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  • 05 Jul 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Reinventing the Dowdy Savings Bond

being described is the savings bond program." Unfortunately, recent changes to the program have made it a less attractive, less accessible product for LMI families. In January 2003, for example, the Department of the Treasury... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Banking; Financial Services
  • 20 May 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Activist CEOs Are Rising Up—and Their Customers Are Listening

When former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz announced earlier this year he was thinking about running for president of the United States, it wasn’t a new idea. Past CEOs seeking the White House have included Carly Fiorina, Ross Perot, Herman Cain, Steve Forbes, Mitt... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 02 Jan 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 3, 2018

countries and industries. In line with the model’s predictions, we find that integration and delegation covary positively, and that producers are more likely to integrate suppliers in input sectors with greater productivity variation.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Program

Succeeding as a Strategic CFO

decision-making skills Review and practice applying frameworks and tools of value-based management Learn about financial policies and practices used by other organizations and determine which ones best suit your organization Formulate... View Details

    Howard H. Stevenson

    Howard H. Stevenson is Sarofim-Rock Baker Foundation Professor emeritus, former Senior Associate Dean, Director of Publishing, and Chair of the Harvard Business Publishing Company board. The Sarofim-Rock Chair was established in 1982 to provide a continuing base for... View Details

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    • 13 Jul 2011
    • Research & Ideas

    Experimental Researcher Helps Improve Health Care in Zambia

    interest in global health to the realization that an estimated 13 million people die each year for lack of low-cost products that could save their lives. Over the past seven years, she has conducted research projects in Zambia aimed at... View Details
    Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Health
    • August 2002 (Revised February 2005)
    • Case

    Gillette Company (B): Leadership for Change

    By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and James Weber
    Describes the actions and behavior of a new CEO in his first days and weeks as he sets expectations for his top management team and introduces processes and disciplines to begin the turnaround of a global consumer products company. View Details
    Keywords: Business Strategy; Policy; Change Management; Leading Change; Motivation and Incentives; Strategic Planning; Retail Industry
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    • 28 Mar 2011
    • Research & Ideas

    Why Manufacturing Matters

    After decades of destructive outsourcing, America's ability to innovate and create high-tech products essential for future prosperity is on the decline, argue professors Gary Pisano and Willy Shih. They won the prestigious McKinsey Award... View Details
    Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Manufacturing
    • Web

    Live from Klarman Hall - Alumni

    about planning careers, educating our children, dealing with the normal seasons of our lives? Professor Shikhar Ghosh will examine some of the implications of technologies like synthetic biology and AI that have passed commercial... View Details
    • Teaching

    Overview

    By: Regina E. Herzlinger
    Course Requirements

    Students are required to prepare a business plan, which employs the framework of this course, to explore an entrepreneurial opportunity in health care, and to evaluate their classmates' plans.

    Career Focus

    For... View Details
    • 13 Jul 2009
    • Research & Ideas

    Diagnosing the Public Health Care Alternative

    think the chances of a government plan supplanting private options are slim," he writes. But the existence of both public and private insurance plans might provide enough competition to improve overall value... View Details
    Keywords: by Staff; Health
    • June 2024
    • Case

    Aidoc: Building a Hospital-Centric AI Platform

    By: Ariel D. Stern and Susan Pinckney
    In 2023, Israel-based AI health care company Aidoc evaluated its future. The company, founded in 2016, had grown from commercializing a single AI product for radiologists to a software platform that could detect 20 conditions and immediately notify care teams of... View Details
    Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; Business Organization; Business Startups; Disruption; Cost vs Benefits; Decision Choices and Conditions; Decisions; Private Sector; Entrepreneurial Finance; Global Range; Global Strategy; Globalized Markets and Industries; Governance Compliance; Governance Controls; Governing and Advisory Boards; Policy; Medical Specialties; AI and Machine Learning; Digital Platforms; Digital Transformation; Technology Adoption; Disruptive Innovation; Innovation and Management; Innovation Strategy; Laws and Statutes; Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Distribution; Product Development; Success; Performance Efficiency; Strategic Planning; Research and Development; Risk and Uncertainty; Business Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Value Creation; Health Industry; Israel
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    • 28 Apr 2015
    • First Look

    First Look: April 28

    Zeal as they consider their product development strategy. In February 2013, serial entrepreneurs John Danner and Sanjay Noronha cofounded Zeal, an education technology start-up providing a web-based, mobile learning platform that helps... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 15 Jan 2013
    • First Look

    First Look: January 15

    circumscribe citizen-employees, and they engage in production and trade. But individual corporations are no longer adequate to serve as the primary unit of analysis. Over the years, systems of distributed innovation-so-called business... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 12 Mar 2019
    • Blog Post

    What I Learned in the Africa Rising Short Intensive Program

    Kosaluchi (Luchi) Nwokeneche-Mmegwa (MBA '20) is from Lagos, Nigeria and graduated with a degree in Public Policy from Princeton University. Prior to HBS, Luchi worked in investment banking and private equity for Goldman Sachs & Co.... View Details
    • 20 Nov 2018
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, November 20, 2018

    (Siko) Sikochi Abstract—We examine the influence of peer firms on trade credit policies of listed firms in the United States. We posit and find evidence that firms mimic their peers in formulating trade credit policies. The findings are... View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
    • 20 Jan 2010
    • First Look

    First Look: Jan. 20

    benefits from outsourcing the use of intellectual property increases. We also examine how the variability of payoffs to effort affects the optimal way the owner of the intellectual property uses it. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-100.pdf Does... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 03 Feb 2015
    • First Look

    First Look: February 3

    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 age-matched coworkers participating in... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • January 2024 (Revised June 2024)
    • Case

    School of Rock: Tuning into Structured Empowerment (A)

    By: Tatiana Sandino, Jeffrey Rayport, Samuel Grad and Stacy Straaberg
    In summer 2021, School of Rock was a youth-oriented music education company with 291 franchise- and company-owned schools globally. Before CEO Rob Price’s hire in 2017, School of Rock’s nonconformist rock ‘n’ roll culture led to variability in teaching styles,... View Details
    Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Business Plan; Change Management; Transformation; Communication Strategy; Decisions; Curriculum and Courses; Teaching; Employee Relationship Management; Knowledge Sharing; Leadership Style; Business or Company Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Management Style; Marketing Strategy; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Organizational Structure; Franchise Ownership; Performance Expectations; Performance Improvement; Strategic Planning; Attitudes; Conflict Management; Corporate Strategy; Applications and Software; Technology Adoption; Education Industry; Music Industry; Massachusetts; United States
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    • 18 Feb 2009
    • First Look

    First Look: February 18, 2009

    who need them most, but unrestricted transfers might threaten the Internet's routing system. I suggest policies to create an IP address "market" while avoiding major negative externalities—mitigating the worst effects of v4... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace