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The Panama Canal

The Big Ditch is the first quantitative economic history of the Panama Canal and its effect on Panama, the United States, and the world economy. It makes three general arguments. First, that the Panama Canal was very important to... View Details

12 May 2021
Book

The Hard Truth About Being a CEO

critically important only up to a point [to employees], but the real motivation comes from an emotional connection that you feel—either that you are more highly valued than someone else because of the natural competitiveness of human... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

13 Oct 2011
Lessons from the Classroom

Building a Business in the Context of a Life

they have the same goal of allowing participants to evaluate what's important to them both personally and professionally and creating a "life plan" for getting where they want to go. Some MBA students, most of whom are in their 20s, have... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Education

07 Jun 2023
Blog Post

My One Case: MBA Class of 2023 Looks Back

retention when compared to competitors. It was fun to find a virtuous cycle within a business model that has nothing to do with the network effects of a tech platform. The case was extremely important in highlighting why we should look... View Details

16 Oct 2023
HBS Case

Advancing Black Talent: From the Flight Ramp to 'Family-Sustaining' Careers at Delta

Keyra Lynn Johnson. “The frontline perspective can give management important insight into the employee experience and what customers really want from the airline.” Delta has reclassified most jobs that had previously required a degree and... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Air Transportation

16 Nov 2021
HBS Case

How a Company Made Employees So Miserable, They Killed Themselves

purpose, and in turn put workers at a greater risk for depression, opioid addiction, and even suicide, Whillans says. “It’s important for managers to realize the psychological threat that workers are facing as they come up against ageism... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

30 Sep 2002
Research & Ideas

Your Crisis Response Plan: The Ten Effective Elements

flexibility to deal with unexpected scenarios or combinations of scenarios. This is important because real crises rarely directly match planning scenarios. If response options aren't flexible and modularized, novel events or combinations... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Watkins

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Europe - Global

Europe Paris HBS opened the Europe Research Center (ERC) in Paris in 2003, to help HBS develop and strengthen relationships with European business and academic leaders. The ERC enables HBS faculty to study more effectively one of the world’s most View Details

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Develop Your Career Vision - Alumni

Life Criteria As you embark on your job search, we recommend you create your Career and Life Criteria early in the process. Career and Life Criteria are single clear concepts that hold meaning and can be a pillar for moving your life and work forward. They are View Details

23 Apr 2014
Working Paper Summaries

Corporate Financial Policies in Misvalued Credit Markets

Keywords: by Jarrad Harford, Marc Martos-Vila & Matthew Rhodes-Kropf; Financial Services; Banking

22 Apr 2013
Working Paper Summaries

Competing with Privacy

Keywords: by Ramon Casadesus-Masanell & Andres Hervas-Drane; Publishing

Article

Spending Variation Among ACOs in the Medicare Shared Savings Program

By: Michael Anne Kyle, J. Michael McWilliams, Mary Beth Landrum, Bruce E. Landon, Paul Trompke, David J. Nyweide and Michael E. Chernew

OBJECTIVES: Understanding variation in spending across organizations, rather than across geographic areas, is important because care is delivered by organizations and interventions increasingly focus on organizations. Accountable care organizations (ACOs) are... View Details

Keywords: Medicare; Accountable Care Organizations; ACOs; Health Care and Treatment; Spending; Analysis

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02 Mar 2007
What Do You Think?

What Is the Government’s Role in US Health Care?

their skills" in providing basic healthcare. And Hakan Hillerstrom implied that consumer education and choice may be an important response to many of these challenges. In spite of the issues' complexity, Richard Fallis offered the... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Health

01 Jun 2024
News

In My Humble Opinion: Career Change

says. “What’s important is how you take charge of your career.” Now, Tanaka is helping others take charge. In March 2023, she became the country manager of LinkedIn Japan. Though the professional networking platform opened its first... View Details

Keywords: Michelle Cassidy; recruitment; demographics; Japan

2019
Article

Can Big Data Improve Firm Decision Quality? The Role of Data Quality and Data Diagnosticity

By: Maryam Ghasemaghaei and Goran Calic

Anecdotal evidence suggests that, despite the large variety of data, the huge volume of generated data, and the fast velocity of obtaining data (i.e., big data), quality of big data is far from perfect. Therefore, many firms defer collecting and integrating big data as... View Details

Keywords: Big Data; Analytics and Data Science; Decisions; Quality

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21 Jun 2011
First Look

First Look: June 21

Financial history is not conventionally thought of in evolutionary terms, but it should be. Traditional ways of thinking about finance, dating back to Hilferding, emphasize the importance of concentration and economies of scale. But these... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

25 Jan 2021
Book

In a Nutshell, Why American Capitalism Succeeded

How did the United States become the world’s center of business growth following its founding in 1776? Surely a number of nations had powerful natural resources, stable financial and legal institutions, and dynamic entrepreneurs over that same span. Why was American... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Manufacturing

02 Jun 2022
Research & Ideas

Blissful Thinking: When It Comes to Finding Happiness, 'Your Dreams Are Liars'

wasn’t satisfied, I was working 80 hours a week, my relationships weren’t what I wished they were, and I was marginalizing things that should probably be more important to me. And I said, “What the hell, man?” On a plane one day, I... View Details

Keywords: by Dan Morrell

12 PM – 1 PM EDT, 20 Oct 2016
Webinars: Trending@HBS

Developing and Delivering Strong Pitches

Entrepreneurs--whether building and launching their own venture or launching new ventures in established businesses--are called on daily to explain the business opportunity they are pursuing to potential customers, partners, suppliers, advisers, investors, and... View Details

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Human Relations and Harvard Business School – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

Business School The subject of human relations in industry is one of the most important things in the whole field of business and one which we must investigate and teach. Wallace B. Donham, Dean of Harvard Business School to Harvard... View Details

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