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By: Leemore S. Dafny
U.S. Healthcare Strategy

The U.S. healthcare sector accounts for 17 percent of GDP, and encompasses a diverse set of industries with public, nonprofit, and for-profit buyers and sellers. There are significant concerns about high and rising spending, and... View Details
Keywords: Healthcare; Health; Healthcare Reform; Life Sciences; Health Industry; United States

    What Professional Service Firms Must Do to Thrive

    During times of economic turbulence, consulting, law, and accounting firms often start offering services and taking on clients they really shouldn’t, just to keep the lights on. This path is perilous. If a firm’s practices have a diffuse mix of clients and unclear... View Details

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    Hurry or Wait: The Pros and Cons of Going Fast or Slow on Climate Change

    By: Eleanor Denny and Jurgen Weiss
    Climate change risk will likely force the de-carbonization of our electricity sector and thus involve massive investments in long-lived assets using many new and emerging technologies. Since technological progress (independent or dependent on deployment) will likely... View Details
    Keywords: Electricity Sector; Environmental Risks; Fat Tails; Greenhouse Gas Emissions; Climate Change; Information Technology; Investment; Technological Innovation; Cost vs Benefits
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    • 11 Oct 2024
    • Blog Post

    Committing to Work and Family: Allison Boxer (MBA 2012)

    back to work, and I knew right away I wanted more time at home with him. I thought I would fall back into work, but I found that it wasn’t what I wanted. As someone who was used to chasing career goals, it... View Details
    Keywords: All Industries
    • 18 Dec 2018
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018

    Business School Case 118-017 Royal Philips: Designing Toward Profound Change This case explores Royal Philips CEO Frans van Houten's bold use of design research to inform a critical strategic decision:... View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
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    Professor Schreger studies international finance and macroeconomics, with an emphasis on sovereign debt. Following a series of sovereign debt crises in the 1980s and 1990s, which caused defaults among emerging markets governments on their foreign currency obligations,... View Details
    • March 16, 2021
    • Article

    From Driverless Dilemmas to More Practical Commonsense Tests for Automated Vehicles

    By: Julian De Freitas, Andrea Censi, Bryant Walker Smith, Luigi Di Lillo, Sam E. Anthony and Emilio Frazzoli
    For the first time in history, automated vehicles (AVs) are being deployed in populated environments. This unprecedented transformation of our everyday lives demands a significant undertaking: endowing complex autonomous systems with ethically acceptable behavior. We... View Details
    Keywords: Automated Driving; Public Health; Artificial Intelligence; Transportation; Health; Ethics; Policy; AI and Machine Learning
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    • January–February 2020
    • Article

    Competing in the Age of AI

    By: Marco Iansiti and Karim R. Lakhani
    Today’s markets are being reshaped by a new kind of firm—one in which artificial intelligence (AI) runs the show. This cohort includes giants like Google, Facebook, and Alibaba, and growing businesses such as Wayfair and Ocado. Every time we use their services, the... View Details
    Keywords: Artificial Intelligence; Algorithms; Technological Innovation; Business Model; Competition; Competitive Strategy; AI and Machine Learning
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    • November 2019
    • Case

    DeepMap: Charting the Road Ahead for Autonomous Vehicles

    By: Shane Greenstein and Nicole Tempest Keller
    Founded in 2016, DeepMap developed high definition (HD) mapping software and localization services for Level 4+ autonomous vehicles. Traditional navigational maps were accurate to a few meters, which was sufficient for drivers but not for machine-driven vehicles that... View Details
    Keywords: Mapping Software; Autonomous Vehicles; Business Startups; Applications and Software; Technological Innovation; Technology Adoption; Service Delivery; Global Range; Resource Allocation; Strategic Planning; Technology Industry; Auto Industry
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    • September 2019
    • Article

    The Persistence of Broadband User Behavior: Implications for Universal Service and Competition Policy

    By: Andre Boik, Shane Greenstein and Jeffrey Prince
    In several markets, firms compete not for consumer expenditure but consumer attention. We examine user priorities over the allocation of their time, and interpret that behavior in light of salient tensions in policy discussions over universal service, data caps, and... View Details
    Keywords: Broadband Service; Attention Allocation; Consumer Behavior; Household; Internet and the Web; Competition; Policy
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    • 2009
    • Working Paper

    The End of Chimerica

    By: Niall Ferguson and Moritz Schularick
    For the better part of the past decade, the world economy has been dominated by a world economic order that combined Chinese export-led development with US over-consumption. The financial crisis of 2007-2009 likely marks the beginning of the end of the Chimerican... View Details
    Keywords: History; Globalized Economies and Regions; Currency Exchange Rate; Economic Growth; Trade; Financial Crisis; China; United States
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    • 12 Mar 2019
    • Blog Post

    What I Learned in the Africa Rising Short Intensive Program

    pipeline of talented managers and team members capable of sustained high-quality execution.  Having spent a few years in the US before coming to HBS, I have been repeatedly asked different variations of the question “is it the right View Details
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    Leading Global Businesses

    authentic global leader who can step up to more challenging roles. You'll develop global acumen in realms as diverse as purposeful leadership in a multi-stakeholder world, strategy, customer-centric marketing, the structure, culture and operation of global... View Details
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    Senior Executive Leadership Program—China

    Boston, you will spend most of your time in an area of the HBS campus designed for Executive Education, with living quarters and amenities that maximize your comfort while facilitating small group discussions. Classrooms, supported by the... View Details
    • 14 Mar 2018
    • Blog Post

    The 2+2 Program: Finding the Freedom to Take Risks

    make sense on that path?” I quickly realized that I didn’t need the answers – in fact, the beauty of 2+2 is the time it gives you to explore, ask questions, and learn. I decided to dive in and, looking back, it was the best decision of my... View Details
    • 07 Jul 2022
    • HBS Case

    How a Multimillion-Dollar Ice Cream Startup Melted Down (and Bounced Back)

    business on a new and unsustainable path. One day, while hand-packing an ice cream order, the couple noticed that Robert Iger, CEO of Disney at the time, was the customer who would receive it. They added a cookbook and a personal note in... View Details
    Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
    • 12 Jun 2012
    • First Look

    First Look: June 12

    customer, there is no value. Instead of using pricing in a way that turns customers into adversaries, companies can use it to enlarge the pie. That means viewing customers as partners in value creation-a... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 15 Feb 2011
    • First Look

    First Look: Feb. 15

    performance in organizations. Using a field experiment at a Japanese bank, we investigate the effects of valence (positive versus negative), type (direct versus indirect), and timing of feedback (one-shot... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 19 Sep 2023
    • HBS Case

    How Will the Tech Titans Behind ChatGPT, Bard, and LLaMA Make Money?

    The dizzying explosion of generative artificial intelligence platforms has been the big business story of the past year, but how they’ll make money and how smart companies can use them wisely are the questions that will dominate the next... View Details
    Keywords: by Ben Rand; Technology; Information Technology
    • 01 Dec 2023
    • Blog Post

    8 FAQs on the MBA Application

    is useful as you finalize your applications in the next few weeks! We also encourage you to check out the FAQs webpage and our Pep Talk video series. Top 5 Questions We Get from Applicants 1. Does HBS have a preference between the GMAT... View Details