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  • 18 Feb 2016
  • Blog Post

Honing an Interest in Healthcare at HBS

After five years working in venture capital and private equity, Laura Little (MBA 2015) was eager to make a career change. With a budding interest in early-stage healthcare, Laura enrolled at HBS to pursue her passion. These days Laura is... View Details
  • 2010
  • Working Paper

Do Call Centers Promote Education? Evidence from India

By: Emily Fair Oster and Mary Bryce Millett
Over the last two decades in India there have been large increases in outsourced jobs and large increases in schooling rates, particularly in English. Existing evidence suggests the trends are broadly related. In this paper we explore how localized these impacts are;... View Details
Keywords: Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Education; Training; Geographic Location; Technology Industry; India
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Oster, Emily Fair, and Mary Bryce Millett. "Do Call Centers Promote Education? Evidence from India." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 15922, August 2010.
  • 04 Feb 2007
  • News

Call It the 'Andy Amendment'

  • 25 Oct 2024
  • Blog Post

Harvard Business School Announces Latest RISE Fellows

to MBA candidates in each class who, prior to enrolling at HBS, have demonstrated exemplary commitment to serving Black/African American, Hispanic/Latinx, and other marginalized communities of color within the US. “This cohort of fellows... View Details
  • 09 Sep 2011
  • News

Business schools need to focus on students' 'doing' skills

    Derrick Bransby

    Derrick studies how teams accomplish complex work in novel contexts. His dissertation advances the idea of disciplined flexibility: a strategy teams use to navigate uncertainty... View Details
    • April 2008 (Revised May 2008)
    • Case

    Commonwealth Care Alliance: Elderly and Disabled Care

    By: Michael E. Porter and Jennifer F Baron
    Individuals enrolled in both Medicare and Medicaid, known as dual eligibles, are among the highest-cost beneficiaries in the US. Commonwealth Care Alliance, a small nonprofit insurer and care delivery system in Massachusetts, operated under a public demonstration... View Details
    Keywords: Programs; Public Sector; Alliances; Policy; Age; Service Delivery; Value; Health Care and Treatment; Welfare; Insurance Industry; Health Industry; Massachusetts
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    Porter, Michael E., and Jennifer F Baron. "Commonwealth Care Alliance: Elderly and Disabled Care." Harvard Business School Case 708-502, April 2008. (Revised May 2008.)
    • March 2009 (Revised September 2013)
    • Case

    Yelp

    By: Mikolaj Jan Piskorski, David Chen and Aaron Smith
    Yelp was a popular online destination for reviews of local establishments, written by volunteer Internet users and read by 60 million people per month. However, the company was far from profitable. The CEO needs to decide between two options to increase the revenue.... View Details
    Keywords: Digital Marketing; Business Model; Profit; Revenue; Marketing Strategy; Sales; Internet and the Web; Advertising Industry
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    Piskorski, Mikolaj Jan, David Chen, and Aaron Smith. "Yelp." Harvard Business School Case 709-412, March 2009. (Revised September 2013.)

      Harvard MS/MBA

      The Harvard MS/MBA confers an MBA from HBS and a Master of Science in Engineering Sciences from Harvard's Paulson School of Engineering & Applied Sciences. Each year, the program enrolls about 30 students who have an undergraduate... View Details

      • July 2018 (Revised November 2018)
      • Case

      The Robin Hood Army

      By: Susanna Gallani
      In 2014, Neel Ghose and a handful of friends spent one evening distributing excess food they had collected from local restaurants to the less fortunate people living under the Hauz Khas flyover in South Delhi. Four years later, this initiative had developed into The... View Details
      Keywords: Volunteer-based Organization; Food Redistribution; Nonprofit Organizations; Food; Human Needs; Expansion; Global Range; Growth and Development
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      Gallani, Susanna. "The Robin Hood Army." Harvard Business School Case 119-007, July 2018. (Revised November 2018.)
      • August 2002 (Revised June 2006)
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      Great Dakota Bank: Online Banking

      By: Frances X. Frei, Youngme E. Moon and Hanna Rodriguez-Farrar
      In 2002, Great Dakota Bank's retail division is considering how heavily it should be promoting the company's online banking service. A recent promotional campaign appears to have significantly increased enrollments in online banking, but it is unclear whether the bank... View Details
      Keywords: Banks and Banking; Internet and the Web; Customer Relationship Management; Consumer Behavior; Demand and Consumers; Technological Innovation; Customer Value and Value Chain; Customer Satisfaction; Management; Service Operations; Banking Industry
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      Frei, Frances X., Youngme E. Moon, and Hanna Rodriguez-Farrar. "Great Dakota Bank: Online Banking." Harvard Business School Case 603-011, August 2002. (Revised June 2006.)
      • 11 Mar 2013
      • News

      Harvard Business School Celebrates 50 Years of Women in Business Education with New Exhibit

      • February 2019
      • Article

      Does It Matter If Your Health Insurer Is For Profit? Effects of Ownership on Premiums, Insurance Coverage, and Medical Spending

      By: Leemore S. Dafny
      There is limited empirical evidence about the impact of for-profit health insurers on various outcomes. I study the effects of conversions to for-profit status by Blue Cross Blue Shield (BCBS) affiliates in 11 states, spanning 28 geographic markets. I find both the... View Details
      Keywords: Health Insurance; Medical Loss Ratio; Blue Cross; Corporate Governance; Health; Insurance; For-Profit Firms; Insurance Industry; United States
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      Dafny, Leemore S. "Does It Matter If Your Health Insurer Is For Profit? Effects of Ownership on Premiums, Insurance Coverage, and Medical Spending." American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 11, no. 1 (February 2019): 222–265.
      • 23 Dec 2013
      • News

      Is Obama Backing Away From Obamacare?

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      HBS Women of 1964

      • 2014
      • Working Paper

      Bride Price and the Returns to Education

      By: Nava Ashraf, Natalie Bau, Nathan Nunn and Alessandra Voena
      Traditional cultural practices can play an important role in development, but can also inspire condemnation. The custom of bride price, prevalent throughout sub-Saharan Africa and in parts of Asia as a payment of the groom to the family of the bride, is one example. In... View Details
      Keywords: Zambia; Indonesia
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      Ashraf, Nava, Natalie Bau, Nathan Nunn, and Alessandra Voena. "Bride Price and the Returns to Education." Working Paper, November 2014.
      • 24 Feb 2021
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      How to Negotiate and Avoid Costly Medical Bills

      • November 1992
      • Case

      Montecito State College

      A state college seeks to boost enrollment in its extension courses and continuing education programs. Competition from other educational institutions is strong. Satellite campuses, developed to offer students greater convenience, have not proved popular. The college... View Details
      Keywords: Higher Education; Marketing Communications; State Ownership; Education Industry
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      Lovelock, Christopher H. "Montecito State College." Harvard Business School Case 593-037, November 1992.
      • January 2024
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      Helping Children Catch Up: Early Life Shocks and the PROGRESA Experiment

      By: Achyuta Adhvaryu, Theresa Molina, Anant Nyshadham and Jorge Tamayo
      Can investing in children who faced adverse events in early childhood help them catch up? We answer this question using two orthogonal sources of variation – resource availability at birth (local rainfall) and cash incentives for school enrollment – to identify the... View Details
      Keywords: Children; Outcome or Result; Welfare; Early Childhood Education; Weather
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      Adhvaryu, Achyuta, Theresa Molina, Anant Nyshadham, and Jorge Tamayo. "Helping Children Catch Up: Early Life Shocks and the PROGRESA Experiment." Economic Journal 134, no. 657 (January 2024): 1–22.
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      The Effect of Providing Peer Information on Retirement Savings Decisions

      By: John Beshears, James J. Choi, David Laibson, Brigitte C. Madrian and Katherine L. Milkman
      Using a field experiment in a 401(k) plan, we measure the effect of disseminating information about peer behavior on savings. Low-saving employees received simplified plan enrollment or contribution increase forms. A randomized subset of forms stated the fraction of... View Details
      Keywords: Saving; Decision Choices and Conditions; Retirement
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      Beshears, John, James J. Choi, David Laibson, Brigitte C. Madrian, and Katherine L. Milkman. "The Effect of Providing Peer Information on Retirement Savings Decisions." Journal of Finance 70, no. 3 (June 2015): 1161–1201.
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