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- 15 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 15
Bill Bornstein, chief quality and medical officer of Emory Healthcare in Atlanta, is responsible for the smooth implementation of CPOE at Emory Healthcare, which is a vital part of its $50 million electronic medical View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
across the e-commerce, health care, transportation, edtech, and fintech sectors. Ayman Ismail, assistant professor of entrepreneurship and founding director of the American University in Cairo's (AUC) Venture Lab, pegs the earliest... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
individual volunteers for a two- or three-year term to keep the whole community functioning smoothly. We also learn that the Zapotec sense of time comes from the sun, not a watch. It’s a difficult adjustment to make from our overscheduled lives back in Boston, where... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
Press), HBS professor and business historian Nancy Koehn selects contemporaneous news accounts from America’s paper of record to complement her essays on the rise of business in the United States and the influence of business on the... View Details
- 11 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Four Ways to Create Lasting Change
items, and the average ticket has increased to record levels for the firm. Moreover, comparable store sales have risen recently in quarter after quarter, after having fallen for roughly two years just prior to the initiative. While many... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- Web
Faculty & Advisors | MBA
Wilcox has 20 years of start-up operating experience, having founded three companies and raised $150 million in private capital. Russ served as the CEO of E Ink, an electronic paper company, for a decade. The company reached a $200... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
No Easy Fix for the Financial Crisis
lawn, sell it, and walk away.’ As the housing bubble burst, those exit doors were closed,” he explained. “All of a sudden, we started to see record numbers of delinquencies, defaults, and foreclosures. The question was, who bore that... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
a record of racist or misogynist or homophobic tendencies. Boards of directors afflicted by conflict or indifference will sometimes look the other way at the actions of their management teams. All of this, of course, is unacceptable. And,... View Details
Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 24 Mar 2023
- News
Exploring Talent Markets; Aid for Turkey
hardest-hit Hatay Province of Turkey; Alper Gokgoz (MBA 2010), CEO of ING Bank in Turkey; and Yasemin Sirali (MBA 2006), director of sustainability for the FIBA group, who is based in Istanbul. Each panelist shared their perspective on the devastation and their efforts... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 10 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 10
and Toby Stuart Abstract The corporate staff is central in theories of the multi-business firm, but empirical evidence on its function is limited. In this paper, we examine the high-level role of two units of a corporate staff through analysis of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 3, 2009
gambling that caused rice prices to rise. However, when the price of rice fell to record lows in the late 1720s, the samurai (whose income was tied to the value of rice) saw their economic position fall relative to the merchant class,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Dec 2024
- News
The Musts of 2024
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. I love these end-of-the-year lists where you can get recommendations from smart people about things that are worth your time and money. It always sets me up really... View Details
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2019 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
Psychology doctoral program. Her research examines the experience of discrimination, its impact on mental health and intergroup relations. Her courses have ranged from Abnormal Psychology to the Psychology of Racism. Banks has published... View Details
- 18 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 18, 2008
electronic media that facilitate and record such interactions, this interest has grown sharply in the business world as well. In this paper, we provide a brief summary of what is known so far, discuss the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
What Brands Can Do to Monitor Factory Conditions of Suppliers
brand-name multinationals that contract out the work. “In a sense, global supply chains are serving a regulatory function, with companies imposing an additional layer of rules and investing resources to enforce them,” says Harvard Business School Professor Michael W.... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 23 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
We Rise
retain those currently in it.”—Madeline Keulen (MBA 2019), vice president, Victress Capital Prior to the coronavirus pandemic, general trends on gender diversity were moving, slowly, in the right direction: In 2018, venture investment in companies with at least one... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
We Rise
one woman founder hit a record $46.3 billion worldwide; that number, though still small compared to the approximately $85 billion that went to all male teams, is 15 times the amount invested in women-led companies in 2010. The latest... View Details
- 19 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
Business Research that Makes for Smarter Public Policy
Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), to participate in a workshop with academics who study government regulation and industry compliance. The event featured a series of presentations by scholars sharing their research findings and... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Riding It Out
spent about ten years in venture capital, working with various companies involved with health care, plastics, and packaging — all very useful experiences for running SmartPak. While they received their initial infusion of cash from... View Details
- 20 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency
Having a very long record of reinforcement in making good decisions, for anybody, that would make them think they’ll be expert in other areas, whether it’s aviation or welfare or defense. I think an early indicator will be: Can he... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese