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- March 2017
- Supplement
Microfinance in India 2010-2016: Crisis and Recovery
By: Shawn Cole, Vikram Gandhi, Caitlin Reimers and Yannick Saleman
SKS, India's leading microfinance firm, is challenged when politicians declaim microfinance as exploitation of the poor and severely restrict business practices. View Details
Keywords: Microfinance; Government Administration; Policy; Capital Markets; Crisis Management; Poverty; Financial Services Industry; India
Cole, Shawn, Vikram Gandhi, Caitlin Reimers, and Yannick Saleman. "Microfinance in India 2010-2016: Crisis and Recovery." Harvard Business School Supplement 217-070, March 2017.
- 14 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 14
always want to hear that a person is struggling, nor do they necessarily reward risk taking, even though they might pay lip service to innovative initiative. The authors outline several steps that individuals can take to shake off fear... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Building Businesses in Turbulent Times
services. In health care, nursing services, community social services, mental health services, and home health-care services are on the rise. One executive recently told me that his firm's business training View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 28 Jun 2011
- News
Beyond Case Writing
Sometimes big ideas start with small experiments. That’s been the experience of HBS associate professor Nava Ashraf, whose experimental approach to research in developing countries has produced insights that have influenced government... View Details
- November 2022
- Case
The Battle Among Channels for Marketing Pharmaceuticals: UpScript, Pharmacy Benefit Managers, and Direct-to-Consumer Sales
By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Tiffany Farrell
Can an online, direct-to-consumer pharmacy both improve the quality and speed of care for patients who need branded drugs and stabilize profits for pharmaceutical manufacturers? UpScript, after years spent achieving legal and regulatory compliance and simultaneous... View Details
Keywords: DTC; Internet and the Web; Marketing Channels; Customer Value and Value Chain; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Competitive Strategy; Service Delivery; Growth and Development Strategy; Pharmaceutical Industry; Health Industry; Retail Industry
Herzlinger, Regina E., and Tiffany Farrell. "The Battle Among Channels for Marketing Pharmaceuticals: UpScript, Pharmacy Benefit Managers, and Direct-to-Consumer Sales." Harvard Business School Case 323-031, November 2022.
- 13 Jun 2017
- News
Finding Common Ground
devices were.” CollaborateUp specializes in bringing corporations, government agencies, nonprofits, and other organizations together to take on big, complex issues, such as endangered species trafficking, international food security, and... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Hunting Red Balloons
In December, the government agency DARPA tethered to the ground ten red weather balloons at random locations around the United States in a test to see how social networks might mobilize and use the Internet for rapid problem-solving. In... View Details
- June 2012 (Revised August 2012)
- Case
MF Global: Where's the Money?
By: Clayton S. Rose, Pamela Chan and Raghav Chopra
When MF Global failed in October of 2011, it was discovered that $1.6 billion of segregated customer assets was missing. Safeguarding these assets was the firm's responsibility, and in the words of one SEC official, its "sacred obligation." What is known about the... View Details
Keywords: Financial Firms; Customer Obligations; Bankruptcy; Regulation; Financial Crisis; Brokerage; Asset Management; Ethics; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Financial Management; Crisis Management; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Financial Services Industry
Rose, Clayton S., Pamela Chan, and Raghav Chopra. "MF Global: Where's the Money?" Harvard Business School Case 312-106, June 2012. (Revised August 2012.)
- Web
Strategic Plan | Information Technology
Service Delivery Improvement Plan (completed) 2. Design Sustainable Technology Architecture 2.01: Baker Architecture Modernization Program 2.02: Cloud Program 2.03: Configuration Management Database (CMDB) Build for HBS IT 2.04: Data... View Details
- 11 Jun 2015
- News
A personal mission to serve veterans
cemeteries in 2010. Last year’s controversy at Veterans Affairs compelled her to return to public service full time. “My younger brother, Kenneth, is an infantry officer in the marines and our future customer. Everyone on active duty is a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Promise & Perils
the local level, and typically filled rural niches for consumer goods. At their peak in the early 1990s, an estimated 19 million TVEs operated across the country. By contrast, the SOEs were controlled by various government ministries at... View Details
- April 2010 (Revised May 2012)
- Background Note
Note: Disclosure, Regulation, and Taxation of Hedge Funds versus Mutual Funds in the U.S.
By: Lena G. Goldberg, Robert C. Pozen and Melissa Anne Hammerle
This note provides students with an explanation of the regulatory and tax framework for hedge funds vs. mutual funds in the U.S. View Details
Keywords: Investment Funds; Corporate Disclosure; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Taxation; Financial Services Industry; United States
Goldberg, Lena G., Robert C. Pozen, and Melissa Anne Hammerle. "Note: Disclosure, Regulation, and Taxation of Hedge Funds versus Mutual Funds in the U.S." Harvard Business School Background Note 310-131, April 2010. (Revised May 2012.)
- 24 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Why the Internet Doesn’t Change Everything
where rebels like Bishop Gaillot reside. There are pornography sites accessible to straitlaced Singaporeans, Liberian gambling dens, and secluded banking services run from the tiny island of Anguilla. There are networks of Burmese... View Details
Keywords: by Debora L. Spar
- Web
Chienye Ogwo Archives | Social Enterprise
Impact Measurement Inclusive Finance International Development K-12 Education Leadership Fellows Leadership in Challenging Times MBA Programs Microfinance Non Profit Management Nonprofit Supportive Services Public Sector Public-Private... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Entrepreneurial Unit Travels to China
success, ten faculty members from the School’s Entrepreneurial Management Unit traveled there last summer for a six-day, three-city series of meetings with dozens of business leaders, educators, and government officials. “The goals of the... View Details
- 05 Sep 2012
- What Do You Think?
Will Business Management Save US Health Care?
need to achieve "a cooperative effort on the part of physicians, hospitals, and yes, even patients." Milton Recht provided a list of responses: "Increase competition, allow medical business failures, remove guaranteed sources of revenue, relax View Details
- June 2010 (Revised December 2010)
- Case
Hôpital de Pontoise
By: Richard M.J. Bohmer, Daniela Beyersdorfer and Simon Harrow
In 2010, Andre Razafindranaly, managing director of a large French public hospital, considers which organizational structure will help them adjust to the changing health sector environment. The move from global budget to activity-based funding has led his and many... View Details
Keywords: Activity Based Costing and Management; Governance Controls; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Health Care and Treatment; Leading Change; Service Delivery; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Structure; Health Industry; France
Bohmer, Richard M.J., Daniela Beyersdorfer, and Simon Harrow. "Hôpital de Pontoise." Harvard Business School Case 610-100, June 2010. (Revised December 2010.)
- November 2010
- Teaching Note
Citigroup 2007: Financial Reporting and Regulatory Capital (TN)
By: Edward J. Riedl, Suraj Srinivasan and Sharon Katz
Teaching Note for 111041. View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Bright Future for Green Business
Partners. “Government can help smaller innovators by pushing utilities to adopt new technologies,” he added. But Prend favors government carrots, not sticks. The other panelists — Jim Matheson (MBA ’01), general partner at Flagship... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
Co-operation and Development (OECD), Americans pay significantly more per unit of health-care service consumed, even though they see doctors less, take fewer pills, and have shorter hospital stays. Americans are “paying more, despite... View Details