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A Cost Comparison of Cataract Surgeries in Three Countries—United States, India, and Nepal

By: Jiayin Xue, John Hinkle, Mary-Grace Reeves, Luo Luo Zheng, Vengadesan Natarajan, Shyam Vyas, Radhika Upreti Oli, Matt Oliva, Robert S. Kaplan, Arnold Milstein, Geoff Tabin, Jeffrey L. Goldberg and Kevin Schulman
U.S.-based cataract surgeries are costly compared with those performed in high-quality Indian and Nepalese eye centers. The authors used time-driven activity-based costing to evaluate phacoemulsification surgery across four sites: a U.S.-based academic hospital... View Details
Keywords: Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing; Cost Accounting; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry; India; Nepal; United States
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  • 20 Sep 2022
  • Research & Ideas

How Partisan Politics Play Out in American Boardrooms

New Jersey, New York, Ohio, and Texas. “There's been this perception that corporate America has become more ‘woke’ or more liberal. We don't see that showing up in the C-suite at least.” Defining partisanship as the degree to which a... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
  • 12 Mar 2021
  • News

My Favorite Case

rural regions, and regulatory uncertainties. “One of the exciting things about Alibaba and Ant Financial is Jack Ma’s vision of financial inclusion across China. So you have rural potato farmers who have really no bank accounts and no... View Details
Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
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Partners & Fellows | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Partner Organizations ACCION International ACLU Acumen African Comprehensive HIV/AIDS Partnerships (ACHAP) American Ballet Theatre Association of Latino Professionals For America (ALPFA) Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Boston Ballet... View Details
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Global Activities 2020

Fellowship (GO: Africa), are working to encourage and scale businesses on the continent from their base in Ghana. Asia Pacific HBS Engagement Across the Region The Harvard Shanghai Center and HBS Asia-Pacific Research Center in Hong Kong... View Details
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Dean Nitin Nohria | About

Dean Nitin Nohria 2010–2020 As dean, Nitin Nohria established five strategic priorities to guide the School: innovation, intellectual ambition, internationalization, inclusion, and integration with the University. Highlights from his time as dean include: curricular... View Details
  • 21 Aug 2013
  • Research & Ideas

What Went Wrong at J.C. Penney?

you look at J.C. Penney over the long term, it seems to me that they have lost their identity. With more than 1,000 stores and great locations in malls across the country, it used to be the department store for middle-income families,... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner; Retail
  • 20 Nov 2017
  • Research & Ideas

How Independent Bookstores Have Thrived in Spite of Amazon.com

he has found to be the “3 C’s” of independent bookselling’s resurgence: community, curation, and convening. Community: Independent booksellers were some of the first to champion the idea of localism; bookstore owners across the nation... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel (with video by Amelia Kunhardt); Retail
  • December 2024
  • Case

Core Innovation Capital: Investing in Fintech for Good

By: Ray Kluender, Natalia Rigol, Benjamin Roth and Nicole Tempest Keller
In 2017, Arjan Schütte, founder of Core Innovation Capital, faced a decision on whether to invest in Hugo Insurance, an auto insurance startup. Core, an early-stage social impact VC firm, focused on “fintech for good,” by investing in financial services for low- to... View Details
Keywords: Fintech; Venture Capital; Social Entrepreneurship; Insurance; Measurement and Metrics; Investment; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Product Positioning; Financial Services Industry; Technology Industry; Insurance Industry; United States
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  • October 2023 (Revised November 2023)
  • Teaching Note

The Miccosukee Tribe and the Battle to Save the Everglades: A Miami Climate Action Story

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Jacob A. Small
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 324-002. "Miccosukee" explores the challenges of coordinating actions to solve a complex systems problem—from individuals, small organizations, and coalitions of multiple organizations. The case discusses the impact of climate change and... View Details
Keywords: Climate Change; Leading Change; Natural Environment; Florida; Everglades National Park
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  • 28 Jan 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Billions of Entrepreneurs in China and India

defeated the Indian Army in 1962 in a border conflict, and was not generally portrayed positively. China was quite mysterious. After I cotaught an experimental MBA seminar on China and India at HBS, and then cowrote an article on India... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 01 Jun 2024
  • News

Leveraging Generative AI

Four decades after HBS became the first business school in the country to require the use of personal computers in the MBA Program, the School is undergoing a different kind of technological transformation, one that leverages generative artificial intelligence (GenAI)... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
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Competing in the Age of Digital Platforms—(Executive Education)

By: David B. Yoffie
Summary

Without exception, the most valuable companies in the world today are platforms. Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Google, Facebook, and many other firms have built their fortunes by facilitating innovation across global ecosystems or... View Details
Keywords: Platforms; Technology; Strategy; Digital Business; Social Networks; Self-driving Cars; Mobile Gaming; Esports; Financial Services; Online Retail; Ride-sharing; Search; Auctions; United States; Asia; China; Europe
  • 07 Jul 2015
  • First Look

First Look: July 7, 2015

think through how CEO Kevin Sharer should handle a positive entry decision given the divided opinions across the senior management team. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/714424-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • April 2013 (Revised November 2015)
  • Case

Advanced Leadership Pathways: Gilberto Dimenstein and Community Empowerment in Brazil

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Alexandre Naghirniac, Ai-Ling Jamila Malone and Daniella Suarez
In 2011, Gilberto Dimenstein, a well-known Brazilian journalist, created a new model that connected disparate resources to revitalize Sao Paulo. He wanted his model to expand across Brazil and the world. Dimenstein covered many of the social issues facing Brazil as a... View Details
Keywords: Social Change; Websites; Education; Awareness; Marketing Communication; City Innovation; Leadership; Social Enterprise; Social Entrepreneurship; Web Sites; Marketing; City; Brazil
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Funding Opportunities - Business & Environment

MBA Experience Funding Opportunities 7ms Career and Internship Support While many options exist to address environmental issues through traditional for-profit careers, some students make their marks on the world through other types of... View Details
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Hiring at HBS: How Summer Interns Make an Impact at Emerson Collective - Recruiting

year, HBS Interns play an important part in driving the Emerson Collective mission. Joanna Lichter, Associate Director of Venture Capital, plays a key role in recruiting HBS students to the MBA Summer Associate program. She shared with us... View Details
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Baker Library / Bloomberg Center | About

with a distinctive bell tower and columned façade by McKim, Mead & White, Baker is the largest business library in the world. More than 600,000 volumes span seven centuries and serve as a resource for the HBS community, as well as scholars from View Details
  • December 2019 (Revised March 2021)
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Carroll Family Farms

By: Forest Reinhardt, Christian Godwin and James Weber
The Carroll Family, U.S. pig and grain farmers, needed to decide what to plant, whether to purchase land, emphasize pigs or grain, or other investments.

Seven family members across three generations owned and operated Carroll Family Farms (CFF). In... View Details
Keywords: Agribusiness; Animal-Based Agribusiness; Plant-Based Agribusiness; Operations; Strategy; Family Business; Asset Management; Globalization; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; United States; Brazil; China
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Your Social Entrepreneurship checklist | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

launching their ventures. Throughout Career Coaching: Consult with MBA or Alumni Career Coach with social enterprise expertise. Community Connections: Meet with students, faculty , and alumni by interest area. Harvard Innovation Labs:... View Details