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- 16 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 16, 2019
all become consumers of the health care industry. Indeed, health care affects everyone and encompasses a diverse set of services from childbirth, to illness prevention, to the management of chronic disease and end-of-life care. Health care in the View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- Profile
Frank Spencer
United States, providing ministers and teachers of the church with pensions, medical benefits, life and disability insurance, financial assistance, and mid-career education. Asked to consider his impact, Spencer says, "I know I... View Details
- 25 Jul 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
The Evolution of Apple
only 6 million units over the course of 3 years, compared with sales of 300 million PCs during the same period. "Apple's market share has always been lower than its consumer mind share," remarks Yoffie. Birth of The Cool In... View Details
- 05 Aug 2015
- What Do You Think?
What Happened to the ‘Innovation, Disruption, Technology’ Dividend?
How patient should we be in waiting for the tech productivity dividend? What do you think? Original Column For years we have been regaled with prospects of outsized productivity increases in the United View Details
- 10 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
Encouraging Entrepreneurs: Lessons for Government Policy
ideal choice for the study because its labor market shares many of the same characteristics as those found in the United States and the United Kingdom. "Aside from being a... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 22 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Hedge Fund as Activist
investment horizons make them willing to accept takeover offers that do not fully recognize the overall value of the target—a merger at a low price is preferred to no merger at all. Another question that interests us is what the role of activist investors in countries... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
An Rx for Small Business Recovery
first-year MBA students will travel to 15 cities across the United States to work on projects that involve the design of a new product, service, or experience for a local segment of that city’s population.... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Q & A: Laura Liswood and the Council of Women World Leaders
outside the power structure. I'd like to see a few self-indulgent female millionaires run for office! Is the United States ready for a woman in the White House? Currently, about 75 percent of the population... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 06 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
Where Do Workers Go When the Robots Arrive?
years that have caused deep manufacturing job losses in the United States: the appearance of robots/automation, and increasing import competition from China. “The appearance of robots caused a sizable reduction in the local population,... View Details
- 15 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
Are the Most Talented Employees the Highest Paid? Yes—If They’re Bankers
United States and United Kingdom.) "Having graduated from a school one notch higher in terms of selectivity induces a 2.5% average wage premium, versus a 9% relative premium in... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Club Leaders Get a Boost from Campus Conference
HASHING IT OUT: HBS professor Kash Rangan leads a case discussion with club officers on creating and maintaining a successful alumni club. With over seventy attendees from Asia, Europe, Latin America, and the United States, the HBS Club... View Details
- 21 Oct 2013
- News
Moving the Needle
private debt and equity options. That position took her on a trip to Kenya this summer to search for investment opportunities—including microfinance, sustainable agriculture, clean cook stoves, and urban sanitation—viewing them through a gender lens, noting "Former... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
The Joy of Spending
more money," says Norton, now an associate professor in the Marketing Unit at HBS. That search for answers led to their new book, Happy Money: The Science of Smarter Spending, which offers peer-reviewed guidance for the purse strings—much... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
No Place Like Home
two-bedroom apartment rents for $1,400, considerably more than 30 percent of an average South End family's income. In Massachusetts as a whole, one recent study estimates that between 1990 and 1997, two hundred thousand more people moved out of the View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Bright Future for Green Business
“There’s no better horse in the world you could possibly hitch your cart to.” That’s how Matthew Nordan summed up the state of clean, green energy at the School’s Building Green Businesses conference in early March. During the session... View Details
- 19 Dec 2014
- News
Atlanta Alumni Connect Around a 'Vision' for the New HBS
highlight the impact of HBS alumni and faculty in organizations and communities around the world. The effort to engage alumni began in Boston on April 26, 2014 and will extend around the world over the next 18 months as Dean Nohria and select faculty travel to alumni... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Buy the Book
retailers (such as Wal-Mart and Costco) that only stock twenty or so bestsellers yet are responsible for 34 percent of book sales in the United States. “Something hits as a success and dominates the market,” Deighton comments. “It’s... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Entrepreneur's Notebook with Paul Conforti and Kim Moore (both MBA '97)
not and how that will impact us. — PC On deck: We’re opening two new Finale desserteries this year, in Brookline and in Providence. The longer-term plan is to expand across the United States. We believe we can open 200 locations in the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
BOOK: The Money of Invention
the United States. That trend will continue, they contend. Despite many of the recent excesses in the venture industry and the slide in the economy — and more specifically in the venture-drenched tech sector — Gompers and Lerner assert... View Details
- 25 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Cyber-Marketing: Scouting the Digital Communications Frontier
scale in the United States and is being introduced in many other countries as well. While transmitting digitally offers many significant advantages over the current analog method, it also requires specially... View Details
Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs