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- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
combined with annual assessments on insurance providers, hospitals, and, indirectly, employers. Observes Pozen: “Any state thinking of following the Massachusetts model needs to have, as we did, a clear accounting View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Adapting to Meet Changing Needs
program participated in an intensive summer seminar on systems engineering before beginning their first-year studies in the MBA Program. HBX Course Development Stretches and Energizes Faculty In developing new Leadership courses for the... View Details
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Globalization and Emerging Markets - Course Catalog
for a government in an emerging or frontier market, as well as for those who wish to acquire a richer conceptual understanding of the nature of capitalism, globalization, and economic development worldwide. The unit of analysis of the course ranges from the... View Details
- 05 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Radical Change, Entrepreneurial Opportunity
Microsoft rebranded its PDA operating system from Windows CE to Pocket PC in an attempt to influence users to think of a PDA as analogous to a PC. So by proactively defining the new product in a particular... View Details
- Profile
Sebastian Vargas
listen to your breathing, all while enjoying the moment and uncertainty of what is ahead with those around you. Being part of the HBS community is like... ...finding the map to all unknown paths in your world. The community opens your mind to possibilities and helps... View Details
- 22 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Social Capital Markets: Creating Value in the Nonprofit World
for"outcome-based" funding — a process based on nonprofits achievingcertain goals. "It comes down to people questioning the system inwhich we've invested hundreds of billions of dollars and asking, 'Is itworking in an... View Details
Keywords: by Anne Kavanagh
- 02 Jan 2018
- News
Reconsidering Retirement
think long term. That meant looking not just a few decades ahead to his own retirement, but also as much as a century ahead to his infant son’s old age. He needed to think like a university shepherding its... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Benaree Wiley
young, Wiley was a pioneer in negotiating a flexible schedule for her public policy consulting work with Urban Systems Research and Engineering. "Of course, as a working parent, any choice you make is demanding," she cautions, remembering... View Details
Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner
- 22 Oct 2013
- News
Pulling the Plug
audience bursts into applause, he delivers his key pitch: Just think about all the wires coming off things like TVs, he says. "Imagine if you can get rid of 'em." Finally untethering consumers from their wall sockets and their... View Details
- 08 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Japan Compete? [Part Two]
open competition. If you were to divide up the Japanese government's energies between repairing ailing industries and spurring on new ones, how would you do that? Not to be too provocative here, but I would say that this is the wrong way to View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Riding It Out
recall of 450,000 tires missing a key safety feature that a U.S. importer had purchased from a Chinese manufacturer and distributed to retail outlets. “I don’t think there is a strong culture of adherence to regulations in China right... View Details
- 29 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Are First-Time Buyers Left Out of Real Estate’s Rebound?
would lessen the incentive for buying a home. Bottom line, the deduction remained, but with one change. Instead of being unlimited, it was capped at a million dollars. As we look back at what happened with the housing market implosion, I View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Faculty Books
think about these subjects. High Commitment, High Performance: How to Build a Resilient Organization for Sustained Advantage by Michael Beer (Jossey-Bass) Drawing on many management studies and his work with senior managers, Professor... View Details
- 28 Apr 2020
- Blog Post
A Crash Course in Saving a Family Business
my own retail experience to help Jiyoon,” says Endline. “What I have said to her is, now that you’ve launched the site, you need to build the community and think about how you are talking to your customers. Get into the mindset of the... View Details
- 21 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Marketing Resources Allocation Puzzle
to create a framework to help managers think about their allocation challenges. The result was published in a recent paper, "Allocating Marketing Resources". Brand managers can be confronted with a complex, daunting task, the authors... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS
understand this phenomenon over time and what role companies played in translating a few buyers' initial curiosity into widespread consumer loyalty. Brand New examines these issues by focusing on six outstanding entrepreneurs. Debora Spar: Several incidents led me to... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Hope for Reform Dims
for claw-backs when investments go sour, and give executives significant equity stakes in their companies. “Two firms with compensation plans like I just described, Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers, both failed. So having the right compensation View Details
- Profile
Humbulani Dombo
throughout life." Seeking "optionality," Humbulani majored in economics and information systems at the University of Cape Town. After completing her degree, she joined Anglo American, a diversified mining company, and... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing/Energy
- 29 May 2019
- News
HBS Career Coaches Hit the Road to Serve Alumni
May 9 as part of the association’s Civic Engagement Series. In addition to costing trillions, Deffarges says complexity in healthcare, government, finance, and other large systems is causing a broad range of other negative impacts on... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Corporate Governance Conference Addresses Global Challenges
competition, and offering resilience for economic downturns. "Any governance system is going to have to achieve these kinds of things," said Froot, noting that ineffective governance may have contributed to the demise of certain dot-coms... View Details