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- 07 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017
when treating the opponent’s campaign plan as given. Our formulation accounts for both the time cost of traveling between districts and the time expended while campaigning within districts. We describe a polynomial-time algorithm that computes a (2 + )-approximation to... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
gratitude, visualize hope, be mindful, and keep moving. He also offers techniques to integrate these habits into any challenging, busy life. Health Journal: 10 Minutes a Week to Greater Health through... View Details
- 13 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 13
behavior and preferences into service cost and productivity standard metrics. Optimal Value and Growth Tilts in Long-Horizon Portfolios Authors:W. Jakub Jurkek and Luis M. Viceira Publication:Review of Finance (forthcoming) Abstract We develop an analytical View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 8
investigates the effect of pay for performance in firms, yet less is known about the effect of non-financial rewards, especially in organizations that hire individuals to perform tasks with positive social spillovers. We conduct a field experiment in which agents... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 18 Aug 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs
the power to impact the health of millions rallied the team, recalls Jon Puz (MBA '08), a director of account management at the health-care consultancy Carol Corp. (Puz continues to serve DFA in an advisory role; DFA's original team also... View Details
- 01 Sep 2022
- News
Your Family, Your Work, Your Way
my support team? So I encourage each of my clients to think of it as a big reset and as an opportunity to take charge and to take a fresh look at how you’re combining career and caregiving, and to think about some solutions that may not... View Details
- 12 Jan 2015
- News
Good Investments
Chu speak at the inaugural HBS Latin American conference in 1995 during as a second-year MBA, Rodríguez took his first post-HBS job working for Chu at Accion, accompanying loan officers into the field everywhere from Ecuador to Brooklyn. (Seeing firsthand the effect... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
small monthly fee of about $6 for access to primary health care and specialists for urban individuals and families with annual incomes of less than $3,500. This is just the sort of BoP business solution that... View Details
- 13 Feb 2019
- News
We’re All Going to Get Hacked
evolving cyber threats. Rothrock lays out his solutions in his latest book, Digital Resilience: Is Your Company Ready for the Next Cyber Threat?, and we talk to him here about what that looks like in real terms—and why the C-suite should... View Details
- 28 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
Earth Day Reflections
opportunity to engage in a virtual dialogue on these matters. Some major corporations are starting to take the lead in this effort, including United Technologies Corporation, Philips (the Dutch electronics and health care giant), the... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Light Years Ahead
as well — that are engaging, challenging, and relevant to the real world. What other priorities do you have in mind? There is tremendous opportunity and need in the area of health care. We launched a five-year MD/MBA joint-degree program... View Details
- 19 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019
algorithms for antibody clustering, imputing gene expression data, and querying the Connectivity Map (CMap). Performance gains are evaluated quantitatively using realistic, albeit sanitized, data sets. The solutions produced through these... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Dean Nohria Looks Ahead
responsible to social interests, and we’ll have to respond to that in some way. This will be especially important because humanity faces some urgent problems. How, for instance, do we deal with sustainability and the anxiety that people have about the environment? How... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
across functions, businesses, and your industry. Engage your peers to deliver solutions to real business problems. Know the customer and the competitor. When you are at the top, be a talent magnet and then build the next generation of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Innovation Takes Center Stage
justify the investment. While HBS remains a leader in the field, Nohria observed that “you need to worry when the health of the whole field doesn’t look promising, even when you are at the top.” The third interpretation of inflection... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 12 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 12, 2007
company in the global animal health industry through innovative technology, creative marketing, and strong branding. Sel-Plex, a proprietary Alltech product, had shown important health benefits for animals... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 16
influence when the vast majority can't? The authors tracked 68 change initiatives in the UK's National Health Service, an organization whose size, complexity, and tradition can make reform difficult. They discovered several predictors of... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 20 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 20
School Case 310-011 Acumen Fund is a global venture capital firm with a dual purpose: it looks for a return on its investments, and it also seeks entrepreneurial solutions to global poverty. This case examines Acumen's new projects in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 23, 2016
over time. Two lab studies replicate our main findings and show that behavioral biases due to differences in perceptions of expertise drive the effect. Our research contributes not only to operations research, but also to the practice of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 10
deaths from roughly 4.5 million in 1980 to 1.5 million in 2000. Yet for reasons unclear to the global public health community, the mortality rate stalled at around 1.5 million, where it remained in 2010. In presenting the problem of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne