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13 Jun 2011
HBS Case

Mobile Banking for the Unbanked

Per the South African government, only licensed banks were allowed to take deposits. The cost of a license was the equivalent of $34 million—a hefty fee for a startup—and the South African Reserve Bank was wary of issuing new permits.... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Banking; Communications; Telecommunications

11 Oct 2006
What Do You Think?

How Do We Respond to the “Dependency Ratio” Dilemma?

recognize that there is an optimal dependency ratio range beyond which increasingly urgent action is needed to stabilize social costs and attract investment." Several interesting actions were suggested. Many involved the way in which... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

21 Feb 2019
Blog Post

Machine Learning and Behavioral Economics

anchored in his personal sense of mission. “I’m very interested in health care because of the experience of growing up with my late twin brother, who had cerebral palsy,” Bracaglia says. “I saw firsthand how... View Details

29 Aug 2018
What Do You Think?

What Should Harley-Davidson’s Management Do?

faced with a situation in which a decision to move jobs overseas to reduce costs and preserve profit performance appeared to be alienating workers, customers, and even the president of the United States. Harley-Davidson had long been held... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Auto

25 Apr 2024
News

Origin Stories

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Where we come from and how we were raised has a profound effect on who we become. The recipients of this year’s Alumni Achievement Award grew up... View Details

08 Mar 2016
First Look

March 8, 2016

to lower prescription fill error rates, increase cost savings, and improve medication adherence. Purchase this case: https://hbr.org/product/express-scripts-promoting-prescription-drug-home-delivery-a/916026-PDF-ENG Harvard Business... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

23 Nov 2020
Research & Ideas

COVID Was Supposed to Increase Bankruptcies. Instead, They've Gone Down.

reasons that people didn't have access to the court system at this time, or they couldn't afford to file,” Kluender says. Two big forces may explain the drop in Chapter 7 consumer bankruptcies, Kluender says. One may be attorney fees. A Chapter 7 filing View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

28 Jul 2016
Op-Ed

Where is TripAdvisor for Doctors?

review sites for family doctors, pediatricians, heart surgeons, psychiatrists and others involved in health care delivery? There are seven key barriers. Some can be overcome by a cleverly designed website,... View Details

Keywords: by John A. Quelch; Health

18 May 2015
News

The First Five Years: Rena Xu (MBA 2014, MD 2014)

patient and doctor has few parallels, and I am sure my appreciation of it will only continue to grow as I advance in my career. “HBS greatly enriched my understanding of the challenges and opportunities in health View Details

Keywords: Ambulatory Health Care Services; Ambulatory Health Care Services

April 2009 (Revised November 2012)
Case

Sermo, Inc.

By: Thomas R. Eisenmann and Lars Peter Christian Nielsen

Sermo operates the leading online professional network for physicians in the United States. Doctors use Sermo free of charge to post surveys regarding diagnostic and treatment concerns and to discuss these concerns, as well as challenges with managing their practices.... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Health Care and Treatment; Knowledge Sharing; Two-Sided Platforms; Conflict and Resolution; Social and Collaborative Networks; United States

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Portrait Project

Edo Bedzra

birth, Dabala, my village, still has no resident physician. But it produced one and with my business acumen, I will take health care to the farthest reaches of the world. The task may seem daunting; the... View Details

06 Sep 2004
Research & Ideas

The Innovator’s Battle Plan

When companies have the same capabilities and motivation, they care about the battle and have the necessary skills to fight it. Skills in execution make the difference here—and because other scholars have addressed these challenges quite... View Details

Keywords: by Clayton M. Christensen, Scott D. Anthony & Erik A. Roth

01 Dec 2022
News

Singing to the Corn

to HBS came with the caveat that he add another year of work experience to the two already listed on his résumé and complete some of the quantitative courses his transcript lacked. He spent the year in Omaha, working as a project manager for the Omaha Nation in View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Vance Jacobs; Agriculture

08 Oct 2008
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: A Sense of Urgency

year. But it never did, and the crisis never came. Big Mistake Number 4: Underestimating what the people who would avoid crises at all costs correctly appreciate: that crisis can bring disaster. Example. Using a technology recently made... View Details

Keywords: by John P. Kotter

January 2020
Case

Celata Bioinnovations

By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock

In December 2019, Jon Hu (HBS ‘19) and Dr. Samantha Dale Strasser, co-founders of Celata Bioinnovations, were raising $1 million to launch their company. They had founded Celata less than six months earlier with the aim of redefining the drug discovery process.... View Details

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10 Sep 2012
HBS Case

HBS Cases: Branding Yoga

Women's Health and the Huffington Post. In 2008, after opening her own studio, Strala Yoga, the popular doctor and self-help author Deepak Chopra hired Stiles as his personal yoga instructor, a huge endorsement. Stiles created controversy... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Entertainment & Recreation

11 Jul 2019
Blog Post

Meet the MBA Class of 2020

BREAKTHROUGHS PEOPLE THOUGHT IMPOSSIBLE A YEAR AGO.” HOME REGION Wayne, PA UNDERGRAD EDUCATION College of William & Mary, Economics, 2014 PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE Verily, Google, Symplivety HBS ACTIVITIES Digital Impact Initiative, The Future Society, View Details

22 Feb 2022
News

Breaking News

benefit corporation. There are many ways that we can combine the structure and strategy and capital to get to local ownership. But ultimately, this has to work for the people who care about this in Colorado. We’re facilitating that... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; illustration by Dana Smith; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

01 Sep 2023
News

Alumni and Faculty Books

Edited by Margie Kelley The Happiness Handbook By Landon Carter (MBA 1967) Marshall and McClintic Publishing Have you ever wished you had the instruction manual for being a happy human on planet Earth? This book will answer some of life’s fundamental questions: Who am... View Details

18 Aug 2008
Research & Ideas

How Disruptive Innovation Changes Education

our schools." The ability of these lenses to shed new light on complicated problems has been proven in contexts ranging from national defense to semiconductors; from health care to retailing; and from... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education

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