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August 2017 (Revised July 2018)
Case

MannKind Corporation: Take a Deep Breath, This Time Afrezza Will Work

By: Elie Ofek and Amanda Dai

In June 2014, MannKind Corporation announced that after years of development and billions of dollars in expenses, the FDA had finally approved its drug, Afrezza. MannKind would thus be the only company with an inhalable insulin on the market. As an alternative to... View Details

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Product Launch; Product Positioning; Marketing Strategy; Adoption; Pharmaceutical Industry

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01 Mar 2019
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The Burden Legacy

airline industry at MIT and was an aviation business analyst until the early 1940s. His impact on HBS began in 1942 when he partnered with Dean Donald K. David to establish the HBS Research Program on Aviation; he chaired its advisory... View Details

Keywords: Linda Kush

23 May 2019
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Tracy P. Palandjian, MBA 1997

Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1971 Born, Hong Kong 1986 Enrolls in Milton Academy as boarding student 1993 Earns AB, Economics, Harvard College 1993 Joins McKinsey & Co., Business Analyst 1997 Earns MBA, Baker... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

24 Jan 2005
Research & Ideas

Rethinking Activity-Based Costing

new technology can enable the same activity to be done in less time or with fewer resources. When permanent, sustainable improvements in a process have been made, the ABC analyst recalculates the unit time estimates (and therefore the... View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & Steven R. Anderson

23 Apr 2024
In Practice

Getting to Net Zero: The Climate Standards and Ecosystem the World Needs Now

With each month clocking record-breaking temperatures across the planet, this Earth Day reflected the renewed urgency of regulators and businesses to find climate-change solutions. The US Securities and Exchange Commission recently adopted new rules that will mandate... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

28 Feb 2012
First Look

First Look: Feb. 28

PublicationsThe Power of Political Voice: Women's Political Representation and Crime in India Authors:Lakshmi Iyer, Anandi Mani, Prachi Mishra, and Petia Topalova Publication:American Economic Journal: Applied Economics (forthcoming) Abstract Using state-level... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Company databases: which database to choose?

capital firms, funds, private companies, and deals. Subscription includes access to Preqin reports. LSEG Workspace HBS intranet; In-Library for Authorized Baker Visitors* Comprehensive platform including company financials, financial markets data, ESG data, and... View Details

27 Apr 2016
Research & Ideas

How the FBI Reinvented Itself After 9/11

the Directorate of Intelligence, which established a Field Intelligence Group (FIG) and new security analysts at each of the FBI’s field offices. That didn’t sit well with some old-guard law enforcers, who didn’t take kindly to sharing... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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Online Business Analytics Course | HBS Online

Intelligence Analyst at Ministry of Justice New Zealand. I'm leading a few modelling and reporting projects across the Ministry using the knowledge I gained from the course. Hi n Nguy n Th Business Intelligence View Details

11 Apr 2023
Research & Ideas

Is Amazon a Retailer, a Tech Firm, or a Media Company? How AI Can Help Investors Decide

companies. Portfolio managers and analysts have been using the Global Industry Classification Standard, or GICS—a taxonomy of 11 sectors, 25 industry groups, and additional subsets—to compare stocks since 1999. Periodically, Standard... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Consumer Products; Real Estate; Financial Services; Retail

14 Mar 2023
In Practice

What Does the Failure of Silicon Valley Bank Say About the State of Finance?

crisis—and was the second-biggest to fail ever. Analysts say SVB was largely unprepared for the Federal Reserve’s aggressive interest rate increases, which shrank the value of its investments. As word spread quickly online that the bank... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Financial Services; Banking

11 Jun 2013
Working Paper Summaries

Measurement Errors of Expected Returns Proxies and the Implied Cost of Capital

Keywords: by Charles C.Y. Wang

07 Oct 2015
HBS Seminar

Ann Majchrzak, USC Marshall School of Business

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Our Team - Impact Investments

Previously, Jonah was a Team Lead at Goldman Sachs where he led contracted projects on market research, competitive intelligence, and people strategy. Before joining GS, Jonah served as a Consultant with Cognoscere on an education development project in Kurdistan and... View Details

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Dan Lufkin | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Transcript (PDF) Dan Lufkin, HBS 1957, was a cofounder of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette (DLJ). Among his early contributions to DLJ’s success was the idea of focusing on small high-growth firms rather than the blue chip stocks other View Details

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Accounting & Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

: Winner of the 2022 Graham and Dodd Scroll Award from the Financial Analysts Journal for “Which Corporate ESG News Does the Market React To?” (2022) with Aaron Yoon. George Serafeim : Winner of the 2022 Journal of International Business... View Details

28 Nov 2018
HBS Case

On Target: Rethinking the Retail Website

managers in the field make smart business decisions based on data. Those managers were encouraged to develop questions that could produce value if analysts could massage the data to provide accurate answers. For example, a manager might... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Retail

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Team - Case Method Project

O'Donnell is the staff assistant for the High School Case Method Project where she works with teacher support and survey processing. Prior to working with the Harvard Business School, she assisted with a fellowship that trained data View Details

Summer 2013
Article

A Tale of Two Stories: Sustainability and the Quarterly Earnings Call

By: Robert G. Eccles and George Serafeim

One of the challenges companies claim to face in making sustainability a core part of their strategy and operations is that the market does not care about sustainability, either in general or because the time frames in which it matters are too long. The response of... View Details

Keywords: Sustainability; Communication; Integrated Corporate Reporting; Investment; Environmental Sustainability