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- 12 Feb 2016
- News
Creating Common Ground in Communities of Conflict
to Saudi Arabia, where they lived in exile for nearly a decade. They eventually returned to Pakistan, and she was given the opportunity to follow her brother to the United States for education and eventually... View Details
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- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Life Lessons
the loss of my father taught me perseverance, independence, and hard work,” he observes. “It prepared me for later challenges.” After a charismatic West Point recruiter visited his high school, Sundy applied for and received an appointment to the View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2019
consumer, today’s competition, and the wealth of media at your disposal. In-depth discussion highlights the field’s ever-increasing connectivity, with practical guidance on brand design and storytelling, social media marketing, branding in the View Details
- 29 Jun 2015
- HBS Case
Consumer-centered Health Care Depends on Accessible Medical Records
deliver this extra-added value service." Electronic Health Records Promoted In 2014, health care spending in the United States exceeded $3 trillion and was expected to reach $4.5 trillion by 2020. To... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Allston Options Up for Discussion
The report recommended fast and frequent shuttle service between Cambridge, Allston, and the Longwood Medical Center. It also suggested several transportation options, including new through streets, a new pedestrian bridge across the... View Details
- 22 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
“Too Big To Fail”: Reining In Large Financial Firms
the past to lower risk and instill consumer confidence. "From the founding of the republic until 1933, the United States experienced banking panics roughly every fifteen to twenty years," explains Moss. When... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Your Own Medicine
may not prove to be tolerable, and it may or may not prove to be efficacious," says Tracy. "But even if it doesn't, I feel that what we've done has bushwhacked a path." For Williams, he sees the potential for impact writ large. He offers numbers: About 5 million kids... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Rowing Upstream
not-so-pretty picture of a frustrating and baffling decline in performance by the varsity boat at the United States Military Academy. Polzer, whose teaching and research focus on organizational behavior,... View Details
- 11 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 11
about where to take the U.S. Digital Service (USDS) next. In the summer of 2015, they had landed in London to meet with Mike Bracken, director of the United Kingdom’s... View Details
- 27 Nov 2013
- News
No Bologna, Please
With nearly 1,800 stores in 44 states and Ontario, Canada, the company and its franchisees employ about 80,000 workers and saw system-wide sales of nearly $4 billion in 2012. Menu items include a range of quick but distinctive options,... View Details
- 02 Dec 2013
- Research & Ideas
Companies Choreograph Earnings Calls to Hide Bad News
adds-analysts could be required to state their buy/sell recommendation as they joined the call, for example. Or when the transcript was published, it could include the names of everyone who wanted to ask a question and didn't get into the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Naina Lal Kidwai
environment. The impact of a $500 million deal here is probably greater than a $5 billion deal in the United States — typically such a deal would be an industry trendsetter or a sector’s first-ever... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
How to Take a Stand On UBS and Climate Change
financial services companies as it determines its stand on a matter of increasing public prominence. Oberholzer-Gee teaches the case in Strategies Beyond the Market, a second-year elective that focuses on the interplay between business... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
An American Odyssey
coauthored two books. But his longest sustained commitment has been to help public and private decision-makers more fully understand the causes of black poverty in the United States and underdevelopment in... View Details
- September 2010
- Teaching Note
Compass Maritime Services, LLC: Valuing Ships (TN)
By: Benjamin C. Esty and Albert W. Sheen
Teaching Note for 211014. View Details
- 24 Aug 2017
- News
Unlocking Potential
governments on the cost savings her program can provide. She says Reset is working to scale up toward a cost structure that is more affordable than prison {which in some states can cost more than $100,000 per year per inmate), with... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Staying the Course
million. “We knew we would grow,” Woolley-Wilson says of her 2020 outlook. “We knew we would grow fast. But you never think you will triple your website traffic.” For the education technology sector, the restrictions to traditional in-person schooling imposed by View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Wake-Up Call: Farewell to the American Dream?
University's Wagner School of Public Policy. In The End of Affluence, you write that since 1870, America's productivity - the output of goods and services per hour of work - grew at an average annual rate of 2.25 percent until 1973. Since... View Details
- 25 Jul 2013
- News
An Engine of Education Innovation
says he owes to his immigrant background—he moved to the States from Denmark at age 9—as well as a yearlong experience he had as a teacher and assistant principal at an inner-city school in New York City just before coming to Harvard. "It... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
The End of Cows?
is now used to raise or grow feed for livestock. As Alvarez notes in the case, the United States alone is home to 90 million cattle. Each animal creates 65 pounds of waste a day, the processing of which... View Details