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  • June 2001
  • Supplement

GE's Early Dispute Resolution Initiative (B)

By: Michael A. Wheeler and Gillian Morris
Early Dispute Resolution (EDR) has proved successful at GE. Yet, when Michael McIlwrath, new counsel at an Italian subsidiary, attempted to translate it to his company, problems arose. He had to gain internal acceptance, and explain the concept of early mediation to a... View Details
Keywords: Business Subsidiaries; Globalization; Lawsuits and Litigation; Organizational Culture; Performance Effectiveness; Problems and Challenges; Conflict of Interests; Complexity; Italy; New York (state, US)
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  • Web

Health Care Initiative - Health Care

Health Care Initiative Supporting a dynamic community MBA Experience MBA students focus on health care through industry-related courses, extracurricular activities, and recruiting opportunities. Faculty & View Details
  • Research Summary

Research overview

By: Julie Battilana

How can actors – be they individuals or organizations – diverge from deeply-seated norms and develop new ones, when their beliefs and actions are shaped by these very norms? This question lies at the heart of Professor Battilana’s research. To address it, she... View Details

  • 18 Jan 2016
  • Blog Post

Meet the HBS Race, Gender & Equity Initiative

The HBS Race, Gender & Equity Initiative was established at the beginning of the 2014-2015 academic year and publicly launched in May 2015. As part of their launch, the Initiative released new research... View Details
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Current Research

Professor Gardner’s research investigates two primary research questions, both particularly relevant to the management of professional service firms:  (1) How are project teams able to most effectively use their members’ expertise in order... View Details
  • November 2007 (Revised April 2008)
  • Case

Hariyali Kisaan Bazaar: A Rural Business Initiative

By: David E. Bell, Nitin Sanghavi, Virginia Fuller and Mary L. Shelman
In rural India, farmers historically had limited access to quality input items for both their fields and homes. Indian conglomerate DSCL has undertaken a Rural Business Initiative to address this issue, establishing a chain of retail outlets throughout rural India... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Business Conglomerates; Agribusiness; Rural Scope; Customer Relationship Management; Business Strategy; Service Operations; Networks; Alliances; Retail Industry; India
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  • 28 Mar 2004
  • Research & Ideas

HBS Celebrates Social Enterprise Initiative

When Harvard Business School launched its Social Enterprise Initiative (SEI) in 1993-1994, few academic institutions were conducting serious research and teaching about how to create social value through the... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
  • Article

An Integrated Decision-Making Approach for Improving European Air Traffic Management

By: Yael Grushka-Cockayne, Bert De Reyck and Zeger Degraeve
We develop a multistakeholder, multicriteria decision-making framework for Eurocontrol, the European air traffic management organization, for evaluating and selecting operational improvements to the air traffic management system. The selected set of improvements will... View Details
Keywords: Decision Making; Framework; Operations; Performance Improvement; Government Administration; Air Transportation Industry; Europe
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  • 2019
  • Report

Peer Review of the Danish Research & Innovation System: Ten Steps, and a Leap Forward: Taking Danish Innovation to the Next Level

By: Christian H.M. Ketels, Magareta Drzeniek Hanouz, Jackie Hunter, Stefan Kuhlmann, Tony Raven, Pieter Heringa, Uri Gabai, Göran Marklund and Christopher Palmberg
This report provides recommendations to the Danish government on improving the country's research and innovation system. It was prepared by a group of international peers under the umbrella of the European Commission's Horizon 2020 Policy Support Facility View Details
Keywords: Innovation; Entrepreneurial Ecosystems; Research And Development; Public Policy; Innovation and Invention; Research; Denmark
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  • March 1997
  • Case

BioTransplant, Inc.: Initial Public Offering, January 1996

By: Paul A. Gompers and Alexander Tsai
Examines the decision to go public. BioTransplant is an early stage biotechnology company that must decide how to finance its research and development. The pros and cons of public offerings are analyzed versus alternative financing sources. View Details
Keywords: Initial Public Offering; Financing and Loans; Research and Development; Going Public
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  • November 2023
  • Article

Federated Electronic Health Records for the European Health Data Space

By: René Raab, Arne Küderle, Anastasiya Zakreuskaya, Ariel Dora Stern, Jochen Klucken, Georgios Kaissis, Daniel Rueckert, Susanne Boll, Roland Eils, Harald Wagener and Bjoern Eskofier
The European Commission's draft for the European Health Data Space (EHDS) aims to empower citizens to access their personal health data and share it with physicians and other health-care providers. It further defines procedures for the secondary use of electronic... View Details
Keywords: Analytics and Data Science; Cybersecurity; Information Management; Knowledge Sharing; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Health Industry
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  • 15 Nov 2020
  • News

Exploring China’s Belt & Road Initiative

Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). The culmination of an immersive field course, the trip brought the students’ classroom learning to life and offered insight into one of China’s major political and economic development programs. Combining... View Details
  • Research Summary

Current Research Projects

 

1. Freedom and Openness in Scientific Research

This is a joint project with Philippe Aghion, Scott Stern, and Fiona Murray.  It analyzes the effects of shifts in the availability of genetically modified mice for follow-on research. ... View Details

  • Web

Faculty & Research

an early-withdrawal penalty of 1 . When households have heterogeneous present bias, the social optimum is well approximated by a two-account system: (i) an account that is completely liquid and (ii) an account that is completely illiquid until retirement. Health Care... View Details
  • 28 May 2019
  • News

Research Brief: Field Research

Byrd Foundation, cofounded by Mark Lampert [MBA 1988], provided the initial funding.) PAD’s mission is to connect the agricultural communication technology that was already in use in the developed world with smallholder farmers in... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Crop Production; Agriculture
  • 01 Oct 2024
  • News

Harvard Center for International Development Launches Research Initiative Focused on China and Its Role in the Global Econom

  • 01 Mar 2014
  • News

Social Enterprise Initiative Marks 20th Anniversary

sectors that create value for society." Today, the SEI and the 97 faculty affiliated with the initiative connect with communities worldwide. Faculty research spans the examination of the needs of the 4.5... View Details
Keywords: SEI
  • 17 Dec 2020
  • Video

The History and Role Within the Global Initiative

  • 01 Sep 2006
  • News

Winston to Lead the Global Initiative

first overseas research center was launched in the Asia-Pacific (Hong Kong) in 1999, with additional centers opening in relatively quick succession in Latin America (Buenos Aires), Europe (Paris), Japan (Tokyo), and, most recently, India... View Details
Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
  • Research Summary

Principal Research Interests

My research is principally focused on nineteenth- and twentieth-century subjects, with an emphasis on economic and especially financial history. I am interested in the role of banks and capital markets in the process of economic development as well as in the political... View Details