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Kraft Precision Medicine Accelerator - Health Care
learn so much from patients, but getting them involved requires encouragement, building trust, and growing awareness. Learn more: Patient Engagement: Five Basics Patient Engagement Through Value Patient Registries 2. Data & Analytics: View Details
- 15 Nov 2020
- News
Fostering Innovation in Social Enterprise Across Harvard
leaders an opportunity to explore social entrepreneurship and test ideas for social innovation in a rigorous yet supportive environment.” This year, the $75,000 Peter M. Sacerdote Grand Prize was awarded to Mosaic, a health care data View Details
- 23 Jul 2024
- In Practice
The New Rules of Trade with China: Navigating Tariffs, Turmoil, and Opportunities
transit countries or all Chinese-owned firms. When weighing these options, we recommend policymakers leverage rich new sources of microdata, which can paint a different picture from aggregate statistics. “Businesses hoping to hedge... View Details
- 18 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 18
subsequent growth into a diversified group. Download working paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2520237 Optimal Aggregation of Consumer Ratings: An Application to Yelp.com By: Dai, Weijia, Ginger Jin, Jungmin Lee,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
How Crowds and Experts Kickstart the Arts
aggregation allowed the funding of many projects that were slightly outside the purview of what judges focused on, suggesting that Kickstarter's democratization enables a greater breadth of artistic production, says Nanda. At the same... View Details
- 31 Oct 2004
- What Do You Think?
Should the Wisdom of Crowds Influence Our Thinking About Leadership?
effective, have to have three characteristics: diversity of points of view, independence from each other's opinions, and decentralization (with access to and the ability to draw on "local knowledge"). And they have to have some kind of mechanism for View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 05 Feb 2001
- What Do You Think?
Do MBA Programs Face “The Innovator’s Dilemma”?
content ... [with] aggregation and interpretation of knowledge [as] ... their core competency," all of which gives them significant competitive advantages in the educational market. However, this doesn't mean that onsite programs can... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 24 May 2023
- Blog Post
Innovating, Funding, and Scaling Climate Solutions at Harvard Business School: Day Three of Harvard Climate Action Week
potentially game-changing; and Carmichael Roberts, partner at Breakthrough Energy Ventures, discussed the firm’s mission of aggregating and funding ideas and companies to scale climate solutions. In closing, Tufano urged attendees to... View Details
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Privacy - HBS Working Knowledge
improve our website and to generate aggregate statistical reports that analyze general user information and demographics. Unless required by legal process, we do not link IP addresses to anything personally identifiable. This means that... View Details
- 17 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 17, 2008
Publication:Harvard Business Review 86, no. 6 (June 2008) Abstract A multiunit enterprise is a geographically dispersed organization built from standard units (stores, restaurants, or branches) that are aggregated into larger geographic... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 May 2022
- Blog Post
Celebrating Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month at HBS
Hispanic Asian? Pacific Islander? Suddenly, I felt that my claim to own my identity was stripped away. Asian is not a monolithic racial entity, and we come from different geographies, languages, socio-cultural trends, beliefs, and lifestyles. We can be many things; we... View Details
- 29 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019
over time, the relationship between firm size and corporate vulnerability is relatively time invariant. All else being equal, large firms in emerging markets are more financially vulnerable and also systemically important. Consistent with the granular origins of View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 08 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 8, 2007
exogenous variation in foreign aid. We investigate how aid is spent by tracking its short-run effect on aggregate demand, prices, the national accounts, savings, and the balance of payments. We find that aid is mostly consumed, primarily... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
And those mercurial capital flows, as welcome as they are when they’re inbound, can wreak havoc when they reverse, or as they attract undisciplined competitors and drive excess supply at the worst possible moments. Moreover, the aforementioned creative destruction may... View Details
Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 09 Dec 2015
- Research Event
How Do You Predict Demand and Set Prices For Products Never Sold Before?
with minimal impact on aggregate sales quantity. While this research focused specifically on a flash sales setting, they believe it could be useful for any retailer that needs to make pricing decisions for new products before the selling... View Details
- 09 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
How Business Leaders Can Strengthen American Schools
prevalent? The private sector's $4 billion per year investment in education is a drop in the bucket when you consider the $600 billion total spent annually on US K-12 education. But it is still a significant sum with high-impact potential. Unfortunately, no clear,... View Details
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Nancy M. Barry, MBA 1975
approached her to become its second president, Barry was ready to make the move. During the past fifteen years, the network's aggregate portfolio has grown to more than $8 billion, and WWB has gone from serving some 20,000 low-income... View Details
- 19 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Regional Slice of Your Global Strategy
geographic region, one can imagine being even more creative and redefining distance—and regions—according to nongeographic dimensions: cultural, administrative and political, and economic. Aggregation along nongeographic dimensions will... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 13 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Unexpected Way Whistleblowers Reduce Government Fraud
Business School Working Knowledge. [Image: FangXiaNuo] Related Reading: Can Decades of Military Overspending be Fixed? The Secret Life of Supply Chains Can Paying Firms Quicker Affect Aggregate Employment? What do you think of this... View Details
- 15 Mar 2021
- Office Hours
Readers Ask: What's the Next 'Big Thing' in Finance?
decisions better. Now, finance—financial markets, asset prices—are just the aggregation of all these biases, mistakes and difficult and complex decisions. So, the more you understand those, the deeper you’re going to understand all... View Details