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- 04 Feb 2008
- Research & Ideas
Podcast: The Potential Partnership of India and China
powerful economic development programs that each is pursuing, these countries are poised to become dominant economic powers in short order. But there is a subtle trend occurring that could make these 2 competitors even more formidable on... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 23, 2019
U.S. market, U.S. consumers, and GEA's employees. This case describes GEA's efforts to do that as a member of the Haier Group. Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/319044-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 319-005 Goldman Sachs: The 10,000 Small... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 19 May 2014
- Research & Ideas
Why Companies Should Compete for Your Privacy
targeted ads on the lockscreen and home screen, consumers clamored for an ad-free version. Amazon backtracked and extended its Special Offers program to the tablet, allowing consumers to opt out from the ads. Q: You're expecting that more... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Building Competitive Advantage Through Operations
At the HBS Executive Education program Building Competitive Advantage Through Operations (BCAO), executives charged with leading and building operations and manufacturing strategies enhance their understanding of operations performance... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 01 Jun 2010
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Social Reporting
their reputation and brand," says Rangan. CSR should be treated as a business discipline and practiced with the same professionalism and rigor as other aspects of a firm's strategy. "For example, many of the programs that come... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 26 Mar 2008
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Disaster!
Better, Cheaper" program as the culprit. But Harvard Business School professor Alan D. MacCormack says the failure was more about organizational execution. Key concepts include: Although individual projects fail, the root cause may... View Details
- 29 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
How Technological Disruption Changes Everything
education programs or, as we like to call it, Harvard Business School. In health care, Christensen set the scene by outlining the four layers of health care professionals: The specialist and sub-specialist physicians top the pecking... View Details
- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Operations and the Competitive Edge
operational improvement programs that have been so popular in the past. Why not? A: That's not true! We often have recommended in our writing and consulting both TQM and reengineering, as well as other types of improvement programs. And... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 16 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Can Applied Economics Save Homeless Puppies?
matching system for New England, correcting public school choice programs in New York and Boston, and tackling markets for new medical residents, economists, and lawyers. That same year, Christine L. Exley and Elena Battles launched a... View Details
- 27 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Building Businesses in Turbulent Times
services. In health care, nursing services, community social services, mental health services, and home health-care services are on the rise. One executive recently told me that his firm's business training services were up over 400 percent since fall 2008. Government... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 29 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
Good News, Not Blues, For the Inner City
City Advantage In 1994, Porter founded the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City, a non-profit program to study and catalyze inner city business development. He and the group in ICIC define inner cities as urban areas with high poverty... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 23 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Forgiving Medical Debt Won't Make Everyone Happier
15 state or local governments had passed programs to pay for about $8 billion in medical relief. Five more are considering moves that would bring the total to almost $13 billion. Many work with a nonprofit called Undue Medical Debt... View Details
- 06 Mar 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
Has the Glass Ceiling Been Broken (or at Least Cracked)?
Self-ConfidenceResearchers believe gender stereotypes hold women back in the workplace. Katherine Coffman's research adds a new twist: They can even cause women to question their own abilities. Sponsorship Programs Could Actually Widen... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 4
709-474 In 2005, Partners in Health (PIH) was invited by the Rwandan Ministry of Health to assume responsibility for the management of public health care in two rural districts in Eastern Rwanda and create an HIV treatment program at... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
Searching for Better Practices in Social Investing
discussed the idea of social impact bonds, in which private investors agree to foot the bill for a program, but then work with the government to decide how to measure the program's success. If the program succeeds accordingly, then the... View Details
- 09 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
Education, Technology, and Business: What’s the Catch?
was what led Ira Fishman in this direction. Fishman worked in the Clinton administration as Counsel and Director of the Task Force on Education at the Federal Communications Commission and founding CEO of the nonprofit E-Rate program that... View Details
- 13 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Unexpected Way Whistleblowers Reduce Government Fraud
contract terms or taking on some of the risk and offering additional protection to your customers can enable you to rebuild that trust and get back to where you were initially.” Heese also emphasizes a by-product of the research: a spotlight on the effectiveness of the... View Details
- 02 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 2
Company Authors:Michael Beer and Magnus Finnstrom Publication:Leadership in Action, November-December 2009 Abstract Traditional leadership development programs often fail to achieve the desired results because they don't focus on learning... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 8, 2010
"bridging the valley of death" (i.e., helping young, innovative companies finance technically risky and very capital intensive development and commercialization programs). The case focuses on two DOE programs in particular, the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Coming Transformation of Social Enterprise
There's an important distinction. Very early in the program we decided that we wouldn't focus purely on nonprofits. We thought it should be about social enterprise, regardless of whether it's for-profit or nonprofit. We defined social... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson