Healthcare As An Investment - Publications - Faculty & Research

12 Mar 2006
Research & Ideas

Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer

YaleGlobal piece mentions Growing Sustainable Business and the Investment Climate Facility for Africa as positive collaborations between business, government, and nongovernmental organizations. Are there... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

20 Mar 2017
Book

Why Companies Are Placing Users at the Core of Their Innovation Strategies

Harhoff, director of the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition in Munich. The book includes 25 original contributions providing an extensive view of user and open innovation by scholars from all over the world in a variety... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

19 Mar 2008
Research & Ideas

Finding Success in the Middle of the Market

returns on investment than those pursuing the first two strategies. The woes of once great retailers like Sears Roebuck are cited as evidence. But midfield is critical. It represents the middle of the... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch; Auto; Retail

06 Dec 2013
Op-Ed

HBS Faculty Remember Nelson Mandela

in his Cabinet. He brought foreign investment back to South Africa and empowered the disenfranchised black majority to take positions in those enterprises. He knew that he was an icon and shaped a culture... View Details

Keywords: by Nitin Nohria, Linda Hill, Rosabeth Moss Kanter & Gautam Mukunda

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

22 Jul 2002
Research & Ideas

How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”

outcomes. Instead, in most lines of business—with the exception of a few commodities in which international trade had developed—firms had an incentive to remain small and to employ as little fixed capital... View Details

Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat

11 May 2015
Research & Ideas

A Road Map to Fix America’s Transportation Infrastructure

Any highway commuter who has wasted hours stuck in traffic can see the cracks in the United States' transportation system, as can any airline passenger who has been stranded overnight in an airport. Yet while many agree that the need for infrastructure change is... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Transportation

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

29 Jun 2009
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Leading Change

there is a danger that commitment to an organization can undermine work-life balance. Successful CEOs are good role models. In addition to open and honest communication and continued investment in HCHP... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

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

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

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

27 Feb 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018

paper, I inductively find that rather than based on rapid, nonconscious impulse, as much of prior literature would suggest, what investors call their "gut feel" is an elaborate "intuiting... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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

06 Mar 2013
What Do You Think?

Who Should Manage Our Work Time?

laid the blame at the foot of "an engineer who had difficulty forecasting simple activities and (the) time to accomplish them." Joseph Mello commented that " part of the problem comes from the view of an organization View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Throwing Your Opponent: Strategies for the Internet Age

can use judo strategy to threaten an entrenched giant such as Microsoft, Microsoft's eventual success in the Internet "browser wars" shows that large, established companies can use these precepts effectively... View Details

Keywords: by Daniel Penrice

11 Jan 2011
First Look

First Look: Jan. 11

supervisor, peers, and customers. You're constantly fighting fires. You're mired in office politics. You end each day exhausted and discouraged, wondering what, if anything, you've accomplished. You're not alone. As Linda Hill and Kent... View Details