Holistic - Publications - Faculty & Research

09 Nov 2023
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Antonio Weiss (MBA 1994), Adam Chepenik (MBA 2010), Sebastián Negrón-Reichard (JD/MBA 2024) As the senior top official in the US Treasury Department on domestic finance issues, Antonio Weiss (MBA 1994) could see Puerto Rico’s financial meltdown coming, like watching a... View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli

2024
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Does Private Equity Have Any Business Being in the Health Care Business?

By: Nori Gerardo Lietz and Zirui Song

Private Equity (“PE”) has come under increased scrutiny by the press, academics, and policymakers, as well as the public, for its investments in health care delivery. This scrutiny has been exacerbated by recent high profile hospital bankruptcies following PE... View Details

Keywords: Private Equity; Government Administration; Acquisition; Health Industry

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May 2025. Fidji Simo: Growing the Pie at Instacart By: Hubert Joly , Leonard A. Schlesinger and James Barnett May 2025 | Case | Faculty Research In January 2025, Instacart CEO Fidji Simo considers strategies for continuing to grow Instacart from a grocery delivery... View Details

08 Oct 2020
Research & Ideas

Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged and Motivated

another. The holistic approach is worth more than the sum of its constituent parts, even though working on each part adds something. When these actions come through one person—the manager or team leader—some integration automatically... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams

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Business Fundamentals Course - CORe | HBS Online

and will be considered in the larger context of a holistic selection process. Will my participation in CORe factor in to my admission to other graduate programs? + – The Harvard Extension School graduate program in the field of management... View Details

14 Jul 2023
Blog Post

Harvard Business School Announces Its 2023-2024 Blavatnik Fellows

go-to-market strategy. Simin received her BA, MD, and MBA from Harvard University. Morgan Moncada, (MS/MBA 2023) is the CEO and co-founder of Willow Health, an AI platform for holistic brain health monitoring and intervention. Willow... View Details

22 Apr 2019
Research & Ideas

Why Salespeople Struggle at Leading

accounting profit margins, for example, should be trained in “Finance 101,” Cespedes says. Besides, the best sales managers are not only adept at bargaining for a chunk of the company’s budget to benefit their own people, but look for ways to increase enterprise value... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

04 Apr 2011
HBS Case

Reinventing the National Geographic Society

been immense from the various units—magazines, catalogues, and expeditions—to push their products. Instead, Fahey wanted someone to think holistically about NGS's offerings and how best to approach customers and sell them what they want... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Publishing

18 Jan 2016
Research & Ideas

Hazard Warning: The Unacceptable Cost of Toxic Workers

a more holistic approach in hiring and get rid of the tunnel vision on managing productivity, Minor says. “Even if you don’t care about people and all you want to do is make more money, you still should care about hiring people who care... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland

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Video - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

development? The Social Progress Index was launched in 2013 as a holistic approach to benchmarking countries' social performance, independent of economic measures. SPI has been widely taken up on a global basis in evaluating national... View Details

11 Apr 2012
Research & Ideas

The High Risks of Short-Term Management

investor base. For example, adoption of integrated reporting could be a step in this direction. Integrated reporting provides a holistic picture of the business describing the economic, environmental, and social performance of the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services

01 Dec 2023
News

Case Study: Staking a Claim

Illustration by Nhung Lê Kate Terry (MBA 2005) knows that no one attends their fifth-grade career fair and comes home hoping to pursue a career in insurance—but that’s exactly where she wound up. “I really fell in love with it,” she says. As cofounder and CEO of... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Insurance Carriers and Related Activities; Finance

16 Oct 2015
Blog Post

HBS and the Arts

philanthropists. After three years in finance I was ready to come to HBS to build a more holistic skillset. At work, it is easy to fall into a given professional function, or limit your engagement to thinking only about the performance... View Details

12 May 2023
Blog Post

Independent Project: The Rise of Electric Heat Pumps

most viable to meet a home’s holistic heating and cooling needs. Here are the most important components of TCO and how they may drive meaningful cost differences: Government incentives: the Inflation Reduction Act makes owning a heat pump... View Details

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Capital IQ: Introduction, Help, Etc.

Preparation Quickly gain a holistic understanding of any company or firm including competitive landscape, transaction history, third-party affiliations, key people and their backgrounds, etc. Identify and understand the nature of... View Details

02 Feb 2022
Blog Post

How I Spent My HBS 2+2 Deferral: Nikki Philip

At the NFL I was responsible for the holistic wellness of active and retired football players as well as coaches and staff. Did 2+2 change your path or alter your post-undergraduate plans? 2+2 made many of my decisions between undergrad... View Details

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Peggy Mativo-Ochola

assumed she’d follow a "traditional path" toward medical school. But her advisor encouraged Peggy to think more holistically about her life and career. Even though Peggy enjoyed her lab work, she increasingly felt "it took... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit/Government/Education

03 May 2021
Blog Post

Celebrating the First HBS African-American Mother-Daughter Duo

across many organizations. This has further demonstrated the critical importance of supporting holistic wellbeing. As an entrepreneur, I’m often drawing upon the HBS experience to amplify the SoHookd journey. From recruiting amazing... View Details

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Markets of Progress: Coffee, Commerce, and Community in the Soconusco, Chiapas, 1867-1920

Markets of Progress presents a new holistic story of rural development in Mexico at the turn of the century. In the Soconusco, as in regions throughout the world, the accelerating circulation of commodities and capital, ideas and immigrants reshaped society... View Details

Keywords: Commodities; Coffee; Mexico; Foreign Investment; Institutions; Immigration; Developing Agriculture; Development; Export Crop; Emerging Market; Property Rights; Labor History; History; Capital Markets; Business History; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Latin America; Mexico; Central America

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Valerie Porciello | About

services is to enable a holistic view across the life cycle of the faculty, from recruitment through retirement. The DRFD team's singular focus is supporting an environment where faculty members at all stages of their career have the... View Details

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