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- 07 Jan 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Marketing Can Reduce Worldwide Poverty
On the face of it, social marketing is a cinch. Here's one scenario. You as a marketer want people who are living in poverty to take better care of their health. So, given your profession, what do you do? You can persuade them—through View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 19 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?
prose. For HBS professors, of course, there’s Working Knowledge, the publication you’re reading right now. But many general-interest publications employ editors who can help guide the process for scholars to... View Details
- 21 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 21
evidence that “short-termism" and “quarterly capitalism" are impairing firms' ability to invest, innovate, and provide good wages. We explain why S&P 500 shareholder-payout figures provide a misleadingly incomplete picture... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 14 Feb 2019
- Blog Post
LOVE At HBS
promised my sleeping baby that I would always love him and that I would strive to be the best version of myself. He deserved a father like that. Then came the sleepless nights, the public temper tantrums, the constant messes and endless... View Details
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Emily Schlichting
people who share your passion for making a better world through both private and public initiatives." Emily expects her career to oscillate between business and government. "I'm a good example of... View Details
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Providers - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
HBS ISC Health Care Health Care Value-Based Health Care Health Care Courses Fast Facts Value-Based Health Care Value-Based Health Care Cases & Teaching Notes Key Concepts Key Stakeholders Publications Team Work With Us Presentations Key... View Details
- 29 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 29, 2016
the major public goods issues of our time. Yet we live in a time when many public goods issues are global and global governance mechanisms are at... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 14
yields—is a good proxy for the level of term premia. The nominal-real covariance has declined since the early 1980s, driving down term premia. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52370 October–November 2016... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Profile
Ken Zeng
weren’t mere classroom exercises, but reflections of real people's lives and struggles. What is one thing you brought with you to campus, and one thing you’ll be leaving with? I brought with me a conviction that business can uplift the lives of the underprivileged and... View Details
- 10 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 10, 2017
“particularly on high cost of failure situations where good information on potential service providers is correspondingly of high value.” Angie's List had a paid subscription model as it charged “members” for access to the information... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jun 2023
- News
Dean Datar Meets with Alumni in East Asia
good for humankind," said the Dean. "If you look at the billions of people lifted out of poverty, the standard of living we have created, the kinds of jobs we've created it all came from the enormous force for View Details
- 30 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 30
Investment Promote Growth? By: Alfaro, Laura Abstract—Among the prominent economic trends in recent decades is the exponential increase in flows of goods and capital driven by technological progress and a falling number of restrictions. A... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Overcoming Nervous Nelly
likely to be able to tell the difference between good and bad advice. In another experiment, in which she asked participants to estimate the amount of money in a jar of coins, she found that anxious participants were apt to give equal... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 05 Feb 2019
- News
The First Five Years: Karan Shah (MBA 2016)
Karan Shah (MBA 2016) Karan Shah (MBA 2016) Karan Shah (MBA 2016) is executive director of Precision Camshafts Limited, a large precision manufacturing company in Solapur, India, and a partner in MAYU, a luxury goods startup. What’s a... View Details
- 02 Oct 2017
- What Do You Think?
Do Bitcoin and Digital Currency Have a Future?
various ways. Some are being accepted by a limited number of buyers and sellers as tender for transacting business. They are now even being created as funding devices (ICOs or initial coin offerings) by companies avoiding more public IPOs... View Details
- 29 Jan 2021
- Op-Ed
How Influencers, Celebrities, and FOMO Can Win Over Vaccine Skeptics
example, key government officials can serve as mega-influencers by promoting their willingness to be immunized through traditional and digital media. Throughout the history of vaccines efforts, presidents, prime ministers, and leading health authorities have View Details
- 05 Sep 2014
- News
Keeping Education in Check
public and the government, it was considered an after-school activity for privileged children. So he teamed up with David MacEnulty, president of the David MacEnulty Chess Foundation and inspiration for the 2005 TV film Knights of the... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 17 Dec 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Rise of Medical Tourism
good tertiary-care hospitals. Medical tourism usually refers to the idea of middle-class or wealthy individuals going abroad in search of effective, low-cost treatment. But there is another dimension of medical tourism that is not called... View Details
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Introducing One-Step Photography - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
Education Alumni Baker Library Historical Collections MORE EXHIBITS HOME RESEARCH LINKS POLAROID FILMS SITE CREDITS “All that should be necessary to get a good picture, is to take a good picture, and our... View Details
- 05 May 2011
- What Do You Think?
How Ethical Can We Be?
pursues." Joe Schmid commented that "the 'highest behavior' any leader can expect from those they lead is the 'lowest behavior' they demonstrate." To the extent that fairness and ethical behaviors are in the eye of the beholder, View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett