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- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
innovative solutions, especially Black female knowledge workers. We found that 42 percent of Gen Z Black women are “the first to know when something new or cutting-edge is released.” The gap with the other races was almost two-to-one. Jim... View Details
- 16 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
Crowdsourcing Is Helping Hollywood Reduce the Risk of Movie-Making
industries like biotech, you can test things along the way to see if they are feasible, but for creative ideas like a film, you can’t experiment. You have huge uncertainty and you have to think about how to manage that risk.” One way that movie producers have View Details
- 14 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
How I Spent My 2+2 Deferral: Dyllan Muller
Associate Scientist at Unilever’s Personal Care R&D site in Trumbull, Connecticut. There, I did computational chemistry research and machine learning modeling to find new active ingredients for skincare products. I quickly found out,... View Details
- Web
Frist Faculty Commons | About
replacing the Faculty Club formerly located in Kresge Hall. The space was named in honor of the Thomas F. Frist Jr. family, who have been generous supporters of financial aid at HBS. About the Name After serving as a flight surgeon in the air force, Dr. Thomas F. Frist... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Brice Cutrer Jones
general who was a wine buff. In 1970, after nine years as a fighter pilot, he traded his cockpit for a seat at HBS, where he gained the credentials and expertise to pursue his entrepreneurial dream. Initially rebuffed by financiers on Wall Street, Jones finally View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 16 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Luxury Isn’t What It Used to Be
classic," says Matthew McEvoy (HBS MBA '89), strategic planning director at Burberry. Founded in 1856, the creator of the iconic trench coat has outfitted movie stars, outdoor sportsmen, the British military, and the Royal Family. In... View Details
- 28 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 28
Publications October 2014 John Wiley & Sons International Strategy: Context, Concepts and Implications By: Collis, David J. Abstract—This book is designed for every student who will be involved in managing and advising companies that compete internationally or... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 30 Oct 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
Housing Collateral, Credit Constraints, and Entrepreneurship-Evidence from a Mortgage Reform
- Research Summary
The Role of Financial and Information Intermediaries in the Capital Markets
Hutton's research investigates the role of financial analysts and short sellers in the pricing of equity securities. Recently, Hutton examines (with Patricia Dechow and Richard Sloan) the role of sell-side analysts' earnings forecasts in the pricing of common equity... View Details
- July 2024
- Case
Roja Garimella: Developing a Founder's Judgment
By: Reza Satchu and Patrick Sanguineti
Roja Garimella’s path to becoming a founder was anything but straight. Setting her sights on a career in medicine since childhood, she committed to medical school with her acceptance to college. And yet, throughout her studies, she continually explored alternative... View Details
- February 2021
- Article
Assessment of Electronic Health Record Use Between U.S. and Non-U.S. Health Systems
By: A Jay Holmgren, Lance Downing, David W. Bates, Tait D. Shanafelt, Arnold Milstein, Christopher Sharp, David Cutler, Robert S. Huckman and Kevin A. Schulman
Importance: Understanding how the electronic health record (EHR) system changes clinician work, productivity, and well-being is critical. Little is known regarding global variation in patterns of use.
Objective: To provide insights into which EHR... View Details
Objective: To provide insights into which EHR... View Details
Keywords: Electronic Health Records; Health Care and Treatment; Online Technology; Health Industry; Information Technology Industry
Holmgren, A Jay, Lance Downing, David W. Bates, Tait D. Shanafelt, Arnold Milstein, Christopher Sharp, David Cutler, Robert S. Huckman, and Kevin A. Schulman. "Assessment of Electronic Health Record Use Between U.S. and Non-U.S. Health Systems." JAMA Internal Medicine 181, no. 2 (February 2021): 251–259.
- 2018
- Article
Cracking the Organizational Challenge of Pursuing Joint Social and Financial Goals: Social Enterprise as a Laboratory to Understand Hybrid Organizing
By: Julie Battilana
While in recent decades the social and business sectors have evolved on fairly separate tracks, today companies are increasingly expected to generate social value in addition to profit. As a result, they also increasingly face the distinct challenge of pursuing social... View Details
Keywords: Hybrid Organizations; Hybrid Organizing; Multiple Goals; Social Enterprise; Goals and Objectives; Organizational Design; Organizational Culture
Battilana, Julie. "Cracking the Organizational Challenge of Pursuing Joint Social and Financial Goals: Social Enterprise as a Laboratory to Understand Hybrid Organizing." M@n@gement 21, no. 4 (2018): 1278–1305.
- September 2008 (Revised October 2008)
- Supplement
Shareholder Activists at Friendly Ice Cream (A2)
By: V.G. Narayanan, Fabrizio Ferri and James Weber
The A1 and A2 versions of the “Shareholder Activists at Friendly Ice Cream (A)” split the original A case into two parts. The A1 case ends as activists Sardar Biglari and Phil Cooley prepare to meet with CEO Don Smith at Friendly's headquarters in September 2006. The... View Details
Keywords: Investment Activism; Business and Shareholder Relations; Governing and Advisory Boards; Conflict and Resolution; Lawsuits and Litigation; Business or Company Management; Food and Beverage Industry; United States
Narayanan, V.G., Fabrizio Ferri, and James Weber. "Shareholder Activists at Friendly Ice Cream (A2)." Harvard Business School Supplement 109-014, September 2008. (Revised October 2008.)
- 2009
- Working Paper
Corrigendum to 'Resource-Monotonicity for House Allocation Problems'
By: Bettina-Elisabeth Klaus and Lars Ehlers
Ehlers and Klaus (2003) study so-called house allocation problems and claim to characterize all rules satisfying efficiency, independence of irrelevant objects, and resource-monotonicity on two preference domains (Ehlers and Klaus, 2003, Theorem 1).... View Details
Klaus, Bettina-Elisabeth, and Lars Ehlers. "Corrigendum to 'Resource-Monotonicity for House Allocation Problems'." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 09-110, March 2009.
- 2008
- Other Unpublished Work
From Public Purpose to Financial Economics: The Linked Ecologies of Economics and Business in Twentieth Century America
By: Marion Fourcade and Rakesh Khurana
As the main producers of managerial elites, business schools represent strategic research sites for understanding the formation of economic practices and representations. This article draws on historical material to analyze the changing place of economics in American... View Details
- April 2006
- Article
Competitive Advantage and the Value Network Configuration: Making Decisions at a Swedish Life Insurance Company
By: Øystein D. Fjeldstad and Christian H.M. Ketels
When the Swedish Life Insurers Förenade Liv found themselves in difficulties in a rapidly changing market, their response was to call in the consultants. And one of the consultant's first suggestions was to use the Value Network, not the Value Chain, as a new... View Details
Keywords: Competitive Advantage; Fluctuation; Networks; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Value; Quality; Decision Making; Market Transactions; Performance Effectiveness; Customers; Insurance Industry; Sweden
Fjeldstad, Øystein D., and Christian H.M. Ketels. "Competitive Advantage and the Value Network Configuration: Making Decisions at a Swedish Life Insurance Company." Long Range Planning 39, no. 2 (April 2006): 109–131.
- 01 Nov 2012
- HBS Seminar
Joel Waldfogel, University of Minnesota
Bridging the GAAPs
Inconsistencies in accounting treatment across countries are a major obstacle for global equity investment. Founded in 1985, HOLT is an equity valuation service provider that offers its clients (e.g., global equity investors) a consistent performance metrics from... View Details
- 02 Apr 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Making the Move to General Manager
in a single domain; and if you're going to really tackle big issues you'll have to get broader and understand the complexities and nuances of business at a deeper level. "This program, for those of us who teach it, really gets back to the core of what Harvard... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Eight Among Many: Peter G. Harf
in 1990. When the couple and their two daughters began looking for a bone marrow donor so that Mechtildis could have a transplant, they learned that there were only two thousand people listed in Germany's national registry of potential marrow donors. With the help of... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young