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- 22 May 2020
- In Practice
Post-COVID Health Care: More Screens, Less Red Tape?
care, but this does not have to be true if employees can purchase private insurance on exchanges. I believe that we will start to see more demand for this kind of policy in the coming months. Amitabh Chandra (@amitabhchandra2) is the View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 23 May 2019
- Book
These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems
In 1908, Harvard Business School’s first dean, Edwin Francis Gay, welcomed the School’s inaugural class of 59 students by saying that HBS was challenged with encouraging its students to have the “intellectual respect for business as a profession, with the social... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
A Piece of the Action
Valley, Darwall and Roberts have a long list of potential case studies. A second key mandate for the Center is to assist faculty who are already working on projects in the Valley. While some might spend several weeks at the Center, or, in the case of Assistant... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 04 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
Jumpstarting Innovation: Using Disruption to Your Advantage
offerings. Focus first on the problem—not the solution. Be sure that you don't just listen to your current customers. They have the same tunnel-vision problems that you do and may even actively push to keep you from considering new approaches. Keep in mind View Details
Keywords: by Lynda M. Applegate
- Web
Educating Leaders - Georges F. Doriot:Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
"The able and fine manufacturers all over the nation...gave practical sense and meaning to my classes," he wrote, helping students "not only to reflect, but to act." 18 His guest lecturers over the years included Leslie Groves, the head of the Manhattan Project; View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Minding The Gap
leadership and managerial skills at the district level is critical to improving public education," explains Senior Lecturer and William Henry Bloomberg Fellow John Kim, who will take over as PELP's cochair when HBS professor Allen... View Details
- 10 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
Breakthrough Negotiation: Don’t Leave It On the Table
understand the delicate interplay between negotiation and coercive power. Speaking of the U.S. failure in Vietnam, Henry Kissinger said, "Treating force and diplomacy as discrete phenomena caused our power to lack purpose and our... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Watkins
- 28 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
Earth Day Reflections
has to drive over 70 miles to work each day. Meanwhile, the Copenhagen climate conference ended with no agreement, and the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009, proposed by Representatives Henry Waxman (D-CA) and Ed Markey... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 02 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Have Marketers Ignored America’s Man-of-Action Hero?
behavior shaped modern American business? A: American business history is chock full of man-of-action hero stories: Edison, Henry Ford, Walt Disney, Ray Kroc, on and on. But the man-of-action hero receded in the postwar era through the... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- Web
2019 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
the Academy of Management, has served on numerous editorial boards of academic journals, and is a past associate editor of Administrative Science Quarterly . Peter Glick Peter Glick, PhD is the Henry Merritt Wriston Professor of the... View Details
- 16 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 16
"course researchers," whose class participation can be exceptionally valuable in the theory-building process. Buy Local? The Geography of Successful Venture Captial Expansion Authors:Paul A. Gompers, Henry Chen, Anna Kovner, and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
2017 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
teaching, Dr. Connell is the Director of the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program at Boston University. Peter Glick Peter Glick, PhD is the Henry Merritt Wriston Professor of the Social Sciences at Lawrence University in... View Details
- 26 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 26
http://hbr.org/search/113055-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 613-044 A Brief History of the U.S. Tobacco Industry Controversy By: Sucher, Sandra J., and Henry McGee This history of the U.S. tobacco controversy is a reading for a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 16, 2010
School Case 811-031 Henry Phipps, Jr. made his fortune in the steel industry alongside one of America's most celebrated entrepreneurs—Andrew Carnegie. His wealth was administered in the form of trusts, which he hoped would provide a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
No Easy Fix for the Financial Crisis
for Wall Street. “It may, in fact, be a very profitable investment,” provided the government ultimately sells the distressed mortgage assets for more than the purchase price, he noted. (On November 12, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson MBA... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
An Rx for Small Business Recovery
Karen Gordon Mills served in President Barack Obama’s cabinet as head of the Small Business Administration (SBA) during the height of the Great Recession. “Back then, I thought small businesses were weathering the worst financial crisis of my lifetime,” says Mills, now... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 12 Jul 2020
- Book
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2020
national leadership can be, I recommend Doris Kearns Goodwin’s Leadership: In Turbulent Times, which I’m delighted to say accompanies my new book on JP Morgan’s list of 14 picks for summer reading. Henry McGee I've just started reading a... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 14 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 14
Publications 2006 Henry Holt (Macmillan) Blockbusters: Hit-making, Risk-taking, and the Big Business of Entertainment By: Elberse, Anita Abstract—What's behind the phenomenal success of entertainment businesses such as Warner Bros.,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 May 2018
- News
Finding Freedom from Eating Disorders
doctors and therapists tell me that pregnancy and being a mom wouldn't even be possible given my medical condition. For me, it's a reminder that your beliefs, what you choose to believe, are really, really powerful. You know Henry Ford... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Too Big To Fail
gained broad support from a wide range of influential economists, lawmakers, and interest groups. In March 2008, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson (MBA ’70) proposed that the Federal Reserve be empowered as a super regulator to seek out... View Details