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- 01 Dec 2016
- Blog Post
4 Reasons College Students Apply to 2+2
critical to learning both inside and outside the classroom. While it may be true you can’t come to HBS straight out of college, you can apply to HBS while still in college. If you get accepted into our 2+2 Program, you’ll defer your place with us for at least two View Details
- 12 Oct 2017
- Blog Post
Why I Spent this Summer Coding
The summer between RC and EC year represents a great opportunity for risk-free exploration. Encouraged by our outcome at the New Venture Competition and the funding I would receive as a Rock Summer Fellow, I forwent a business internship...
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Required Curriculum - MBA
finance, marketing, operations, and other business functions to create value and solve problems. Ability to set up and manage data science teams, governance policies, and analytics infrastructure. Expertise to prioritize and sequence data...
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Resumes & Cover Letters - Alumni
up to 10 times to track improvement Sign up using your HBS email address. Account requests are granted within 24 business hours. During holidays and winter break (December 24th – January 1st) turnaround time...
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- August 2024
- Article
How Do Copayment Coupons Affect Branded Drug Prices and Quantities Purchased?
By: Leemore S. Dafny, Kate Ho and Edward Kong
Drug copayment coupons to reduce patient cost-sharing have become nearly ubiquitous for high-priced brand-name prescription drugs. Medicare bans such coupons on the grounds that they are kickbacks that induce utilization, but they are commonly used by...
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Keywords:
Prescription Drugs;
Coupons;
Impact;
Health Care and Treatment;
Markets;
Price;
Spending;
Pharmaceutical Industry;
United States
Dafny, Leemore S., Kate Ho, and Edward Kong. "How Do Copayment Coupons Affect Branded Drug Prices and Quantities Purchased?" American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 16, no. 3 (August 2024): 314–346.
- June 2010
- Case
Digital Link (A)
The Digital Link (A) and (B) cases present the struggles of a small public technology company to get and maintain analyst and investor attention during the "dot-com boom" of the 1990's. The case can be used in MBA or Executive Education classes. The (A) case takes...
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Shanthikumar, Devin M. "Digital Link (A)." Harvard Business School Case 110-093, June 2010.
Fortune Tellers
The period leading up to the Great Depression witnessed the rise of economic forecasters, pioneers who sought to use the tools of science to predict the future, with the aim of profiting from their forecasts. This book chronicles the lives and careers of the men who...
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How Do Drug Copayment Coupons Affect Branded Drug Prices and Quantities Purchased?
Drug copayment coupons to reduce patient cost-sharing have become nearly ubiquitous for high-priced brand-name prescription drugs. Medicare bans such coupons on the grounds that they are kickbacks that induce utilization, but they are commonly used by...
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- 05 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
First-Gen Voices: Eric Westphal on Tapping into the Global Alumni Network & Making a Difference across Borders
continued to engage with HBS students and drive career opportunities across the globe – including the connection between Eric Westphal (MBA 2021) and Diego Dzodan (MBA 1999). Westphal grew up helping out in his family’s small retail...
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- 30 May 2016
- Blog Post
Meet the HBS Sound Society
wanted to do something about it. After thinking about ways they could bring more music to HBS, they decided that setting up an official student club was the best option. They collaborated closely with Student Academic Services to get The...
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- 01 Jan 2024
- Blog Post
Answers to Your Top Questions about Financial Aid at HBS
world, increasing those scholarships year after year, and introducing a need-based application fee waiver. Most recently we announced that beginning in Fall 2022, 10% of our student body – those with the greatest financial need – will...
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- 12 Apr 2017
- Blog Post
2+2er Pursues HBS/HKS Joint Degree
Life can get quite busy here for all the right reasons. No matter how demanding it gets, I try my best not to take my time here for granted because these few years have truly been special. This experience has been made possible by this...
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- 13 Jan 2020
- Blog Post
Blending my Tech and Managerial Mindsets
We recently caught up with Yuval Gonczarowski (MBA 2017), the Chief Technology Officer at ClimaCell Inc, a weather technology SaaS startup utilizing unique data sources like wireless signals and connected vehicles to map all the weather...
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- 29 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles and Research Papers of 2014
case on the rebirth of Starbucks under Howard Schultz "distills 20 years of my thinking about the most important lessons of strategy, leadership, and managing in turbulence." The Manager in Red Sneakers Wearing the corporate...
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- 18 Mar 2014
- Blog Post
BaubleBar Brought to Life, and Other Tales of Joining a Start-up
It’s Tuesday afternoon, March 4th. A lively group of HBS students passionate about retail entrepreneurship sit in Aldrich 108, waiting. Then “ping!” – up pop Julia Straus (HBS ’11) and Katharine Hill (HBS ’12) who both work at BaubleBar,...
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- 02 Jan 2008
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Stories 2007
Here are the 20 most popular stories from 2007. How Much of Leadership Is About Control, Delegation, or Theater? Summing up the many responses, Jim Heskett says that the mix of control, delegation, and theater employed by successful...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Dec 2010
- Working Paper Summaries
Decoding Inside Information
- March 2022
- Case
Abu Issa Holding: Navigating the Qatar Blockade
By: Mark Egan and Youssef Abdel Aal
The case follows Ashraf Abu Issa, CEO and chairman of Abu Issa Holding (AIH), as he contemplated the fate of his company’s regional expansion. AIH was a Qatari diversified holding company, whose primary business was luxury retailing and distribution. Abu Issa had set...
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Keywords:
Luxury Retail;
Expansion;
Equity;
Business Divisions;
Growth and Development;
Market Entry and Exit;
Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues;
Consumer Products Industry;
Saudi Arabia;
United Arab Emirates
Egan, Mark, and Youssef Abdel Aal. "Abu Issa Holding: Navigating the Qatar Blockade." Harvard Business School Case 222-063, March 2022.
- 2009
- Working Paper
Systemic Risk and the Refinancing Ratchet Effect
By: Amir E. Khandani, Andrew W. Lo and Robert C. Merton
The confluence of three trends in the U.S. residential housing market—rising home prices, declining interest rates, and near-frictionless refinancing opportunities—led to vastly increased systemic risk in the financial system. Individually, each of these trends is...
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- 2009
- Working Paper
Systemic Risk and the Refinancing Ratchet Effect
By: Amir E. Khandani, Andrew W. Lo and Robert C. Merton
The confluence of three trends in the U.S. residential housing market-rising home prices, declining interest rates, and near-frictionless refinancing opportunities-led to vastly increased systemic risk in the financial system. Individually, each of these trends is...
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Khandani, Amir E., Andrew W. Lo, and Robert C. Merton. "Systemic Risk and the Refinancing Ratchet Effect." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 10-023, September 2009. (Revised July 2010.)