Publications

21 Aug 2017
Blog Post

From Germany to HBS

corporate governance or redistribution of wealth in society, a European and German perspective was incredibly valuable in the classroom. I would like to share three pieces of... View Details

April 2000
Background Note

Market Failures

By: Bharat N. Anand, Tarun Khanna and Jan W. Rivkin

Examines the role of transaction costs in impeding the functioning of markets and shows how the concept of transaction costs sheds light on a broad range of issues in strategy. View Details

Keywords: Competitive Strategy; Competition; Corporate Strategy; Cost; Market Transactions; Industry Clusters; Failure; Internet

09 Jan 2006
Research & Ideas

Rebuilding Commercial Real Estate

Wall Street goes shopping. Wall Street surveyed the mountain of defaulted S&L loans taken over by the federal Resolution Trust Corporation (RTC) and saw an opportunity to get into real estate investing... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Construction; Real Estate

July 2019
Article

The Impact of Price Regulation on the Availability of New Drugs in Germany

By: Ariel Dora Stern, Felicitas Pietrulla, Annika Herr, Aaron S. Kesselheim and Ameet Sarpatwari

The 2011 German Pharmaceutical Market Restructuring Act (“AMNOG”) subjected branded, non-rare disease drugs to price regulation based on an assessment of their clinical benefit. Assessment outcomes range from “major added benefit” to “less benefit than the appropriate... View Details

Keywords: Regulation; Pharmaceuticals; Healthcare; Health Care and Treatment; Price; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Pharmaceutical Industry; Germany

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August 1998 (Revised December 1998)
Case

Wells Fargo Online Financial Services (B)

By: Robert S. Kaplan and Nicole Tempest

Describes how the Balanced Scorecard built by the Online Financial Services (OFS) group is used to select the highest-priority initiatives for the organization. Currently, initiatives arise continually throughout the organization, and management spends considerable... View Details

Keywords: Balanced Scorecard; Internet and the Web; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Corporate Strategy; Performance Evaluation; Finance; Change; Situation or Environment; Measurement and Metrics; Financial Services Industry; Banking Industry

27 Jul 2019
Op-Ed

Does Facebook's Business Model Threaten Our Elections?

technology-driven efforts to sway their votes, and from as far away as Russia, according to US government claims. Social media in general and Facebook specifically were the... View Details

Keywords: by George Riedel

June 1988 (Revised August 1988)
Case

Air Canada: The Privatization Option

By: Malcolm S. Salter

Keywords: Competition; Corporate Governance; Privatization; Air Transportation Industry; Canada

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January 2025
Supplement

Creating Value by Splitting Aster (B): Can One Minus One Equal Two?

By: V.G. Narayanan and Kairavi Dey

Keywords: Corporate Governance; Corporate Accountability; Leadership; Change Management; Mergers and Acquisitions; Health Industry; Asia; India; Middle East; United Arab Emirates

18 Oct 2011
First Look

First Look: October 18

Hong Kong's high corporate governance standards. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/112035-PDF-ENG Perella Weinberg Partners: New Firm, Old Values Clayton Rose View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

March 1989 (Revised August 1994)
Case

Avon Products

Avon Products announced both a change in its business focus and a reduction of its dividend in June 1988. To offset the likely stock price effect of the dividend reduction, Avon announced at the same time an unusual exchange offer, under which it would take up to 25%... View Details

Keywords: Diversification; Capital Markets; Corporate Finance; Consumer Products Industry

Keywords: Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support

31 Mar 2020
News

The Case for Cryptocurrencies as a New Category of Regulated Non-Sovereign Fiat Currency

Student-Profile

Yueran Ma

appears to be a significant component of financing activities in capital markets today; it could also affect how we think about government policies like quantitative easing, as well as other View Details

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... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

30 Aug 2012
News

Fundraiser makes the most of time at convention

September 1992 (Revised November 1997)
Case

DHL Worldwide Express

By: John A. Quelch

The worldwide sales and marketing manager must determine the degree to which pricing strategy and tactics should be standardized or left to the discretion of the DHL subsidiary in each country. View Details

Keywords: Governance; Business Subsidiaries; Price; Marketing Strategy; Multinational Firms and Management; Sales; Shipping Industry