Formalization - Publications - Faculty & Research

27 Mar 2017
Blog Post

Should Entrepreneurs Get an MBA?

who had gone through this startup thing before, the Rock Center for Entrepreneurship put me in touch with entrepreneurs at every stage of growing a company: from seed ventures to those that have grown to $1 billion+ in valuation. That's not to mention the several... View Details

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Prineeta Kulkarni

organization that had worked since the early 2000s on "changing the paradigm of how HIV was seen in Africa. AIDS did not have to be a death sentence, but something people could manage and live with." Pursuing a more formal study... View Details

Keywords: Healthcare/Biotech; Nonprofit/Government/Education

11 Oct 2023
Blog Post

A Journey of Discovery, Teamwork, and Impact with FIELD Global Immersion

warmth were always felt and allowed people to be vulnerable. It's important to lead with kindness! 4. Relationship building at HBS never stops Until FIELD, most of our time at HBS was spent with our respective sections. This was the first time, in a View Details

15 Dec 2003
Research & Ideas

Women Leaders and Organizational Change

Why are women so dramatically underrepresented in formal leadership positions, and what can be done about it? That's the basic question contemplated in a book of essays called, The Difference "Difference" Makes, edited by Debra... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark

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Value Measurement for Health Care - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

renowned HBS case method . Admissions Criteria and Process: We admit candidates to specific sessions on a rolling, space-available basis, and encourage you to apply as early as possible. Although most programs have no formal educational... View Details

27 Nov 2013
Working Paper Summaries

Skilled Immigration and the Employment Structures of US Firms

Keywords: by Sari Pekkala Kerr, William R. Kerr & William F. Lincoln

Research Summary

Overview

I am currently a Principal or Co-Principal Investigator of five field-based randomized controlled trials, each of which examines the management of lay health workers in developing countries, with an eye toward generating theoretical insights and policy guidance on how... View Details

08 Nov 2021
Blog Post

4 Ways the MS/MBA is Preparing Me for a Career in Health Care and the Life Sciences

Nigeria, discussing Middle East politics with Syrian and Lebanese classmates, hiking in Arizona with close friends, or treasuring the sunny Boston days on the beautiful HBS campus. How is the MS/MBA preparing you for a career in health care and the life sciences?... View Details

03 Dec 2021
Blog Post

Physicians Off the Beaten Path

professionals to know about the world beyond the hospital’s walls. “A lot of them are interested, but there is no formal avenue. All existing resources assume a certain level of knowledge, but our colleagues need us to start from the... View Details

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Brandon Lovell

youth in corporate internships. In 2009, Brandon earned a position at a New York investment bank; after six months of training, he obtained his formal internship where he "learned about investment banking and management consulting: I... View Details

Keywords: Tech; Financial Services

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The Institutional Foundations of Lending: Indirect Regulation and State-Building

The Institutional Foundations of Lending: Indirect Regulation and State-Building makes two main theoretical contributions to the scholarship on credit markets and institutional development. First, the book demonstrates that opportunistic lenders can take... View Details

27 Nov 2000
Research & Ideas

The Dynamics of Standing Still: Firestone Tire & Rubber and the Radial Revolution

time equipment and bring the formal request to the Committee as soon as possible," thus pre-approving the required capital spending without benefit of formal review or even in-depth discussion. The... View Details

Keywords: by Donald N. Sull; Manufacturing; Transportation

03 Oct 2007
Research & Ideas

Dealing with the ‘Irrational’ Negotiator

nor was she scheduled for a formal performance appraisal. Rather, the managers simply wanted to do something nice for Leslie, so they decided to surprise her with a promotion. Her job responsibilities would not change, but the new title... View Details

Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra & Max H. Bazerman

04 Dec 2019
Book

Creating the Experimentation Organization

decision-making, requiring input from experiments for some innovation decisions. Diffusion: Management realizes that scale is key to having a larger business impact, rolling out formal company-wide programs and standards. Embeddedness:... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

28 Mar 2016
Blog Post

Why I Chose to Pursue an MD/MBA at Harvard

post-baccaluareate program before starting at Harvard Medical School. The first year of medical school we took a health care policy class - we are one of the few medical schools to have a formal policy course that is required. The class... View Details

31 Jul 2017
HBS Case

It’s Hard to Fix the Family Business Without Offending the Family

1981. Opened in 1992, Pho Hoa has been run with few formal processes in place and no regular income statement reporting, forecasting, or budgeting. Thanh, wanting to take a well-deserved retirement after 25 years of hard work, has named... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Food & Beverage

11 May 2009
Research & Ideas

The IT Leader’s Hero Quest

sacrificing organizational agility, the company would institute more formal systems and controls. IT was, of course, key to achieving this. An expression Williams and Barton had begun to use in conversation to describe where they were... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

04 Aug 2011
What Do You Think?

How Dangerous Is Common Sense to Managers?

Summing Up Does Common Sense Impede Change? Common sense is the decision-maker's friend when the decision has to be made rapidly, with a minimum of research or formal theory, with no more than moderate risk or consequences, and by... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

Article

Assessing the Food and Drug Administration's Risk-Based Framework for Software Precertification with Top Health Apps in the United States: Quality Improvement Study

By: Noy Alon, Ariel Dora Stern and John Torous

BACKGROUND: As the development of mobile health apps continues to accelerate, the need to implement a framework that can standardize categorizing these apps to allow for efficient, yet robust regulation grows. However, regulators and researchers are faced with numerous... View Details

Keywords: Mobile Health; Smartphone; Food And Drug Administration; Risk-based Framework; Health Care and Treatment; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Applications and Software; Framework

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04 Sep 2012
Working Paper Summaries

Level II Negotiations: Helping the Other Side Meet Its ‘Behind the Table’ Challenges

Keywords: by James Sebenius

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