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2019 The Merchant of Osaka A demographic time bomb is squeezing Japan’s economy from all sides and threatening the future of its health care system. Kanoko Oishi has bet her career that she can help defuse the situation—with solutions... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
Fenton remains driven by his vision of a system-wide, scalable model for education reform that recognizes the achievement potential of all students, regardless of background or circumstance. Passion for another kind of far-reaching change... View Details
- 14 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 14
individuals bring well-articulated preexisting preferences to such decisions. Understanding beliefs and attitudes motivating these preferences can assist physicians in helping parents make informed decisions consistent with their values. Consumer-Driven View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 08 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 8
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-101.pdf Corporate Governance and Internal Capital Markets Authors:Zacharias Sautner and Belén Villalonga Abstract We exploit an exogenous shock to corporate ownership structures created by a recent tax View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019
did not apply. For all practical purposes, Musalem had only one customer for his company’s Hep C medicine: Mexico’s public health system and the National Pricing Commission that set prices annually for the entire sector. With no lack of... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 28 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 28, 2008
creative destruction following U.S. banking deregulations using Census Bureau data. U.S. banking reforms brought about exceptional growth in both entrepreneurship and business closures. The vast majority of closures, however, were the new... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 18
Most Successful CEOs Come from Within By: Bower, Joseph L. Abstract—The financial crisis of 2008 and the Great Recession caused a crisis of public confidence in business and American-style capitalism, with its focus on maximizing shareholder value. Corporate leaders... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
No Place Like Home
in affordable housing as an investor and is reaping handsome returns for its participation. "The primary vehicle for developing new affordable housing is the low-income housing tax credit, part of the Tax Reform Act of 1986," she says.... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
capitalism remains a major challenge. “When you don’t have the marketplace slapping you in the face, telling you your product is no good, you can really get confused,” Gates acknowledged. In health care, the foundation simply looks at the... View Details
- March 1999
- Case
Merck & Co., Inc.: Corporate Strategy, Organization and Culture (A)
By: Michael Beer and Perry Fagan
In the early 1990s, Merck faced a series of challenges because of significant changes in its competitive and regulatory environment (e.g., growth in power of pharmaceutical buyers like managed care organizations led to price pressures and President Clinton's review of... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Business or Company Management; Organizational Culture; Problems and Challenges; Management Practices and Processes; Competitive Strategy; Management Teams; Health Care and Treatment; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Situation or Environment; Alignment; Pharmaceutical Industry; United States
Beer, Michael, and Perry Fagan. "Merck & Co., Inc.: Corporate Strategy, Organization and Culture (A)." Harvard Business School Case 499-054, March 1999.
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This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details
- 10 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: First Look: October 10
by 7.5 percent relative to private firms. We interpret this as evidence of investor belief of policy irreversibility, where reforms may reach a stage beyond which future regimes have difficulty reversing those policies. Further analysis... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Putting Ghosts to Rest
is a management consultant on projects for public- and private-sector clients across Africa, especially in agriculture, health care, and policy. He was based in Johannesburg, South Africa, from 2006 to 2010. View Details
- 17 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 2/5
shape the moment we find ourselves in. When we consider Eric Garner, Sandra Bland, Michael Brown, Tamir Rice, or Trayvon Martin – how far have we really come? The American Myth is that legislation and civil rights reforms provided a break... View Details
- 18 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 18
processes for sorting and recycling waste materials that are still employed today. Yet it proved difficult to combine making profits and achieving social value in accordance with the "shared value" model of today. As providers of public goods such as View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Sep 2012
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First Look: September 11
capital shortages, distributed urban territory to assuage losers of reform and promote economic growth. The findings suggest that 1) growth strategies, and the territorial politics they produce, are products of the post-Mao urban... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Letters to the Editor
knowing where the CEO and his executives were taking the corporation. We all understood our fiduciary duties and our responsibilities to the shareholders as well as to the long-term health and viability of the enterprise. The exception I... View Details
- 16 May 2017
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First Look at New Ideas and Research, May 16
mathematics. Yet they often struggle to fit the profiles sought by employers. A growing number of companies, including SAP, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, and Microsoft, have reformed their HR processes in order to access neurodiverse... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 02 Feb 2016
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February 2, 2016
health care reform in driving the value. The case provides an opportunity to estimate the potential return on investment as well as to evaluate the structuring of the transaction. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
No Easy Fix for the Financial Crisis
look at the statistics, real wage growth among working-class Americans has been relatively stagnant,” said Kaplan. Meanwhile, “the cost of everything a middle-class family pays for — food, energy, education, and health care — has gone... View Details