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  • August 2005 (Revised May 2007)
  • Case

Partners Healthcare

By: Joshua D. Coval
Focuses on the portfolio allocation decision of a passive fund manager. Provides a setting to study portfolio theory, including mean-variance analysis, the capital market line, and the efficient frontier. View Details
Keywords: Investment Portfolio; Capital Markets; Business or Company Management; Decisions; Health Industry
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  • 18 Jul 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, July 18, 2017

May 11, 2017 New England Journal of Medicine Good Riddance to Big Insurance Mergers By: Dafny, Leemore S. Abstract—Federal judges issued preliminary injunctions halting mergers of four of the five largest U.S. health insurers. These... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Sep 2024
  • Blog Post

4 Things You Need to Know about Immersive FIELD Courses at HBS

prepare students for travel, and also work with HBS staff to develop meaningful content that students can experience during the January immersions. In some instances, IFC faculty develop projects with companies and organizations that are... View Details
  • January 2002
  • Case

Global Business Council on HIV/AIDS on World AIDS Day 2001, The

Explores the motivation for businesses to be concerned with the global AIDS epidemic. The formation of the council serves as an example of how business leaders are building a network of companies to develop an effective business response to AIDS-both through workforce... View Details
Keywords: Health; Social Issues; Global Strategy; Business and Community Relations; Growth and Development Strategy; Business and Government Relations; Health Industry
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  • 09 Jun 2022
  • Blog Post

The MBA Class of 2022 Looks Back

balance. I knew that my time was limited and that there’s no other place like HBS. I was very conscious of what I wanted to participate in. Knowing that my schedule was going to be hectic, I was able to find the right activities and groups that I wanted to be View Details
  • Web

Globalization - Faculty & Research

exacerbate challenges of institutional voids in emerging and developing economies. Global Initiative The Global Initiative builds on a legacy of global engagement by supporting faculty, students, and alumni in their work, and encouraging... View Details
  • 01 Jul 2008
  • First Look

First Look: July 1, 2008

  Working PapersCollaborative Architectures for Innovation Authors:Gary P. Pisano and Roberto Verganti Abstract Collaborative innovation has become a hot topic in innovation today. Scholars, consultants, and the business press all urge View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Web

Hidden Workers, Part-Time Potential - Managing the Future of Work

responsibilities, health challenges, and partial retirement, among others. By learning about and accommodating the needs of these workers, firms can encourage part-time employees to take on more hours—and help ease the talent shortage as... View Details
  • 01 Jan 2011
  • News

Seth Klarman, MBA 1982

trades per se, but taking in what's going on in the 165-person company he helped launch shortly after earning his MBA. Rarely using his private office, he begins each day reading four to six newspapers, surrounded by colleagues. The... View Details
  • 19 Dec 2022
  • Research & Ideas

What Motivates People to Give Generously—and Why We Sometimes Don't

act makes it seem like a worse version of a charitable act. So, the difference in framing can affect both whether people want to engage in that behavior in the first place and how much they give as a result. Exley: Another way to increase... View Details
Keywords: by Jen McFarland Flint, HBS Alumni Bulletin
  • August 2023 (Revised May 2024)
  • Case

Dicerna Pharmaceuticals: Decision Making in Clinical Trial Design and Operations

By: Satish Tadikonda and Amanda McEwen
The success or failure of Dicerna Pharmaceuticals (Dicerna) as an emerging pharmaceutical company would likely hinge on its lead drug candidate Nedosiran and the company’s ability to see it successfully through clinical development. Ralf Rosskamp, Chief Medical... View Details
Keywords: Business Strategy; Health Testing and Trials; Product Development; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Pharmaceutical Industry
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  • 28 Jan 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Billions of Entrepreneurs in China and India

companies public. A lot of entrepreneurial activity in these countries is in the exercise of getting things done more efficiently and creatively in response to constraints that people find themselves immersed in. Some of these constraints... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • January 2014
  • Supplement

Fred Khosravi and AccessClosure (C)

By: Richard Hamermesh and Lauren Barley
On September 11, 2013, the three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit denied St. Jude's request to rehear an appeal on the "double patenting" ruling for the '439 patent. Further, it removed the injunction threat that was hanging over the... View Details
Keywords: Medical Devices; Vascular Closure Device; Patent Litigation; Patenting; Biomedical Research; Biotechnology; Biotech; Technological Innovation; Patents; Health Care and Treatment; Biotechnology Industry; United States
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  • December 24, 2020
  • Article

How Businesses Can Find “Hidden Workers”

By: Joseph B. Fuller, Manjari Raman, Eva Sage-Gavin and Ladan Davarzani
Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, low- and middle-skill workers struggled to find and retain steady work. Now, many of these workers are considered “essential,” while many others are unemployed and struggling to find work. As the pandemic eases throughout 2021,... View Details
Keywords: Health Pandemics; Employees; Selection and Staffing
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  • 07 May 2013
  • First Look

First Look: May 7

equity groups. Instead, they appear to expand their private equity engagement to take advantage of the credit market booms while capturing private benefits from cross-selling of other banking services. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 31 Jan 2023
  • Research & Ideas

It’s Not All About Pay: College Grads Want Jobs That ‘Change the World’

almost every society on how much we should allow the private sector to handle prosocial objectives,” says Zhang, who studies workplace culture and social inequality. “What we saw here is that if the private sector engages in that... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 15 Nov 2018
  • Book

Can the Global Food Industry Overcome Public Distrust?

JamesBrey Food is the largest segment of the global economy. It is also widely recognized as more critical for human health than any pharmaceutical drug on the planet. But significant changes in the industry are making people lose trust in many institutions involved in... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Agriculture & Agribusiness
  • Web

Judges - Alumni

that more than doubles the number of employees engaged with wellness. Originally from Brazil and now based in New York, Carvalho launched Wellhub while attending Harvard Business School. He previously held leadership roles at McKinsey &... View Details
  • 17 Jan 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Being the Boss

determining an employee's level of engagement with the work. 2 We know of a small-company owner, a warm, decent woman, so pressed for time she consciously decided to avoid small talk at the office. She never opened up to people about... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 06 Oct 2020
  • News

Covid-19 Is Rewriting the Rules of Corporate Governance