Prevalence - Publications - Faculty & Research

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

09 Jun 2008
Lessons from the Classroom

Monetizing IP: The Executive’s Challenge

laws are not a cure-all. And the scope of industries considering adopted patent pools has also grown. While the patent pools have been well established in basic manufacturing and electronic industries for decades, they have been seen as a potential solution for... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Video Game; Web Services

23 Oct 2013
Research & Ideas

Overcoming Nervous Nelly

prevalent workplace emotions such as envy and admiration, as well as additional techniques for coping with anxiety, such as applying the elaborate rituals athletes employ before competing to a business context. "My coauthors and I... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

08 Oct 2021
Blog Post

8 Stories from PRIDE for National Coming Out Day

erasure of bisexuality is still so prevalent that even I have doubts about myself when I'm not actively with a woman. And ultimately, that's why I still come out. Because just as I struggle with this, I know others do too. And so if I can... View Details

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Rare Disease Day – Small Numbers, Big Challenges… and Big Opportunities - Blog: Health Supplement

people. For HHT, 1 in 5,000 people worldwide are affected, so while it is rare by US metrics with a patient population of ~70,000, globally the prevalence is in the millions. Like other rare diseases, it is abysmally underdiagnosed, with... View Details

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Frequently Asked Questions - Research Computing Services

best way to contact RCS? The research inbox ( research@hbs.edu ) is the most prevalent method of contacting RCS and is recommended as it facilitates matching the request to the person on the team best suited to address the inquiry.... View Details

26 May 2003
Research & Ideas

When Silence Spells Trouble at Work

prevalent in organizations. ... How easy it is for a boss to send a powerful signal that a worker should be quiet. —Leslie A. Perlow Silence often starts when we choose not to confront a difference. Given the dissimilarities in our... View Details

Keywords: by Leslie A. Perlow

17 Oct 2018
Research & Ideas

Pro Basketball Coaches Display Racial Bias When Selecting Lineups

isn’t any slack.” Bias in business In a business context, Zhang surmises that racial bias might similarly be more prevalent when performance is high. It’s been well documented that company managers sometimes show hubris when a firm is... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Sports

23 May 2018
News

Claudio L. Haddad, OPM 12, 1987

Walking the halls of Insper, which now enrolls 10,000 students, one sees that Haddad has harnessed the vitality and creativity that is so prevalent in São Paulo: There are vibrant photos in the hallways and modern, modular classrooms... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

28 Mar 2024
Blog Post

IFC India: RMZ EcoWorld

we had the opportunity to see many of the innovative ways that EcoWorld leverages nature to optimize energy efficiency. Massive sliding doors that integrate indoor and outdoor spaces and leverage natural cooling were prevalent throughout... View Details

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Porter’s Perspective: Competing in the Global Economy

clusters are most prevalent in advanced economies, you say that they're one of the essential steps for countries moving in that direction. How are clusters nurtured in emerging nations? A: Many developing countries have free-trade zones... View Details

Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter

01 Mar 2023
News

Step Change

At Consoleya, a coworking space in Cairo’s former French Consulate, multiple levels of meeting rooms and workspaces operate at capacity, from a ground-floor café to a rooftop deck. The scene—coders bent over laptops, concepts scrawled on whiteboards, clusters of people... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Abdelrahman Gabr – Koree; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance

07 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

What Customers Need to Hear from You During the COVID Crisis

time its parent company announced $100 million in product donations, including 200,000 face masks to New York City hospitals to help keep healthcare workers safe. Given the prevalence of fake news proliferating in social media, consumers... View Details

Keywords: by Jill Avery and Richard Edelman

13 Oct 2009
Research & Ideas

7 Lessons for Navigating the Storm

and principles that guide them through life. Breaking away from one's True North becomes particularly prevalent when a crisis strikes because leaders often look for an "at-any-cost" quick fix in attempting to save face. These... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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Hospitals: statistics (US)

style="line-height: 20.8px;"> by AHA) Incidence & Prevalence Database - world's epidemiology data including some... View Details

06 Apr 2009
Research & Ideas

Cheers to the American Consumer

identifying the Joneses like you. Immigration. The prevalence of immigrants among America's successful entrepreneurs is well documented. But the same curiosity and openness to new things also characterizes consumer demand in the American... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch

Portrait Project

Ashiana Jivraj

effect of the large inequities prevalent globally. Poor oral health can cause quickly spreading illnesses, heart disease, and further world hunger in many nations. The problems I want to solve are bigger than the millimeters I am trained... View Details

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Health: data by country and disease

Where to find health data by country & disease? You may begin with: Statista - quick statistics and articles related to the topic Incidence & View Details

12 PM – 1 PM EDT, 16 Mar 2016
Webinars: Trending@HBS

How the Internet Became Commercial: Innovation, Privatization, and the Birth of a New Network

How do major technologies deploy and spread? Shane Greenstein will use illustrations from his new book, How the Internet Became Commercial: Innovation, Privatization, and the Birth of a new Network, to deconstruct Internet exceptionalism, the View Details

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Surgical Procedures: by selected patient characteristics and procedure categories

Where to find statistics on surgical procedures by patient characteristics, and by procedure categories? You may begin with: Incidence & Prevalence Database covers diagnoses and procedures from US and European countries.... View Details

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