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  • October 2021 (Revised October 2022)
  • Case

The Opioid Settlement and Controversy Over CEO Pay at AmerisourceBergen

By: Suraj Srinivasan and Li-Kuan Ni
In 2020, AmerisourceBergen Corporation, a Fortune 50 company in the drug distribution industry, agreed to settle thousands of lawsuits filed nationwide against the company for its opioid distribution practices that critics alleged had contributed to the nationwide... View Details
Keywords: Opioids; Drug; Investors; Shareholder Activism; Investment Activism; Executive Compensation; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Governance; Governance Compliance; Governance Controls; Risk Management; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business and Shareholder Relations; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Legal Liability; Distribution Industry; Health Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; United States; West Virginia; Tennessee; Ohio; Pennsylvania
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    Guhan Subramanian

    Guhan Subramanian is the Joseph Flom Professor of Law and Business at the Harvard Law School and the Douglas Weaver Professor of Business Law at the Harvard Business School. He is the first person in the history of Harvard... View Details

    • January 2025
    • Case

    Cyber Oversight: SolarWinds Board of Directors

    By: Lynn S. Paine
    In 2020, just two years after its IPO, information technology company SolarWinds discovered that it was the victim of an attack on its information systems by Russian hackers. The incident, known as the Sunburst attack, was costly for the company, and certain... View Details
    Keywords: Corporate Governance; Corporate Accountability; Governing and Advisory Boards; Cybersecurity; Lawsuits and Litigation; Legal Liability; Business and Shareholder Relations; Risk Management; Information Technology Industry; United States; Texas; Delaware
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    • 24 Sep 2021
    • News

    ‘A Different Kind of Moral Hazard’: The History and Politics behind the Evergrande Debt Crisis

    • Article

    Act Like a Scientist: Great Leaders Challenge Assumptions, Run Experiments, and Follow the Evidence

    By: Stefan Thomke and Gary W. Loveman
    Though they’ve been warned for decades about the dangers of overrelying on gut instinct and personal experience, managers keep failing to critically examine—much less challenge—the ideas their decisions are based on. To correct this problem they need to think and act... View Details
    Keywords: Innovation and Management; Decision Making; Science; Leadership Style
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      Lauren H. Cohen

      Lauren Cohen is the L.E. Simmons Professor in the Finance & Entrepreneurial Management Units at Harvard Business School and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is an Editor of the Review of Financial... View Details

      Keywords: investment banking industry; investment banking industry; investment banking industry; investment banking industry; investment banking industry; investment banking industry
      • 18 Dec 2008
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Concentration Levels in the U.S. Advertising and Marketing Services Industry: Myth vs. Reality

      Keywords: by Alvin J. Silk & Charles King III; Advertising
      • 04 May 2009
      • Research & Ideas

      What’s Next for the Big Financial Brands

      consumer trust is no longer a brand; it is merely a name. The Merrill Lynch brand is unlikely to ever recover and Bank of America should drop it. Merrill Lynch is no longer a brand. Both before and after the collapse of the Internet... View Details
      Keywords: by John Quelch; Banking; Banking
      • January 2002 (Revised January 2003)
      • Case

      Finova Group, Inc. (A), The

      By: Stuart C. Gilson and Perry Fagan
      Finova Group, a $14 billion commercial finance company, filed for Chapter 11 in early March 2001, in what was one of the largest U.S. bankruptcy filings of all time and the largest corporate bond default since the Great Depression. While in Chapter 11, Finova became... View Details
      Keywords: Acquisition; Business Startups; Borrowing and Debt; Equity; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Debt Securities; Price; Crisis Management; Bids and Bidding; Partners and Partnerships; Strategy; Valuation; Financial Services Industry; United States
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      • January 2008 (Revised February 2008)
      • Case

      Restructuring at Nova Chemical Corporation

      Management of a diversified chemicals company faces two financial decisions: whether to finance a major investment in new production facilities for its rapidly expanding Environmental Products Division, and whether to sell a more slowly growing non-specialty chemicals... View Details
      Keywords: Restructuring; Decision Choices and Conditions; Chemicals; Environmental Sustainability; Corporate Finance; Chemical Industry
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      • 25 Jun 2022
      • News

      CEOs Didn’t Make the Roe Decision. It’s Still Their Problem to Solve.

      • 12 Apr 2021
      • News

      How to Close the Gender Gap

      • 10 Apr 2020
      • News

      Managing the Liquidity Crisis

        Trevor Fetter

        Trevor Fetter is a Senior Lecturer and the Henry B. Arthur Fellow at Harvard Business School, where he has been on the faculty since 2019. He teaches two MBA required courses: Financial Reporting and Control and Leadership and Corporate Accountability. He has also... View Details

        • January 2019
        • Case

        First Aid Beauty

        By: Karen Mills and Annie Dang
        In 2008, Lilli Gordon, an experienced financial and skincare entrepreneur, founded First Aid Beauty (FAB). She had discovered a white space in the prestige beauty market: high-end skin solutions that were suitable for sensitive skin. After initial success through... View Details
        Keywords: Prestige Beauty; Skincare; Preferred Shares; Common Stock; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Private Equity; Decision Choices and Conditions; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry
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        • 13 Jul 2016
        • HBS Case

        How Uber, Airbnb, and Etsy Attracted Their First 1,000 Customers

        high. Then, they made sure this first group of users had a great experience and brought in the next wave of customers via word-of-mouth,” says Teixeira. The company banked on the fact that once users... View Details
        Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Retail; Service; Transportation
        • September 2011 (Revised November 2011)
        • Case

        CP Group: Balancing the Needs of a Family Business with the Needs of a Family of Businesses

        By: William C. Kirby and Tracy Yuen Manty
        As a second generation business leader, Chairman Dhanin Chearavanont took over the family agribusiness company and built it to become a major diversified conglomerate in Thailand and expanded the business in SE Asia and China. While growing the business, he and his... View Details
        Keywords: Agribusiness; Plant-Based Agribusiness; Family Business; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Conglomerates; Family Ownership; Growth and Development; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Thailand; China; Southeast Asia
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        • 13 Apr 2016
        • Research Event

        What Does 'Diversity' Really Mean?

        Administration at HBS, and HBS Associate Professor Amy Cuddy. Billed as “Talking the Walk: Possibilities for Change Through Dialogue, Expression, and Narrative,” the symposium focused on communication, as speakers reflected on how the language we use can either View Details
        Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
        • November 2012 (Revised September 2013)
        • Case

        Restructuring at Nova Chemical Corporation (Abridged)

        By: Scott P. Mason
        Management of a diversified chemicals company faces two financial decisions: whether to finance a major investment in new production facilities for its rapidly expanding Environmental Products Division, and whether to sell a more slowly growing non-specialty chemicals... View Details
        Keywords: Restructuring; Decision Choices and Conditions; Chemicals; Environmental Sustainability; Corporate Finance; Chemical Industry
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        • 02 Jan 2020
        • Op-Ed

        Medicare for All or Public Option: Can Either Heal Health Care?

        appealing insurance plans. To hold down costs, private insurers currently require patients to seek pre-approval for specialist care, and vary enrollees’ out-of-pocket costs. Competition with a low priced public option would force insurers... View Details
        Keywords: by Regina E. Herzlinger and James Wallace; Health; Public Administration