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Market Dynamics and Moral Dilemmas: Novo Nordisk’s Weight-Loss Drugs

By: Joseph L. Badaracco, Tom Quinn and John Schultz

Danish pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk was owned by a charitable foundation, and since its founding in the 1920s had focused on producing insulin to treat diabetes. In 2017, however, it released Ozempic, a diabetes treatment with the revolutionary side effect of... View Details

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30 May 2000
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Market Makers Bid for Success

6 I got to work in my basement on starting FreeMarkets. The first thing we did was raise some money, and then we built some software. We found some pilot clients and started to develop market-making skills, a supplier database, rules for the market, and a call center... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Web Services; Technology

03 May 2016
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First Look, May 3, 2016

Abstract—Leaders face a multitude of strategic paradoxes—contradictory pressures that are too often viewed as “either/or” choices. There are innovation paradoxes, in which the pursuit of new offerings and processes conflicts with the mandate to sustain the tried and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

14 Jan 2008
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Mapping Polluters, Encouraging Protectors

public service, because it makes this data, most of which exist in archival databases of the EPA, much more readily accessible," says Michael Toffel, an expert on industry self-regulation and an assistant professor in the Technology and View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Manufacturing; Chemical

05 Feb 2013
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First Look: Feb. 5

operations intertwined. Working Together in Crises Authors:Leonard, Herman B. "Dutch", and Arnold M. Howitt Publication:Crisis Response Journal Abstract No abstract available. Paper: View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

28 Sep 2010
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First Look: September 28, 2010

Verlag, 2010 Abstract From small start-ups to global corporations, family-owned businesses were the main pillar of West Germany's economic growth after World War II. They continue to shape the corporate landscape to this day. This book... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

16 Mar 2003
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At the Center of Corporate Scandal Where Do We Go From Here?

economy. I know that a lot of things have been done to address these problems already, but my own sense is that what we've seen is incomplete. Too much of our public discussion has operated on the surface of the problems. We need to go a... View Details

Keywords: by Kim B. Clark

22 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019

or Hands: How Do Employees Respond to a Radical Global Language Change Over Time? By: Reiche, Sebastian, and Tsedal Neeley Abstract— To understand how recipients respond to radical change over time across cognitive, affective, and... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

06 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 6, 2007

fundamental challenges through the middle of the twenty-first century. Using a theory of economic systems to gauge present and future global conflicts, Steven Rosefielde and D. Quinn Mills see the challenges as posed sequentially by... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

22 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 22

to determine the importance of attributes, a willingness that extends to following explicit recommendations of online agents based on those attributes (Study 5). Cases & Course MaterialsGenzyme's CSR Dilemma: How to Play Its HAND Harvard Business School Case... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

April 2012
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Bella Healthcare India

By: Dorothy Leonard and Sunru Yong

Bella Healthcare India was originally established in Bangalore as a low-cost manufacturing facility for a U.S.-based cardiology equipment developer. Under country manager Joseph Cherian it evolved considerably, developing its own research and development capabilities.... View Details

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12 Jul 2020
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Solving COVID'S Mental Health Crisis

the number of telemental health providers across Canada by 1,400 percent since the start of the pandemic." CAMH has launched a COVID-19 Mental Health Resiliency & Coping Fund to meet emerging needs. “Canada’s health care system View Details

Keywords: by Howard Stevenson and Shirley Spence; Health

09 May 2018
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A Simple Way for Restaurant Inspectors to Improve Food Safety

Technology and Operations Management Unit at Harvard Business School, and Mike Toffel, the Senator John Heinz Professor of Environmental Management at HBS, experts in scheduling and in inspections, respectively. “The more inspections you... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Food & Beverage; Service

05 Feb 2014
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Can Putin Score Olympic Gold?

trouble if they don't go well. Perhaps the brand with the most to gain—or lose—is Mother Russia, which paid a record $51 billion to host the Games, and has a rare opportunity to show it has shaken off its economic and political doldrums to pull off a major coup on a... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Sports; Advertising

12 Oct 2011
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First Look: October 12

assured. The global financial meltdown of 2008 nearly triggered another Great Depression, economies in Europe are still teetering, and powerful forces-income inequality, resource depletion, and mass migrations from poor to rich countries,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

12 Mar 2013
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First Look: March 12

technology is revolutionizing the global banking and payment industry. It offers new opportunities for banks to provide added convenience to their existing customers in developed countries and reach a large population of unbanked... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

26 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 26, 2007

Materials Harvard Business School Case 107-018 Explores the process and inputs behind financial and operational forecasting in the Electronic Specialty Materials unit at Air Products and Chemicals, a global... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

27 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 27

is similar to those used by many organizations to encourage employees to communicate about operational problems. We find that process-improvement campaigns prompt employees to speak up and that campaigns increase the frequency of voicing... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

26 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 26, 2008

its exit options from this investment? Should it go in deeper and acquire a larger stake as a "first" step towards an exit? To complicate matters further, JPMP was now managing its Global Fund, whereas its existing stake in the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

02 Aug 2016
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August 2, 2016

instead for consumer attention. We model and characterize how households allocate their scarce attention in arguably the largest market for attention: the Internet. Our characterization of household attention allocation operates along... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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