Military Health System - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2015
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Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015

government before discussing the country’s founding economic and political principles, as espoused by Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations and enshrined in the Declaration of Independence. He goes on to explore the basic principles of the free market View Details

01 Jun 2020
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Post-Office

to replicate office culture in the digital world, and the movement’s wider implications for how and where we organize ourselves. Prashanth, you said in a March announcement about Stack Overflow going all-remote that the most important factor was the View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; Remote work; COVID-19; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

01 Sep 2017
News

History’s Lessons

masters. ... But as the military stalemate continued, the pressure on the president to seek settlement terms with the Confederacy increased. ...And the commander in chief began to waver. Perhaps, he told himself as he paced the White... View Details

Keywords: Abraham Lincoln; Ernest Shackelford; Rachel Carson

14 Dec 2011
Research & Ideas

The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance

experience in the for-profit sector? Mario Morino: My background was in the IT industry, working in systems management, which is fundamentally about tracking the performance and integrity of large computing platforms. What I experienced... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

01 Sep 2009
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Read All About It!

goods and services — from a second or third vehicle to health clubs to text messaging — that their great-grandparents could hardly have dreamed of. At the same time, the underlying sources for all this consumption — our wealth and income... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Oct 2002
News

Books

that are far from the norm in most organizations today. The authors take their own advice and deliver this message with vivid images of innovative, real-life change in action. A broad range of stories drawn from the military and... View Details

05 Mar 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019

did not apply. For all practical purposes, Musalem had only one customer for his company’s Hep C medicine: Mexico’s public health system and the National Pricing Commission that set prices annually for the... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

September 1995
Case

Ares-Serono

By: Michael Y. Yoshino, Jean-Pierre Jeannet and Carin-Isabel Knoop

Ares Serono, a medium-size Swiss pharmaceutical company, is the global leader in the field of fertility drugs. The company has successfully transformed into one of the very few biotech firms in Europe. The case treats a set of major strategic and organizational... View Details

Keywords: Geographic Location; Globalized Firms and Management; Asset Management; Balance and Stability; Expansion; Digital Platforms; Leadership Development; Health Care and Treatment; Transformation; Family Business; Problems and Challenges; Pharmaceutical Industry; Biotechnology Industry; Switzerland; Europe

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24 Mar 2002
Research & Ideas

Are Assets Only for America’s Wealthy?

enough money to prosper, low-income families' access to health benefits, their civic participation, family stability, and mental wellbeing are all diminished by their low success rate in building assets. Peter Tufano, Sylvan C. Coleman... View Details

Keywords: by Carla Tishler

21 Oct 2013
News

Moving the Needle

hospital stays and doctors' visits showed her the health care system up close. "I realized that I really wanted to make a difference," she recalls. At Harvard, this self-described "contrarian" recalls having... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

25 Feb 2020
News

Profits and Purpose

in my spare time, and we were trying to find our way. Right from the beginning, the question was: What is the role of business in the broader systemic conversation? My own work has always been focused on climate change, and if I have to... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

28 Jul 2009
First Look

First Look: July 28

best-known authority, TRUSTe, are more than twice as likely to be untrustworthy as uncertified sites. This difference remains statistically and economically significant when restricted to "complex" commercial sites. In contrast, competing certification View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

13 Apr 2023
Blog Post

Building a Village: Learning and Living at HBS

plans, a difficult stage of potty training, or a health scare. This support system has made me never want to live anywhere else. To know that over 40 families have my back is a beautiful feeling. And to... View Details

09 Mar 2010
First Look

First Look: March 9

opened for business, thus changing the face of both world trade and military power and playing a pivotal role in the rise of the United States on the world stage. Today we view the creation of the Panama Canal as a story of U.S.... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

27 Aug 2019
Blog Post

Meet the PRIDE Club

in the U.S. Army following the repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell." Dan attended the United States Military Academy at West Point and graduated in 2010 with a B.S. in French. An avid fan of RuPaul's Drag Race, he's still smarting... View Details

26 Oct 2020
News

A Social Impact Roadmap; Arts Leadership in a Pandemic; Amplifying Hispanic Contributions

the London event, while Senior Lecturer Vikram Gandhi moderated for the Singapore event. The conversation addressed questions like, “Can a system designed to generate profit really make a difference against the massive social and... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

16 May 2017
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First Look at New Ideas and Research, May 16

health of the enterprise rather than near-term returns to its shareholders. Their model would refocus companies’ attention to innovation, strategic renewal, and investment in the future. Publisher's link:... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty

01 Apr 2002
News

Charting the Luminary Leadership in Professional Service Firms

of these elements drift out of alignment, stars may take their talent and skills elsewhere. And should they leave, experience shows that clients and other stars will often follow. The preeminent challenge, then, for a firm’s senior management is to assure that they... View Details

Keywords: professional service firms; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Value Judgments: Business Ethics Across Borders

much broader setting. "Students would ask me about the possibility of establishing a global system of business ethics," Paine says, "and whether cultural clashes of one degree or another were inevitable. I needed a... View Details

Keywords: by Judith A. Ross

14 Feb 2012
First Look

First Look: February 14

individuals bring well-articulated preexisting preferences to such decisions. Understanding beliefs and attitudes motivating these preferences can assist physicians in helping parents make informed decisions consistent with their values. Consumer-Driven View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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