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K–12 Education | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

replicable interventions to address gaps in India’s education sys... EducationSuperHighway 2.0 By: William A. Sahlman, Allison M. Ciechanover and Emily Grandjean October 2022 | Faculty Research In 2012, Evan Marwell launched... View Details

16 Dec 2019
Research & Ideas

Taking on the Taboos That Keep Women Out of India's Workforce

deposit; in the fifth, the control group, no intervention took place. As background, Rigol and her coauthors note that the federal work program featured in the study transitioned from cash to electronic payments in 2008. In late 2012, the... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

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2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

their interventions and benefits consumers who now receive communications that are more relevant to them. However, algorithmic personalization poses risks for firms, consumers, and society. One risk is to underserve customers from... View Details

16 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business

Performance and Productivity, more money will be spent and should be spent on fans, filters, ductwork, chillers, heat exchangers, and dehumidifiers—and on the energy to run them. The next wave of intervention will be in the collection of... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

01 Jun 2015
Research & Ideas

The Surprising Benefits of Oversharing

effect," Luca says. In this case, however, it took the direct intervention of government to persuade restaurants to reveal this information which hadn't been done voluntarily. According to game theory, however, that shouldn't be... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

July 2018 (Revised July 2018)
Teaching Note

Argentina Power—Don’t Cry for Me Argentina

By: Nori Gerardo Lietz and Sayiddah Fatima McCree

Teaching Note for HBS No. 218-041. This case concerns a complex potential energy infrastructure investment in Argentina by a global conglomerate shortly after Mauricio Macri (“Macri”) became President of Argentina in 2015. The central issues are (i) why was a country... View Details

Keywords: Argentina; Argentine Exceptionalism; Infrastructure Finance; Investing; Finance; Inflation and Deflation; Government and Politics; Energy Generation; Infrastructure; Utilities Industry; Energy Industry; Financial Services Industry; Argentina; South America

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Rare Disease Day – Small Numbers, Big Challenges… and Big Opportunities - Blog: Health Supplement

advocated for another opinion and was referred to a specialist nearby at Yale New Haven Hospital. Fortunately, it just so happened that an Interventional Radiologist at Yale was the godfather of HHT back in the ‘90s. Upon seeing my... View Details

20 Oct 2010
Op-Ed

Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic

to provide a much better balance between productivity improvements and private profitability gains. Importantly in the current context, policy interventions that raise productivity do not create macroeconomic imbalances. Policy View Details

Keywords: by Christian Ketels

06 Dec 2017
What Do You Think?

Is It Time To Break Up Amazon, Apple, Facebook, or Google?

life is to maintain competition to prevent market failure, as we did by breaking up the railroads and Ma Bell. This type of intervention is not an attack on capitalism, but full-throated capitalism. It’s time.” Should any of the Tech Big... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Technology; Web Services

02 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Not All M&As Are Alike—and That Matters

value, rather than by any perception that symmetrical organizations and systems are important. Top managers are integrally involved in deciding where to impose links; strategic integration is not a natural bottom-up activity. Intervention... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph L. Bower

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Student Spotlight: 2023 HCC Co-Presidents Reflect on Their Time at HBS and the Current Health Care Systems - Blog: Health Supplement

fragmented. The health care system delivers innovation, ranging from cell therapies to remote patient monitoring and intervention solutions, to the privileged minority that have access due to care proximity (i.e being near an academic hub... View Details

03 Dec 2014
What Do You Think?

Can the Brilliant Jerk Be Managed Effectively?

on; beginning an intervention with the offender early on; providing an opportunity for attitude improvement, possibly with the engagement of a counselor or coach; and then terminating in a timely fashion the employee who is unable to... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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Charts & Statistics - Leadership

Intervention Labor Global Events the 20 th Century Zeitgeist Demographics Demographics Technology Social Mores Government Intervention Labor Global Events Influence: High 1900 s 19 8.8 million immigrants... View Details

15 Dec 2003
Research & Ideas

Women Leaders and Organizational Change

they possess or in the ways they are treated. While interventions derived from these approaches, such as training and executive development, affirmative action, and work-family policies, have achieved significant equity gains for women,... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark

21 May 2012
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OSHA Inspections: Protecting Employees or Killing Jobs?

randomizing, of necessity, involves a trade-off. Focusing on short-term cost-effectiveness often leads managers to implement new programs at sites or at times when they think they will do the most good. But such targeted interventions... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

14 Sep 2023
Blog Post

MBAs Accelerate Their Social Enterprise Ventures

impactful product. Personally, I learned the immense emotional resilience that is required to work in this ecosystem – change horizons are long, traditional startup benchmarks for scale must be rethought, and interventions require immense... View Details

31 Jul 2019
Research & Ideas

Distressed Employees? Try Resilience Training

for managers to openly express support for wellness initiatives and encourage people to use them, Whillans says. For example, managers can ask their staff to block off one hour every week during office hours to work on their own wellness—whether it’s using an online... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Health

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Recruiting Partners - Health Care

Services Bayer Corporation Bayside Oncology Beacon Health Options Beckman Coulter, Inc. Becton, Dickinson & Co. Behavioral Intervention Association (BIA) Bethesda Hospital Foundation Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Bill & Melinda... View Details

2011
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How Foundations Think: The Ford Foundation as a Dominating Institution in the Field of American Business Schools

By: Rakesh Khurana, Kenneth Kimura and Marion Fourcade

The question of institutional change has become central to organizational research (Powell, 2008). Recent scholarship has demonstrated, often through carefully researched cases, that institutions can and sometimes do change. According to this research, there are two... View Details

Keywords: Change; Business Education; Business History; Organizations; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Structure; Relationships; Behavior