John Shad (MBA 1949) - Publications - Faculty & Research

02 Oct 2015
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The ‘F’ Word

the company I had started. At this point, with a wife and six-day-old daughter, I decided to apply for admission to HBS. Attending the MBA program, living in Cambridge, and meeting young, enterprising Americans, resulted in my immigrating... View Details

Keywords: Walt Disney Studios

22 Feb 2022
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March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books

charisma, negotiate comfortably and creatively, and spot manipulators before it’s too late. HBR Guide to Crafting Your Purpose By John Coleman (MBA 2009) Harvard Business Review Press We’re living through a crisis of purpose. Surveys... View Details

03 Oct 2017
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First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017

findings suggest that overbilling is an important alternative manipulation tool in hospitals. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53299 Healthy Business? Managerial Education and Management in Healthcare By: Bloom, Nicholas, Raffaella... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2020
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Prognosis

Image by John Ritter Back in January, the leadership at Massachusetts General Hospital, including President Dr. Peter Slavin (MBA 1990) (pictured above, right), took note of a virus that was spreading in China. They decided to activate... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; COVID-19; Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance

18 Aug 2021
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Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement

AllyRioting website, which includes links to resources divided into three categories: how to be a better human, how to be a better company, and voting with your voice and your dollars. Endline, an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at the Harvard Innovation Lab, hosts a regular... View Details

12 Sep 2006
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First Look: September 12, 2006

this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=606118 Ghana: National Economic Strategy Harvard Business School Case 706-497 Set in the year 2001, as President John Kufuor contemplates a national economic... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Sep 2024
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Next Level

MBA and then moved to the firm’s Seattle office in 2006, after relocating with her now-husband, Cory Toedebusch (MBA 2006). From there, she became the chief of staff to the CEO of T-Mobile in 2011 and senior vice president of emerging... View Details

Keywords: Maggie Mertens; photos by Cameron Karsten; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment

29 Sep 2008
Research & Ideas

Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel

the importance of risk management and oversight. Robert C. Merton, the John and Natty McArthur University Professor, similarly expressed concern about the unintended consequences of change on Wall Street, closing with the assertion that... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services

04 Jun 2007
Research & Ideas

Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?

innovations and entrepreneurs in health services to spring up. But we don't. I have an acquaintance, Garrison Bliss, who is a Harvard Medical School doctor, and his brother-in-law is Norman Wu, a software guy who went to the MBA program.... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Health

20 Jul 2010
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First Look: July 20

complexities into the expansion plans of this entrepreneurial firm. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/910404-PDF-ENG IDFC India: Infrastructure Investment Intermediaries John D. Macomber and Viraal BalsariHarvard... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Sep 2010
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RX for Change

insights into how managers can engage frontline workers to solve problems. Reunion presentation: Designing Care, Professor Richard Bohmer Health care–related programs and courses are nothing new at HBS; in recent years, 10 percent of every graduating View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Health, Social Assistance; Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance

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Lecturer John Batter Spring; Q3Q4; 3.0 credits Exam Note: No student who is in the JD/MBA program, or who is an attorney, or who has completed one year of law school should enroll in LME Career Focus: Every View Details

01 Jun 2014
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The Digital Deck

As a professor in the Strategy Unit, Bharat Anand has studied how media companies move a traditional product into the online space. Some have managed that transition well, he says, and others have not. In the early days, Anand observes, several newspapers simply posted... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

05 Aug 2008
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First Look: August 5, 2008

Rebalancing by Individual Investors Authors:Laurent E. Calvet, John Y. Campbell, and Paolo Sodini Abstract This paper investigates the dynamics of individual portfolios in a unique dataset containing the disaggregated wealth of all... View Details