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01 Sep 2014
News

The Changing Nature of Research

for Research HBS funds research internally. By freeing faculty members from the constraints of seeking grants for their work, the School continues its century-long tradition of problem-focused research that is the foundation of a dynamic View Details

01 Sep 2004
News

Promise & Perils

Arrival: Forum participants were greeted at Shanghai’s new international airport. Forum: Dean Clark with GLF chair Andrew Yao (MBA ’92); Han Zheng, Shanghai’s Mayor; Wang Mengkui, state development director. Breakout Sessions: Alumni asked probing questions of HBS... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Sep 2018
News

Case Study: A Good Fit

billion in disability benefits a year, Eldridge says. Gain Life’s existing wellness market has good prospects, although it’s highly competitive, “almost to the point of commoditization,” he adds, and the sales cycles can last up to a... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

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I may have a superhuman expectation but it's okay to dream... i want to challenge myself with adventures - build an organization for disadvantaged youth in india or africa, climb mount kilimanjaro or everest, cycle through egypt for... View Details

13 Feb 2006
Research & Ideas

The Hidden Market for Babies

telegraph, the radio, and so forth) that had been every bit as radical in their time as the Internet had become in ours. I argued that all of these technologies had gone through cycles of commercial expansion and political response and... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls; Biotechnology; Health; Technology

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Martin Vasev

The cycle of protests never stopped. When I was twelve, all the teachers, including my mom, went on a months-long strike. At nineteen, my friend suffered a skull fracture from police brutality during a student protest. At twenty-five, we... View Details

04 Jul 2016
Research & Ideas

Is Your Org Chart Stuck in a Rut? Try a Scientific Experiment

organizations that really ends up with no trend line” “For decades, we’ve been in this cycle where an organization hires a consulting firm to help design and execute a restructuring, and then, as soon as they’re done, they start that... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

27 Oct 2009
First Look

First Look: October 27

households. In contrast, small subsidy payments have a large effect on the likelihood of opening a savings account. These payments are more than two times more cost-effective than the financial literacy training. Download the paper:... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Policymakers - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Creating a Value-Based Health Care Delivery System: Implications for Policymakers Reduce regulatory obstacles to care coordination and integration across the care cycle like the Stark and anti-kickback laws, HIPAA, and EMTALA Create a... View Details

01 Dec 2015
News

Enjoying the Chance to Reconnect

embracing the responsibility of contributing to the virtuous cycle at HBS.” Chun has designated his 5th Reunion gift for innovation, a passion that currently drives his work with entrepreneurial media and Internet companies at Thrive and... View Details

01 Jun 2012
News

A Decade of Change

who now serves as a deputy director at the organization. “Over the past 10 years, the Leadership Fellows program has enabled social-sector organizations to strategically integrate MBA talent, collectively advancing our respective missions and making a difference in the... View Details

09 Aug 2011
News

A Toast to Macchu Pisco

of returning to work at Diageo, the world’s largest spirits company, but I decided HBS had given me all the tools I needed to take the entrepreneurial risk.” Asher is personally involved in the production cycle in Peru, monitoring the... View Details

Keywords: Beverage and Tobacco Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing

Article

Technology Diffusion and Postwar Growth

By: Diego A. Comin and Bart Hobijn

In the aftermath of World War II, the world's economies exhibited very different rates of economic recovery. We provide evidence that those countries that caught up the most with the U.S. in the postwar period are those that saw an acceleration in the speed of adopting... View Details

Keywords: Hardware; Country; Business Cycles; Globalized Economies and Regions; Economic Growth; Welfare or Wellbeing; War; Technology Industry; United States; Japan; Europe

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05 Nov 2024
Book

Building the Road to 'Small Business Utopia' with AI and Fintech

Editor's note: The following is an excerpt from chapter one of Fintech, Small Business & the American Dream, written by Karen G. Mills, senior fellow at Harvard Business School. The second edition was published in 2024 by Palgrave Macmillan. The View Details

Keywords: by Karen G. Mills; Financial Services

25 Feb 2020
News

Beyond the Plastisphere

breaks down safely in the environment. Enter Full Cycle Bioplastics, a California startup that has found a cost-effective way to produce mass quantities of PHA, which is an eco-friendly alternative to plastic that harmlessly degrades on... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; Plastics and Rubber Products Manufacturing; Manufacturing

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The Field Method | MBA

The Field Method Bridging the knowing-doing gap As a complement to the case method, the field method enhances our capacity to educate leaders who make a difference in the world. The idea behind these complementary methods—case and field—is to provide a View Details

22 Aug 2024
Blog Post

LM Wind Power Test and Validation Center

maximum load for 10 seconds, it moves on to dynamic testing. In dynamic testing, the blade is cycled along a single axis while the end is fixed to a large concrete structure that extends far into the ground. The blade is View Details

01 Mar 2003
News

Three Appointed to Endowed Professorships

particular politics that surround the commercialization of reproductive technologies. Her recent publications include a book of cases on managing international trade and investment and Ruling the Waves: Cycles of Discovery, Chaos, and... View Details

Keywords: fellowships; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Jun 2009
News

Crisis and Creativity

"I'll be happy to give you innovative thinking. What are the guidelines?" © The New Yorker Collection 2005 Leo Cullum from cartoonbank.com. All Rights Reserved. Rahm Emanuel, President Obama’s chief of staff, recently echoed Machiavelli when he said, “You never want a... View Details

Keywords: Bhaskar Chakravorti