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  • August 2017
  • Case

Hacking Heroin

By: Mitchell Weiss and Sarah Mehta
"Hacking Heroin" was the first hackathon that Annie Rittgers, founder of Cincinnati-based 17a, had organized or even attended. "There will continue to be a lot of preventable overdose deaths and wasted potential if the opioid crisis continues unabated," she said.... View Details
Keywords: Public Entrepreneurship; Hackathon; Heroin; Opioids; Crowdsourcing; Public Sector; Entrepreneurship; Innovation and Invention; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Health Pandemics; Public Administration Industry; Health Industry; Ohio; Cincinnati
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  • 2011
  • Teaching Note

Juner New Materials: On the Road to IPO (TN)

By: F. Warren McFarlan, Donglin Xia, Ning Jia and Ziqian Zhao
Juner New Materials (Juner) is a private China-based company that develops, produces, and distributes modified plastic compounds. Founded in 1995 by female serial entrepreneur Xiaomin Chen, Juner has exhibited strong performance and growth potential in the past fifteen... View Details
Keywords: Emerging Markets; Entrepreneurship; Financial Statements; IPO; Valuation; Women Executives; China; Plastics; China
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  • July 2008
  • Article

Crime and Punishment in the 'American Dream'

By: Rafael Di Tella and Juan Dubra
We observe that countries where belief in the "American dream" (i.e., effort pays) prevails also set harsher punishment for criminals. We know that beliefs are also correlated with several features of the economic system (taxation, social insurance, etc). Our objective... View Details
Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Economic Systems; Values and Beliefs; Law Enforcement; Mathematical Methods; Personal Characteristics; United States
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  • Teaching Interest

Economics of Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital

Designed for Harvard College sophomores.

Course Description: Why do so many individuals choose to pursue entrepreneurship despite substantial risks? How do these entrepreneurs raise money to finance their ventures? And what is the impact of... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Entrepreneurial Finance; Entrepreneurship And Strategy; Venture Capital

    Digital Ubiquity: How Connections, Sensors, and Data Are Revolutionizing Business

    When Google bought Nest, a maker of digital thermostats, for $3.2 billion just a few months ago, it was a clear indication that digital transformation and connection are spreading across even the most traditional industrial segments and creating a staggering array... View Details

    • March 2023
    • Teaching Note

    Hikma Pharmaceuticals Governance Journey

    By: Suraj Srinivasan and Jonah Goldberg
    Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 318108. The case opens with Said Darwazah, chairman and CEO of Hikma Pharmaceuticals, the multinational generics company, anticipating the company’s 2017 AGM and reflecting on changes made over the previous year to address concerns... View Details
    Keywords: Jordan; Emerging Market; Private Sector; For-profit Firms; Boards Of Directors; Pharmaceuticals; Remuneration; Shareholder Engagement; Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Business and Shareholder Relations; Executive Compensation; Business Growth and Maturation; Pharmaceutical Industry; Jordan
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    • Article

    Diversity Thresholds: How Social Norms, Visibility, and Scrutiny Relate to Group Composition

    By: Edward H. Chang, Katherine L. Milkman, Dolly Chugh and Modupe Akinola
    Across a field study and four experiments, we examine how social norms and scrutiny affect decisions about adding members of underrepresented populations (e.g., women, racial minorities) to groups. When groups are scrutinized, we theorize that decision makers strive to... View Details
    Keywords: Social Norms; Impression Management; Groups and Teams; Governing and Advisory Boards; Diversity; Gender; Decision Making
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    • May 2016
    • Case

    AbbVie

    By: Kevin Schulman, Laura Little, Samyukta Mullangi and Stephen Schleicher
    This case focuses on the impact of a novel regulatory pathway, the biosimilars pathway, on the strategy of a major pharmaceutical firm that finds its largest product (60% of revenue) at risk. The case reviews the rationale for the pathway, the emerging biosimilars... View Details
    Keywords: Pharmaceutical Company; M＆A Valuation; AbbVie; Health Care; Health Care and Treatment; Pharmaceutical Industry; Health Industry; United States
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    • 1 Mar 2013 - 2 Mar 2013
    • Conference Presentation

    The Value of Flexibility in Baseball Roster Construction

    By: Timothy Chan and Douglas S. Fearing
    Drawing inspiration from the theory of production flexibility in manufacturing networks, we provide the first optimization-based analysis of the value of positional flexibility (the ability of a player to play multiple positions) for a major league baseball team in the... View Details
    Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Design; Production; Resource Allocation; Groups and Teams; Adaptation; Sports
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    • 2012
    • Working Paper

    The Determinants of National Competitiveness

    By: Mercedes Delgado, Christian Ketels, Michael E. Porter and Scott Stern
    We define foundational competitiveness as the expected level of output per working-age individual that is supported by the overall quality of a country as a place to do business. The focus on output per potential worker, a broader measure of national productivity than... View Details
    Keywords: Country; Competition; Microeconomics; Macroeconomics
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    • 2010
    • Working Paper

    Competing Complements

    By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Barry Nalebuff and David B. Yoffie
    In Cournot's model of complements, the producers of A and B are both monopolists. This paper extends Cournot's model to allow for competition between complements on one side of the market. Consider two complements, A and B, where the A + B bundle is valuable only when... View Details
    Keywords: Profit; Revenue; Monopoly; Game Theory; Competition
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    • August 2006 (Revised June 2010)
    • Case

    SUN Brewing (A)

    The Khemka family of India, founders, managers, and majority owners of Russia-based SUN Brewing, faces a difficult decision in 1998. Following the rouble's massive devaluation in August 1998, the stock price of SUN Brewing, which is publicly listed on the Luxemburg... View Details
    Keywords: Family Business; Decision Choices and Conditions; Capital Markets; Financing and Loans; Emerging Markets; India; Russia
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    • 25 Feb 2025
    • HBS Seminar

    Michel Pham, Columbia University

    • 22 May 2024
    • HBS Case

    Banned or Not, TikTok Is a Force Companies Can’t Afford to Ignore

    business opportunities The average US TikTok user spent 45.4 hours a month on TikTok in 2023, passing YouTube’s 26.2 hours, according to Statista. It’s a place to get seen. Last year, TikTok focused on advertising as its main revenue source and is now View Details
    Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Technology
    • 27 Jun 2005
    • Research & Ideas

    Asian and American Leadership Styles: How Are They Unique?

    Wall Street than is yet common in Asia. Wall Street has strong expectations about the behavior and performance of executives and about succession. There is less freedom of action for executives and boards in America than in Asia. In Asia,... View Details
    Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills
    • Web

    The New CEO Workshop - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

    if you expect the job to be as simple as that, you're in for an awakening. Michael E. Porter, Jay W. Lorsch, and Nitin Nohria Harvard Business Review , OCTOBER 2004 Read More of the Article The New CEO Workshop at Harvard Business School... View Details
    • 18 Apr 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    The Best Person to Lead Your Company Doesn't Work There—Yet

    That’s more than twice the pay of CEOs of S&P 400 MidCap companies. CEOs at private firms may have to answer to their PE owners, but they don’t have public-facing stressors like quarterly earnings expectations from Wall Street... View Details
    Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services
    • 02 Mar 2007
    • What Do You Think?

    What Is the Government’s Role in US Health Care?

    percent) is never seen by recipients. It goes for administration. On a per capita basis, it is roughly $280 billion more than is spent for administration in the other twenty-one countries whose life expectancies exceed those in the U.S.,... View Details
    Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Health
    • Web

    Health Care - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

    78.6 yrs is the US life expectancy which is lower than many nations who spend far less on health care 5.9 deaths per 1000 births is the US infant mortality rate which is higher than many nations spending far less on thealth care.... View Details
    • 12 Sep 2023
    • What Do You Think?

    Who Gets the Loudest Voice in DEI Decisions?

    Cristina Nava commented, “While the expectation of the world is peaceful cooperation, the first thing young adults see and experience from their society is a battlefield full of greed.” What’s to be done about it? Frances Pratt suggested,... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett