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- 30 May 2023
- News
Finding PRIDE
published my letter. There was an uproar, and one classmate started spreading the word that David wrote the letter and was part of the radical gay liberation movement. He had nothing to do with it, except to coordinate with me to publish... View Details
- 04 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Smart Cities are Complicated and Costly: Here's How to Build Them
Chombosan Much promotion of smart cities assumes that municipalities will take a proactive, top-down, technology-first approach to urban progress. Thus far, these initiatives look for some forward-thinking city official (or immensely deep-pocketed private investor) to... View Details
- 03 Nov 2023
- News
Global Networking Night; Sweden Club Holds Climate Forum
Clubs News Clubs News Global Networking Night 2023 Another successful Global Networking Night (GNN) is in the books, after alumni around the world held nearly 60 separate events on October 25. The annual GNN features alumni gatherings—some in person, some... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- July 2018 (Revised July 2018)
- Teaching Note
Argentina Power—Don’t Cry for Me Argentina
By: Nori Gerardo Lietz and Sayiddah Fatima McCree
Teaching Note for HBS No. 218-041. This case concerns a complex potential energy infrastructure investment in Argentina by a global conglomerate shortly after Mauricio Macri (“Macri”) became President of Argentina in 2015. The central issues are (i) why was a country... View Details
- 16 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Nonprofit Networking: The New Way to Grow
organization needed to now manage and coordinate operations across multiple locations. Wei-Skillern's research on nonprofit growth evolved into a focus on multisite nonprofits and the advantages and disadvantages of various multisite... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 29 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019
Industry By: Park, K. Francis, Robert Seamans, and Feng Zhu Abstract— We examine how heterogeneity in customers’ multi-homing tendencies affects a platform’s response to new entrants in its market. We develop a formal model to generate... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: November 15
market-listed and privately held firms in the United States using a rich new data source on private firms. Listed firms invest less and are less responsive to changes in investment opportunities compared to observably similar, matched private firms, especially in View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Remembering Alfred Chandler
of organizational capabilities, technological innovation through R&D, problem solving, knowledge, and continuous learning—investment in human capital and technology that only firms could generate. Chandler placed the issue of managerial View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: Strength in Numbers
level coordination remains a problem. We are only just beginning to develop the kinds of institutions that might promote the representation of global diffuse interests. What we do not detect, however, is any sign of a View Details
Keywords: Re: Gunnar Trumbull
- 02 Jan 2019
- What Do You Think?
SUMMING UP: Do We Need an Artificial Intelligence Czar?
times but would invest in preventing (the) law of (the) jungle from taking over.” ArlenMD suggested that there are organizations on whose efforts an oversight initiative could be built. He cited as one example the American Medical Informatics Association as a vehicle... View Details
- 22 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist
of business. In 1927, R.L. McMaster opened Kut-Price drug outlets in Fresno and Modesto—as well as in Stockton. Gleason went on the offensive, coordinating Stockton’s Independent Merchants’ Association to open the town’s first... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Using IT to Heal U.S. Health Care
costs, and widespread patient frustration. The cure for these ailments lies in better use of health-care technology, says David J. Brailer, national coordinator for Health Information Technology, a newly created position he has held since... View Details
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Institutions, Macroeconomics, and the Global Economy - Course Catalog
and economic institutions are able to coordinate private decisions on stable and productive paths. Where institutional development is weak - as seems to be the case in much of the developing world - private actions are poorly View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Disrupting criminal enterprises that prey on children
Department of Justice for more than eight years, prosecuting child exploitation and human-trafficking crimes. "The UN is in a position to coordinate and incentivize countries to work together to develop laws and practices that are... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Off Script
of pharmaceuticals and medical devices work in a more coordinated way? —Rebecca Leung (MBA 1996) HASSAN: Smaller, highly advanced countries with long-term industrial strategies, such as Singapore, have a... View Details
- 04 Nov 2002
- Research & Ideas
From Lone Star to Team Player
doing so, you have to screen for lone stars. Q: Is there a particular industry or type of firm that is most susceptible to the lone star syndrome? The problem with these people is that they can poison the organization.— Morten T. Hansen... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Health-Care Forum's Rx for US System
Shape up, people! That was the message for both the health-care industry and the public at a November forum of more than 150 medical practitioners, health-industry executives, academics, and others who gathered at HBS. Titled "Healing... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 01 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 1
occurs when supplier- and customer-facing IT are adopted together, suggesting the presence of complementarities in supply chain technology adoption. These results are consistent with the view that, by reducing external coordination costs,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- Profile
Andrew Dervan
inefficiencies." Where Andrew breaks away from many other medical students, however, is in his commitment to doing something about it, to find ways to "fix the system." Applying insights from outside industries In his first... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- Blog Post
Get the Scoop on Date Release at HBS
made by lottery. We will then send email confirmations by May 29th.Still have questions? If you any questions feel free to reach out to your industry recruiting coordinator to discuss which events and... View Details