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Organize Care Around Medical Conditions - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

their ability to serve the complex and interrelated needs of each patient over the full cycle of care. The greatest improvements in health care outcomes and efficiency will come from sustained, team-based focus on a carefully defined set... View Details

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HBS - The year in Review

2022 Annual Report From The Dean Key Metrics Financials PDF Downloads The Year in Review After a tumultuous two years of figuring out how to adapt and thrive in the face of COVID-19, fiscal year 2022 brought a steady return to normalcy at... View Details

06 Nov 2006
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How South Africa Challenges Our Thinking on FDI

markets. Portfolio inflows that capture those financial market investments are much higher in South Africa than they are for other regions of the world. Q: Your case describes the complexities of good FDI... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Feb 2001
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What Makes a Good Leader

or ethos." Great leaders, he notes, "spend the bulk of their time communicating, and they know how to employ all three of Aristotle's rhetorical elements." Nohria also feels that leaders are able to distill their message, however complex... View Details

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Food & Agriculture - Business & Environment

fertilizers. Rice cultivation produces fermentation, another contributor. Compounding the problem, clearing forests to create land for cattle and cropland eliminates the CO2 absorption that trees provide. [30] Regenerative agriculture could provide a $1.9 trillion... View Details

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Curriculum - Business & Environment

systems to measure, track, and influence climate friendly changes to reduce CO2 emissions across the world's fourth largest dairy cooperative. Finance I Project Helios: Harvesting the Sun Key concepts: Return on Investment, Financial... View Details

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Business, Government & the International Economy Curriculum - Faculty & Research

2026 Q3 1.5 Business of Ideas Caroline Elkins Fall 2025 Q2 1.5 Capitalism and the State (CATS) (also listed under General Management) Debora L. Spar Fall 2025 Q1Q2 3.0 Capitalism: Past, Present, Future Sophus A. Reinert Fall 2025 Q1Q2 3.0 Creating the Modern View Details

17 Mar 2015
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First Look: March 17

Publications March 2015 Journal of Financial Economics Banks as Patient Fixed-Income Investors By: Hanson, Samuel G., Andrei Shleifer, Jeremy C. Stein, and Robert W. Vishny Abstract—We examine the business model of traditional... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

14 Feb 2012
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First Look: February 14

PublicationsTeaming: How Organizations Learn, Innovate, and Compete in the Knowledge Economy Author:Amy C. Edmondson Publication:Jossey-Bass, in press Abstract Continuous improvement, understanding complex systems, and promoting... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

02 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 2

Working PapersEquity-Debtholder Conflicts and Capital Structure Authors:Bo Becker and Per Strömberg Abstract We use an important legal event as a natural experiment to examine equity-debt conflicts in the vicinity of financial distress.... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Health Care - Faculty & Research

Kumar, Kevin Schulman and Karen Staman Health care administration educators are at a crossroads: the health care sector is rife with inefficiencies, erratic quality, unequal access, and sky-high costs, complex problems which call for... View Details

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Business History - Faculty & Research

margins of academic discourses and their own institutions. There was a constant struggle to define the borders of the field and the central research questions that it sought to answer. However, the commitment to engage with the View Details

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Team - Entrepreneurship

both as founders and as those interested in joining early-stage startups, through a 10-week summer fellowship that provides not only financial support but a peer network and community for students. Read More Initiatives focus on societal... View Details

25 Jul 2023
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Could a Business Model Help Big Pharma Save Lives and Profit?

reasonable profits and reduced Hepatitis C, and rates of which are expected to fall by 86 percent between 2020 and 2030, according to Egypt’s Ministry of Health. This real-world example demonstrates how a business model can help Big Pharma address a View Details

Keywords: by Esther Schrader; Pharmaceutical; Health

08 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 8

We conclude by showing that spinoffs may be a particularly complex setting for analysts to evaluate relative to other forms of corporate restructuring, such as IPOs, mergers, or bankruptcies, providing one potential explanation for our... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Blog | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

financial inclusion today Robert Abare 25 Jun 2025 Felicity Mabaso of South Africa's Financial Sector Conduct Authority, 2025 Program Participant Introducing a New Free HarvardX Course: Social... View Details

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Systems Integration - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

a component of the whole organization. For instance, high-cost and highly resourced downtown medical campuses may be better suited for complex medical conditions, while regional care centers may be better suited for lower acuity, more... View Details

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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Becoming a Board Member - Alumni

board. A board bio is typically one page including a headshot and four to five paragraphs that highlight your accomplishments, skills, and credibility. Interpersonal skills Ability to handle complexity and ambiguity Integrity Independent... View Details

15 Aug 2012
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Legislating Stock Prices

Keywords: by Lauren Cohen, Karl Diether & Christopher Malloy; Financial Services

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