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- 26 Mar 2025
- Blog Post
How to Approach Your Equity Compensation
deciding whether to buy, sell, or hold equity you must consider: Tax and cash flows – Understand the cash outlay (including taxes) required to exercise your equity Opportunity costs – Given cash flow... View Details
- 18 Apr 2005
- Research & Ideas
Tips to Reinvent the Department Store
Here's a snapshot of department stores today: Regional brands have all but disappeared; larger players like Federated and May are merging their multi-brand companies, and consolidation continues. Meanwhile, all sorts of retailers from single-brand stores View Details
- 06 Oct 2015
- Blog Post
Henry McGee: From HBO to HBS
Henry McGee is a veteran of HBS. After graduating back in 1979, he spent the next 34 years at HBO. He held many positions in a wide range of areas at the company, including family programming, film acquisition and international co-production—before being named... View Details
- Summer 2008
- Editorial
Will the Stork Return to Europe and Japan? Understanding Fertility within Developed Nations
By: James Feyrer, Bruce Sacerdote and Ariel Dora Stern
Only a few rich nations are currently at replacement levels of fertility and many are considerably below. We believe that changes in the status of women are driving fertility change. At low levels of female status, women specialize in household production and... View Details
Feyrer, James, Bruce Sacerdote, and Ariel Dora Stern. "Will the Stork Return to Europe and Japan? Understanding Fertility within Developed Nations." Journal of Economic Perspectives 22, no. 3 (Summer 2008): 3–22.
- 22 Jul 2019
- Book
How to Be a Digital Platform Leader
Airbnb platform. Renters began to see that they were getting hospitality services comparable to hotels, and usually for a significantly reduced price or in more convenient... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 11 Sep 2018
- News
Bringing Government Up to Code
read "Go home Googlers." It was a daily reminder, she says, that something was broken. That this great technological revolution just wasn't working for everyone. Today, Ingersoll works as COO of Code for America, a San Francisco-based... View Details
- 28 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Shareholders Key to Corporate Reform
be actually brought home to the investor." Most of our social contracts are built on the assumption that individual accountability influences human behavior. Indeed, the recent move by the SEC View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Contributing to a Better Future
should have a natural home at HBS. How is BiGS already shaping education at the School? It’s very early, but already we’re seeing some really interesting pieces of the program come together, one of which is bringing in visiting faculty.... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 18 Apr 2024
- Lecture
Innovation Opportunities Created by COVID-19 Can Help: And How to Make Them Happen
The crush of patients created by COVID enabled the creation of sites for care outside the traditional hospital, such as retail pharmacies, ambulatory surgery centers, urgent care centers, telemedicine, and wireless sensors. Public policy mirrored these changes by... View Details
- 28 Mar 2016
- Blog Post
Why I Chose to Pursue an MD/MBA at Harvard
Children’s Hospital Boston on two research studies. I loved the fast-paced environment of the ED and interacting with patients. Then I went to Wesleyan University and studied history, literature, and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
A New Approach to Health-Care Reform
that is affordable and simple to use. In your book, you identify fee-for-service reimbursement as a “runaway reactor” in accelerating the rise in health-care costs. Why is this system such a problem? By some estimates, 50 percent of all... View Details
Climate Change is Going to Transform Where and How We Build
As fires, floods, and droughts increasingly threaten homes, businesses, and other institutions, climate risk has become financial risk. Mortgages written on homes in exposed locations are being shed by banks and absorbed by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac,... View Details
- May 2013
- Article
Health Care's Service Fanatics: How the Cleveland Clinic Leaped to the Top of the Patient-satisfaction Surveys
By: James Merlino and Ananth Raman
The Cleveland Clinic has long had a reputation for medical excellence. But in 2009 the CEO acknowledged that patients did not think much of their experience there, and he decided to act. Since then the Clinic has leaped to the top tier of patient-satisfaction surveys,... View Details
Merlino, James, and Ananth Raman. "Health Care's Service Fanatics: How the Cleveland Clinic Leaped to the Top of the Patient-satisfaction Surveys." Harvard Business Review 91, no. 5 (May 2013): 108–116.
- 19 Oct 2018
- Blog Post
Moving to the U.S. With a Family
move to Boston and build strong relationships with our new friends. Setting up our house and making a home on campus Moving with a family can be challenging in any circumstance if you do it on your own,... View Details
- Article
Europe's Alternative to Medicare for All: Swiss and Dutch Private Insurance Provide Better Coverage Than Canada's Single-Payer System
By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Bacchus Barua
An analysis of Canada’s single-payer healthcare system shows the dangers of the proposed Medicare for All model. In fact, the Canadian healthcare system is costly and drives poor outcomes when compared to objective performance measures. Alternatively, the Swiss and... View Details
Keywords: Healthcare Systems; Universal Health Coverage; Health Care and Treatment; Insurance; Canada; Switzerland; Netherlands
Herzlinger, Regina E., and Bacchus Barua. "Europe's Alternative to Medicare for All: Swiss and Dutch Private Insurance Provide Better Coverage Than Canada's Single-Payer System." Wall Street Journal (April 17, 2019).
- 03 Dec 2015
- Blog Post
4 Things You Need to Know About Independent Projects
was a bit more academic and built upon the work I did during my J-Term, which was focused on identifying what steps hospitals need to take to transition from fee-for-service... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Enabling Students to Pursue Their Passions
Through this financial support, HBS will help to make that come to fruition.” A Chance to Go Home Again For Tristan Bagala (MBA 2023), the... View Details
Keywords: April White
- November 2020 (Revised March 2023)
- Case
Zipline: The World's Largest Drone Delivery Network
By: Tarun Khanna and George Gonzalez
Zipline established the world's largest logistics network in Rwanda and Ghana by delivering medical supplies to hospitals via automated drones. The company is now looking to expand in the U.S. and partnered with Walmart to expand into home delivery. Zipline must... View Details
Keywords: Drones; Business Startups; Expansion; Growth and Development Strategy; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; United States; Africa
Khanna, Tarun, and George Gonzalez. "Zipline: The World's Largest Drone Delivery Network." Harvard Business School Case 721-366, November 2020. (Revised March 2023.)