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12 Oct 2022
Blog Post

11 Stories from HBS PRIDE for National Coming Out Day

to work through my internalized homophobia, to learn to engage emotionally with people, and to understand that my life could be as long and as happy as those of non-LGBTQIA+ people. Losing some other friends and seeing politicians treat people like me as View Details

19 Jul 2011
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First Look: July 19

provider must decide whether to IPO or accept an offer to be acquired by Euromoney, a global publishing and information content provider that is eager to launch an Internet information service. The case contains a term sheet that can be... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

18 May 2023
News

India's New Money Managers

When Priti Rathi Gupta (OPM 49, 2017) was 16 years old, her father handed her his investment portfolio and asked her what she could make of it. She was befuddled. "He realized that, although I had schooling in what we call commerce, I didn't really know much about... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

April 12, 2022
Article

Evaluation of Individual and Ensemble Probabilistic Forecasts of COVID-19 Mortality in the United States

By: Estee Y. Cramer, Evan L. Ray, Velma K. Lopez, Johannes Bracher, Andrea Brennen, Alvaro J. Castro Rivadeneira, Michael Lingzhi Li and et al.

Short-term probabilistic forecasts of the trajectory of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States have served as a visible and important communication channel between the scientific modeling community and both the general public and decision-makers. Forecasting models... View Details

Keywords: COVID-19; Forecasting and Prediction; Health Pandemics; Mathematical Methods; Partners and Partnerships

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September 2008 (Revised June 2013)
Case

Odyssey Healthcare

By: Robert F. Higgins, Virginia Fuller and Umer Raffat

In January 2001, Dick Burnham, CEO of Odyssey Healthcare, and Odyssey's Board of Directors were considering selling the hospice care company to a larger provider or making an initial public offering (IPO). With 38 hospice locations in 21 states, Odyssey had been... View Details

Keywords: Liquidity; Venture Creation/development; Hospice; Venture Capital; Financial Liquidity; Business Exit or Shutdown; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Plan; Entrepreneurship; Health Industry; United States

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16 May 2024
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On the Job

useful perspective later in her career as cofounder of Lighthouse Capital Partners, a venture capital firm with early investments in a number of health care companies. Gwill York: I started earning money when I was in fourth grade, and I... View Details

Keywords: first job; leadership; life experience; career lessons; Finance; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining; Retail Trade

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Emily Schlichting

At age 19, in the spring of 2009, Emily Schlichting was diagnosed with Behcet's, a rare autoimmune disease that introduced her "to the realities of U.S. health care firsthand." Although the disease has proven manageable, her... View Details

Keywords: Healthcare/Biotech; Nonprofit/Government/Education

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Strategy Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Received the 2021 Robert F. Greenhill Award for Outstanding Service to the HBS Community. 2020 Rebecca A. Karp : “Gaining Organizational Adoption: Discovering New Uses for Existing Innovations” was selected for publication in the 2020... View Details

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Invention of the Polarizer - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

Clubs Faculty & Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness Leadership... View Details

20 Oct 2009
First Look

First Look: October 20

and test an empirical framework which allows us to separate selection from treatment effects of large shareholders. Individual blockholders tend to hold blocks in public firms located close to where they reside. Using this empirical... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

17 Oct 2022
Research & Ideas

Why Quiet Quitters Need More Than Money to Re-Engage

Stagflation? A Great Teacher's Lessons for Leading Of Learning and Forgetting: Centrism, Populism, and the Legitimacy Crisis of Globalization Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working Knowledge team at hbswk@hbs.edu. Image:... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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Technology & Operations Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

in AI Grant from the National Science Foundation and Amazon. Himabindu Lakkaraju : Winner of the 2021 Google AI for Social Good Award in the Public Health category. Edward McFowland III : Recipient of a 2018... View Details

18 Apr 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 18, 2018

18.2%—an effect driven by substitution of water for sugary drinks. Study 2 showed that graphic warning labels work by heightening negative affect and prompting consideration of health consequences. Study 3 indicated that View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

23 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018

social issues unrelated to their core business, ranging from environmental issues to LGBT rights and race relations. In the first study of this phenomenon, we implement two field experiments to provide evidence on how CEO activism can influence View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

14 Mar 2024
Blog Post

IFC India: SELCO - Last Mile Solar Powered Energy for Rural India

instability and related consequences to the healthcare infrastructure. India’s primary healthcare system is the backbone of public health infrastructure, serving as the first point of contact for last-mile... View Details

20 Aug 2008
Op-Ed

The Time is Right for Creative Capitalism

employment patterns, market share, business investment, and most prominently, stock market performance. Given Gates's achievements, it is interesting that he is throwing down a gauntlet to have global capitalism direct itself toward... View Details

Keywords: by Nancy Koehn

10 Apr 2018
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First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018

activities, we found that they feel compelled to address hot-button issues and are guided by their own values as well as the history and culture of their organization. They also complement their public activities with a “ground game”... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Redefining Capitalism - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Redefining Capitalism The loss of public trust in business—and the corresponding rise in government policies and practices that hamper competitiveness and sap economic growth—are rooted in a narrow definition of capitalism whose time has... View Details

November 2023 (Revised April 2024)
Case

BiomX: Bringing Phage Back to the Stage

By: Paul A. Gompers, Elie Ofek, Orna Dan and Emilie Billaud

In the spring of 2023, and following the favorable results of a trial involving its phage cocktail for treating lung infections among cystic fibrosis (CF) patients, the leadership of BiomX had several critical issues to wrestle with. First, given its precarious... View Details

Keywords: Working Capital; Financing and Loans; Health Testing and Trials; Product Development; Research and Development; Science-Based Business; Commercialization; Biotechnology Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry

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