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- 01 Mar 2014
- News
My HBS Eureka Moment
Lincoln Agnew Just Do It Ralph Sultan (MBA 1960) IT WAS DURING MBA CLASSES THAT I LEARNED THAT we are all capable of sustained effort, far into the night, and no problem is too complex to tackle analytically—as long as due allowance is given View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Back to School
There are some things you just can’t learn in an HBS classroom—what it takes to jump out of an airplane, for instance, or the experience of playing at the World Series of Poker. Yet those kinds of out-of-office pursuits are important, says HBS assistant professor Jon... View Details
- 20 Aug 2014
- Research & Ideas
Dragging Patent Trolls Into the Light
the "Wonderland of Lights." Marshall's most booming industry these days, however, is based in the Baxter Building, an unassuming three-story brick office space in the center of town. Twenty-five businesses fill the space, but don't look View Details
- 01 Apr 2019
- What Do You Think?
Does Our Bias Against Federal Deficits Need Rethinking?
The goal is to eliminate deficits and any further growth in the national debt, though this is rarely achieved. Erskine Bowles, co-chair with former Representative Alan Simpson of a 2012 committee charged with coming up with proposals... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2006
Investments, in 2003. A third company, Cityboxes — a service for city dwellers that stores, tracks, and delivers items to and from storage upon request — is already in the development stage. “I love all... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL
disabilities and degenerative neurological conditions. (In one of several such tragic incidents, in 2011, 10-year NFL veteran Dave Duerson (OPM 30, 2001)—who had been suffering from a deteriorating mental state—instructed his family before committing suicide to View Details
- 05 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: January 5
down as MD in 2006, to develop a training program for them. This request raises the question of whether this internal training capability should become the basis of an external service offering. Purchase... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
How AI Could Ease the Refugee Crisis and Bring New Talent to Businesses
transformed several industries over the past two years—may offer solutions for overwhelmed resettlement programs run by both nongovernmental organizations and governments, according to a study by Harvard Business School Assistant... View Details
- 30 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 30, 2015
(Channelside) LP, a private company. In the early years the cost of water would be almost double the average unit cost the Authority pays at the time of the decision. Is this proposal good policy in the long run to lock in supply and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 26 Feb 2021
- News
Latinx on Boards; High-Tech Reforestation
Clubs News Clubs News Setting the Stage for a Latinx Boardroom Push The Harvard Business School Latino Alumni Association (HBSLAA), in partnership with the Stanford Graduate School of Business Latino Alumni Chapter, presented the webinar... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- Web
A Message from Dean Srikant Datar | About
It was very nicely put by [Executive Dean for Administration] Angela [Crispi] , saying that the start date of my term is 1/1, and I am indeed the 11th Dean of the Harvard Business School, a true honor and privilege. HBS is truly an... View Details
- 15 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
A Mass Crisis Can Overwhelm Health Care. Liberia Found a Solution.
proposal for a $23 million contract to help construct health care centers all over the country—an amount more than 10 times Last Mile Health’s 2014 budget and three times the $7 million in unrestricted... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
The commercial real estate business was in a shambles fifteen years ago, but just look at it now. After a complete rehab, the industry has become the darling of investors eager for alternatives to lackluster stocks and bonds. But will the... View Details
- 11 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Building a Better Board
When Stephen Kaufman took the helm at Arrow Electronics in 1982, it was de rigueur for CEOs to sit on the boards of several other companies in addition to running their own. Back then, serving as a board member didn't require much of a... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 20 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, March 20, 2018
that online prices have longer durations, with fewer price changes close to zero, and hazard functions that initially increase over time. I show that time-averaging and imputed prices in scanner and CPI data can fully explain the differences with the literature. I then... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Facing the Music
manufacturing, which would allow a store to digitally download from a central facility any CD a customer requested and press it on the spot in a matter of minutes. "This could eliminate the need for... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 10 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018
indicate that patient demand is relatively unimportant in explaining variations. Physician organizational factors matter, but the most important factor is physician beliefs about treatment. In Medicare, we estimate that 35% of spending View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Apr 2022
- News
Clean Slate
and the corporate sector in is not easy today because there’s far more sexy stuff to work on out there. I think we have to just persist because it is such a critical area for the country, for just healthy... View Details
- 02 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 2, 2019
before and after the policy change. We find that these responses increase significantly after the policy change. These stronger responses partly occur while the review is still ongoing and persist on average for two years. Corroborating... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 16 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 16
are (a) "strategic" mergers that are potentially used as mechanisms for competitor pre-emption, (b) systems effects of mergers including the impact of mergers on sector-wide diffusion of technologies, (c)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne