... View Details
Keywords: by Clark Gilbert & Joseph L. Bower
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