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    The Big Ditch

    On August 15, 1914, the Panama Canal officially opened for business, forever changing the face of global trade and military power, as well as the role of the United States on the world stage. The Canal's creation is often seen as an example of U.S. triumphalism, but... View Details

    • 13 Aug 2020
    • Blog Post

    The U.S. Job Search for International Students

    given student’s unique career vision, they are going to utilize different approaches to the job search, and a lot of this revolves around timing. Some companies, typically the large MBA employers – such as large consulting, financial... View Details
    • 29 Mar 2022
    • Book

    5 Qualities That Help Companies Thrive for Decades—Even Centuries

    Group, formed in 1945 as a builder of utility vehicles and now a conglomerate spanning a number of industries, helps educate 90,000 girls in schools each year. “That's a very important thing,” says Jones, “that a company can allocate... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
    • 24 Jan 2005
    • Research & Ideas

    Rethinking Activity-Based Costing

    analysis for a customer service department for its first fiscal quarter. The percentage of time spent on activities is determined from employee surveys. Once activity quantities are known or forecast, cost-driver rates are used to allocate the department's costs on... View Details
    Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & Steven R. Anderson
    • 2022
    • Working Paper

    Rethinking Explainability as a Dialogue: A Practitioner's Perspective

    By: Himabindu Lakkaraju, Dylan Slack, Yuxin Chen, Chenhao Tan and Sameer Singh
    As practitioners increasingly deploy machine learning models in critical domains such as healthcare, finance, and policy, it becomes vital to ensure that domain experts function effectively alongside these models. Explainability is one way to bridge the gap between... View Details
    Keywords: Natural Language Conversations; AI and Machine Learning; Experience and Expertise; Interactive Communication; Business and Stakeholder Relations
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    • Web

    Events - Business History

    Tarun Khanna, the conference focused on the intersection of oral history, business, and the Global South, offering a unique space for interdisciplinary discussions. The goal was to bring together a community of scholars who have utilized... View Details
    • Web

    Publications - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

    Utilizing time-driven activity-based costing to determine open radical cystectomy and ileal conduit surgical episode cost drivers by Janet Baack Kukreja, M.D., M.P.H.a,b, Mohamed A. Seif, M.D.a, Marissa W. Mery, M.D.c, James R.... View Details
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    Information Technology - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

    use criteria Utilizes time stamped data, where available, to automatically incorporate patient-specific transaction times Automates public reporting of outcomes and costs Providers, IT vendors, policy makers, and payers will need to... View Details
    • 14 Jul 2023
    • Blog Post

    Harvard Business School Announces Its 2023-2024 Blavatnik Fellows

    (MBA 2022) and Christopher Edward Dee (MD 2021). Patrick's research focuses on utilizing real-world behavioral data from smartphones to characterize patient quality of life and to develop adaptive interventions using reinforcement... View Details
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    Accounting & Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

    Medical Records on Hospital Utilization Costs" with Luminita Enache, Xue Guo, and Eddie Riedl. Jonas Heese : Winner of the 2021–2022 Glen McLaughlin Prize for Research in Accounting Ethics for “When Executives Pledge Integrity: The Effect... View Details
    • 25 Mar 2021
    • Blog Post

    Meet the Student Academic Services Support Team at HBS!

    participation. During the 2019-2020 academic year, 200 students utilized writing coaching services, and 300 first-year students worked with second-year student tutors. Disability Accommodation and Support Assistance is available for... View Details
    • 30 May 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    Can AI Predict Whether Shoppers Would Pick Crest or Colgate?

    saying that utilizing this tool, which is in some ways a consumer simulator, actually gives you useful and meaningful information, as if it came from a sample of customers,” says Israeli, the Marvin Bower Associate Professor at HBS.... View Details
    Keywords: by Kristen Senz
    • Web

    National Competitiveness - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

    nation or region utilizes its people, capital, and natural endowments to produce valuable goods and services.” — Michael Porter Clusters and Economic Policy White Paper, October 2009 View Details
    • July 2018 (Revised January 2021)
    • Case

    RunKeeper

    By: Shikhar Ghosh and Shweta Bagai
    The case examines the focus of an early stage company and how venture capital can distort a founder’s view. It encompasses issues such as financing, understanding the founders’ definition of success/failure, defining and pivoting a business model, and determining the... View Details
    Keywords: Early Stage Funding; Pivot; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Business Model; Health Industry
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    • March 2015 (Revised December 2016)
    • Case

    American Well: The DTC Decision

    By: Elie Ofek and Natalie Kindred
    In late 2013, telehealth company American Well, which developed a digital platform that allowed patients to conduct online medical consultations with physicians, is considering pursuing a direct-to-consumer (DTC) strategy. Founded in 2006, American Well had, to date,... View Details
    Keywords: Health Care; Telehealth; Telemedicine; American Well; Schoenberg; Boston; Israel; Technology; Online Care; Direct-to-consumer; DTC; Health Insurance; Affordable Care Act; Health Care Reform; Accountable Care Organizations; Technology Change; Innovation ＆ Entrepreneurship; Digital Marketing; Strategy; Competition; Information Technology; Marketing; Technological Innovation; Technology Adoption; Entrepreneurship; Marketing Strategy; Health Industry; Technology Industry; Boston; Massachusetts; United States; Israel
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    • December 2023
    • Article

    When Should the Off-Grid Sun Shine at Night? Optimum Renewable Generation and Energy Storage Investments

    By: Christian Kaps, Simone Marinesi and Serguei Netessine
    Globally, 1.5 billion people live off the grid, their only access to electricity often limited to operationally-expensive fossil fuel generators. Solar power has risen as a sustainable and less costly option, but its generation is variable during the day and... View Details
    Keywords: Energy; Renewable Energy
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    • November 2023 (Revised July 2024)
    • Case

    'Care in Every Drop': Ayala Corporation and Manila Water (A)

    By: Debora L. Spar, Paul Healy, Tricia Peralta and Julia M. Comeau
    Since 1834, eight generations of the Ayala family have used their conglomerate to fund nation-building projects in the Philippines, including investments in tramcars, telecommunications, hospitals, and schools. In 1997, Ayala’s subsidiary, Manila Water, took control of... View Details
    Keywords: Family Business; Economic Growth; Social Entrepreneurship; Climate Change; Natural Resources; Crisis Management; Failure; Privatization; Social Issues; Urban Development; Adaptation; Public Opinion; Mission and Purpose; Utilities Industry; Asia; Philippines
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    • 15 May 2017
    • Sharpening Your Skills

    The Promises and Limitations of Big Data

    replacement of physical assets by digital technologies. But a bigger and more impactful trend, according to researchers Frank V. Cespedes and Amir Peleg, is the use of online tools to improve physical asset utilization in many traditional... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Utilities; Utilities; Utilities; Utilities

      Louis T. Wells

      Professor Louis T. Wells is the Herbert F. Johnson Professor of International Management at the Harvard Business School. He has served as consultant to governments of a number of developing countries, as well as to international organizations and private firms. His... View Details

      Keywords: utilities; utilities; utilities
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      For Organizations | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

      such as Sustainable Investing , Power and Influence for Positive Impact , and more. Working with MBA Students Summer Associates Students play a valuable role for organizations in tackling issues that utilize their analytic and strategic... View Details