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  • March 2022
  • Article

Where to Locate COVID-19 Mass Vaccination Facilities?

By: Dimitris Bertsimas, Vassilis Digalakis Jr, Alexander Jacquillat, Michael Lingzhi Li and Alessandro Previero
The outbreak of COVID-19 led to a record-breaking race to develop a vaccine. However, the limited vaccine capacity creates another massive challenge: how to distribute vaccines to mitigate the near-end impact of the pandemic? In the United States in particular, the new... View Details
Keywords: Vaccines; COVID-19; Health Care and Treatment; Health Pandemics; Performance Effectiveness; Analytics and Data Science; Mathematical Methods
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  • 10 Oct 2007
  • First Look

First Look: First Look: October 10

to customize therapy for individuals. However, adoption of this approach has progressed slowly and unevenly because the trial-and-error treatment model still governs how the health care system develops,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 Apr 2010
  • Research & Ideas

The History of Beauty

the consumer products giant Unilever, published some years ago. This company had a long-established business in soap and other toiletries, but spent decades after World War II striving without great success to expand its business into other categories of the beauty... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Beauty & Cosmetics
  • 22 Apr 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Does Spirituality Drive Success?

Company based in Boston, Glassman (HBS MBA '69) said issues such as homelessness, women's rights and outreach to the gay and lesbian community have shaped his own life and the life of his business. Seven years ago, for instance,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace, Sean Silverthorne & Wendy Guild
  • Web

Hiring at HBS: How Summer Interns Make an Impact at Emerson Collective - Recruiting

development of sectors like education, the environment, immigration, and health care through impact investing, philanthropy, advocacy, and more. The organization brings together entrepreneurs, academics,... View Details
  • Web

Affiliated Organizations & Institutions - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Delivery Project The Institute for Cancer Care Innovation MOC Network ICIC U.S. Cluster Mapping Project U.S. Competitiveness Project FSG Shared Value Initiative Social Progress Imperative AllWorld Network... View Details
  • 22 Jul 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Is Performance-Based Pricing the Right Price for You?

expand the spread between customer value and cost. It is useful to consider the risk embodied in various pricing approaches. Pricing that is openly based on costs plus a predetermined profit margin, and is... View Details
Keywords: by Benson Shapiro; Manufacturing
  • 10 Jun 2014
  • First Look

First Look: June 10

  Publications August 2013 pub Cannibalization and Option Value Effects of Secondary Markets: Evidence from the U.S. Concert Industry By: Bennett, Victor Manuel, Robert Seamans, and Feng Zhu Abstract—We examine how reducing search... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Feb 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Commodity Busters: Be a Price Maker, Not a Price Taker

the long run, the most profitable to offer. Step 5: Determine customer value. Develop a way to charge for each customer transaction based on either the quality or the quantity of value you provide. Each... View Details
Keywords: by Benson P. Shapiro
  • September 2009
  • Article

A Detailed Analysis of the Reduction Mammaplasty Learning Curve: A Statistical Process Model for Approaching Surgical Performance Improvement

By: Matthew Carty MD, Rodney Chan, Robert S. Huckman, Daniel C. Snow and Dennis Orgill

Background: The increased focus on quality and efficiency improvement within academic surgery has met with variable success among plastic surgeons. Traditional surgical performance metrics, such as morbidity and mortality, are insufficient to improve the... View Details

Keywords: Experience and Expertise; Health Care and Treatment; Medical Specialties; Outcome or Result; Performance Efficiency; Performance Improvement
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  • 01 Jan 2011
  • News

Seth Klarman, MBA 1982

History and Ourselves 2008 Selected lead editor of Graham and Dodd's classic Security Analysis, 6th edition Seth Klarman wrote the book on value investing. Literally. His 1991 Margin of Safety: Risk-Averse View Details
  • December 5, 2024
  • Article

A Consensus Definition of Creativity in Surgery: A Delphi Study Protocol

By: Alex Thabane, Tyler McKechnie, Phillip Staibano, Vikram Arora, Goran Calic, Jason W. Busse, Sameer Parpia and Mohit Bhandari
Introduction
Clear definitions are essential in science, particularly in the study of abstract phenomena like creativity. Due to its inherent complexity and domain-specific nature, the study of creativity has been complicated, as evidenced by the various... View Details
Keywords: Creativity; Health Care and Treatment; Outcome or Result; Measurement and Metrics
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Alumnae Circles - Alumni

circles@hbs.edu to their email contacts and safe sender list. JOINING A CIRCLE Alumnae Circles is available to those with HBS alumni status in an active Circles region . Invitations to join (or renew) are sent once a year during the enrollment period to eligible... View Details
  • 28 Nov 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Unilever: Transformation and Tradition

problems valuing the business, which seemed at times to resemble more of a holding company or conglomerate than anything else, nor that most consumers barely knew that Unilever as such existed. There was, in fact, coherence to Unilever... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Consumer Products
  • 05 May 2015
  • First Look

First Look: May 5

  Publications May 2015 Corporate Stewardship: Organizing for Sustainable Effectiveness Leading Socially Responsible, Value-Creating Corporations By: Brown, Daniel, and Rakesh Khurana Abstract—We explore the role of the corporate leader in creating View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 01 Sep 2015
  • First Look

First Look -- September 1, 2015

comparing the value of care delivery and therefore the cost of therapies. Measuring the value of advanced technologies like proton beam therapy versus intensity-modulated... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Dec 2017
  • Lessons from the Classroom

How to Design a Better Customer Experience

issue, show empathy, and solve it. “I’m not saying functionality and value aren’t important, but you should aim for the hearts of your customers, not just their heads,” Thomke says. “You do that through empathy, by putting yourself in the... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Health; Health
  • Web

Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship

Communications, Inc. where he led a successful effort to acquire the second cellular license in Italy. He has also served as Chief Financial Officer of a start-up chain of quick service Italian restaurants, and as Vice President of Business Development for a company in... View Details
  • 19 Sep 2023
  • Blog Post

2023 Summer Internships in Business & Environment

Service is a branch of the U.S Department of the Interior, responsible for preserving natural and cultural resources for the American people. Rhea supported the Submerged Resources Center, the NPS’ national dive program. This team helps View Details
  • 21 Sep 2023
  • Blog Post

Hands-on Learning About Global Markets

saw the cultural differences while developing marketing concepts for Ellie Care, a technology platform based in Buenos Aires providing health and emergency-response monitoring that enables seniors 65+ to... View Details