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- 09 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 9
Christopher Marquis and Laura Velez VillaHarvard Business School Case 413-051 In its third year of existence and poised to double its workforce, Warby Parker attributed its success to an innovative approach in the eyewear industry and to...
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Sean Silverthorne
- March 2022
- Case
Copper Nationalization in Chile
By: Jeremy Friedman, John Masko and Jingyu Liu
In 1970 Chile became the first country to elect a Marxist president through open, multi-party elections in Salvador Allende. In his first year as president, Allende nationalized the copper industry, Chile’s largest export industry that was developed and owned by US...
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Nationalism;
History;
Political Elections;
Natural Resources;
Globalized Markets and Industries;
National Security;
Government Administration;
Government and Politics;
Chile
Friedman, Jeremy, John Masko, and Jingyu Liu. "Copper Nationalization in Chile." Harvard Business School Case 722-016, March 2022.
- Profile
Michael R. Bloomberg
the most important to me is that life expectancy in New York City has grown three years since I took office in 2002 and is now 2.2 years greater than the national average.” As an entrepreneur, Bloomberg took...
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- 20 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 20, 2016
Faye Crosby, and Kevin Weaver Abstract—In recent decades, research in political psychology has illuminated the psychological processes underlying important political action, both by ordinary citizens and by political leaders. As the world...
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Carmen Nobel
- 02 Feb 2023
- Research & Ideas
Why We Still Need Twitter: How Social Media Holds Companies Accountable
airlines—United, Delta, and American—changed their company policies, outlining new restrictions for removing passengers from a flight. “It was really a motivating event for them,” Pacelli says. Twitter’s rise correlates with a decline in corporate violations To test...
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Key Concepts - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
was co-authored by Elizabeth O. Teisberg and published in 2006 following 10 years of research into why the health care industry did not conform to the principles of competition seen in all other sectors of the economy. They described how...
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- September 2006 (Revised June 2007)
- Case
3i Group plc: May 2006
By: G. Felda Hardymon and Ann Leamon
Since 2004, Philip Yea, the first outsider ever to lead 3i Group, one of Europe's largest publicly listed private equity firms, has been trying to help the far flung organization become more of a streamlined partnership even as it functions around the globe. As he...
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Private Equity;
Globalized Firms and Management;
Alignment;
Partners and Partnerships;
Public Ownership;
Employees;
Goals and Objectives;
Financial Services Industry
Hardymon, G. Felda, and Ann Leamon. "3i Group plc: May 2006." Harvard Business School Case 807-006, September 2006. (Revised June 2007.)
- April 2010 (Revised September 2011)
- Case
Malaysia: People First?
By: Diego A. Comin and John Abraham
On March 30, 2010, Prime Minister Najib Razak presented his new economic model (NEM) for Malaysia. With the goal of raising per capita income to over $15,000 by 2020 from the current level of $6,634, the plan included measures to improve human capital, reduce migration...
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Globalized Economies and Regions;
Problems and Challenges;
Crime and Corruption;
Developing Countries and Economies;
Development Economics;
Emerging Markets;
Transformation;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Wealth and Poverty;
Equality and Inequality;
Malaysia
Comin, Diego A., and John Abraham. "Malaysia: People First?" Harvard Business School Case 710-033, April 2010. (Revised September 2011.)
- 2001
- Chapter
Publicly Funded Science and the Productivity of the Pharmaceutical Industry
By: Rebecca Henderson and Ian Cockburn
U.S. taxpayers funded $14.8 billion of health related research last year, four times the amount that was spent in 1970 in real terms. In this paper we evaluate the impact of these huge expenditures on the technological performance of the pharmaceutical industry. While...
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Public Sector;
Science-Based Business;
Research and Development;
Sovereign Finance;
Pharmaceutical Industry
Henderson, Rebecca, and Ian Cockburn. "Publicly Funded Science and the Productivity of the Pharmaceutical Industry." In Innovation Policy and the Economy, Volume 1, edited by Adam B. Jaffe, Josh Lerner, and Scott Stern, 1–34. MIT Press, 2001.
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Organizational Behavior - Faculty & Research
history of OB at HBS and focuses squarely on the organizational changes and challenges arising from today's increasingly global and more competitive economy. In the last decade, the faculty have been recognized for their work on...
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- 29 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018
Review of Economics and Statistics The Asymmetric Experience of Positive and Negative Economic Growth: Global Evidence Using Subjective Well-being Data By: De Neve, Jan-Emmanuel, George Ward, Femke De Keulenaer, Bert Van Landeghem,...
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Dina Gerdeman
- June 2012
- Case
GlaxoSmithKline in Brazil: Public-Private Vaccine Partnerships
By: Arthur A. Daemmrich and Ian McKown Cornell
Three years into a major public-private partnership between GlaxoSmithKline and Fiocuz, Brazil's principal health institute, the company assesses technology transfer and joint research under the agreement. GSK was selling its Synflorix vaccine (against pediatric...
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Public-Private Partnerships;
Business and Government Relations;
Foreign Direct Investment;
Health Care and Treatment;
Globalized Firms and Management;
Biotechnology Industry;
Pharmaceutical Industry;
Brazil
Daemmrich, Arthur A., and Ian McKown Cornell. "GlaxoSmithKline in Brazil: Public-Private Vaccine Partnerships." Harvard Business School Case 712-049, June 2012.
- 15 Aug 2023
- HBS Case
(Virtual) Reality Check: How Long Before We Live in the 'Metaverse'?
virtual-reality future yet to materialize as hoped by its biggest proponents. Chief among its backers: Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, who two years ago went so far as to change his social media company’s name to Meta and vowed to spend...
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History | About
executive education program ( Advanced Management Program ) held — a group of sixty executives and recently demobilized veterans. 1959 Women graduates of the Harvard-Radcliffe Program in Business Administration were admitted to the second View Details
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THEME #1: BUILDING CAPABILITIES THROUGH TEAM FAMILIARITY
Are organizational capabilities simply the aggregation of individual skills and experience, or do they also depend on particular connections between individuals developed through prior work experience? Since a capability consists of the accumulated... View Details
- August 2017 (Revised July 2018)
- Case
MannKind Corporation: Take a Deep Breath, This Time Afrezza Will Work
By: Elie Ofek and Amanda Dai
In June 2014, MannKind Corporation announced that after years of development and billions of dollars in expenses, the FDA had finally approved its drug, Afrezza. MannKind would thus be the only company with an inhalable insulin on the market. As an alternative to...
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Health Care and Treatment;
Product Launch;
Product Positioning;
Marketing Strategy;
Adoption;
Pharmaceutical Industry
Ofek, Elie, and Amanda Dai. "MannKind Corporation: Take a Deep Breath, This Time Afrezza Will Work." Harvard Business School Case 518-031, August 2017. (Revised July 2018.)
Ripe for Revolution: Building Socialism in the Third World
A historical account of ideology in the Global South as the postwar laboratory of socialism, its legacy following the Cold War, and the continuing influence of socialist ideas worldwide.
In the first decades after World War II, many newly... View Details
In the first decades after World War II, many newly... View Details
- 24 Jan 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
Punctuated Generosity: How Mega-events and Natural Disasters Affect Corporate Philanthropy in US Communities
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by András Tilcsik & Christopher Marquis
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Impact Investments
[3] Meanwhile, the year 2019 marked the highest recorded issuance of global green bonds and green loans, totaling $257.7 billion, an increase of 51% on the previous year. [4] Despite recent interest around...
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Volunteer - Alumni
Volunteer Alumni support the School and the global alumni community by volunteering in a wide range of important roles, from reunion planning to fundraising to writing Class Notes. Alumni Board members on campus for their annual spring...
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