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- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Wyss Gift Supports HBS Doctoral Programs
HBS has received a $25 million gift to support doctoral programs from Hansjoerg Wyss (MBA ’65), an entrepreneur who built Synthes, Inc., into a leading international medical-device company specializing in orthopedic instruments and implants. “One of the greatest... View Details
- 05 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
Are Consumers the Cure for Broken Health Insurance?
use gatekeepers to impose stringent controls on care—were resisted by patients and physicians. In response, the managed care organizations began relaxing their controls, allowing patients more freedom to see... View Details
Keywords: by Regina E. Herzlinger
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Reinventing the Annual Report
types of narratives, and lots of pretty pictures. The amount of detail and the level of complexity in the financial section have grown considerably in response to the increasing onslaught of accounting rules and regulations. What’s more,... View Details
Keywords: Robert G. Eccles
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Giving hope and inspiration to cancer patients around the globe
data and share it globally. The organization also spearheads a clinical network of 16 research centers to conduct early-phase clinical trials faster and more efficiently. By applying business principles to the scientific field, Giusti has... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
"Rising to the Challenge" Program Addresses Post-9/11 Issues
participate in a panel discussion with seven leaders in the field of humanitarian relief and development was handed a packet of oral-rehydration salts. The January 15 panel, one of a series of presentations in the School's "Rising to the Challenge" program View Details
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Benefits & Compensation | Employment
Benefits & Compensation Competitive compensation is just the beginning. From health care and unmatched paid time off to an unbeatable package of perks and access to our stellar facilities—at Harvard Business School, you’ll enjoy benefits... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Creating connections among consumers
allow anonymous reviews, and we invest significant resources, both human and technological, in our accountability process.” Hicks enjoys helping consumers take care of business by being able to connect not... View Details
- 22 Jan 2019
- Working Paper Summaries
Corporate Sustainability: A Strategy?
Keywords: by Ioannis Ioannou and George Serafeim
- June 2001
- Article
Organizational Differences in Rates of Learning: Evidence from the Adoption of Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery
By: Gary P. Pisano, Richard Bohmer and Amy C. Edmondson
Pisano, Gary P., Richard Bohmer, and Amy C. Edmondson. "Organizational Differences in Rates of Learning: Evidence from the Adoption of Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery." Management Science 47, no. 6 (June 2001): 752.
- 2014
- Working Paper
The Role of the Corporation in Society: An Alternative View and Opportunities for Future Research
By: George Serafeim
A long-standing ideology in business education has been that a corporation is run for the sole interest of its shareholders. I present an alternative view where increasing concentration of economic activity and power in the world's largest corporations, the Global... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility; Corporate Governance; Environment; Environmental And Social Sustainability; Sustainability; Sustainability Reporting; Sustainability Research; Sustainability Targets; Corporate Performance; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact
Serafeim, George. "The Role of the Corporation in Society: An Alternative View and Opportunities for Future Research." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 14-110, May 2014.
- 04 Feb 2020
- News
In Harmony
the hot career path at the time. “I loved the intellectual challenge in working with really smart people,” recalls Weinstein. “What I didn’t enjoy very much was that I didn’t actually care whether or not Shell Oil of Canada made an extra... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- Web
Buy Now, Pay Later: Research Links - Manuscript Collections
Manuscript Collections Printed Collections Visual Collections Secondary Resources Credits Jacob Adams Account Book, 1673-1693 Full text available as a networked resource Jacob Adams, a New England cobbler and farmer in Newbury,... View Details
- 06 Feb 2006
- What Do You Think?
Should CEOs of Public Companies Offer Earnings Guidance?
retrospective data compensate for projections? What is "real information"? And do conservative estimates of the future lead organizations to underperform? What do you think? Original Article This question is not as innocuous as... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Saving lives through new vaccine technology
has several years of regulatory hurdles ahead, it is working in the interim with global health organizations to explore applying the technology to a wide range of vaccines. “Our goal is to lower the cost across the globe and make sure... View Details
- 11 Dec 2019
- News
A Righteous Path
the New York–based nonprofit, which was founded five years ago to provide legal assistance to young refugees who arrive in the United States alone. Launched with a single full-time employee, the organization had grown to 13 when Leimsider... View Details
- 26 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
How Electronic Patient Records Can Slow Doctor Productivity
care providers who demonstrate "meaningful use" of digital records. The legislation came from the belief that EHRs used in certain ways—such as medication order entry that would alert a clinician about drug-to-drug interactions—could... View Details
- 30 Oct 2015
- Blog Post
4 Takeaways from HBS
I never expected the school to care so much about my values. For example, in Leadership & Organizational Behavior (LEAD), a first year Required Curriculum course on how managers become effective leaders, we spent a class discussing... View Details
- 15 Oct 2019
- News
Engaging More Deeply with Business in Africa
has been presented in South Africa, Rwanda, Ghana, and Mauritius. To organize the immersion, Datar and Casadesus-Masanell worked closely with HBS’s Division of Research and Faculty Development and Pippa Tubman Armerding (GMP 23, 2017),... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- What Do You Think?
Two Decades Later, is the 'New Economy' Finally Here?
featuring less product-centered and more information-centered economic activity.” It highlighted opinions at the time that “Growing ratios of market-to-book value that resulting stock prices produce can be justified as the monetization of valuable information assets... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
performance. The process helps these organizations measure the volume of services they deliver, determine customer satisfaction, apply special analytic techniques to evaluate performance, and keep the public abreast of the results.... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry