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- June 2016
- Article
When Doctors Go to Business School: Career Choices of Physician-MBAs
By: Damir Ljuboja, Brian W. Powers, Benjamin Robbins, Robert S. Huckman, Krishna Yeshwant and Sachin Jain
There has been substantial growth in the number of physicians pursuing Master of Business Administration (MBA) degrees over the past decade, but there is continuing debate over the utility of these programs and the career outcomes of their graduates. The authors...
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Keywords:
Medical Education;
MD;
MBA;
Physicians;
Executive Education;
Training;
Personal Development and Career;
Health Care and Treatment;
Health Industry;
United States
Ljuboja, Damir, Brian W. Powers, Benjamin Robbins, Robert S. Huckman, Krishna Yeshwant, and Sachin Jain. "When Doctors Go to Business School: Career Choices of Physician-MBAs." American Journal of Managed Care 22, no. 6 (June 2016): e196–e198.
- 19 May 2016
- Blog Post
5 Lessons from Business School
transformational experience Making the choice to come to business school is difficult for many because it feels like a “time-out” from advancing careers. However, the two years are a chance to take a quick...
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The Business of Business Schools: Restoring a Focus on Competing to Win
By: Robert Simons
As business leaders worry about the decline of American competitiveness, business schools are responding by changing their curriculums. But are the topics and approaches taught in today's business schools part of the solution or part of the problem? In this paper, I...
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Keywords:
Business Schools;
Purpose Of Business Schools;
Management Education;
Business School Curriculum;
Strategy Execution;
U.S. Competitiveness;
Capitalism;
Management Profession;
Innovation;
Competing To Win;
Integrated Corporate Reporting;
Trends;
Customer Focus and Relationships;
Decision Making;
Design;
Business Education;
Curriculum and Courses;
Innovation and Management
Simons, Robert. "The Business of Business Schools: Restoring a Focus on Competing to Win." Art. 2. Capitalism and Society 8, no. 1 (January 2013).
- 14 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Reforming New Orleans Schools After Katrina
schools are public schools of choice that operate outside the governance and policies of their local school districts. In nearly all states,...
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- Web
Harvard Business School
Archives Films HBS Archival Collections Bibliography Site Credits Visiting the Exhibit More Baker Library Exhibits Baker Library Special Collectons Available for Download by clicking the Titles below. Title Conference Dates At the Crossroads: View Details
- Web
Changing the World: Life Choices of Influential Leaders - Course Catalog
HBS Course Catalog Changing the World: Life Choices of Influential Leaders Course Number 1350 Baker Foundation Professor Robert Simons Spring; Q3Q4; 3.0 credits 27 Sessions Paper The mission of Harvard Business View Details
- 08 Feb 2016
- Blog Post
Applying to Business School as a Couple
together. Did you both know that you wanted to attend business school? We both decided that business school was the right choice for us. We are both from the West Coast and wanted to find a way to both...
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- 04 Oct 2017
- HBS Seminar
Tania Babina, Columbia Business School
- 21 Oct 2011
- News
Business School Students Agog over Gaga
- 27 Mar 2019
- News
Harvard Business School Joins Farm Forward’s Leadership Circle
- March 2008 (Revised March 2010)
- Module Note
Global Capital and National Institutions: Crisis and Choice in the International Financial Architecture
By: Laura Alfaro
This module note presents a series of case studies taught in the Harvard Business School course Institutions, Macroeconomics, and the Global Economy (IMaGE). The course addresses the opportunities created by the emergence of a global economy and proposes strategies for...
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Keywords:
Risk and Uncertainty;
International Finance;
Globalized Economies and Regions;
Macroeconomics
Alfaro, Laura. "Global Capital and National Institutions: Crisis and Choice in the International Financial Architecture." Harvard Business School Module Note 708-041, March 2008. (Revised March 2010.)
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
The School of Life
unhappy? He then challenges his students to consider what they have learned at HBS that will help guide their own choices about career and family. In 2010, at the request of one of his students, Christensen shared his thoughts about...
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- January 2024 (Revised June 2024)
- Case
School of Rock: Tuning into Structured Empowerment (A)
By: Tatiana Sandino, Jeffrey Rayport, Samuel Grad and Stacy Straaberg
In summer 2021, School of Rock was a youth-oriented music education company with 291 franchise- and company-owned schools globally. Before CEO Rob Price’s hire in 2017, School of Rock’s nonconformist rock ‘n’ roll culture led to variability in teaching styles,...
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Keywords:
Business Growth and Maturation;
Business Plan;
Change Management;
Transformation;
Communication Strategy;
Decisions;
Curriculum and Courses;
Teaching;
Employee Relationship Management;
Knowledge Sharing;
Leadership Style;
Business or Company Management;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Management Style;
Marketing Strategy;
Mission and Purpose;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Organizational Culture;
Organizational Structure;
Franchise Ownership;
Performance Expectations;
Performance Improvement;
Strategic Planning;
Attitudes;
Conflict Management;
Corporate Strategy;
Applications and Software;
Technology Adoption;
Education Industry;
Music Industry;
Massachusetts;
United States
Sandino, Tatiana, Jeffrey Rayport, Samuel Grad, and Stacy Straaberg. "School of Rock: Tuning into Structured Empowerment (A)." Harvard Business School Case 124-043, January 2024. (Revised June 2024.)
- September 2019
- Article
Optimizing Reserves in School Choice: A Dynamic Programming Approach
By: Franklyn Wang, Ravi Jagadeesan and Scott Duke Kominers
We introduce a new model of school choice with reserves in which a social planner is constrained by a limited supply of reserve seats and tries to find an optimal matching according to a social welfare function. We construct the optimal distribution of reserves via a...
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Wang, Franklyn, Ravi Jagadeesan, and Scott Duke Kominers. "Optimizing Reserves in School Choice: A Dynamic Programming Approach." Operations Research Letters 47, no. 5 (September 2019): 438–446.
- 22 Apr 2015
- HBS Seminar
Riitta Katila, Stanford School of Engineering
- 04 Jul 2005
- What Do You Think?
How Can Business Schools Be Made More Relevant?
Summing Up Business school relevance is an issue, judging from the predominance of responses to this month's column. The ways of increasing relevance were advanced, but the question of whether, in the current academic context, they can be...
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by James Heskett
- 22 May 2007
- Working Paper Summaries
Strategy-Proofness versus Efficiency in Matching with Indifferences: Redesigning the NYC High School Match
- 2010
- Working Paper
Preference Intensities and Risk Aversion in School Choice: A Laboratory Experiment
By: Flip Klijn, Joana Pais and Marc Vorsatz
We experimentally investigate in the laboratory two prominent mechanisms that are employed in school choice programs to assign students to public schools. We study how individual behavior is influenced by preference intensities and risk aversion. Our main results show...
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Keywords:
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Education;
Marketplace Matching;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Behavior;
Personal Characteristics
Klijn, Flip, Joana Pais, and Marc Vorsatz. "Preference Intensities and Risk Aversion in School Choice: A Laboratory Experiment." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 10-093, April 2010.
- 11 Sep 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
Spatial Organization of Firms: Internal and External Agglomeration Economies and Location Choices Through the Value Chain
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by Juan Alcácer & Mercedes Delgado
- 27 Apr 2017
- HBS Seminar