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  • 05 Mar 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Risky Business? Protecting Foreign Investments

Foreign investment in developing countries has always involved an element of risk. Just ask Verizon Communications, which could lose hundreds of millions of dollars in Venezuela should President Hugo Chávez follow through with plans announced in January to View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Energy; Utilities
  • 18 Apr 2022
  • HBS Case

Dick’s Sporting Goods Followed Its Conscience on Guns—and It Paid Off

mass school shootings across the United States, the case says. Indeed, after the mass killings at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut in 2012, Dick’s Sporting Goods began removing assault-style rifles from its stores,... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

    Dante Roscini

    Dante Roscini holds the Professor of Management Practice Chair endowed by the MBA Class of 1952 at Harvard Business School. He joined the faculty in 2008 after a two-decades-long career in finance. He currently teaches the course Business, Government, and the... View Details

    • 2007
    • Report

    Competitiveness Index: Where America Stands

    By: Michael E. Porter
    Competitiveness Index: Where America Stands benchmarks current U.S. competitiveness against twenty years of domestic and global economic data. The baseline year, 1986, was chosen because it marked the beginning of cyclical expansion in the domestic economy, a high... View Details
    Keywords: Economics; United States
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    • 2013
    • Teaching Note

    Xinhua Hospital: Implementation of EMR Project (TN)

    By: F. Warren McFarlan, Ning Jia, Weiqi Liu and Shanshan Cao
    Established in 1958, Xinhua Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine (hereafter referred to as "Xinhua Hospital") is an integrated modern teaching and research hospital with a comprehensive set of disciplines and a specialization in... View Details
    Keywords: China; Hospitals; China
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    • 2013
    • Case

    Xinhua Hospital: Implementation of EMR Project

    By: F. Warren McFarlan, Ning Jia, Weiqi Liu and Shanshan Cao
    Established in 1958, Xinhua Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine (hereafter referred to as "Xinhua Hospital") is an integrated modern teaching and research hospital with a comprehensive set of disciplines and a specialization in... View Details
    Keywords: China; Hospitals; China
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    • 27 Jun 2005
    • Research & Ideas

    Asian and American Leadership Styles: How Are They Unique?

    Political connections and family control are more common in Asian businesses than in the United States. In addition, says HBS professor D. Quinn Mills, American CEOs tend to use one of five leadership styles: directive, participative,... View Details
    Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills
    • April 2009
    • Case

    Performance Management at Intermountain Healthcare

    By: Richard M.J. Bohmer and Alexander Romney
    Intermountain Healthcare is a 21-hospital integrated delivery system serving Utah and southern Idaho that is nationally recognized for its highly structured approach to managing the quality of clinical care. This case describes Intermountain's system for improving... View Details
    Keywords: Financial Strategy; Health Care and Treatment; Standards; Service Delivery; Outcome or Result; Motivation and Incentives; Health Industry; Idaho; Utah
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    • 30 Oct 2006
    • First Look

    First Look: October 31, 2006

    international economic and financial crises highlights the need for a comprehensive framework to assess the robustness of national economic and financial systems. This paper proposes a new comprehensive approach to measure, analyze, and... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • October 2017
    • Article

    Progress In Interoperability: Measuring US Hospitals' Engagement In Sharing Patient Data

    By: A Jay Holmgren, Vaishali Patel and Julia Adler-Milstein
    Achieving an interoperable health care system remains a top US policy priority. Despite substantial efforts to encourage interoperability, the first set of national data in 2014 suggested that hospitals’ engagement levels were low. With 2015 data now available, we... View Details
    Keywords: Health; Technology; Electronic Health Records; Health Care and Treatment; Data and Data Sets; Technology Networks; Policy; United States
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    • January 2002 (Revised April 2002)
    • Case

    Space Data Corporation

    By: Alan D. MacCormack and Jay Wynn
    Space Data Corp. plans to partner with the U.S. National Weather Service to place transceivers on weather balloons and thereby create a national mobile communications network. The company is in the late development stages and is planning to launch a regional test that... View Details
    Keywords: Wireless Technology; Business Startups; Business Processes; Adaptation; Partners and Partnerships; Opportunities; Telecommunications Industry; Public Administration Industry; United States
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    • Web

    Value-Based Health Care - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

    the correct provider, treatment, and setting. Geography of Care National centers of excellence providing care for exceedingly complex patients. Information Technology An information technology system designed to support the major elements... View Details
    • March 1990 (Revised May 1993)
    • Case

    USSR--1990

    By: Willis M. Emmons III
    Describes the political, economic, and social development of the USSR from 1921-90. Particular emphasis is placed on 1) institutional change, 2) the costs and benefits of central economic planning, and 3) the political economy of perestroika under Mikhail Gorbachev.... View Details
    Keywords: Country; Strategy; Cost vs Benefits; Change; Government and Politics; Russia
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    Placement - Doctoral

    Economics, 2022 Placement: Australian National University Dissertation: Essays in Applied Microeconomics Advisors: David Laibson (Chair), Andrei Shleifer , Edward Glaeser , and Gabriel Kreindler Frank Pinter Business Economics, 2022... View Details
    • 28 Apr 2010
    • Research & Ideas

    Earth Day Reflections

    opportunity to engage in a virtual dialogue on these matters. Some major corporations are starting to take the lead in this effort, including United Technologies Corporation, Philips (the Dutch electronics and health care giant), the... View Details
    Keywords: by Staff
    • September 2021 (Revised November 2021)
    • Case

    Kwame Owusu-Kesse at the Harlem Children's Zone

    By: Jon M. Jachimowicz
    Do you—as leader, an individual within an organization, or running your own business—know when to say yes and when to say no? How do you make decisions about your own career and life? How do you counsel others who ask you for career and life insights?... View Details
    Keywords: COVID-19 Pandemic; Leadership; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Decisions; Nonprofit Organizations; Personal Development and Career; Growth and Development Strategy; Race; Social Issues; New York (city, NY)
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    • 12 Mar 2024
    • Research & Ideas

    Publish or Perish: What the Research Says About Productivity in Academia

    participated represented the largest research institutions in the US in 2019, accounting for nearly $500 million in state, federal, and private-sector grants, according to the National Science Foundation. One thing became clear, Myers... View Details
    Keywords: by Ben Rand; Education
    • 23 Dec 2014
    • First Look

    First Look: December 23

    Bandiera, Oriana, Andrea Prat, and Raffaella Sadun Abstract—We develop a new survey instrument to codify CEOs' diaries in large samples and use it to measure the labor supply of 1,114 family and professional CEOs of manufacturing firms across six countries (Brazil,... View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel

      Myra M. Hart

      Myra Hart's research focus is high potential entrepreneurship.  She has taught MBA and executive programs, co-chaired the entrepreneurship unit, and led several HBS initiatives. As a founding memberView Details

      Keywords: consumer products; e-commerce industry; education industry; real estate; retailing
      • 27 Nov 2013
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Skilled Immigration and the Employment Structures of US Firms

      Keywords: by Sari Pekkala Kerr, William R. Kerr & William F. Lincoln