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- June 2021
- Technical Note
Introduction to Linear Regression
By: Michael Parzen and Paul Hamilton
This technical note introduces (from an applied point of view) the theory and application of simple and multiple linear regression. The motivation for the model is introduced, as well as how to interpret the summary output with regard to prediction and statistical...
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- 2021
- Working Paper
Studying the U.S.-Based Portfolio Companies of U.S. Impact Investors
By: M. Diane Burton, Gurveen Chadha, Shawn A. Cole, Abhishek Dev, Christina Jarymowycz, Leslie Jeng, Laura Kelley, Josh Lerner, Jaime R. Diaz Palacios, Yue (Cynthia) Xu and T. Robert Zochowski
Recent years have seen a dramatic increase in the reliance on market-based solutions to social and environmental problems around the world (Barman 2016; Horvath and Powell 2020). The growth of impact investing is a vivid example of this trend and, although there have...
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Keywords:
Impact Investing;
Impact Portfolio Companies;
Investment;
Social Issues;
Environmental Sustainability;
Investment Portfolio;
Business Ventures;
Analytics and Data Science;
Performance;
United States
Burton, M. Diane, Gurveen Chadha, Shawn A. Cole, Abhishek Dev, Christina Jarymowycz, Leslie Jeng, Laura Kelley, Josh Lerner, Jaime R. Diaz Palacios, Yue (Cynthia) Xu, and T. Robert Zochowski. "Studying the U.S.-Based Portfolio Companies of U.S. Impact Investors." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-130, June 2021.
- June 2021 (Revised November 2021)
- Case
Equity Bank: Charting the Future
By: Lauren Cohen, Michael Chitavi and Spencer C. N. Hagist
After climbing the ranks among Kenya's financial institutions from 66th to 1st, and toppling a quarter of the market share held by mobile money giant Safaricom, CEO James Mwangi must now guide Equity Bank into its next stage of development beyond "Equity 3.0." Should...
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Keywords:
Growth and Development Strategy;
Leadership;
Decision Making;
Market Entry and Exit;
Developing Countries and Economies;
Financial Institutions;
Economics;
Kenya
Cohen, Lauren, Michael Chitavi, and Spencer C. N. Hagist. "Equity Bank: Charting the Future." Harvard Business School Case 221-105, June 2021. (Revised November 2021.)
- June 11, 2021
- Article
Addressing Demographic Disparities in Clinical Trials
By: Kathy Giusti, Richard G. Hamermesh and Mark Krasnow
Disparities in health care are not just limited to the delivery of care. They also exist in the way that clinical trials are structured. Women, people of color, and the elderly often are not adequately represented. This article offers three strategies for addressing...
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Giusti, Kathy, Richard G. Hamermesh, and Mark Krasnow. "Addressing Demographic Disparities in Clinical Trials." Harvard Business Review Digital Articles (June 11, 2021).
- June 2021
- Teaching Note
Serum Institute of India (SII): Racing to Save Lives During a Pandemic
By: Rohit Deshpandé and James Barnett
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 521-028.
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- Article
Cash-for-Information Whistleblower Programs: Effects on Whistleblowing and Consequences for Whistleblowers
By: Aiyesha Dey, Jonas Heese and Gerardo Pérez Cavazos
Cash-for-information whistleblower programs have gained momentum as a regulatory tool to enforce corporate misconduct. Yet, little is known about how financial incentives affect whistleblowers’ decisions to report potential misconduct to authorities. Similarly, there...
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Keywords:
Corporate Misconduct;
Whistleblowers;
Financial Incentives;
Ethics;
Governance Compliance;
Lawsuits and Litigation
Dey, Aiyesha, Jonas Heese, and Gerardo Pérez Cavazos. "Cash-for-Information Whistleblower Programs: Effects on Whistleblowing and Consequences for Whistleblowers." Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance (June 10, 2021).
- June 10, 2021
- Article
How to Be a Purpose-Driven Leader in a Capitalist World
By: Celia Bravard, John Pontillo and Andrew J. Hoffman
Today’s business school education isn’t suited to the big challenges facing the world — climate change, economic inequality and racial injustice — that the leaders of tomorrow will be expected to solve. So, how can students and young professionals succeed in a system...
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Keywords:
Values and Beliefs;
Mission and Purpose;
Social Issues;
Power and Influence;
Social and Collaborative Networks;
Opportunities
Bravard, Celia, John Pontillo, and Andrew J. Hoffman. "How to Be a Purpose-Driven Leader in a Capitalist World." Harvard Business Review (website) (June 10, 2021).
- June 10, 2021
- Article
How to Build a Life: The Lie We Tell Ourselves About Going to Bed Early
By: Arthur C. Brooks
Brooks, Arthur C. "How to Build a Life: The Lie We Tell Ourselves About Going to Bed Early." The Atlantic (June 10, 2021).
- June 2021
- Teaching Note
Pearson: Efficacy 2.0
By: Elie Ofek and Marco Bertini
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 521-012.
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- June 10, 2021
- Article
Preparing Hospitals for the Next Pandemic
By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Barak D. Richman
The COVID-19 epidemic response has shown that the U.S. is blessed with heroic physicians and other health care providers, researchers, and facilities. But it has also revealed a health care system that was woefully unprepared for the surge of pandemic patients. In the...
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Keywords:
Hospital;
Hospital Management;
Hospitals—administration;
Health Care;
Health Care Industry;
Health Care Investment;
Health Care Operations;
Health Pandemics;
Health Care and Treatment;
Operations;
Performance Improvement;
Investment;
Health Industry;
United States
Herzlinger, Regina E., and Barak D. Richman. "Preparing Hospitals for the Next Pandemic." Harvard Business Review Digital Articles (June 10, 2021).
- Article
The Covid-19 Pandemic Should Not Delay Actions to Prevent Anticompetitive Consolidation in U.S. Health Care Markets
By: Leemore S. Dafny
This article describes potential regulatory and legislative reforms to assist antitrust enforcement agencies in halting anticompetitive acquisitions and practices, and preserving and promoting competition in health care markets.
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Keywords:
Health Care and Treatment;
Markets;
Competition;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms
Dafny, Leemore S. "The Covid-19 Pandemic Should Not Delay Actions to Prevent Anticompetitive Consolidation in U.S. Health Care Markets." Promarket (June 10, 2021).
- June 2021
- Supplement
Facelift at Olay (B) Case Supplement
By: Sunil Gupta, Rajiv Lal and Ruth Page
Supplement to HBS Case. No. 521-002.
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Gupta, Sunil, Rajiv Lal, and Ruth Page. "Facelift at Olay (B) Case Supplement." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Supplement 521-723, June 2021.
- 2023
- Working Paper
Standing on the Shoulders of Science
By: Joshua Lev Krieger, Monika Schnitzer and Martin Watzinger
Today’s innovations rely on scientific discoveries of the past, yet only some corporate
R&D builds directly on scientific output. In this paper, we analyze U.S. patents to
investigate how firms generate value by building on prior art “closer” to science. We
show...
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Krieger, Joshua Lev, Monika Schnitzer, and Martin Watzinger. "Standing on the Shoulders of Science." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-128, June 2021. (Revised September 2023. Forthcoming in Strategic Management Journal.)
- June 2021 (Revised March 2022)
- Teaching Note
StockX: The Stock Market of Things
By: Chiara Farronato
Teaching Note for HBS Case Nos. 620-062 and 621-107.
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- June 2021 (Revised December 2021)
- Case
Suzhou Good-Ark Electronics: Creating and Implementing a Sage Culture
By: Sandra J. Sucher, Nien-he Hsieh, Susan J. Winterberg, Nancy Hua Dai and Shalene Gupta
Suzhou Good-Ark, a Chinese semiconductor implemented "Sage Culture" management based on traditional Chinese philosophy. Productivity doubled, turnover decreased, and employee satisfaction shot up. By 2015, more than 2,000 companies had toured Wu’s factories, and Wu had...
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- June 2021
- Case
uBiome
By: Thomas R. Eisenmann and Olivia Graham
uBiome provided clinical tests that sequenced the DNA of human microbiome samples, providing data on health conditions directly to consumers or to prescribing physicians. Founded in 2012, the San Francisco-based startup raised $105 million from top-tier venture capital...
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- 2021
- Working Paper
Who Closed the Schools?
By: Joshua D. Coval
This paper examines the differences in characteristics between U.S. public schools that opted for virtual instruction because of COVID-19, and schools that did not. Much of the variation can be explained by measures of the degree to which districts favored teachers...
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Keywords:
Public Education;
COVID-19;
Virtual Learning;
Education;
Health Pandemics;
Teaching;
Internet and the Web;
Policy;
Outcome or Result;
United States
Coval, Joshua D. "Who Closed the Schools?" Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-127, June 2021.
- June 2021
- Teaching Note
'GEnron'? Markopolos versus General Electric (A) & (B)
By: Jonas Heese
Teaching Note for HBS Case Nos. 121-005 and 121-033.
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- June 2021
- Teaching Note
Bozoma Saint John: Leading with Authenticity and Urgency
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 921-708.
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- June 2021
- Case
Who Lives & Who Dies: Expanded Access for Experimental Drugs at Chimerix (A)
By: Amitabh Chandra and Spencer Lee-Rey
Chandra, Amitabh, and Spencer Lee-Rey. "Who Lives & Who Dies: Expanded Access for Experimental Drugs at Chimerix (A)." Harvard Business School Case 621-110, June 2021.