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2019
Article

Pay-for-Monopoly?: An Assessment of Reverse Payment Deals by Pharmaceutical Companies

By: Sana Rafiq and Max Bazerman

Abstract Over the past eighteen years, pharmaceutical firms have developed a blueprint to impede competition in order to maintain their monopoly profits. This scheme, termed pay-for-delay, involves direct or indirect payment of money from a branded-drug manufacturer... View Details

Keywords: Monopoly; Policy; Competition; Agreements and Arrangements; Pharmaceutical Industry

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7 Apr 2016
Conference Presentation

Assessing and Improving Working Conditions at Global Supply Chain Factories

By: Michael W. Toffel and Yanhua Zhou

August 1997 (Revised July 1999)
Case

Hewlett-Packard's Santa Rosa Systems Division (B1): The Top Team Assessment

By: Michael Beer

Supplements the (B) case. View Details

Keywords: Computer Industry

Educators

Article

Entrepreneurship and Urban Growth: An Empirical Assessment with Historical Mines

By: Edward L. Glaeser, Sari Pekkala Kerr and William R. Kerr

We study entrepreneurship and growth through the lens of U.S. cities. Initial entrepreneurship correlates strongly with urban employment growth, but endogeneity bedevils interpretation. Chinitz (1961) hypothesized that coal mines near cities led to specialization in... View Details

Keywords: Industrial Organization; Chinitz; Agglomeration; Clusters; Cities; Mines; Industry Clusters; Urban Development; Entrepreneurship; City; Mining; Mining Industry; United States

August 2007
Background Note

Assessing and Enhancing Individual Power in the Family Business System

By: John A. Davis

Describes how to asses and enhance an individual's bases, sources, and levels of power in a family business system. Relies on Franch and Raven's framework that identifies five bases of social power (reward, coercive, legitimate, referent, and expert), describing how... View Details

Keywords: Family Business; Family and Family Relationships; Situation or Environment; Power and Influence

Educators

New platforms reinvent traditional markets as varied as transport, short-term accomodations, and media. (Consider Uber, Airbnb, and YouTube.) With new business models come new questions of regulation which Edelman and coauthor Damien Geradin assess in View Details

Article

Can Analysts Assess Fundamental Risk and Valuation Uncertainty? An Empirical Analysis of Scenario-Based Value Estimates

By: Peter R. Joos, Joseph D. Piotroski and Suraj Srinivasan

We use a dataset of sell-side analysts' scenario-based valuation estimates to examine whether analysts reliably assess the risk surrounding a firm's fundamental value. We find that the spread in analysts' state-side contingent valuations captures the riskiness of... View Details

Keywords: Analyst Forecasts; Scenarios; Uncertainty; Risk and Uncertainty; Valuation; Forecasting and Prediction

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December 2024
Teaching Note

Assessing the Value of Unifying and De-duplicating Customer Data

By: Elie Ofek and Hema Yoganarasimhan

Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 525-023. View Details

Article

Scenario Generation for Long Run Interest Rate Risk Assessment

By: Robert F. Engle, Guillaume Roussellet and Emil N. Siriwardane

We propose a statistical model of the term structure of U.S. treasury yields tailored for long-term probability-based scenario generation and forecasts. Our model is easy to estimate and is able to simultaneously reproduce the positivity, persistence, and factor... View Details

Keywords: Forecasting; Stress Testing; Interest Rates; Forecasting and Prediction; Risk Management; United States

March 1998
Article

An Assessment of the Performance of Indian State-Owned Enterprises

By: Gautam Ahuja and Sumit K. Majumdar

We examine the determinants of performance of 68 Indian state-owned enterprises in the manufacturing sector for a five-year period: 1987 to 1991. Relative performance is determined using data envelopment analysis, with variations in performance patterns subsequently... View Details

Keywords: State-owned Enterprises; Economic Reform; Efficiency Analysis; Performance Efficiency; Privatization; Microeconomics; State Ownership; Manufacturing Industry; India

2012
Working Paper

The Interplay between Subjective Performance Assessments and Target Setting

By: J. Bouwens and P. Kroos

August 1984 (Revised May 1992)
Case

MCI Telecommunications Corp. (C): Data Communications Market Opportunity Assessment

By: John F. Cady and Frank V. Cespedes

Keywords: Market Entry and Exit; Communication Technology; Telecommunications Industry

19 Mar 2021
Working Paper Summaries

Assessing the Strength of Network Effects in Social Network Platforms

Keywords: by Marco Iansiti

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Providing Assessment & Feedback - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

Teaching by the Case Method Providing Assessment & Feedback Preparing to Teach Leading in the Classroom Providing Assessment & Feedback Judging Success Student Performance Instructor Performance Sample Class... View Details

1975
Chapter

Planned Reduction in Electrical Energy Use in Nashville: A Preliminary Assessment

By: J. K. Sebenius and B. D. Lichter

Keywords: Energy Conservation; Urban Scope; Planning; Energy Industry; Tennessee