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19 Mar 2012
HBS Case

HBS Cases: Overcoming the Stress of ‘Englishnization’

This takes years to achieve." The problem is that teaching non-English speakers a new language risks drops in productivity, causes some employees to lose status, and can engender belief that they aren't as effective in their second... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

13 Sep 2021
Research & Ideas

Science: The Unlikely Frontier for New Business Ideas

“Fail fast” has become the corporate innovation mantra, but new research suggests that inventions that build on science, with its systematic observation and methodical experiments, may deliver more value to companies. US patent filings... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

Article

Adding Value by Talking More

By: Robert S. Kaplan, Derek A. Haas and Jonathan Warsh

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, for which they are reimbursed poorly or not at all. New value-based reimbursement models, however,... View Details

Keywords: Value Creation; Cost Management; Health Care and Treatment; Customer Focus and Relationships; Health Industry

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05 Dec 2013
Op-Ed

Encourage Breakthrough Health Care by Competing on Products Rather Than Patents

Like many people interested in the tangled connections between health care progress and intellectual property rights, I avidly followed the Myriad Genetics case, decided by the Supreme Court this June 13. In sum, molecular diagnostics... View Details

Keywords: by Richard G. Hamermesh; Biotechnology; Health

31 Oct 2004
Research & Ideas

The New CEO’s Wrong Message

than a year's work by a division manager and his team. They had developed advertising, prepared promotional materials, crafted a sales and distribution plan, and assigned responsibilities for different parts of the plan. All that was... View Details

Keywords: by Michael E. Porter, Jay W. Lorsch & Nitin Nohria

22 Jan 2016
Blog Post

Case Protagonists at HBS

The case method is a cornerstone of the HBS pedagogical method. During their time at HBS, students will step into the shoes of 500 different case protagonists – and learn how to make difficult, critical decisions with limited information.... View Details

22 Feb 2021
Book

Reaching Today's Omnichannel Customer Takes a New Sales Strategy

Selling is changing, but broad generalizations and false dichotomies about ecommerce, big data, and other trends—hallmarks of current sales advice—are keeping business leaders from making sound decisions, says Frank Cespedes, author of a View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

08 Nov 2021

Military Student Panel followed by Breakout Rooms by Branch of Service

Join a panel of current HBS students from the Military to hear how they have advanced their skills to enter a variety of industries and even to start their own companies. MBA Admissions and the HBS Armed... View Details

22 Feb 2016
Video

Retail Sector at HBS

29 Oct 2019
Working Paper Summaries

Crowdsourcing Memories: Mixed Methods Research by Cultural Insiders-Epistemological Outsiders

Keywords: by Tarun Khanna, Karim R. Lakhani, Shubhangi Bhadada, Nabil Khan, Saba Kohli Davé, Rasim Alam, and Meena Hewett

06 Sep 2005
What Do You Think?

What are the Lessons of New Orleans?

security company, of which I was a director, to that of the New York City Police Department. A direct result has been a number of arrests by the NYPD of criminals fleeing buildings guarded View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

21 Jul 2020
News

New Models for a New World

17 Oct 2024
Research & Ideas

The Reputation Risks of Sharing Fake News

As partisan vitriol flies in the final month before the US presidential election, a new study offers insight into the question of why people share political misinformation. Even when a news article would... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

06 Jun 2016
News

Shareholder Proposals Contested by Firm Management

01 Apr 2001
News

New Ventures New Gains

insignificant, faculty and student organizers emphasize that the contest’s value lies well beyond such monetary rewards and services, which are donated by corporate sponsors and the HBS Entrepreneurship... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna and Susan Young; Martin Dubilier (MBA 1952); Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

12 PM – 1:30 PM EDT, 15 Jun 2021
Virtual Programming

HBS On Board Session

Join the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative for the launch of On Board, a new program designed to inspire and support alumni serving on nonprofit boards. In this first session, Professor Kash Rangan will host a conversation with Anne Wallestad of BoardSource on the shift... View Details

01 Dec 2002
News

MBAs by the Numbers

fall eager to hone their leadership skills, gain practical knowledge, and meet fellow students from myriad backgrounds. Meanwhile, the Class of 2002 embarked on new careers. Despite the downturn in the economy, recent graduates landed on... View Details

17 Nov 2023
News

New Faculty Profiles: Michael Lingzhi Li

01 Oct 2000
News

Painting, by the Numbers

don't like as much to sell." In addition to maintaining an impressive private collection, Feigen has sold works to more than one hundred museums through his New York firm, Richard L. Feigen & Co. His new... View Details

30 Nov 2015
Research & Ideas

Donors Are Turned Off by Overhead Costs. Here’s What Charities Can Do

showed that participants were turned off by overhead. The higher the level of overhead associated with a donation to charity: water, the lower the percentage of participants who chose to donate to it. When they learned that donations to... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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