Pharmacy Benefit Manager - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Mar 2023
News

Action Plan: Casting Call

Bert Berkley (MBA 1950) calls it “the dumbest thing I’ve ever done in my life.” Having served in the US Army during World War II for three-and-a-half years, he was offered (and accepted) the chance to go home one day early if he signed up for the Army Reserves. Called... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; hobbies; balance; meaning; longevity; aging; Paper Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Jun 2009
News

Cynthia Carroll

applied value-based management throughout the company and are inviting people to think out of the box, take much more responsibility for themselves and others, and really drive for value. Mining operations can directly affect communities,... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Management; Management

23 Nov 2010
First Look

First Look: November 23

company, faces many strategic issues. CEO Per Lofberg is in the midst of negotiating a partnership with a major pharmacy benefit management company. As part of these... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

25 Jul 2005
Research & Ideas

An Organization Your Customers Understand

medication, which alleviates a health problem, or the face cream, which enhances skin care. But other individuals and groups also satisfy our definition: Pharmacy chains, distributors, hospitals, physicians, and research scientists all... View Details

Keywords: by Robert Simons

01 Mar 2015
News

Committed To HBS’s Success

who participate in them. “The School faces tough competitors,” says Tukman, president of Tukman Grossman Capital Management Inc. “Great as it is, HBS is only as good as its faculty and its students. If one wishes to help ensure the... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training

01 Dec 2007
News

Where Are the Innovators in Health Care?

that hospital visits and usage plummeted, the perverse nature of the payment system meant Duke couldn’t benefit from saving its patients’ money — nearly $8,000 per person. In only one year, the program had reduced costs by 40 percent,... View Details

Keywords: Regina E. Herzlinger; Management; Management

01 Dec 1985
Conference Presentation

Risk Sharing and Corporate Pension Policy

By: André Perold and Jay O. Light

Keywords: Compensation and Benefits; Risk Management

Citation

01 Dec 2007
News

A View from the Top

Relations Bill Sahlman, who quizzed each recipient at a late September event held for the benefit of hundreds of first-year MBA students packing Burden Auditorium. Sahlman opened the discussion with this stumper: What is your greatest... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training

May 2004
Article

Underwater Options and the Dynamics of Executive Pay-to-Performance Sensitivities

By: Brian J. Hall and Thomas A. Knox

Keywords: Management; Compensation and Benefits; Performance

Citation

Find at Harvard

11 Apr 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research, April 11

forthcoming Journal of Accounting & Economics Career Concerns of Banking Analysts By: Horton, Joanne, George Serafeim, and Shan Wu Abstract—We study how career concerns influence banking analysts' forecasts and how their forecasting behavior View Details

20 Jul 2022
News

Wired to be Inspired

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Professor Ranjay Gulati, whose research looks at how the most resilient companies approach growth and profitability, chaired the Advanced Management Program at HBS for many... View Details

Keywords: Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises

Other Unpublished Work

Risk Aversion, Risk Premium and the Choice of Capital Projects

By: S. Datar, R. Banker and B. Gopi

Keywords: Risk Management; Cost vs Benefits; Infrastructure

Citation

01 Jun 2008
News

Faculty Books

Competitive Advantage by Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton (DBA ’73) (HBS Press) Building on their previous works on strategy-focused organizations, the authors describe a multistage system enabling a manager to gain measurable View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training

Person Page

Media

This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details

01 Mar 2011
News

Tax and Grow

spending that cash, the economy could benefit from a significant stimulus that, unlike stimulus measures relating to government spending, would stem from decentralized actors responding to private information and incentives. Consider the... View Details

Keywords: Mihir A. Desai; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices

22 Feb 2016
Research & Ideas

The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist

the federal Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890, which was designed to protect competition by outlawing monopolistic business practices. This fear of monopoly power made Americans leery of business agreements that smacked of price-fixing. Yet Gleason, in her efforts to... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Retail; Health; Legal Services

19 May 2015
First Look

First Look: May 19

Joanne, George Serafeim, and Shan Wu Abstract—We study how career concerns influence banking analysts' forecasts and how their forecasting behavior benefits both them and bank managers. We show that banking analysts issue early in the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne