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29 Sep 2009
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has good information about cost and demand functions, product quality, and optimal output mix. Profit centers—defined as business units whose managers have responsibility for overall profits but not the authority to make major capital... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

25 Jan 2010
Research & Ideas

A Macroeconomic View of the Current Economy

influencing the cost and availability of money, goods, and services. Macroeconomic forces can conspire to make business more difficult, but they can also present opportunities to executives who know how to, for example, read a country's View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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History NY Aaron Sparrow Baruch College Campus High School New York, NY MA Danielle Spencer Madison Park Technical Vocational High School Boston, MA Subjects: U.S. History 2 (1877-Present) NY Anthony Staccone Tutorial House, United View Details

2022
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Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire

By: Caroline M. Elkins

Sprawling across a quarter of the world’s land mass and claiming nearly seven hundred million people, Britain’s twentieth-century empire was the largest empire in human history. For many Britons, it epitomized their nation’s cultural superiority, but what legacy did... View Details

Keywords: Imperialism; Violence; Colonialism; History; Government and Politics; Power and Influence; Race; Policy; United Kingdom

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08 Sep 2014
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The Strategic Way To Hire a Sales Team

management," says Cespedes, a senior lecturer in the Entrepreneurial Management unit at Harvard Business School. "But far fewer confront a basic fact: Companies typically spend much more money and hire many more people,... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

September 2017
Editorial

Helping Patients with Cancer Navigate Narrow Networks

By: Stephen M. Schleicher, Emeline M. Aviki and Thomas W. Feeley

The Affordable Care Act of 2010 (ACA) was designed primarily to improve patient access to affordable health care. The access-expanding provisions of the ACA included federal- and state-based health insurance exchanges with minimum coverage requirements and preexisting... View Details

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Insurance; Problems and Challenges; United States

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02 Jan 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 3, 2018

environmental regulation. Previously, it was believed that corporate managers resisted the extra costs imposed by environmental regulation from the 1960s. This argument was primarily based on empirical evidence from the United States. It... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

July 2021
Article

Medical Debt in the U.S., 2009–2020

By: Raymond Kluender, Neale Mahoney, Francis Wong and Wesley Yin

Importance: Medical debt is an increasing concern in the US, yet there is limited understanding of the amount and distribution of medical debt, and its association with health care policies.

Objective: To measure the amount of medical debt nationally and by... View Details

Keywords: Debt; Borrowing and Debt; Health Care and Treatment; United States

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04 Aug 2009
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to second-line drug regimens, 3.8% had died, and only one patient had been lost to follow up. A costing analysis done by the Clinton HIV/AIDS Initiative suggested that the model could feasibly be spread to other districts. Dr. Agnes Binagwaho, Executive Director of... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

10 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 10, 2009

http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=509004 The Great Moderation Harvard Business School Note 709-023 The Great Moderation is a significant decline in the volatility of fluctuations in most macroeconomic variables that the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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About the Project - U.S. Competitiveness

and improve the competitiveness of the United States—that is, the ability of firms operating in the U.S. to compete successfully in the global economy while supporting high and rising living standards for Americans. The Project focuses... View Details

01 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 1, 2008

http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=708036 PublicationsWhere Oil-Rich Nations Are Placing Their Global Bets Authors:Rawi Abdelal, Ayesha Khan, and Tarun Khanna Publication:Harvard Business... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

September 2016 (Revised July 2017)
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Transferring Knowledge Between Projects at NASA JPL (A)

By: Dorothy Leonard and Christopher Myers

The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a federally funded research institution within NASA, the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration, has played a large role in many space and planetary explorations, particularly to the planet Mars. As a project-based... View Details

Keywords: Knowledge Sharing; Knowledge Management; Employees; Experience and Expertise; Aerospace Industry; United States

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13 Jan 2020
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Do Private Equity Buyouts Get a Bad Rap?

Private equity buyouts are a polarizing financial prospect. One need only look at the name of the recent bill that Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) introduced to regulate private equity in the United States—the “Stop Wall Street Looting... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services; Banking

10 Oct 2023
Blog Post

Policy Drivers for Environmental Justice: What Businesses Need to Know

EJ, business, and policy. First, this paper will develop clear definitions for this and related terms to ensure conversations about environmental justice are centered around a common understanding of the topic. Second, it will go into major policy drivers of EJ in the... View Details

17 Jun 2011
HBS Case

KFC’s Explosive Growth in China

humble. "There's no room for ego," Su explained in the case. "China doesn't have the same culture of individualism that is present in the United States." Su's strategy was that KFC "would not be seen as a foreign... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish; Food & Beverage

03 May 2016
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America’s foremost firms, illustrate alternatives to America’s largely laissez-faire approach. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51000 in press Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

08 Nov 2013
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Laura Diaz Anadon, Harvard Kennedy School

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Experiments in Open Innovation at Harvard Medical School

By: Eva C. Guinan, Kevin J. Boudreau and Karim R. Lakhani

Harvard Medical School seems an unlikely organization to open up its innovation process. By most measures, the more than 20,000 faculty, research staff and graduate students affiliated with Harvard Medical School are already world class and at the top of the medical... View Details

Keywords: Health Disorders; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Boston

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