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- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Your Own Medicine
WILLIAMS CHARLEY SECKLER in the midst of the first-ever trial for a DMD treatment at Johns Hopkins University. Photo courtesy the Seckler Family by Dan Morrell There's this picture of Charley Seckler from last summer that his mom has sent to everyone: Her 12-year-old... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Disrupting India’s Dental Market
incentives for better care along the way. “If one person is looking for a cardiologist, the question is always, ‘Who is the best cardiologist?’” he says. “When it comes to a dentist, the question is, ‘Who is convenient? Who is good?’ It... View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
cash at what time? How is risk allocated? What are the incentives of all parties to the deal now and given reasonable scenarios into the future? Who will be attracted by the deal? What can be inferred from how people respond to the deal... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
The First Five Years: Emmanuel Straschnov (MBA 2012)
about the ecosystem as a whole and figuring out the right incentives for everyone to contribute can be complex, and HBS cases provide great tools to think about these issues. Early on, classes like Founders’ Dilemma were also very helpful... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
School Publishing) Public and philanthropic dollars are not enough to address global issues of poverty and disease, but innovative finance can bring governmental, commercial, and philanthropic resources to bear on the common good. Keohane argues that innovative finance... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
streamline production processes, lower costs, produce better quality products, gain a first-mover advantage, and enhance their global competitiveness. Properly designed government regulation, Porter believes, can provide incentives for... View Details
- 05 Feb 2019
- News
Protecting the Power Grid
infrastructure protection. “In BGIE, we saw the corrosive societal impacts of self-dealing, within industries and within government bodies,” Popik observes. The Resilient Societies mission statement states that the profit incentive alone,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Robert Goodwin
just that currently the market drives more resources toward treating male pattern baldness than toward malaria prevention. We’re way behind on achieving the UN’s Millennium Development Goals. In my opinion, a major reason is that we haven’t effectively found the right... View Details
- 05 Jul 2011
- News
Driving Innovation
Stewart: Helping brands navigate the complexities of today’s media. Photo courtesy Bonita Stewart What can a high-flying, high-tech giant learn about marketing from an industry that is about as nuts-and-bolts as you can get? Plenty, if Bonita Stewart (MBA ’83) has... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stasis and Turmoil: HBS Research for the Real World
at worst. "While deregulation and privatization are indeed reshaping incentives and altering the competitive environment in many markets, the state is not 'withering away.' Success in deregulated and privatized sectors will ultimately be... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
14 for '14
breakup of nations continues: The economic crisis and the concentration of the knowledge economy in a few cities creates enormous incentives for regions to cast off. They begin by demanding ever-greater control over their taxes and... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
An Eye to the East
Information and the Arts George Yeo (MBA '85). "We are absolutely delighted and honored that HBS has chosen Hong Kong," said Tung Chee-hwa, Hong Kong's chief executive, at the inaugural dinner. Fung added, "HBS's choice of Hong Kong gives us View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Books
affect the decision to go public. As the authors shed light on the structure and operations of venture capital firms, three major themes emerge. First, all venture capitalists confront tremendous incentive and information problems, in... View Details
Keywords: Amy E. Dean
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Ideas in Action
Issue Focus: Ideas & Impact Deepak Malhotra Thinking outside the maze Malhotra Photographs by Webb Chappell Negotiations expert Professor Deepak Malhotra is the author of the recent international bestseller I Moved Your Cheese: For Those Who Refuse to Live as Mice in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Reimagining China and India
probably wrong. And the reason it’s wrong is that there is a strong incentive for many of the things going on in China to be concealed — not just from outsiders but from insiders as well. The outward projection is one of stability,... View Details
- 11 May 2017
- News
Going with the Flow
the behavior and economics in agriculture, and, secondly, in industry. Misuse with no consequences and the lack of incentives for proper use are extremely problematic. At WaterRev, we are investing in game-changing companies that are... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Books
devastating assets of individual stockholders when these accounting deceptions surfaced. Mills initially explores how the mechanisms that should have protected investors failed. He lays the lion’s share of blame at the feet of CEOs whose option–laden compensation... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Case Study: Paper Chase
And if you can incent folks to make and post their videos too, you will have a social goldmine! —Alejandro Paiuk (MBA 2007) Got a case? To take part in a future “Case Study,” send an outline of your company’s challenge to bulletin@hbs.edu View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New News
exciting. Michael Aft: We exist because traditional media is struggling. There are perverse incentives tied to the ad-revenue model that have made it challenging to consume high-quality content, and that’s true for everything from general... View Details