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- 20 Aug 2001
- Research & Ideas
Making an Ally of Uncle Sam
fiber-optic cable from Japan to the United States. Such approvals normally take about two months. Global Crossing, whose own fiber link across the Pacific was scheduled to begin service at about the same time, petitioned the FCC to delay... View Details
- 08 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 8
development, would likely conclude that business schools inside and outside of the United States exhibit more similarities than differences. Yet the uniqueness of the American business school lies not so... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Inside the Revolution
the School’s Global Research Centers in helping faculty work on cases and find research opportunities. The LSP builds contacts, compiles databases, organizes seminars, and encourages and supports case writing across units to raise... View Details
- 30 May 2007
- Research & Ideas
Health Care Under a Research Microscope
The $2 trillion health care system is one of the United States' largest industries—but one of its worst performing by almost any measure other than technological innovation. The problems are painful, including escalating costs, expensive... View Details
- 08 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
Tell Me What to Do: When Bad News Is a Big Relief
said. “I really wish the doctor would have just said, ‘Here is what we’re doing.’” To find out if other players would feel the same way, the researchers surveyed 74 baseball pitchers from universities in the United View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Case Study: The Doctor Deficit
illustration by Pablo Amargo illustration by Pablo Amargo There is a doctor shortage in the United States, according to the Association of American Medical Colleges, which predicts that the deficit could increase to more than 90,000... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Leadership on a Global Stage
will become an annual event. Jefferson, a 1988 West Point graduate and former captain in the Special Forces, planned to stay in the military as long as he was “serving with elite units and enjoying being in the Army.” A training accident... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 19 Jan 2021
- In Practice
Leadership Advice for Biden: Restore a Sense of Calm
Joseph R. Biden Jr. becomes the 46th president of the United States at a time when the nation is grappling with several sober realities at once: a deadly pandemic that is claiming the lives of thousands of... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 26 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
How Electronic Patient Records Can Slow Doctor Productivity
whether these relationships differed by practice size. Huckman and Adler-Milstein researched monthly EHR task-log data between 2006 and 2009 from more than 40 primary care and internal medicine practices throughout the United States.... View Details
- 23 Nov 1999
- Research & Ideas
The Future of the Venture Capital Cycle
factors, there appears to have been quite substantial changes for the better over the past several decades. [NOTE] We will briefly discuss two of these determinants of the long-run supply of venture capital in the United States, where... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
After decades of decline, despair, and neglect, the last ten years have brought some preliminary signs of revitalization to a number of inner-city neighborhoods in the United States. Blighted areas such as Chicago's North Side, New York's... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
describe the new conjoining of responsible environmental practices with sound business principles. Defined in 1984 by the United Nations World Commission on Environment and Development as business and development activity that "meets the... View Details
- 09 Apr 2025
- News
The Working Parent Revolution
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morell, host of Skydeck. In 2023, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that in 67% of two-parent families with children, both parents worked, which was up from 59% in 2013.... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2019
Lovett-Learned Professor of Business Administration; and Josh Lerner, Head of the Entrepreneurial Management Unit and the Jacob H. Schiff Professor of Investment Banking Princeton University Press There has never been a greater need for... View Details
- 12 May 2015
- News
A Flash of Insight
most of his career working in Europe. Cooper grew up on the go, living in more than a dozen cities in the United States, Norway, Italy, England, and France, where he attended high school in Paris. When it was time for college, he returned... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Books
of the Organizational Behavior unit and the HBS Leadership Initiative, believes that the process of becoming a manager requires both a significant psychological transition and a considerable amount of on-the-job training. In the second... View Details
- 27 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
The ‘Promotion’ That Makes You Feel Bad
Dumas, an assistant professor at Ohio State University's Fisher College of Business, describe their findings in the paper Unearned Status Gain: Evidence from a Global Language Mandate, forthcoming in the Academy of Management Journal... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
- 13 Feb 2017
- Research & Ideas
Paid Search Ads Pay Off for Lesser-Known Restaurants
spending in the United States in 2015, up from $26 billion in 2010. Advertisers are steering the biggest share of their digital ad dollars—about half of all online ad expenditures—toward paid search.... View Details
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on their pollution) [16] While the U.S. federal government has not yet caught up with shifts in public opinion, many other countries and some U.S. states and cities are advancing policies to achieve net zero emissions of GHG emissions by... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Steve Schwarzman
growth capital. And given the demands for growth capital, leveraged purchases aren’t necessarily the right financial structure for most companies. In Japan, the number of private-equity deals is slowly increasing, but they are still at quite a low level by the... View Details