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- 17 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Rating Fund Managers by the Company They Keep
A: Historically careful analysis of corporate information on a large number of companies has required an investor (or at least the investor's organization) to master a difficult and arcane set of data-handling tools. XBRL has the...
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by Ann Cullen
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
delivery of sustainable health care.” NOVEMBER 24 Anne Miller (MBA 1988) is executive director of Project N95, a national nonprofit founded to get personal protective equipment (PPE) and critical equipment to frontline and health View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- What Do You Think?
Is This the Twilight Era for the Managed Mutual Fund?
effect of much of this alleged activity is to tax long-term investors in order to reward short-term investors. In a two-year-old paper, "Who Cares About Shareholders? Arbitrage-Proofing Mutual Funds," Eric Zitzewitz, assistant...
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by James Heskett
- 11 May 2017
- News
Going with the Flow
last person who has control of their health information and their own destiny is the patient. You would never run a business the way health care is run today. The best quality of health View Details
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Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Wyss Celebrated for Career, Conservation
Hansjörg Wyss (MBA 1965) has been unusually public of late, celebrated for his visionary accomplishments in health care and conservation. Wyss, 75, founded Synthes USA, a Swiss-American firm, in 1974 and led it to global prominence as a...
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- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Health-Care Forum's Rx for US System
Experience," HBS professor Clay Christensen analogized that just as the computer industry evolved from massive mainframes to customer-friendly personal devices, "We need to bring technology to outpatient clinics and patients' homes so...
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Health, Social Assistance
- 10 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
COVID's Surprising Toll on Careers of Women Scientists
do you have to stay home and care for your young child? Those things seem to be the bottleneck.” Just 5 percent of the total scientists responding to the emailed query reported working fewer than 42 hours weekly before the pandemic...
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- August 2020
- Case
Sangu Delle
By: Leslie Perlow and Matthew Preble
By 2020, Sangu Delle (MBA 2016) has already made significant progress towards his life-long goal of solving Africa’s myriad and diverse challenges. At 33 years old, he is the founder and chairman of the for-profit Golden Palm Investments Corporation, CEO of Africa...
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Impact;
Impact Investing;
Mental Health;
Social Capitalism;
Entrepreneurship;
Investment;
Health Care and Treatment;
Personal Development and Career;
Health Industry;
Africa
Perlow, Leslie, and Matthew Preble. "Sangu Delle." Harvard Business School Case 421-031, August 2020.
- 01 Oct 2009
- What Do You Think?
Can the “Masks of Command” Coexist with Authentic Leadership?
leadership? Those arguing that the two can coexist cite situations, generally involving adversity, in which the "greater good" is served by masking a leader's feelings. Frances Pratt argued that " we must be careful (and...
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by Jim Heskett
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
One Degree of Difference
which means that all employees are “really focused on efficiency,” Wallace says. They developed a multilayered interview process to match the right person for each job, as the wrong hire can be extremely costly. It culminates with a two-...
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- 18 Nov 2021
- News
Strength in Numbers
American Cancer Society for the mental health field—an organization that can increase awareness, reduce the stigma, and rally donors to make large, multiyear funding commitments to the most promising care and research in the field. While...
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April White
- 17 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
Resisting the Seductions of Success
now. One manager recently told me this about his life: "I wanted the promotion so badly I could taste it. The truth is that as much as I tried to quell my personal ambition, it was still a strong and sometimes overriding force in my...
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- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Christina Ehrenberg: The Examined Life
by excesses in diet and lifestyle.” Lessons also emerged from “failure.” After weeks of training for a climb to the top of Papua New Guinea’s 14,800-foot Mount Wilhelm, Ehrenberg abandoned her quest within sight of the summit to care for...
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- 14 Nov 2019
- News
Keeping Red Lobster Fresh
hits its mark in sustainable and responsible sourcing efforts. You personally are in the midst of developing a task force in central Florida to combat the opioid epidemic. Talk about why social responsibility is important to Red Lobster,...
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- 02 Jun 2021
- News
On the Road Less Traveled
took care of us. It was the right time in the right place. And we had a very good time together for 12 years. So it was really a wonderful thing. Morrell: You've spent so much time in this book thinking about your own View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Prognosis
patients than any other hospital in the state—to bend without breaking under the pressure of the pandemic. Professor Robert Huckman is an economist and health care researcher who serves as unit head for Technology and Operations...
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Richard L. Gelb
Gelb orchestrated Bristol-Myers' successful acquisition of Squibb creating the second largest pharmaceutical company in the world. In diversifying Bristol-Myers from a personal care company to pharmaceutical...
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Healthcare
- 27 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
What South Korea Teaches the World About Fighting COVID
whereas South Korea has 216 cases per million. "South Korea created a vast number of testing sites, which included not only big hospitals but local clinics and public health care facilities." What South Korea teaches us is that proactive...
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- 31 Jan 2013
- News