Healthcare As An Investment - Publications - Faculty & Research

16 Jul 2013
First Look

First Look: July 16

specifically economic knowledge, in twentieth century America. We use the Wharton School as an illustration of the earliest trends and dilemmas (c. 1900-1930), when business schools found themselves caught... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

18 Jul 2019
News

Lessons from the Rise and Fall of VisiCalc

launching VisiCalc, the world’s first independent software company and the first spreadsheet program for personal computers. The program came with a $100 price tag, but people were so eager for it that they also bought an Apple II, to the... View Details

14 Jan 2014
First Look

First Look: January 14

Tommy Koh of Singapore are highlighted in brief form along with elements of his background and career. In light of these accomplishments, Koh was selected as the recipient of the 2014 Great Negotiator Award, presented by the Program on... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2022
News

Future Vision

seamlessly deliver synchronous and asynchronous online learning. In short, I see the coming year as an opportunity to move many initiatives forward; we must plant the seeds now to ensure that HBS remains at... View Details

Keywords: Brian Kenny; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

05 Apr 2022
Blog Post

The HBS New Venture Competition Turns 25: Celebrating A Quarter Century of Innovation and Entrepreneurship

for the $10,000 Tough Technology Prize (pdf). “Entrepreneurship is an integral component of the HBS experience, as it gives students and alumni a chance to create a product or service that can effect real... View Details

05 Jul 2016
First Look

July 5, 2016

business strategy today exist largely as a set of alternative views and frameworks not entirely connected to one another. These notes contribute an integrated sequence of steps for creating or evaluating a... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

09 Apr 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019

over time provided technical and symbolic resources needed to feed the resilience of the industry. Such exchanges were facilitated through an eventual recognition of shared superordinate values, as well... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

04 Feb 2010
What Do You Think?

What’s the Best Way to Make Careful Decisions?

from previous decisions is clear and where cause-and-effect relationships can be identified. Unfortunately, in his view these conditions are more and more rare. As he puts it, "intuition is losing relevance in View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

06 Oct 2021
Blog Post

Latinx Women in the Spotlight: Amy Hernandez Turcios (MBA 2020)

what “finance” was, let alone “investment banking.” As a first-gen student I learned from my surroundings, figured out how to navigate the wild Wall Street recruiting process, and started my career as View Details

23 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Building a Better Buyer-Seller Relationship

But commitment forms between firms.— Narakesari Narayandas "It doesn't happen from day one, much as you want it to," he said. "A lot of work and planning need to go into it. So make sure you get through the View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

24 May 2017
News

Ilene H. Lang, MBA 1973

1982 when she joined Symbolics, an all-male, MIT-led, artificial intelligence startup. She had learned about computers working as a technical writer after earning a degree in history and literature from... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

26 May 2003
Research & Ideas

When Silence Spells Trouble at Work

analyst at an investment bank who carefully keeps his opinions to himself when he's around his superiors. "It comes down to the hierarchical nature of the bank," he says. "Basically you're... View Details

Keywords: by Leslie A. Perlow

26 Feb 2019
Blog Post

Forget Cash. Here Are Better Ways to Motivate Employees

Whillans and her team conducted of more than 92,000 job ads found that the more benefits an employer described, the higher the application rates. Plus, when employers described benefits in detail, such as... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

01 Jan 2013
News

Joanna M. Jacobson, MBA 1987

threat," recalls Jacobson, who also led the product development team. "It was an incredible turnaround. The team grew the company by $200 million." With Converse back on its feet, in 1994 Jacobson left to work View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

02 Jun 2021
Blog Post

Paul’s Sabbatical Story: Hypothesis-Testing by Sabbaticals

relax and invest in friends and family? He set off on a project he called “Beyond the Headlines,” during which he picked places on the State Department’s “do not travel” list to couch-surf and see if maybe the world wasn’t View Details

20 Jan 2023
News

Free Spirits

number of people who used the pandemic as a time to scale back. In doing so, the latter category has given rise to entire movements of more flexible drinking styles, from the sober-curious or “flexi-drinkers,” who take a part-time view of... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality

Web

2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

emerging examples of innovative technologies, financing structures, policies, and geo-politics that are reshaping our global economy as it struggles and strives to transition to a lower carbon footprint and unlock the trillions in View Details

21 Jul 2006
Op-Ed

Enron Jury Sent the Right Message

Enron case should not be taken as a one-off judgment by a business school professor. Many years ago, at the dedication of the Harvard Business School campus on June 24, 1927, Owen Young—a lawyer, visionary capitalist, founding chairman of... View Details

Keywords: by Malcolm S. Salter

26 Jul 2010
Research & Ideas

Yes, You Can Raise Prices in a Downturn

As economic turmoil continues, many companies are reconsidering their strategies with an eye toward going lean and slashing prices. And that might work for a few companies—but very few. Instead, companies... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail; Consumer Products

22 Jul 2019
Book

How to Be a Digital Platform Leader

Lastly, the hardest problem in responding as a conventional firm is trying to build your own platform. To be honest, very few firms have been successful. A lot have tried. It is something large, established firms under the right... View Details