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  • 01 Oct 2021
  • Research & Ideas

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

A warning to CEOs and other top executives in high-pressure positions: Job stress could shave years off your life, causing you to die younger than lower-level workers, new research suggests. After all, modern CEOs face taxing work schedules. And, lifespan tends to drop... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
  • Web

Propose an Independent Project - MBA

Agribusiness Consulting Consumer Products / Retail Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging Energy / Cleantech Entertainment / Media / Sports Entrepreneurship Financial Services General Management Health Care... View Details
  • Web

Life at Harvard - Doctoral

option to cross register into courses at the other schools, such as the Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard School of Public Health and MIT; the opportunity to participate in university-wide academic and cultural events; and the use of the... View Details
  • Web

HBS Veteran Spotlight: Lindsey Chrismon (MBA 2025) - MBA

Business & Environment Career Change Career and Professional Development Case Method Clubs Curriculum Digital Entrepreneurship FIELD Financial Aid Health Care Instagram Takeover JD/MBA Leadership Letters to... View Details
  • 14 Jan 2019
  • Op-Ed

These 4 CEOs Created a New Standard of Leadership

Mayo Clinic in 2009, the world-famous medical center was struggling financially. Congress would soon be negotiating the terms of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the Obama Administration’s signature health... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George; Health; Health; Health; Health
  • 04 Sep 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Is Government Just Stupid? How Bad Decisions Are Made

on a single position and promises to do "everything possible" to enact it. None of them mentions the possible tradeoffs or costs related to each new policy. Nor do they discuss how their proposed policy would interact with other... View Details
Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman, Jonathan Baron & Katherine Shonk
  • 23 Apr 2024
  • In Practice

Getting to Net Zero: The Climate Standards and Ecosystem the World Needs Now

With each month clocking record-breaking temperatures across the planet, this Earth Day reflected the renewed urgency of regulators and businesses to find climate-change solutions. The US Securities and Exchange Commission recently adopted new rules that will mandate... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • November 2011 (Revised August 2012)
  • Case

Healthymagination at GE Healthcare Systems

By: Vineet Kumar and V. Kasturi Rangan
Jeff Immelt, the CEO of GE, introduced a new innovation strategy named "healthymagination" in 2009. With cost, quality, and access as its three pillars, healthymagination ensures a strong focus for new product introduction efforts all around GE. But will this focus... View Details
Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Product Marketing; Marketing Strategy; Health Industry; Health Industry
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  • 2020
  • Working Paper

Aggregate and Firm-Level Stock Returns During Pandemics, in Real Time

By: Laura Alfaro, Anusha Chari, Andrew Greenland and Peter K. Schott
We show that unexpected changes in the trajectory of COVID-19 infections predict U.S. stock returns, in real time. Parameter estimates indicate that an unanticipated doubling (halving) of projected infections forecasts next-day decreases (increases) in aggregate U.S.... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19; Stock Returns; Health Pandemics; Stocks; Investment Return; Forecasting and Prediction
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  • 02 Nov 2021
  • Research & Ideas

Why COVID-19 Probably Killed More People Than We Realize

of official COVID deaths for each country helped them gauge potential underreporting. “There’s been a lot of research on COVID in terms of health and mitigation efforts, but as accountants, we felt like we could bring a unique... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 21 Aug 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Inside the OR: Disrupted Routines and New Technologies

high learning cost for surgeons and OR teams. As one surgeon we interviewed joked, '[MICS] represents a transfer of the pain—from the patient to the surgeon.' "The new technology not only changes team member's tasks," they... View Details
Keywords: by Hilah Geer
  • 01 Sep 2023
  • News

That Was Then, This Is Now

It started with a question. But before that, it started in the classroom. Tony Deifell (MBA 2002) loved the discussions in his LEAD course, taught by Professor (and now former Dean) Nitin Nohria; wanting to make them more tangible, Deifell adapted the idea of... View Details
Keywords: Photographed by Tony Deifell (MBA 2002); edited by Julia Hanna. Above: Heidi Brooks, photographed in 2003 and 2023.; life experience; family; leadership
  • 25 Aug 2014
  • HBS Case

Starbucks Reinvented

clear, unwavering message that Starbucks' transformation would represent a return to its roots and an uncompromising commitment to core values, such as health care benefits for any partners working at least... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Food & Beverage
  • Web

Community | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

events. Health Care Club The Health Care Club's mission is to inspire, support, and connect members within the business of View Details
  • 02 Jun 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Coronavirus Careers: Cloud Kitchens Are Now Serving

names—including virtual kitchens, ghost kitchens, shared kitchens, dark kitchens, and shadow kitchens. “A brick-and-mortar restaurant in New York City costs $1 million to $1.5 million to set up, while a cloud kitchen can get up and... View Details
Keywords: by Lena Ye and Geoffrey Jones; Food & Beverage
  • Article

Individuals' Decision to Co-Donate or Donate Alone: An Archival Study of Married Whole Body Donors in Hawaii

By: Michel Anteby, Filiz Garip, Paul V. Martorana and Scott Lozanoff

Background: Human cadavers are crucial to numerous aspects of health care, including initial and continuing training of medical doctors and advancement of medical research. Concerns have periodically been raised about the limited number of whole body... View Details

Keywords: Decisions; Health Care and Treatment; Personal Characteristics; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Health Industry; Hawaii
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How I Spent my 2+2 Deferral: Matthew Young - MBA

Business & Environment Career Change Career and Professional Development Case Method Clubs Curriculum Digital Entrepreneurship FIELD Financial Aid Health Care Instagram Takeover JD/MBA Leadership Letters to... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2023
  • News

3-Minute Briefing: Jeremy Grantham (MBA 1966)

that I became a staunch, careful value investor. I’ve always had the tendency to go for the 60,000-foot view. If you do that, you realize that the great bubbles of history have been massive and obvious. But while their breaking is... View Details
Keywords: climate change; finance; sustainability; prediction; Finance
  • June 2013
  • Case

Ron Ventura at Mitchell Memorial Hospital

By: Frank V. Cespedes and Heide Abelli
Mitchell Memorial Hospital is a 750-bed regional academic medical center in Ohio. Andy Prescott, Chief of the Cardiovascular Center, is reviewing the performance evaluations of his star vascular surgeon Ron Ventura. The evaluations, the result of a 360-degree... View Details
Keywords: Performance Expectations; Conflict Management; Behavior; Groups and Teams; Organizational Culture; Resignation and Termination; Health Care and Treatment; Performance Evaluation; Health Industry; Ohio
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  • 01 Mar 2024
  • News

The War Within

Elizabeth Ames (MBA 1985/MPA 1997), whose nonprofit, Heal Ukraine Trauma, is working to provide mental health care services to Ukrainians. Since its launch just three months into the war, the organization... View Details
Keywords: Janelle Nanos; illustration by Daniel Bejar