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- 06 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Determinants of Corporate Venture Capital Success
Coast operations and its West Coast computer people would severely affect the company. The focus for much of this division was PARC. In the 1970s, PARC was remarkably successful in developing ingenious products that would fundamentally... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Gompers & Josh Lerner
- 23 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Strategy for Small Fish
compromise the health of the entire ecosystem. Loose coupling: Embrace mobility and flexibility. The heart of operating strategy for a niche player is to leverage the broad-based efficiencies offered by... View Details
Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien
- 09 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Unconscious Executive
unconscious thought as a goal-dependent, deliberative process in the absence of conscious attention. Most people attribute a lot of their actions to a conscious process, but there are scores of processes that operate unconsciously.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 07 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 7
Kingdom's National Health Service. We show that low levels of structural closure (i.e., structural holes) in a change agent's network aid the initiation and adoption of changes that diverge from the institutional status quo but hinder the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 19, 2016
Patient Outcomes in Cardiac Surgery By: Burt, Bryan M., Andrew W. ElBardissi, Robert S. Huckman, Lawrence H. Cohn, Marisa W. Cevasco, James D. Rawn, Sary F. Aranki, and John G. Byrne Abstract—We hypothesized that increased post-graduate surgical experience correlates... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Class Notes Extra
There was almost a riot.” After observing her first successful open-heart surgery and the emotional post-operative meeting between the doctor and the baby's grateful parents, McIntosh, who speaks Russian and has a master's degree in public View Details
- 04 Dec 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Fantastic Horizon: How to Invest in a New City
issues at all generally brush them off, believing that the problems can and will be solved by better governance and more political will, that states will take care of it. But the third troublesome phenomenon is that governments clearly... View Details
- 11 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ’The Future of Boards’
role but aren't certain how to do so. One director pointed out a significant problem that arises when boards contemplate becoming more engaged: "I think the board is more involved. I think it's busier. I think boards have to be more focused. And I think they have to be... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Lorsch
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Up Against The Firewall
matter to leave to tech departments, no matter how good they may be,” warns HBS assistant professor Robert D. Austin. “That’s because, more than being a technical problem, achieving cyber security is an operational issue that requires... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Increasing Access and Expanding Opportunity
students with specific backgrounds and interests, such as in the nonprofit and the health care sectors, and even those who do not receive need-based aid may apply. Our newest one is the John C. Phelan (MBA... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 31 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
The New CEO’s Wrong Message
do.) This CEO concluded, and we would agree, that it is rarely a good idea to unilaterally overrule a thoughtful decision that has cleared several other organizational hurdles. Indeed, a key indicator the CEO subsequently used to judge the View Details
- 04 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
Inside CEOs' Pandemic Worries: Uncertainty, Employees, and Kids
another, the need “to do extreme scenario planning and take out loans as precautions to boost the balance sheet.” One CEO mentioned that this was complicated by a distrust of government data on health and the economy, thus requiring... View Details
- 09 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 9, 2018
multidisciplinary treatment of head and neck cancers. Methods: Four prospective treatment-based bundles were developed for patients with selected head and neck cancers. These risk-adjusted bundles covered 1 year of care that began with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 22
child education and health in the least likely setting of rural Uttar Pradesh. Building on the recent literature on culture and public action, and relying on extensive field research, village-level comparisons, and interviews with key... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 18
companies, and a longtime scholar of corporate governance—identifies three chronic deficiencies of boards: They tend to be too large to operate effectively. Members often lack sufficient expertise in the relevant industry. And few devote... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Nov 2011
- News
Lessons From a Kenyan Slum
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 2
one of the things you talk a lot about, too, in the book is the fact that being the CEO is a lonely job. Right? That it's lonely at the top. And I wonder in those moments who you would reach out to. Or how you dealt with that, generally. JI: So I went from running a... View Details
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Two-Year Action Plan Update: Q+A with Terrill Drake, Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer at Harvard Business School
luncheon were so moving, and they showed me how much this community cares for Jim, who was doing diversity, equity, and inclusion work before it was a thing. It made me feel empowered and excited to build upon Jim's legacy. Cash House has... View Details
- 21 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 21, 2006
operating system for dealing with elective (largely surgical) patients. By opening an emergency room, however, the institution is now called upon to care for complex and highly variable medical patients.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
of the inner city (lack of health care and substandard housing, for example) are important, they do not get at all the root causes. "To build healthy and sustainable inner-city communities, it is necessary... View Details