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  • 16 Jan 2013
  • Research & Ideas

The Messy Link Between Slave Owners and Modern Management

Mississippi planter priced his 48-year-old foreman, Hercules, at $500; recorded the worth of Middleton, a 26-year-old top-producing field hand, at $1,500; and gave 9-month-old George Washington a value of $150. At the end of the year, he... View Details
Keywords: by Katie Johnston
  • 18 Jul 2023
  • News

The First Five Years: Brooke Biederman (MBA 2019)

work in watches. Next, Discovery, a South African health care company, incentivizes healthy behavioral change that leads to fewer claims and lower premiums for customers as the company's cost to serve them... View Details
Keywords: Robert Bochnak
  • 25 Sep 2007
  • First Look

First Look: September 25, 2007

Dollar General Corporation's acquisition by private equity sponsor KKR, which took the company private in 2007. Although the proposed merger generated a 30% premium over the stock price at the time, and the enterprise value to EBITDA... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 07 Feb 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Supervisor of Sandwiches? More Companies Inflate Titles to Avoid Extra Pay

see it happening at the Gap and Pizza Hut, but we also see it happening at Facebook, JPMorgan, and health care firms.” There are now hundreds of thousands of workers across the US with dubious managerial... View Details
Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis
  • Web

Published CSV Cases - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

its retail stores. In 2015, the U.S. health care system continued to evolve. Health systems were expanding and consolidating, new health View Details
  • 01 Sep 2023
  • News

Returning to the Roots

It’s not a role he sought or expected. But when his brother died of a brain tumor late last year, Florent Latour (MBA 1999) became CEO of Maison Louis Latour, a winemaker established in 1797 in the Burgundy region of France. The 11th generation of his family to lead... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; wine; entrepreneurship; family business; innovation; climate change; Beverage and Tobacco Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing
  • 10 Aug 2015
  • Research & Ideas

New Medical Devices Get To Patients Too Slowly

device was defined using the FDA's standard as one that "supports or sustains human life or is of substantial importance in preventing impairment of human health or presents a potential, unreasonable risk of illness or injury.") The... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health; Health
  • Web

Cases & Teaching Notes - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

outcomes and costs, the foundations of a health care value framework. The company launches a pilot project to use time-driven activity-based costing (TDABC)... Dec 2014... View Details
  • 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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  • 10 Jan 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Technology and COVID Upended Tipping Norms. Will Consumers Keep Paying?

percent or less for bad service. That was the expectation up until COVID.” However, “post-COVID,” as businesses came back from pandemic-induced lockdowns, consumer behavior shifted. “Consumers started to realize the value of waitstaff... View Details
Keywords: by Anna Lamb, Harvard Gazette
  • 18 Mar 2013
  • HBS Case

HBS Cases: LEGO

Ole Kirk Kristiansen eventually shifted the business from making houses and furniture to crafting wooden toys. He based the name of his new venture on the Danish words for "play well" (and, as it turned out, the Latin words for... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish; Entertainment & Recreation
  • October 2020 (Revised March 2021)
  • Supplement

Migros Turkey: Scaling Online Operations During COVID-19 (C)

By: Antonio Moreno and Gamze Yucaoglu
The case opens in August 2020 as Ozgur Tort and Mustafa Bartin, CEO and chief large-format and online retail officer of Migros Ticaret A.S. (Migros), Turkey’s oldest and one of its largest supermarket chains, are navigating Migros through COVID-19 and the unprecedented... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Strategy; Digital Platforms; Information Technology; Technology Adoption; Value Creation; Globalization; Competition; Expansion; Logistics; Profit; Resource Allocation; Diversification; Corporate Strategy; Crisis Management; Health Pandemics; Strategic Planning; Food and Beverage Industry; Turkey
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  • 01 Mar 2024
  • News

In Harmony

in the world. I really thought I’d won the lottery.” Early in his career, however, Kim realized something: He wasn’t certain of the finance industry’s inherent value to society—and he wasn’t sure being a great banker was his destiny. “But... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographs by Jun Michael Park; private equity; fiction; financial crisis; leadership; Korea
  • Web

Leadership - Faculty & Research

Shareholder Relations ; Perception ; Corporate Strategy ; Value ; Health Industry ; Aerospace Industry ; Industrial Products Industry ; Financial Services Industry ; North America ; Europe Citation Educators... View Details
  • Web

Finance - Faculty & Research

produces research addressing issues of present and future importance to managers, regulators, and policy-makers. Finance Unit Our intellectual roots are based in a long line of scholars from Robert Merton whose collaborative work on risk... View Details
  • 29 Jan 2021
  • Op-Ed

How Influencers, Celebrities, and FOMO Can Win Over Vaccine Skeptics

UK’s National Health Service improved influenza vaccine adoption by employing medical professionals in its media efforts." Doctors, nurses, and medical professionals are also opinion leaders because patients trust their View Details
Keywords: by Rohit Deshpandé, Ofer Mintz, and Imran S. Currim
  • 15 Jan 2008
  • First Look

First Look: January 15, 2008

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=207069 ThedaCare: System Strategy Harvard Business School Case 708-424 Over the 1980s and 1990s, America's changing health care payer... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 22 Dec 2008
  • Research & Ideas

10 Reasons to Design a Better Corporate Culture

Leadership is critical in codifying and maintaining an organizational purpose, values, and vision. Leaders must set the example by living the elements of culture: values, behaviors, measures, and actions. Values are meaningless without... View Details
Keywords: by James L. Heskett, W. Earl Sasser & Joe Wheeler
  • Web

Business History - Faculty & Research

Entrepreneurial Journey of China’s First Private Mental Health Hospital Re: William C. Kirby 17 Jan 2023 Nestlé’s KitKat Diplomacy: Neutrality vs. Shared Value Re: Geoffrey G. Jones More Articles Harvard... View Details
  • Web

Team - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

by Professor Michael E. Porter and is based in the Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness at Harvard Business School. Faculty and staff engaged in research and education in value View Details