Health Care Investment - Publications - Faculty & Research

05 Sep 2006
Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Porsche’s Risky Roll on an SUV

with the VW Touareg and was partially manufactured in VW's Bratislava, Slovakia plant. Then, as if that were not enough, Wiedeking shocked the investment world once again by purchasing roughly a 20 percent stake in VW, which led to major... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Auto; Manufacturing

28 Apr 2015
First Look

First Look: April 28

and costly scams are common. Yet, even more frequent and pervasive are cases of "ordinary" unethical behavior-unethical actions committed by people who value and care about morality but behave unethically when faced with an... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Sep 2011
News

Coming Full Circle

students; currently, 132 students are studying to receive a DBA (offered in accounting, management, marketing, strategy, and TOM) or, in collaboration with Harvard’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, a PhD (business economics, organizational behavior, and View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Oct 2002
News

Dean Clark on Leadership, Educational Priorities, and Funding the Future

world needs principled leaders. Business has become one of the most dynamic forces in our society. If you look at what our graduates are asked to do, you will find them holding influential positions on the boards of major nonprofit and community organizations, whether... View Details

01 Dec 2010
News

Ilene Lang

more stereotypic assumptions. From a strictly economic perspective, companies with more women in senior leadership and board positions, on average, financially outperform those with fewer according to Catalyst’s research. Organizations that hire and View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; interview; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

13 Oct 2010
Research & Ideas

How Government can Discourage Private Sector Reliance on Short-Term Debt

the implications of our findings, which is to say that the government could actively influence the corporate sector's borrowing decisions by shifting its own financing between T-bills and bonds. Why should we care about how the private... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Financial Services

01 Mar 2021
Blog Post

Best Practices for Creating a Successful Virtual Internship

situation. Students with particularly positive experiences often remark that they felt integrated into the work of the team and that people in the organization cared about what they were working on.” To replicate this integration,... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

02 Mar 2015
Research & Ideas

Retail Reaches a Tipping Point—Which Stores Will Survive?

clear: many retail segments are under assault by cheaper, more convenient retailers selling online. "The surprising thing is that despite the success of lots of big businesses in having developed Internet businesses, despite the fact that they have launched omnichannel... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

01 Dec 1998
News

Africa's Way

Development: The African Renaissance." The conference, to be held in Cape Town in March, will be a two-day intensive seminar on the economics, politics, and investment opportunities of southern Africa. It will also provide a chance to... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young and Garry Emmons

03 Oct 2017
First Look

First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017

greater marriage age gaps, increased marital abuse, lower reported autonomy, and poorer health. My results are robust to a TS2SLS specification employing distance to a major health center as my instrument. As the first cohort of females... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

21 Jul 2010
Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty Debate Financial Reform Legislation

institutions that did not contribute to the recent crisis? Whatever the impact, regulators also have to be careful not to be "fighting the last war." Today, we face a new battle. The household and government sectors are... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

01 Jun 1996
News

Keepers of the Flame

some truly Olympian details to take care of, including planning for 2 million spectators (joined by 3 billion television viewers, or 60 percent of the human race); 15,000 athletes and officials from 197 participating countries; 30... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

24 Nov 2008
Research & Ideas

Harvard Business School Discusses Future of the MBA

compiled a detailed curriculum analysis of eleven business school programs. To complete the picture, they also interviewed leading academic critics and 28 executives and recruiters. The findings presented a mixed diagnosis of the health... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson & HBS Bulletin; Education

01 Mar 2004
News

Toy Story

care about the brand and are good ambassadors. They can explain the product and convey the value of it.” (See sidebar, page 36.) Without these ambassadors, he observes, it is harder for people to see the educational value of LEGO... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; toys; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment

14 Oct 2002
Research & Ideas

The Widening Rift Between Corporations and Society

and health care. For example, all aspects of travel (e.g. airports, flights, hotels, car hire, rebooking, monitoring payments, etc.) can be integrated into a single stream of activity that not only centers on individual support, but that... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

19 May 2016
Research Event

Crowdsourcing, Patent Trolls, and Other Research Insights Highlighted at Harvard Business School Symposium

looking to hire. Holding contests to seek advice from the crowd may help companies fill the need for innovative answers more cheaply and quickly. “Contests create incentives and drive parallel search,” Lakhani said. “What you want when you View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman & Carmen Nobel

16 Sep 2008
First Look

First Look: September 16, 2008

estate firms' decisions to provide investment property fair values prior to the required disclosure of this information under International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). We find evidence that investor demand for fair value... View Details

17 Mar 2015
Research & Ideas

Where Did My Shopping Mall Go?

For the longest time nobody thought malls would be seriously hurt by ecommerce but now we have enough evidence to believe that the tsunami is actually coming. If you are not careful about thinking through the implications, you will be... View Details