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Strategy for Health Care Delivery - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

HBS ISC Health Care Health Care Value-Based Health Care Health Care Courses Fast Facts Health Care Courses Health Care Courses Executive Education Courses Health Care Curriculum Residents & Fellows Course Strategy for Health Care Delivery... View Details

12 May 2021
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The First Five Years: Sophie Bai (MBA 2020)

that it must have been a system error. Since I had just moved, the system probably hadn’t updated correctly yet. However, the new resident had a phone number which wasn’t mine. The concierge called the... View Details

01 Mar 2024
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The War Within

When the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine began in February 2022, Nataliia Zhyliak’s world was upended in a matter of days. At the time, Zhyliak, a psychologist in the western Ukrainian city of Kamianets-Podilskyi, was working at an View Details

Keywords: Janelle Nanos; illustration by Daniel Bejar

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Online Business Strategy Course | HBS Online

owner and tech entrepreneur from Arizona Programming & System Analysis, Biomedical Engineering, Estrella Mountain Community College Small Business Administration, Northern Arizona University Apply tools and frameworks to effectively... View Details

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Credential of Leadership, Impact, and Management in Business | HBS Online

Business Administration and C. Roland Christensen Distinguished Management Educator Introduction to Personal Branding Show Hide Details Modules Develop Your Personal Brand Engage Your Personal Brand and Influence 30-35 hrs Term 4 Course -... View Details

10 Mar 2015
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First Look: March 10

education in local communities? To switch to renewable power? All of these actions might improve social welfare, and some of them might improve profitability, but they are very different, and the business case for each of them is... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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Patrick Mullane | About

non-degree programs including all online, in-person, and blended programs. Together, HBS Online and Executive Education reach approximately 40,000 participants per year through more than 100 programs using a custom, online learning... View Details

15 Nov 2016
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November 15, 2016

first present data suggesting that this belief has become a “hegemonic narrative”—a pervasive, status-quo-preserving story that is uncontested, even in the face of countervailing evidence. We then take a systems psychodynamic perspective... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Mar 2024
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On the Radar

efforts to identify biological threats and safeguard against the use of bioweapons. That’s not enough, warns Matthew McKnight (MBA/MPP 2012) of the Boston-based biotech firm Ginkgo Bioworks. McKnight believes a comprehensive global warning View Details

Keywords: Janine White; Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities; Government

10 Aug 2009
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High Commitment, High Performance Management

Learning and Governance System that can help leaders avoid destruction, their own or their firm. These three goals are paradoxical. That is, leaders who focus on one often undermine the others. Consider how hardheaded performance... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

13 Oct 2010
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First Look: October 13, 2010

education program has modest effects, increasing demand for bank accounts only for those with low levels of education or financial literacy. In contrast, small subsidies greatly increase demand. A follow-up... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

07 Jan 2019
Research & Ideas

The Better Way to Forecast the Future

credits the work of the National Hurricane Center, Nate Silver, and others for helping educate the public on how to interpret probability forecasts, but more work is needed to improve visualizations. “Even if you say there’s a 10 percent... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Air Transportation; Transportation

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Uzoma Nwagba

rewrite this plot—for myself, for my children, for CNN. Born to a politician mother and growing up in Eastern Nigeria, I have lived the spectrum of failing public institutions. I have watched clueless leadership, the nation's wealth carted away as View Details

09 Apr 2019
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Ray Dalio: Why and How Capitalism Needs to Be Reformed

a reflection on how his own personal experience led him to the conclusion that American capitalism “isn’t working well for most Americans,” which is followed by supporting evidence—including low income growth, the ascendant income gap, and View Details

Keywords: capitalism

21 Feb 2005
Op-Ed

Is Business Management a Profession?

knowledge in the profession and to maintain a license to practice. Management differs from medicine, law, and other recognized professions in having neither a formal educational requirement nor a system of... View Details

Keywords: by Rakesh Khurana, Nitin Nohria & Daniel Penrice

18 Dec 2017
Op-Ed

Why Employers Must Stop Requiring College Degrees For Middle-Skill Jobs

Credit: Pixsooz American companies have a problem. Over the past decade, they have begun to demand a bachelor’s degree in hiring workers for jobs that traditionally haven’t required one. This uptick in credentialing, or “degree inflation,” rested on the belief that... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph Fuller

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Your Social Entrepreneurship checklist | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

stay connected with other alumni interested in social enterprise while you build lifelong relationships with MBA students, fellow alumni, and Executive Education participants. You can connect with regional clubs, as well as shared... View Details

22 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018

McGinn Abstract—Using a randomized control trial, we examine whether offering adolescent girls nonmaterial resources—specifically, negotiation skills—can improve educational outcomes in a low-income country. In so doing, we provide the... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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Is AI Coming for Your Job?

to read the work of my students and colleagues, assess their assumptions, logic, and conclusions, and make connections. This invaluable set of skills must be provided to all users of generative AI tools. Critical thinking has been taught at many levels of View Details

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Published CSV Cases - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

HBS ISC Creating Shared Value CSV Creating Shared Value CSV Explained Emerging Topics CSV in Practice Published CSV Cases Published CSV Cases Published CSV Cases Please find below a selection of the cases taught in our senior executive View Details

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