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- 14 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Widening Rift Between Corporations and Society
of management became a central focus. This organizational narcissism not only produced the Enron effect, but it cost managers a front-row seat in a changing society marked by the dramatically different yearnings and needs of its own end... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 18 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 18, 2007
within the task network and serve to separate one set of tasks from another. Placing a transaction in a particular location in turn requires work to define, count (or measure), and pay for the transacted objects. The costs of this work... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Oct 2010
- News
D.I.Y. Foreign Aid
- 26 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 26
by a public health organization are randomly allocated to four groups. Agents in the control group receive a standard volunteer contract often offered for this type of task, whereas agents in the three treatment groups receive small... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Feb 2018
- Blog Post
WesTrek: A Recap of the Largest Professional Trek at Harvard Business School
and human resources. Francesca Barrett, an MD/MBA candidate, noted that, "As someone with a strong interest in health care, I’ve never had the chance to marry that with the tech industry. Being able to visit start-ups where I learned... View Details
Keywords: Technology
- 27 Jul 2023
- Blog Post
Recruiting International Students is Easy and Beneficial for Employers
employee. What’s more, there is no cost to the employer. Converting international employees to long-term employees is also an easy process, which more than 25,000 companies complete each year. “The visa process is what most companies... View Details
- 08 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 8
diverse and relatively unconcentrated size structure appears quite consistent with other research on the underlying economics of this industry. Culture Clash: The Costs and Benefits of Homogeneity Author:Eric Van den Steen... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Cyber-Marketing: Scouting the Digital Communications Frontier
already-low cost of digital communications declines toward zero, the Web's radical interactivity presents new challenges to marketers, who must now learn how to build and sustain intimate customer relationships on a far larger scale than... View Details
Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs
- 25 Feb 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
Scholars and Students Unpack the Digital Business Revolution
initiatives and projects created by the School to foster interdisciplinary research on the great problems and opportunities facing society—including such topics as business and the environment, health care, US competitiveness, social... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
The Power of Philanthropy
When their son Joey died of cystic fibrosis in 1986 at age 12, Kathy and Joe O’Donnell (MBA 1971) vowed to fight the disease. O’Donnell, at the time the president of the Boston Concessions Group, joined with Vertex Pharmaceuticals and the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation to... View Details
- 04 Aug 2014
- Op-Ed
Why Small-Business Lending Is Not Recovering
self-employed person declined 19 percent in real terms between 2007 and 2010, according to the Federal Reserve's Survey of Consumer Finances. And a survey by the National Federation of Independent Businesses (NFIB) noted that small... View Details
- 27 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
New Research: Surviving Bankruptcy, Useful Economics, and Retirement
Healthcare costs for employees of Onex’s portfolio companies were continuing to rise above the consumer price index, reflecting broader trends across employer-sponsored health insurance in the US.” Board... View Details
- Student-Faculty-Profile
Lauren Taylor & Rebecca Henderson
no-brainer. The process has offered me a unique opportunity to learn to see fields that I'm interested in through Rebecca's eyes. She knows so many of the scholars we're reading personally and can trace genealogies of thought for me - but... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Profiles from the class of 2007
Photographs by Webb Chappell Now in its twelfth year, the annual student profiles feature has become something of a Bulletin tradition. As editors, we look forward every spring to meeting these outstanding members of the MBA graduating class — and who wouldn’t? Their... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Lewis I. Rice
- 29 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018
(BRFSS) data on 2.3 million U.S. respondents, and Eurobarometer data that cover multiple business cycles over four decades. This research provides a new perspective on the welfare cost of business cycles, with implications for growth... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Winners and Losers in the Retail Revolution
average person is going to want to shop in a few years? I don't think so. This is true for the supermarket space in general; it's really not about Kroger as an organization. Supermarkets are these very large, impersonal, and inefficient... View Details
- Profile
Paris Wallace
monitors and tracks their monthly cycle and suggests the optimum time for baby-making. Its pregnancy app guides women to healthier pregnancies. In its two years of existence, this Boston-based health technology startup has helped more... View Details
- 03 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 3, 2009
"True North." The book offers methods for personal reflection and includes targeted exercises that help leaders hone in on the purpose of their leadership and develop their authentic leadership skills. Publisher's site:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Portrait Project
Sally Aaron
who lack access to life-saving and life-changing technologies, or the billions in the world who lack access to even basic care, I want to be a part of the solution to this problem by working with policy and public health experts to create... View Details
- 05 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 5
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-064.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsPerformance Management at Vitality Health Enterprises, Inc. John B. Bingham and Michael BeerHarvard Business School Case 913-501 Vitality View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne