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June 2016
Article

When Doctors Go to Business School: Career Choices of Physician-MBAs

By: Damir Ljuboja, Brian W. Powers, Benjamin Robbins, Robert S. Huckman, Krishna Yeshwant and Sachin Jain

There has been substantial growth in the number of physicians pursuing Master of Business Administration (MBA) degrees over the past decade, but there is continuing debate over the utility of these programs and the career outcomes of their graduates. The authors... View Details

Keywords: Medical Education; MD; MBA; Physicians; Executive Education; Training; Personal Development and Career; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry; United States

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Research & Ideas

Could a Business Model Help Big Pharma Save Lives and Profit?

medicine to people who need it. And you’re actually growing your business,” Samuel told The BiGS Fix in an interview. “You find that you started from nothing, and you end up cultivating a viable market.” Samuel, Harvard View Details

Keywords: by Esther Schrader; Pharmaceutical; Health

06 Oct 2014
Research & Ideas

Why Businesses Need a Language Strategy

Lost sales. Friction. Inefficiency. These are dirty words in the world of business, and they are inevitabilities for companies that don't watch their language, so to speak. Harvard Business View Details

Keywords: Re: Tsedal Neeley

12 Aug 2002
Op-Ed

Using Big Business to Fight Poverty

corporations to local projects, the WDC would create profitable endeavors in order to reduce poverty permanently and irreversibly. As Harvard Business School Professor Ray... View Details

Keywords: by George C. Lodge

14 Oct 2013
Research & Ideas

Time that Government Reopens for Business

hard for them to accept the fact that a lot of the debt obligation is for commitments that have already been made—things like social security, disability benefits, and Medicaid. That said, I am reminded of a paper co-written by my colleague Bob Kaplan for the View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

03 Apr 2019
Book

Fintech's Game-Changing Opportunities for Small Business

Artificial intelligence, machine learning, and big data will transform financial services and small-business lending long before they impact driverless cars, predicts Harvard Business View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Banking; Financial Services

07 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

How to Help Small Businesses Survive COVID's Next Phase

action to just remembering to ‘shop small.’” About the Author Danielle Kost is senior editor of Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. [Image: ehrlif] Related Reading... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Food & Beverage; Service

09 Sep 2015
News

Alumni Survey on U.S. Competitiveness: U.S. Economy’s Failure to Generate Shared Prosperity a Concern for Business

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Online Business Courses for Organizations | HBS Online

Subjects Why Us Learning Model Programs Request Info Harvard Business School Online offers certificate and credential programs that help your employees master essential View Details

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A Business Investment for You & Your Organization

The Advanced Management Program (AMP) at Harvard Business School is the highest level of executive education. Throughout AMP, the global diversity of other senior executives... View Details

29 Jan 2022
News

How Companies’ Business Models Put Workers in a ‘Low-Wage Trap’—and How to Break the Cycle

30 Jun 2014
News

Are global companies wringing all of the innovation out of their businesses in pursuit of profits?

13 Sep 2021
Research & Ideas

Science: The Unlikely Frontier for New Business Ideas

million—more value to companies than patented inventions developed without citing scientific research, says a paper co-authored by Harvard Business School professor Joshua Lev... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

14 Mar 2022
Research & Ideas

Lessons from COVID-19: The Business Skills Doctors Need

practice. All of these abrupt changes called for medical professionals to have a certain level of management prowess, says Robert Huckman, Albert J. Weatherhead III Professor of Business Administration at View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

01 May 2020
In Practice

COVID-19’s Hard Lessons Might Prepare Business for Climate Change

The coronavirus pandemic caught the business world by surprise, but the catastrophe might force companies to face a crisis that has been unfolding in plain sight: climate change. We asked faculty members affiliated with the View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

31 Jul 2017
HBS Case

It’s Hard to Fix the Family Business Without Offending the Family

Transitioning to next-generation leadership in a family-run restaurant business is a tricky recipe. Credit: ansonmiao Harvard Business School... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Food & Beverage

18 Oct 2016
Op-Ed

Why Business Should Invest in Community Health

corporate attention than employee, consumer, and environmental health. In a survey of more than 80 companies attending the Building a Culture of Health conference at Harvard Business View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch, Howard Koh, and Pamela Yatsko; Health

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Online Business in Society Courses | HBS Online

Online Participant Sustainable Investing What sets HBS Online apart? Our flexible, online programs are designed to bring the Harvard Business School classroom to you, and are... View Details

01 Sep 2008
News

The Business Environment in the 21st century

The business leaders surveyed for the colloquium suggested several ways in which business schools generally, and HBS in particular, could play a role. They included research... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools

01 Mar 2008
News

Conference Examines Intersection of Medicine and Business

With a focus on cutting-edge ideas shaping global health care, the HBS Health Industry Alumni Association drew some 300 participants to its annual three-day conference in early November, held for the first time on the Harvard Medical... View Details