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- 22 Aug 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
A Randomized Field Study of a Leadership WalkRounds™-Based Intervention
agreed to implement an 18-month long WalkRounds -based program to improve safety. We compared their results to 138 work areas in 48 randomly selected control hospitals. Participants: We conducted the program in four types of clinical work areas: View Details
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From the Chief Financial Officer | Annual Report 2024
From the Chief Financial Officer Harvard Business School’s economic model performed well in fiscal 2024, delivering a healthy operating surplus on investments in our core programs, strategic priorities, faculty initiatives, and... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
For African farmers looking to escape poverty, honey brings sweet success
To date, HCA has helped more than 9,000 small-scale beekeepers (nearly half are female), and is aiming to impact one million people by 2020. The social enterprise is now embarking on a massive investment with equity partners and scaling... View Details
- 15 May 2018
- News
Spreading the Safety Net
paid sick leave and the flexibility to work from home, or even abroad. Our hourly employees, working in Rent the Runway’s warehouse, on the customer service team and in our retail stores, had to face life events like caring for a newborn,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Alumni Books
interviews conducted by the authors, this book is filled with colorful stories about selecting and working with management, pioneering new markets, adding value through operational improvements, applying private-equity principles to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
WATER Ltd.
for water services and wastewater treatment for 17 million people in 1,800 communities in the United States and Canada. American Water typically owns and/or operates the municipal water system in a... View Details
John D. Hertz
Hertz founded the Yellow Cab Company in 1915 as a way to provide transportation services at a modest price. At the time, livery services were targeted only to the upper echelons of society, and Hertz... View Details
Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace
- 10 May 2016
- First Look
May 10, 2016
of the information externality exceeds the subsidy that would be necessary to operate the service. We estimate each dollar spent on the service yields a $10 private return. Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Creating Miracles — Charles A. Coverdale (MBA 1971)
inspired to enter the ministry in 1975. Since taking over the leadership of First Baptist in 1982, he has proven just what a community can accomplish through faith and determination. Operating from spartan offices in the church basement,... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Up Against The Firewall
matter to leave to tech departments, no matter how good they may be,” warns HBS assistant professor Robert D. Austin. “That’s because, more than being a technical problem, achieving cyber security is an operational issue that requires... View Details
- 02 Dec 2010
- News
Ten Rules for Entrepreneurs
start by choosing the product they want to make or the service they want to provide and then try to convince the market to buy it. It makes more sense to start a business the other way around: Identify what the market needs first, and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
210 is Jess Bloomgarden (MBA 2012), with classmates Alex Stratoudakis and Emma Taylor. In fifteen minutes they present their plan for AfterSteps, a Web-based end-of-life planning service that offers advice and secure storage for legal,... View Details
- 11 Aug 2020
- Blog Post
Supporting Independent Workers During COVID-19: One Phone Call at a Time
help these individuals, while also spreading awareness about these programs,” says Chrys. After conversations with over 40 Uber drivers and other gig workers in the Boston area, the team picked up on common barriers to applying for federal aid and realized that they... View Details
- Career Coach
Cindy Horowitz
Cindy (HBS ’81) brings 20 years of broad management experience to coaching students interested in general management, finance, operations and other corporate roles. She helps students understand the various roles open to them and the... View Details
- 11 May 2021
- News
Pitching to Win
Courtesy Harvard Innovation Labs Courtesy Harvard Innovation Labs On May 5, the Harvard i-lab presented the tenth annual President’s Innovation Challenge awards ceremony, a live-streamed event in which finalists pitched their ventures to compete for prizes from the... View Details
- 1996
- Chapter
Commercial Technology: Imaginative Understanding of User Needs
By: D. A. Leonard and J. Doyle
- February 2010
- Teaching Note
Koo Foundation Sun Yat-Sen Cancer Center: Breast Cancer Care in Taiwan (TN)
By: Michael E. Porter and Jennifer F Baron
Teaching Note for [710425]. View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Case Study: Ready for an Upgrade
Illustration by Alvaro Dominguez The Los Angeles–based startup Stell was borne of a pain point almost as old as recorded history itself: paperwork. One of Stell’s cofounders, Malory McLemore (MBA 2022), had landed a job as an engineer at Airbus after earning a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
The First Five Years: Emmanuel Straschnov (MBA 2012)
people build things was very rewarding to him, and he felt he could do this at a larger scale for general-purpose programming. Josh started working on this idea in December 2011, more as a personal project; it wasn't even called Bubble... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Fair Trade
uses were bound by age-old religious and cultural beliefs. Yet somehow these delicate flora became the foundation of a global industry made strong by a century of virtually uninterrupted growth that not even economic meltdowns and world wars have been able to stop.... View Details