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  • 17 Sep 2013
  • First Look

First Look: September 17

serve as an accountability system for restaurants. However, cities (which are responsible for inspections) have limited resources to dispatch inspectors, which in turn limits the number of inspections that can be performed. We argue that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Dec 2023
  • Blog Post

My Summer of Joy with the National Parks Service

WWII planes, boat docks, and everything in between. My role was to help them design a more sustainable operating and funding model to ensure their long-term viability within the park service. Before I started at HBS, I was a medical... View Details
  • 11 May 2022
  • Blog Post

MoMBAs: The Inspiring Student Mothers of HBS

in how to spend time as a mother. I took a gap semester in my EC (second) year because I felt I was drowning between classes, the part-time job I wanted to do, and a broken childcare support system (daycare was shortened due to COVID).... View Details
  • Web

2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

sources such as wind and solar. In this talk, I will discuss different strategies for meeting the world’s energy needs and preserving economic prosperity and security, while protecting human and natural systems from climate impacts. CASE... View Details
  • 09 Jun 2024
  • Blog Post

The EC Formula: MBA Class of 2024 Looks Back

Stern kept the curriculum very updated and had students share presentations on broader health care topics before each case discussion. Since I was planning on switching from the medical product to the health care delivery space, I was... View Details
  • 08 Mar 2021
  • Blog Post

International Women's Day Featured Stories

women involved, the result will be a world with less war. Shivangi Goel Harvard MD/MBA Student, Class of 2022 At the start of the pandemic all medical schools across the country pulled medical students out... View Details
  • 06 Mar 2012
  • First Look

First Look: March 6

not been well served by the financial sector's boom. First, the shift from deposit-based banking to a market-based "shadow banking" system, without adequate regulatory adjustments, has left the financial system vulnerable to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Sep 2006
  • What Do You Think?

Are We Ready for Self-Management?

authors maintain that the Costco model not only is more attractive for workers but also creates fewer social costs for such things as medical expenses. What would seem to be a "win-win" answer to the scarcity of good managers... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • Web

HBS - The year in Review

Boston Planning and Development Agency Soltan Bryce, Boston Medical Center Health System Sara Jetty, Whitney Museum of American Art Justin Kim, Social Finance Yogi Kurniawan, City of San Jose Mayor's Office... View Details
  • 10 Nov 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Globalization: The Strategy of Differences

independently from the way it chooses to compete in product markets. Some companies have gone further. Consider the case of GE Medical Systems (GEMS), the division that Jeffrey Immelt built up between 1997... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
  • 27 Feb 2020
  • Sharpening Your Skills

How Following Best Business Practices Can Improve Health Care

like? Doesn’t sound possible, but South African company Vitality is doing just that. How Cost Accounting is Improving Healthcare in Rural HaitiWhat happened when a pioneering cost accounting system examined wide variances in Haiti's... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Medical Devices & Supplies; Medical Devices & Supplies
  • 03 May 2010
  • Research & Ideas

What Is the Future of MBA Education?

learning process. Garvin: Faculty could be expanded in creative ways. Think of Harvard Medical School. It has incoming classes of 165 students and 10,000 faculty! It's an astonishing number that makes sense only after you realize Harvard... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education
  • Web

2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

your own longevity? Learn how to support aging parents without derailing your career, damaging your health, or unnecessarily depleting the family’s assets. Join your peers to discuss specific legal, financial, medical and caregiving... View Details
  • September 2013 (Revised August 2015)
  • Background Note

Leadership and Teaming

By: Ethan Bernstein
Small differences in the leadership of teams can have large consequences for the success of their efforts. Many initiatives fail not because of a fatal error in judgment or insufficient ideas, knowledge, motivation, or capabilities to deliver a solution. They fail... View Details
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  • 14 Jul 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World

systems of adherence. Case 1: Learn and deploy new information Geographic diversification is often seen by managers as a useful way to tap into new sources of growth. In case of a pandemic, a specific form of geographic... View Details
Keywords: by Raffaella Sadun, Andrea Bertoni, Alexia Delfino, Giovanni Fassio, and Mariapaola Testa
  • 23 Mar 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Product Disasters Can Be Fertile Ground for Innovation

In 2009, a stroke victim at a Los Angeles medical center started losing his hair following a CT brain perfusion scan. After some confusion, doctors determined he had been subject to a radiation overdose—a serious accident that might lead... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Medical Devices & Supplies; Medical Devices & Supplies
  • 01 Mar 2009
  • News

A New Approach to Health-Care Reform

patients’ needs. Today’s doctors work in a system where they are rewarded by Medicare and insurance companies for the number and cost of the services they provide rather than by the value of those services in helping patients. In short,... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Health, Social Assistance
  • 15 Jan 2018
  • Research & Ideas

A Better Business Model for Fighting Cancer

system to speed delivery of targeted therapies to the marketplace. “Early on, people would ask us why the (Harvard) business school, and not the medical school, was the recipient of this gift,” says... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Health; Pharmaceutical
  • 12 Dec 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Buy-In from Black Patients Suffers When Drug Trials Don’t Include Them

Black patients and their doctors may be more open to new medications if drug trials included more Black people, new research shows. Currently, Black Americans represent just 5 percent of drug trial participants. Nearly three-quarters of... View Details
Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis; Pharmaceutical; Health
  • 13 Aug 2024
  • Op-Ed

Can AI Save Physicians from Burnout?

In the past decade, physician burnout has evolved from a serious concern to a troubling epidemic, affecting 50 percent of physicians and physicians-in-training. Excessive workloads, process inefficiencies, and administrative burdens related to electronic View Details
Keywords: by Susanna Gallani, Lidia Moura, and Katie Sonnefeldt; Health