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  • September 2006 (Revised February 2007)
  • Case

Timing of Option Grants at UnitedHealth Group (A)

Faced with press allegations that executives' stock options might have been backdated, the Board of UnitedHealth Group needs to determine whether its accounting for the options was proper, and if not, what the restatement amount should be and what... View Details
Keywords: Governing and Advisory Boards; Ethics; Stock Options; Accounting; Crisis Management; Corporate Governance; Health Industry; Health Industry; United States
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  • 28 Jul 2015
  • First Look

First Look: July 28, 2015

Using panel data from the RAND Health and Retirement Study, I show that rejected applicants for Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) possess significantly more assets than accepted applicants immediately prior to application and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 23 Jan 2008
  • First Look

First Look: January 23, 2008

replicate CIMIT at other locations around the globe. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=608036 Corporate Responsibility & Community Engagement at the Tintaya Copper Mine (A) Harvard... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Web

Business History - Faculty & Research

Chemical Industry, 1950s–1980s By: Geoffrey Jones and Christina Lubinski This article examines the evolution of corporate environmentalism in the West German chemical industry between the 1950s and the 1980s. It focuses on two companies,... View Details
  • 08 Mar 2021
  • In Practice

COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace. What Should Companies Do Now?

A year ago, COVID-19 forced many companies to send employees home—often with a laptop and a prayer. Now, with COVID cases subsiding and vaccinations rising, the prospect of returning to old office routines appears more possible. But will employees want to flock back to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • Web

Topics - HBS Working Knowledge

Complexity (3) Conflict Management (4) Conflict and Resolution (13) Conflict of Interests (1) Construction (1) Consumer Behavior (173) Contracts (7) Cooperation (3) Cooperative Ownership (1) Copyright (2) Core Relationships (1) Corporate... View Details
  • 15 Apr 2008
  • First Look

First Look: April 15, 2008

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=808087 Two Brattle Center: A Mental-Health Clinic in Search of a Viable Operating Model Harvard Business School Case 408-103 Two Brattle Center (TBC) is a struggling for-profit private mental View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Nov 2008
  • First Look

First Look: November 18, 2008

http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=609043 New Century Financial Corporation Harvard Business School Case 109-034 After years of rapid growth and stock price appreciation, New Century... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • May 2008 (Revised September 2009)
  • Case

IBM's Dynamic Workplace

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter
IBM already competed for talent by being a best workplace. It was one of the first companies to provide paid vacations, health insurance, sick leave, job sharing, and domestic partner benefits. Its human resources portfolio included a full array of progressive policies... View Details
Keywords: Values and Beliefs; Globalized Firms and Management; Leading Change; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Organizational Culture; Social Enterprise
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  • April 2011 (Revised July 2011)
  • Case

Renewing GE: The Africa Project (A)

By: David A. Thomas and Stephanie J. Creary
This case profiles the evolution of General Electric's African American Form (AAF), an employee affinity group, and its efforts to increase the company's involvement in Africa. The AAF formed in 1991 to help advance GE's recruitment, retention and development of black... View Details
Keywords: Diversity; Global Strategy; Multinational Firms and Management; Employees; Employee Relationship Management; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Corporate Strategy; Expansion; Africa; United States
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  • 26 May 2022
  • HBS Case

Apple vs. Feds: Is iPhone Privacy a Basic Human Right?

issues like privacy. The authors of the case offer a suggestion for CEOs: Few corporations can expect to steer clear of the lightning-rod issues of the day, so perhaps it’s best to meet them head on as part of the job. “What is new is the... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
  • 20 Oct 2009
  • First Look

First Look: October 20

is a network of successful private health clinics that primarily serve middle-income populations but which have the potential to reach low-income markets. On what basis should Acumen decide whether or not to invest? What performance... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Web

Employment Data Trends

Employment Data Trends Employment Data Trends Trends Career Data Internship Data Trends by Industry 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 Consulting 24% 23% 26% 25% 18% Consumer Products 3% 3% 3% 4% 3% Entertainment / Media 2% 3% 3% 1% 3% Health Care... View Details
  • 2025
  • Chapter

Sustainability and Green Business in Latin America

By: Geoffrey Jones
This chapter argues that since the nineteenth century capitalism has created much wealth, but at the cost of massive ecological destruction, which has been particularly severe in Latin America. During the first global economy before 1929, considerable wealth was... View Details
Keywords: Environmental Sustainability; Business History; Globalization; Economic Growth; Latin America
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  • 07 Feb 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Supervisor of Sandwiches? More Companies Inflate Titles to Avoid Extra Pay

see it happening at the Gap and Pizza Hut, but we also see it happening at Facebook, JPMorgan, and health care firms.” There are now hundreds of thousands of workers across the US with dubious managerial titles doing jobs that would... View Details
Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis
  • 18 Jul 2023
  • News

The First Five Years: Brooke Biederman (MBA 2019)

work in watches. Next, Discovery, a South African health care company, incentivizes healthy behavioral change that leads to fewer claims and lower premiums for customers as the company's cost to serve them decreases, too. It's an... View Details
Keywords: Robert Bochnak
  • 2000
  • Chapter

Anticipating Greener Supply Chain Demands: One Singapore Company's Journey to ISO 14001

By: Michael W. Toffel
One major benefit of Jebsen & Jessen Packaging Pte Ltd (JJPS’s) implementation of ISO 14001 is that it acquired a third-party 'seal of approval' that will be used in its marketing efforts to meet the growing environmental concern of its customers within the electronics... View Details
Keywords: Supply Chain Management; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Standards; Environmental Sustainability; Singapore
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  • Web

Finance - Faculty & Research

debt held by the domestic banking sectors of Eurozone countries was more than twice its 2007 level. We show that this type of increasing reliance on the domestic banking sector for absorbing government bonds generates a crowding out of View Details
  • 2020
  • Working Paper

Bankruptcy and the COVID-19 Crisis

By: Jialan Wang, Jeyul Yang, Benjamin Iverson and Raymond Kluender
We examine the impact of the COVID-19 economic crisis on business and consumer bankruptcies in the United States using real-time data on the universe of filings. Historically, bankruptcies have closely tracked the business cycle and contemporaneous unemployment rates.... View Details
Keywords: Bankruptcy; Financial Distress; COVID-19; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Financial Crisis; Health Pandemics; United States
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    Emily R. McComb

    Emily McComb is a Senior Lecturer in the Finance Unit at HBS, teaching "Finance 2" in the required curriculum of the MBA program, as well as a co-leader of the HBS Impact Investment Fund in the elective curriculum. Prior to joining the HBS faculty in 2017, Emily was... View Details

    Keywords: health care; health care