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- 23 Jan 2019
- News
The Promise of Personalized Medicine
University of Cincinnati every year for treatment? Why does he seem to struggle to walk? Horgan eventually came to understand that his brother suffers from Duchenne muscular dystrophy—a fatal, childhood genetic disease that impacts about... View Details
- 20 Sep 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
Historical Origins of Environmental Sustainability in the German Chemical Industry, 1950s-1980s
- 10 Mar 2017
- News
The Business of Lego Batman
weekends in a row. He spoke with associate editor Julia Hanna about everything from his approach to a film’s business plan, to the challenges of managing internal growth on his teams—and how the Lego Movie is like The Avengers. READ MORE... View Details
- 08 May 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Cost of Cutting in Line
easy to see why airlines don't offer an opportunity to move to the head of the line. But my research also suggests alternative systems that are more acceptable. For instance, airlines could install an emergency counter for passengers... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Story of Israel’s Economic Miracle
intriguing new book Start-Up Nation: The Story of Israel’s Economic Miracle (Twelve), written by Dan Senor (MBA ’01) and Saul Singer, a columnist at the Jerusalem Post. Most Israelis in their late teens serve several years in the elite... View Details
- 16 Apr 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
Chris Christensen: Legend of the Classroom
special professorships at Harvard that acknowledge achievements beyond conventional limits of departments and specialties. Awarding the chair, President Bok said that Christensen's efforts had "helped... View Details
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Faculty & Researchers - Managing the Future of Work
Department of Commerce. Research Friend-shoring strategies shouldn’t count China out yet , Hinrich Foundation, 2022. Seven Things You Should Know to Understand the Supply Chain , The Wall Street Journal,... View Details
- 12 Jan 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Value of a ‘Portable’ Career
Stellar teamwork and star talent will be on display February 1 at the National Football League's annual Super Bowl, in Tampa Bay, Florida. For football fans, the much-awaited Super Bowl is the highlight of the year. Minus the dramatic... View Details
- 17 Sep 2021
- Research & Ideas
The Trial of Elizabeth Holmes: Visionary, Criminal, or Both?
after dropping out of Stanford University, knew the product didn’t deliver while she solicited new business and investments. Defense attorneys say Holmes “believed” in the revolutionary blood-testing device... View Details
- 31 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
Taking the Fear out of Diversity Policies
the Organizational Behavior Unit at HBS. "And as a result, the resulting policies are defensive in nature, and they don't tend to produce the high quality of relationships that you need across... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- June 2008 (Revised October 2010)
- Case
Patient Flow at Brigham and Women's Hospital (A)
By: Anita L. Tucker and Jillian Alexandra Berry
Brigham and Women's Hospital challenged a team of physicians to improve patient flow from the Emergency Department to Intensive Care Units (ICUs). One of the team members, Selwyn Rogers, Director of the Surgical Intensive Care Unit (SICU) at Brigham and Women's... View Details
Keywords: Change Management; Health Care and Treatment; Service Operations; Business Processes; Performance Productivity; Conflict and Resolution; Health Industry; Massachusetts
Tucker, Anita L., and Jillian Alexandra Berry. "Patient Flow at Brigham and Women's Hospital (A)." Harvard Business School Case 608-171, June 2008. (Revised October 2010.)
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Portraits from the Class of 2003
services, NYC Department of Parks and Recreation Duties Included: taking care of Yankee and Shea stadiums Description of Her Employees:... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- September 2013 (Revised June 2017)
- Supplement
IBM and the Reinvention of High School (B): Replicating & Scaling P-TECH and Partners
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone
IBM's Corporate Citizenship office created an innovation in public education through a business-school partnership for widespread replication and diffusion. In 2012, while P-TECH (Pathways in Technology Early College High School) was still in its first year operating,... View Details
Keywords: Social Enterprise; Partnerships; Innovation; Entrepreneurship; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Leadership; Partners and Partnerships; Social Entrepreneurship; Education; Business and Community Relations; Innovation and Invention; Growth Management; Chicago; Idaho
Kanter, Rosabeth Moss, and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone. "IBM and the Reinvention of High School (B): Replicating & Scaling P-TECH and Partners." Harvard Business School Supplement 314-050, September 2013. (Revised June 2017.)
- 09 Jun 2017
- News
Curating the Cuisine of Southwest China
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes WildChina founder Zhang Mei (MBA 1996) released her first book this year: Travels Through Dali with a Leg of Ham, a travelogue and recipe collection culled from the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
The End of the Noncompete Clause
industry: labor organizing. For decades, noncompete clauses were written into job contracts to help protect companies from losing intellectual property by restricting when and where employees could work after they departed their current... View Details
Keywords: Janelle Nanos
- Web
1.11 Leaves of Absence | MBA
Department of Defense (DoD) Voluntary Education Partnership Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), Harvard Business School (HBS) will promptly... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Big Business of Little Loans
Banks. Amid the excitement, abuses have also appeared, with some online lenders reportedly charging as much as 50 percent in interest on some short-term loans. It’s been enough to attract the attention of regulators, with everyone from... View Details
Keywords: Nancy Miller
- 07 Feb 2023
- Research & Ideas
Supervisor of Sandwiches? More Companies Inflate Titles to Avoid Extra Pay
pattern when it came to strange-sounding management titles and overtime laws. He found a “strong” association between enforcement actions by the US Department of Labor’s hours and wage division and... View Details
Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis
- 2012
- Working Paper
Author-Level Eigenfactor Metrics: Evaluating the Influence of Authors, Institutions and Countries within the SSRN community
By: Jevin D. West, Michael C. Jensen, Ralph J. Dandrea, Gregg Gordon and Carl T. Bergstrom
In this paper, we show how the Eigenfactor® score, originally designed for ranking scholarly journals, can be adapted to rank the scholarly output of authors, institutions, and countries based on author-level citation data. Using the methods described herein, we... View Details
Keywords: Body of Literature; Measurement and Metrics; Networks; Rank and Position; Research; Motivation and Incentives
West, Jevin D., Michael C. Jensen, Ralph J. Dandrea, Gregg Gordon, and Carl T. Bergstrom. "Author-Level Eigenfactor Metrics: Evaluating the Influence of Authors, Institutions and Countries within the SSRN community." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 12-068, February 2012.