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- 10 Oct 2023
- Blog Post
Policy Drivers for Environmental Justice: What Businesses Need to Know
In the summer of 2023, Initiatives intern Skye Bluestein conducted important research with the BEI on the intersection of environmental justice (EJ), policy, and business. The resulting paper posted below provides an interesting and...
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- 01 Oct 2021
- Research & Ideas
Dying to Lead: How Reaching the Top Can Kill You Sooner
during the course of their careers, from the value of their homes to the promotions they received. Nicholas also verified whether workers attended prestigious GE training retreats. "Higher-ranked employees at GE were more susceptible to a shorter lifespan." GE was...
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by Jay Fitzgerald
- 09 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
Six Keys to Building New Markets by Unleashing Disruptive Innovation
profitable market provided the motivation to solve the technological hurdles preventing them from producing higher-quality steel. The integrated mills were happy to leave these markets because the lower tiers in their product mix were...
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- October 2003 (Revised January 2005)
- Case
Shared Decision Making
By: Richard M.J. Bohmer, Karen Sepucha and Laura Feldman
The Foundation for Informed Medical Decision-Making has created an interactive videodisc system that provides patients with customized support regarding medical treatment or screening decisions when they face a choice between two equally effective courses of action....
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Decision Choices and Conditions;
Borrowing and Debt;
Health Care and Treatment;
Innovation Strategy;
Technological Innovation;
Product Marketing;
Distribution Channels;
Production;
Partners and Partnerships;
Research and Development;
Information Technology
Bohmer, Richard M.J., Karen Sepucha, and Laura Feldman. "Shared Decision Making." Harvard Business School Case 604-001, October 2003. (Revised January 2005.)
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Events - Business History
governing global capitalism. Organized by Grace Ballor and Sabine Pitteloud, the roundtable featured participants Neil Rollings (Glasgow), Patricia Clavin (Oxford), and Quinn Slobodian (Wellesley). Nicolás Perrone (Valparaíso) provided...
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Eight Steps to Board Success for Female Executives
go well, subsequent interviews will provide the opportunity to ask in-depth questions regarding what the company is looking for, how the board operates, what the selection process will be, and the timing. Before you get too far into the...
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- 21 Nov 2019
- Research & Ideas
Do TV Debates Sway Voters?
Kennedy’s youthful vigor overshadowed Richard Nixon’s flat pallor on American screens. Debates help candidates reach millions of voters in a single event, so candidates often prepare rigorously, hoping to gain an edge with undecided voters. And major TV networks...
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by Danielle Kost
- Portrait Project
Shivangi Goel
to provide high quality care for hundreds of patients with COVID-19 in a converted conference ballroom without any of the usual resources. This experience defined me and how I deal with adversity, pain and...
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- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Keeping Hourly Workers Focused on the Stock, Not the Clock
constant tension between employees and management. “We lived through a lot of strikes,” Stavros says. One of the changes the union was advocating for was profit sharing with hourly employees. “Can you believe I have no incentive to care...
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- 28 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
Unilever: Transformation and Tradition
for major innovations. The science base was high quality and deep. Research on animal feeds could lead over time into a successful pregnancy test. Unilever's knowledge about edible fats and detergents was second to none in the world. This research base not only View Details
- 12 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
Using the Law to Strategic Advantage
as they strive to become more legally astute. I am very proud of the fact that both Jim Kinnear, former CEO and chair of Texaco, and Arthur Rock, venture capitalist extraordinaire, endorsed the book as a must-read for aspiring CEOs and managers. Companies also need to...
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Doubling Down on Women’s Health Innovation and Leveraging the Private Sector in a Post-Roe v. Wade Era - Blog: Health Supplement
Blog Blog Health Supplement Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Blavatnik Fellow Author Blavatnik Fellowship Team Author Executive Education Author HBS Partners Author HBS Staff Author Health Care...
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- 01 Feb 2022
- Book
Innovation Isn’t Just for Startups: How Big Companies Can Succeed
somebody inside the business who cares about this. Who's going to actually provide you with that opportunity to solve the customer problem? Book Excerpt Corporate Explorer: How Corporations Can Beat Startups...
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by Lane Lambert
- 21 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
Are You Sabotaging Your Own Company?
than creating an unpleasant situation among one’s fellow workers, engaging in bickering, or displaying surliness and stupidity.” The manual provides several other tips for stirring up “general interference with organizations and...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Mar 2009
- Research & Ideas
When Goal Setting Goes Bad
organization, goals are failing. This is what Staw and Boettger found many years ago. When employees care exclusively about reaching a goal, and bad things can happen if they fail, cheating goes up. This is the most important result in...
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by Sean Silverthorne
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HBS Alumni Conference: Accelerating Climate Solutions - Alumni
resource-related innovation, and building values-based and people-centric businesses. Gordon Jones President, College of Western Idaho (CWI) Gordon Jones President, College of Western Idaho (CWI) Gordon Jones leads Idaho's largest comprehensive community college, View Details
- March 2017
- Case
Cantel Medical
By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth
Cantel Medical Corporation provided infection prevention and control products and services for patients, caregivers, and other healthcare providers. In 2016, Cantel generated sales of $665 million and net profits of $60 million, double the levels of five years earlier....
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Cantel;
Charles Diker;
Furniture Industry;
Matrix Organization;
Acquisition;
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Business Conglomerates;
Business Units;
Business Growth and Maturation;
Business Organization;
For-Profit Firms;
Chemicals;
Profit;
Revenue;
Geographic Scope;
Multinational Firms and Management;
Health;
Health Care and Treatment;
Business History;
Business or Company Management;
Goals and Objectives;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Organizational Structure;
Problems and Challenges;
Research and Development;
Opportunities;
Strategy;
Adaptation;
Business Strategy;
Competitive Strategy;
Corporate Strategy;
Diversification;
Expansion;
Information Technology;
Biotechnology Industry;
Chemical Industry;
Health Industry;
Manufacturing Industry;
Medical Devices and Supplies Industry;
Pharmaceutical Industry;
United States;
New Jersey
Wells, John R., and Gabriel Ellsworth. "Cantel Medical." Harvard Business School Case 717-482, March 2017.
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Statistical & Data Services - Research Computing Services
About Us Statistical & Data Services 4ms Research Computing Services (RCS) provides statistical and data services for the HBS research community, including consultations and expertise in: Advanced statistical analyses (e.g., Baysean,...
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- 13 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 13, 2016
exception. Yet providers and payers continue to try to stymie competition. Many are actively pursuing consolidation, buying up market share, and increasing their bargaining power. In this article, the authors argue that health View Details
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Carmen Nobel
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3 Benefits of the Case Method - MBA
Business & Environment Career Change Career and Professional Development Case Method Clubs Curriculum Digital Entrepreneurship FIELD Financial Aid Health Care Instagram Takeover JD/MBA Leadership Letters to Classmates MBA/MPP & MBA/MPA-ID...
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