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  • 27 Jun 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Recovering from the Need to Achieve

real sense of purpose and a "flatness"—in career and in life. They often go through patches of life without creating or enhancing meaningful relationships, and even lack strength to deal with life's failures. A former chief View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
  • 08 Oct 2013
  • First Look

First Look: October 8

for each patient, developing bundled prices for the full care cycle, integrating care across separate facilities, expanding geographic reach, and building an enabling IT platform. The transformation to value-based health care is well... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Jul 2011
  • What Do You Think?

So We Adapt. What’s the Downside?

levels, including that of the individual. We adapt by listening to and heeding customers. We adapt by delegating authority, often to teams operating at the lowest levels of the organization. We adapt by tracking, responding to, and even encouraging the View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 29 Jan 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019

was roughly half as large as prior estimates have suggested. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55509 Fiscal Rules and Sovereign Default By: Alfaro, Laura, and Fabio Kanczuk Abstract— Recurrent concerns over debt sustainability in... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 05 May 2020
  • Research & Ideas

China Tariffs and Coronavirus a Double Hit to American Retailers

from the Bureau of Labor Statistics that is more detailed than the US Census data economists typically examine. In addition, they relied on a database called the Billion Prices Project, which Cavallo first developed as a Ph.D. student at... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 15 Oct 2020
  • Research & Ideas

IT Job Wages Are No Longer 'Exceptional'

post-doctoral researcher, and Shane Greenstein, the Martin Marshall Professor of Business Administration. The dawn of digital careers Beginning with the invention of the personal computer in the 1980s, IT wages commanded a premium over other STEM salaries. This trend... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Information Technology
  • 13 Mar 2023
  • Research & Ideas

The Power of Personal Connections: How Shared Experiences Boost Performance

asynchronous and virtual interactions can be influenced by peer training relationships, drawing “tangible benefits for patients many years later,” suggesting such relationships continue to pay off for a long time, the authors write.... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Health
  • 28 Mar 2012
  • What Do You Think?

Are Factory Jobs Important to the Economy?

area, some of them from other countries, including China. However, most of the jobs, in assembling and packing the components, are of necessity low-wage in nature. Regardless of the number of jobs it can create, manufacturing activity will be critical to the View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Manufacturing
  • Web

Increasing Value in Care Delivery - Health Care

develop the managerial skills required to identify and implement change, drawing upon a range of approaches for improving healthcare delivery, including the value-based health care framework, continuous... View Details
  • 09 Oct 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Organizations

question of drives, every job in our theoretical four-drive organization would offer an opportunity for the incumbent to employ some personal skills, skills for which they not only have an innate head start but also a personal history of further View Details
Keywords: by Paul Lawrence & Nitin Nohria
  • Article

Assessing the Food and Drug Administration's Risk-Based Framework for Software Precertification with Top Health Apps in the United States: Quality Improvement Study

By: Noy Alon, Ariel Dora Stern and John Torous
BACKGROUND: As the development of mobile health apps continues to accelerate, the need to implement a framework that can standardize categorizing these apps to allow for efficient, yet robust regulation grows. However, regulators and researchers are faced with numerous... View Details
Keywords: Mobile Health; Smartphone; Food And Drug Administration; Risk-based Framework; Health Care and Treatment; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Applications and Software; Framework
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  • 02 Aug 2011
  • First Look

First Look: August 2

Japanese system, combining its traditional low-cost manufacturing prowess with an ability to bring high-quality, high-margin branded products swiftly to market. Like Samsung, today's emerging giants—Haier in China, Infosys in India, and Koç in Turkey, for instance—face... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Nov 2010
  • First Look

First Look: November 16, 2010

We develop a framework to empirically examine how politicians with electoral pressures control bureaucrats with career concerns as well as the consequences for bureaucrats' career investments. Unique micro-level data on Indian bureaucrats... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Mar 2010
  • Research & Ideas

One Strategy: Aligning Planning and Execution

an interview with HBS Working Knowledge. "Obtaining One Strategy in times of change means the organization will respond in a holistic fashion to new challenges, staying aligned for maximum competitive impact." The book follows Microsoft's Windows 7 View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Video Game; Web Services
  • 12 Mar 2021
  • News

My Favorite Case

expressed extremely negative views about people in her community, she wonders whether the company is the right place for her. Should she meet with the CEO to share her experience, or continue to conceal her sexual orientation while... View Details
Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
  • 24 Nov 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Harvard Business School Discusses Future of the MBA

programs, increasingly have in-house programs for developing and promoting talented employees who have only undergraduate degrees. One anecdote drove the point home. When Datar asked a partner at a top consulting firm whether he would... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson & HBS Bulletin; Education
  • 09 Oct 2020
  • Blog Post

4 Things To Know About the MS/MBA Biotech

paying a stream of medical bills. My aversion to health care growing up, juxtaposed by the cost-free, quality care I received later in life as a US citizen, is why I want to work towards improving the health care system. I studied Biology in undergrad and View Details
  • 02 Jun 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Coronavirus Careers: Cloud Kitchens Are Now Serving

The restaurant industry is one of those most devastated by COVID-19, and social distancing will continue to make many small restaurants unviable. Reduced revenue flows will never cover the rent. But not all is lost. In our research, one... View Details
Keywords: by Lena Ye and Geoffrey Jones; Food & Beverage
  • 15 Aug 2016
  • Blog Post

Writing a Case as a Student at HBS

initiative and make the most of it. My personal experience During the first semester of my EC (second) year, I continued to work part-time at the company with which I interned over the summer. Once that commitment ended at year-end, I was... View Details
  • 11 Mar 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Merchants to Multinationals: British Trading Companies in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

manufacturing and financial activities around the globe prior to WWI. The British trading companies played a significant role in opening new markets and developing new sources of supply in resources in the emerging global economy.... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones