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- 04 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?
the right word—and I had to negotiate about this. That experience gave me a sense that you can't be a passive person, even with the best of physicians. You have to understand what's going to happen and to negotiate about all the possible twists and View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
John McArthur
There I was, a young HBS professor who had invested all this time writing one of my first cases, and I was nervous that they would refuse to sign off on it. I remember [the protagonist] standing up and walking away to stare at the wall for what seemed like a long time.... View Details
Keywords: Dean
- 06 Dec 2018
- News
Source Code
accepted that the birds and pyramids represented birds and pyramids instead of the actual phonetic representations—was turned upside down. “All that previous scholarship was wrong,” she says. “You had to basically throw it out and View Details
- 21 Nov 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017
others. Our results can help explain a variety of behavioral phenomena including the structure of social insurance programs, patterns of public good provision, and why transactions that turn money into time are often deemed repugnant.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 6, 2016
Harvard Business Review How Wikipedia Keeps Political Discourse from Turning Ugly By: Greenstein, Shane, and Feng Zhu Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51942 November 17, 2016... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
Eyes Shut: The Consequences of Not Noticing
bankrupt. Consequently many of the plaintiffs turned their attention to Walmart and sued the retailer as a causal agent in the deaths and injuries. Given that more than one party was involved in Walmart's sale of unsafe gas cans, who is... View Details
- 04 Jan 2010
- Research & Ideas
Best of HBS Working Knowledge 2009
Your Skills: Managing Teams The ability to lead teams is fast becoming a critical skill for all managers in the 21st century. Here are four HBS Working Knowledge stories from the archives that address everything from how teams learn to View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 12 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Broadband Explosion: Thinking About a Truly Interactive World
the way we interacted with computers, by making user interfaces more friendly, for example. Back then, people who said, "What will we use all that computing power for?" were surprised by how useful it was and the ways it turned... View Details
- 23 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 23, 2019
offers a practical guideline for balancing the interests of shareholders and other corporate constituencies in the conduct of everyday business affairs. After presenting ethical reciprocity as a justice-sensitive guideline for corporate purpose, I View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 07 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 7
founded eBay Motors and turned it into a multi-billion dollar business and also advised several successful online marketplaces such as Lyft, Wanelo, and TaskRabbit. For his first investment as partner, Rothman was particularly interested... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty Views on Debt Crisis
ironic, given that in 2008 and 2009, they were given a hard time for issuing excessively positive ratings of structured products based on home mortgages that turned sour. Whatever they do, someone gets mad. That said, the mistakes on... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 27 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 27
relations, analysts who move with manager's to the destination firm exhibit more intense and accurate coverage of the origin firm than they do in other firms and than other analysts covering the origin firm. However, this no longer holds after the executive's... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
What’s Good about Quiet Rule-Breaking
usually aware of these activities yet turn a blind eye, says Anteby. Why? Is that because such managers are nice people? Or do supervisors see hidden yet important benefits in a company culture that tacitly encourages—and nourishes—gray... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Brand Power from Wedgwood to Dell: Part One
brand in a new market when there is lots of competition involves paying attention to every spoke of the strategy wheel, every division of the emerging, evolving organization chart. The brand is involved in everything the firm does. So if you are at Marshall Field's,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2020
- Blog Post
6 Ways to Support COVID-Weary Employees
above the threat of the law, employers should be motivated by the positive reputational effects of making what is morally the right choice, and the potential negative effects of turning a blind eye. Practical steps employers can take to... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 02 Nov 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #11: Mary Jo Veverka (HBS 1978): Fostering Actionable Climate Literacy
effective environmental education programs. Despite all the energy and enthusiasm, all – yes all – of the key players in MJ’s in-school and partner organizations in Montgomery County turned over this summer. “All of them were recruited to... View Details
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The Route of the Exhibition - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center
awards for journalistic and literary endeavor, the mind should turn to Harvard University, with its School of Business of Administration, and its courses therein devoted to advertising, to offer awards for the encouragement of a better... View Details
- 11 May 2017
- News
Going with the Flow
with a team on a new idea in the health IT space—one she believes has the potential to increase the quality of patient care, while lowering costs by giving control of health care information back to the patient. “We are looking to turn... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Books
firms large enough to finance their own laboratories could create a “virtuous cycle” where staying on the leading edge of science got them first to market with new products, in turn delivering higher profits to fund still more research.... View Details
- 31 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 31
change in global opportunities and risks. With increasing regulation and fierce competition between banks, the Western hemisphere was going to be a tougher place to do business. Emerging markets, however, offered many opportunities. Geoghegan reasoned that in HSBC's... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel