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- 21 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 21
Abstract—The business case for acting sustainably is becoming increasingly compelling-reducing our global footprint to sustainable levels is the defining issue of our times, and it is one that can only be addressed with the active... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
Why Cutting Jobless Aid Isn't the Answer to Worker Shortages
16,000 people unemployed at the end of April 2021 who received federal benefits through the CARES Act of 2020. The authors analyzed anonymized bank transaction data from January 1 through September 17, 2021.... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Roger Ullman: Going Green with E2
research scientist. The pair realized they knew many busy, successful businesspeople who cared about the environment — the challenge was to create an organization that leveraged their skills and enthusiasm in a time-effective manner.... View Details
- 06 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 6, 2016
By: Kaplan, Robert S., Derek A. Haas, and Jonathan Warsh Abstract—The prevailing fee-for-service payment model has led health care administrators and physician practices to impose severe constraints on the time physicians spend talking,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Oct 2001
- Op-Ed
Lessons from the Rubble
take care of things while the folks in the Pentagon figured out what to do next. In the days and weeks to come, Americans will undoubtedly welcome government back into many aspects of market life: into airports and buildings, rental cars,... View Details
Keywords: by Debora L. Spar
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
The Third Force: Indispensable to Society, Nonprofits Should Redirect Oversight Efforts
professor Regina E. Herzlinger contended at a fall reunion presentation titled "The Four by Four Report: Effective Oversight of Nonprofit Organizations." An expert in health care and nonprofit management control, Herzlinger made the case... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 02 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Role of Government When All Else Fails
several critical sectors of the economy, including banking and private insurance, federal and state governments act as insurers of last resort, assuming literally trillions of dollars in contingent liabilities. Whether you like it or not,... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Linard
- 31 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
When Not to Trust Your Gut
negotiators believe they are capable of distinguishing between situations in which they can safely rely on intuition from those that require more careful thought—but often they are wrong. In fact, most of us trust our intuition more than... View Details
Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman & Deepak Malhotra
- 16 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
Transitions of Power Are Difficult. What Joe Biden and Other Incoming Leaders Need to Know.
losing teams have star players, but those players often play for themselves, for their own statistics and career, and don’t really care whether their team actually wins games, as I showed in my book Confidence: How Winning Streaks and... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 06 May 2025
- Blog Post
The Incredible Land of Ice and Fire: Exploring Iceland's Renewable Energy Model for a Changing Planet
truly means to care about communities. Marta Rós Karlsdóttir and Hermann Baldursson from Baseload Power Iceland with HBS students at Flúðaorka When energy makes the impossible happen On our way to Flúðaorka, we stopped at one of the... View Details
- 23 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 23, 2016
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50625 February 2016 Harvard Business Review The Harvard Contest That’s Trying to Improve Health Care Delivery By: Hamermesh, Richard G., Robert S. Huckman, Barbara McNeil, Joseph P. Newhouse,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Aug 2021
- Blog Post
New Associate Director: Courtney Fairbrother
make people care about a problem that seems to be far in the future, where they may not see a direct link between their actions and the outcomes of those choices. What motivated you to join Harvard to work on sustainability and,... View Details
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Affinity Groups | Employment
of Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer, Sherri Charleston, the Office of Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging acts as a convener, catalyst, capacity builder and community building resource. A wide array of workshops, events, and... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2020
intertwined with expert analysis, Gordon illustrates why it is so difficult to act as an engaged health care consumer in the United States, and pulls back the curtain to expose the forces that hold the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- First Look
First Look -- September 1, 2015
(TDABC) is an innovative costing tool in healthcare that can be used to directly compare the true cost of competing technologies over the full care cycle. Rather than only comparing therapeutic effectiveness over a limited number of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
2.3.1 Drug & Alcohol Policy | MBA
Department’s Annual Security Report . Illegal Acts Careful note should be taken that Harvard Business School is not and should not be considered to be a protector or sanctuary from the existing laws of the... View Details
- 26 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 26, 2008
to the "Arauco: Forward Integration or Horizontal Expansion?" case. This short case looks at the company in late 2007 after it has decided to invest in a Brazilian joint venture involving forests, saw mills, and a paper mill. The case View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Employee-Suggestion Programs That Work
June 2012 working paper, Key Drivers of Successful Implementation of an Employee Suggestion-Driven Improvement Program. Tucker is an associate professor in the Technology and Operations Management unit, and the Marvin Bower Fellow at HBS. Singer is an assistant... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Guttry
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Looking back; looking forward
them. We were looking for the science of business. Gradually, though, it became clear that management was as much an art as a science. Becoming an effective manager meant not only mastering the facts, but also acting when not all the... View Details
- 02 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
Women, Work, and the "M" Word
I’m the eldest of three daughters in a medical family. With a urogynecologist and primary care doctor as parents, I grew up thinking it was normal to talk about all topics of women’s health around the dinner table, from menstruation to... View Details