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- 13 Dec 2006
- Research & Ideas
Improving Public Health for the Poor
course with HBS professor V. Kasturi Rangan on business serving the so-called "base of the pyramid" sector. Chu says microfinance is one of the few effective responses to poverty that he is aware of, and its concepts and View Details
- 15 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
Want Your Employees to Plan Better for Retirement? Don't Do This
effectiveness of a common educational methodology aimed at these employees. Commonly called “social norms marketing,” the method essentially shows people what their peers are doing to induce them into good behaviors. Beshears pointed out...
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- 11 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 11, 2018
industries over others, including wishing to avoid sectors where there was extensive government interference. Oral history can shed light on hypersensitive topics, such as corruption, which are rarely formally documented. While the View Details
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Dina Gerdeman
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The Institute for Cancer Care Innovation - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
measurement of the value of our cancer care delivery system. Key initiatives of the Institute include: Evaluating which value-based outcomes are most important to cancer patients and identifying which outcomes measures are significant for patients and providers Using...
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- 01 Mar 2011
- News
HBS Faculty Approves Curriculum Innovations
instruction nearly ninety years ago. “The case method will always be a central part of what we do, but we’re now at a point in history when we can do some really interesting things in the field. Both methodologies — case and field — are...
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- 01 Mar 2018
- News
March 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
startup executives across many different functions, who share their stories and describe their responsibilities; and a methodology to identify and evaluate startups and position readers to find the opportunity that’s right for them. Rebel...
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- 20 Mar 2019
- Research & Ideas
Gender-Diverse Companies Thrive Only Where Diversity is Embraced
usual methodology of studying organizations in a particular industry or geography, Zhang went wide and deep. He developed a longitudinal sample of 1,069 leading public firms in 35 countries and 24 industries. His chief finding: The social...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Nov 2022
- Blog Post
Pursuing Independent Projects
What did you enjoy most? What were some of the challenges? Through my IP I learned how to code and analyze large data sets, which was a new, tangible skill that I gained from the experience. I was also generally interested in learning Impact Weighted Accounts’ View Details
- 12 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019
Abstract—Objectives: To apply time-driven activity-based costing (TDABC) methodology to determine emergency medicine physician documentation costs with and without scribes. Methods: Two research assistants shadowed attending physicians...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 6
corporate governance literature of the past decade has focused on identifying drivers of superior or deficient corporate governance. One of the most rigorous methodologies uses firms' reactions to industry shocks to characterize the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 21, 2008
higher prices can increase use, either by targeting distribution to high-use households (a screening effect), or by stimulating use psychologically through a sunk-cost effect. We develop a methodology for separating these two effects. We...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Making It Count
it, by establishing accounting methodologies for the valuation of impacts that a company has on society—e.g., carbon emissions generated, water withdrawal from water-scarce locations, employee wages, job creation in areas of high...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Ask the Expert: The Kids Are All Right
their social conscience. To them, doing good is just table stakes. Scratch has developed a proprietary methodology examining “brand love” to decode the science of brand affinity across generations. We found that millennials assume that...
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Ownership (OWN): Define Success, Create Advantage, Build to Last, Engage Effectively - Course Catalog
traded but controlled by a founder, foundation, or family (e.g., Hershey, Novo Nordisk). The course is divided into four main modules: Defining success. The objectives of most companies are far more complex than a focus on maximizing shareholder value. Students will...
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Talia Gillis
relationships is foundational to my interest in field experiments. The Business Economics program provides an ideal combination of the rigor of the economics PhD with the HBS philosophy that encourages broad exploration of research and View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
"Economists are puzzle solvers..."
options. The methodology we developed to solve that original problem, however, gave us an insight into solving a wide range of other problems. I think of the process of discerning other applications as a little bit like peeling an onion:...
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- 08 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 8, 2008
valuation methodology. The agreement allowed Dow Jones to offer a family of indexes based on the Transparent Value methodology. The methodology viewed stock prices as the clearest and most reliable signals of the market's expectations...
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Martha Lagace
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Past Projects | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
with a number of methodologies and practices emerging from different organizations. The aim of this study was to deepen the understanding of the specific practices and methodologies that established impact...
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- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Alumni Books
successful navigation of turbulent markets will require a mastery of the core skills of corporate finance. This book focuses on essential valuation methodologies for public and private companies on a stand-alone basis and within the...
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- 28 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 28, 2007
treatments of identity in the social sciences, the concept has remained too analytically loose to be as useful a tool as the literature's early promise had suggested. We propose to solve this longstanding problem by developing the analytical rigor and View Details
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Martha Lagace