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- 26 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 26
workforce is not a quick fix to control costs or improve the quality of care. A poorly planned redesign can even result in increased costs and decreased quality. Changes in skill mix and role definitions should be preceded by a detailed... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 3, 2009
around the world today are seeking to promote entrepreneurial and venture capital activity, employing a variety of "stage setting" and direct strategies. These steps are sensible, given the historical record and theoretical... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Deep Dive
contrast to the government-funded space race of the 20th century, the extent to which the ocean has been explored has been—like so much exploration in the 19th century—driven by the scientific and historical curiosities of individuals.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Prognosis
have been some suggestions that insurers should look back at their historical hospital spending and transfer a commensurate amount of money to hospitals during this crisis. There are different health care needs right now, and it is... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference
Noting that nearly 40 percent of the alumni present had graduated from HBS since 1980, Piccus predicted a lively exchange of ideas between dynamic business professionals and some of the School's leading academicians. "This is an historic... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 07 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 7
most affected by proxy access, as measured by institutional ownership, lost value on that day. The value drop was 55 basis points for a 10 percentage point change in activist institution ownership. These results suggest that financial... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
2022 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University investigating how practices and norms in organizational contexts create marginalization for employees who are members of historically excluded groups (e.g., Black employees). Dr.... View Details
- 21 Dec 2022
- News
HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion
decreased supply of traditional food exports of wheat and corn from Russia and Ukraine will also result in rising prices, Shih said. "You'll pay more for everything that uses wheat and corn and flour.” Harvard Ukrainian Research... View Details
- 12 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Rocket Science Retailing: A Practical Guide
with a career and seeks to find employees who are looking for one, too. In fact, during the training period, all trainees are offered $2,000 to quit Zappos: Most decline the offer. Zappos's approach to managing its employees results in... View Details
- 21 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 21, 2009
that result in a failure to notice ethical erosion when it occurs slowly. Broadly, our studies provide evidence as to when and why people overlook cheating by others and examine the conditions under which the slippery slope effect occurs.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 19, 2009
private banker, and a Nobel-prize winning economist. They present different interpretations of the causes of the financial crisis and make proposals about how a similar crisis might be stopped in the future. The goal of the case is to provide students with alternative... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
We Rise
invested in founders has its origins in the same historical forces that shaped most industries: When the VC model emerged in the 1940s, white men dominated the workforce. The persistence of the gender gap is harder to explain but is often... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
We Rise
venture capitalists and the amount invested in founders has its origins in the same historical forces that shaped most industries: When the VC model emerged in the 1940s, white men dominated the workforce. The persistence of the gender... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
available today does not address the needs of senior job seekers. Building a Winning Career sets out a proven process that has worked for hundreds of senior executives, delivering superior results for those considering their next career... View Details
- 08 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 8, 2007
school is sufficient to produce the set of student optimal stable matchings. Our main theoretical result is that a student-proposing deferred acceptance mechanism that breaks indifferences the same way at every school is not dominated by... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
‘We were just doing what needed to be done’
Little did they know that their call for change would result in a legacy that would have lasting impact at the School. This year HBS is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the founding of the AASU by Clifford E. “Clif” Darden (MBA 1969,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Fab Four
is simple: to end extreme poverty worldwide by 2025. The organization was founded by Columbia University’s Jeffrey Sachs and philanthropist Raymond Chambers. They believe that innovation requires building an organization that’s separate from larger, more bureaucratic,... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
divides resources to a process-based perspective focused on ways to link and leverage the individual competencies and capabilities that exist within the organization. And," he concludes, "they need to shift their attention from sophisticated systems that often View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 08 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 8, 2016
more. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51866 Diversified Business Groups in the West: History and Theory By: Colpan, Asli M., and Takashi Hikino Abstract—This working paper examines the historical... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
and other book clubs, then vice president of marketing, then president of the book clubs, and finally president of Dell Publishing—all before I turned 40. Direct marketing and book clubs is a pretty no-BS field in which results are easily... View Details