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- 04 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?
Herzlinger: I've had it. [Laughs.] Just had it! You know, I did my doctoral thesis really by accident in a hospital. That was in 1971, 36 years ago. And at the time, I was astonished at how mismanaged that hospital was and how the most rudimentary kinds of business...
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- 19 Jan 2021
- In Practice
Leadership Advice for Biden: Restore a Sense of Calm
a basis for collaboration and consensus, which is what one needs to focus on with a legislative branch that’s effectively tied. One of the considerations for any leader is: What is possible versus what would I like to do? Good managers...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 17 Oct 2016
- HBS Case
Business Solutions That Help Cut Food Waste
As much as 40 percent of food grown in the United States for human consumption is wasted. Source: Eivaisla After decades of wasteful food practices, where perfectly good food is discarded even as poverty keeps many families hungry,...
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- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Alumni Books
Supporting this progress and restoration of the critical infrastructure and built environment, however, was a vast and varied gathering of legislative bodies, public institutions, interest groups, and private individuals and entities....
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- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
directors, auditors, regulators, financial analysts, and professional investors and money managers. We thought we had a pretty good system, one the rest of the world looked to as a capital market that effectively allocated resources in...
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Garry Emmons
- 21 Dec 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #12: Vehicle to Everything - Claire Broido Johnson (MBA 2002), Chief Operating Officer of Fermata Energy
challenges. As a Harvard undergrad, she helped launch an environmental action committee. Working with faculty and staff, she collected some 2000 signatures to create the environmental science and public policy concentration. In 1995, she...
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- 13 May 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #5: Phyllis Newhouse, CEO, Entrepreneur, Leader
closed a $250 million IPO in March 2021, making it the only SPAC listed on the NYSE with an African American female CEO. In July 2021, the company announced it was taking concentrated solar power company, Heliogen, public in a $2 billion...
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- 04 Sep 2019
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Status Update
on KLM airline’s use of the Facebook Messenger platform for customer care, says Levine, and Walmart’s employee training program, which features Oculus Go’s virtual reality headsets. No stranger to the Facebook family, Levine came to the company in 2010 as its first...
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Julia Hanna
- 29 May 2019
- News
HBS Career Coaches Hit the Road to Serve Alumni
partisanship, increasing inequality, and staggering bureaucracy. “But complexity is not in our DNA. The United States Constitution is a perfect example of simplicity,” says Deffarges, who also serves on the Executive Council at the Harvard School of View Details
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Margie Kelley
- 30 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 30
Publications September 2014 Social Entrepreneurship and Research Methods Building an Infrastructure for Empirical Research on Social Enterprise: Challenges and Opportunities By: Lee, Matthew, Julie Battilana, and Ting Wang...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Hidden Market for Babies
placing children and good means of detecting any illegal baby selling. Most importantly, we could work much harder to ensure that home studies are completed—accurately and in depth—by reputable adoption agencies. Q: Moves toward...
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- 27 Mar 2019
- News
Fulfilling Their Promise
was humbling. “Up until then, I thought I was a smart person,” says Schooner, whose lengthy career was spent primarily at Chrysler and Textron. “I was well-educated, well-traveled, made a lot of money, had a good career, and [then I had]...
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Content & Community for Students | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
and giving them resources to make the less-structured career search less intimidating. Third, bringing the message that businesses can be a force for social good to the broader student body at HBS, even those who don't consider themselves...
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Casey Gerald
design-based approach to innovation in the public sector,” and the latter through Neiman Marcus, where he worked on the president’s five-year strategic plan. Now in his first year at HBS itself, Casey eagerly describes three key...
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Transportation Infrastructure - U.S. Competitiveness
the Move has listened to providers and users to find smart solutions—getting people to work, goods to where they're needed, communities connecting, economies developing, and information circulating—safely, efficiently, conveniently, and...
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- 10 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
American Auto’s Troubled Road
their product, and relations between the different organizational functions seem more constrained, as does the product-design process." Flexible And Nimble HBS professor Kent Bowen, a technology and operations management expert who has studied Toyota, explains:...
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- 21 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Bio-Piracy: When Western Firms Usurp Eastern Medicine
inspire new research." Choudhury and Khanna also noticed an increase in herbal patent filing in the mid-1990s, despite the publicity of patent-related lawsuits happening at the time: the turmeric case, a lawsuit involving curative...
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- 12 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 12, 2008
front of him. As he sat back in his chair and looked out the window, he began to take stock of how his life had taken such a dramatic path over the last few years. Life was good for the founder and CEO of Lammtara Pictures, the United...
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Martha Lagace
- 04 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 4, 2008
carefully analyzed their incentives but that we know little about the broader strategic dimensions of this market. The paper explores three related strategic dimensions of the certification market: the publicity given to applications, the...
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Martha Lagace
- 13 Feb 2017
- Research & Ideas
Paid Search Ads Pay Off for Lesser-Known Restaurants
For business executives trying to decide where exactly in the digital realm to invest their advertising dollars, new research indicates that paid search ads on review sites such as Yelp can be a good way to go—at least for small,...
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