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- 10 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
COVID's Surprising Toll on Careers of Women Scientists
isn’t often considered when institutions craft broad work policy meant to cover as many employees as possible. The issue may linger as institutions plan to reopen amid the... View Details
- 09 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
How to Communicate your Organizations’ People-Centered Values
Director of Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging at Harvard Business School, offered the following guidance to help organizations understand the metrics that serve as a baseline for diversity and inclusion initiatives and improve View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 16 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 16
development of host developing countries. A hypothesis is suggested that, given adequate domestic growth-supporting institutions and human capital development, developing countries achieve more sustained development from excluding... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Dec 2013
- Op-Ed
Encourage Breakthrough Health Care by Competing on Products Rather Than Patents
Edythe L. Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, at November's Healing Ourselves Health Care Forum event. There, Lander made a potent case for creating a multi-corporate consortium that would openly share... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Case Study: The Doctor Deficit
that today’s nurse shortage could reach 1.2 million vacancies in the same time frame. Alexi Nazem (MBA 2011) has seen the impact of these shortages firsthand. “Health care is a very broken system,” says the doctor and cofounder of Nomad Health, an online marketplace... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Meditations on the Bottom Line
to this unusual business challenge, however, it's Bothwick. "Most of my career since leaving HBS has focused on the 'people' aspect of business," she explains. Bothwick spent eighteen years at International Paper Company, where she worked in a View Details
- Profile
Terrance McGuire
effort. With MIT, the Broad Institute and the Whitehead Institute as centers of biomedical research, the Kendall Square section of Cambridge has become a fertile birthing... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Dean Clark Reflects on the School’s Key Initiatives
passionate teaching, the building of intellectual capital, and the broad communication of ideas, we are advancing knowledge of how organizations and institutions can perform more effectively and, ultimately,... View Details
- 18 Apr 2019
- Research & Ideas
Open Innovation Contestants Build AI-Based Cancer Tool
contests with real impact in healthcare. We have two programs underway with the Connectivity MAP at the Broad Institute for accelerating drug discovery, and one program with Massachusetts General Hospital on... View Details
- 27 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Coffee Economy That Bloomed Out of Nowhere
her academic career studying the coffee economy of southern Mexico in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. While her geographical focus is narrow, her research yields insights into export economies—and broad lessons for anyone... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Africa's Way
In recent years, trends toward economic growth, decreased financial regulation, and broad political change have led to more democratic societies, creating conditions for what some have called an African renaissance. READ MORE Mandela in... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young and Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Educating, Connecting, and Mobilizing Around Climate Change
for tomorrow. The BEI aims to leverage HBS’s unique platform to help move the needle on climate change and accelerate climate solutions. Critical issues such as these are also among the focal points for HBS’s new Institute for the Study... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 12 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurship and Multinationals Drive Globalization
Excerpt Second, I wanted to demonstrate the relative importance of business compared to governments and other institutional actors in building global capitalism. In both the historical and economics literatures, firms are typically... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- Research & Ideas
The Popular Stock Metric That Can Lead Investors Astray
to spot potentially underpriced stocks, and major stock indexes and institutional investors lean on the metric as well. Yet, in an examination of thousands of stocks over a period of nearly 40 years, Wang and colleagues find that the... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Merton's Economics Research Wins Nobel Prize
evaluation began when he was a graduate student in applied mathematics at the California Institute of Technology and intensified in the late 1960s, when he went to MIT to study economics under Nobel Laureate Paul Samuelson. At MIT, he... View Details
- 06 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 6
requirements, reorienting the discussion around housing finance reform from keeping mortgage credit cheap to ensuring financial stability, and instituting measures that compel asset managers to compete on the true value of the services... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Transforming Education through Social Entrepreneurship - Course Catalog
a wide range of topics across K-12 and higher education. Topics include education reform efforts, adaptive and personalized learning approaches, disruptive innovations such as AI and machine learning, and system-level change efforts. The View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
A Binary Formula
Professor of Management Practice Vicki Sato, led a discussion on “Emerging Models of University Research,” with cases that looked at the Harvard-affiliated Whitesides Lab, Stem Cell Institute, and Broad Institute. Sato, a Ph.D. in biology... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
The Next Big Thing
prominence to the role of dynamic clusters as a key to regional and national economic success. He defines clusters as geographic concentrations of interconnected companies and institutions in a particular field. At the summit, Porter... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Fred Lazarus: Art Work at the Office
IV (MBA '66), who has led this august institution for the last twenty years, is neither. In fact, Lazarus claims no formal artistic training beyond auditing a single art history class in college. "When they interviewed me for the... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey Lazar