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- 05 Jun 2006
- Research & Ideas
Using Competition to Reform Healthcare
consumer. The system needs to be redesigned so that each participant is motivated to increase value, measured by health outcomes per dollar expended. This excerpt discusses how healthcare providers can shift to a value-based model. An... View Details
- 19 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 19, 2007
Levine, and Michael W. Toffel Abstract Ratings of corporations' environmental activities and capabilities influence billions of dollars of "socially responsible" investments as well as some consumers, activists, and potential... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 6
U.S. corporations, which enjoy ready access to the deepest capital markets in the world. Venture capital, for example, and the public equity markets that support it, has channeled money to innovative ideas that have transformed industries and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS
firms jump on the new technology bandwagon to the coming of rules and governance. Would you elaborate on that? Spar: Since Professor Chandler has mentioned RCA, let me use that as an example. In 1926, along with General Electric and... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
RX for Change
That’s a huge amount of work.” Bohmer has firsthand knowledge of the issues faced by MHCD participants. A physician, he practiced medicine in New Zealand and England, helped establish a surgical hospital in Sudan, and served as clinical director of quality improvement... View Details
- 01 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1
processes. We describe a property-rights model of firm boundary choices along the value chain that generalizes Antràs and Chor (2013). To assess the evidence, we construct firm-level measures of the upstreamness of integrated and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Nov 2022
- Blog Post
Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combatting Climate Change
capital-intensive and time-consuming (yet still very needed) route of putting more generation capacity online does not address existing pain points such as double-digit inflation in the US and a looming winter energy crisis in Europe... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
March 2023 Alumni and Faculty Books
trusts, fake foundations, regulatory loopholes, money laundering techniques, and more that make up the financial secrecy system. He then examines the motivations driving the system that generates and shelters trillions of View Details
- 15 Nov 2004
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Health Care Conundrum
countries. However, despite the fact that the U.S. has more competition than virtually any other health care system in the world, the costs are high and rising without delivering higher quality. The problems with the U.S. health care system are View Details
- 23 Jan 2019
- Blog Post
The First Five Years: '30 under 30' Edition
helped me develop the pattern recognition to identify opportunities and risks when evaluating investments. The technology classes gave me some subject matter expertise on the industries in which North Island invests. The general... View Details
- 17 Jan 2019
- News
The First Five Years: ‘30 Under 30’ Edition
opportunities and risks when evaluating investments. The technology classes gave me some subject matter expertise on the industries in which North Island invests. The general management and negotiations classes gave me a toolkit to manage... View Details
- 26 Jan 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Developing-World Companies Teach Us About Innovation
countries generally lack a solid technology base of trained scientists and world-class research universities. 2. Companies in developing countries must manage to eke out a profit while serving customers with low disposable income; per... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books
including Dollar Shave Club, Rent the Runway, and “pay as you fly” insurance for drone flights. Finally, the authors outline the challenges in adopting these new models and offer guidance to overcome them. Spirituality After Harvard: My... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 14 Nov 2024
- News
How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms
risk and if folks are then forced to bear the full cost of their decisions, that will help us build in the right places, right? So not just build in a safe way but decide where to build. And you know, the industry for a few years now, globally has paid over a hundred... View Details
- 14 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2006
source software ("OSS"). What drives companies with large, proprietary software portfolios to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in OSS? We approach this question by grouping a sample of OSS projects into clusters and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
resources are stretched very thin, we've had to become very entrepreneurial," Britt explains. "To generate income we license toy companies, retailers, and park operators to use our Sesame Street characters, and we publish are own... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- Profile
David A. Frankel
classmates until the end of his second year but he embraced the opportunity to be a VC “on the inside.” Being able to sit in Spangler for lunch kicking around ideas with a talent like Dixon “was an amazing position to be in. I was not labeled a VC. I was more of a... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Q & A: Herb Kohl
liability, but I have paid nonetheless. I believe that people who have money should pay some amount in taxes. We all have an obligation to our generation and the next to give some of our money back so that we can keep this country going... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Plight of the Global Poor
while BOP individuals may only have tens of dollars a year to spend, that disposable income, multiplied several billion times over, represents significant purchasing power. With this realization have come some dramatic shifts in business... View Details
- 03 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 3, 2009
activity, a trend that shows little tendency of alleviating. This book looks at the experiences of governments in encouraging entrepreneurs and venture capitalists across many decades and continents. Certainly, the dollars spent each year... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace