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Health Care - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

78.6 yrs is the US life expectancy which is lower than many nations who spend far less on health care 5.9 deaths per 1000 births is the US infant mortality rate which is higher than many nations spending far less on thealth care.... View Details

01 Dec 2023
News

Wide Horizon

at his car, completely shearing off its front. The sudden fury of the events had him expecting death or at the very least severe pain; only a few inches separated him from both. In the split second of stillness that followed the impact,... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; Photos by Sarah Wilson

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2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

key to their success allows us to understand what legacy brands should be doing differently. Participants left the session with an understanding of the challenges facing legacy brands and what to do about it. The Venture Capital "Big Bang" and Its Aftermath: View Details

27 Jun 2005
Research & Ideas

Asian and American Leadership Styles: How Are They Unique?

the establishment of the U.S. homeland security hierarchy. Li's personal story is an amazing tale of success. After the death of his father, Li—at age twelve—went to work in a plastics factory. Within a decade he started his own plastics... View Details

Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills

15 Nov 2022
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Stop Ignoring Bad Behavior: 6 Tips for Better Ethics at Work

more high-dosage OxyContin prescriptions, which exacerbated patients’ addictions. Meanwhile, there were more than 68,000 opioid addiction deaths in the US in 2020, nearly a 17-fold increase over the 4,000 opioid overdose View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds

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Thought Leader: Gary Pisano

by Amy Bernstein, strategy+business, Summer 2007

A leading student of the biotech business describes the problems holding the industry back, and how it can overcome... View Details

01 Oct 2021
Research & Ideas

Dying to Lead: How Reaching the Top Can Kill You Sooner

high-level business executives died three to five years earlier on average than lower-level workers at GE, and the research links the deaths to work-related stress. “What we’re beginning to understand is that life at the top isn’t that... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

03 Jun 2013
Research & Ideas

The Power of Rituals in Life, Death, and Business

All over the world, people in pain turn to rituals in the face of loss—no matter if it's the death of a loved one (dressing in black, for example), the end of a relationship (burning old love letters), or the crushing defeat in a Little... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

18 Jul 2023
Research & Ideas

Will Global Demand for Oil Peak This Decade?

Is the globe’s thirst for oil finally topping out? A major international energy watcher says yes, predicting last month that demand for global oil for transport will peak around 2026, plateau for all uses by 2028, and possibly hit a zenith by the end of the decade.... View Details

Keywords: by Alvin Powell, Harvard Gazette; Energy; Industrial Products; Auto; Green Technology

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Health-care Applications

Active postmarketing drug surveillance. There is substantial interest within the U.S. health community and among health policymakers in developing a surveillance system that scans public health databases in order to proactively detect potential drug safety... View Details

05 May 2022
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College Degrees: The Job Requirement Companies Seek, but Don't Really Need

retention practices, notes that the new HBS note comes at a time of ongoing racial reckoning sparked by the police killing of George Floyd, whose death two years ago shined a light on numerous inequities faced by Black Americans,... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

01 Jun 2000
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Going Public: Margaret M. Crotty

Save the Children and thought that Bryant Gumbel might make a donation," she laughs. The reasoning was classic Crotty: bold, altruistic, and always focused on drawing others into a good cause. Crotty's brush with death came toward the end... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

30 Sep 2019
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6 Steps to Building a Better Workplace for Black Employees

asked his staff to gather for a series of conversations about race. Two years later, when one of PwC’s own black employees was shot to death by an off-duty police officer, Ryan emailed his employees with a plea to keep talking. Yet, the... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

24 Apr 2017
Op-Ed

Op-Ed: Courage: The Defining Characteristic of Great Leaders

W. Bush to bail the company out. Even so, GM declared bankruptcy months later. Mary Barra, GM’s CEO since 2014, demonstrates the difference courage can make. Immediately after her appointment, she testified before a hostile Senate investigating committee about View Details

Keywords: by Bill George; Auto; Food & Beverage

19 Apr 2010
Research & Ideas

The History of Beauty

The technology to make soap was known for several thousand years, but the product was rarely used for personal washing, especially by Europeans who largely avoided washing with water after the Black Death in the Middle Ages, believing it... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Beauty & Cosmetics

25 Aug 2014
HBS Case

Starbucks Reinvented

what could have been the company's death knell as the financial crisis hit home and consumers cinched their belts. "Schultz understood that you can't lift your foot off the gas pedal when you're attempting to transform a... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Food & Beverage

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Partners - Case Method Project

History, Politics, Current Issues, Life & Death MA 157 of 159 Peter Turner Newtown North High School Newtonville, MA Subjects: AP American Studies MA 158 of 159 Alexander Uryga Matignon High School Cambridge, MA MA 159 of 159 Miriam... View Details

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Lehman Brothers Family Partners | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Lehman Robert Lehman, also known as Bobbie, led Lehman Brothers from 1925 until his death in 1969, guiding the firm through the Great Depression into the postwar economic growth of the 1950s and 60s. Robert’s great passion was art. After... View Details

29 Sep 2022
Op-Ed

Inclusive Leadership Advice: Get Comfortable With the Uncomfortable

disapproval takes the form of silence—“the death pause,” as Pixar’s Ed Catmull describes it. Improv comedy teaches us to keep an open mind, understanding that communication drives insight and that closed conversations generally fail.... View Details

Keywords: by Francesca Gino

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News - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Millions to Boost Baltimore Economy Businesses Pledge Millions to Boost Baltimore Economy by Michael E. Porter Mar 15, 2016 Media Mention The costs of inequality: Faster lives, quicker deaths The costs of inequality: Faster lives, quicker... View Details

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