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- 31 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 31, 2018
the few instances that they are, the data are not standardized, not interoperable, and not readily accessible to clinicians, researchers, or policymakers. While such barriers to easy health information exchange are hardly unique to India, the greenfield View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
The Future of Stem Cells
cardiovascular disease. In addition, apart from any possible therapeutic benefits, embryonic stem-cell research could play a central role in helping to understand the nature and development of disease generally. Spar, the Spangler Family... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 22 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
Name Your Price. Really.
Pro-self? Furthermore, Santana borrowed a concept from strategic games and socially interdependent decision-making that divides people based on their "social value orientation" (SVO). When faced with a decision on how to allocate View Details
- 09 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Entrepreneurs Who Invented Economic Forecasting
success with clients and the public? What need were the forecasters fulfilling? A: The key was the nature of the time. Forecasters found a ready audience during a time of social and economic turbulence. The late nineteenth and early... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
The Critical Computer Science Principles Every Strategic Leader Needs to Know
distinguishes one computer from another. In reality, the operating system is more like a chief executive in that it allocates resources and establishes and controls workflow. In the simplest sense, it tells the computer how to get the... View Details
- 13 Apr 2021
- Blog Post
2021 48th Annual H. Naylor Fitzhugh Conference Honors Black Women Leaders
Flanking the Saturday conference keynote were two days of special programming; the second Black New Venture Competition (BNVC) and Black Tech Masters Series. Founded by MBA Class of 2020’s Tyler Simpson and Kim Foster, the initiative aims to open up the View Details
- 20 Feb 2014
- News
Managing the World’s Trouble Spots
There’s no problem the business world can’t solve. That’s the thinking of Robert Goodwin (GMP 3, 2008), who believes companies—and the great minds who run them—can find sustainable solutions for humanitarian crises. “For whatever reason, business View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 07 Dec 2016
- HBS Case
Why Millennials Flock to Fintech for Personal Investing
down leads and making personal visits with potential clients. They also spend considerable resources in traditional marketing, especially the large firms. Those setup costs must be recovered over time through fees. Wealthfront keeps those... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Sam Hayes
bulls. I'm not at all surprised by the nature of the conflicts that have been revealed, nor the areas in which abuses have taken place. These minefields have long been apparent to industry participants. What I find sobering is that a... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 25 Aug 2020
- Blog Post
Hikma Health + HBS MBAs Crowdsource Largest County-Level COVID-19 Dataset
given their immense differences; an economics group at Amherst College is using our dataset to find links between COVID responses and rugged individualism; and Emory University epidemiologists are using the dataset to perform natural... View Details
- 11 Jun 2021
- News
The Power of Resilience
warrior mode, where I just braced myself to hear the news of the diagnosis and was very strangely matter-of-fact in my questions, just trying to understand what is the stage, what is the action plan? It was only when she told me that View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Entrepreneurship at HBS
newest generation of HBS alumni is helping chart the future. Due in part to the imagination and determination of these pioneers and to shifts in worldwide economic conditions, the very nature of general management has undergone dramatic... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Case Study: On the Table
for the challenge of educating and acquiring customers new to making large online purchases. But what the company didn’t expect was the absence of the infrastructure necessary to support e-commerce. Very quickly, Cahuzac realized that the company’s attention and View Details
- 19 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19
Because of the different competencies and business models required for the traditional pharmaceutical business vs. pharmaceutical compounding, Imprimis did not have the resources to pursue both of these options at once. Instead, Baum had... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 21
dilemma" in which a startup's resource dependence drives a wedge between the startup's value and the founder's ability to retain control of decision making. I develop hypotheses about this tradeoff and test the hypotheses on a unique... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne
- 03 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 3
phronesis: experiential knowledge that enables people to make ethically sound judgments. Wise leaders demonstrate six abilities. They make decisions on the basis of what is good for the organization and for society. They quickly grasp the essence of a situation and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 2
indicators. Statistical tests show that differences in average episode values between the two groups are significant for the following: amount of FDI received, the share of natural resource rents in GDP,... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 14 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Big Money for Big Projects
commitments. Second, depletion of existing natural resources means firms will have to develop resources in increasingly remote locations subject to higher levels of sovereign... View Details
- 13 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Leaders Create Winning Streaks
the organizational structures and routines for accountability, collaboration, and initiative. External confidence: This is confidence that external stakeholders, based on their positive expectations produced by the previous three levels of confidence, will invest to... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter & Walter Kiechel
- 11 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 11
Sustainable Evaluation System Strategy By: Eccles, Robert G., and Peijun Duan Abstract—China's sustainable development faces three challenges: first, the follow-up momentum of sustainable economic growth and economic transformation is insufficient; second, some View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne