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- 17 Dec 2015
- News
Addressing Gender Equity In Business And Society
June of 2015, 124 undergraduates from 14 women’s colleges attended PEEK, a new two-day on-campus academic experience designed to give applicants an introduction to HBS and to business. Ultimately, Ely hopes the School will become the go-to destination for relevant... View Details
- 10 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Learning Curve: Making the Most of Outsourcing
the vendor of outsourced services can improve the efficiency and perhaps the quality of services delivered—particularly in health care, where outsourcing is on the rise. In research recently published in the journal Organization Science,... View Details
- Profile
Yi-An Huang
bottom line has to add up. During my MBA career, I was forced to think about how healthcare would operate if it had to think like a business. How could it be truly efficient? I found my current job through other people on campus looking for healthcare roles—we shared... View Details
Keywords: Health Care
- Profile
Marco Crespo
ranked the quality of Brazilian nonprofits for potential donors. After completing his degree, Marco returned to Instituto Ayrton Senna, becoming its business director. His mission: Make education a priority for Brazil. "More... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Stephen M. Moret: A Campaign for Positive Change
president, Moret created a new, reorganized student government and lobbied the faculty to place a greater emphasis on teaching quality in granting tenure. After graduating from LSU, Moret remained in Baton Rouge and worked as an... View Details
- 31 Mar 2023
- News
How Can We Solve the Teacher Shortage Crisis?
labor-market forces that have to do that, that are driving that. But the net result is, we've created quicksand for ourselves, where we don't have enough quality people entering the classroom. And so then we try to legislate the floor. We... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Vivek Ranadivé
stint at Ford Motor Company and with the network equipment provider Linkabit, he decided to enroll at HBS. "I wanted to get the best education, and I felt that Harvard was the best business school," Ranadivé states, citing the case method and the View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Ink: Alumni Book Recommendations
much thought to where ‘there’ is. Whatever comes, just don’t stop. Half a century later, I believe it’s the best advice—maybe the only advice—any of us should ever give.” Recommended by Entrepreneur Eileen Rudden (MBA 1976) Grit by Angela Duckworth Duckworth on the... View Details
- 03 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 3, 2015
expertise and bias on decision making and applies it in the context of peer review at the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH). I find evidence that evaluators are biased in favor of projects in their own area, but that they also have better View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
Attention Medical Shoppers: What Health Care Can Learn from Walmart and Amazon
panel discussion held at Harvard Business School, where several experts talked about how to treat the troubled industry at a time when the year-old Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 is still in its relative infancy. “Health care is the most View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Countdown To Remote Learning
intangible qualities that make the HBS classroom such a magical place.” He led additional work over the summer, based on extensive feedback, to further enhance teaching and learning. The School is sharing what it learned with educators... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
One-on-One with Peter Cuneo
lose money. Also, the quality of comic books today has never been better; it’s not the old days when they were printed on pulp paper. When they’re done well, they’re a high form of art. Who reads Marvel comic books today? Generally... View Details
- 21 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 21
by Beijing is unlikely to suffice. Product Positioning in a Two-Dimensional Vertical Differentiation Model: The Role of Quality Costs Authors: Dominique Lauga and Elie Ofek Publication: Marketing Science (forthcoming) Abstract We study a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Rethinking Call Centers: Effective Delivery of Service is Key
call centers, with their attendant voice response units, need not be frustrating. When a company manages its call center well, effectively linking a triad of service, information technology, and internal processes, both the customer and... View Details
- 15 Mar 2017
- Blog Post
Tips on Holding Effective Company Recruiting Events
day-to-day responsibilities of the roles you are hiring for and answers to commonly asked questions such as the number of students being hired, possible locations, and clarity on visa sponsorship and/or work authorization. Ensure they are able to speak to View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 18 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
Identify Emerging Market Opportunities
to invest in retailing. Product Markets. Developing countries have opened up their markets and grown rapidly during the past decade, but companies still struggle to get reliable information about consumers, especially those with low... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Leadership Project Codifies Elusive Traits
database is an excellent resource for those interested in the history of leadership, Mayo stresses that it also conveys important information about qualities needed by future leaders. “We can ask, Does this... View Details
- 09 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 9
the international financial architecture; and the formal rules and informal norms of international organizations. Book link: http://www.tobinproject.org/twobooks/pdf/New_Perspectives_Full_Text.pdf Government as Risk Manager Authors:Tom... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
How I Got to Google
end of the day, product managers are judged on execution and the quality of their launch. SS: Any advice for people who want to be a PM but don’t have a technical background? PR: I’m a computer and biomedical engineer by training, and... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 13 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 13
investigate a puzzling phenomenon in which firms make investment decisions that purposefully do not maximize expected profits. Using an extension to the newsvendor model, we focus on a relatively common scenario in which the firm's investor has imperfect View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne