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  • 16 Jun 2014
  • Research & Ideas

The Unfulfilled Promise of Educational Technology

the Public Education Leadership Project (PELP), a joint project of HBS and Harvard Graduate School of Education. He is also founder and CEO of the District Management Council,... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Education
  • 2021
  • White Paper

Working to Learn: Despite a Growing Set of Innovators, America Struggles to Connect Education and Career

By: Joseph B. Fuller, Rachel Lipson, Jorge Encinas, Tessa Forshaw, Alexis Gable and J.B. Schramm
In the wake of COVID-19 and growing inequality, America needs more pathways that bridge education and career. New research from the Project on Workforce at Harvard draws on data from New Profit's Postsecondary Initiative for Equity to identify opportunities for the... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19; Education; Training; Employment; Personal Development and Career; Health Pandemics
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  • 27 Sep 2015
  • News

Pharma gives drug development the Hollywood treatment

  • January 2017 (Revised June 2017)
  • Case

Chicago and the Array of Things: A Fitness Tracker for the City

By: Rajiv Lal and Scott Johnson
The city of Chicago has recently launched a project called the Array of Things. The program involves a series of sensor nodes placed around the city that capture a massive amount of data including pedestrian and vehicle flow, air quality, and cloud cover. The Array of... View Details
Keywords: Smart Connected Products; Smart Cities; Internet Of Things; Sensors; Govenment; Government Administration; Technological Innovation; Digital Platforms; Applications and Software; Information Infrastructure; Internet and the Web; Public Administration Industry; Public Administration Industry; Chicago; United States
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  • 2021
  • White Paper

The Future of Boston's Workforce: The Path Forward from COVID-19

By: Will Dorsey Eden, Joseph B. Fuller and Rachel Lipson
In response to the unprecedented disruption of the COVID-19 pandemic on Greater Boston’s economy and workforce, the Boston Foundation, Skillworks, and the Project on Workforce at Harvard partnered to convene workforce leaders from across the region to address how might... View Details
Keywords: COVID; COVID-19; Workforce; Pandemic; Labor Market; Health Pandemics; Labor; Employment; Organizations; Cooperation; Strategic Planning; Boston
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  • February 2010 (Revised March 2012)
  • Case

U.S. Healthcare Reform: International Perspectives

By: Arthur A. Daemmrich and Elia Cameron
The national economic implications of rising healthcare costs were poorly understood, even as the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom instituted reforms in early 2010. Presenting opportunities for cross-national policy learning, this case describes the... View Details
Keywords: Macroeconomics; Insurance; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Health Care and Treatment; Laws and Statutes; Business and Government Relations; Health Industry; Health Industry; Germany; United Kingdom; United States
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    Alan D. MacCormack

    Alan MacCormack is the MBA Class of 1949 Adjunct Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, a member of The Digital, Data, and Design (D^3) Institute at Harvard, and a core faculty member... View Details

    Keywords: automotive; communications; computer; e-commerce industry; electronics; high technology; information technology industry; internet; semiconductor; software; telecommunications; venture capital industry
    • 14 Mar 2017
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research, March 14

    friends’ purchasing. Third, they looked at whether liking affects things other than purchasing (for example, whether it can persuade people to engage in healthful behaviors). And fourth, they tested whether boosting likes by paying to... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • June 2023
    • Article

    The Effect of Firms' Information Exposure on Safeguarding Employee Health: Evidence from COVID-19

    By: Lisa Yao Liu and Shirley Lu
    We show that information exposure through international business networks enables firms to take proactive measures that benefit employees and potentially the local community. Specifically, in the early days of COVID-19, firms that have business networks with China and... View Details
    Keywords: COVID-19 Pandemic; Networks; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Health Pandemics; Decision Choices and Conditions; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact
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    • September 21, 2013
    • Other Article

    Redefining Global Health-care Delivery

    By: Jim Yong Kim, Paul E. Farmer and Michael E. Porter
    Initiatives to address the unmet needs of those facing both poverty and serious illness have expanded significantly over the past decade. But many of them are designed in an ad-hoc manner to address one health problem among many; they are too rarely assessed; best... View Details
    Keywords: Health
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    • 21 May 2012
    • Research & Ideas

    OSHA Inspections: Protecting Employees or Killing Jobs?

    With an election looming and the economy continuing to struggle, the effectiveness of government regulation has become a political football. While advocates hold regulations up as necessary to protect public View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding
    • Web

    Faculty & Research

    increases in property assessments without any associated increases in market values or transactions. Initiatives & Projects Health Care The Health Care Initiative serves as a... View Details
    • 30 Jan 2017
    • Research & Ideas

    Vanguard, Trian And The Problem With 'Passive' Index Funds

    need to get shareholders more engaged? What shape should the separation of management and ownership take in the twenty-first century?” “We are now in a situation where index investors are the major shareholders in most of the large- and medium-sized View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services
    • Article

    Financial Incentives for Exercise Adherence in Adults: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

    By: Marc S. Mitchell, Jack M. Goodman, David A. Alter, Leslie K. John, Paul I. Oh, Maureen T. Pakosh and Guy E. Faulkner
    Context Less than 5% of U.S. adults accumulate the required dose of exercise to maintain health. Behavioral economics has stimulated renewed interest in economic-based, population-level health interventions to address this issue. Despite widespread implementation of... View Details
    Keywords: Exercise; Health; Behavior; Motivation and Incentives
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    • 2008
    • Book

    On Competition

    By: M. E. Porter
    Competition is one of society's most powerful forces for making things better in many fields of human endeavor. The study of competition and the creation of value, in their full richness, have preoccupied me for several decades. Competition is pervasive, whether it... View Details
    Keywords: Leadership; Practice; Competitive Strategy; Theory; Value Creation
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    • January 2020
    • Article

    The Market Reacts Quickly: Changes in Paclitaxel Vascular Device Purchasing Within the Ascension Healthcare System

    By: Peter P. Monteleone, Subhash Banerjee, Priya Kothapalli, Ariel Dora Stern, Daniel Fehder, Ron Ginor, Dominic Vollmar, Edward T. A. Fry and Mark J. Pirwitz
    Background. A meta-analysis of trials in endovascular therapy suggested an increased mortality associated with treatment exposure to paclitaxel. Multiple publications and corrections of prior data were performed, and the United States Food and Drug Administration has... View Details
    Keywords: Medical Devices; Health Testing and Trials; Analysis; Sales
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    • 23 Mar 2003
    • Research & Ideas

    AIDS in Africa—What’s the Solution?

    partnerships with governments and businesses that can provide public education, health worker training, and support. One pressing question remains: How much support should employers provide? In addition to... View Details
    Keywords: by Julie Jette
    • 27 Aug 2013
    • First Look

    First Look: August 27

      Publications August 2013 Journal of Financial Economics The Performance of Corporate Alliances: Evidence from Oil and Gas Drilling in the Gulf of Mexico By: Beshears, John Abstract—I use data on oil and gas drilling in the Gulf of... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

      Ray A. Goldberg

      A native of North Dakota, Dr. Goldberg received his A.B. from Harvard University in 1948, his MBA from the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration in 1950 and his Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics from the University of Minnesota in 1952.

      ... View Details

      Keywords: agribusiness; agriculture; fast food; food; food processing; forest products; grocery; high technology; information; restaurant; retailing; soft drink; textiles; tobacco; transportation; wholesale; wine
      • September 2017
      • Case

      Dr. William Carson— Intrapreneurial Innovation in the Pharmaceutical Industry

      By: Steven Rogers and Alyssa Haywoode
      Dr. William Carson, an African-American alum of Harvard University became the President and CEO of a multi billion dollar division of Otsuka, a Japan based pharmaceutical company. His ascension to this leadership position followed a thriving career in academic medicine... View Details
      Keywords: Dr. Williams Carson; Otsuka America Pharmaceutical; Harvard; Abilify; Aripiprazole; Health Testing and Trials; Globalized Firms and Management; Globalized Markets and Industries; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Decision Choices and Conditions; Pharmaceutical Industry; Japan
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