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- 04 Nov 2016
- News
The Competitiveness of Lost Causes
development of certain industries coincided with my interest in exploring how local governments can create environments that are favorable to the development of particular businesses.” After HBS, Duch worked in Spain’s Basque country for Porter’s View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Pamela Thomas Graham
anything, this has highlighted the need for information - the lingering notion that you could buy a stock, hold it, then retire without any monitoring or involvement on your part has completely vanished." It's difficult to imagine a more... View Details
- 18 Mar 2020
- Blog Post
Make Work from Home Work For You (And Your Team)
reimburse you for additional equipment like a monitor or appropriate desk space at home, but ergonomics are important and if you can, invest in yourself.” Another work from home hurdle for some is healthy food. You may typically work in... View Details
- 25 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 25
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2378899 Monitoring the Monitors: How Social Factors Influence Supply Chain Auditors By: Short, Jodi L., Michael W. Toffel, and Andrea R. Hugill Abstract—Supply chain auditors provide... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Dec 2021
- News
Learning Curve
board about five years after its founding, Melcher became chair. Melcher also monitored the student lunchroom so that the teachers could all eat together. At first, that effort and the large amounts spent on teacher development seemed... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
board members commit to serving on ad hoc committees, namely, the Global Alumni Conference Committee, chaired by Joan McCabe (MBA '81); the Nominating Committee, chaired by Ed Hajim; and the Community Standards Committee. The first group View Details
- 29 Jun 2015
- HBS Case
Consumer-centered Health Care Depends on Accessible Medical Records
in hospitals and homes to monitor millions of patients. Philips generates over one-third of its global sales from health care. Other companies like GE and Samsung are also active in health care. These brands enjoy some consumer... View Details
- 13 May 2002
- Op-Ed
A Cure for Enron-Style Audit Failures
board's vehicle to monitor financial reporting. However, neither the audit committee nor the board is a guarantor and neither has an obligation to ensure perfect accounting or disclosure. They must use reasonable efforts to ensure... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Forward Thinking
There was a time when human activity in outer space was a highly centralized, government-led endeavor, says Professor and Senior Associate Dean Matthew Weinzierl. But that era has passed: Over the past two decades, a calcified space bureaucracy has given way to a... View Details
- 19 Apr 2018
- News
One Last Pitch
open, her father standing outside. “There has to be a better way to support recovery,” he said. Gastfriend partnered with his own father, Dr. David Gastfriend, an expert in addiction psychiatry, to create DynamiCare Health, a digital platform for View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Alumni Books
two years. The exper-iment, which set world records in human life support, monitored the inhabitants’ impact on the environment and provided data for future manned missions into outer space. Bricklin on Technology by Dan Bricklin (MBA... View Details
- 18 Aug 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs
An online shipping platform that uses social networks and smartphones. Low-cost medical care and monitoring that helps seniors to live at home. The "Skype" of broadband, offering free Internet service. On an April morning known as "Super... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
with Urban Water Partners RelayRides explanatory video FashionStake-Reuters story An online shipping platform that uses social networks and smartphones. Low-cost medical care and monitoring that helps seniors to live at home. The “Skype”... View Details
- 22 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Not Your Father’s State-Run Capitalism
subsidized loan just to lower expenses even it doesn't really need it," Musacchio says, "while it seems like equity investments only come in when a company really needs it, and when a government becomes an equity shareholder, it tends to View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- Web
Diversity Comes to Corporate Boards, but Slowly - Blog: RGE Report
according to recruiting firm Heidrick & Struggles’ “Board Monitor US 2023.” However, that progress has slowed in recent years and has accrued mostly to the benefit of white women. The proportion of Black directors has nearly doubled since... View Details
- 06 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
Harvard Business School Announces 2024 Goldsmith Fellows
comes from the International Development Finance Corporation, where she projected and monitored the economic impacts of more than $6 billion of emerging market investments in sectors such as infrastructure, agriculture, and financial... View Details
- 30 Jan 2017
- News
HBS Deans' Message on White House Travel Ban
long demonstrated their dedication to educational advancement and the pursuit of knowledge, we share your concerns about the recently signed executive action regarding immigration. Offices across the University are closely monitoring the... View Details
- 27 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
New Research: Surviving Bankruptcy, Useful Economics, and Retirement
use of remote patient monitoring services grows—driven by health care limitations imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic—clinicians, payers, and patients face important questions regarding the volume, value, and appropriate use of this care... View Details
- 24 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
Is Your iPhone Turning You Into a Wimp?
them to perform a series of tasks on one of four devices, each successively larger than the next: an iPod Touch (which looks like an iPhone), an iPad, a MacBook Pro laptop, or an iMac desktop computer. Each participant sat alone in a room during the experiment, View Details
- 07 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Organizational Model for Open Source
The biggest tension here is how to sustain pluralism. If open source contributors only recognize each other based on individual merit, to the exclusion of monitoring where those people of merit are employed, then the pluralism necessary... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark