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- 23 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Management’s Role in Reforming Health Care
as new financing and payment models or health plan contracts, can only provide an incentive for change. Nor is it simply a matter of adopting wholesale a successful management model from another industry. It is more difficult than this....
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- 15 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 15, 2008
Willums' plane was flying along the Greenland coastline on his way back to Norway after intense discussions with several prominent U.S. venture capital investors, among them Kleiner Perkins and Rockport Capital Partners, about investing in a View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 20 Jul 2022
- News
Wired to be Inspired
and it's kind of just a checkbox. And I was on the hunt to understand unlocking growth in companies. That was the question I’d been studying for much of my career. And I’ve always bucketed understanding growth into two buckets: building the right strategy and having an...
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- 09 Dec 2021
- News
Higher Returns
months later, Amazon pledged $2 billion to the climate crisis. You had Wayfair employees refusing to work because they didn't want their company to sell mattresses to the government, who was planning on using them at their detention...
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- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New News
deeply interests me in this space. But let’s talk about pricing. Snigdha, the price point you chose was about $3.99 a month, correct? SS: Yes, if you’re on the annual plan it’s a little less than $1 a week. BA: And Michael, yours is $5.99...
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- 01 Sep 2020
- News
The Devil You Don’t Know
playbook—maybe in even a larger and more extreme way. It’s what in military circles people call “fighting the last war.” This is a familiar trap, when military planners become so obsessed with the last war that they focus all of their View Details
- 31 May 2018
- News
Finding Freedom from Eating Disorders
I think it's Tony Robbins, who says, get in your head, you're dead. It's very true with people who are struggling with eating disorders. You start to live in your head and it paralyzes you from ever taking real action and coming up with a View Details
- 16 Dec 2016
- News
An Environmental Epiphany
to make the transition from a communist planned economy to a market economy. And we felt incredibly privileged to be part of that process. We became good friends with the then, Prime Minister Philip Dimitrov. We started the International...
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- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Making Their Way
Michael, another son, plans to attend upcoming programs. Concludes Chirchirillo, “With a strong team coming along for the future, and with over 50 percent return on equity and 17 percent increase in sales in 2010, I think we are moving in...
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- 04 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018
thermostat business, and it was essential that Honeywell determine the best way to respond. In addition to selling thermostats, Nest had ambitious plans to facilitate connections between Nest and other companies, making it easier for...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 05 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 5, 2009
coupled with various programs to address the frozen credit markets and depressed investors' confidence. Yet the burning question in every policymaker's mind was—how effective would the various plans work to revive the U.S. economy?...
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Martha Lagace
- 23 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 23, 2008
Feedback in Tournament and Individual Performance Compensation Plans Authors:Lynn Hannan, Ranjani Krishnan, and Andrew Newman Publication: The Accounting Review 83, no. 4 (July 2008) Abstract This study investigates the effects of...
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Martha Lagace
- 07 May 2018
- News
What I Learned from Visiting All 54 African Countries
well. Morrell: Part of your upcoming plans include a return to the States. What are you looking forward to about your return to the States? And similarly, what are you dreading? Tapon: I'm looking forward to consistent utilities. In other...
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- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017
Business by Leonard C. Green (OPM 18, 1992) (AMACOM) “Big new ideas rarely make great businesses.” “Laboring on a business plan can be a waste of time.” “You are going to need dramatically more start-up money than you think you do.”...
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- 19 Mar 2015
- News
Walter Salmon Remembered
Salmon’s marketing class was probably the most important thing I did at HBS since it allowed me to get to know such an exceptional person. As I was entering my last exam, I ran into Walt, who asked me what I planned to do after...
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- 27 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27
Vladimir Putin in 2000. Berevosky's opposition to Putin's plans to restore the authority of the Russian state led to his exile in Britain, where he reinvented himself as an opponent of authoritarianism. Purchase this...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Dedication to Creation: India's Ad Man Ranjan Kapur
have to start thinking about how you influence the way consumers obtain information and get influenced. The third thing that has changed is around media buying. For a long time, ad agencies were compensated 15 percent of their media buys. There was a large media View Details
- 25 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 25
she plans for the next year and tries to manage a difficult board of directors in the challenging entertainment industry. Purchase this case:http://hbr.org/search/813043-PDF-ENG Lyric Dinner Theater (B) Richard G. Hamermesh and James M....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 21, 2009
focus of most panelists is the importance of a capital structure and risk management approach that complement the strategy and operations of the business. Instructive examples are provided by Judy Lewent, former CFO and head of strategic View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 26 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 26, 2006
Danner was about to make his first presentation to the board of directors of Codon Devices, a one-year-old biotechnology start-up based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. After a month as the company's CEO, Danner was prepared to lay out his strategic View Details
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Sean Silverthorne