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- 05 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 5, 2016
case considers Nestlé’s creating shared value (CSV) strategy, which focused on the three categories of nutrition, water, and rural development. In the packaged food and beverage industry, pressure had mounted since the 1990s to improve... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
talk, most people would rather do anything but fail. Failure, it seems, is fine in theory, and fine for other people, but difficult to accept for ourselves. Moreover, our efforts to learn from failure skew towards the self-serving and ego-preserving, as the View Details
- 06 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 6
longer at the beginning or end. Credit Access and Social Welfare: The Rise of Consumer Lending in the United States and France Author:Gunnar Trumbull Publication:Politics and Society 40, no. 1 (2012) Abstract Research into the causes of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Building a Movement
social enterprises here and around the world. You both mentioned that student interest is one of the drivers. What else is driving the momentum behind social enterprise? JB: Corporations face increasing... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Late Start, Dramatic Finish
is in thinking boldly and understanding and attacking complex problems,” reported Baranowski. “I am convinced that our team's ability to do this under extreme pressure was the reason why we won the competition.” View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Prognosis
patients than any other hospital in the state—to bend without breaking under the pressure of the pandemic. Professor Robert Huckman is an economist and health care researcher who serves as unit head for Technology and Operations... View Details
- 27 Oct 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
Achieving Excellence in Nonprofits
Sean Silverthorne: What organizations are included in "social enterprise," and why do you define it in the way that you do? Herman "Dutch" Leonard: We include as a "social enterprise" any organization that places a View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Faculty Research Online
Time Pressure and Creativity: Why Time Is Not on Your Side Even as time pressures increase in corporate life, the need for creative thinking has never been greater, says Professor Teresa Amabile in this Q&A.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
as a national blueprint. Near-universal coverage, a pipe dream anywhere in the United States a few short years ago, is the chief reason that the state’s model has generated so much excitement. And the Bay State’s example has arguably put View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
The Doctor Is In
matters is what Slavin sees as a fundamental "discordance" at the heart of the health-care dilemma: "People generally opt once a year for the lowest-priced insurer," he observes, "but when they actually need care, they want the best money can buy." With his hectic... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Better than Cash
area, having served more than 250 nonprofits and providing consulting services worth approximately $1.5 million annually, says HBSA/NC president Sean Jacobsohn (MBA ’98). Nonprofits across the country are under increasing pressure to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
What’s in a Name
Late last fall, Dolly Chugh (MBA 1994) made a guest appearance on After Hours, the podcast where HBS professors discuss current events. (The podcast is part of the TED Audio Collective.) Chugh was joined by professors Mihir Desai and Felix Oberholzer-Gee in a... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Cure All
deliver a product that is more focused on what patients need. Hopefully, that also pressures providers to provide high quality care at a lower price. RS: I agree, but these incentives for change may not be sufficient. I would like the... View Details
- 20 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Fixing Corporate Governance: A Roundtable Discussion at Harvard Business School
that ensured their executives would receive above-average pay even though all executives can't be above average. The market for executives is not one in which there are strong competitive pressures to keep compensation down; so, in the... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Short Takes
formulation. The interviews also revealed that compensation committees face a number of pressures to keep top executives' pay at a certain level. Not the least of these, says Lorsch, are surveys performed by compensation consultants.... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 05 Apr 2016
- News
Don’t Send Your Kids to College. At Least Not Yet.
Surveying the panic and pressure of college admissions season in the New York Times, Abby Falik (MBA 2008), CEO and founder of Global Citizen Year, suggests that few involved in this cultural pressure cooker... View Details
- 22 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
When Protestors Knock at Your Door
social and environmental issues? NGOs have become an important element of the global economy and firms should expect to interact with them.—Debora Spar Spar: Again, it really depends on the firm, the business, and the activist groups... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Head Games
either from the run of play or impact with the playing surface. Improvements in equipment and rule changes can make things better but probably not eliminate the longer-term danger of life-shortening injury or impairment. Is it possible that View Details
- 06 Oct 2022
- News
On the Road to Recovery
nursing had not existed, I can’t even imagine what would’ve happened in the pandemic,” Moreno observes. “Literally, certain hospitals would have run out of staff, and they would not have been able to take care of the patients.” And with that increased demand comes... View Details
- Portrait Project
Cyril Abel Vergis
As a first-generation, first-born American, I grew up believing that my motivation was derived from the self-imposed pressure to take advantage of the opportunities my parents did not have. I strove to make the right choices, to take... View Details