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04 Jun 2007
Research & Ideas

Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?

think in any of these cases I launched a revolution, but I think I was helpful. But the pace was so slow, and people were saying that these high deductibles represented consumer-driven health care. It's ridiculous. Consumer markets have... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Health

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European and UK Personal Data Collection Disclosure | HBS Online

with certain marketing communications or processing certain special categories of personal data). We may apply more than one legal basis to the processing activities described under the Purposes of Processing and the types of Personal... View Details

01 Feb 2008
What Do You Think?

How Sustainable Is Sustainability in a For-Profit Organization?

of any organization." Carol Holding associated brand value with sustainability: "As brand value will soon be included in a company's valuation ... we can more than ever monetize sustainable behavior." Others see the market... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

01 Aug 2002
News

HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report

we worked on. The Alumni Communications Committee, under the able guidance of Paul Stewart (MBA '87), reached out to a sampling of alumni in order to better define existing market segments and their needs. The committee's work will inform... View Details

01 Jan 2005
News

Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., MBA 1965

1776, by David McCullough In any survey of great American corporations that have left their mark on business history, IBM would always hold a special place. Its origins date back to the late 1880s, when mechanical time recorders and... View Details

30 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Entering the Age of Alliances

a strong collaboration between the Time to Read national program and media and entertainment giant Time Warner, Inc. Time to Read helps local nonprofits such as Chicago's Off... View Details

Keywords: by James Austin

24 Mar 2008
Research & Ideas

Reducing Risk with Online Advertising

good type (someone who is actually providing the contracted service) or a bad type (someone who is using one scam or another in order to get paid despite not actually having done the work or provided the benefit). Q: Which online advertising View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Video Game; Web Services

08 Mar 2016
Research & Ideas

Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile

history that year was Dr. Andrea Lluch, from Argentina. This was the origins of a research program and conference series which led to this collaborative volume, and the Creating Emerging Markets oral history project, which began with... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Sep 2009
News

Over the Top

leadership at some of the nation’s most renowned companies took too many risks and too much in salary, while their shareholders had too little say,” said Schumer. “This legislation will give stockholders the ability to apply the emergency brakes the next View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Finance; Government

01 Jun 2021
What Do You Think?

Are Employers Ready for a Flood of 'New' Talent Seeking Work?

unfreezing a labor market that saw jobs going unfilled even as people were looking for work? Has it created a pool of “new” talent—that is, prospective employees with work experience seeking new career opportunities? The female labor... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

25 Apr 2019
Research & Ideas

Incubators Take Notice: Your Entrepreneurs Are Networking with the Wrong People

time. “Let's say you do a hackathon in Delhi with 100 people who don’t really know one another,” he says. “That’s awesome, but now that you have formed a bunch of relationships, it will be harder to engineer relationships the second time... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

10 May 2022
News

Alumni Achievement Awards 2022

having a guaranteed job for life.’ I’d always been intrigued by finance, so I applied to HBS.” Leaps and bounds: “It’s not the only measure to consider, but Medtronic had tremendous growth from 1993 to 2006. The market cap went from about... View Details

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Harvard Business School

director of the MBA program, who had died the month before. Clifford E. Darden, MBA 1969, DBA 1982 Clifford E. Darden developed the organizational strategy of AASU and became its first chair. "We couldn't just sit on the banks of the Charles River," he wrote, "and do... View Details

11 Sep 2019
Research & Ideas

Germany May Have the Answer for Reducing Drug Prices

insurers, a potentially costly process. Stern and her co-authors studied 171 new drugs that Germany’s IQWiG reviewed between 2012 and 2016. They found that manufacturers were 10 times more likely to withdraw products that lacked any... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Health

16 Jun 2023
Blog Post

The HBS Climate Rising Podcast Reaches 50 (Episodes)

decarbonizing difficult-to-abate sectors and climate adaptation. Before closing, we want to acknowledge and thank our colleagues who make Climate Rising possible, especially our sound engineer Craig McDonald, our partners in HBS Marketing... View Details

30 Sep 2014
First Look

First Look: September 30

regimes and codes of conduct-that diffuse global standards. But little is known about the conditions under which companies adhere to these standards. We conduct one of the first large-scale comparative studies to determine which international, domestic, civil society,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

23 Oct 2012
First Look

First Look: October 23

customer vehicles at higher rates and are more likely to lose customers whom they fail, suggesting that competition intensifies pressure on facilities to provide illegal leniency. We also show that, at least in markets in which pricing is... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

11 Sep 2007
First Look

First Look: September 11, 2007

Working PapersStrategic Interactions in Two-Sided Market Oligopolies Authors:Emmanuel Farhi and Andrei Hagiu Abstract Strategic interactions between two-sided platforms depend not only on whether their decision variables are strategic... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Supplemental Financial Information - Annual Report 2016

the School whose generosity enriches the HBS educational experience for future generations of students. Harvard Business Publishing The School’s publishing group leveraged new products and technologies to continue improving the customer experience and expanding its... View Details

12 Jul 2010
Research & Ideas

Rocket Science Retailing: A Practical Guide

understand customers and their needs deeply. Develop the ability to respond to this understanding with better-tailored assortments, replenishment of the hits, and timely markdowns on what is left over. Execute well, especially at the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Retail; Auto

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