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Ed Rogers

goals. I want to help design systems and products that give people deeper insights into factors that improve their quality of life. How are you pushing yourself? I’m trying as much as possible to expose myself to things I wouldn’t have... View Details

Keywords: Financial Services; Tech

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From the Dean - Annual Report 2020

Harvard Business Review’s circulation climbed to 340,000, the highest in its 97-year history, evidence that the Publishing group continues to produce insights that shape management practice. The Business and Environment Initiative extended its wide-ranging efforts on... View Details

20 Feb 2006
Research & Ideas

Are Company Founders Underpaid?

Both of these factors change as the venture grows. As more people are hired and the founder begins sharing control with non-founders, and as the venture develops and formalizes systems and processes that... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Financial Services; Technology

01 Dec 2013
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Curing Health Care

the field of health care has evolved differently despite a decades-long scramble to control spending. HBS professor emeritus Bob Kaplan described the state of affairs in a 2011 interview with the Harvard Business Review: "When I encounter... View Details

Keywords: Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance; Management; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

08 May 2006
Research & Ideas

The Cost of Cutting in Line

Felix Oberholzer-Gee: Companies can purchase almost every input they need: labor, office space, a great brand. But sometimes, the price system breaks down and there is no market. In my research, I have been interested in this... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

12 Sep 2024
Blog Post

Amager Bakke: I Like This Waste Incinerator in My Backyard!

In January 2024, Professors Willy Shih and Mike Toffel led 45 HBS MBA students on site visits to witness the energy transition and innovative sustainable production activities throughout Denmark and the Netherlands, in the second year of their Immersive Field Course... View Details

01 Mar 2022
What Do You Think?

Is It Time for More Reverse Mentoring?

set up a payment system under her new company’s name—all in one day and all on her mobile phone while (I hope) doing her regular work. Needless to say, she can mentor me any day. Of course, reverse mentoring goes on all the time, often in... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

23 Oct 2019
News

Preparing Leaders to Leverage Artificial Intelligence

self-driving cars to robots mopping up spills at the grocery store. As computer systems increasingly perform tasks that people once did, the implications for business are enormous. Although more than 80 percent of executives believe AI... View Details

Keywords: Intellectual Ambition; Pathbreaking Research; Artificial Intelligence

25 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

Studying Japan from the Inside

choose one. But if I have to choose one, I would say I enjoyed the case on Nissan Motor, the auto manufacturer that had been turned around by Carlos Ghosn. Ghosn was sent from Renault, the French auto company, which acquired management View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

01 Jun 2013
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Lesson Plans

example of what can push the system to a new approach. Another example, which I plan to visit, is Rocketship Education, a charter school system where students spend the first few hours of the morning in a... View Details

Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services

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Privacy - HBS Working Knowledge

that is not connected with any specific personal identity, such as data about usage and service operation. The following summarizes the types of information that we may collect. SYSTEM INFORMATION, IP ADDRESSES AND REFERRERS When you... View Details

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Teaching Cases - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

the three procedures at the two different sites using the hospital's existing cost system and a proposed new system based on time-driven activity-based costing. Hoag Orthopedic Institute Harvard Business... View Details

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Commencement 2017 Address | About

points do not offer comfort to those who experience firsthand the wide and growing inequality in how the value created by businesses is shared with society. Simply put, many people view the capitalist system in deep need of repair. As... View Details

29 Mar 2016
First Look

March 29, 2016

create fertile soil for dynamic capabilities. The five micromechanisms are values-based decision heuristics; intrinsic motivation with positive emotions; an organizational control system based on... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 May 2007
First Look

First Look: May 1, 2007

subjective preferences expressed by the receiving countries themselves. Finally, we use a two-stage least squares methodology to control for measurement error and endogeneity. Exploiting a new comprehensive industry-level data set of 29... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

07 Mar 2000
Research & Ideas

Putting Health Care Consumers in the Driver’s Seat

U.S. consumers more power over decisions related to health care. Those who advocate consumer-driven health care—including conference chair Professor Regina E. Herzlinger—believe that shifting control of health-care purchasing decisions... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Health

11 Jan 2000
Lessons from the Classroom

New Game, New Rules: Developing Managers for a Competitive World

The Program for Global Leadership assembles senior executives from organizations worldwide who participate and interact in a unique, multi-phased educational process. The program's unusual structure helps them to gain fresh insight about... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

02 Aug 2006
Research & Ideas

Investor Protection: The Czech Experience

Protection in a Converging World," the expropriation and its aftermath "illustrate the interaction of property and contract rights in a global setting, how corporate control is shaped by geography,... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Media & Broadcasting; Entertainment & Recreation

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Motivation and Incentives - Course Catalog

overall strategy and operations. The module will analyze the interaction of formal incentive systems with other organizational processes that may undermine or reinforce value creating behavior. The module... View Details

01 Dec 2017
News

Flight Path

engineers devoted a good chunk of 2015 and most of 2016 to developing a drone that could be piloted in real time through a complex, three-dimensional course of gates and obstacles. That meant creating a lightning-fast radio system and... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

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