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Odyssey Healthcare

By: Robert F. Higgins, Virginia Fuller and Umer Raffat

In January 2001, Dick Burnham, CEO of Odyssey Healthcare, and Odyssey's Board of Directors were considering selling the hospice care company to a larger provider or making an initial public offering (IPO). With 38 hospice locations in 21 states, Odyssey had been... View Details

Keywords: Liquidity; Venture Creation/development; Hospice; Venture Capital; Financial Liquidity; Business Exit or Shutdown; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Plan; Entrepreneurship; Health Industry; United States

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08 Feb 2023
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Alumni-Cofounded Company Sells to CVS for $10.6 Billion

19 states that provide the best care anywhere to over 132,000 older adults. His commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion makes Oak Street Health a great place to work for teammates and enables an unmatched experience for patients.”... View Details

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Diversity and Inclusion - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

Teaching by the Case Method Diversity and Inclusion Preparing to Teach Leading in the Classroom Pre-Class Arrival Diversity and Inclusion Openings Cold Calling Questioning, Listening & Responding Transitions Closings Timing Participation Engagement Board Use Teaching... View Details

21 Mar 2018
Research & Ideas

Why Artificial Intelligence Isn't a Sure Thing to Increase Productivity

to make sure applications propose truly novel ideas, and not designs or techniques previously used in other patents—known as prior art. “That means searching through hundreds of thousands of documents,” says Choudhury. The office aims to View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology; Information

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Information Technology - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

help providers and other players in the health care system leverage information technology to help them achieve two key aims: restructuring care delivery and measuring results . Establish common data definitions and precise language... View Details

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Data - Advancing Racial Equity

of 2023 & 2024 to ~1000 each. The Department of the Interior via the Office of Civil Rights provides federal guidelines for maintaining, collecting, and presenting data on race and ethnicity. HBS is required to follow these standards... View Details

28 Mar 2024
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Rooms with a View

Mirza notes—and provide them with opportunities to develop and advance. Bringing greater equality to the hospitality industry is one of Mirza’s guiding principles: “Our industry is probably the most egregious example of inequality there... View Details

Keywords: April White; photos by Christina Gandolfo; Hospitality

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Careers | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

MBA students can engage in a wide variety of career development programs that support their social impact career pathways. These programs cross multiple sectors and provide the opportunity to tailor one's engagement based on individual... View Details

21 Sep 2022
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You Don’t Have to Quit Your Job to Find More Meaning in Life

says. "Impact can be subjective. You may feel very uplifted while painting, but the paintings could be atrocious." In the fulfilled condition, Ariana loved her job; in the unfulfilled condition, she hated it. In the high contribution condition, Ariana View Details

Keywords: by Shalene Gupta

26 May 2022
HBS Case

Apple vs. Feds: Is iPhone Privacy a Basic Human Right?

that technology companies should provide a backdoor into suspects’ phones. “Sophisticated criminals will come to count on these means of evading detection. It’s the equivalent of a closet that can’t be opened,” said James Comey, director... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

26 Jun 2020
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Why Japanese Businesses Are So Good at Surviving Crises

their own, Yamato mobilized 500 employees and 200 trucks on March 23 to voluntarily deliver relief supplies to evacuation centers in the Tohoku region. The program was initially supposed to last two weeks but continued for eight months, until all evacuees were View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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Rigorous research, rooted in practice | About

Activities Our eighteen Global Research Centers & Offices help to build on our legacy of global engagement by supporting our faculty’s international research, administering academic programming in their regions, providing advice to MBA... View Details

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Finding Talent Opportunities

Shoma Simkin 13 MAR 2025 The Ascend Leadership Program at HBS provides first-generation and low-income MBA students with the support and resources needed to navigate and excel in the business school environment. WesTrek 2025: Exploring... View Details

24 Jan 2023
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Dispelling Myths About HBS Through My Summer Venture in Management Program Experience

Business Administration degree to further my aspirations of becoming an influential leader in African American society. I am grateful to Harvard Business School for providing me with this opportunity to adapt, rebuild, and propel myself... View Details

04 May 2015
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Need to Solve a Problem? Take a Break From Collaborating

other stages of a project in which the team is defining the problem, gathering data, or synthesizing results." In terms of how to design corporate offices, the findings in "Facts and Figuring" provide rationale for the hot... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Video Game; Web Services

13 May 2024
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Picture This: Why Online Image Searches Drive Purchases

randomly provided text-and-image search refinement suggestions to only half of roughly 500,000 users, chosen randomly. A customer in the test group searching for the general term “headphones” would receive refinement suggestions, such as... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Information Technology; Technology; Consumer Products; Retail

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Business Fundamentals Course - CORe | HBS Online

financial aid based on demonstrated financial need. To receive financial aid, you will be asked to provide supporting documentation. Please refer to our Payment & Financial Aid page. Will my performance in CORe factor in to my admission... View Details

20 Nov 2017
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How Independent Bookstores Have Thrived in Spite of Amazon.com

Click HereIndependent bookstores provide a story of hope by focusing on core values that include community, curation, and convening. (Video by Amelia Kunhardt) When Amazon.com burst onto the nascent online retail scene in 1995, the future... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel (with video by Amelia Kunhardt); Retail

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The Cross Section of Expected Firm (Not Equity) Returns

This paper provides the first comprehensive study of expected firm (unlevered equity) returns. After accounting for the debt component of the firm return, I find that many of the cross sectional determinants of expected equity returns, such as the book-to-market... View Details

July 1991
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Pioneer Petroleum Corp.

By: Richard S. Ruback

Pioneer is an integrated oil company. Its operations include exploration and development, production, transportation, and marketing. The case focuses on Pioneer's cost of capital calculations and its choice between a single company-wide cost of capital or divisional... View Details

Keywords: Cost of Capital; Energy Industry; Mining Industry

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