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- 25 Aug 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Raymond Hwang (MBA 2010)
people will experience significant spine-related symptoms at some point. The ability to improve the quality of many lives makes spine surgery relevant. Contemporary spine surgery is also heavily technology... View Details
- 27 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 27
resources furnished by its partners. Receptivity in turn portrays how organizational capabilities and the quality of ties to partners facilitate flows of network resources. We propose that the interplay of these three mechanisms... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Dec 2000
- What Do You Think?
Have We Overdone Deregulation and Privatization?
consumers were that deregulation: (1) unleashes the power of a self-correcting free market (Jeff Struck), giving customers services at prices they are willing to pay and quality levels that they are willing to pay for (at least in the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 02 Dec 2015
- What Do You Think?
What Will It Take to Achieve Gender Equality in Leadership?
job Let the numbers fall where they may. You may find that people achieving their dreams has no link with gender equality.” For others, “having the best people doing the job” may have been seen as having a subjective quality to it, based... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 25 Jul 2024
- News
Mentorship Program in Singapore is Still Lighting the Way to Success
becoming the bottleneck of the process. When the lockdown lifted, we decided to take a step back for a year so we could strategize with our mentee school partners to improve our process.” The program rebooted for the 2023/2024 year with a... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 10 May 2016
- First Look
May 10, 2016
developing world. We then discuss how survey techniques can be improved to better measure willingness to pay for urban amenities. Finally, we explain how Internet data is being used to improve the View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- Profile
Micah Macfarlane
Micah Macfarlane tries to make every career decision to make the greatest difference in the most lives. Before HBS, Micah worked in global health – expanding access to quality care and, especially, affordable medicines. "I worked to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
The Myth of Laissez-Faire
taxes bring us? Improved schools, universal health care, energy and environmental solutions, better jobs and rising incomes, and the flexibility to deal with abrupt changes in the world. In short, the standard of living will once again... View Details
- 06 Dec 2012
- News
New Thinking on Healthcare Reform
consumers," Brown observed. "They have ever-rising expectations about the quality and clarity of their care." For that reason, Brown envisions a movement toward personally kept electronic records, a portable system that can be easily kept... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Raymond A. Baxter: Sweet Smell of Success
improve their ability to approach the public, make plans, and set goals." Baxter worked at the "Grandma's" cookie division of Frito-Lay before coming to Interbake Foods in 1987. His earliest priorities included updating production... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Meeting the Challenges of Third-World Development
productivity but also by offering a sustainable means for families to improve the quality of their lives through their own hard work and initiative. The goal is to empower individuals so they can mobilize... View Details
- 27 Jan 2014
- Blog Post
Opportunity Abounds
infrastructure), but the opportunities presented by India’s rise cannot be ignored by any business that improves quality of life. FIELD 2 was an amazing experience not just because of the travel, but also... View Details
Keywords: Technology
- Profile
Zihan Lin
Medical. In collaboration with three engineering colleagues and a cosmetic surgeon, Zi designed a superior, post-surgery "splint" to improve rhinoplasty recoveries and reduce revision rates. Heal Medical has already moved beyond... View Details
- Web
Impact on a Global Scale | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
to Bridgespan. “In the years ahead, we have an historic opportunity to fundamentally attack social problems,” he adds. “Not just to contain or ameliorate problems, but to actually achieve step function improvements in the welfare of... View Details
- 08 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 8
financial crisis. The trouble is that investment value and asset volatility are simply the wrong measures if your goal is to secure a particular future income. In this article, Merton explains a liability-driven investment strategy whose aim is to View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 06 Jun 2013
- Op-Ed
How to Do Away with the Dangers of Outsourcing
diminishing the quality and even viability of its offerings. Outsourcing Has Its Costs Just ask Boeing. No firm placed a bigger bet on the virtual organization model. Its new 787 Dreamliner was going to be the UN of manufactured goods:... View Details
- 23 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Are Great Teams Less Productive?
forced me to work hard to develop ways to support my proposition, which ultimately they came to see as reasonable, if not obvious in retrospect. Since that time, my research has continued to investigate how group dynamics affect an organization's ability to learn—to... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- Profile
Maxeme Tuchman
By her junior year in high school, Max Tuchman was a hair's breadth away from dropping out. At issue were neither her grades nor conditions at home, but her disgust with the "poor quality of the Miami-Dade public schools," says... View Details
- 15 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
Going Green Makes Good Business Sense
food they consumed to the jobs they took. Environmental quality does behave like a luxury good.— Forest L. Reinhardt All that has changed, partly due to alarming disasters such as the Exxon Valdez oil spill in 1989 and the 1984 Union... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 28 Jul 2014
- Blog Post
Mid-summer Update
Business System) and witnessed its culture in action at “ground zero”. There was much emphasis on being data-driven and self-driven. We spoke to past MBA interns who have joined the company full-time and have done exceptionally well. We learned about new HR initiatives... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing