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- 31 Mar 2023
- Research & Ideas
Can a ‘Basic Bundle’ of Health Insurance Cure Coverage Gaps and Spur Innovation?
By the early 1980s, several high-income countries—including Switzerland, the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand—had universal health insurance covering 100 percent of the population. Meanwhile, 40 years later, the United States View Details
- August 2021
- Case
Mylestone: Can Multiple Pivots Preserve the Life of a Death Tech Startup?
By: Shikhar Ghosh and Marilyn Morgan Westner
Dave Balter and Jim Myers co-founded Mylestone, a death tech startup that applied technology to transform how grieving people memorialize the dead. The startup addressed a cultural problem and promised to solve a pressing need in the antiquated, multi-billion dollar... View Details
Keywords: Pivot; Startup; Business Model; Cryptocurrency; Ethical Decision Making; Emotions; Growth and Development Strategy; Ethics; Market Entry and Exit; Customer Relationship Management; Loss; Change Management; Relationships
Ghosh, Shikhar, and Marilyn Morgan Westner. "Mylestone: Can Multiple Pivots Preserve the Life of a Death Tech Startup?" Harvard Business School Case 822-018, August 2021.
- 17 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 17
and civil aviation authorities might undertake over time horizons of months to years as well as tactical measures that may be adopted on a daily basis in response to dynamic, "real time" developments like poor weather or... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Jul 2016
- What Do You Think?
How Do We Pay for the Costs of Globalization?
like transportation, and develop an industry around it, with meaningful careers and a meaningful solution.” So in our small sample we have an answer to one of our questions: Should we encourage the redistribution of the benefits of... View Details
- 18 Feb 2020
- Blog Post
A Vision of Love@HBS in 2020
rising college seniors. At SVMP, we developed a friendship, which turned into a relationship a year later during Laura’s work trip to the New York City Wine and Food Festival. We started off long-distance—flights between New York City and... View Details
- 12 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Rocket Science Retailing: A Practical Guide
understand customers and their needs deeply. Develop the ability to respond to this understanding with better-tailored assortments, replenishment of the hits, and timely markdowns on what is left over. Execute well, especially at the... View Details
- 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
- 13 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 13
ignores the implications of past successes when valuing future innovation. We show that two firms that invest the exact same in research and development (R&D) can have quite divergent, but predictably divergent, future paths. Our... 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
- 22 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
Does Spirituality Drive Success?
"harmony" among his personal life, business life, and philanthropy, he said, "is as close as I'm going to come to being a spiritual person." He cited with pride the fact that his daughter works with the Coalition for the Homeless in New York City.... 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
- 25 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Feeling Stuck? Getting Past Impasse
Director of Career Development Programs at Harvard Business School. "Without it we cannot grow, change, and—eventually—live more fully in a larger world," Butler writes in his new book, Getting Unstuck: How Dead Ends Become New... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 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
- 23 Jun 2023
- News
Highlights from the Spring 2023 Alumni Board Meeting
the HBS MBA program have seen a similar trajectory, although there have been periods of plateaus, including the time we are in right now. As the world is rapidly changing, HBS is asking challenging questions about how the MBA can remain essential and how the School can... View Details
- 12 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 12, 2006
continuing with "business as usual." Is this enough? What might Kmart do to stop him? Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=707439 Shinsei Bank: View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 2009
- Working Paper
Don't Just Survive - Thrive: Leading Innovation in Good Times and Bad
By: Lynda M. Applegate and J. Bruce Harreld
Battered by contracting markets and frozen credit, many businesses today are fighting for survival. Indeed, the current global financial crisis provides a mandate for restructuring. But survival is not the end goal. In fact, cost cutting and restructuring are simply... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Risk Management; Leading Change; Innovation and Management; Crisis Management; Growth and Development Strategy
Applegate, Lynda M., and J. Bruce Harreld. "Don't Just Survive - Thrive: Leading Innovation in Good Times and Bad." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 09-127, April 2009. (Revised May 2009.)
- 06 Oct 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
18 Tips Managers Can Use to Lead Through COVID's Rising Waters
relentlessly communicate, communicate, communicate. This is to avoid rumors developing that muddy the waters. Collaboration. This is a time for you to call on the resources, the capabilities of all of your employees, all of your team... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Dec 2019
- Research & Ideas
Taking on the Taboos That Keep Women Out of India's Workforce
deposit; in the fifth, the control group, no intervention took place. As background, Rigol and her coauthors note that the federal work program featured in the study transitioned from cash to electronic payments in 2008. In late 2012, the government’s minister of rural... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 07 Jul 2023
- Blog Post
Harvard Innovation Labs: Where Passion and Purpose Meet
Additionally, $15,000 is given in Ingenuity Awards to early stage ideas. Teams competing in the Challenge are specifically working to develop solutions to some of the world’s most complex problems. What lies ahead for the Harvard... View Details
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Philanthropy - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
must devise a strategy that commits to the goal of superior performance, develops a unique area of focus and approach, aligns operations to the strategy, and defines concrete goals in its chosen fields to serve as the basis of evaluation.... View Details