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24 Oct 2016
Research & Ideas

Bernie Madoff Explains Himself

in history. “Madoff is an extreme case in many ways, but in other ways, he is just someone who fell prey to biases and the tendency to rationalize” Madoff’s phone-time allowance was limited, and he saved much of it for his conversations... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services

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institution of marriage, highlighting significant changes in societal norms and personal relationships. It discusses the decline in marriage rates in industrialized nations, particularly Japan and the United States,... June 2025 Teaching Material The Miccosukee Tribe... View Details

08 Aug 2022
HBS Case

Building an 'ARMY' of Fans: Marketing Lessons from K-Pop Sensation BTS

complete with a plot that featured band member Jin as a time-traveling hero trying to save his bandmates, each with their own alter-egos. The story allowed BTS to create interlinking music and videos as well as a weekly webcomic, a novel,... View Details

Keywords: by Shalene Gupta; Media & Broadcasting; Music

22 Nov 2016
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November 22, 2016

Care Thaddeus Fulford-Jones and Eric Weiss, founders of healthcare technology startup Radial Analytics, have been busy developing a software program designed to save hospitals money and improve patient outcomes by producing customized... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

22 Mar 2024
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Open Source Software: The $9 Trillion Resource Companies Take for Granted

vulnerable, a realization that is slowly making its way into upper management as firms consider hiring employees to spend at least part of their time dedicated to OSS. “Boards have to be thinking and understanding that by using open source, they're View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Computer; Information Technology; Technology

01 Jun 2024
News

In My Humble Opinion: Career Change

When Wakana Tanaka (MBA 2003) was 13 years old, her father’s new job took the family from their home in Tokyo to Jakarta. It was a big change, not just geographically but also culturally. Tanaka enrolled in an international school where she was encouraged to have her... View Details

Keywords: Michelle Cassidy; recruitment; demographics; Japan

19 Dec 2023
Research & Ideas

15 Podcast Episodes That Grabbed Listeners in 2023

Ranjay Gulati talks to Tynan about her learning journey, and how she managed the risks of entrepreneurship while aiming to make a lasting impact. Saving BlackBerry: CEO John Chen Explains How to Make the Hard Calls John Chen was hired to... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

October 2022
Article

It’s Not Just the Prices: Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing for Initiation of Veno-Venous Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation at Three International Sites—A Case Review

By: Michael Nurok, Vin Pellegrino, Marc Pineton de Chambrun, Jonathan Warsh, Meredith Young, Erik Dong, Neil Parrish, Syed Shehab, Alain Combes and Robert S. Kaplan

The United States spends more for intensive care units (ICUs) than do other high-income countries. We used time-driven activity-based costing (TDABC) to analyze ICU costs for initiation of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) for respiratory failure to estimate... View Details

Keywords: Healthcare; Cost; Time-Driven ABC; Health Care and Treatment; Cost Management; Activity Based Costing and Management; Health Industry

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01 Jun 2023
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3-Minute Briefing: Jeremy Grantham (MBA 1966)

Edited by Julia Hanna; photo by Webb Chappell When I was 16, I took my savings to the bank and bought some shares of a neighbor’s scaffolding company. Before coming to HBS, I sold them to my mother, who had also acquired some, and we felt... View Details

Keywords: climate change; finance; sustainability; prediction; Finance

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2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

enormous burden on society. Delaying the onset of AD by just 5 years can save nearly a trillion dollars in the next decade in the US alone. Despite growing knowledge, treatments for AD have been largely ineffective because changes in the... View Details

15 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019

workout plan, enabling more than 90% to meet their payments and get back to good credit standing, while saving the bank more than $80 million in bad debt annually. Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/719417-PDF-ENG Harvard... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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Finance - Faculty & Research

Employees Build Emergency Savings By: Timothy Flacke and Peter Tufano June 2025 Case TfL Pension Fund and the 2022 Gilt Market Crisis By: Emil N. Siriwardane , Vincent Dessain, Emer Moloney and Carlota Moniz 2017 Book HBR Guide to Buying... View Details

30 Aug 2016
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August 30, 2016

the CFO role. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/216079-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 316-178 Olivia Lum: Wanting to Save the World This case considers the entrepreneurial career of Olivia Lum, who founded... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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Executive Education | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

two. These personal and professional connections have been invaluable." Strategic Perspectives in Nonprofit Management Carolyn Miles President & CEO | Save the Children "You absolutely need to have that wider view, but the practical tools... View Details

15 May 2007
Working Paper Summaries

How is Foreign Aid Spent? Evidence from a Compelling Natural Experiment

Keywords: by Eric Werker, Faisal Z. Ahmed & Charles Cohen

Building Sustainable Cities

By 2050 the number of people living in cities will have nearly doubled, to 6 billion, and the problems created by this rampant urbanization are among the most important challenges of our time. Of all resource-management issues, the author argues, water, electricity,... View Details

18 Mar 2013
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HBS Cases: LEGO

managing a balanced business system," says Thomke. "Complexity is something you need to watch very closely." Controlling complexity, clarifying the core of its business, and engaging the larger community helped save the... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish; Entertainment & Recreation

05 May 2022
Research & Ideas

Why Companies Raise Their Prices: Because They Can

many took advantage of economies of scale and other more efficient production processes. Yet, firms increasingly held on to the savings they gained from these reduced costs, rather than passing them on to customers in the form of lower... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

June 2007 (Revised January 2008)
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The Vanguard Group, Inc. in 2006 and Target Retirement Funds

By: Luis M. Viceira

The Vanguard Group is one of the largest asset managers in the U.S., with over $1 trillion in assets, ninety percent of which are mutual fund assets, and more than 12,000 employees at year-end 2006. Vanguard has built a strong reputation as the manager of reference for... View Details

Keywords: Asset Management; Investment Funds; Personal Finance; Brands and Branding; Retirement; Trust; Financial Services Industry; United States