Publications

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Pharmaceuticals: Company Data and Analysis

Where can I find pharmaceutical company financials and analysis? We suggest you begin with: Capital IQ - Data on public and private companies, investment firms, capital transactions, and people with a powerful search portal. Cortellis - a pharmaceutical... View Details

19 Aug 2010
News

Marketing Analysis Tools for Managers

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

September 1975 (Revised June 1983)
Background Note

Note on the Structural Analysis of Industries

By: Michael E. Porter

Provides a framework for the analysis of industry structure. Identifies the major structural features that influence the profit potential in industries and some illustrative implications of these for strategy formulation. Can be used as a reference note for business... View Details

Keywords: Industry Structures; Business Strategy; Profit

TeachingInterests

Economic Analysis of Public Policy

Teaching Fellow, Spring 2015
Harvard John F. Kennedy School of Government View Details

January 1996
Background Note

Standard Costs and Variance Analysis

In an introduction to standard costs and cost variances, discussion, formulae, and examples explore the idea of comparing actual costs to those that were expected. View Details

Keywords: Cost Accounting

November 2011
Article

Competing Matchmakers: An Experimental Analysis

By: Tanjim Hossain, Dylan B. Minor and John Morgan

Platform competition is ubiquitous, yet platform market structure is little understood. Theory models typically suffer from equilibrium multiplicity—platforms might coexist or the market might tip to either platform. We use laboratory experiments to study the outcomes... View Details

Keywords: Platform Competition; Two-Sided Markets; E-commerce; Competition; Two-Sided Platforms; Monopoly

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March 2014
Module Note

Fundamental Analysis for Active Investing

By: Suraj Srinivasan

November – December 1969
Article

Systems Analysis for Social Decisions

By: Joseph L. Bower

Keywords: Decision Making; Society; Theory

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October 2002 (Revised February 2003)
Case

Joe Smith's Closing Analysis (C)

By: Lynda M. Applegate and Rakesh Khurana

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

September 2000
Background Note

Financial Statement and Ratio Analysis

By: Paul M. Healy and Jacob Cohen

Prepares students for financial ratio analysis. View Details

Keywords: Business Education; Financial Statements; Theory

May 1984 (Revised September 1986)
Background Note

Basic Quantitative Analysis for Marketing

By: Robert J. Dolan

Shows how to calculate and use the break-even volume in marketing decision making. View Details

Keywords: Marketing Strategy; Mathematical Methods

22 Aug 2005
Research & Ideas

The Hard Work of Failure Analysis

It hardly needs to be said that organizations cannot learn from failures if people do not discuss and analyze them. Yet this remains an important insight. The learning that is potentially available may not be realized unless thoughtful View Details

Keywords: by Amy Edmondson & Mark D. Cannon

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Insurance industry: companies and analysis

Health and Property - Casualty sectors. Click on the drop-down arrow for Industry Surveys under S&P Publication Search. Insurance Fact Book (print only): from the Insurance Information Institute is a source of industry statistics. The Institute is a source for news... View Details

April 1982 (Revised June 1985)
Case

Westinghouse Electric Corp.: Quality of Earnings Analysis

Westinghouse had just issued its annual report to shareholders for the year ending December 31, 1973. The report indicates that sales have increased to a record $5.7 billion but that net income is down almost 20% from its record level of $199 million in the previous... View Details

Keywords: Business Earnings; Financial Reporting; Corporate Finance; Electronics Industry