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  • June 30, 2020
  • Article

Bipartisan Tax-Free Solution to Health Care Financing: Coupling HRAs With a Public Option

By: Regina E. Herzlinger, Richard Boxer and James Wallace
A combination of health insurance initiatives by the presumptive 2020 Democratic and Republican presidential nominees could expand health care coverage and significantly reduce costs, without raising taxes. Along the way, the combination could revitalize private... View Details
Keywords: Health Care Financing; Public Option; Health Reimbursement Arrangement (HRA); Health Care and Treatment; Insurance; Cost Management
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  • 2010
  • Chapter

Leadership and History

By: Walter A. Friedman
Historians have written a lot about business leaders, especially successful ones. In fact, rags-to-riches stories have come to embody the philosophy of America itself, yet the term "business leadership" was rarely used until the early twentieth century. This chapter... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; History; Leadership
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  • 01 Mar 2019
  • News

The Blue-Green Revolution

Much hope and plenty of money are riding on the idea that batterypowered electric cars will help slow global warming by reducing tailpipe emissions. But when it comes to reducing the greenhouse gases produced View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; illustration by Eric Nyquist
  • 11 Sep 2007
  • First Look

First Look: September 11, 2007

also—and crucially so—on whether or not the platforms subsidize one side of the market in equilibrium. For example, with prices being strategic complements across platforms, we show that a cost-reducing investment by one firm may have a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Dec 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History

The 85-year-old Business History Review, published quarterly by Harvard Business School, is the acknowledged leading peer-reviewed journal in the field. (BHR has recently been made available online through Cambridge University Press.) So... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman

    The Error at the Heart of Corporate Leadership

    Agency theory, a new model of governance promulgated by academic economists in the 1970s, is behind the idea that corporate managers should make shareholder value their primary concern and that boards should ensure they do. The theory regards shareholders as... View Details
    • 06 Dec 2021
    • News

    What's the Word?

    She·sesh·un (noun) Ly·ing flat (verb) Post·cook·ie (adj.) Bi·o·rev·o·loo·shun (noun) Dig·i·tul no·mad (noun) Di·ver·si·ty wa·shing (verb) Meem Stock (noun) When the price of supposedly “dull” stocks like BlackBerry and GameStop hit the roof earlier this year, driven... View Details
    Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustrations by Martha Rich; Manufacturing; Finance; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information
    • 01 Mar 2019
    • News

    The Fight Beyond

    another cloudless day, as some of the men were cooking breakfast, bullets pierced the roof and walls of the shack. Green was shot in the arm. Surrounded by German forces, the occupants surrendered. Green, six of his OSS colleagues,... View Details
    Keywords: April White; illustration by Wesley Allsbrook
    • September 2019 (Revised May 2020)
    • Case

    Keroche (A): Fighting for Share in the Kenyan Alcoholic Drinks Market

    By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Pippa Tubman Armerding
    This case discusses the challenges faced by Kenyan alcoholic drinks producer Keroche Industries Limited in 2003, when the Kenyan government accused the company of manufacturing and selling substandard alcoholic drinks, revoked its liquor licenses, and shut down its... View Details
    Keywords: Keroche; Alcohol; Wine; Manufacturing; Informal Market; Regulation; Illicit; Illegal; Shutdown; Factory; Low-income Consumers; Multinational; Local; Government; Allegations; Accusations; Negative Press; EABL; Tusker; Beer; SAB; Chang'aa; Naivasha; Rift Valley; East Africa; Lawsuit; Legal Battle; Business Ventures; Business Exit or Shutdown; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Startups; Production; Safety; Quality; Distribution; Small Business; Family Business; Crime and Corruption; Customer Focus and Relationships; Decisions; Income; Demographics; Geographic Scope; Geographic Location; Goods and Commodities; Government Legislation; Growth and Development; Business History; Lawsuits and Litigation; Laws and Statutes; Lawfulness; Goals and Objectives; Consumer Behavior; Market Entry and Exit; Problems and Challenges; Social Issues; Poverty; Strategy; Competition; Entrepreneurship; Manufacturing Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Kenya; Nairobi; Africa
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      Guhan Subramanian

      Guhan Subramanian is the Joseph Flom Professor of Law and Business at the Harvard Law School and the Douglas Weaver Professor of Business Law at the Harvard Business School. He is the first person in the history of Harvard... View Details

      • 21 Oct 2014
      • First Look

      First Look: October 21

      well-established organizations to act in new ways is never easy. This book is designed to support business leaders and organizational scholars who are grappling with this challenge by pulling together leading-edge insights from some of... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • 15 Dec 2024
      • News

      After Ozempic

      Back before Ozempic, when Kate Mulroney (MBA 1984) spoke at technical conferences about her work at Novo Nordisk, people often assumed she was talking about Novartis. “I’d have to explain that’s a Swiss company; we’re Danish,” says Mulroney, now head of advanced... View Details
      Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Illustrations by Pete Ryan; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

        Gerald Zaltman

        *Joined Harvard Faculty: 1991
        Prior Faculty Appointments: Northwestern University, 1968-75;
        University of Pittsburgh, 1975-91

        *Doctoral Degree in Sociology Received from: The John Hopkins University;
        MBA Degree Received from: The University of... View Details

        Keywords: advertising; apparel; automotive; beverage; biotechnology; consumer products; entertainment; financial services; food; health care; marketing industry; pharmaceuticals; retailing; sports; telecommunications
        • Web

        Managing the Future of Work

        organization and create the workforce of the future? Spotlight Data And Technology In Action: Community Colleges Advancing Economic Mobility Edited by Joseph B. Fuller, Kerry McKittrick & Amanda Holloway FEB... View Details
        • 22 Feb 2022
        • News

        New Urban Order

        By 2050, nearly 70 percent of the world’s population will live in cities, according to a 2018 UN report, up from 55 percent today. That means making room for and creating the infrastructure for another 2.5 billion people to live, work,... View Details
        Keywords: Kathleen Fu, Deborah Blagg, Julia Hanna, and Maureen Harmon; illustrations by; energy; environment; sustainability; entrepreneurship; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Waste Management and Remediation Services; Corporate Services
        • Web

        Publications - Faculty & Research

        Riccardi Turns the Page." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Supplement 425-715, February 2025. February 2025 Case Hyperscaling Dreams: Ualá’s Path from Startup to Fintech Champion By: Juan Alcacer and Manuel Franck Ualá, founded by... View Details
        • 28 Jun 2016
        • First Look

        June 28, 2016

        raise funds from outside investors. The relationship appears not to be causal but instead driven by selection effects across heterogeneous teams with varying degrees of inequality aversion. Publisher's link:... View Details
        Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
        • 21 Jan 2014
        • First Look

        First Look: January 21

        several mechanisms: by conferring employer recognition, by enhancing social visibility, and by facilitating social comparison. In a nationwide health worker training program in... View Details
        Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
        • September 2020 (Revised June 2021)
        • Case

        GreenFire Energy, 2020: Geothermal Innovation

        By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock
        In June 2020, GreenFire Energy Inc. (GreenFire) presented its report to the California Energy Commission indicating that its proof of concept project to demonstrate its new geothermal electricity generation technology, ECO2G™, had been a success. While conventional... View Details
        Keywords: Geothermal Electricity; Renewable Energy; Energy Generation; Technological Innovation; Commercialization; Strategy; Decision Choices and Conditions
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        • 12 Jan 2016
        • First Look

        January 12, 2016

        medical devices after they are approved by the appropriate regulatory authorities. Historically, such surveillance was based on voluntary reports by medical practitioners, but with the widespread adoption of... View Details
        Keywords: Carmen Nobel