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March 2017
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From mHealth Hackathon to Reality: Diabetes Care

By: Kevin Schulman and Curry Cheek

This case explores the development of a business plan for a mobile health application for diabetes care. The case depicts a student team excited about the opportunity to improve the care of patients with diabetes by contracting an app. They go through a rigorous... View Details

Keywords: Innovation; Mobile Health Technologies; Health Care; Health Care Industry; Behavioral Economics; Applications and Software; Health Care and Treatment; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Innovation and Invention; Health Industry; Telecommunications Industry

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Inviting Consumers to Downsize Fast-Food Portions Significantly Reduces Calorie Consumption

By: Janet Schwartz, Jason Riis, Brian Elbel and Dan Ariely

Policies that mandate calorie labeling in fast-food and chain restaurants have had little or no observable impact on calorie consumption to date. In three field experiments, we tested an alternative approach: activating consumers' self-control by having servers ask... View Details

Keywords: Food; Labels; Consumer Behavior; Interpersonal Communication; Motivation and Incentives; Health Industry; Food and Beverage Industry

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01 Jun 2011
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The Future of Cities

Having trouble finding parking? Consider this: In forty years, there will be 3 billion more citizens on Spaceship Earth, mostly in the developing world’s cities, as the planet’s population hits 9 billion in 2050. To consider how cities should address this explosive... View Details

01 Dec 2011
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At Your Service

Frei and Morriss: No heroics, please—partner with customers to make strategic service choices instead of trying to be the best at everything. In their new book, Uncommon Service: How to Win by Putting Customers at the Core of Your Business (Harvard Business Review... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; customer service; Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services; Air Transportation; Transportation

18 Nov 2013
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Diving into the 'Shark Tank'

Donna Khalife (MBA 2011, at left) and sister, Rosy, make their pitch on ABC-TV's Shark Tank. Donna Khalife (MBA 2011) and her sister, Rosy, were taking a lunch break from work on their startup Surprise Ride—which delivers a box of curated children's activities... View Details

Keywords: Morrell, Daniel; parenting; childhood; Information; Information; Information; Information

09 Jun 2017
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Curating the Cuisine of Southwest China

really. Skydeck is produced by the External Relations department at Harvard Business School and edited by Craig McDonald. It is available at iTunes or wherever you get your favorite podcasts. For more information or to find archived... View Details

July 2024
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Jacqueline Cook at Vendasta: Debating an IPO

By: Reza Satchu, Tom Quinn and Andrew Kosc

In May 2021, after a surge in demand for digital services that prompted high valuations for startups across the Canadian tech sector, Saskatchewan-based Vendasta entered the final stages of the initial public offering (IPO) process. COO Jacqueline Cook had invested her... View Details

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25 Aug 2022
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A New Platform for Alumni Engagement

alumni to inform future research. “HBS is applying the innovation model to teaching, which will make it possible to creatively inspire engaged learning ...” —Morgan McKenney (MBA 2003) “HBS is applying the innovation model to teaching,... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Jun 2013
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Progression to the Mean

Mean Girls & Boys More than 80 students lent a hand to the April production of this year's HBS Show, Mean Girls & Boys—a parody of the 2004 Lindsay Lohan movie—which finds a new first-year student struggling with two sets of friends in her section: the lovable outcasts... View Details

01 Sep 2007
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Spring Reunions

Dean Jay Light ( right) entertained alumni in the Dean’s House garden. Sectionmates forever! Photos by Neal Hamberg At last June’s reunions, if you had a nickel for every time someone said “It’s great to see you again!” you’d have a tidy sum to plow into some of those... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Jun 2003
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Research Center Opens in Paris

In March, official opening ceremonies were held in Paris for the European Research Center (ERC). The center, which has been operational since spring 2002, is part of the School’s ongoing commitment to create intellectual capital worldwide and to form and strengthen... View Details

Keywords: European Research Center; ERC; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

20 Sep 2011
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Live from HBS

Keywords: Dean Nitin Nohria; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Dec 2020
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The Fine Print: Alumni Recommend Their Best Reads

Even if 2020 wasn’t a profitable year for booksellers, it seems to have been a banner year for reading. When we asked alumni to tell us about the best titles they’ve read this year, we received a flood of recommendations. Here we offer a sampling, in no particular... View Details

01 Dec 2004
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Emmons Heads Christensen Center

Willis Emmons (MBA ’85, PHDBE ’89) has rejoined HBS as the first director of the C. Roland Christensen Center for Teaching and Learning. Emmons, who began his new position in October, taught at HBS from 1989 to 1999 as a member of the BGIE unit. He has spent the past... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Sep 2004
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Books

Predictable Surprises by Max H. Bazerman and Michael D. Watkins Seeing What’s Next by Clayton M. Christensen, Scott D. Anthony, and Erik A. Roth The Keystone Advantage by Marco Iansiti and Roy Levien Confidence by Rosabeth Moss Kanter Innovation and Its Discontents by... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Mar 2012
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The Key to Getting into HBS

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Dec 2007
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A View from the Top

The Alumni Achievement Award is the School’s highest honor, first established in 1968 and bestowed upon only a handful of HBS graduates each year. That distinction, however, didn’t protect this year’s five winners from some tough questioning by HBS professor and senior... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Management

05 Jun 2017
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Women on Boards: A Course Becomes a Movement

combination of expertise. We can’t place women on boards, but we can create the conditions and the awareness that will move boards in that direction.” Find information on November’s Women on Boards programming at... View Details

Keywords: Margaret Kelley