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- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Redefining Health Care
School, the article evoked a flood of encouraging letters and e-mails. “The response wasn’t ‘you’re crazy,’ or ‘competition has no place in health care,’” recalls Porter. “We felt obligated to turn the diagnosis in the article into... View Details
- 16 Jul 2024
- Blog Post
Advancing Health Equity: Social Enterprise Summer Fellow Simona Stancov (MBA 2025)
healthcare. After learning about CHAI’s incredible work across 20+ programs in 35+ countries, I knew it would be the perfect place to deepen my knowledge of what health equity means in a global health context. What are your goals for this... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President’s Report
2003 Global Leadership Forum was scheduled to take place in Shanghai last June. Unfortunately, the SARS outbreak caused us to postpone the conference to June 2004. Thanks to the strong leadership of Bob Shaw... View Details
- 15 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
A Mass Crisis Can Overwhelm Health Care. Liberia Found a Solution.
required to accomplish such a planned massive expansion, from yet-to-be hit rural areas to overwhelmed urban health systems. As leaders consider how to tackle the task, they might look at the Harvard Business School case study of nonprofit View Details
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Commencement 2013 Address | About
planning period, six months, we had to arrange for 900 students—each and every one of you—to fly to an emerging market, in most cases a place you’d never visited before. We had to arrange for you to work inside a company—150 of them... View Details
- 05 Dec 2016
- News
The Dragon’s Tale
McFarlan and asked him to reflect on his experiences in China, and his thoughts about the future of a country he describes as “a fascinating place with great promise, but uncertain prospects for continued economic growth.” What were your... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Dean Nohria Looks Ahead
leader. I traveled a lot with my father as he was starting manufacturing plants all over the country. Some years later we would go back and visit, and I saw the extraordinary impact that business could have on society. In places where... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 22 Mar 2018
- Blog Post
“Mission + Profit: What’s the Balance?” asks SECON 2018
How do you balance between being a mission-driven organization and a financially profitable company? That was the central question we posed to participants and speakers of this year’s Social Enterprise Conference (SECON). The 19th annual SECON took View Details
- 18 Oct 2017
- Blog Post
4 Advantages of the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program
Originally from Bulgaria, I was one of the last children born under Communism. With the 50-year regime collapsing a month after I was born, my parents sought out the American dream for our family by immigrating to the U.S. to finish their... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Streamlining the Supermarket
whom he’d known since high school. They were equally intrigued. “We thought, why don’t we use that technology to disrupt the grocery industry by bringing the same type of efficiencies to the supermarket?” Aguerrevere says. Last November,... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Tedlow on Tires and the Meaning of Life
edited by Ted A. Adams "When you study the tire industry," HBS professor Richard S. Tedlow told a Class Day audience of graduating MBAs last June, "you are confronting the meaning of life." A distinguished authority on business history,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
A Jolt for the African Coffee Industry
the stuff, it is powdered Nescafé bought from streetside trolleys. Africa remains by and large the last part of the world to resist coffee, with tea and chocolate drinks the go-to hot beverages. (Exceptions are in the Francophone... View Details
- 09 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
How Business Leaders Can Strengthen American Schools
programs to support children and education—but they're often not coordinated, resulting in gaps and redundancies in service. This a fertile area for collaboration. "What you see in some places are business, civic, and education... View Details
- 09 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 9, 2008
Aversion, Diminishing Sensitivity, and the Role of Experience in Repeated Decisions. Authors:Erev, Ido, Eyal Ert, and Eldad Yechiam. Publication:Journal of Behavioral Decision Making (in press). Abstract Three experiments are presented that explore the assertion that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Profile
Mohamed Farid
Mohamed Farid, MBA 2015, likes change. In the last ten years, he's worked in nine different cities from Boston to Bangalore, Dubai, Cairo, Montreal, Ottawa, Chicago, San Francisco, and Waterloo, Canada. "So if you ever ask me where... View Details
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Rebuilding Commercial Real Estate
viewed as a new asset class that competes with stocks and bonds for investment capital. It earned that newfound status on the strength of market-stabilizing structural changes that took root after the last crash. "Everything we do... View Details
- 11 Aug 2014
- HBS Case
The Business of Behavioral Economics
people's thinking: loss aversion. Research has shown that people are much more averse to losing something they have than they are inclined toward gaining something they don't. So by putting up their own money toward their goal, they try... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
HBS Conferences Explore Range of Issues
AASU Holds 25th Annual Conference "Our Silver Past and Golden Future" was the theme of the 25th annual Career/Alumni Conference of the HBS African-American Student Union (AASU), held January 30 to February 2 at HBS and the Boston Marriott Copley View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Ask the Expert: Bounce Back
Illustration by Michael Sloan/The i Spot Illustration by Michael Sloan/The i Spot The rate at which people have been signing on to social media in the last decade had many marketers wondering if it might replace email altogether as a way... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 02 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 2
characteristics, such as risk aversion and talent; firm characteristics, such as ownership; detailed measures of managerial practices relative to incentives, dismissals, and promotions; and measurable outcomes, for the firm and for the... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino