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Past Issues - Alumni

blueprint may just end up saving the pharmaceutical industry too. Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL The world's premier league of spectacle and sport has an ambitious plan for growth. But some formidable challenges—everything from player View Details

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Ninad Kulkarni

bruised ego later, I kept going. And then I stopped. Somewhere along the way, it became more important to be right than to learn. Professionally, I hid behind safety nets – analyst programs, test scores and... View Details

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Research - Health Care

Brewster The CommunityConnect case management program for Medicaid beneficiaries is run by Contra Costa Health, a county safety net health system in California. Case management infrastructure modestly... View Details

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Technology & Operations Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Cultures” (January–February 2019). Michael W. Toffel : Finalist for the 2021 MSOM Responsible Research Award from the Manufacturing and Service Operations Management Society (MSOM) for his article with Maria Ibanez, “How Scheduling Can Bias Quality Assessment: Evidence... View Details

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2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

developing leaders who will transform the world around us, HBS has retained key aspects of its approach that will seem very familiar to alums who walked into the classroom for the first time in 1959. Slides Geopolitics and the Energy Transition: How the Drive to View Details

15 Oct 2007
Research & Ideas

Businesses Beware: The World Is Not Flat

total national income in developed countries at a time when the share of profits is at a multidecade high in many developed countries. The lack of a globalization safety net in many of those countries. (The... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

02 Sep 2014
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Food Stamp Entrepreneurs: How Public Assistance Enables Business Bootstrapping

startup funds—and what allowed them to take the risk of launching a company." Curiosity eventually led to his doctoral dissertation: a series of studies showing a definitive link between the social safety View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

01 Mar 2015
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Faculty Q&A: Less Risk, More Reward

Your research explores entrepreneurship and the social safety net. What is the connection between those two things? I look at whether stronger social safety net benefits make... View Details

Keywords: April White; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Private Households; Personal Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

16 Jun 2009
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Business Summit: The Future of Market Capitalism

discussion among panel members on the shortcomings of the capitalist system and ways the business community can better serve broader societal interests. Topics included social entrepreneurship, the role of public policy, and the development of a stronger View Details

Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter

Portrait Project

Caitlin Roman

Balanced on the trapeze platform thirty feet in the air, I gripped the chalky bar and tensed. Then I jumped, airborne for my first swing "out of lines" – just me, the bar, and the net below. I was scared; not only did I not have... View Details

01 Jun 2018
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What I Do: Minnie Ingersoll (MBA 2002)

things like, ‘If you have a criminal record, you are welcome to apply for a job at Code for America.’ And we do advocacy, too, and help other organizations understand that they shouldn’t be ruling out applicants just because they have a criminal record. These are... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Peter and Maria Hoey

01 May 2015
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How Being an HBS Partner Changed My Life

the Divinity School and the Medical School. Professors, students, administrators and partners have connected me to people and organizations. As an HBS partner, I’ve gained a launch pad as well as a safety View Details

05 May 2022
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Lesson Plans

filming his lessons. Sal Khan: In 2005, Hurricane Katrina hit, and those same cousins were dispersed to Texas and Florida. And so, in many ways I was their safety net education system while they were... View Details

26 Jul 2011
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First Look: July 26

would create net benefits for society that contain salient costs frequently lack enough support for enactment because losses loom larger than gains. To address this consequence of loss aversion, we propose a policy-bundling technique in... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

13 Jun 2017
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7 Reasons Why the New MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program at Harvard is Next Level

career safety net Spangler dining food #3. Another one? In just two years, you get two degrees - i.e. efficiency is key here 🔑🔒 [https://media.giphy.com/media/GV3aYiEP8qbao/giphy.gif] #4.... View Details

20 Jul 2017
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Pushing the Next Generation Forward

decisions to protect students’ safety,” he shares. “Solving problems based on limited available information is something we practiced over and over at HBS. I draw on that all the time.” Tightly Woven Safety View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

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Managing the Future of Work - Course Catalog

makes talent development or training models successful? Public policy. How should labor market or safety net policy change under different future of work scenarios? Grading Grading is based on class... View Details

Portrait Project

Jialei Tian

evaluation. HBS was supposed to be my ultimate safety net that would protect me from ever falling down again. To my surprise, I failed more here than I have ever done elsewhere– horrifying job interviews,... View Details

28 Jun 2004
Research & Ideas

Microfinance: A Way Out for the Poor

grateful; clients are active and demanding, said Chu. Though it is not the answer for everyone (not all enterprises merit a loan, he said) and it is only one way in which a market has opened to serve the poor, its benefits are important to today's world, he said.... View Details