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- 17 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Becoming the Next Real Estate Mogul
Potential real estate moguls at the 2001 Harvard Business School Entrepreneurship Conference received an earful about profiting in a down market, creating value where there is none, and the addiction of playing in a deal-driven industry.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Blissful Thinking
make better leaders, and the practical steps to kicking an addiction to success. There’s been increasing academic interest in the topic of happiness in recent years. We’ve seen it at HBS with the work of Ashley Whillans, Leslie Perlow,... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters
- 05 May 2020
- News
“Walking a Tightrope”
have basically gone too far. And on top of that, in the late 70s and early 80s, we made some terrible policy decisions in terms of what we did about drugs. We talk about Geneva Cooley in our book. And she's a woman who grew up in New York State and she got View Details
- 26 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
What Can the World’s Largest Refugee Camp Teach Us About the Meaning of Work?
whether we value one another as human beings.” About the Author Danielle Kost is the senior editor of Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. HBS Digital Media Producer Amelia Kunhardt produced the video interview. [Image: Azim Khan Ronnie/Alamy Stock Photo]... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 31 May 2018
- News
Finding Freedom from Eating Disorders
beliefs that people hold about themselves. And getting over that hurdle before focusing on the eating disorder behaviors. Flint: I think this is tied to what you're just saying, but it seems to me that one of the ways in which eating disorder recovery is different... View Details
- 20 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Users Love Ello, But What’s the Business Model?
for a 26-year-old backpacker. I might be willing to pay quite a bit for a service that caters to my needs and puts me in touch with other similarly-minded people. The key is to identify what the value is to your customer and build your business to serve that need. JD:... View Details
- 03 Apr 2019
- News
Finding Common Ground
shelters, Shumway talked to homeless residents about their circumstances. “These are good people,” he says. “They may have started to self-medicate with drugs or alcohol because they didn’t have access to the psychiatric or medical support they needed.” In addition to... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 07 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Three Steps for Crisis Prevention
important to note that the leadership failure here lies not just with the SEC but also with the accounting firms, which were well aware that their addiction to consulting fees was compromising their independence as auditors. Also culpable... View Details
Keywords: by Michael D. Watkins & Max H. Bazerman
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
persons from 1999 to 2016. Beyond the devastating personal costs, there is an economic toll, too, caused by rising health care expenses for overdose prevention drugs and addiction treatment, criminal justice costs, and productivity loss... View Details
- 03 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017
handwashing. Motivated by scholarship that suggests handwashing is habitual, we design, implement, and analyze a randomized field experiment aimed to test the main predictions of the rational addiction model. To reliably measure... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
Germany May Have the Answer for Reducing Drug Prices
Germany, that would be encouraging.” About the Author Danielle Kost is the senior editor of Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. [Image: TomFreeze] Related Reading: What Hospitals Must Learn to Compete Electronic Health Records Were Supposed to Cut Medical Costs.... View Details
- 17 Apr 2017
- HBS Case
This Turkish Debt Collector Is Customer-friendly
customer experience.” Related Reading: What Customers Want from Your Products How Much Time Should CEOs Devote to Customers? Break Your Addiction to Service Heroes View Details
- 01 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: Judgment Calls
industrial location, talking and asking about the question with the nervous energy for which his team had always known him. By his own words, LaMagna was "a risk addict and a compulsive capitalist," and deep down knew that he... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Case Study: Paper Chase
and followers see it. (3) Make and post videos of your cards in action on YouTube. Be sure to get onto Youtube Kids and pay to get on the homepage. My kids are addicted to watching videos of people opening presents. If you show how your... View Details
- 13 Dec 2022
- News
The First Five Years: Christine Keung and Reggie Smith
examples of leadership through hard times, from a recovering opioid addict building his own sobriety program to the public-private initiative that brought the Virgin Hyperloop to the state. We also thought that the story of Appalachia was... View Details
- 16 May 2018
- News
ALUMNI NVC Finals and Regional Roundup
2015) told an audience of 500 that DynamiCare Health uses a digital platform to monitor and reward addicts for active recovery efforts, eliminating degrading methods of drug testing. DynamiCare took the top prize of $75,000. George... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 18 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Short Intensive Program (SIP): Climate Adaptation
get ahead of industry shift, now plagued with high opioid addiction rates. Dr. Jalonne White-Newsome also touched on the importance of an inclusive, people-first approach, such that capital meant to support disadvantaged communities can... View Details
- 06 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Conducting Layoffs: ’Necessary Evils’ at Work
occupations—management, medicine, law enforcement, and addiction counseling—and noticed three surprising patterns that cut across all four occupations. First, in contrast to the stereotypical image of an emotionally numb performer... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 24 Aug 2017
- News
Unlocking Potential
extend their education, and develop workplace skills. They also receive support in personal areas where they need it, such as mental health, addiction recovery, and parenting. A Partnership Is Born Anderson’s own path was shaped by her... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Back to the Future
discontent for many American families. Bundled up in chilly homes, they see their heating bills cutting deeply into the rest of their household budget. Lowering the thermostat, they wonder when keeping warm became a luxury in the wealthiest nation in the world.... View Details