Healthcare As An Investment - Publications - Faculty & Research

18 Apr 2005
Research & Ideas

Prosper with Multi-Channel Retailing

experience on the Internet. The site is set up for e-commerce, but the company views it more as a way to build its brand: Customers can download video clips, watch footage of extreme sports, or learn about View Details

Keywords: by Julie Jette; Consumer Products; Retail

14 Jun 2011
First Look

First Look: June 14

likely to subsidize sellers (buyers) when its investment in first-party content is higher. These results hold with both simultaneous and sequential entry of the two sides. With two competing platforms-an incumbent facing favorable... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

22 Aug 2005
Research & Ideas

Balancing the Future Against Today’s Needs

leaders must bring to bear a new perspective on how growth efforts are situated in their companies, how they measure and reward executing the present and building the future, and how they align behaviors to their specific growth initiatives. Planting New Trees In View Details

Keywords: by Paul Michelman

23 Feb 2004
Research & Ideas

It’s Back to Business-Basics for Nonprofits

of The Bridgespan Group, a not-for-profit strategic consulting firm dedicated to nonprofits. Bradach spoke to an audience at Harvard Business School on January 21, 2004 as part of the Social Enterprise... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

18 Apr 2012
Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Who Controls Water?

Although much of the globe is awash in it, the allocation of water for human consumption is anything but easy. As the planet's population grows, urbanizes, and is subjected to climate change, many experts foresee a global water crisis... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish; Agriculture & Agribusiness

01 Feb 2000
Research & Ideas

Keeping Track: Performance Measurement, Control & Strategy

professor Robert Simons has been adding to that body of knowledge and practice through an extensive research agenda that has resulted in numerous books, articles, and case studies. Working Knowledge editor Jim Aisner sat down recently... View Details

Keywords: Re: Robert Simons

21 Jan 2009
First Look

First Look: January 21, 2009

Capital Management was evaluating the purchase of a pool of U.S. residential mortgages. The firm had formed an investment vehicle to acquire troubled residential mortgages from banks and other motivated... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

22 Aug 2006
First Look

First Look: August 22, 2006

capital investing has reached an all-time high. Although their background skills and experiences fall outside venture capital, they have identified a large investor and a number of smaller investors to back... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

17 Oct 2013
Research & Ideas

Reserve Bank Governor Discusses India’s Financial Opportunities

"The fans don't realize the weaknesses existed even during the good times," he told an audience of Harvard Business School students and faculty members on Tuesday. "The team was never as good... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

26 May 2015
Research & Ideas

Corporate Field Researchers Share Tricks of the Trade

showing how certain investors spend a lot of time in private meetings with corporate executives—and how this gives the investors an unfair advantage, in spite of Federal regulations that are supposed to level the View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

02 Nov 2016
What Do You Think?

Are Employees Becoming Job 'Renters' Instead of 'Owners'?

ownership. Tema Frank suggested that “If you want employees to behave like owners, they need to be allowed to express opinions and have them taken seriously.” LuAnne suggested that, “If you want an ownership culture, View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

02 Sep 2013
Research & Ideas

The Curse of Double-Digit Growth

Double-digit long-term growth might justify bragging rights for any country. But a turbocharged GDP comes at a price, says Eric D. Werker, an associate professor in the Business, Government and International Economy unit at Harvard... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

01 Jul 2002
Research & Ideas

What it Takes to Lead Through Turmoil

malapropism as saying, "take it." More than a funny Yogi-ism, the words suggest a fundamental truth for companies wanting not only to survive times of disruption, change, and surprise, but lead through it, Kanter suggests.... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

15 Apr 2013
Research & Ideas

Solving the Search vs. Display Advertising Quandary

these investments motivated consumers to plunk down their credit cards or fill out an application for a service. That's why the Internet has been such a godsend to companies, says Sunil Gupta, the Edward W.... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Advertising

15 Sep 2011
Research & Ideas

High Ambition Leadership

fashion and execute against a higher-ambition agenda. Q: Many companies in your book have a global reach. At the same time, however, they are often connected to a local identity or home base. How do higher-ambition leaders view culture? How do they treat culture View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

28 Mar 2011
Research & Ideas

Why Manufacturing Matters

United States is still an innovation powerhouse? Shih: I think so. But the problem comes about as more manufacturing moves offshore and commercialization capabilities diminish. Flat-panel displays are a good... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Manufacturing

15 Feb 2000
Lessons from the Classroom

Delivering Information Services: A 30-Year Perspective

Nolan: Better educated and more accepting of CIOs as partners. EE: As much as CIOs have this new leadership role, they must also be careful not to steer the company down View Details

Keywords: by Staff

19 Nov 2012
Research & Ideas

LEED-ing by Example

Simcoe, an assistant professor at Boston University, adds that such policies might also resolve a type of coordination problem often seen in the diffusion of technology standards, such as the Universal... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Construction; Real Estate; Energy; Utilities

07 Jan 2009
What Do You Think?

Is the World Really Flat?

know-how are applied. The iPod, for example, was an example of purchased (largely non-U.S.) technological innovations combined with Apple design capability and knowledge of the U.S. market, where the vast majority have been sold. If one... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

19 Dec 2005
Research & Ideas

Public Education Goes to School

working paper, published this year, titled "Promoting a Management Revolution in Public Education." Mallory Stark: How does the PELP program operate? Stacey Childress and Allen Grossman: PELP operates as a learning laboratory... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark; Education

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