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- 17 Sep 2024
- Research & Ideas
Advice for the New CEO: Talk to Your Employees Early and Often
taking office. She recommends that leaders: Be mindful of employees’ unease during a transition. “Your initial communications in alleviating this uncertainty will become very important,” she says. “If you’re not ready to say anything just yet because you’re taking the... View Details
Keywords: by Ami Albernaz
- 28 Mar 2016
- News
The Alum Building a Brand New City in Panama
experience—bought the base and began building a new city. “It was a white canvas to develop from the beginning,” Gilinski told Forbes. Today, nearly 1,000 buildings stand in Panama Pacifico—a property five View Details
- 04 Dec 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Fantastic Horizon: How to Invest in a New City
The buildings and the people need to be close together. This saves time, fuel, water and pollution. There is bad density of course but good density can be varied, and green, and fulfilling, and efficient. Think Central Park in New View Details
- July 2019
- Article
The Impact of Price Regulation on the Availability of New Drugs in Germany
By: Ariel Dora Stern, Felicitas Pietrulla, Annika Herr, Aaron S. Kesselheim and Ameet Sarpatwari
The 2011 German Pharmaceutical Market Restructuring Act (“AMNOG”) subjected branded, non-rare disease drugs to price regulation based on an assessment of their clinical benefit. Assessment outcomes range from “major added benefit” to “less benefit than the appropriate... View Details
Keywords: Regulation; Pharmaceuticals; Healthcare; Health Care and Treatment; Price; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Pharmaceutical Industry; Germany
Stern, Ariel Dora, Felicitas Pietrulla, Annika Herr, Aaron S. Kesselheim, and Ameet Sarpatwari. "The Impact of Price Regulation on the Availability of New Drugs in Germany." Health Affairs 38, no. 7 (July 2019): 1182–1187.
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
New Program Helps Restless Alums Answer the Question, ‘What’s Next?’
(MBA ’03) Allison O’Kelly (MBA ’99) Amos Schocken (MBA ’70) Mike Stone (MBA ’88) Tom Tiller (MBA ’91) Ammara Yaqub (MBA ’05) Editor's Note: The new Executive Education Crossroads program has been postponed and will be rescheduled. At the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
HBS Fund Helps Fuel Faculty Research and New Learning Experiences
Sadun, Thomas S. Murphy Associate Professor of Business Administration An Immersion in Private Equity and Real Estate A. Eugene Kohn (far right), chairman, Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates, and a senior lecturer at HBS, with students in the firm’s View Details
- 16 Jun 2021
- Blog Post
Seeing Everyday as a New Adventure: Reflections for Father's Day
to spend as much time outside as possible. What is one of your favorite things about being a father/dad? One of my dad's superpowers was discovering his kids’ interests and then becoming interested in those things himself so we could... View Details
- 11 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
Fix This! Why is it so Painful to Buy a New Car?
Harvard Business School have as much pain shopping for a new car as the rest of us. For Jill Avery, a senior lecturer in the Marketing Unit, one experience included being ignored by a salesman, who turned repeatedly to her husband to talk... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Monsignor Frederick Dolan Finds a New Calling at HBS Club of Montreal
here. Alumni really want us to keep in touch.” As for the future, Dolan is taking one step at a time and appreciating the opportunity he has been given. He says, “I can now give something back to the School, while meeting fascinating... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Right from the Start: Common Traps for the New Leader
In this excerpt from Chapter 1 of the their book, Dan Ciampa and HBS Professor Michael D. Watkins describe some of the common traps into which new leaders can fall. Falling Behind The Learning Curve Not using the View Details
Keywords: by Dan Ciampa & Michael D. Watkins
- 03 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
5 New Year's Resolutions You Can Keep (With the Help of Behavioral Science Research)
Well-intentioned people often start the new calendar year with a long list of personal resolutions, only to abandon most of them before Valentine’s Day. Alas, it’s a lot easier to make New Year’s resolutions... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 25 Jan 2024
- News
Alumni Gain Insights on Nigeria’s New Government; Taipei Alumni Host Faculty Guest
Clubs News Clubs News HBS Alumni in Nigeria Discuss New Government’s Fiscal Policies To better understand the economic and policy direction of Nigeria’s newly sworn-in government, the HBS Association of Nigeria hosted a hybrid program on December 14 featuring Taiwo... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 28 Feb 2023
- Research & Ideas
Can Apprenticeships Work in the US? Employers Seeking New Talent Pipelines Take Note
rates, says Fuller, who suggests more targeted guidance and outreach to shrink the gap. In recent years, CareerWise has begun to expand, with new programs in cities including New View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- December 2012
- Article
Structural Impediments to African Growth? New Evidence from Real Wages in British Africa, 1880–1965
By: Ewout Frankema and Marlous van Waijenburg
Recent literature on the historical determinants of African poverty has emphasized structural impediments to African growth, such as adverse geographical conditions, weak institutions, or ethnic heterogeneity. But has African poverty been a persistent historical... View Details
Keywords: Living Standards; Real Wages; Labor Market; Colonial Institutions; Economic Growth; Wages; History; Africa
Frankema, Ewout, and Marlous van Waijenburg. "Structural Impediments to African Growth? New Evidence from Real Wages in British Africa, 1880–1965." Journal of Economic History 72, no. 4 (December 2012): 895–926. (Awarded Economic History Association's Arthur Cole Prize for best article published in The Journal of Economic History in 2012.)
- 18 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, July 18, 2017
May 11, 2017 New England Journal of Medicine Good Riddance to Big Insurance Mergers By: Dafny, Leemore S. Abstract—Federal judges issued preliminary injunctions halting mergers of four of the five largest U.S. health insurers. These... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Mookerjee Picked as First Director of New HBS India Research Center
offer from HBS, he says, came at a time when he was open to a new challenge. Mookerjee lost no time planning a research agenda. He convened a series of campus-based meetings... View Details
- August 2018
- Background Note
Note on Hackathons
By: Ethan Bernstein
Organizations have often sought to meet the pressures of rapid change through novel ways of managing human capital to boost innovation and productivity. Hackathons have emerged as one of the latest approaches to do just that. How can those responsible for managing... View Details
Keywords: Hackathon; Crowdsourcing; Hack; Innovation; Productivity; Minimum Viable Product; Time; Transparency; Bootcamp; Design; Entrepreneurship; Human Resources; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Management; Management; Organizational Structure; Performance Productivity; Technology; Technology Industry
Bernstein, Ethan. "Note on Hackathons." Harvard Business School Background Note 419-021, August 2018.
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Everything Old Is New Again: The History of Technological Frontiers
It was a giddy time that presaged a new frontier, when a tinkering youth would become an international monopolist, and hundreds like him, eager for the quick riches that appeared inevitable, would start... View Details
- 04 Apr 2022
- Research & Ideas
Tech Hubs: How Software Brought Talent and Prosperity to New Cities
in the biggest population centers like Los Angeles, New York City, and Detroit, the regions “lost substantial relative grounds,” the researchers write. Researchers parsed patents across eight View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 2012
- Working Paper
No News Is Good News: CSR Strategy and Newspaper Coverage of Negative Firm Events
By: Jiao Luo, Stephan Meier and Felix Oberholzer-Gee
One of the benefits of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) programs, it has been argued, is that they build up a reservoir of public good will, shielding companies in times of trouble. In this paper, we test the view that CSR provides protection from public ire by... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Crisis Management; Media; Newspapers; Business and Community Relations; Corporate Strategy
Luo, Jiao, Stephan Meier, and Felix Oberholzer-Gee. "No News Is Good News: CSR Strategy and Newspaper Coverage of Negative Firm Events." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 12-091, April 2012.