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- January 1993 (Revised October 1993)
- Case
Medtronic, Inc.
In 1991, Bill George, CEO of Medtronic, the world's largest manufacturer of pacemakers, was evaluating his strategic options in light of the changing economic environment. In the United States, Europe, and Japan, governments were considering regulatory changes to... View Details
Keywords: Diversification; Corporate Strategy; Health Care and Treatment; Policy; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry
Goodman, John B., and Patrick Moreton. "Medtronic, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 793-058, January 1993. (Revised October 1993.)
- Web
Event Guidelines | About
Event Policies The event owner/host assumes full responsibility for all aspects of the event including: Adhering to all policies, rules, and guidelines Monitoring the actions and behavior of all attendees Ensuring complete payment for all... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Getting Security Right
and arming themselves very quickly. Their intense nationalism is fueled by a deep sense of grievance about their treatment by Western powers over the last several centuries. Our view is that in the evolving competition for power and... View Details
- March 2010
- Supplement
Deworming Kenya: Translating Research into Action (B)
By: Nava Ashraf, Neil Buddy Shah and Rachel Gordon
Karen Levy and her colleague, Margaret Ndanyi, learn the results of their nation-wide effort to rid Kenyan school children of parasitic worm infection. View Details
Ashraf, Nava, Neil Buddy Shah, and Rachel Gordon. "Deworming Kenya: Translating Research into Action (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 910-027, March 2010.
- 23 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
AIDS in Africa—What’s the Solution?
$10 behind health care, there's a problem." Dr. Pride Chigwedere, an Oak Foundation Research Fellow at the Harvard AIDS Institute who worked as a physician in Zimbabwe, said the policy issues begin with difficulties designing... View Details
Keywords: by Julie Jette
- 11 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
How AI Could Ease the Refugee Crisis and Bring New Talent to Businesses
algorithms dramatically outperformed existing assignment methods—improving on the status quo by up to 50 percent with respect to predicted employment—while the other successfully placed refugees in a balanced way across available host... View Details
- 27 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
New Research: Surviving Bankruptcy, Useful Economics, and Retirement
of dollars every year. I estimate that liquidation is frequently chosen when a reorganization would have maximized total creditor recovery. I estimate that courts could dramatically improve creditor recovery by assigning liquidations... View Details
- 01 Jul 2020
- Working Paper Summaries
Social Interactions in Pandemics: Fear, Altruism, and Reciprocity
- November 2013
- Case
Choosing Health Insurance Coverage under the Affordable Care Act (ACA)
By: Robert C. Pozen, Katherine Brooks and Iwan Djanali
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
In Africa, Porter Sees Lessons for Health Care
treatments and toward value for patients; he defined “value” as “health outcomes per dollar spent.” Instead of the current system of disjointed, episodic medical interventions, Porter argued for an integrated model that addresses the... View Details
- 21 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018
information in online retail. In our experiments, customers are randomly assigned to a treatment condition where virtual fit information is available or to a control condition where virtual fit information... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- Web
1.9 Course Registration | MBA
1.9 Course Registration 1.0 Academic Information & Policies Course scheduling is managed through the Registrar’s Office. Required Curriculum Academic courses in the first year of the MBA Program are prescribed by the faculty. A student is... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 1, 2016
receiving countries. In this study, 23,800 citizens were randomly assigned to receive visits from political activists during the lead-up of the 2010 French regional elections. Treatment increased the turnout... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Bottom-Line Discrepancies
Desai, who is studying the gap between book income — what companies report to shareholders — and tax income — what companies report to the IRS. In a paper titled “The Divergence between Book and Tax Income” published in the forthcoming volume 17 of the National Bureau... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
The Future of Stem Cells
knowledge to other medical areas as well. As for public policy and business, the desire to reduce medical and health-care costs and the rewards to be reaped from the development of blockbuster therapies will further drive markets forward.... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
How Many U.S. Jobs Are ‘Offshorable’?
to a particular job, rating the importance of each. After considering this information, the learning team created an "offshorability rating" between 0 and 100 for each of its assigned occupations, with a rating of 100 indicating that the... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- Web
IFC: Singapore; Shaping a Global Innovation Hub - Course Catalog
depending on your individual circumstances. The Add/Drop process at the start of the term is the mechanism for any IFC enrollment changes, and, after that point, the course fee is non-refundable. Refer to the GEO website for full details on IFCs and be sure you... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Real Conflict
BY PERMISSION OF JOHN DEERING AND CREATORS SYNDICATE, INC. Nowadays, mighty Wal-Mart’s headquarters in Bentonville, Arkansas, must feel less like a hotbed of retailing and more like a war room. There is a groundswell of criticism of the company, largely focused on its... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Advance Racial Equity in the Office
have to start by establishing clarity on the problem, Rice explains. This is a deep-dive process to examine the specific policies or behaviors that led to this point and the effect they have on the workplace. Demand rigor. Next, identify... View Details
- 02 Jan 2020
- Op-Ed
Medicare for All or Public Option: Can Either Heal Health Care?
coverage—and improve the quality of care. Insurers could also offer plans that would be politically unfeasible for the public option. For example, private insurers can offer policies that transport members from high-cost locations for... View Details