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- 26 Jun 2015
- Blog Post
7 Things International Applicants Should Know About HBS
they thought you should know. 1. Sorting out a visa isn’t as tough as you might think Ibraheem: Getting a student visa is not complicated anymore. Most U.S. embassies publish the procedure for getting a visa and provide assistance for... View Details
- 07 Mar 2018
- Research & Ideas
Electronic Health Records Were Supposed to Cut Medical Costs. They Haven't.
University School of Medicine, and HBS. The researchers plan to replicate the study internationally to compare costs in Switzerland and other countries. It’s complicated As for why administrative costs are so high in the United States and... View Details
- 19 Nov 2014
- HBS Case
Marketing Marijuana
predicting $134 million in the next fiscal year. As Quelch found in his research, however, the picture is more complicated than medical versus recreational users. "You really have four markets," says Quelch, "medicinal,... View Details
- 31 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
Taking the Fear out of Diversity Policies
If you start a discussion about workplace diversity policies, don't be surprised if the hopeful topics of ethnic, racial, and gender heterogeneity lead to negative discussions about sexism, bigotry, and injustice. "Talking about and studying diversity is often... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 10 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
A Fast Start on Your New Job
distinct subcultures. This is all the more dangerous because the new leader is not expecting there to be these differences. Also, as you rise in an organization, the politics become more complicated and the stakes get higher. I advise new... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
After Ozempic
Back before Ozempic, when Kate Mulroney (MBA 1984) spoke at technical conferences about her work at Novo Nordisk, people often assumed she was talking about Novartis. “I’d have to explain that’s a Swiss company; we’re Danish,” says Mulroney, now head of advanced... View Details
- 09 Oct 2019
- Research & Ideas
For Better Ideas, Bring the Right People to the Brainstorm
map—including apps for donating food waste, sharing photos, sourcing wedding vendors, renting wedding dresses, and making creative wedding registries. Koning’s favorite out-of-the-box idea was an app to simplify divorce, which is notoriously View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 07 Feb 2005
- What Do You Think?
If You Blink, Will You Miss?
studies helps an MBA candidate gain the capability to thin slice? Or is the typical business decision so much more complicated and less repetitive than, say, evaluating the authenticity of a rare object, that a manager never gains the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Righting the Ship
have big parts to play. That can be positive. It will be difficult and it will involve lots of complicated trade-offs and wrenching decisions, but nonetheless, we need a lot more than hunkering down and hoping we get through. Nancy Koehn... View Details
- 24 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Trick of Balancing Business and Government
outsiders, including the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, is desired? No country can easily exist in a vacuum and cut itself off from the global economic marketplace, commented Spar. Given the complicated and often tragic... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 14 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Water, Electricity, and Transportation: Preparing for the Population Boom
utilities." For starters, panelists talked about how the majority of the world's controlled water resources are dedicated to agriculture, leaving precious little for drinking, cooking, and bathing. (It's a subject complicated by... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 28 Nov 2016
- Research & Ideas
Challenging the Belief that Liability Laws Kill Medical Device Innovation
the paper suggests a more complicated relationship between innovation and liability, in which certain devices may be negatively impacted, while others may actually be encouraged. “In order to think about this relationship,” says Galasso,... View Details
- 07 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Steve Jobs Legacy
the "iPhone 4 Steve." In China, where especially the younger generation is looking to technology and business to transform lives, Jobs symbolized innovation and leadership in both. Noam Wasserman (Entrepreneurial Management) Steve Jobs was probably the most... View Details
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Bank of America Turned Branches into Service-Development Laboratories
out, many of them become further complicated when experiments are moved out of a laboratory and into a bank branch filled with real employees serving real customers in real time. To its credit, the I&D team thought carefully about... View Details
- 21 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Parable of the Bungled Baggage And the Unhappy Customer
When the last person finished, this person walks over and said, "I'm responsible for baggage handling at the airport." And I said, "I'm sorry that I told exactly how it happened. I didn't make anything up. I thought you should know that ... it's very... View Details
Keywords: by W. Earl Sasser
- 15 Nov 2013
- News
Helping Bright Ideas Shine Again
founders, inventors, investors or lenders—to stabilize, hold, develop, and sell IP assets. In a typical transaction, a special-purpose holding entity is created to remove all liens and other complications that may be attached to the... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 25 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
A Few Firms Have Outsized Influence in D.C.
more likely to lobby than smaller ones. And lastly, they found that the firms that did lobby were consistent over time. For a company that lobbied in one year, for example, there was a 92 percent chance it had lobbied in the previous year. Applying a View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 09 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Moving From Bean Counter to Game Changer
complicated high-risk operations. In discussing the March earthquake/tsunami disaster in Japan (a "Black Swan" event, as risk managers call any surprise event that has a major impact and is rationalized by hindsight), Mikes sees a crucial... View Details
- 18 Apr 2005
- Research & Ideas
Tips to Reinvent the Department Store
mergers are likely to put more pressure on vendors. "You'll see, ultimately, a shakeout in consolidation on the vendors' side," he said. "I think it will complicate life on the vendors' side," Barnett said of the... View Details
- 20 Feb 2020
- Blog Post
Know Your Audience – Recruiting HBS Students for Technology
on-campus recruiting if you would like to use that option, but it’s in no way required or necessary. In fact, sometimes the simplest approaches are often the best. “You don’t need to overly complicate things or have a huge virtual event... View Details
Keywords: Technology