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- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Transformers
Packard Foundation, involves ramping up leadership and skills training for nonprofit executives. “With trends in the sector pushing toward larger, more complex organizations focused more on how to deliver results, there’s an increased... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
The Myth of Laissez-Faire
exemplars and promotes the research of economist Peter Lindert of the University of California, Davis. Madrick advocates big government not because it’s big but because it’s powerful enough to manage change in an increasingly complex... View Details
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THE VALUE OF THE PHYSICIAN SHADOW PROGRAM: Witnessing The Front Lines of Care Delivery - Blog: Health Supplement
Reflect on Their Time at HBS and the Current Health Care Systems Morgan Moncada & Hannah Truong 28 Feb 2023 Rare Disease Day – Small Numbers, Big Challenges and Big Opportunities Gabby Choi Initiatives focus on societal challenges that... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Corruption 101
Corruption doesn't announce itself with a capital C. It is subtler and thornier than that—as one HBS student learned the hard way during a recent summer internship in Tanzania. In a new case detailing his experience, the student struggles to navigate the View Details
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Statement on Supreme Court Decision | About
via LinkedIn Print Share via email Today, the Supreme Court delivered its decision in Students for Fair Admissions v. President and Fellows of Harvard College . The Court held that Harvard College’s admissions system does not comply with... View Details
- 06 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 6
non-profit project-oriented setting, introduces fundamental risk management principles and processes that are easily applicable to private sector settings. Gentry Lee, senior systems engineer and de-facto chief risk officer, is applying a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 13
is the impact of foreign bank entry on the pricing and availability of credit in developing economies? The Mexican banking system provides a quasi-experiment to address this question because in 1997 the Mexican government radically... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Apr 2008
- News
“Let Us Now Praise Famous Women”
computer storing the data was not on campus. Doris at the dot-matrix printer, with a Decmate at the right Doris came to Alumni Records in 1979 after two years with the HBS Fund. That was the year HBS records were computerized using the VAX View Details
- 26 Sep 2024
- HBS Case
If a Car Can Drive Itself, Can It Make Life-or-Death Decisions?
What would Aristotle think about self-driving cars? As the abilities of artificial intelligence systems to automate complex tasks accelerate, warnings about the dangers of outsourcing life-and-death... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Balanced Equation
9/11, Jeff Immelt had already built an impressive nineteen-year career at GE in its plastics, appliance, and medical systems divisions. With revenues in 2007 of $173 billion and more than 300,000 global employees, GE has seen significant... View Details
- 26 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 26
individuals within the organization. Using unique data on lending decisions made by employees in a highly decentralized financial services organization, we show that a monitoring system that captures soft information for vertical... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Web Services
"These are massive projects involving some of the largest companies in the world. One challenge we'll be facing is managing a highly distributed, complex Web services environment outside the firewall while maintaining security... View Details
- 05 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Radical Change, Entrepreneurial Opportunity
technical variation that, over time, gets resolved, and we tend to see what has been called a "dominant design." I am interested in the interplay between that technical variation and cognitive... View Details
- 18 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Short Intensive Program (SIP): Climate Adaptation
of Business: A Systems Approach with Explicit Integration of Public Health Co-Benefits Professor Macomber structured the course to have students approach the topic from four points of view, and assigned student team projects to think... View Details
- 30 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Computer Security is For Managers, Too
company computer systems is often left unclear. Managers need to ask, "Who should have remote access to the corporate network? What safeguards must be in place before employees can connect to the corporate network from a remote... View Details
- 30 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
Turning Employees Into Problem Solvers
research has focused on the underuse of incident-reporting systems. After all, the thinking went, a system used to collect and report incidents will only help an organization learn from its mistakes and lead to better safety results—to... View Details
- 26 Oct 2009
- Lessons from the Classroom
The New Deal: Negotiauctions
complex, ever-changing deal situations that occur in today's business environment. Harvard Business School professor Guhan Subramanian fills that gap by examining complex deals where negotiators are fighting on multiple fronts—across the... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 10 May 2017
- Research & Ideas
Amazon Web Services Changed the Way VCs Fund Startups
as a group, offering them business and technical advice until they are able to prove themselves and grow to a size that a VC is willing to invest more time and money into ensuring their success. Another worry with the spray and pray... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
After the Fall
Antonio Falato of the Federal Reserve Board, Scharfstein says many traditional banks responded by taking outsized credit risk in an effort to boost short-run performance. “The complex interplay of different types of intermediaries made it... View Details
- 30 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
Reunions: Accelerating Climate Solutions with Professor Jim Matheson (MBA 2001)
race to manage (let alone reverse) the effects of global warming and climate change. And climate is not just an isolated threat, its connected to (and exacerbates) almost every other global challenge including especially the divide between the Global North and Global... View Details