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04 Jun 2007
Research & Ideas

Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?

Herzlinger: I've had it. [Laughs.] Just had it! You know, I did my doctoral thesis really by accident in a hospital. That was in 1971, 36 years ago. And at the time, I was astonished at how mismanaged that hospital was View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Health

01 Apr 2002
News

HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report

creative ideas, and endless support. The Alumni Board exists to represent you and your interests, and I encourage you to contact any of us to share your thoughts View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools

13 Apr 2010
First Look

First Look: April 13

of leadership in political, economic, and symbolic institutions as a result of one of three types of leadership: good leadership, misguided leadership, and evil leadership.... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

18 Nov 2021
Op-Ed

5 Principles for Scaling Change from IBM’s High School Innovation

seem worth it. What was motivating these students to make this a high priority, even before they had mentors, internships, and job interviews? Litow: That's a very good point, View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

06 Aug 2020
Research & Ideas

Who Will Give You the Best Professional Guidance?

you bring them. The best coaches guide individuals toward finding their own solutions using tools and frameworks they’ve developed themselves or learned from professional training. “A central tenet of coaching is a faith in your client’s... View Details

Keywords: by Julia B. Austin

24 Aug 2009
Research & Ideas

SuperCorp: Values as Guidance System

What's good for General Motors may no longer be good for the country. In its place must arise a new model of the company, one that serves society as well as rewarding shareholders View Details

Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter

04 Mar 2014
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Innovation

Applegate teaches "innovation is not an option." We've identified articles and working papers covering a wide range of thinking about innovation management to answer some specific questions you may have about tapping the creativity buried... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty

13 Jun 2017
Blog Post

7 Reasons Why the New MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program at Harvard is Next Level

citation] E.g. Professors VC’s The Rock Center and iLab Classmates: in your program sure, but also pure MBA’s, pure engineers, HKS, HLS, and HMS - and they’re the best of the... View Details

14 Dec 2011
Research & Ideas

The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance

strategy for how you actually get to those results. For example, the MCC made a $550 million grant to the government of Ghana that was focused on infrastructure such as irrigation and roads that could get farm View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

22 Jan 2019
Blog Post

Balancing the Ideal with the Real: Conveying Corporate Culture to Candidates

The recruiting process among companies and candidates can resemble a two-way talent competition in which all parties serve simultaneously as contestants and judges: just as candidates strive to present... View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail

26 Feb 2014
Research & Ideas

How Grocery Bags Manipulate Your Mind

out that an everyday item has the power to act as both angel and devil every time we go to the grocery store. It lurks in car trunks and pantries all over the world, waiting to guide us simultaneously down... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail

22 Jul 2002
Research & Ideas

How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”

outcomes. Instead, in most lines of business—with the exception of a few commodities in which international trade had developed—firms had an incentive to remain small and to employ as little fixed capital as... View Details

Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat

06 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

Where Do Workers Go When the Robots Arrive?

computer science, actually emerge in regions that import less expensive goods from China. Service jobs like retail and restaurants fall slightly, but not in a statistically significant way, the researchers... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Manufacturing

25 Apr 2018
Blog Post

Policy, Practice, Leadership & Impact: Making a Difference with the HBS/HKS Joint Degree

internal sources of revenue that can then finance their public goods and services – which means a strong local private sector that creates jobs and generates tax revenue. This... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government

08 Jul 2025
Blog Post

In-Office, Remote, or Hybrid: Strategies for Success

the transition between personal and professional time. Health & Wellness: Support the Whole Person A sustainable work-from-home setup supports both physical comfort and mental health. Avoid working from... View Details

13 Mar 2005
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