end of life care - Publications - Faculty & Research

06 Jun 2011
Research & Ideas

Why Leaders Lose Their Way

are invaluable. Members of our True North Group aren't impressed by external success, but care enough about us as human beings and as leaders to confront us when we aren't being honest with ourselves. As... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

Web

Ways to Give Today - Alumni

You can make a gift of up to $53,000 from your IRA to establish a Harvard gift annuity that will pay you annual income for life and benefit HBS in the future. In that same year, you can also transfer up to... View Details

14 Jul 2016
Blog Post

Dating at HBS

or through mutual friends. I think it happens because there is a lot of alignment on the outlook of life – you want to be stimulated intellectually by your partner, and the... View Details

16 Nov 2021
HBS Case

How a Company Made Employees So Miserable, They Killed Themselves

for workers to find new jobs. Managers asked to demote and degrade workers In late 2006, the firm ended its early retirement program and shifted to more aggressive steps to downsize staff. The company restructured its workforce,... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

08 Aug 2017
First Look

First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017

characteristic-based portfolio strategy that requires relatively low annual turnover. This is a continuum, with small size (a very persistent characteristic) at one end of the spectrum and high frequency... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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California - Global

autonomous AI agents designed to transform how businesses operate by taking on tasks traditionally performed by humans. With a mission to deploy one billion AI agents by the end of 2025, Agentforce... View Details

26 Jun 2020
Research & Ideas

Why Japanese Businesses Are So Good at Surviving Crises

cost.” During the two vulnerable weeks before government relief kicked in, Lawson delivered 200,000 prepared meals to victims, including onigiri rice balls, bread, and cups of noodles. The company also took View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

09 Mar 2023
Blog Post

African American Student Union Spotlight on Joint Degrees

way to contribute to solutions at the legislative level. I fundamentally believe the yet-to-be-uncovered solutions to the issues I care about most, like racial justice, lie at the nexus of business... View Details

09 Nov 2022
Blog Post

Building Community: Meet the HBS Latino Student Organization Leadership

stakeholders who deeply cared about the club and its members that helped me decide that HBS was the place for me and that I wanted to be a part of LASO leadership which is how I View Details

20 Dec 2017
Lessons from the Classroom

How to Design a Better Customer Experience

shares the details with others in today’s super-connected consumer world. “We forget that the things that really stick, the things people talk about years later, are not the average experiences, but the outliers on the other end View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Health; Entertainment & Recreation

21 Aug 2020
Blog Post

Pursuing a JD/MBA Joint Degree

people that I have gotten to know. JD/MBAs come from all areas of life with prior experiences as business consultants, finance professionals, social entrepreneurs, community organizers, political activists,... View Details

09 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

It’s Time to Reset Decision-Making in Your Organization

meeting formats in favor of “collaborative problem-solving sessions.” These are action-oriented, beginning with a list of issues that need to be resolved, focused on constructive conflict, and View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott

02 Apr 2020
What Do You Think?

What Are Lessons for Leaders from This Black Swan Crisis?

the past year or two. All of it is now down the drain as 80 percent of the economy shuts down while the other 20 percent operates beyond its supposed capacity. What’s the lesson here? Be View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

25 Oct 2011
First Look

First Look: October 25

criteria, and satisfies the same fairness constraints as the point system that was recently proposed by U.S. policymakers. In addition, the point system we design delivers an 8% increase in extra life year gains. We evaluate the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jul 2020
Blog Post

How SVMP Helped Me Take My Next Steps (2+2) and Find Myself

my life before college, my undergraduate experience, my time at HBS - has been one of becoming. Baby Alexxis could never have imagined where she would end up. Her path was one... View Details

20 Feb 2020
Blog Post

Black Visionary Leadership and Redefining What's Possible

behind some of these black ventures. We were hoping for 100 applications, and ended up with approximately 300. We had a lot of help; advice from Jodi Gernon and Chuck Collins... View Details

17 Sep 2018
Research & Ideas

Welcome to Retirement. Who Am I Now?

thoughts and feelings. People varied considerably in whether they saw the open space of time before them as a blank canvas they were excited to paint—or a dark, scary void. “When you work, you are a kind of... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Entertainment & Recreation

24 Feb 2016
Research & Ideas

Why It's Best to Take Tests Early in the Day

recent initiative that depends largely on student test scores to measure teacher efficacy. “There are all sorts of debates in the United States and, more generally, across the globe about how to improve the quality View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education

14 Oct 2021
In Practice

Reunited and It Feels (Not) So Good: Tips for Managing a Rocky Return

widespread and the timing and nature of the end of the virus as we know it so uncertain that it is impossible to know what the parameters of such... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

01 Jun 2023
News

3-Minute Briefing: Jeremy Grantham (MBA 1966)

that I became a staunch, careful value investor. I’ve always had the tendency to go for the 60,000-foot view. If you do that, you realize that the great bubbles of history have been massive and obvious. But... View Details

Keywords: climate change; finance; sustainability; prediction; Finance

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