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- 22 Aug 2022
- Research & Ideas
Can Amazon Remake Health Care?
First, the supply chain in health care is a mess. There are so many intermediaries selling to other people, and Amazon has done extremely well by streamlining the supply chain. So they must be thinking that the current insurers and other... View Details
- 30 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Real Estate: The Most Imperfect Asset
east of the Mississippi. Green construction and green operations are the wave of the future and the United Sates is far behind Europe in this regard. Finally, American real estate investors have traditionally been pretty parochial... View Details
- 31 Aug 2021
- Book
Feeling Powerless at Work? Time to Agitate, Innovate, and Orchestrate
doctor turned social entrepreneur, a Bangladeshi policeman, an American business consultant trying to create change, and a Polish Holocaust survivor—and included both historical examples and contemporary anecdotes about how people have... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 29 Nov 2017
- Research & Ideas
How to Succeed in Business (According to a 15th Century Trade Merchant)
Zanato, and Vera Ribaudo. A reluctant merchant Born into a family of cloth and wool traders, Cotrugli was a reluctant merchant, pulled from his studies at the University of Bologna to join a profession that he considered lacking in... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 24 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Much Will Remote Work Continue After the Pandemic?
firms that had employees switch to remote work believe that it will remain more common at their company even after the COVID-19 crisis ends. “These estimates suggest that at least 16 percent of American workers will switch from... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 15 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: January 15
dollar lending more than euro lending in response to a shock to their credit quality. Because these banks rely on wholesale dollar funding, while raising more of their euro funding through insured retail deposits, the shock leads to a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jun 2008
- Research & Ideas
Innovative Ways to Encourage Personal Savings
Putting together the money for everything from a short-term emergency to retirement is hard enough, a challenge that low- and moderate-income families endure every day. Yet as HBS professor Peter Tufano describes, new and old products... View Details
- 01 Nov 2019
- What Do You Think?
Should Non-Compete Clauses Be Abolished?
of time 2-3 years.” Can rules on non-compete agreements be fixed? What do you think? Original Column Non-compete clauses (NCCs), which prohibit employees from leaving for other jobs with competitors, have been a fixture of American work... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 29 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
The History and Influence of Andy Grove
biographer Richard S. Tedlow puts it, Grove was "one of the master managers in the history of American business." A new biography, Andy Grove: The Life and Times of an American, will debut next week, written by Tedlow, the Class... View Details
- 03 Jun 2022
- Research & Ideas
In a Work-from-Anywhere World, How Remote Will Workers Go?
The American workforce has always migrated, moving wherever the jobs took them—traditionally, away from small towns and toward big cities. Now, as an increasing number of workplaces embrace remote work and allow people the flexibility to... View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin
- 16 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business
buell) is the Finnegan Family Associate Professor of Business Administration in the Technology and Operations Management Unit. Prithwiraj (Raj) Choudhury: Remote work will become strategic I’ve been studying remote work for years now,... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Dec 2011
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Clocky, the Runaway Alarm Clock
boutiques? (Nanda stuck with small museum shops and specialty catalogs at first, in spite of all the advance publicity.) Is it better to partner with an American product design firm and risk prohibitive expense, or to team up with a... View Details
- 23 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
COVID Was Supposed to Increase Bankruptcies. Instead, They've Gone Down.
very surprising to a lot of people. And I think it raises a lot of questions,” says Kluender, who studies the causes of financial distress among American households and how government, private insurance, and credit markets should function... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 06 May 2021
- HBS Case
How Four Women Made Miami More Equitable for Startups
other American cities as well. Too many people were left out and left behind, despite their grit and determination,” says Kanter, who cowrote the case with HBS Research Associate Joyce Kim. Miami’s gender and race roadblocks Miami, once... View Details
Keywords: by Carolyn DiPaolo
- 24 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Can Obamacare Be Saved?
On August 15th, Aetna announced that it would reduce by 80 percent its participation in the Obama administration’s public exchanges for health insurance policies in 2017, citing significant financial losses. The move came just a few weeks... View Details
- 24 Sep 2018
- Research & Ideas
How Cost Accounting is Improving Healthcare in Rural Haiti
School. Originally used to measure product and services costs in manufacturing, finance, and retail, TDABC had more recently been used to analyze expenses in large American hospitals. The Haiti study was the first time the system had been... View Details
- 30 Jun 2021
- In Practice
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2021
voting. It is the willingness to work together at the grass roots and in government to solve problems, as I argue in my own recent book, Think Outside the Building. "Instead of theories about democracy or its rise and fall, I plan to focus on how View Details
Keywords: by Kathryn Haviland
- 20 Jul 2020
- Op-Ed
It's Time for a Bipartisan Health Plan for Employers and Employees
coverage with tax-free contributions from employer-funded ICHRAs. This HRA-Public Option combination could reduce the premiums not only of the millions of insured SME employees and family members, but also... View Details
- 21 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
From Emerging Economies to the Global Market: The Case of Embraer
started the case for his elective course on Globalization and Strategy, said that it also illustrates the first efforts of the LARC advisory committee to address business issues unique to the region. "We started talking about what was distinctive about the Latin... View Details
- 18 Dec 2019
- Book
6 Skills That Wise Companies Harness for World-Changing Innovation
As a boy, Soichiro Honda, the eventual founder of Honda Motor Co., was infatuated with airplanes. At age 10 he biked 20 kilometers to see American pilots performing aerobatics near his home in Japan, climbing a tree to watch the show. It... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz