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- 18 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, July 18, 2017
May 11, 2017 New England Journal of Medicine Good Riddance to Big Insurance Mergers By: Dafny, Leemore S. Abstract—Federal judges issued preliminary injunctions halting mergers of four of the five largest U.S. health insurers. These...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 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, solutions are starting to come...
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- 22 Apr 2015
- Op-Ed
Reforming Greece: Myths and Truths
totaling 950 million euros to the International Monetary Fund by May 12. However, major confusion exists about what has happened in this period and why we are still talking about Greece being at the Eurozone's exit door and at the brink of bankruptcy. “This is all...
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by George Serafeim
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
Maximum Sustainable Goodness By Max Bazerman, Jesse Isidor Straus Professor of Business Administration Harper Business Every day, you make hundreds of decisions. They’re largely personal, but these choices have an ethical element as well;...
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- 16 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
Transitions of Power Are Difficult. What Joe Biden and Other Incoming Leaders Need to Know.
“comvoc”), and leave their differentiated personal selves and external group memberships behind. All it took to motivate people, it was thought, was to offer financial incentives, and good results would follow. Well, we know where an...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2007
Wireless Generation Harvard Business School Case 307-049 Reflecting on an innovative joint venture that his company executed with a public school district in 2004, the CEO of Wireless Generation, a five-year-old, privately held...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Wick Moorman (MBA 1989)
remember that I only got one. That’s how I ended up at HBS. I try hard to have an open-door policy and listen to everyone. I’m lucky if I have one good idea a year. I’m tapped out by May. It’s the people who are dealing with customers,...
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April White
- 19 Feb 2010
- News
The MBA Oath Debate
(these) cases, but rarely are the stakes so dire in business.” Sridhar also contends that the oath’s commitment to social well-being is “uncapitalist.” “The oath is a reaction to the public furor over the financial crisis, but...
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- 23 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
Product Disasters Can Be Fertile Ground for Innovation
discovered that the error was made a year before when it had reconfigured a scanner to improve doctors’ ability to see blood flow in the brain. More than 200 patients had suffered the same fate, receiving up to eight times the normal dose of radiation. View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Seven Honored with Alumni Achievement Award
On October 19, the School conferred its highest honor, the Alumni Achievement Award, on seven distinguished individuals. Since 1968, the School has selected outstanding men and women for the award, recognizing their accomplishments in the View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Investing in Innovation
and society have never been more divided. Even as the economy has recovered, trust has not. As business leaders, we need to remind the public that business is a force for good and is fundamental to societal...
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Digital Innovation and Transformation: Resources useful for Course Assignments
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- 21 Dec 2022
- News
HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion
iStock MESSAGE FROM DEAN SRIKANT DATAR On February 27, Dean Srikant Datar sent a message to the HBS community regarding the invasion of Ukraine, noting the resources available to those looking to offer support and highlighting learning opportunities available at HBS....
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Black Business Leaders and Entrepreneurship
Filling the Gap: Underserved Markets in the Black Community Use these resources to validate the need underlying your business idea. Please contact infoservices@hbs.edu to schedule a consultation with a Baker librarian. Research Task View Details
- 24 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Do We Tax?
this policy be designed not just to meet Utilitarian goals but also to align with the principle of Equal Sacrifice. The principle of Equal Sacrifice declares that the goal of tax policy is to share the costs of funding public View Details
- 02 Dec 2015
- What Do You Think?
What Will It Take to Achieve Gender Equality in Leadership?
be changed? Will it require “outside” interventions, such as those provided by new corporate policies, behavior measurement, rewards, and—in spite of admonitions from legal counsel—the publication of gender-specific results (hiring,...
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by James Heskett
- 02 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
Digital Initiative Summit: The Business of Crowdsourcing
platform might be too good to be true. The company was crowdsourcing creative work, inviting people to both pitch ideas and create marketing videos — and promising to pay anywhere from a few hundred for the best concepts to several...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 17 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Companies Detangle from Legacy Pensions
"Goodbye tension, hello pension!" That used to be the triumphant cry of millions of new retirees. For decades, Americans assumed a good job came with a good pension, guaranteeing them regular...
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- 13 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
Sharing News That Might Be Bad
successful; it has engendered feelings of trust, empowerment, and commitment to both you and the company. The right choice lies closer to blunt truth than to denial. It hasn't always been easy: just as bad numbers can send people into states of unfounded pessimism,...
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by Paul Michelman
- 13 Feb 2019
- News
We’re All Going to Get Hacked
2013. Target was a big Fortune 50 company. They had all the best products; they had good engineers, good policies, good practices. Yet they got hacked in a very big, View Details