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- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Back in Business
moved out of the immediate area, financialservices companies will remain a fixture in Lower Manhattan. "I think most of the major decisionmakers in the financial community recognize the benefit of proximity and a concentrated presence,"... View Details
- 15 Feb 2017
- Op-Ed
What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects
States, where the ability to fund infrastructure is less obvious than it may seem at first glance. The infrastructure paradox There is plenty of capital in the global financial system: upward of US $20 trillion invested in fixed income securities alone between pension... View Details
- 15 Nov 2004
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Health Care Conundrum
policy changes are not essential for these changes to happen. Key policy areas to be addressed are: Access: Ultimately, access to care must be addressed through mandatory health insurance with subsidies for low-income citizens not covered... View Details
- 07 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 7, 2009
December 2007 at the American Family Mutual Insurance Company (AMFAM) headquarters in Madison, Wisconsin, Dave Anderson and Jack Salzwedel remained in the conference room after the senior management meeting... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 3
respect to Genentech, the pros and cons of merging the two companies with different cultures, the value of Genentech, and the tactics of a hostile tender offer. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/210040-PDF-ENG... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
A Class Act
and planned to get her money's worth." Keep those cards and letters coming! February 1, 1928 Theodore Sander, Jr., has resigned his position with Goldman, Sachs & Company and has been appointed assistant sales manager of the Royal Baking... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 22 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019
advantages of scale for innovation, companies need the right combination of strategy, systems, and culture. Based on more than three decades of the Pisano's research, teaching, and experience, Creative Construction offers a set of... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 17 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 17, 2009
Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-099.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsAvid Radiopharmaceuticals: The Venture Debt Question Harvard Business School Case 809-086 The CEO of a promising biotech company must decide how... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 7
the companies being rated. We hypothesize that ratings are particularly likely to spur responses from firms that receive poor ratings, and especially those that face lower-cost opportunities to improve or that anticipate greater benefits... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
"Economists are puzzle solvers..."
institutions themselves are changing so dramatically - just look, for example, at the transformation of banks and insurance companies in the last couple of decades - we can't expect them to be our analytical... View Details
- 23 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
individual and collective experiences to foster innovation rather than about setting direction and mobilizing people to follow. In this chapter, we show what it takes to insure that an organization is willing and able to innovate. We... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
that researched natural-language processing, “35 percent was nothing to be ashamed of,” Dave Ferrucci, the leader of the IBM team, later said. Still, IBM’s advancements were small. The company had a sense of Watson’s potential to... View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 22 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 22, 2016
Vaccinations Evive Health is a company that manages communication campaigns on behalf of health insurance plans and large employers. Using big data techniques and insights from behavioral economics, Evive... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
pajamas, Sato-san brightens to the company and the conversation. Mrs. Sato reappears with a lacquer tray, teacups rattling on their china saucers. Dr. Umeda, Matsubara’s medical director and a former surgeon, asks how she is faring. They... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
companies in South Africa and abroad, and sheds a light on the harsh realities of corporate environments. Drawing on her years of experience and research, the author argues that many young Black professionals struggle early on in their... View Details
- 05 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019
findings can help explain a variety of behavioral phenomena including the structure of social insurance programs, patterns of public good provision, and why transactions that turn money into time are often deemed repugnant. Download... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 2
Company Authors:Michael Beer and Magnus Finnstrom Publication:Leadership in Action, November-December 2009 Abstract Traditional leadership development programs often fail to achieve the desired results because they don't focus on learning... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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private credit funds to multi-trillion-dollar global banks and large insurance companies – in an industry that is always under the threat of disruption. There is no industry that has seen as much disruption... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
September 11: A Community Reflects
market opened for the first time after the attacks, Professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter watched the Dow plunge as she began a guest appearance on The Connection public radio program. An expert on how businesses adapt to change, Kanter predicted that in the long run, "strong... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young;Deborah Blagg
- 19 May 2022
- News
Leading to Salvation
president and CFO of Medtronic, overseeing a number of acquisitions and sales at the medical device company and broadening its reach to include a more global investor base. In this special edition of Skydeck honoring recipients of the... View Details