Publications

02 Apr 2013
First Look

First Look: April 2

or incentives, but a model of innovation that too often fragments efforts by treatment modality (drugs, devices, diagnostics, and clinical treatment). We may improve individual technologies of View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

December 2024 (Revised March 2025)
Case

The Shouldice Hospital Today

By: James Heskett and Roger Hallowell

The leadership and staff of Shouldice Hospital in Toronto, Canada have, for 75 years, sought to do one thing better than any other hospital in the world, repair inguinal hernias. For some years, a possible second hospital in another market has been under consideration.... View Details

Keywords: Joint Ventures; Health Care and Treatment; Growth and Development Strategy; Organizational Culture; Expansion; Health Industry; Toronto; Canada; United States

05 Jan 2010
First Look

First Look: January 5

impact on the economy more generally. This analysis looks across nations and industries to assess the impact of private equity on industry performance. Industries where PE funds have invested in the past... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

15 Jan 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019

faster-growing companies to raise more capital. These results highlight the importance of institutions in enabling the provision of entrepreneurial capital to young companies.... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

22 Feb 2024
Research & Ideas

How to Make AI 'Forget' All the Private Data It Shouldn't Have

They already offer fine tuning and customization of models through their application programming interfaces. This will also help facilitate more high-risk use cases in areas like health care and financial... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Technology; Information Technology

22 Aug 2006
First Look

First Look: August 22, 2006

Stanford University Press, forthcoming. Abstract This paper explores the question: Do institutions persist over time and determine current economic outcomes? Specifically, does the adoption or inheritance of... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

July 2005 (Revised December 2006)
Case

Japan: Deficits, Demography, and Deflation

By: Richard H.K. Vietor

By 2005, Japan's debt had risen to 163% of GDP. For more than a decade, the government had run huge deficits, trying unsuccessfully to stimulate economic growth. Interest rates, meanwhile, had been zero for years. But with slow growth and banks in crisis, nothing had... View Details

Keywords: Economy; Economic Growth; Demographics; Financial Condition; Inflation and Deflation; Banks and Banking; Borrowing and Debt; Macroeconomics; Policy; Government and Politics; Welfare; Health Care and Treatment; Japan

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environment in which businesses operate. Drawing from perspectives of economic theory, political science, and history, they examine the “rules” and policies established by government and other non-business View Details

11 Sep 2006
Research & Ideas

Negotiating When the Rules Suddenly Change

How can you negotiate when the rules suddenly change, and no one knows whether your particular market is headed up or down? Regrouping from the cancellation of the 2004-2005 season due to failed labor negotiations, View Details

Keywords: by Michael Wheeler; Sports

22 Jun 2009
Research & Ideas

“Too Big To Fail”: Reining In Large Financial Firms

Here's a really scary thought. Now that the federal government has poured hundreds of billions of dollars into saving financial institutions deemed "too big to fail," hasn't it... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Banking; Financial Services

09 Apr 2013
First Look

First Look: April 9

future contracts and the AQC's value as part of the solution to untenably high U.S. health care costs. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/612016-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 113-088 Apple Inc.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

14 Jul 2023
Blog Post

Harvard Business School Announces Its 2023-2024 Blavatnik Fellows

skin diseases. Núria holds a MS in biotechnology and a PhD in bioengineering from IQS School of Engineering in Barcelona, Spain. Patrick Emedom-Nnamdi, (PhD 2023) is the co-founder and chief scientist of... View Details

19 Jun 2007
First Look

First Look: June 19, 2007

company and a publicly-traded company. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=507001 Arizona Department of Public Health: The Challenges of Preparing for a Public... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

April 2025
Article

How Central Banks Manage Climate and Energy Transition Risks

By: Esther Shears, Jonas Meckling and Jared Finnegan

Central banks have begun to examine and manage climate risks, including both transition risks of moving from fossil fuels to clean energy and physical climate risks. Here we provide a systematic assessment of how and why central banks address climate risks on the basis... View Details

Keywords: Banks and Banking; Risk and Uncertainty; Climate Change; Transition; Risk Management

September 1992 (Revised July 1998)
Case

Germany in the 1990s: Managing Reunification

By: George C. Lodge and James W. Ragsdale

In October 1990, eastern Germany was incorporated into the Federal Republic of Germany. The German people rewarded the architect of these changes, Helmut Kohl, with an enhanced majority in national elections. But only two years later it was hard to remember these heady... View Details

Keywords: Economy; Inflation and Deflation; Central Banking; Interest Rates; Political Elections; Situation or Environment; Integration; Europe; Germany; Italy; United Kingdom