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Olivia Zhao
write prescriptions. For the longest time, doctors didn’t know the costs that their patients would incur. Today, there are new electronic tools that show doctors the price of a given drug, as well as lower-cost alternatives. I’m curious... View Details
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Buy Now, Pay Later: Credit and Charity
usurers out of business, but in the long run they played a crucial role in making finance culturally acceptable and laying the foundations of European banking. “Although the montes themselves were pawnshops,” writes medieval historian... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Exhibit at Baker Library Marks HBS Centennial
about their colleagues, jobs, and life outside work. “Management, then, was not about controlling human behavior but unleashing human possibility,” as HBS associate professor Rakesh Khurana and HBS assistant professor Michel Anteby write... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Transforming the IRS
over the next five years transformed almost every aspect of the sprawling agency, from its antiquated IT systems to its internal management structures. Many Unhappy Returns (HBS Press, 2005) is his insider account of a mission that seemed nearly impossible. Why did you... View Details
- 17 Apr 2019
- News
Give It to Me Straight
that I would never make that mistake again and that I would do everything in my power to help the people around me avoid making that mistake. That's really what motivated me to write Radical Candor and come up with a framework and to be... View Details
- 04 Oct 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #10: Amanda Li (MBA 2018): Speeding Climate Change Solutions Through Project Finance Efficiencies
needed to reach net-zero targets. Specifically, Amanda is advocating for investors to get smarter and better at bundling smaller infrastructure investments into larger ones. “Instead of writing a $500 million check twice a year, we need... View Details
- 25 Jun 2018
- News
An Unfinished Story
to celebrate that.” What inspired you to write this book? I had been invited to speak at a naturalization ceremony at the New York Historical Society. I planned to tell the new citizens about my own family’s arrival in the United States.... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Reforming Company Boards
Solutions for Better Corporate Governance (Bloomberg Press) emphasizes accountability, transparency, performance measurement, and a strong system of checks and balances in its practical approach to reform. Why did you write this book?... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Services
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
New York Club Asks for Donations to September 11 Relief Fund
of the surviving families. The New York Times 9/11 Neediest Fund accepts contributions to relieve the suffering of civilians' and rescue workers' families directly affected by the World Trade Center attacks. To make a tax-deductible donation, View Details
- 04 Apr 2022
- Research & Ideas
Tech Hubs: How Software Brought Talent and Prosperity to New Cities
San Diego—brings “significant and long-lasting” benefits, including greater economic growth, global talent, and even more invention to these regions, write William Kerr, the D’Arbeloff Professor of Business Administration at Harvard... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 28 Jul 2016
- Op-Ed
Where is TripAdvisor for Doctors?
final choices can be aided by multiple reviews aggregated from the wisdom of global crowds. 5. Few Comparables. Many business travelers stay in more than 20 hotels each year. They develop a smart shopping expertise that enables them to View Details
- 19 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
Analyzing Institutions to Solve Big Problems
leads the largest megachurch in the United States, has written more than 20 books.) Writing books is an institutional act," said coauthor Marvin Washington, an associate professor at the University of Alberta. "It's the pastor's... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel & Anna Secino
- 02 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
Do Online Dating Platforms Help Those Who Need Them Most?
already provides such encouragement through some dedicated functions. First, there is the "Quiver" function, whereby the company algorithm recommends three members it deems most compatible with the seeker. Piskorski found that women, and in particular older... View Details
- 07 Nov 2005
- What Do You Think?
Is Less Becoming More?
the cause. F. Chircu helped frame the discussion by writing that "When producers want to differentiate themselves, up to a point the safest and quickest way . . . is to add features or increase product complexity. . . . Choice... View Details
- 25 Jan 2000
- Research & Ideas
Strategic Alliances
Where once "corporate giving" meant writing an annual check to a favorite charity, more recently businesses and nonprofit organizations (NPOs) have joined forces to achieve their separate, but related missions. When these partnerships... View Details
Keywords: by Nancy O. Perry
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Influence of the China Trade and the Heard Legacy - A Chronicle of the China Trade
United States, served as a vital link, bringing welcome news of family members and life at home. As John Heard explained to his mother, “You write exactly as you speak, in a kind motherly and affectionate manner, and all the details you... View Details
- 15 Feb 2022
- News
Charlotte Club Hosts Webinar to Mark 100 Years of the Case Method
method at HBS, which dates back to the School’s opening in 1908. While there were no written cases then, Bower said local business leaders would come to Professor Art Shaw’s class and present oral cases. Students then had to go home, View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
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Jake Cusack
seen those things that separate war in the abstract from war in reality: how hard it is to successfully intervene in another country, no matter how noble the goal, no matter how great the effort. The difference between writing... View Details
- 23 Sep 2020
- News
HBS Action Plan for Racial Equity
that creates unacceptable, even dire inequities for our Black community members,” writes Nohria. “This moment has made urgently clear that the School must redouble its commitment to combat racism—and anti-Black racism in particular—to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Class Day/Commencement 2013
moments? Being part of the HBS Show production team, drinking Coke Zero, and writing the script in the i-lab. What's next? Back to Oklahoma! I'll be working in marketing at the Stephenson Cancer Center in Oklahoma City. What will you miss... View Details