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  • April 2017
  • Case

Imprimis (A)

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Karen Elterman and Marc Appel
This case examines the strategic choices and evolving business model of Imprimis Pharmaceuticals from the perspective of CEO Mark Baum. The (A) case provides a brief history of the company and of the compounding business, outlining the challenges faced by Imprimis in... View Details
Keywords: Strategy; Healthcare; Drug Compounding; Pharmaceuticals; Compounding; Drug Development; Decision-making; Mark Baum; Imprimis; Small Business; Decisions; Cost vs Benefits; Business Strategy; Business Model; Decision Choices and Conditions; Pharmaceutical Industry; United States
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  • October 2008
  • Article

Evaluating the CEO

By: Stephen P. Kaufman
This article includes a one-page preview that quickly summarizes the key ideas and provides an overview of how the concepts work in practice along with suggestions for further reading. After Kaufman became a CEO, he was struck by how perfunctory the board was in its... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Governing and Advisory Boards; Leadership; Managerial Roles; Performance Evaluation; Motivation and Incentives
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  • Program

Foundations of Private Equity and Venture Capital

Private Equity and Venture Capital, may be more appropriate. The programs are not intended to be taken consecutively and are designed to meet the needs of two distinct groups of investors. Applicants are advised to choose the program that... View Details
Keywords: Finance; Finance
  • May 1992 (Revised January 2000)
  • Supplement

ABB: Accountability Times Two (B)

By: Robert L. Simons
Describes internal allocation conflicts in a complex global company structured as a matrix organization. ABB Switzerland has secured and will build an important power station project; however, internal market allocation policies dictate that this work be handled by ABB... View Details
Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management; Conflict Management; Complexity; Sweden; Switzerland
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  • 01 May 2013
  • News

Apple’s Ive Seen Risking iOS 7 Delay on Software Overhaul

  • 15 Jul 2011
  • News

Struggling Firms Turn to Daily-Deal Sites

  • 19 Apr 2021
  • News

Biggest risks in return to offices: Harvard remote work guru

  • August 2018
  • Case

BlackBuck (A)

By: Shikhar Ghosh and Shweta Bagai
The case presents the challenges of scaling an asset-heavy company (that relies on its operations). It highlights how decisions on the early team impact a company’s ability to scale, linkage between growth and cash flows, as well the organizational impact of high... View Details
Keywords: Founders; Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development Strategy; Service Delivery; Cash Flow; Growth Management; Truck Transportation; Online Technology; India
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  • 05 Oct 2014
  • News

SEC’s new rules give US money market funds a floating feeling

  • June 2011 (Revised October 2013)
  • Case

Gene Patents (A)

By: Richard Hamermesh, David Kiron and Phillip Andrews
In March 2010, U.S. District Court Judge Robert Sweet overturned 30 years of legal precedent and ruled that unaltered human genes could not be patented. This case reviews patent law and how it relates to our increasing knowledge of the Human Genome. The case issues... View Details
Keywords: Courts and Trials; Patents; Genetics; Judgments; Science-Based Business; Biotechnology Industry; United States
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  • 18 Jan 2010
  • News

Lessons from the Credit Crisis: Governing Financial Institutions

  • 27 Feb 2011
  • News

Moonlighting Within Microsoft, in Pursuit of New Apps

  • 27 Oct 2021
  • News

If Money Is Tight, That’s Nothing to Be Ashamed Of

  • 20 Sep 2011
  • News

Filling "Institutional Voids" in Emerging Markets

  • 20 Feb 2018
  • News

Electronic health records don’t cut administrative costs

  • Video

Fadi Ghandour

Fadi Ghandour, founder of Dubai-based courier company Aramex and a leading entrepreneur in the Gulf, shares his view that businesses need to be activists for positive change. He provides the example of Aramex's... View Details
  • 27 Jun 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27

heuristic that are used to determine optimal stocking levels for cash and electronic value given an agent's historical demand. When tested with a large sample of transaction-level data provided by an East African mobile operator, both the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 2022
  • Book

L'entreprise, une affaire de cœur

By: Hubert Joly and Caroline Lambert
A remarkable turnaround by a leader with a remarkable philosophy: Find your noble purpose. Put people at the center. Unleash human magic.
"It was fall in Minnesota. It was getting cold and we were supposed to die." This is how Hubert Joly describes the early,... View Details
Keywords: Capitalism; Leadership; Mission and Purpose; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Leading Change
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  • 12 Jan 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Regulators Ease Up on Companies Generating Political Benefits

political ends, such as higher employment. "Typically in research on regulatory capture, special interests put pressure on politicians, for example, firms pay money; in my story it comes because a politician wants to be reelected,... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • TeachingInterests

MBA Elective Curriculum-- Competing Through Business Models

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell

The  words  “business  model”  are  inescapable  in  our  daily  fare of  business  news.  These  two ubiquitous words seemed to effortlessly rise up to prominence during the dot-com boom of the late 1990s. When businesspeople, journalists, academics, and other... View Details