Publications

A Senior Lecturer at the Harvard Business School, Michael co-developed and teaches a second year MBA course, “Challenges and Opportunities in the Restaurant Industry.”

A founder and partner of Positive Strategy LLC, a management/strategy consulting... View Details

15 Nov 2016
News

Enabling the Dream of Building A Healthy Future for India

locations in India, as one solution. She also explored ways that health care products can be produced at lower costs, making them accessible to larger populations, while working for a Boston-based medical technology company during the... View Details

26 Jun 2014
News

Shifting toward Defined Contributions — Predicting the Effects

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RoGME: Role of Government in Market Economies - Course Catalog

private-sector leaders are now widely expected to provide informed, intelligent leadership on the policy issues at the heart of this course. Career Focus The course is designed for students who aim to lead private-sector View Details

01 Feb 1997
News

Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS

the decades of research and teaching that began immediately after World War II. By the late 1960s, however, institutional interest in the subject (reflective of broader... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry and Susan Young; profiles by Garry Emmons

18 Sep 2006
Research & Ideas

When Words Get in the Way: The Failure of Fiscal Language

arbitrary terms with no intrinsic meaning, a lesson that even economists have not learned. "On the General Relativity of Fiscal Language," a working paper for the National Bureau View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

Sunil Gupta

Co-Chair, Driving Digital Strategy

Sunil Gupta is the Edward W. Carter Professor of Business Administration and co-chair of the executive program on Driving... View Details

Keywords: advertising; communications; consumer products; credit card; education industry; financial services; high technology; marketing industry; telecommunications

2010
Working Paper

The Economic Crisis and Medical Care Usage

By: Annamaria Lusardi, Daniel Schneider and Peter Tufano

We use a unique, nationally representative cross-national dataset to document the reduction in individuals' usage of routine non-emergency medical care in the midst of the economic crisis. A substantially larger fraction of Americans have reduced medical care than have... View Details

Keywords: Financial Crisis; Health Care and Treatment; France; Germany; Great Britain; Canada; United States

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April 2009 (Revised May 2010)
Case

Partners In Health: HIV Care in Rwanda

By: Michael E. Porter, Scott S. Lee, Joseph Rhatigan and Jim Yong Kim

In 2005, Partners in Health (PIH) was invited by the Rwandan Ministry of Health to assume responsibility for the management of public health care in two rural districts in Eastern Rwanda and create an HIV treatment program at these sites. PIH successfully implemented a... View Details

Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Health Care and Treatment; Health Testing and Trials; Medical Specialties; Service Delivery; Nonprofit Organizations; Expansion; Health Industry; Rwanda

Robin is the George Gund Professor of Finance and Banking at Harvard Business School. He serves as the Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Research. He is past faculty director of the Behavioral Finance and Financial Stability project, chair of... View Details

Keywords: banking; financial services

March 2018 (Revised January 2019)
Case

Gilead Mexico

By: Michael Chu and V. Kasturi Rangan

With a breakthrough cure for Hepatitis C listing in the U.S. at $1,000/pill, Gilead must now solve the issue of making it available to patients across the world, much as it did for its blockbuster HIV/AIDS antiretrovirals. For Erik Musalem, the new general manager of... View Details

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Price; Strategy; Management; Pharmaceutical Industry; Mexico

20 Jul 2021
Blog Post

Aisha Fatima Dozie is Igniting Confidence as the Founder of Bossy Cosmetics

who are assertive and strong. Looking ahead, there are more great things on the horizon as Dozie plans to grow her team, raise institutional capital, expand into national retailers, and leverage technology... View Details

23 Jul 2024
In Practice

The New Rules of Trade with China: Navigating Tariffs, Turmoil, and Opportunities

extension, the global economy, US policymakers touted economic integration with the world’s most populous nation as a path to mutual prosperity and peace. Leaders including former US President Bill Clinton argued global capitalism would... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Manufacturing; Retail; Fashion; Industrial Products; Consumer Products; Steel; Transportation; Telecommunications

25 May 2021
Blog Post

Aisha Fatima Dozie is Igniting Confidence as the Founder of Bossy Cosmetics

who are assertive and strong. Looking ahead, there are more great things on the horizon as Dozie plans to grow her team, raise institutional capital, expand into national retailers, and leverage technology... View Details

Natalia Garbiras-Diaz

Natalia received her Ph.D. in Political Science in 2021 from the University of California, Berkeley, where she is currently a Research Associate at the Center on the Politics of Development. Prior to joining Harvard Business School, she was a Max Weber Fellow at... View Details

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Commercialization of the Polarizer - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

for the next generation.” Edwin Land, "Research by the Business Itself," 1944 15 In 1935, Edwin Land received the Hood Medal from the Royal Photographic Society, and in 1938, the Elliot Cresson Medal from the Franklin Institute in... View Details

December 2020 (Revised June 2021)
Case

France Télécom (A): A Challenging Restructuring

By: Cynthia A. Montgomery and Ashley V. Whillans

These cases explore the impacts of industry shocks, resulting corporate actions that had a devastating impact on employees, and the legal conviction of corporate leaders for “institutional harassment."

This case series follows the evolution of France... View Details