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- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Mara Aspinall
1,500-person division is a leader in the emerging field of personalized medicine, which treats cancer and other diseases with customized therapies that take into account the patient’s specific genetic traits. With HBS professor Richard... View Details
- 07 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 7
even small differences in members' status perceptions—differences that may not be apparent to the members themselves—can diminish coordination, generate task conflict, and weaken performance. Survey data from a longitudinal field study of 89 consulting and audit teams... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Jun 2006
- Research & Ideas
Using Competition to Reform Healthcare
physician. A growing number of providers have begun to address several of the imperatives, but few, if any, providers are currently addressing all of them. The shift to a value-based model is self-reinforcing. As more of these imperatives... View Details
- 19 Aug 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #8: The Role of Solar and Wind Farming (and Other Tools) in the United States’ Clean Energy Future
future.” – Diana Rivera (MBA 2010) Diana Rivera is one of the very few Harvard Business School alums and one of fewer women who has been a transmission grid developer at scale. As Development Director for Lightsource bp, Diana currently... View Details
- 25 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #1: Kameale C. Terry
be better stewards of the Earth. Whether we succeed or not, the Earth will always be here. The real question is whether we humans will exist on this Earth.” Just the Facts: Transportation is the largest source of overall US greenhouse gas emissions, View Details
- 14 Aug 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 14, 2018
intervention. Hence, an understanding of residual market imperfections—those imperfections that persist after market competition and regulation are accounted for—must inform any assessment of the long-term attractiveness of firm... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century
latter. Richard Vietor In the first decade of the 21st century, two macroeconomic trends have dominated the global economy. First, a huge asymmetry in current account balances evolved, and continues to... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Learning Curve: Making the Most of Outsourcing
and licensed to practice radiology in the United States. The data set included 2.7 million scans read by the radiologists for 1,431 customers over a 30-month period. Nearly 85 percent of the scans were CT; roughly 10 percent were ultrasound; and X-ray, MRI, and nuclear... View Details
- 04 May 2009
- Research & Ideas
What’s Next for the Big Financial Brands
to advertise when media stories of trips and bonuses remind consumers of their extravagance and malfeasance? For consumers to change banks is burdensome but they can easily move assets among their accounts at different firms. No... View Details
- 24 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Global Brands: Connecting With Consumers Across Boundaries
that casks of whiskey and farm animals were "branded"—or seared—with some kind of mark to identify ownership, she pointed out, the word didn't take on its current commercial connotation until the 18th century and the First... View Details
Keywords: by James E. Aisner
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
An Rx for Small Business Recovery
COVID-19’s impact on the sector makes 2009 look like a teeny blip.” There are over 30 million small businesses in the United States, accounting for half of the nation’s private sector employment and the majority of job creation. Many of... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
William H. Donaldson, MBA 1958
ten-year time frames for your next move. It's better to focus on what you're doing and stick with it until it becomes redundant or isn't fun anymore.” CURRENT READING Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, by Doris... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
World Class Learning
'96), was recently promoted to director of National Accounts with L'Oreal in Spain. "Prior to my MBA studies," says Baeza, a Swiss native, "I had been working in Switzerland for Nivea for four years as a group product manager in the... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
again: As the very first person to enroll in an innovative new health-care program in Massachusetts, she may be leading the way to medical coverage and care for the 47 million Americans who are currently uninsured. Rhenisch’s experience... View Details
- 27 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 27, 2009
behavior and practices led Enron down the path from truly innovative to fraudulent management? How could Enron’s board of directors have failed to detect the business, ethical, and legal risks embedded in the company’s aggressive financial strategies and View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
from West to East, but from East to West. And it is a mighty flow. In 2007, the United States needed to borrow around $800 billion from the rest of the world; more than $4 billion every working day. China, by contrast, ran a current View Details
- 10 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018
religiosity at the individual level and employing a religious prime. That is, the more religious people are, the less willing they are to follow through on novel purchase opportunities that arise during their grocery shopping trips. This effect is consistent with the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 May 2023
- Blog Post
Choosing To Be Optimistic about Climate Change
that, which is virtually impossible, according to Jayant Sinha, Member of the Indian Parliament. This discussion underscored the tension between optimism and foreboding that characterizes our current situation. Climate Policy Prof. Gunnar... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
HBS Introduces Global Networking through Technology
information - name, degree, and class year - classmates can easily find each other. "The HBS e-mail address will never change; alumni may move, change jobs, or change online service providers, but as long as they provide their current... View Details
- 08 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The Civic Benefits of Google Street View and Yelp
algorithm it generates to predict income levels based on images for which data is unavailable. When the researchers crunched those numbers, they determined that the image analysis could give a much more accurate prediction for income than other measures. In statistical... View Details