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1.19 Immersive Field Courses (IFC) | MBA
the knowledge and skills gained from their on-campus MBA coursework first-hand. A cornerstone of these courses is the expertise of faculty, who develop course content focused on teaching objectives achieved primarily through student-centered View Details
- 21 Nov 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017
their boundaries and in their domestic economies only a subset of their production stages. A key decision facing firms worldwide is the extent of control to exert over the different segments of their production processes. We describe a property-rights model of firm... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Campaign Passes Goal, Continues
each recipient. This amount is a small fraction of the overall cost associated with attending HBS, which is $125,000 for a single student. “Decreasing our students’ debt load will open up more career choices in both the public and the... View Details
- 08 Apr 2019
- Blog Post
Second Life: Reflections on Complementing Success with an Encore Career
not for his skills or experience per se, but for those interests, ambitions and activities he was most passionate about. Looking back, Kloeblen spoke passionately about a social-networking group he had led at IBM. “It was a network of... View Details
Keywords: Technology
- 09 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Hold or Fold? Sizing Up Business Risk
exit the game. Once you've placed the bet, though, you always have to choose one of three broad options, which we'll call Option A, Option B, and Option C. Option A is to stay in the game as an active player until some later time or until... View Details
- 01 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1
funded HIV clinic in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Intervention: The study involved three arms. First, participants in the provider visit incentive (PVI) arm received $30 after attending each scheduled provider visit. Second, participants in the incentive View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 11
expansions of biopharmaceutical firms (by both new establishments and employment increase in existing establishments) in the U.S. in 1993-2005. We consider all activities in the value chain and allow location View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jul 2008
- Op-Ed
What Should Employers Do about Health Care?
providers who have the scale, experience, teams and facilities to achieve excellent results. To move to a value-based approach to employee health benefits, employers must take a number of essential steps. The first is to mount an aggressive approach to wellness,... View Details
- 20 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Long-Term Fix to US Competitiveness
spirited discussions on how HBS alumni could play an active role in the national debate, countering the "circus" in D.C. “People who should be allies are at cross-purposes with each other.” "We are trying to understand what... View Details
Keywords: by Stephanie Schorow & Harvard Gazette
- 18 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Bias of Wall Street Analysts
begun investigating the impact of accounting method choices in cross-border investments. Ann Cullen: After the scandals of the past few years, the potential for brokerage research deception is obviously something the Securities and... View Details
- 19 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 19
fundamental fact of life, choices necessarily have to be made about which challenges to address and the best way to tackle them. In this piece, we discuss the distinction between these distinct components of priority setting in health:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Redefining Success: Women & Work.
rewarding and valuable to society. HBS professor Myra M. Hart, who conducted the survey, met many of its respondents at Charting Your Course: Alumnae Career Choices and Transitions, a prereunion program she launched last spring. Hart... View Details
- 20 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, March 20, 2018
Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/918037-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 618-034 McKinsey & Company: Early Career Choices (A) This case profiles the early career choices... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 5, 2009
foreign countries, the model predicts growth in the number of source-country firms engaging in foreign direct investment, growth in the size of affiliates that are active in reforming countries both before and after the tariff reduction,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Japan Compete? [Part Two]
thinking really was a breakthrough, but it is what I call operational effectiveness. It is a "best practice," or something that every company should do. "Strategy" is a term I reserve for choices—things a company does to set itself apart from... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer
- 07 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Government’s Positive Role in Kick-Starting Entrepreneurship
bungles things when it wades into the private sector. Lerner's book studies where public efforts to spur entrepreneurial activity have gone right and wrong—there are many more of the latter, the author acknowledges—and offers policy... View Details
- 19 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 19, 2016
in press Journal of Systems and Software Technical Debt and System Architecture: The Impact of Coupling on Defect-related Activity By: MacCormack, Alan, and Daniel J. Sturtevant Abstract—Technical debt is created when design decisions... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 30
U.S. Multinational Firm Activity Authors:C. Fritz Foley and William R. Kerr Abstract This paper studies the impact that immigrant innovators have on the global activities of U.S. firms by analyzing detailed... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
High Note: Managing the Medici String Quartet
ensemble for, give or take, close to 40 years, but this past summer was their final concert tour as a group. "The Medici String Quartet is one of the very best such ensembles, probably one of the very best ever. One of my favorite research strategies is to find... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
At Your Service
Frei and Morriss: No heroics, please—partner with customers to make strategic service choices instead of trying to be the best at everything. In their new book, Uncommon Service: How to Win by Putting Customers at the Core of Your... View Details