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- 13 Aug 2024
- Op-Ed
Can AI Save Physicians from Burnout?
make the first move. Health care institutions must lead the charge by updating technologies and internal incentive structures to protect providers and patients now and in the future. Susanna Gallani is the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Group Therapy: The Role of Business Groups in Emerging Economies
willing and able buyer, a valuable “exit” option when public capital markets are underdeveloped. On the other hand, some groups’ close connections to a nation’s power structure may serve as a barrier to entry, stifling entrepreneurship... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Bringing Hope to a Violent Land
earned a bachelor’s degree in government and international studies before moving to Washington, D.C., where she worked from 1973 to 1979 for several nongovernmental organizations. Starting as a receptionist,... View Details
- Profile
Chris Hurst
Determined to “address problems at their root cause,” Chris is pursuing the joint MBA/MPA-ID (International Development) degree at HBS and the Harvard Kennedy School. “In the big picture, I want to address two large questions,” says Chris. “One, how can the View Details
- 05 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: January 5
409-021 Padraic Kelly became Managing Director (MD) of the engineering services firm Buro Happold in 1996. One of his first initiatives was "Aim for Growth," which was intended to help the firm grow beyond its current size where it was constrained by a View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 17
incentives to recall the rules accurately (Experiment 3). Finally, moral forgetting appears to result from decreased access to moral rules after cheating (Experiment 4). Designed for Workarounds: A Qualitative Study of Hospitals' Internal... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Ex-Con Talks Ethics with HBS Students
80240ad2c5f43acc66f13dc5e89928ff There’s not much room for theory when Patrick Kuhse talks about business ethics. A successful stockbroker and entrepreneur, Kuhse became an international fugitive after being charged in 1994 with 32 counts... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Faculty Books
Global Capital and National Institutions: Crisis and Choice in the International Financial Architecture by Laura Alfaro (World Scientific) This casebook has three main topics: the determinants and effects of View Details
- Web
Global Reach | Baker Library
Global Reach Businessmen and governments in nearly all countries have recognized the need for capable administrators, trained to act in a complex, fast-changing, and increasingly interdependent world, as the best means of assuring... View Details
- 14 Nov 2019
- Book
Lifting the Lid on Turkey's Hidden Business History
Turkey’s economic development story has always been something of a black box for scholars to understand, perhaps in part because many of the most successful business enterprises there have been in family hands and largely closed to public scrutiny. The authors of a new... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- Web
An Educated Investment | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
of my work that I focused on during the program is the formation and structure of international boards,” she says, noting Educate Girls’ recent entry into the US and UK. While acknowledging the challenges... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Faculty Books
Banks as Multinationals edited by Geoffrey Jones (Routledge) This comparative, international study, edited by Geoffrey Jones, the Isidor Straus Professor of Business History, looks at the origins and business strategies of multinational... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Letters
focused on attempting to connect federal government appropriation accounting to the internal management systems of the various agencies. Of course, the Congress would have none of it! Even in retirement and... View Details
- 20 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Acquirers
private equity and public companies "changes the ownership structure of assets and alters the incentives and governance mechanisms that surround the economic engine of our economy." During a recent... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Forestalling Terror
Michael Roberto and published this year, is “Managing National Intelligence (A): Before 9/11.” The case plumbs the background of what will likely be remembered as one of the most tragic organizational failings in American history: the inability of the country’s View Details
- 03 Mar 2010
- What Do You Think?
To What Degree Does “Identity” Affect Economic Performance?
the commitment and loyalty of employees who perceive themselves as the most disposable of corporate assets ." What will it take to turn around negative trends in "identity"? Ajay Kumar Gupta suggests that "creation of View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Building a Social Network
fundamental dilemma organizations face when they try to help individuals build better connections,” Piskorski says. “Should you do this by allowing open communications without guidelines — the equivalent of bringing people into one big room and letting them talk — or... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Banking on HBS
guaranteeing long-term debt from the market against government contractual obligations. "A big lesson I took away from the course," Shapiro says, "is the importance of gaining internal acceptance for... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- December 2019
- Case
WeWork Files for an IPO
By: Lynn S. Paine and Will Hurwitz
For the board of The We Company—better known as WeWork—August 14, 2019, promised to be a pivotal day. It was then that WeWork’s IPO prospectus, known as an S-1 filing, would be made public, giving potential investors, the media, and the general public a window into the... View Details
Keywords: Capital Structure; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Governance; Going Public; Leadership; Management; Private Equity; Valuation; Venture Capital; Real Estate Industry; Technology Industry; United States
Paine, Lynn S., and Will Hurwitz. "WeWork Files for an IPO." Harvard Business School Case 320-063, December 2019.
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Off Script
according to one study—and the limited lifespan of patent rights. What can the pharmaceutical industry and government regulators do to improve conditions? We put your queries to Fred Hassan (MBA 1972), a managing director at Warburg... View Details