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24 Sep 2018
Research & Ideas

How Cost Accounting is Improving Healthcare in Rural Haiti

Medical records at a healthcare clinic in Lascahobas, Haiti. Ryan McBain A few years ago, the Boston-based nonprofit health care organization Partners in Health (PIH) set out to quantify the cost of primary care for its... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

24 Feb 2022
Op-Ed

Want to Prevent the Next Hospital Bed Crisis? Enlist the SEC

During the initial phases of the COVID-19 pandemic, many US hospitals could not provide enough beds to meet demand. Solving the problem of inadequate capacity is of utmost importance in the “new normal,” which requires recognizing the ongoing need View Details

Keywords: by Regina Herzlinger and Richard Boxer; Health

07 Oct 2021
News

Planning Ahead

As founder and chief information officer of Sound Point Capital Management, Steve Ketchum is someone who thinks about long-term investments for a living. But like so many people, when it came to his personal... View Details

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12 Oct 2017
News

Fighting Poverty One Neighborhood at a Time

Photography by Craig Hall Like many people who work for change in struggling urban neighborhoods, John Majors (MBA 2000) believes that high-quality education for all children is a vital link to future... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

30 Jul 2001
What Do You Think?

What’s the Future of Corporate Governance?

predictors for (the) future success of a company," he suggests that these measures have to be viewed with a long-term lens, one that accommodates the fact in the short-run, managements may take actions to reduce costs and the size of... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

04 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

How Schmoozing with the Boss Helps Men Get Promoted

new research. In fact, social bonding among men may account for more than a third of the gender gap in promotions, according to the working paper The Old Boys’ Club: Schmoozing and the Gender Gap. “I’m not surprised the old boys’ club... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

31 Mar 2018
Working Paper Summaries

Expected Stock Returns Worldwide: A Log-Linear Present-Value Approach

Keywords: by Akash Chattopadhyay, Matthew R. Lyle, and Charles C.Y. Wang; Financial Services; Accounting

20 Mar 2024

The Value of an MBA in Professional Services: Consulting, Financial Services, and Private Equity

For professionals in the realms of consulting, finance, or private equity or for those aspiring to careers in these areas, we extend an invitation to join a compelling panel discussion featuring HBS students... View Details

25 Sep 2019
Research & Ideas

The Economic Cost of Physician Burnout

In part, that’s due to the difficulty of calculating the economic cost of all of the factors involved. For instance, some studies have associated burnout with an increase in medical errors, but calculating those costs are nearly... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

TeachingInterests

MBA Elective Curriculum-- Competing Through Business Models

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell

The words “business model” are inescapable in our daily fare of business news. These two ubiquitous words seemed to effortlessly rise up to prominence during the dot-com boom of the late 1990s. When businesspeople, journalists, academics, and other... View Details

25 Mar 2019
Research & Ideas

The Secret Life of Supply Chains

category also has the highest percentage of STEM workers, these results argue for increased investment in training in those skills—and perhaps increasing high-skilled immigration as well. “If we want to... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Manufacturing; Service

01 Oct 2021
News

Furthering the Legacy of Whitney Bowman (MBA 2006)

spending two years at HBS and making lifelong friends, Whitney’s early career at Bain Capital, and the investment business he helped found and build, Gauge Capital. As a young family, we were thrilled to receive fellowship support. It was... View Details

04 Apr 2012
Research & Ideas

When Founders Recruit Friends and Family as Investors

Editor's note: Seasoned entrepreneurs know that a great idea for a new company is no guarantee of a successful exit. Startups fail more often than not, largely due to hubris-fueled mistakes by an inexperienced founding team. Alas, the... View Details

Keywords: by Noam Wasserman

30 Jun 2022
News

Scaling Hope

Photos by Benjamin Norman In 2014, Stephen D’Antonio (MBA 1986) was living the life he had always envisioned. He’d been a partner at Morgan Stanley for nearly two decades. He sat on the Firm Management Committee and was the COO of the... View Details

24 Feb 2020
Research & Ideas

The Hidden Vulnerabilities of Open Source Software

numerous pieces of critical infrastructure. But without appropriate investment and maintenance, that widespread adoption has the potential to become a liability. A preliminary study released February 18, which we directed alongside the... View Details

Keywords: by Frank Nagle and Jenny Hoffman; Computer

2020
Working Paper

Aggregate Advertising Expenditure in the U.S. Economy: What's Up? Is It Real?

By: Alvin J. Silk and Ernst R. Berndt

The two components of the advertising industry—the creative sector that develops and produces messages, and the communications sector that transmits messages via various media—have each been greatly affected by advances in creative design and communications... View Details

Keywords: Economy; Advertising; Spending; Media

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Teaching Note

Shaklee Corporation: Corporate Social Responsibility (TN)

By: Christopher Marquis and V. Kasturi Rangan

Teaching Note for [509031]. View Details

Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact