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04 Nov 2008
First Look

First Look: November 4, 2008

organizational boundaries. Innovations cannot reach a sufficient level of scale and impact unless they are integrated into the larger operations of the corporation. And yet, say recently retired Harvard Business School dean Cash, Oxford... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

13 Jun 2017
Research & Ideas

Why Global Investments Are Still a Good Bet

sense to be diversified than it used to in the past, since, at the end of the day, all markets are moving together,” says Luis Viceira, George E. Bates Professor and Senior Associate Dean for International Development at Harvard Business... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

04 Sep 2001
Lessons from the Classroom

Getting Back on Course

When Harvard Business School dean Kim B. Clark returned from a road tour a couple of years ago, he had some important issues he wanted to discuss with Professor Myra M. Hart. Evidence—granted, most of it anecdotal—was mounting to show... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

05 Dec 2013
What Do You Think?

Is Walmart Defying Economic Gravity?

information-driven model by gaining a better understanding of product and customer relationships." Dean Vella cited Walmart's innovation in supply chain management and sustainability as ways in which it is reducing the friction... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Retail

17 Apr 2013
Research Event

Conference Challenges Gender Conventions

still have a ways to go," added Ely, the Diane Doerge Wilson Professor of Business Administration and senior associate dean for Culture and Community. The conference, held from February 27 to March 1, is one of a series of... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish

28 Oct 2009
Lessons from the Classroom

HBS Begins Teaching Consumer Finance

dovetailed nicely with my role as senior associate dean for Planning and University Affairs. Q: It would seem that the timing was perfect given the many consumer credit and debt issues that played key roles in the economic crisis that hit... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Financial Services; Education

January 2, 2020
Article

Changes in Quality of Care After Hospital Mergers and Acquisitions

By: Nancy Dean Beaulieu, Leemore S. Dafny, B. E. Landon, Jesse Dalton, Ifedayo Kuye and J. Michael McWilliams

Background: The hospital industry has consolidated substantially during the past two decades and at an accelerated pace since 2010. Multiple studies have shown that hospital mergers have led to higher prices for commercially insured patients, but research about effects... View Details

Keywords: Hospitals; Mergers and Acquisitions; Health Care and Treatment; Quality

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12 Nov 2008
Research & Ideas

The Marketing of a President

fundraising prowess was aided by his appreciation and use of all communications media, notably the Internet, to engage voters. Obama picked up where Howard Dean left off. He leveraged his website, the blogosphere, and even user-generated... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch

31 Oct 2004
What Do You Think?

Should the Wisdom of Crowds Influence Our Thinking About Leadership?

crowd…." As Dean Robb put it, "... the use of the term 'crowd' is inappropriate, because crowds generally fail the test of independence from each other's decisions." Others saw the findings strongly affirming the role... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

25 Apr 2000
Research & Ideas

Adjusting the Fit for Government

pointed out. Panelist Dean Donovan, managing partner of Bain & Company in South Africa, said the imperatives for African governments are many, and are all intertwined. The key underpinnings include a health policy that deals with... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

09 Apr 2008
Research & Ideas

The Matchmaker of the Modern Economy

regulations. Dean Donald K. David of Harvard Business School; Merrill Griswold, the President of Massachusetts Investors Trust; and several other prominent industrialists and lawyers mounted a successful campaign to relax the laws of... View Details

Keywords: by Spencer E. Ante

06 Jun 2012
What Do You Think?

Is Something Wrong with the Way We Work?

created by customers and clients and their increasing expectations that we be available day and night. Even more can be laid at the feet of leadership. But ultimately the primary culprit is us. That's my sense of the comments concerning this month's topic. As View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Consulting

08 Apr 2009
Research & Ideas

Clayton Christensen on Disrupting Health Care

insurance, drug, retail, and medical device companies; deans of medical schools; and employers, who pay the bulk of health-care costs. All these parties interact in an interdependent way inside the current system and need to work together... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; Health

02 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Why Have Marketers Ignored America’s Man-of-Action Hero?

their leisure and consumption. Most recently this idea was popularized by Susan Faludi in her book Stiffed as well as by Robert Bly in Iron John. When you enter the everyday life of American men, you don't find men whimpering about their 9-to-6 job only to become James... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

07 Dec 2016
HBS Case

Why Millennials Flock to Fintech for Personal Investing

competitive with someone who is personally advising you, and at a fraction of the cost,” says Luis Viceira, George E. Bates Professor and Senior Associate Dean for International Development at Harvard Business School. Viceira explores... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

05 Feb 2009
What Do You Think?

Why Can’t We Figure Out How to Select Leaders?

As Stevan Trooboff put it, "... the problem in picking leaders lies as much with definition of what types of leadership is required as in the process of selection itself." Dean Madison asked whether, in selecting leaders, we are... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

30 Apr 2014
Research & Ideas

Venture Investors Prefer Funding Handsome Men

Management; and Fiona E. Murray, associate dean of innovation at Sloan and Kearney's thesis adviser. “Our paper provides concrete proof that gender discrimination exists in the context of entrepreneurial pitching” As a behavioral... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services

14 Nov 2019
Book

Lifting the Lid on Turkey's Hidden Business History

Fellow at HBS, were fortunate to have access to the family leadership and archives of the Koç group through the intervention of the late former Dean of the School, John H. McArthur, who sat on the Board of the holding company. The career... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

28 Jul 2006
Research & Ideas

Meeting China’s Need for Management Education

of those areas. However, our experience has been that by working at both the institutional level (with universities and ministries of education) and with individual faculty and their deans and leaders we have been able to build strong... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Education

18 Jun 2012
Research & Ideas

Better by the Bunch: Evaluating Job Candidates in Groups

people are evaluated jointly rather than separately regarding their future performance. These findings are presented in the working paper When Performance Trumps Gender Bias: Joint versus Separate Evaluation, coauthored by HKS Professor and academic View Details