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Just Digital Future - Race, Gender & Equity

Just Digital Future Technology has the potential to build a better world but its applications and uses are often biased and can reinforce systems of inequality. We teamed up with our friends at The Digital, Data, and Design (D^3)... View Details

    Anthony Soohoo

    Anthony Soohoo is a recognized leader in technology, AI, media, and commerce. He currently serves as Lead Independent Director at Spryker Systems and Civio.ai, Venture Partner at AI Fund, and Entrepreneur-In-Residence at Harvard Business... View Details
    • 23 Mar 2020
    • Research & Ideas

    Product Disasters Can Be Fertile Ground for Innovation

    technological complexity only magnifies the challenge. Many companies, meanwhile, are apt to see investment in safety as the cost of fulfilling regulatory requirements or protecting against lawsuits, rather than as an opportunity to... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health; Medical Devices & Supplies
    • April 2012
    • Article

    Broadening Focus: Spillovers, Complementarities and Specialization in the Hospital Industry

    By: Jonathan R. Clark and Robert S. Huckman
    The long-standing argument that focused operations outperform others stands in contrast to claims about the benefits of broader operational scope. The performance benefits of focus are typically attributed to reduced complexity, lower uncertainty, and the development... View Details
    Keywords: Performance Capacity; Operations; Advertising; Production; Corporate Strategy; Relationships; Medical Specialties; Complexity; Risk and Uncertainty; Experience and Expertise; Diversification; Quality; Health Industry
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    • 10 Sep 2013
    • First Look

    First Look: September 10

    ethically by cheating less. We further found that priming time reduces cheating by making people reflect on who they are. Implications for the use of time versus money primes in discouraging or promoting dishonesty are discussed.   Working Papers Capital Market... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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    Brian Trelstad Archives | Social Enterprise

    Curriculum Social Enterprise Student Club Social Entrepreneurship Summer Fellows Technology for Good Transformative Impact Tri-Sector Impact 1 Results Introducing a New Free HarvardX Course: Social Entrepreneurship and Systems Change... View Details
    • June 2001
    • Supplement

    GE's Early Dispute Resolution Initiative (B)

    By: Michael A. Wheeler and Gillian Morris
    Early Dispute Resolution (EDR) has proved successful at GE. Yet, when Michael McIlwrath, new counsel at an Italian subsidiary, attempted to translate it to his company, problems arose. He had to gain internal acceptance, and explain the concept of early mediation to a... View Details
    Keywords: Business Subsidiaries; Globalization; Lawsuits and Litigation; Organizational Culture; Performance Effectiveness; Problems and Challenges; Conflict of Interests; Complexity; Italy; New York (state, US)
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    • 29 May 2019
    • News

    HBS Career Coaches Hit the Road to Serve Alumni

    May 9 as part of the association’s Civic Engagement Series. In addition to costing trillions, Deffarges says complexity in healthcare, government, finance, and other large systems is causing a broad range of... View Details
    Keywords: Margie Kelley
    • 01 Dec 2008
    • News

    The CEO and the Functions of Leadership

    In a working paper presented at the June colloquium, HBS professors Michael Porter and Nitin Nohria consider the CEO’s role in the large, complex organization that is typical in today’s global economy. An excerpt follows: “CEOs must... View Details
    • 01 Sep 2018
    • News

    Research Brief: Where Top-Down Tops Out

    recent study, “The Impact of CEOs in the Public Sector: Evidence from the English NHS,” Associate Professor Raffaella Sadun and her coauthors conclude that a singular leader is far less effective in these large and complex public... View Details
    Keywords: Jennifer Myers
    • April 2003 (Revised October 2004)
    • Case

    Novartis: The Challenge of Success (A)

    By: Sandra J. Sucher and Stacy McManus
    Preliminary results from Phase 1 clinical trials of a newly developed compound, STI571, showed that 31 out of 31 patients with chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) had their blood counts return to normal. In the world of oncology, this was unheard of. This was the... View Details
    Keywords: Decision Making; Health Testing and Trials; Innovation and Invention; Markets; Distribution; Product Development; Production; Problems and Challenges; Research; Research and Development; Complexity; Biotechnology Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry
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    • 15 Aug 2024
    • Blog Post

    Navigating the Future of Renewable Energy at Port Esbjerg

    Turbines A highlight of our visit was the opportunity to get up close to a wind turbine. Standing beneath these towering structures, one cannot help but be awestruck by their scale and the complexity of their design and construction. The... View Details
    • November 1996 (Revised August 1997)
    • Case

    Project "Dial-Tone"

    By: William A. Sahlman and Andrew S. Janower
    Bob Hellman, a partner in a West Coast middle-market buyout firm, is attempting to simultaneously acquire and merge three disparate firms in the rapidly consolidating telemarketing services industry. Hellman must value the individual companies as well as the combined... View Details
    Keywords: Complexity; Private Equity; Integration; Mergers and Acquisitions; Negotiation Deal; Strategic Planning; Investment; Opportunities; Valuation; Service Industry
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    • Student-Profile

    A Jay Holmgren

    while gaining expertise in management, which hadn’t factored into my previous graduate-level work,” he says. “When it comes to an industry as complex as healthcare, the management of the implementation of View Details
    • 15 Feb 2000
    • Research & Ideas

    Growing Pains: Prescriptions for U.S. Health Care

    gravely ill, HBS professor Clayton Christensen finds its prognosis encouraging. These symptoms, he says, merely reflect inefficient delivery systems that market forces have already begun to reshape. Christensen's optimistic outlook stems... View Details
    Keywords: by Staff; Health
    • 04 Jan 2012
    • What Do You Think?

    Income Inequality: What’s the Right Amount?

    important contributor to sustained economic growth than such things as openness to trade, a competitive exchange rate, level of foreign investment, or the quality and stability of a country's political institutions. At the risk of oversimplifying a View Details
    Keywords: by Jim Heskett
    • 22 Sep 2008
    • Research & Ideas

    The Silo Lives! Analyzing Coordination and Communication in Multiunit Companies

    paper, "Communication (and Coordination?) in a Modern, Complex Organization," written by Harvard Business School postdoctoral fellow Adam M. Kleinbaum, and professors Toby E. Stuart and Michael L. Tushman. In an unnamed company with over... View Details
    Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
    • 01 Dec 1998
    • News

    New Releases

    Foundations of Organizational Strategy by Michael C. Jensen (Harvard University Press) Economists have historically concentrated on analyzing markets while glossing over the complexities of organizations inside those markets. Behavioral... View Details
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    Europe’s green transition | Institute for Business in Global Society

    , BMW , Inditex , Syensqo , and more , as they navigate the complexities of climate regulation and share their perspectives on transparency, climate alliances, systems change, new business models, and... View Details
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    Student Spotlight: From Nigeria to HBS: Reigniting My Passion for Healthcare Innovation - Blog: Health Supplement

    encountered a different set of challenges—ones that made me realize the universal complexities of delivering care. These early experiences planted a seed in me: a deep desire to improve healthcare systems... View Details