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- 19 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
The History of Beauty
the consumer products giant Unilever, published some years ago. This company had a long-established business in soap and other toiletries, but spent decades after World War II striving without great success to expand its business into other categories of the beauty... View Details
- 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
- 05 Oct 2020
- Book
Want to Be Happier? Make More Free Time
focus away from success equaling economic growth and toward other measures, including the way they value time for individuals. We need to acknowledge the real and significant costs associated with the cultural obsession with financial... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- October 2009
- Case
Medisys Corp.: The IntensCare Product Development Team
By: Anne Donnellon and Joshua D. Margolis
Key topics include designing teams, managing teams, managing conflict, group dynamics, project management, product development, interdepartmental relations, and organizational change. MediSys, a U.S.-based medical equipment maker, has been developing IntensCare, a new... View Details
Keywords: Project Management; Interdepartmental Relations; Organizational Change; Leadership; Conflict Management; Interpersonal Communication; Groups and Teams; Product Design; Product Development; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Health Care and Treatment; Power and Influence; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; United States
Donnellon, Anne, and Joshua D. Margolis. "Medisys Corp.: The IntensCare Product Development Team." Harvard Business School Brief Case 094-059, October 2009.
- 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
- 29 Jan 2021
- News
How Influencers, Celebrities, and FOMO Can Win Over Vaccine Skeptics
- 03 Dec 2021
- Blog Post
Physicians Off the Beaten Path
Youssef is a medical doctor and the first Syrian Rhodes Scholar. He has an MD from Syria, an MSc in International Health at Oxford and is currently doing an MBA at Harvard Business School along with a PhD in computer science (clinical AI)... View Details
- 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
- 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
Kumar, Vineet, and V. Kasturi Rangan. "Healthymagination at GE Healthcare Systems." Harvard Business School Case 512-039, November 2011. (Revised August 2012.)
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Ikenna Okezie
and the Harvard Medical School. He plans to combine his two loves - medicine and entrepreneurship - in a way that will improve health care for all. Born in Nigeria, Okezie came to the United States at the... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 31 Jan 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
The Diseconomies of Queue Pooling: An Empirical Investigation of Emergency Department Length of Stay
- 16 May 2024
- News
On the Job
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. We all have early memories of on-the-job learnings—those moments that had a lasting impact on how we see the world of work and our place in it. This... View Details
Keywords: first job; leadership; life experience; career lessons; Finance; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining; Retail Trade
- 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
- July 2004 (Revised January 2005)
- Case
Shouldice Hospital Limited (Abridged)
By: James L. Heskett and Roger H. Hallowell
A hospital specializing in hernia operations is considering whether and how to expand the reach of its services. View Details
Keywords: Expansion; Service Delivery; Service Operations; Health Care and Treatment; Business Strategy; Health Industry
Heskett, James L., and Roger H. Hallowell. "Shouldice Hospital Limited (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 805-002, July 2004. (Revised January 2005.)
- 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
Alfaro, Laura, Anusha Chari, Andrew Greenland, and Peter K. Schott. "Aggregate and Firm-Level Stock Returns During Pandemics, in Real Time." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 26950, April 2020. (Revised May 2020.)
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in industries and organizations where economic models and operations are being disrupted from every angle. Faculty Case Studies Initiatives & Projects Bold ideas that become a powerful catalyst for change. Business & Environment Business History Entrepreneurship (Rock... View Details
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Ted Obi
Why did you choose this path at this point in time? I halted my medical school journey because I was curious about the business of medicine and passionate about making a broader impact in the health care and... View Details
- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
Is Performance-Based Pricing the Right Price for You?
is an arrangement in which the seller is paid based on the actual performance of its product or service. It is becoming much more popular. In the advertising industry, agencies had been traditionally paid 15 percent of the cost of the... View Details
- 08 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 8
Thomas H. Lee Abstract—In health care, the days of business as usual are over. Around the world, every health care system is struggling with rising View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Drop Everything, Read This
The Bookshelf Rick Rubin is one of the greatest music producers of all time. His book, The Creative Act: A Way of Being, is about the creative process and is based on his experiences with era-defining musicians. He encourages the reader to be open to clues and... View Details