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- 04 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
Attention Medical Shoppers: What Health Care Can Learn from Walmart and Amazon
average wait for a primary care visit in Massachusetts, world renowned for its medical facilities, is a whopping 50 days. Only 3 percent of American physicians regularly e-mail their patients, less, he said, than the percentage of priests... View Details
- 04 Apr 2008
- What Do You Think?
Who Owns Intellectual Property?
a piece of intellectual property that was designed purposely to be co-opted by others wishing to incorporate it into their advertising. Organizations such as Apple, Gap, and American Express have promoted their products and services using... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 13 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
Managing to Learn: How Companies Can Turn Knowledge into Action
ability to ask open-ended questions, listen to the responses, and lead a productive discussion free from superficiality, rigidity, or miscommunication. At American Express, for example, CEO Harvey Golub tells his direct reports that he is... View Details
Keywords: by Laurie Joan Aron
- 24 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Global Brands: Connecting With Consumers Across Boundaries
hand, found this more of an American phenomenon than a European one. "There is not a single German brand being communicated in the same way around the world," he said. For multinational Nestlé, the truth fell somewhere in... View Details
Keywords: by James E. Aisner
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
An Rx for Small Business Recovery
Harvard University and other institutions found that 43 percent of small businesses had temporarily closed. Immediate action was needed to support the sector. Mills, author of Fintech, Small Business & the American Dream, was active in... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Value of Difficult Conversations
are rarely taught in American schools. In fact, Ratajczak says, “I only heard of the Tulsa Massacre about two years ago when I was doing a walking tour through Harlem. I thought there must be some disconnect because how could I have lived... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Sister Soldier
people the Americans were talking to—in the push to rid the world of the threat of the Islamic State. You depict street-by-street battles and larger, strategic operations in vivid detail, giving readers a real sense of place. Can you tell... View Details
- 09 Nov 2017
- News
Paving the Way for Veterans to Serve in Congress
And thanks to the people he got to know while serving, he believes veterans hold a key part of the solution to the current hyperpolarization and lack of civility in American politics. Barcott has established a federally registered,... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Making Real Progress in the Middle East: The Bottom-Up, Economic Solution
the region, compared with about 20 percent in Mercosur, the South American trade group. Not only have politics stood in the way of gains from collaboration between Israeli and Arab firms, but cooperation even among Arab companies has been... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Q & A: Laura Liswood and the Council of Women World Leaders
woman's election to the American presidency. In 1997 I cofounded the White House Project - with Barbara Lee, a civic activist working out of Brookline, Massachusetts, and Marie Wilson, president of the Ms. Foundation. We ran a ballot in... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Patrick Moreton
nascent industry became established so that Americans had an opportunity to use the spectrum and enjoy its benefits. When television came along, the largest radio networks were given a privileged opportunity to enter the fledgling... View Details
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
William H. Donaldson, MBA 1958
Cofounder & Former Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette Former Chairman, Securities and Exchange Commission Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page EARLIER EUDUCATION Yale University, 1953 B.A., American... View Details
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bestowed the “Great Negotiator Award” on men and women from around the world who have consistently overcome formidable barriers to achieve truly worthwhile purposes. In a closely related project at Harvard, faculty have conducted detailed interviews with former View Details
- 04 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018
the conditions that enable moral insight and important practical implications. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54871 Harvard Business School Case 318-143 Renegotiating NAFTA January 1, 2019 marked the 25th anniversary of the North... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 14 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Big Money for Big Projects
Boston's "Big Dig" is the largest public works project in American history (the official name is the "Central Artery/Tunnel Project"). Technically, however, the project was municipally financed, not project financed.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Prognosis
vulnerable patients, during a period of time when having them come into the hospital brings unnecessary risk. I should say that, in addition to my day job as president of Mass General, I also serve on the board of American Well, which is... View Details
- 07 May 2018
- News
What I Learned from Visiting All 54 African Countries
exacting and precise, even Americans are this way to a certain extent. They demand almost perfection all the time. And Africans don't. And so as a result, they're forgiving when people are imperfect. And that's something that I've become,... View Details
- 17 Dec 2017
- News
How Music Forged a Fighter for Free Expression
on think tanks or the American Legislative Exchange Council. Skydeck is produced by the External Relations department at Harvard Business School and edited by Craig McDonald. It is available at iTunes or wherever you get your favorite... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference
wholly owned candy, ice-cream, and snack food manufacturer in Shenyang, a city in northeast China. Coming from a towering, Cambridge-educated, Mandarin-speaking American wearing a black ten-gallon cowboy hat, Kirkwood's message clearly... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Covering the Issues
insistence on this point . . . accounts for much of our trouble with American society today." Articles on the social and ethical aspects of cases in the marketing curriculum and the results of a poll of business leaders' views on... View Details