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  • 15 Jul 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Five Imperatives for Improving Health Care

innovation efforts traditionally have focused on new products such as drugs and devices, survey respondents ranked process improvements in care delivery as the most promising opportunity for improving the cost and quality View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health
  • 01 Jan 2011
  • News

Seth Klarman, MBA 1982

three decades, Klarman has built one of the most successful hedge fund companies in the world. While such accolades are important to Klarman, he is equally proud of the culture... View Details
  • 2013
  • Working Paper

Managers and Market Capitalism

By: Rebecca Henderson and Karthik Ramanna
In a capitalist system based on free markets, do managers have responsibilities to the system itself? If they do, should these responsibilities shape their behavior when they are engaging in the political process in an attempt to structure the institutions of... View Details
Keywords: Market Design; Economic Systems; Managerial Roles; Government and Politics
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  • 27 May 2015
  • Blog Post

What is an HBS Section?

case; your section is always there to make sure you understand the topics being covered in class. How do you get to know the people in your section? Philipp: There are a lot of social activities where everyone has View Details
  • 27 Jun 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Recovering from the Need to Achieve

his office isn't as big as Jenny's. And he blames others when he screws up. Joe is an HNAP, or a high-need-for-achievement professional, according to Harvard Business School professor Thomas J. DeLong, who explores Joe's world of driven,... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
  • 26 Jun 2013
  • News

How a Trivial Pursuit Became a Significant Case

without anybody taking dangerous risks." The case was a breakthrough for Stevenson and helped him formulate his now-famous discipline-defining description of entrepreneurship as "the pursuit of View Details
Keywords: Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade
  • July 2021
  • Article

Structuring Local Environments to Avoid Diversity: Anxiety Drives Whites' Geographical and Institutional Self-Segregation Preferences

By: Eric Anicich, Jon M. Jachimowicz, Merrick Osborne and L. Taylor Phillips
The current research explores how local racial diversity affects Whites’ efforts to structure their local communities to avoid incidental intergroup contact. In two experimental studies (N=509; Studies 1a-b), we consider Whites’ choices to structure a fictional,... View Details
Keywords: Segregration; Structural/institutional Racism; Organizational Exclusion; Diversity; Race; Organizations; Local Range; Prejudice and Bias
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  • Web

Interviewing - Alumni

Careers Interviewing Careers Interviewing Preparation is key to a successful interview. The tips and questions below are designed to let you know what to expect from the process and to help you plan your approach. Remember, the path of... View Details
  • March 2022
  • Teaching Note

Supreme: Remaining Cool While Pursuing Growth

By: Jill Avery and Sandrine Crener
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 522-006. Following VF Corporation’s acquisition of cult streetwear brand Supreme, consumers and industry pundits were nervous that becoming part of a large, public corporation would put an end to Supreme’s slow and careful growth... View Details
Keywords: Cultural Branding; Marketing; Brands and Branding; Luxury; Growth Management; Consumer Products Industry; Fashion Industry; Retail Industry; United States
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  • 21 Aug 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018

work. A knowledge repository has the potential to help peripheral individuals gain access to valuable knowledge because it is universally available and can be used without social interaction. However, for it to successfully serve this View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • Web

Alumni - Global

Alumni 90,662 alumni in 173 countries Harvard Business School’s unparalleled alumni network extends throughout the world, with a third of our MBA alumni living outside the U.S. Our graduates are leaders in an exceptionally broad range... View Details

    Hoping for the Worst? A Paradoxical Preference for Bad News

    Nine studies investigate when and why people may paradoxically prefer bad news—e.g., hoping for an objectively worse injury or a higher-risk diagnosis over explicitly better alternatives. Using a combination of field surveys and randomized experiments, the... View Details
    • 2015
    • Working Paper

    Moving to the Adjacent Possible: Discovering Paths for Export Diversification in Rwanda

    By: Ricardo Hausmann and Jasmina Chauvin
    How can Rwanda, which currently has one of the lowest levels of income and exports per capita in the world, grow and diversify its economy in presence of significant constraints? We analyze Rwanda's historical growth and trade performance and find that Rwanda's high... View Details
    Keywords: Export Diversification; Industrialization; Economic Complexity; International Trade; Rwanda; Diversification; Trade; Transportation; Developing Countries and Economies; Rwanda
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    • 2023
    • Article

    Green Bargains: Leveraging Public Investment to Advance Climate Regulation

    By: Jonas Meckling and Jesse Strecker
    Climate policy has entered a new era as public investment is increasingly moving to center stage, including recovery spending and long-term climate investment plans. While essential for decarbonization, public investment is not enough – the carrots of investment need... View Details
    Keywords: Government and Politics; Environmental Regulation; Climate Change; Policy; Motivation and Incentives
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    • 14 Apr 2022
    • Op-Ed

    Let’s Move Forward from COVID—Without Forgetting What We’ve Learned

    quickly allows employees to assess their options and find new opportunities within the industry, pivoting to another sector or starting an entrepreneurial venture to find more meaningful work. Two things companies should be doing now:... View Details
    Keywords: by Hise O. Gibson and MaShon Wilson
    • 30 May 2024
    • News

    How to Have Effective Conversations

    Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Charles Duhigg (MBA 2003) is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, a staff writer for The New Yorker, and author of the bestselling books The Power of... View Details
    • June 2024
    • Case

    Growing Foodology into Latin America's Largest Platform for Virtual Restaurants

    By: Jorge Tamayo, Rembrand Koning and Jenyfeer Martinez Buitrago
    This case delves into the expansion strategy of Foodology, a cloud kitchen startup based in Bogotá that operated across four Latin American countries (Colombia, Brazil, Mexico, and Peru). Co-founders Daniela Izquierdo and Juan Guillermo Azuero (both HBS, 2019) grappled... View Details
    Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Food; Digital Platforms; Product Launch; Growth and Development Strategy; Business Strategy; Business Model; Business Startups; Profit; Marketing Strategy; Expansion; Diversification; Food and Beverage Industry; Latin America; South America; Colombia; Brazil; Mexico; Peru
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    • 2019
    • Working Paper

    Southern Responses to Gold Certification: Cooperate, Compete, Reject, Revise

    By: Kristin Sippl
    Artisanal gold mining is a Southern subsistence livelihood posing both challenges and opportunities for sustainable development. In 2011, Fairtrade International launched a certification program to address sustainability problems in the sector. Southern activists,... View Details
    Keywords: Eco-labeling; Extractive Industries; Emerging Economies; Fair Trade; Environmental Sustainability; Standards; Programs; Governance Compliance; Competition; Adaptation; Mining Industry
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    • 01 Sep 2021
    • Op-Ed

    How Women Can Learn from Even Biased Feedback

    questions. In the process, they received feedback that was more helpful to them and their career development. Learning from the feedback we receive is often challenging, as our desire to grow conflicts with our equally strong desire to be... View Details
    Keywords: by Francesca Gino
    • 28 Apr 2021
    • Research & Ideas

    Remote Workers Spend More on Housing. Do They Deserve Higher Pay?

    To executives expecting to save on office space when some employees continue working remotely post-pandemic: Not so fast. Makeshift desks and kitchen tables have sufficed for many people working from home to avoid COVID-19. However, permanently remote workers tend to... View Details
    Keywords: by Kristen Senz