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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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18 Aug 2021
News

Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement

something lasting,” said Josh Kraft, who is president of Kraft Family Philanthropies. The fund has raised nearly $30 million to support community groups and coalitions that fight racism and racial inequity... View Details

01 Mar 2011
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Alumni Books

transplant, or a joint replacement in the United States, here's the key to getting the very best medical care: be a straight, white, middle-class male. White, a pioneering black surgeon, and his coauthor make sense of the unconscious bias... View Details

01 Apr 1998
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Plunging Into the Net

create satisfied, loyal customers." In such new territory, it is not surprising that there was initial skepticism about observing the world of cyberspace from a management perspective. "During the first few years we were studying the... View Details

17 Dec 2001
Research & Ideas

Becoming the Next Real Estate Mogul

Potential real estate moguls at the 2001 Harvard Business School Entrepreneurship Conference received an earful about profiting in a down market, creating value where there is none, and the addiction of playing in a deal-driven industry.... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Construction; Real Estate

01 Dec 2020
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In the Zone

the organization’s top leadership role in the midst of a pandemic came with unexpected challenges, which included overseeing the launch of a hybrid teaching model in two of... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; nonprofit management; urban development; leadership; public education; Educational Services

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Blog | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Filter Results: (230) Submit Author Types Alumni HBS Staff SE Practitioners SEI Faculty SEI Team Students Topics Alumni for Impact Alumni Programs Arts Business for Social Impact Business School Executive Education Faculty Research Future View Details

21 Feb 2012
Research & Ideas

Leadership Program for Women Targets Subtle Promotion Biases

behaviors can be seen as abrasive instead of assertive, arrogant instead of self-confident, and self-promoting instead of entrepreneurial. These View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish

09 Jun 2014
Research & Ideas

The Manager in Red Sneakers

this research finds that nonconformity can send its own signal of high status by visibly expressing the fact that people can afford to follow their own path—a perception that the researchers called the "red... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Consumer Products; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion

18 Feb 2009
First Look

First Look: February 18, 2009

that this has a substantial impact in limiting the inequality of agreements and results in a non-montonicity of the discount rate. The general need to maintain incentives for... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

13 Apr 2016
Research Event

What Does 'Diversity' Really Mean?

Many male business leaders have the right intentions when it comes to tackling the sticky issue of gender inequality in the workplace. But try as they might to be more sensitive and inclusive with their... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

22 Feb 2022
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Vision: Learning Curve

Mahajan calls the “three-legged stool” of early childhood education—Rocket will help erode the inequities that make it so much harder for poor Indian families to build better lives for their children.... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; education; entrepreneurship; startup; India; Educational Services

10 Mar 2015
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Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling

beginning to recognize many of the same concerns that other sectors face, such as the effect of work-life balance issues on women and the “double bind”—the tension between the View Details

Keywords: April White

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Commencement 2017 Address | About

highs, but these data points do not offer comfort to those who experience firsthand the wide and growing inequality in how the value created by businesses is shared with society. Simply put, many people view the capitalist system in deep... View Details

01 Jun 2020
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Lesson Plans

as working adults. They may be in for a bit of a rude awakening. Job searching will be a lot harder over the next year than it was in the previous ten years. How is the perception View Details

Keywords: Jen Mele

30 Jun 2020
Book

Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever

financial system The state of trade Inequality and populism Migration Environmental degradation Failure of the rule of law The state View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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Shaping the Corporate Image | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

War II to the post-war era, U.S. Steel public relations campaigns responded to the public’s evolving perceptions of large corporations in regard to anti-trust issues, labor activism, wartime duty, profit... View Details

01 Dec 2016
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Alumni Leading Change

Setting the Standard for Commercial Success As chairman of Esquel Group, Marjorie Yang (MBA 1976) oversees one of the world’s largest manufacturers of high-end cotton shirts.... View Details

01 Jun 2017
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Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2017

Alumni Books Sex and the Siren: Tales of a Later Dater by Donna Arp Weitzman (OPM 37, 2008) (Howard Bond Media Group LLC) A witty, satirical look at the dating prospects, sexual exploits, and other adventures View Details

01 Oct 2021
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Tulsa Massacre Case Fosters Timely Conversations

case raises the question of how to address historic injustices. Ratajczak steered the conversation away from past harms to the Black community to current issues that stem from them. He wondered how payments could address modern View Details

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