Healthcare As An Investment - Publications - Faculty & Research

11 Mar 2008
First Look

First Look: March 11, 2008

at Columbia University, which they had covered together, as all were alumni. They were commiserating about having to submit revised forecasts to their division heads by the end of the week. Alec Hastings, head of Global Institutional... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

14 Oct 2002
Research & Ideas

The Widening Rift Between Corporations and Society

What is deep support, in a nutshell? How will concerns for privacy affect the use of deep support? A: Deep support, as we describe in our book, is an entirely new way of thinking about commerce. In the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

09 May 2017
First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 9

had to assess whether it was time to sound the alarm, and whether drastic and immediate measures were needed to right the innovation economy ship. Bibi mulled over which policies or interventions would best curb the erosion of Israel’s competitive position View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2022
News

Full Court Press

as a platform to not only improve the health and wellness of one of the world’s youngest and fastest growing populations but also to create a whole new industry around the business of sports,” says Tatum. Creating View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

01 Oct 2008
Research & Ideas

How Much Time Should CEOs Devote to Customers?

they must be specific to the strategy of the business. Company scores on these metrics may be benchmarked against direct competitors and/or outstanding companies in other industries. Second, CEOs must ensure an adequate pipeline of new... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch

30 Oct 2019
Research & Ideas

How to Recover Gracefully After Shutting Down Your Startup

worries, their personal finances may be in shambles. Most entrepreneurs cut their own salaries as their venture goes into decline, and many have invested their life savings in the startup—along with funds... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

15 May 2017
Sharpening Your Skills

The Promises and Limitations of Big Data

discusses the water industry as an example, and the organizational changes and levers relevant to extracting value from emerging data-analytics technologies. Big Data: Big Deal or Big Hype? Google's... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services; Utilities; Public Administration; Health

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Global Business Course | HBS Online

indicators on business decisions Discover the short- and long-term impact of interest rates, inflation, trade, and investment Learn distinctive approaches and frameworks that help you think about the world and organize information Who... View Details

21 Feb 2019
Blog Post

Machine Learning and Behavioral Economics

economics is about how people understand information.” As an undergraduate at William & Mary, he interned at Google, where he gained an insider’s perspective on a new... View Details

24 May 2021
Blog Post

Rebekah Emanuel: Host of Season 3 of the Climate Rising Podcast

path to scale that would not be possible otherwise. Elise Clarkson: As the Director of Social Entrepreneurship and host of Climate Rising, you work with entrepreneurs every day. The Harvard Innovation Labs (iLab) also recently announced... View Details

10 Apr 2023
News

Leading the Way

Foundation, a nonprofit focused on improving educational opportunities and outcomes for underserved, predominantly Hispanic youth in Arizona. "As my mentor, Gary invested in me as a student and View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

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National Markets - The Art of American Advertising

Clubs Faculty & Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness Leadership... View Details

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Recent Alumni - Alumni

and participate in CPD activities and exercises. This could include serving as a Career Team Leader where you would guide a group of four RCs through Career Teams exercises. To be a Career Team Leader, an... View Details

26 Aug 2008
First Look

First Look: August 26, 2008

to the "Arauco: Forward Integration or Horizontal Expansion?" case. This short case looks at the company in late 2007 after it has decided to invest in a Brazilian joint venture involving forests, saw mills, and a paper mill.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

25 Apr 2018
Blog Post

Policy, Practice, Leadership & Impact: Making a Difference with the HBS/HKS Joint Degree

used my first summer internship to put my newly acquired skills to use. That summer, I worked at the Rwanda Development Board, a government agency whose mandate is to facilitate private investment into the country. While there I analyzed... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government

24 Feb 2022
Op-Ed

Want to Prevent the Next Hospital Bed Crisis? Enlist the SEC

attempts to avoid bed shortages by sharing capacity have generally failed, in part, because of the persistence of an independent hospital culture. As COVID-19 surged in 2020, capacity varied widely even... View Details

Keywords: by Regina Herzlinger and Richard Boxer; Health

13 Jul 2010
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First Look: July 13

matching candidates are attractive by reducing the competition among agents on the same side of the market. An agent who sees fewer candidates knows that these candidates also see fewer potential matches, and so are more likely to accept... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

02 Aug 2017
What Do You Think?

Summing Up: Why Can’t Organizations Engage Their Employees?

“Engagement comes from spirit, and if the organization has little or no spirit—if it see mission as simply ‘maximizing shareholder value’—then engagement will remain an elusive thing.” George Yurieff added... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

06 Mar 2020
Book

A Great Teacher's Lessons for Leading

there as a security net to help them, guide them, and confront them, they look at me and say, “I don’t know what you’re talking about.” I believe those 30-year-olds want the same thing the 60-year-olds want. They want View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education

18 Sep 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018

factor: the degree of the top management team’s (TMT) frame flexibility, i.e., their capability to perceptually expand an innovation’s categorical boundaries and to cast the innovation as emotionally... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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