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Linda Leung
things.” After further work in the field with CBS Interactive, where she was responsible for the ad inventories of renowned sites such as CNET.com, ZDnet.com, and CBSnews.com, Linda decided the best way to move forward would be to pursue... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- What Do You Think?
Is This the Twilight Era for the Managed Mutual Fund?
probably seen the beginning of the decline of the actively managed mutual fund," Charles Broming expressed the hope that "money management will become another technical job and compensation will reflect its real added... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
this, Thakor explains, is that “we’re seeing the seeds of something that will ideally blossom over the coming decade. At the end of the day, it is becoming increasingly clear that companies that truly embody both DEI and ESG values are on... View Details
- 18 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Unspoken Cues: Encouraging Morals Without Mandates
Many institutions promote and even mandate moral behavior and values among their members, but how they do it differs greatly. Some organizations such as religious groups may proscribe very specifically what is acceptable behavior—think... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
suggest ways in which the School and the larger alumni community might work together to provide maximum value to HBS graduates. The Alumni Communications Committee is chaired by Byron Carlock (MBA '88). Communication is the key to keeping... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Case Study: Sneak Peak
growth proceeds will go to the lenders, leaving the owners with more stress, work, [and] risk—and probably no more income. Worst case, the launch fails and takes the company with it. —Peter Warner (MBA 1988) The best option would be funding via a partner that has... View Details
- 04 Aug 2006
- What Do You Think?
What Happens When the Economics of Scarcity Meets the Economics of Abundance?
terms of where value is added in the supply chain . The value is created through the service of helping customers find what they want within the sea of choice . It is ironic... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Happy New Year: The HBS Alumni Board's Newest Members Look to the Future
Committee for two, and humbly as its President for the last year. To be honest, I didn't even know the Board existed before receiving the invitation to join, but I viewed it as a way to engage more consistently and formally with the School, with an View Details
- 25 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health
homes. The temptation to undertake continuous rather than snapshot monitoring can, in some cases, be unproductive and costly, and risks turning patients into hypochondriacs. Mobile health innovations should be adopted widely only after controlled consumer experiments... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Ron Shaich’s Café Society
cookies? Fresh out of HBS I opened a cookie shop in downtown Boston. Every morning I watched thousands of people walk by; no one bought cookies before noon. So I added fresh croissants and baguettes, two items that were not in the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015
believe as if you were an owner? (2) Do you take action based on those beliefs? (3) Do you focus on adding value to others and take responsibility for the effect of your actions on others? Leadership is a... View Details
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From Brainstorm to Breakthrough: HBS IT Hackathon Inspires AI Innovations | Information Technology
option to volunteer their projects to be submitted for consideration for the quarterly planning process. Out of five nominations, the BRMs and ITLC selected the above project to be submitted to Quarterly Planning for its anticipated added... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
to understand its customers' profile. Currently, HBS has no way to actively measure alumni interest in specific areas. A more robust profile of alumni would not only enhance the School's ability to provide valued services but would better... View Details
Keywords: John Hoffman
- 08 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 8
countless incremental fixes-attacking fraud, reducing errors, enforcing practice guidelines, making patients better "consumers," implementing electronic medical records-but none have had much impact. It's time for a fundamentally new strategy. At its core is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Aug 2017
- Research & Ideas
'Be Yourself (Within Reason)' and Other Job Search Survival Tips
loved her job and did not want to make the sacrifices a promotion would entail, she was overcome by a sense of contentment. Balancing inside and outside pressures when choosing a career is a monumental task, but the first step is acknowledging those internal pressures... View Details
- 03 Nov 2014
- Research & Ideas
Brand Lessons From the Nobel Prize
the value proposition that they put forth." “Everybody knows what the Nobel Prize is and what it does, but practically nobody knows how it does it,” The study involved historical research and hours of conversations with recent laureates... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 11 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
Germany May Have the Answer for Reducing Drug Prices
insurers, a potentially costly process. Stern and her co-authors studied 171 new drugs that Germany’s IQWiG reviewed between 2012 and 2016. They found that manufacturers were 10 times more likely to withdraw products that lacked any evidence of View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Redefining Health Care
wrong kind of competition. We have a zero-sum competition to assemble bargaining power, shift the cost to others, grab more of the revenue versus other actors in the system, and restrict services. Zero-sum competition undermines value by... View Details
- 26 Mar 2012
- Research & Ideas
What Neuroscience Tells Us About Consumer Desire
or even how much they will pay for an item. But they aren't very good at accessing where that value comes from, or how and when it is influenced by factors like store displays or brands.” Most humans are a little more complicated than... View Details
- 12 Oct 2016
- Research & Ideas
Break the Rules of How Business is Done
new approach, don’t do it for the sake of being different, do it because it either enables your company to run more efficiently and/or it adds value for your employees or customers. Reprinted with permission from the author's blog post,... View Details
Keywords: by Julia B. Austin