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- 24 Feb 2014
- News
Searching for the True Cost of Health Care
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
In Search of Innovation
Many of the innovations needed to increase the quality of health care in the United States while reducing its cost already exist, says Professor Richard Hamermesh, faculty cochair of the Forum on Health Care Innovation. “There are pockets...
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- 24 Oct 2013
- News
Searching for a Better Society
needs. That took me a long time to understand, and it cost me a lot of money. It is why I believe what I believe. I don't want to repeat mistakes." Dumon is more than someone with a formulaic approach to designing new products. He has...
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- 19 Oct 2018
- News
Lessons from Mayo Clinic’s Redesign of Stroke Care
- 18 Apr 2014
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Making “Freemium” Work
- 30 Aug 2017
- News
The Surprising Power of Online Experiments
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Money Does Grow on (Family) Trees
marriage license or death certificate. “It’s a sense of euphoria,” he says. As he constructed a family tree that stretched back to the early 18th century, Diamond also began to think about how the process could be improved. His own search...
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- 01 Dec 2023
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Research Brief: Staying in the Game
and employees are less likely to work with those owners. A follow-up survey found short educational videos had significant immediate- and medium-term impacts on increasing knowledge of bankruptcy among business owners, while also reducing the stigma. However, a View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Case Study: Staking a Claim
Illustration by Nhung Lê Kate Terry (MBA 2005) knows that no one attends their fifth-grade career fair and comes home hoping to pursue a career in insurance—but that’s exactly where she wound up. “I really fell in love with it,” she says. As cofounder and CEO of...
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- 01 Sep 2023
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Case Study: The Home Team
Illustration by Jon Krause Illustration by Jon Krause Brendan Kennealey (MBA 2006) wasn’t even searching for a business idea. A couple of years ago, the Wilmington, Delaware, native met up with an old friend who’d bought a new house. Over dinner this friend enumerated...
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- 29 Aug 2023
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Helping Consumers Decarbonize their Purchases
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. In this episode, we’re going to be highlighting an episode of another HBS podcast: Climate Rising, which focuses on what businesses are doing, can do, and should do...
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- 01 Feb 2002
- News
It's academic. (Not!)
been a great friend. It makes me feel so good to know that my advisor is interested in my career and my well-being." Raman and Ton have been studying retail operation, focusing on an operational execution issue - namely, misplaced products at retail stores - that is...
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- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Gold Mettle
City bidders interested in landing the Games, and to make matters worse, the local organizing committee was in financial and organizational disarray. The scandalous situation made news around the world. Searching for a savior, the Salt...
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- 04 Sep 2019
- News
What I Do: Keith Cerny (MBA 1991)
nearly 75,000 patrons in the United States and abroad, and produced a performance and global simulcast of an opera, Tod Machover’s Death and the Powers, that featured robots. In Fort Worth, he’ll be co-leading the search for a new music...
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- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Start-Ups Make Their Pitch
today goes to telecom, high tech, or software,” said Mahesh, founder and CEO of Sundaram Medical Devices in Chennai. Mahesh trained at Stanford as an engineer and worked for McKinsey and Toyota before attending HBS. He plans to apply engineering and View Details
- 22 Jul 2014
- News
Hungry for Change
Editor's note: Rob Zeaske was appointed director of the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative in July 2020. Read more. As CEO of Second Harvest Heartland, a hunger-relief organization based in St. Paul, Minnesota, Rob Zeaske (MBA 2002) has a clear understanding of what he's...
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- 11 Jul 2017
- News
The Right Thing to Do
turn around the tide. It’s like turning around the Titanic. But I’m doing it because I think it’s so important.” In total, the three episodes cost Ackman $700,000. Whenever they air on WNET, their average viewership is between 45,000 and...
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- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Roads to Recovery
FAA administrator Jane Garvey said the agency's $40 billion GPS revamp is making strides but is "very dependent on the budgeting process." "Maintenance is not a vision. It's hard to rally support for it." —Rosabeth Moss Kanter Problem: Road Traffic Road congestion...
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- 01 Jun 2018
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Case Study: Tip the Scale
people at the beginning, items will stack up before person number three,” he says. Now Walden can easily increase staff, but per-order labor costs are rising due to losses in efficiency—more walking along the racks to fill orders, in...
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- 02 Feb 2023
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Can We Really Engineer a Climate Fix?
computer to predict important properties of molecules. DM: Like how much energy it takes to bind the molecule to CO2. Or how much it costs to produce the molecule. AS: And the other part is using machine learning to connect the dots...
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