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  • 01 Oct 2001
  • News

The Eyes Have It: Business Plan Winners Pursue Global Vision

a microentrepreneur borrows from a microfinance institution, such as ACCION International or Grameen Bank, to pay for a testing kit and eyeglass supplies. The entrepreneur, who also undergoes a one-week... View Details
Keywords: eyeglasses
  • 01 Jun 2011
  • News

Students Start-Ups Tap New HBS Fund

Nine HBS student-led teams received grants in March averaging $5,000 to $7,000 to launch and test their start-up business ideas. A total of $50,000 was made available through the pilot Minimum Viable Product... View Details
Keywords: awards
  • March 2023 (Revised March 2024)
  • Case

The Purdue Pharma Bankruptcy: Settling the Opioid Crisis

By: Kristin Mugford, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Susan Pinckney
How to get to a fair outcome for claimants in the Purdue Pharma bankruptcy given its significant role in the U.S. opioid crisis. View Details
Keywords: Regulation; Ethics; Fairness; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Government Legislation; Courts and Trials; Laws and Statutes; Lawsuits and Litigation; Legal Liability; Crime and Corruption; Negotiation Offer; Negotiation Participants; Negotiation Style; Product Design; Product Development; Brands and Branding; Marketing Strategy; Trust; Government and Politics; Law; Negotiation; Operations; Ownership; Marketing; Social Psychology; Health Care and Treatment; Pharmaceutical Industry; United States
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  • 28 Jan 2014
  • First Look

First Look: January 28

capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella) and 4-year-old children pay forward positive and negative outcomes in an identical testing paradigm. These results suggest that a cognitively... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 May 2011
  • First Look

First Look: May 3

small cancer diagnostics start-up is deciding whether to acquire a laboratory to make and sell its bladder cancer test or build its own manufacturing and sales team. Purchase... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Apr 2008
  • First Look

First Look: April 22, 2008

work, we look at the gold standard era (1880-1914) as a "natural experiment" to test whether adoption of a rule-based monetary framework such as the gold standard increased policy credibility. On the basis of the largest... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 Sep 2007
  • First Look

First Look: September 25, 2007

model using data from 93 change projects conducted by clinical managers at the National Health Service in the United Kingdom. My findings suggest that social position is an important enabling condition for divergent organizational change,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Web

Student Handbook | MBA

extraordinary circumstances to protect the health and safety of the Harvard community. For these purposes “extraordinary circumstances” include, but are not limited to, public View Details
  • 20 Dec 2016
  • First Look

December 20, 2016

artificial worlds for hypothesis testing and theory building. Agent-based models (ABMs) offer unprecedented control and statistical power by allowing researchers to precisely... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 08 May 2020
  • In Practice

Nonprofits Hurt by COVID-19 Must Hoard Cash to Hold On

and prepare to lead transformation. While it is still not clear how long the health crisis and resulting economic crisis will last, most agree that the world will be different... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
  • Profile

Avi Kremer

could convince them that ALS is a good investment, market forces will do more than all the ALS foundations worldwide can do.” In 2011 and 2012, Prize4Life awarded million-dollar prizes for tests that measure... View Details
Keywords: Health Care; Health Care
  • 16 Jul 2019
  • News

The Making of a Movement

cancers.” Hundreds of millions of dollars later, there is no doubt that strategy has worked. Most important, those donations have had a tangible impact. “One hundred percent of the money funds rare cancer research and clinical View Details
Keywords: Greg Forbes Siegman; cancer
  • 26 Sep 2019
  • Research & Ideas

What Can the World’s Largest Refugee Camp Teach Us About the Meaning of Work?

day.” Testing the unique benefits of work By all accounts, overcrowding, extreme poverty, and the experience of forced displacement inside the camps has taken a profound toll. Doctors Without Borders has... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
  • 16 Apr 2013
  • First Look

First Look: April 16

that prosocial spending is associated with greater happiness around the world, in poor and rich countries alike. To test for causality, in Studies 2a and 2b, we used... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Mar 2017
  • News

How Deep Brain Stimulation Could Change Medicine

surgery. While Bennet admits that researchers are only now beginning to understand how such neuromodulation therapies work within our brains, he also notes that Mayo aims to continue to test Harmoni’s efficacy on issues like spinal cord... View Details
Keywords: Janelle Nanos
  • Web

Teams | New Venture Competition

technological innovation with social and economic impact The Paal Manali Jain (MPP 2025) Shivam Johri Enabling smallholder women farmers to harness the full potential of livestock farming Zest Health Darren... View Details
  • 17 Oct 2012
  • Research & Ideas

America Needs a Manufacturing Renaissance

foundation upon which future innovative sectors can be built is crumbling. When the semiconductor production business moved to Asia in the 1980s, it brought with it a whole host of capabilities—electronic-materials processing, deposition View Details
Keywords: by Gary P. Pisano & Willy C. Shih; Manufacturing
  • 24 Apr 2012
  • First Look

First Look: April 24

to large exogenous sources of non-systematic income risk? We use a series of randomized field experiments in rural India to test the importance of price and non-price factors in the adoption of an innovative... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • Profile

Mi Zhou

had little time for strategy. I helped him delegate authority and develop reporting relationships that would allow him to focus on the big picture.” Testing interests After five years with McKinsey, Mi found... View Details
  • 20 Jan 2011
  • News

Oil Spill Solution

plants, birds, fish, and shrimp. Smith’s planned two-day visit to test his products in the Gulf last May turned into an entire summer working with residents whose lives and... View Details