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- 08 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Management Education’s Unanswered Questions
motivated by the fact that many scholars in business schools had offered no real policy prescriptions for how the United States could get out of the Depression. Moreover, so many businesspeople had been seen as not necessarily following... View Details
- 31 Oct 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 31, 2017
developed new product categories such as organic food and wind and solar energy, which explicitly focused on sustainability. Again this process has been traced back to the nineteenth century. With the rise in green consumerism and public View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 16, 2016
benefit-based principle. Together, these results suggest that a large share of the American public views the allocation of pre-tax incomes as relevant to optimal tax policy and—at least in part—justly deserved unless proven otherwise,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Using Investor Relations Proactively
example, both companies know that their investors are very concerned about the large amount of cash generated in oil and gas, but each has committed to explaining its use in a different way. While BP is very willing to state they will have an ongoing View Details
- 25 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
How Software Platforms Revolutionize Business
Software Platforms Drive Innovation and Transform Industries, available October 4 from MIT Press. Evans is Managing Director of the Global Competitive Policy Practice at LEGC LLC. Hagiu is a professor in the Strategy unit at Harvard... View Details
- 12 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018
Milan in the late 1700s to recover the Academy’s ideas and the policies they informed. At the core of their preoccupations lay the often lethal tension among states, markets, and human welfare in an era when the three were becoming... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
Risky Business? Protecting Foreign Investments
Silverthorne: You write that Indonesia's 1980 nationalization of ITT's thirteen-year-old Indostat telecom business "marked the end of an era." What changed? Louis Wells: In the 1980s, a new attitude toward foreign investment swept the developing world. Old View Details
- 11 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Sexual Harassment: What Employers Should Do Now
have to go to women for your budget, you don’t dare disrespect those people in power.” Sexual harassment training and more training Simple policy changes can go a long way toward preventing sexual harassment, Kanter says, like mandating... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 10
engineer scarcity by limiting supply when secondary markets thicken to separate primary and secondary markets. We find support for these hypotheses in the U.S. concert ticket industry. Publisher's link: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2359803 August... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 18
http://dx.doi.org.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/10.1016/j.socscimed.2014.01.041 August 2013 The Changing Frontier: Rethinking Science and Innovation Policy Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Renewable Energy By: Nanda, Ramana, Ken Younge, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- March 2023 (Revised June 2023)
- Teaching Note
Ransomware Attack at Springhill Medical Center
By: Suraj Srinivasan and Li-Kuan (Jason) Ni
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 123-065. In July, 2019, Springhill Medical Center (“SMC”) in Mobile, Alabama fell prey to a malicious ransomware attack that crippled the hospital’s internal network systems and public-facing web page. While the hospital rushed to... View Details
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- 09 Jan 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 9, 2018
average under FFS. Conclusion: Prospective bundled payments were successfully implemented in this pilot. Additional pilots should study this payment method in higher-volume cancers. Robust systems are needed to automate patient identification, enrollment, billing, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jun 2015
- HBS Case
Consumer-centered Health Care Depends on Accessible Medical Records
what is clear is that the organization will have to be one that both consumers need and doctors trust, says John A. Quelch, the Charles Edward Wilson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and Professor in Health View Details
- 10 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty Views on Debt Crisis
lawmakers need to be open to asking the tough questions, engaging in real debate, searching for solutions, and making compromises. Pledges to rule in or rule out various policy options are likely to preclude sensible solutions. This is an... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Brand Power from Wedgwood to Dell: Part One
related to your brand. Where you set up buying offices in major cities around the world is related to your brand. What kind of credit policies you extend to your customers, and to whom, and on what terms, is related to your brand. What... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 21 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 21
insight from behavioral economists and organizational consultants is also included. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52264 December 2016 Journal of Business and Policy Research Corporate Sponsorship in... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 03 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 3, 2018
But while corporate political actions such as lobbying can have a greater impact on environmental quality, they are ignored in most current sustainability metrics. It is time for these metrics to be expanded to critically assess firms based on the sustainability... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Jan 2017
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First Look at New Research: January 10, 2017
meeting today’s negotiation challenges—from diplomacy to business, finance, and law? Though Henry Kissinger is a controversial figure who played key roles in policies still marked by contention, our purpose in this book is neither to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 30, 2016
impatience parameter is calibrated to local interest rates. A quantitative exercise calibrated to Brazil finds welfare gains of the optimal fiscal policy to be economically substantial, and the optimal rule to not entail a countercyclical... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 20 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
How CEOs Sustain Higher-Ambition Goals
company is concerned with more than making money. Mark Bertolini, chairman, CEO, and president of health insurer Aetna, pointed to his own experience in social media, recalling a note he received from a 26-year-old student fighting colon cancer whose insurance View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman