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- 23 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
In Venture Capital, Birds of a Feather Lose Money Together
To illustrate the old adage that birds of a feather flock together, there may be no better example than the venture capital industry. A recent study finds that venture capitalists have a strong tendency to team up with other VCs whose ethnic and View Details
- 07 Feb 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Creating the Founders’ Dilemmas Course
Wasserman says. This part includes case discussions of HBS graduate Vivek Khuller (MBA '99), who persuades classmates to cofound with him the electronic-ticketing company Smartix; Genevieve Thiers, who decides to bring in her boyfriend to... View Details
- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Entering the Age of Alliances
competencies of each partner and create two-way value is evidenced by, among others, the collaboration between The College Fund (UNCF) and Merck. UNCF, the largest and oldest minority educational assistance organization in the United... View Details
Keywords: by James Austin
- 29 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
How Economics May Lead to Better Football Games
too early. It turns out that a number of very competitive labor markets have suffered from similar problems. In some recent years, law students who apply to clerk for federal appellate judges were hired almost two years before they would View Details
- 02 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
Ray A. Goldberg
At the beginning of January, over two hundred senior executives and government officials from around the globe met at Harvard Business School for the fortieth annual Agribusiness Seminar. They represented every facet of the "global food system"—from... View Details
- 06 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
Who Will Give You the Best Professional Guidance?
most entrepreneurs and leaders dealing with the stress of scaling their companies and balancing life’s demands. Therapists are medical professionals with extensive training who focus on an individual’s psychological, emotional, and... View Details
Keywords: by Julia B. Austin
- 04 Aug 2003
- What Do You Think?
Are We Facing an Attitude Shortage?
have been skill-centered in the past, such as medical services, now are beginning to subscribe to this idea as they encounter increasing numbers of malpractice suits bred primarily from failures of attitude (insensitivity leading to... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 15 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Coming Transformation of Social Enterprise
generation of social enterprise leaders? A: I don't think the business schools by themselves are going to solve this problem. Whether it's HBS or any other business school, ultimately I think students come to learn how to be leaders in the business arena. Right now 5... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson
- 25 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health
explore interactions between private business and public health, and demonstrate how consumers can create better and less expensive care for themselves. Book Excerpt: Consumer Power in Shaping Public Health Healthcare and education are... View Details
- 29 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
How Technological Disruption Changes Everything
education programs or, as we like to call it, Harvard Business School. In health care, Christensen set the scene by outlining the four layers of health care professionals: The specialist and sub-specialist physicians top the pecking... View Details
- 08 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
How to Fix a Broken Marketplace
tackled the market for new medical residents, economists, and lawyers. (Forbes magazine named him one of the world's "seven most powerful new economists.") "Market design is the engineering part of game theory," Roth... View Details
- 24 Jul 2013
- Op-Ed
Detroit Files for Bankruptcy: HBS Faculty Weigh In
University. It also became a medical hub, driven by the brisk expansion of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. The education centers of Carnegie Mellon and Pitt... View Details
- 25 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Why a Harvard Finance Instructor Went to the Kumbh Mela
up here. Prof. Greg Greenough of the Harvard School of Public Health is directing researchers interested in everything from the pH of the Ganga to the quality and quantity of toilets to the structure of the medical response teams in... View Details
- 13 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Diagnosing the Public Health Care Alternative
prospective physicians who must incur massive debt for their education reluctantly opt for other occupations in which the government is not their sole source of revenues. A government market with an underpriced Medicare would likely lead... View Details
- 09 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 9, 2010
Force Academy, and the instructors. The workshop is for scholars who are graduates of our course, "Being a Leader and the Effective Exercise of Leadership: An Ontological Model," who are now interested in teaching the course at... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 May 2019
- Book
These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems
HBS Alumni Making a Difference in the World—co-authored by HBS Professor Emeritus Howard Stevenson, HBS project director Shirley Spence, and writer Russ Banham—shares more than 200 stories of HBS graduates who have taken steps toward... View Details
- 17 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Can China Maintain Its Economic Power?
book, Can China Lead? Reaching the Limits of Power and Growth, coauthored with HBS professor William Kirby and Regina Abrami of the Wharton School. In addition to teaching in several HBS Executive Education programs, McFarlan has been a... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg
- 23 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
China’s 60-Year Road from Revolution to World Power
strategy and detail, much of Communist China's first Five-Year Plan had been on Nationalist China's drawing boards. “In the first half of the twentieth century, China developed one of the more dynamic systems of higher education in the... View Details
Keywords: by William C. Kirby
- 03 Apr 2017
- What Do You Think?
How About Investing in Human Infrastructure?
Hare said, “Should we do better in investing in people? They’re an asset of course we should!” Guy Higgins and Lewisman agreed, with conditions: “ (as with the GI Bill) make the offer to men and women who have some life experience and emotional maturity (and ensure)... View Details
- 16 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Can Applied Economics Save Homeless Puppies?
matching system for New England, correcting public school choice programs in New York and Boston, and tackling markets for new medical residents, economists, and lawyers. That same year, Christine L. Exley and Elena Battles launched a... View Details