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History - Health Care
Health Care Initiative History 1967 First Health Care Case: Fischer Pharmaceutical, Co. 1971 Regina Herzlinger becomes the first woman tenured at Harvard Business School 1979 Marlene Krauss becomes the first woman to obtain an MD and an MBA from Harvard 1983 First... View Details
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Sarah Bua
feasibility of novel medical technologies and services. Sarah holds an MBA from the Harvard Business School and a Bachelor of Arts in International Relations from Brown University. She is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA), prior elected... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
David Horgan: Iraqi Briefing, 21st November, 2003
now. Only Iraqis can secure their country. Give a date for Coalition withdrawal. Any date, even distant, would calm sensitivities. Hold immediate free and fair elections - open to all comers, including former government and Islamists.... View Details
- 07 Apr 2014
- News
Family Values
financial support to enhance the elective curriculum. The gift, says Dean Nitin Nohria, will make the second year of the MBA Program a “deeper, more cohesive, and more innovative experience that will have a lifelong impact on our... View Details
- 2023
- Working Paper
Global Harms, Local Profits: How the Uneven Costs of Natural Disasters Affect Support for Green Political Platforms
By: Silvia Pianta and Paula Rettl
The emergence of green constituencies enables climate action. Conventional wisdom holds
that first-hand experience with natural disasters helps build green coalitions by increasing
the salience of the costs of environmental degradation. Focusing on fires in Brazil,... View Details
Keywords: Climate Impact; Politics; Environmental Issues; Environmental Protection; Economic Analysis; Economic Behavior; Economic Geography; Economy; Economics; Climate Change; Environmental Management; Political Elections; Natural Disasters; Green Technology; Environmental Sustainability; Latin America; Brazil
Pianta, Silvia, and Paula Rettl. "Global Harms, Local Profits: How the Uneven Costs of Natural Disasters Affect Support for Green Political Platforms." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 24-023, September 2023.
- March 2024
- Article
The Political Effects of Immigration: Culture or Economics?
By: Alberto Alesina and Marco Tabellini
We review the growing literature on the political economy of immigration. First, we discuss the effects of immigration on a wide range of political and social outcomes. The existing evidence suggests that immigrants often, but not always, trigger backlash, increasing... View Details
Keywords: Political Backlash; Cultural Beliefs; Immigration; Political Elections; Outcome or Result; Social Issues; Perception
Alesina, Alberto, and Marco Tabellini. "The Political Effects of Immigration: Culture or Economics?" Journal of Economic Literature 62, no. 1 (March 2024): 5–46.
- 17 Oct 2019
- Working Paper Summaries
Persuasion by Populist Propaganda: Evidence from the 2015 Argentine Ballotage
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
Take a Trim Tab Approach to Climate Change
CEOs of global companies like Coca-Cola, the company figuring most prominently in the Times piece, and Nike (also mentioned) must start to recognize and take responsibility for using the bully pulpit that they in fact occupy. “When View Details
- Profile
Ben Steiner
paying Rwandans to grow trees. “I’m thinking of my career path in thirds,” says Ben. “The first third is about learning, which is what I’m doing now. The second will be about earning – perhaps in finance or something entrepreneurial. The final third will be about... View Details
- 31 Oct 2007
- HBS Case
Climate Change Puts Heat on GMs
leading financial services companies as it determines its stand on a matter of increasing public prominence. Oberholzer-Gee teaches the case in Strategies Beyond the Market, a second-year elective that focuses on the interplay between... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Social Innovation Goes Mainstream
Two years later at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Microsoft’s Bill Gates announced his own commitment to social change through “creative capitalism.” “With these three events, the movement moved into the mainstream,” she said. Mainstream hit the big... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Zanzibar: Something for Everyone
The Zanzibar portion of the trip allowed us to slow our pace and take advantage of the seaside resort as well as a series of optional side trips. Given the legendary lure of Zanzibar as one of the Spice Islands, many of us elected to take... View Details
- 28 Jan 2011
- News
HBS Faculty Approves Curriculum Innovation
With overwhelming support, the HBS faculty in mid-January approved the most significant changes to the MBA program in decades, affecting both the Required and the Elective curricula. Beginning next fall, first-year students will take a... 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, bad exam grade, disappointing View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Communicating the Language of Business Across Borders
on her globalization study, Neeley teaches several Executive Education offerings and the MBA elective Leading Teams in a Global Economy. Her case study “Language and Globalization: ‘Englishnization’ at Rakuten” has been incorporated into... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Salter New Head of External Relations
elective curriculum in the MBA Program, and chairman of the Advanced Management Program and the Inter-national Senior Managers Program. Salter is a trustee and director of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, where he serves on the Finance... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Contributing to a Better Future
Curriculum that focus our students’ attention on the role that business can, and perhaps should, play in addressing societal challenges. Some of this material is already in the MBA Program—and in the Elective Curriculum and Executive... View Details
Keywords: April White
- September 1992 (Revised November 1993)
- Supplement
Germany in the 1990s: Managing Reunification, Supplement Two
By: George C. Lodge
Designed to be handed out after discussion of Germany in the 1990s: Managing Reunification and its Supplement. View Details
Keywords: Political Elections; Economy; Situation or Environment; Inflation and Deflation; Interest Rates; Central Banking; Integration; Germany; Italy; United Kingdom; Europe
Lodge, George C. "Germany in the 1990s: Managing Reunification, Supplement Two." Harvard Business School Supplement 793-043, September 1992. (Revised November 1993.)
- 01 May 2013
- News
Robert F. Higgins, MBA 1970
Capital Partners, a venture capital firm based in Boston that he cofounded. Now also a senior lecturer at HBS, Higgins passes that knowledge on to students in the MBA elective Entrepreneurship in Healthcare IT and Services. His keen... View Details
- 26 May 2015
- News
Exploring tax policy and our quality of life
He’s exploring how people feel about making taxation decisions based on personal attributes, which current US tax policy does. Some of his other research, in part for his elective curriculum course at HBS, has examined social security,... View Details