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- 12 Dec 2006
- First Look
First Look: December 12, 2006
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=607010 Note on Health Savings Accounts, Flexible Spending Accounts, and Health Reimbursement Account Vendors Harvard Business School Note... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 25
317-093 Elements of Japanese Corporate Governance No abstract available. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/317093-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 316-098 Health Catalyst Dan... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 31, 2009
Working PapersCorporate Social Entrepreneurship Authors:James Austin and Ezequiel Reficco Abstract Corporate Social Entrepreneurship (CSE) is a process aimed at enabling business to develop more advanced and powerful forms of View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 2020
- Working Paper
Nonprofit Boards: It Is time to Lift Your Gaze and See the System
By: Shamal Dass, Kristy Muir and V. Kasturi Rangan
Nonprofits the world over have faced significant crises in 2020, leaving them and their constituents in precarious positions. Responses to these crises have demonstrated incredible agility. However, they have also demonstrated that the first two levels of governance... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit Organizations; Governing and Advisory Boards; Health Pandemics; Governance; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; System; Framework
Dass, Shamal, Kristy Muir, and V. Kasturi Rangan. "Nonprofit Boards: It Is time to Lift Your Gaze and See the System." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-058, November 2020.
- March 2000
- Case
Heartport, Inc.
By: Gary P. Pisano and Shoshana Dobrow
Heartport, an entrepreneurial medical device maker, has introduced several innovative systems for conducting less-invasive cardiac surgery. Despite initially high expectations, the company has struggled to get its technology adopted by cardiac surgeons. The company's... View Details
Keywords: History; Product Positioning; Knowledge Acquisition; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Technology Adoption; Health Care and Treatment
Pisano, Gary P., and Shoshana Dobrow. "Heartport, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 600-020, March 2000.
- June 2020
- Case
Career Karma: Growth in a Time of Global Uncertainty (A)
By: Laura Huang, Elizabeth Jiang and Brandon Yu
Career Karma is a startup focused on helping individuals looking to transition careers into computer engineering roles or similar fields by preparing them for formal technical training programs, or “coding bootcamps,” that would lead to a successful career pivot upon... View Details
Keywords: Business Ventures; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Plan; Business Startups; Education; Training; Entrepreneurship; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Social Entrepreneurship; Management; Goals and Objectives; Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Marketing Strategy; Organizations; Mission and Purpose; Personal Development and Career; Health Pandemics; Technology Industry; Education Industry; Employment Industry
Huang, Laura, Elizabeth Jiang, and Brandon Yu. "Career Karma: Growth in a Time of Global Uncertainty (A)." Harvard Business School Case 420-121, June 2020.
- 04 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
Don’t Lose Money With Customers
Investors diligently manage financial portfolios to maximize returns on their assets; yet corporate managers who invariably proclaim their business customers to be "valuable assets" rarely manage their relationships with them... View Details
Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs
- 23 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Break Your Addiction to Service Heroes
that there are a lot of heroic people in service organizations who feel compelled to be the best at everything. That's particularly evident in mission-driven and health care organizations, where managers feel a moral obligation to at... View Details
- April 1993 (Revised May 1994)
- Case
Genzyme Corporation: Strategic Challenges with Ceredase
Genzyme Corp., one of the largest biotechnology companies, has succeeded in developing, manufacturing, and commercializing its first therapeutic, a treatment for a rare genetic disease. Analysis of the case requires students to identify and understand how Genzyme has... View Details
Keywords: Risk Management; Risk and Uncertainty; Corporate Strategy; Technology; Health; Product Development; Biotechnology Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; United States
Teisberg, Elizabeth O., and Sharon L. Rossi. "Genzyme Corporation: Strategic Challenges with Ceredase." Harvard Business School Case 793-120, April 1993. (Revised May 1994.)
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Value Judgments: Business Ethics Across Borders
crossing cultural borders. Two of the seventeen case sequences she has developed for the course so far — "Siam Cement Group: Corporate Philosophy" and "The Haier Group" — take place in Thailand and China, respectively.... View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross
- 05 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019
refers to corporate leaders speaking out on social and environmental policy issues not directly related to their company’s core business. Distinct from nonmarket strategy and traditional corporate social... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 11 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 11
Standard theories of corporate ownership assume that because markets are efficient, insiders ultimately bear agency costs and therefore have a strong incentive to minimize conflicts of interest with outside investors. We show that if... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 3
Field Experiment in Zambia Authors:Nava Ashraf, James Berry, and Jesse M. Shapiro Publication:American Economic Review (forthcoming) Abstract The controversy over whether and how much to charge for health products in the developing world... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54331 forthcoming American Economic Journal: Economic Policy Physician Beliefs and Patient Preferences: A New Look at Regional Variation in Health Care Spending By: Cutler, David, Jonathan... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Three Steps for Crisis Prevention
industry practices, which the press juxtaposed against the grim realities of AIDS in southern Africa. In response, governmental and nongovernmental organizations formed a coalition that ultimately won big public health exemptions on... View Details
Keywords: by Michael D. Watkins & Max H. Bazerman
- 03 Dec 2015
- Op-Ed
How "New Nuclear" Power Could Save the Planet—If Regulators Would Allow It
reactor, in the US. Bill Gates is its chairman. Earlier this year, the company signed a memorandum of understanding with the China National Nuclear Corporation targeting the first working prototype in China. ThorCon Power has designed a... View Details
- 06 May 2015
- What Do You Think?
Are You Ready for Personalized Predictive Analytics?
that some giant computers controlled by big corporations and institutions know better than they do about what they will be doing in (the) future and what they'll become They might turn into poor, weak machines themselves , abiding by what... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 26 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
What Can the World’s Largest Refugee Camp Teach Us About the Meaning of Work?
day.” Testing the unique benefits of work By all accounts, overcrowding, extreme poverty, and the experience of forced displacement inside the camps has taken a profound toll. Doctors Without Borders has provided almost 1.4 million outpatient medical consultations and... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 14 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
What Leaders Can Do to Fight the COVID Fog
aspect of doing business must be completely rethought for both short-term survival and long-term advantage—and CEOs are profoundly aware of that. We want to share with you both high-level findings about the sleep-robbing concerns of View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
- 02 Jul 2015
- Op-Ed
The Future of the Greek Economy
L.E. Simmons Faculty Fellow at HBS. He joined the HBS faculty after holding leadership positions in the European capital markets groups of Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and Merrill Lynch and has broad experience in the areas of corporate... View Details