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- 22 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
Online Banks Fill Funding Needs for Small Business
and electronic payment technology to assess the health of a business. Traditional lenders generally focus on both the small business owners' personal credit history and key metrics about the borrower's business, such as industry-specific... View Details
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HBS - Financials | From the CFO
Activity & Cash Flows Consolidated Balance Sheet Supplemental Financial Information From the CFO In fiscal 2021, Harvard Business School navigated the operational and financial challenges of the global pandemic by staying true to its guiding principles: The School... View Details
- 14 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance
speak the same language for the most part. In the social sector we don't have nearly that degree of agreement over what constitutes useful, common metrics, even in subsectors like health care, education, and the environment. At the moment... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
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Past Issues - Alumni
2019 The Merchant of Osaka A demographic time bomb is squeezing Japan’s economy from all sides and threatening the future of its health care system. Kanoko Oishi has bet her career that she can help defuse the situation—with solutions... View Details
- 16 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
million in cash and $5 million in media assets, will focus on six areas identified with the help of community leaders and Celtics players: equity in education, economic opportunity and empowerment, equity in health care, criminal and law... View Details
- 14 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 14, 2007
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-005.pdf Can Higher Prices Stimulate Product Use? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Zambia Authors:Nava Ashraf, James Berry, and Jesse M. Shapiro Abstract The controversy over whether and how much to charge for View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 3
sacrificing his health or family life. In this article he presents six of them. Know your comparative advantage. Focus not on what you do best but on what your organization most needs from you-and don't spend too much time on operational... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
March 2023 Alumni and Faculty Books
board papers, policy papers, management strategy reports, business proposals, a commission of inquiry report, minutes of meeting, corporate letters, audit reports, opinion editorials and blog articles. The author also taught a course on... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Balanced Equation
water treatment, and health care. Over half of GE’s revenues came from abroad last year, reinforcing its standing as a truly global company. You’ve said, “I’m a real GE person.” What does that mean? I’ve spent my whole career here, in... View Details
- 18 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 18
their propensity to make things themselves (Experiments 3A and 3B). Paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/mnorton/mochon norton ariely 2012.pdf Measuring Teamwork in Health Care Settings: A Review of Survey Instruments Authors:Valentine,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 30 Jan 2018
- First Look
January 30, 2018
arising from a natural experiment: the introduction of an Illinois policy that enabled communities to select electricity suppliers on behalf of their residents. Using a flexible difference-in-differences matching approach, we estimate a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
significant operational reform within the nation's health care delivery organizations, new financing models, payment systems, or structures are unlikely to realize their promise. Adapting insights from high-performing companies in other... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 10
engineer scarcity by limiting supply when secondary markets thicken to separate primary and secondary markets. We find support for these hypotheses in the U.S. concert ticket industry. Publisher's link: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2359803 August... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 14
the impact of alternative policies governing the creation and use of digital information. This agenda focuses on the development of research to investigate the economics of digitization, to analyze the governance of intellectual property... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Dec 2021
- News
Higher Returns
technology company, for about 10 years and sold it to another company. We then took that company public. And along the way, I was advising the White House Business Council, and I had worked on innovation policy and economic policy. And... View Details
- 13 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 13
Institute/Taubman Center Policy Brief, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2010. An abstract is unavailable at this time. Working PapersThe Global Agglomeration of Multinational Firms Authors:Laura Alfaro and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
Earth Day Reflections
opportunity to engage in a virtual dialogue on these matters. Some major corporations are starting to take the lead in this effort, including United Technologies Corporation, Philips (the Dutch electronics and health care giant), the... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
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2019 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
Psychology doctoral program. Her research examines the experience of discrimination, its impact on mental health and intergroup relations. Her courses have ranged from Abnormal Psychology to the Psychology of Racism. Banks has published... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Light Years Ahead
MBA courses on Investment Management and Capital Markets. Later in the decade, he took a two-year leave of absence to serve as director of investment and financial policies for the Ford Foundation, returning in 1979. Back at HBS, Light... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Blissful Thinking
good news: They got everything they wanted,” Brooks said. “Here’s the bad news: They wanted the wrong thing. The result is that they’re not as happy as they could be. We need to teach a class on happiness,” Brooks concluded. A social scientist with a PhD in public... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters