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  • 25 Mar 2008
  • Working Paper Summaries

Incompatible Assumptions: Barriers to Producing Multidisciplinary Knowledge in Communities of Scholarship

Keywords: by Corinne Bendersky & Kathleen L. McGinn; Education
  • 22 Feb 2016
  • Research & Ideas

The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist

effort to strengthen “reasonable price” provisions in California law, pushing for standardized prescription compounding and pricing, as well as price schedules set by manufacturers. “The history of American capitalism has always been... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Retail; Health; Legal Services
  • 17 Feb 2022
  • Blog Post

The Fifth Year of Short Intensive Programs (SIPs) at HBS

Leschly led students through conversations, Q+A sessions, and presentations aimed at inspiring change and innovation in the sector. The lauded American dream, Leschly posed, rests heavily on the promise of... View Details
  • 2014
  • Working Paper

The Contract Year Phenomenon in the Corner Office: An Analysis of Firm Behavior During CEO Contract Renewals

By: Ping Liu and Yuhai Xuan
This paper investigates how executive employment contracts influence corporate financial policies during the final year of the contract term, using a new, hand-collected data set of CEO employment agreements. On the one hand, the impending expiration of fixed-term... View Details
Keywords: Management Style; Contracts; Behavior; Employment
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  • Article

The Efficacy of a Comprehensive Health Project: An Empirical Analysis

By: Robert S. Kaplan, Lester Lave and Samuel Leinhardt
Keywords: Health; Theory; Outcome or Result
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  • 06 Sep 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Curbing an Unlikely Culprit of Rising Drug Prices: Pharmaceutical Donations

condition was associated with $23,084 in assistance-eligible drug spending in 2017, nearly doubling from $12,297 in 2010. Patients shouldered less of the cost over time, paying $685 in 2017 versus $835 in 2010. Urging View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand; Insurance; Health; Pharmaceutical
  • 13 Oct 2020
  • News

To Foster Innovation, Cultivate a Culture of Intellectual Bravery

  • 12 Sep 2016
  • Research & Ideas

What Brands Can Do to Monitor Factory Conditions of Suppliers

auditors. Building Capacity for Change Both studies—considering factors in countries where factories are located and at the makeup of the teams that audit them—may be helpful in arriving at an accurate... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • September 2007
  • Case

Still Leading (B5): General Claudia Kennedy—In Command of Life

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Lance P. Pierce
Describes the transition issues for General Kennedy after she left the army and tried to apply her leadership to social causes. View Details
Keywords: Transition; Problems and Challenges; Social Issues; Personal Development and Career; Leadership; Public Administration Industry
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  • June 2016
  • Article

Vaccination Rates Are Associated with Functional Proximity but Not Base Proximity of Vaccination Clinics

By: John Beshears, James J. Choi, David Laibson, Brigitte C. Madrian and Gwendolyn I. Reynolds
Background: Routine annual influenza vaccinations are recommended for persons 6 months of age and older, but less than half of U.S. adults get vaccinated. Many employers offer employees free influenza vaccinations at workplace clinics, but even then take-up is... View Details
Keywords: Geographic Location; Employees; Health Care and Treatment
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  • October 2021 (Revised February 2022)
  • Case

Hospital 57357: Aligning Performance Towards a Vision of a Cancer-Free Childhood

By: Susanna Gallani and Youssef Abdel Aal
The case follows the Children Cancer Hospital in Egypt, also known as Hospital 57357, as it goes through the roll-out of a new performance management system, which Dr. Sherif Abouel Naga, founder and CEO of the hospital, had championed. This was a critical juncture as... View Details
Keywords: Healthcare; Performance Management; Performance Incentives; Strategic Alignment; Health Care and Treatment; Nonprofit Organizations; Strategy; Alignment; Performance Evaluation; Mission and Purpose; Change Management; Health Industry; Egypt; Middle East
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  • 29 May 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Howard Stevenson on the Lessons of the Internet Era

Entrepreneurs and managers who can't adapt to the fast pace of change in the world—"a world that should be on Prozac"—are likely to miss out on opportunities in the years to come, says HBS... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • April 3, 2023
  • Article

Getting a Clearer View of Your Company’s Carbon Footprint

By: Robert S. Kaplan, Karthik Ramanna and Stefan Reichelstein
E-liability accounting is a new technique that will help customers factor in a product’s environmental footprint into their purchasing decisions and will help create a competition dynamic that leads to reduced carbon outputs. This article describes two pilot studies—by... View Details
Keywords: Environmental Sustainability; Environmental Accounting; Supply Chain; Consumer Behavior
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  • 2007
  • Chapter

Transforming Organizations: Embrace the Paradox of E and O

By: Michael Beer
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Transformation
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  • 12 May 2020
  • Blog Post

The Importance of Coordination: Apoorva Pasricha Reflects on Crisis Leadership

intersection of the private and public sectors,” Pasricha says. “I’m excited by the way technology will change our urban lives." For the first half of her tenure, Pasricha... View Details
Keywords: Social Enterprise; Technology; Nonprofit / Government
  • 28 Apr 2020
  • Blog Post

The Importance of Coordination: Apoorva Pasricha Reflects on Crisis Leadership

intersection of the private and public sectors,” Pasricha says. “I’m excited by the way technology will change our urban lives." For the first half of her tenure, Pasricha... View Details
  • Article

Manufacturing Strategy: At the Intersection of Two Paradigm Shifts

By: R. H. Hayes and G. P. Pisano
Keywords: Strategy; Change
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  • May 2017
  • Other Article

Stepwise Distributed Open Innovation Contests for Software Development: Acceleration of Genome-Wide Association Analysis

By: Andrew Hill, Po-Ru Loh, Ragu B. Bharadwaj, Pascal Pons, Jingbo Shang, Eva C. Guinan, Karim R. Lakhani, Iain Kilty and Scott Jelinsky
BACKGROUND: The association of differing genotypes with disease-related phenotypic traits offers great potential to both help identify new therapeutic targets and support stratification of patients who would gain the greatest benefit from specific drug classes.... View Details
Keywords: Crowdsourcing; Genome-wide Association Study; Logistic Regression; Open Innovation; PLINK; Collaborative Innovation and Invention
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  • 01 Jun 1997
  • News

Of Myth and Merlin: T.A. (Tom) Barron's Literary Odyssey

Barron recalls one professor chiding him for "studying the hiking trails of Scotland more than anything else." Despite his numerous academic and extracurricular interests, including writing, business came first for Barron, thanks to his... View Details
Keywords: Thomas Frick
  • 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
Keywords: Economics; Business Education; Finance; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Business History; Chicago
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