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The Big Ditch
On August 15, 1914, the Panama Canal officially opened for business, forever changing the face of global trade and military power, as well as the role of the United States on the world stage. The Canal's creation is often seen as an example of U.S. triumphalism, but... View Details
- 04 Mar 2024
- Research & Ideas
Want to Make Diversity Stick? Break the Cycle of Sameness
short term, for example, by focusing on implementing one-time interventions to hiring processes with the goal of diversifying one role at a time. Consider the overall diversity of the leadership group, rather than focusing on the identity... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 2022
- Chapter
Lessons Learned from Support to Business during COVID-19
By: Gabriel Chodorow-Reich, Benjamin Iverson and Adi Sunderam
The authors survey the new federal subsidies and loans provided to businesses in the first year of the pandemic—including the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), the Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) program, and aid targeted at specific industries such as airlines... View Details
Chodorow-Reich, Gabriel, Benjamin Iverson, and Adi Sunderam. "Lessons Learned from Support to Business during COVID-19." Chap. 4 in Recession Remedies: Lessons Learned from the U.S. Economic Policy Response to COVID-19, edited by Wendy Edelberg, Louise Sheiner, and David Wessel, 123–162. Brookings Institution Press, 2022.
- May 2021
- Article
Value-Based Healthcare in Urology: A Collaborative Review
By: Chanan Reitblat, Paul A. Bain, Michael E. Porter, David N. Bernstein, Thomas W. Feeley, Markus Graefen, Santosh Iyer, Matthew J. Resnick, C.J. Stimson, Quoc-Dien Trinh and Boris Gershman
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In response to growing concerns over rising costs and major variation in quality, improving value for patients has been proposed as a fundamentally new strategy for how healthcare should be delivered, measured, and... View Details
In response to growing concerns over rising costs and major variation in quality, improving value for patients has been proposed as a fundamentally new strategy for how healthcare should be delivered, measured, and... View Details
Keywords: Value-based Healthcare; Integrated Practice Units; Outcome Measurement; Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing; Health Care and Treatment; Value; Cost Management; Strategy; Outcome or Result; Measurement and Metrics
Reitblat, Chanan, Paul A. Bain, Michael E. Porter, David N. Bernstein, Thomas W. Feeley, Markus Graefen, Santosh Iyer, Matthew J. Resnick, C.J. Stimson, Quoc-Dien Trinh, and Boris Gershman. "Value-Based Healthcare in Urology: A Collaborative Review." European Urology 79, no. 5 (May 2021): 571–585.
- May–June 2024
- Article
Setting Gendered Expectations? Recruiter Outreach Bias in Online Tech Training Programs
By: Jacqueline N. Lane, Karim R. Lakhani and Roberto Fernandez
Competence development in digital technologies, analytics, and artificial intelligence is increasingly important to all types of organizations and their workforce. Universities and corporations are investing heavily in developing training programs, at all tenure... View Details
Lane, Jacqueline N., Karim R. Lakhani, and Roberto Fernandez. "Setting Gendered Expectations? Recruiter Outreach Bias in Online Tech Training Programs." Organization Science 35, no. 3 (May–June 2024): 911–927.
- 2023
- Working Paper
Setting Gendered Expectations? Recruiter Outreach Bias in Online Tech Training Programs
By: Jacqueline N. Lane, Karim R. Lakhani and Roberto Fernandez
Competence development in digital technologies, analytics, and artificial intelligence is increasingly important to all types of organizations and their workforce. Universities and corporations are investing heavily in developing training programs, at all tenure... View Details
Keywords: STEM; Selection and Staffing; Gender; Prejudice and Bias; Training; Equality and Inequality; Competency and Skills
Lane, Jacqueline N., Karim R. Lakhani, and Roberto Fernandez. "Setting Gendered Expectations? Recruiter Outreach Bias in Online Tech Training Programs." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 23-066, April 2023. (Accepted by Organization Science.)
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Skydeck - Alumni
Dubinsky (MBA 1981) doesn’t fear the Terminator, neither should we Coming of Age as the World Comes Apart Casey Gerald’s (MBA 2014) new book is an intervention in the shape of a memoir A Shout Through Time How an alumni connection helped... View Details
- 09 May 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
Clusters of Entrepreneurship and Innovation
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Developing Organizational Capabilities to Compete
By: Michael Beer
Michael Beer’s current research focuses on the question of what makes an Effective Organization. Based on his extensive research and practice about this question Beer has identified six highly interrelated core capabilities:
- Capacity of the... View Details
- 07 Apr 2022
- HBS Seminar
Hummy Song, Wharton
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Aligning Reimbursement with Value - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
and interventions performed over a full care cycle for an acute medical condition. Such bundled payments create benefits for all the principal players. Bundled payment in health care is the simplest and most effective way to pay for the... View Details
- 10 Feb 2023
- Research & Ideas
COVID-19 Lessons: Social Media Can Nudge More People to Get Vaccinated
how effective these online interventions are at shaping public health outcomes. The research team found that the average campaign shifted self-reported outcomes close to 1 percent of baseline estimates, and it cost about $3.41 to... View Details
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Human Behavior & Decision-Making - Faculty & Research
information frictions. We find that a light-touch encouragement intervention significantly increased both negotiation attempts and compensation gains. In contrast, providing a substantial discount on negotiation coaching did not... View Details
- 29 Jul 2021
- Blog Post
Exploring the Intersection of Business & Health Care: Summer Fellow Derek Soled (MD/MBA 2022)
designing interventions to increase vaccination levels for specific populations. I am helping reach vulnerable groups such as older immigrant adults, incarcerated adults, and home health workers, using focus groups and other market... View Details
- March 2025
- Article
Novice Risk Work: How Juniors Coaching Seniors on Emerging Technologies Such as Generative AI Can Lead to Learning Failures
By: Katherine C. Kellogg, Hila Lifshitz-Assaf, Steven Randazzo, Ethan Mollick, Fabrizio Dell'Acqua, Edward McFowland III, François Candelon and Karim R. Lakhani
The literature on communities of practice demonstrates that a proven way for senior professionals to upskill
themselves in the use of new technologies that undermine existing expertise is to learn from junior
professionals. It notes that juniors may be better able... View Details
Keywords: Rank and Position; Competency and Skills; Technology Adoption; Experience and Expertise; AI and Machine Learning
Kellogg, Katherine C., Hila Lifshitz-Assaf, Steven Randazzo, Ethan Mollick, Fabrizio Dell'Acqua, Edward McFowland III, François Candelon, and Karim R. Lakhani. "Novice Risk Work: How Juniors Coaching Seniors on Emerging Technologies Such as Generative AI Can Lead to Learning Failures." Art. 100559. Information and Organization 35, no. 1 (March 2025).
- February 2016 (Revised July 2017)
- Case
Leadership and Independence at the Federal Reserve
By: David Moss and Marc Campasano
“From the Great Depression, to the stagflation of the seventies, to the current economic crisis caused by the housing bubble, every economic downturn suffered by this country over the past century can be traced to Federal Reserve policy.” Ron Paul, a Republican from... View Details
Keywords: Government Legislation; Central Banking; Policy; Financial Crisis; Business and Government Relations; Banking Industry; Public Administration Industry; United States
Moss, David, and Marc Campasano. "Leadership and Independence at the Federal Reserve." Harvard Business School Case 716-040, February 2016. (Revised July 2017.)
- 11 Mar 2024
- Blog Post
A Day in the Life: Ben Hsieh
and International Economy (BGIE) – and we are discussing Korea’s growth story. Our discussion centers around whether government intervention helps economic growth and on the impact of the Chaebols, or large family conglomerates. While... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Drop Everything, Read This
psychiatrist Palmer’s thesis that “mental disorders are metabolic disorders of the brain” provides new therapeutic pathways based on a rigorous synthesis of existing literature. Low-cost, low-risk lifestyle interventions include sleep,... View Details
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Student Research - Doctoral
Drives Reduction in Negative Intergroup Emotions By: Michael Pinus, Yajun Cao , Eran Halperin, Alin Coman, James J. Gross and Amit Goldenberg When emotions occur in groups, they sometimes impact group behavior in undesired ways. Reducing group’s emotions with emotion... View Details
- 16 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Can Consumers Be Saved From Their Misguided Decisions?
correct the [consumer] mistake, but also influences how you interpret whether an intervention is working,” says Schwartzstein. The paper, published in the Winter 2018 edition of the Journal of Economic Perspectives, examined previous work... View Details