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How Do Drug Copayment Coupons Affect Branded Drug Prices and Quantities Purchased?

Drug copayment coupons to reduce patient cost-sharing have become nearly ubiquitous for high-priced brand-name prescription drugs. Medicare bans such coupons on the grounds that they are kickbacks that induce utilization, but they are commonly used by... View Details

January 2023
Teaching Note

The Opioid Settlement and Executive Pay at AmerisourceBergen

By: Suraj Srinivasan and Li-Kuan Ni

Teaching Note for HBS Case No 122-014. In 2020, AmerisourceBergen Corporation, a Fortune 50 company in the drug distribution industry, agreed to settle thousands of lawsuits filed nationwide against the company for its opioid distribution practices that critics alleged... View Details

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May 2008 (Revised September 2014)
Teaching Note

TD Canada Trust (A), (B), and (C)

By: Dennis Campbell

Keywords: Performance Evaluation; Banks and Banking; Mergers and Acquisitions; Customer Focus and Relationships; Profit; Balanced Scorecard; Service Delivery; Announcements; Compensation and Benefits; Canada

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18 Sep 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018

Ratcheting, Competition, and the Diffusion of Technological Change: The Case of Televisions Under an Energy Efficiency Program By: Amano, Tomomichi, and Hiroshi Ohashi Abstract—In differentiated goods... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

01 Sep 2018
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September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books

our planet. This emerging playing field is not well understood, and not everyone who was successful in the past will be able to benefit from this momentous shift. In this book, the authors provide insights,... View Details

2017
Working Paper

Seeking to Belong: How the Words of Internal and External Beneficiaries Influence Performance

By: Paul Green, Francesca Gino and Bradley R. Staats

In this paper, we examine how connecting to beneficiaries of one’s work increases performance and argue that beneficiaries internal to an organization (i.e., one’s own colleagues) can serve as an important source of motivation, even in jobs that—on the surface—may seem... View Details

Keywords: Prosocial Motivation; Belongingness; Motivation; Job Design; Field Experiment; Motivation and Incentives; Strategy; Job Design and Levels

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22 Feb 2022
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March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books

Business Deep Purpose offers a compelling reassessment and defense of purpose as a management ethos, documenting the vast performance gains and social benefits that become... View Details

27 Nov 2006
Research & Ideas

Manly Men, Oil Platforms, and Breaking Stereotypes

negative elements by changing norms and work practices to the benefit of individual workers and the organization as a whole. Q: Do you think you'd have found similar results in... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Energy; Utilities

28 Mar 2016
News

Drawing Connections Between Business and Art

Photography by Benjamin Parks/GPA Business and art can both be viewed as aspirational activities. Business aims to improve people’s circumstances. Art, on the other hand, tries for something less tangible by changing people’s... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman

23 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 23, 2019

effectiveness. A thorough understanding of gatekeepers and their roles can thus illuminate academics, the financial community and regulators on how such gatekeepers can be the most effective View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

04 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018

leaders might say they value inquisitive minds, in reality most stifle curiosity, fearing it will increase risk and inefficiency. Harvard Business School’s Francesca Gino elaborates on the benefits of View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

21 Mar 2016
Blog Post

MBA/MPA-ID: The Intersection of Policy and Business

actually politically and administratively palatable and therefore implementable? How do you ensure that the benefits of high growth rates (like those we are currently seeing in... View Details

19 Dec 2017
First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 19, 2017

creating a luxury brand and reconciling several strategic imperatives: the need to build a strong and desirable brand identity, grow the business but also protect the brand integrity View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

24 Mar 2002
Research & Ideas

The Trick of Balancing Business and Government

professorship? Why not endow a scholarship? Why not endow a laboratory?" Bolnick said. In the long run, he said, this kind of assistance is more valuable than doing nothing and, in the medium term, business will benefit from an... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

08 Dec 2003
Research & Ideas

Why Europe Lags in Pharmaceuticals and Biotech

the preferred testing ground for Phase 1 clinical trials of new drugs, the benefits of massive R&D spending and economic throw-offs are being enjoyed elsewhere, primarily in the United States View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Biotechnology; Health; Pharmaceutical; Technology

29 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018

February 2018 Journal of Accounting & Economics Bank CEO Materialism: Risk Controls, Culture and Tail Risk By: Bushman, Robert, Robert Davidson, Aiyesha Dey, and Abbie Smith Abstract—We investigate how... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

14 Nov 2017
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New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017

video. These results suggest a phenomenon of desensitization or habituation of victims to crime exposure. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53446 Lifting the Veil: The Benefits of Cost Transparency By:... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

23 Apr 2024
In Practice

Getting to Net Zero: The Climate Standards and Ecosystem the World Needs Now

With each month clocking record-breaking temperatures across the planet, this Earth Day reflected the renewed urgency of regulators and businesses to find climate-change solutions. The US Securities and Exchange Commission recently adopted new rules that will mandate... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

2010
Working Paper

The Empire Struck Back: The Mexican Oil Expropriation of 1938 Reconsidered

By: Noel Maurer

The Mexican expropriation of 1938 was the first large-scale non-Communist expropriation of foreign-owned natural resource assets. The literature generally makes three assertions: the U.S. government did not fully back the companies, Mexico did not fully compensate them... View Details

Keywords: Non-Renewable Energy; Governance Controls; Business History; Ownership; Business and Government Relations; Natural Environment; Energy Industry; Mexico; United States

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2017
Chapter

Multinational Activity in Emerging Markets: How and When Does Foreign Direct Investment Promote Growth?

By: Laura Alfaro

Among the prominent economic trends in recent decades is the exponential increase in flows of goods and capital driven by technological progress and a falling number of restrictions. A key driver of this phenomenon has been the cross-border production, foreign... View Details

Keywords: Multinational Activity; Growth; Spillovers; Complementarities; Foreign Direct Investment; Emerging Markets; Growth and Development; Multinational Firms and Management

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