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Race, Gender & Equity Social Enterprise Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability Case Method Project Creating Emerging Markets Digital Data Design Institute at Harvard Foundry Impact-Weighted Accounts Institute for Strategy and... View Details

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Skydeck - Alumni

the Workplace Katherine Switz (MBA 2000) on how her own experience with bipolar disorder led to forming the Stability Network, an advocacy and support group for working professionals An Environmental Epiphany Former energy executive Jules... View Details

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Careers Blog

Brij, a platform connecting brands and customers. She reflects on building confidence, embracing uncertainty, and turning early doubts into the drive to lead and grow a venture-backed company. [...] Read more 17 Jun 2025 Balancing Career View Details

19 Dec 2023
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15 Podcast Episodes That Grabbed Listeners in 2023

considered a broader Twitter ban. What short-term actions should Musk take to stabilize the situation, and how should he approach long-term strategy to turn around Twitter? Andy Wu and co-author Goran Calic, associate professor at... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

2020
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Acting Now While Preparing for Tomorrow: Competitiveness Upgrading Under the Shadow of COVID-19

By: Christian H.M. Ketels and Peter Clinch

This paper aims to provide policy makers, especially those focused on the longer-term growth potential of their countries, with an initial framework to think about their action priorities in the context of the overall COVID-19 response. Our focus is on the... View Details

Keywords: Competitiveness; COVID-19 Pandemic; Competition; Government Administration; Health Pandemics; Economy; Supply Chain; Safety

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Read Now

08 Feb 2017
HBS Seminar

Andrew Mao, Microsoft Research

02 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

What Makes a Good Leader?

prices would plummet, their competitors would be all over them, and employees would be jumping ship.—HBS professor Joe Badaracco Some great managers struggle with change and fail to be great leaders, while a great leader might fail to create a sense of View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg & Susan Young

14 Mar 2023
In Practice

What Does the Failure of Silicon Valley Bank Say About the State of Finance?

bank earnings or cash flows are relatively insensitive to changes in interest rates. Additionally, the stability of net interest margin (interest received minus interest paid) is pointed to as evidence that banks have little interest rate... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Financial Services; Banking

09 Nov 2023
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From the Brink

Antonio Weiss (MBA 1994), Adam Chepenik (MBA 2010), Sebastián Negrón-Reichard (JD/MBA 2024) As the senior top official in the US Treasury Department on domestic finance issues, Antonio Weiss (MBA 1994) could see Puerto Rico’s financial meltdown coming, like watching a... View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli

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Spreading the Word – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

ultimately securing national stability at a time of economic and social unrest. 11 Elton Mayo, The Human Problems of an Industrial Civilization . New York: MacMillan, 1933, p. 159. The "Hawthorne Effect" Research Links Baker Library |... View Details

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Building From the Bottom Up - Managing the Future of Work

of continuous experience shows that there are many barriers and too few contributors to advancement. Workers want stability and growth, but instead stagnate in poverty-trap positions. The survey questionnaire and the survey results can be... View Details

30 May 2024
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Racial Bias Might Be Infecting Patient Portals. Can AI Help?

online in a more widespread way, and use of secure portals has largely stabilized at that new, higher level. The platforms place new stresses on doctors and their teams, who suddenly face an onslaught of messages, some pressing and others... View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand; Health

23 Sep 2022
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8 Strategies to Sustain Business Innovation

face. “For a purpose brand, the goal is to be so tightly linked to job to be done that people think only of that brand when they have that problem,” he says. 8. Create stability amid inevitable change Sooner or later, McDonald says, every... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

21 Aug 2013
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What Went Wrong at J.C. Penney?

economy is in a better place, they can stabilize the company for the next 12 months. Then they might have a shot at answering the multi-billion-dollar question: What is a viable strategy for the future of J.C. Penney? A few years ago, it... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner; Retail

July 1996 (Revised July 2025)
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Innovative Opportunities to Manage Health Care Delivery: THG/Healthy Shop

By: Regina E. Herzlinger and D. Scott Lurding

The purpose of this case is: To familiarize the students with the changing landscape of health care delivery, through chains of retail medical centers and those offering value-based care (VBC).

To discuss fundamental managerial decisions about their... View Details

Keywords: Managed Care; Capitation; Strategy

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Educators

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04 Feb 2002
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How To Do Business in Islamic Countries

foreign arbitration awards. "It's very important to watch how fast Saudi Arabia moves toward WTO membership. It will have a great deal to do with the political stability of the country, its dealing with the challenges of the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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Impact of the New Medium - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

copies, enlargements, or negatives of their prints. Polaroid advertising copy highlighted the wonder, ease, and instant rewards of a revolutionary system that "telescopes all the developing, fixing and stabilizing operations of ordinary... View Details

21 Aug 2000
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Inside the OR: Disrupted Routines and New Technologies

time, found Edmondson, Bohmer and Pisano, other factors, such as hospital type, history of innovation and position of the adopting surgeon in the department, were shown not to be factors in the successful adoption of MICS. And the View Details

Keywords: by Hilah Geer

08 Feb 2022
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Silos That Work: How the Pandemic Changed the Way We Collaborate

meetings, email communication, and Teams messages once a company-wide work-at-home order was issued in early 2020, the paper says. Group members come and go Researchers also analyzed the rate of churn, or the coming and going of members within silos, to measure the... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship

community. She was recently appointed to the Board of Trustees of the Economic Stabilization Trust by Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney. The Trust provides direct loans and guarantees to manufacturing businesses. She is a member of the... View Details

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