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- 25 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
An Organization Your Customers Understand
pharmacy: a pharmaceutical company selling prescription drugs, and a consumer products company selling personal care products such as shampoo and beauty aids. A consumer filling a medical prescription or purchasing face cream would... View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Steady as She Goes
affected areas to restock shelves and give taxed local staff needed time off. In the early days of the pandemic, it meant doing whatever could be done to stock toilet paper. Weckert estimates that in one week, the company sold three rolls for every Australian man,... View Details
- September 2010
- Teaching Note
Acumen Fund: Measurement in Impact Investing (TN) (A) and (B)
By: Alnoor Ebrahim
Teaching Note for 310011 and 310017. View Details
- Profile
Minal Mehta
first fitness video, have been presenting at major health and fitness conferences and events nationwide, and launched an interactive, multimedia learning-management portal for our instructor community." How is your company and its... View Details
- Career Coach
Mark Hardie
Mark (MIT Sloan ’93) is a serial entrepreneur and start-up veteran with a knack for finding innovation roles in any size company. He is a career-long mentor who loves working with start-up teams, founders and would-be entrepreneurs. Mark is currently the Director of... View Details
- 26 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 26
(ToM) allows children to achieve success in the social world by understanding others' minds. A study with 3-12 year olds, however, demonstrates that gains in ToM are linked to decreases in children's desire to engage in performative behaviors associated with View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Aug 2022
- News
Skydeck Live: Stage Not Age
science and health services from Harvard’s School of Public Health, even she couldn’t successfully navigate the health care system for her mom. It set her on a path of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Golden State of Mind
to some. “He asked tough questions, even hardware-related stuff,” DU alum Surbhi Sarna told Bloomberg Business last year. “...He was giving us design ideas.” Draper invested in Sarna’s nVision Medical, a medical device company for women’s View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 10 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Numbers on Social Investments
to social problems through market solutions, the rate of return on these deals should be at least as high as traditional early stage investments. The big winners were in the technology and health care... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 07 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: Sept. 7
Crisis in Health Care Authors:Robert S. Kaplan and Michael E. Porter Publication:Harvard Business Review 89, no. 9 (September 2011) Abstract Existing health View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Feb 2025
- Blog Post
IFC India 2025: The Coal Dichotomy: Balancing Economic Growth and Decarbonization in India
storms disproportionately impact the country’s poorest populations, laying the groundwork for a future public health and humanitarian crisis. Ultimately, the question is not whether India needs to phase out coal, but how swiftly and... View Details
- 25 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
We May Have Taken Too Much Credit for Easing Workplace Segregation
different today than it did in the 1970s. Back then, workplaces were dominated by white employees, with a smattering of minorities spread across companies. The gains minorities made by joining large firms between the 1970s and 1980s aren’t being reversed today, Koning... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Steve Schwarzman
trigger government regulators to tighten the screws on the private-equity industry? It’s inevitable that one deal will get in trouble, just purely from a statistical point of view. A lot of negative comments are being made from an odd... View Details
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
across the e-commerce, health care, transportation, edtech, and fintech sectors. Ayman Ismail, assistant professor of entrepreneurship and founding director of the American University in Cairo's (AUC) Venture Lab, pegs the earliest... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
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Past Issues - Alumni
Complete Table of Contents March 2019 The Merchant of Osaka A demographic time bomb is squeezing Japan’s economy from all sides and threatening the future of its health care system. Kanoko Oishi has bet her... View Details
- 27 Nov 2012
- News
The Beauty of the Network
Pao: A beauty business veteran leverages the HBS network to launch her own skincare line. Photo courtesy Patti Pao Patti Pao (MBA 1987) describes her two years at HBS as “spectacularly unsuccessful,” thanks in part to a culture clash with the section-enforced structure... View Details
- 24 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018
Effectiveness By: Kim, Tami, Kate Barasz, and Leslie K. John Abstract—Given the increasingly specific ways marketers can target ads, many consumers and regulators are demanding ad transparency: disclosure of how consumers’ personal... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 29
Harvard Business School Case 413-096 Novartis: Leading a Global Enterprise Novartis, the world's leading health care company, was formed in 1996 out of a merger of two very different, mid-tier... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 19
related activities). We consider whether there are similar benefits to related diversification within an operating unit and examine the mechanism that generates these benefits. Using the empirical context of cardiovascular care within... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
develop potential business opportunities. During our village stays, faculty leader and HBS senior lecturer Michael Chu has asked us to observe and think about how villagers take care of the basics of everyday life: housing, food, income,... View Details