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July 2002 (Revised December 2002)
Case

Phase Two: The Pharmaceutical Industry Responds to AIDS

By: Debora L. Spar

Describes how major pharmaceutical firms changed their strategy and pricing policies in the years 2000 to 2002 to respond to the growing AIDS epidemic in Africa. View Details

Keywords: International Finance; Health Pandemics; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Pharmaceutical Industry; Africa

10 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

Counting Up the Effects of Sarbanes-Oxley

approach when considering SOX," explains Srinivasan. The most worrisome part of the act on the business side was the mandate that required public companies to obtain an independent audit of their internal control practices. The cost... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Accounting; Banking

24 Oct 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 24, 2017

only find the right business model to launch such a happiness movement. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/418019-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 718-422 Tempur Sealy International (A) This case explores the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

29 Apr 2020
Book

The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages

Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

2022
Other Unpublished Work

Got 'Critical Minerals'? Hooray! But Be Careful

By: Louis T. Wells

When a country has “critical minerals,” certain issues require special attention in the country’s mining legislation or while negotiating contracts with potential mining investors. As well, to obtain maximum benefit the government should prepare for negotiations with... View Details

Keywords: Critical Minerals; Foreign Direct Investment; International Relations; Mining Industry

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05 Nov 2009
Research & Ideas

A Market for Human Cadavers in All but Name?

securing specimens from a new set of actors in the commerce in cadavers. These actors are legal entrepreneurial ventures that have been operating for more than a decade in the United States; they cater to domestic users and View Details

Keywords: by Michel Anteby; Health

14 Mar 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research, March 14

March–April 2017 Harvard Business Review Hiring an Entrepreneurial Leader: What to Look For By: Butler, Timothy Abstract—Aspiring to be innovative and agile, companies of all shapes and sizes want to recruit View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

08 Jun 2010
First Look

First Look: June 8

but real differences in corporate finance and investment through two different channels: a "more money" effect arising from the debt coinsurance feature of conglomerates and a "smarter money" effect arising from more... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

11 Aug 2009
First Look

First Look: August 11, 2009

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-006.pdf Banking Deregulations, Financing Constraints and Firm Entry Size Authors:William R. Kerr and Ramana Nanda Abstract We examine the effect of U.S. branch banking deregulations on the entry size of... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

07 Aug 2019
Research & Ideas

Big Infrastructure May Not Always Produce Big Benefits

billion to upgrade, rehabilitate, and widen the country’s major highways to international standards. The GQ, as the fifth-longest highway in the world, links four of India’s largest cities and many districts in between. "Will View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Construction

April 2006
Background Note

Understanding Corporate-Value-at-Risk through a Comprehensive and Simple Example

By: Marc L. Bertoneche and Frantz Maurer

Using a comprehensive and simple example of a firm exposed to foreign exchange risk, interest rate risk, and commodity price risk, shows how to use corporate-value-at-risk to measure and manage a firm's global exposure to risk. View Details

Keywords: Financial Markets; Interest Rates; International Finance; Globalization; Risk Management; Measurement and Metrics; Value

27 Oct 2014
Research & Ideas

The Coffee Economy That Bloomed Out of Nowhere

her academic career studying the coffee economy of southern Mexico in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. While her geographical focus is narrow, her research yields insights into export economies—and broad lessons for anyone building an View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Food & Beverage; Agriculture & Agribusiness

31 Oct 2017
First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 31, 2017

of the finance and insurance sector. We provide the first large-scale study that documents the economy-wide extent of misconduct among financial advisers and the associated labor market consequences of misconduct. Seven percent of... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

20 Mar 2005
Research & Ideas

Lessons of Successful Entrepreneurs

his current stint at General Catalyst, a private equity fund. Filipowski, who founded software maker PLATINUM Technology and sold it to Computer Associates International in 1999 for approximately $4 billion, said one ingredient for his... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

October 2005 (Revised September 2006)
Case

DentalCorp

By: Richard G. Hamermesh and Ricardo Reisen de Pinho

DentalCorp is the fifth largest provider of dental insurance in Brazil and has tripled its sales in the past two years. Whether to expand to Chile or to continue expansion in Brazil is the major strategic choice facing the company at the end of 2004. View Details

Keywords: International Finance; Expansion; Entrepreneurship; Health Care and Treatment; Global Strategy; Insurance Industry; Health Industry; Brazil; Chile

March 2001 (Revised February 2004)
Case

Power to the States: "Fiscal Wars" for FDI in Brazil

By: Laura Alfaro, Yasheng Huang and Marios S. Kalochoritis

On January 6, 1999, Itamar Franco, the governor of the state of Minas Gerais, the second-largest state in Brazil, declared a 90-day moratorium on its debt payment to the federal government. The announcement triggered a run on the Brazilian currency, the Real, and... View Details

Keywords: International Relations; Investment; Financial Crisis; Borrowing and Debt; Brazil