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  • February 2003
  • Other Article

The Emergence and Sustainability of Abnormal Profits

By: Michael E. Porter and Anita M. McGahan
In this paper, we examine the emergence and the sustainability of abnormal profits among businesses that were part of U.S. public corporations between 1981 and 1994 and that reported financial results for at least six years. Our results reveal strong asymmetries... View Details
Keywords: Strategy; United States
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  • September 2011 (Revised January 2012)
  • Case

Gerson Lehrman Group: Managing Risks

By: Boris Groysberg, Paul Healy and Sarah L. Abbott
It was June 2011 and Alexander Saint-Amand, President and CEO of Gerson Lehrman Group, the largest expert network firm globally, has found his firm once again in the midst of controversy. This controversy centered around a number of insider trading cases that had been... View Details
Keywords: Risk Management
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  • March 2010
  • Supplement

Whose Money Is It Anyway? (B)

By: V.G. Narayanan, Richard G. Hamermesh and Rachel Gordon
The case describes the various reactions of doctors and administrators to the solutions they developed. View Details
Keywords: Corporate Governance; Organizations; Behavior; Health Industry
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  • January–February 2021
  • Article

Compensation Packages That Actually Drive Performance

By: Boris Groysberg, Sarah Abbott, Michael R. Marino and Metin Aksoy
By aligning executives’ financial incentives with company strategy, a firm can inspire its management to deliver superior results. But it can be hard to get pay packages right. In this article four experts break down the key elements of compensation and explain how to... View Details
Keywords: Executive Compensation; Compensation and Benefits; Motivation and Incentives; Strategy; Performance
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  • 16 Nov 2015
  • HBS Seminar

Vish Krishnan, Professor of Innovation, Technology & Operations, University of California San Diego Rady School of Man

    Alvin E. Roth

    Al Roth is the George Gund Professor of Economics and Business Administration in the Department of Economics at Harvard University, and in the Harvard Business School. His research, teaching, and consulting interests are in game theory, experimental economics, and... View Details

    Keywords: e-commerce industry; e-commerce industry; e-commerce industry; e-commerce industry; e-commerce industry; e-commerce industry

      David A. Thomas

      David Thomas is H. Naylor Fitzhugh Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School.  His research addresses issues related to executive development, cultural diversity in organizations, leadership and organizational change.  He recently served as a... View Details

      Keywords: education industry; education industry; education industry; education industry; education industry; education industry

        Alan D. MacCormack

        Alan MacCormack is the MBA Class of 1949 Adjunct Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, a member of The Digital, Data, and Design (D^3) Institute at Harvard, and a core faculty member... View Details

        Keywords: e-commerce industry; e-commerce industry; e-commerce industry; e-commerce industry; e-commerce industry; e-commerce industry; e-commerce industry; e-commerce industry; e-commerce industry; e-commerce industry; e-commerce industry; e-commerce industry
        • 26 Nov 2017
        • News

        ‘Entrepreneurs here think technology can solve everything’

        • 09 Apr 2012
        • Research & Ideas

        Who Sways the USDA on GMO Approvals?

        regulatory agencies serving the public instead end up advancing the interests of the companies they regulate. The main way companies accomplish this, economists theorize, is through lobbying and campaign contributions that convince... View Details
        Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Food & Beverage; Biotechnology; Agriculture & Agribusiness
        • March 2000 (Revised May 2000)
        • Case

        Spec's Music (A)

        By: John A. Davis and Susan Harmeling
        Presents the story of a music retailer in Miami which started in the late 1940s, grew throughout the 1960s and 1970s, and went public in 1985 before experiencing a deep industry crisis in the mid-1990s. At issue in 1996 is whether the company should attempt to sell... View Details
        Keywords: History; Family Business; Business Exit or Shutdown; Decision Choices and Conditions; Management Succession; Entrepreneurship; Crisis Management; Performance Improvement; Music Industry; Miami
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        • 17 Sep 2014
        • News

        Harvard Business School Professor Michael Porter to Launch New U.S. Cluster Mapping Tool

        • 10 Dec 2013
        • News

        The Payoffs And Pitfalls Of Self-Doubt

        • November 2007 (Revised August 2009)
        • Case

        WL Ross & Co. and INVESCO

        Wilbur Ross has built a successful private equity firm focused on distressed investing, WL Ross & Co. In 2006, INVESCO, an asset management company, approaches him about acquiring his firm. INVESCO has had weak performance in recent years and is looking to increase its... View Details
        Keywords: Private Equity; Decision Choices and Conditions; Investment; Acquisition; Financial Services Industry
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          Tatiana Sandino

          Tatiana Sandino is the Arthur Lowes Dickinson Professor of Business Administration in the Accounting and Management Unit, most recently teaching and undertaking the role of course head for the required first-year MBA course Financial Reporting and Control. She has... View Details

          Keywords: service industry; service industry
          • March 2024
          • Article

          Medicare Price Negotiation and Pharmaceutical Innovation Following the Inflation Reduction Act

          By: Matthew Vogel, Pragya Kakani, Amitabh Chandra and Rena M. Conti
          The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) requires Medicare to negotiate lower prices for some medicines with high Medicare spending. Using historical data from public and proprietary sources to apply the IRA's negotiation criteria retrospectively, we identify all drugs that... View Details
          Keywords: Policy; Government Legislation; Health Care and Treatment; Negotiation; Price; Pharmaceutical Industry
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            Jon M. Jachimowicz

            Jon M. Jachimowicz is an Assistant Professor of Business Administration in the Organizational Behavior Unit at Harvard Business School, where he teaches the Leadership and Organizational Behavior course (LEAD) in the Required Curriculum. He studies... View Details

            • April 2015 (Revised April 2022)
            • Case

            Bankruptcy in the City of Detroit

            By: Stuart Gilson, Kristin Mugford and Annelena Lobb
            The June 2013 bankruptcy of the city of Detroit, Michigan was, at the time, the largest municipal bankruptcy in American history. Detroit had struggled for years with a weakening tax base, high unemployment, a heavy debt load and increasing retiree costs. These... View Details
            Keywords: Chapter 9; Chapter 11; Bankruptcy; Municipal Finance; Restructuring; Financial Liquidity; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; City; Government Administration; Public Sector; Financial Crisis; Financial Management; Failure; Labor Unions; Urban Development; Budgets and Budgeting; Decision Making; Demographics; Economics; Finance; Public Administration Industry; Michigan; Detroit
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            • 25 Mar 2016
            • HBS Seminar

            Curtis Keith, Harvard University, Blavatnik Biomedical Accelerator

              William C. Vrattos

              Bill Vrattos is a Senior Lecturer at the Harvard Business School, where he teaches Investment Strategies, a course on public market investing in the elective curriculum. He also co-teaches Private Equity Projects and Ecosystems, where he mentors student groups on... View Details