Data As A Service - Publications - Faculty & Research

23 Jul 2024
Research & Ideas

Forgiving Medical Debt Won't Make Everyone Happier

and clothing, with almost half draining their savings to pay the bills, according to a Kaiser Family Foundation survey. Medical debt tends to be a more pervasive problem among those earning less than $40,000... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Health

21 Jan 2014
First Look

First Look: January 21

associated with the program rollout, we use both population based morbidity measures from the Demographic and Health Surveys and health facility based mortality data as reported in the national Health... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

31 Oct 2004
Research & Ideas

Bypass Marketing: Are Docs Influenced?

directly to consumers as we have come to know it was first advocated by the pharmaceutical industry in 1981. In 1983, the FDA requested a voluntary moratorium on such advertising in order to study its likely... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

23 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Psychology, Pathology, and the CEO

financial and strategic decision making. But along the way, I also noted another important aspect of this leadership task, a related line of effort that seemed to go largely unnoticed and unstudied by observers but that was just View Details

Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter

27 Aug 2012
Research & Ideas

Employee-Suggestion Programs That Work

health care has led her to study nurses, who, as direct care providers, are at the center of the web of supply chains of equipment, supplies, medications, and even physicians. Singer received a grant from... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Guttry

29 May 2001
Research & Ideas

Race Does Matter in Mentoring

interest of privacy, I have used pseudonyms for the participants.) Williams, an African-American, was born and raised in a middle-class neighborhood in Washington, DC. After earning his bachelor's degree at one of the nation's leading... View Details

Keywords: by David A. Thomas

03 Oct 2005
What Do You Think?

What’s the Future of Globally Organized Labor?

the union movement in North America. On a larger scale, sizeable groups of workers primarily in service industries recently disengaged themselves from the AFL-CIO, which they perceived View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

25 Apr 2005
Research & Ideas

New Learning at American Home Products

pharmaceutical companies in 1984, American Home Products ranked first in sales and twenty-eighth in R&D expenditures as a percentage of sales.23 As the historian Williams... View Details

Keywords: by Alfred D. Chandler Jr.; Chemical; Health; Manufacturing; Pharmaceutical

22 Aug 2005
Research & Ideas

Balancing the Future Against Today’s Needs

of 'business as usual.'" Other leaders, like Alex Urquhart, president and CEO of GE Commercial Finance's Energy Financial Services, take a slightly more tempered approach. "It's always tempting to... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Michelman

30 May 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 30

mechanisms by which multinational activity might create positive effects and externalities to countries and the role of complementary local conditions, also known as “absorptive capacities,” that allow a... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

28 Apr 2010
Research & Ideas

Earth Day Reflections

Below are the views that faculty shared with the HBS community on Earth Day. 1. Robert G. Eccles Senior Lecturer of Business Administration and author of One Report: Integrated Reporting for a Sustainable Strategy (This article, titled,... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

24 Mar 2009
First Look

First Look: March 24, 2009

Economy Harvard Business School Case 709-043 This case, along with Saudi Arabia: "Modern Reform, Enduring Stability" (709-042), provides an opportunity to discuss Saudi Arabia's efforts to modernize, without really Westernizing, in sharp contrast to Dubai,... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

21 Mar 2004
Research & Ideas

Loyalty: Don’t Give Away the Store

especially with grocers, is that they use these cards to give discounts at the checkout. In the process of doing this, they have accumulated a lot of data. What they do with that data is anybody's guess.... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls; Consumer Products; Retail

05 Nov 2024
Book

Building the Road to 'Small Business Utopia' with AI and Fintech

But what if technology had the power to make a small business owner significantly wiser about their cash flow, and a lender wiser as well? What if new loan products and View Details

Keywords: by Karen G. Mills; Financial Services

10 Jan 2008
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Operations Management

Sharpening Your Skills dives into the HBS Working Knowledge archives to bring together articles on ways to improve your business skills. Questions to be answered: Can "lean" productions methods improve service industries? How can View Details

11 Aug 2009
First Look

First Look: August 11, 2009

from 3% to 15% as a fraction of government budget without negatively affecting publication quality and quantity. This follows incentive policy change and leadership change at labs, an event whose timing is... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

08 Feb 2016
Research & Ideas

The Civic Benefits of Google Street View and Yelp

Even as citizens generate more data than ever before, most cities haven’t taken full advantage of that information flow to improve services and become more efficient.... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Consumer Products

14 Mar 2011
Research & Ideas

Keeping Credit Flowing to Consumers in Need

an inability of the regulatory structure to keep pace with the changing market, shared the blame. Q: What are the implications today for low- and moderate-income consumers? A: As we lurch toward a recovery,... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services; Financial Services; Financial Services

24 Feb 2014
Research & Ideas

Uncovering Racial Discrimination in the ‘Sharing Economy’

The "sharing economy" is a burgeoning business model in which people offer their personal belongings and personal services to others, usually through online marketplaces that facilitate the transactions. It... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Construction; Real Estate; Advertising

02 Sep 2019
What Do You Think?

Are Overlooked Forces Shielding the US from Severe Economic Downturns?

[us] from economic downturns, and these forces are the new economy.” Jacob Navon’s comment was more cautious. “I am willing to believe that technology plus the shift to services combined with a very... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Service

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