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- 10 May 2016
- First Look
May 10, 2016
subsidy: 100%, 80%, 50%, and a hybrid 50% subsidy that could become a 100% subsidy by attaining attendance targets. Setting and Subjects: 23,023 employees of two U.S. companies. Measures: The primary outcome was the percentage of employees who View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 19 May 2003
- Lessons from the Classroom
Business Plan Winner Targets India Dropouts
learned is the nature of the problem. We, perhaps like many others, had the misconception that cultural factors were the primary inhibitor to literacy development in India. However, it turns out that 85 percent of school-age children View Details
- 25 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Who Wants to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part II]
customers' college-savings accounts. Firms like Salomon Smith Barney that manage these new so-called "529" savings plans would invest the rebates and maintain records showing enrolled families how much they had earned toward... View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
- 02 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Health Care Research and Prospects
of opportunities in health care for our students. And, I think our students are increasingly interested in this sector. In the late 1990s, I think there was less interest as our students were gravitating toward Internet companies. Our View Details
- 18 Jun 2001
- Lessons from the Classroom
Why Leaders Need Great Books
adversaries," Badaracco said. "You see them trying to figure out who they are and what they really care about over the course of these books." Many students who first enroll in The Moral Leader think that ethics and... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 10 Sep 2024
- Research & Ideas
What Happens When Business Owners Turn to ChatBots for Advice
my mind,” Koning says. “Already we’re seeing how generative AI can change people’s lives.” Chatbot versus an old-fashioned business guide The study enrolled 640 entrepreneurs in Kenya across various sectors, including transportation,... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand
- 30 Jun 2020
- What Do You Think?
Is a Business School-Industry Collaboration Needed to Attract Black Talent to Campus?
sufficiently sensitive to including Black students in the exchange of ideas basic to academic performance at HBS and other schools? Is a joint industry-business school effort needed to attract minority talent to campuses? What do you think? Reference: Patrick Thomas,... View Details
- 11 Jun 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching the Next Generation of Energy Executives
You may think that being an energy executive—especially a manager in a leading oil company—might be the easiest job around. Just flip the production switch, and watch gas prices head toward $4 a gallon. But students enrolled in Harvard Business School professor Forest... View Details
- 14 Jul 2006
- Op-Ed
The Case for Consumer-Driven Medicaid
money in the long run." Thus, 75 percent of the enrollees in one consumer-driven group complied with the regimen for their chronic medications as opposed to 63 percent of those enrolled in other insurance plans with virtually no... View Details
Keywords: by Regina E. Herzlinger
- 17 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Can China Maintain Its Economic Power?
immigration trend related to the growing number of Western-educated Chinese? A: Over 300,000 Chinese students enrolled in various US colleges and universities last year. President Xi Jinping’s own daughter graduated from Harvard a few... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg
- 06 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Women MBAs at Harvard Business School
In 1962, the Harvard Business School faculty voted for women to be directly admitted to the two-year MBA Program for the first time. In September 1963, eight female students enrolled in the Class of 1965, alongside 676 men. The School has... View Details
- 25 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Developing the Global Leader
process of understanding who I am, what I desire, what is my purpose, and what are my values," says George, who notes that this year the number of participants who can enroll in ALD has doubled to 240 people. Also coming next July is... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 12 Dec 2022
- Research & Ideas
Buy-In from Black Patients Suffers When Drug Trials Don’t Include Them
Moderna, a pharmaceutical company, announced in September 2020 that it would slow enrollment of its COVID-19 vaccine trials to better improve representation. The majority of study participants were white, although COVID-19 was... View Details
- 27 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 27
simplifies the retirement savings plan participation decision. Individuals received an opportunity to enroll in a retirement savings plan at a pre-selected contribution rate and asset allocation, allowing them to collapse a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Apr 2014
- HBS Case
Are Electronic Cigarettes a Public Good or Health Hazard?
companies have gotten in on the game. Quelch, who holds a joint appointment at HBS and Harvard School of Public Health, wrote the case for a new course debuting next year called "Consumers, Corporations, and Public Health," which will View Details
- 18 Jun 2012
- Research & Ideas
Better by the Bunch: Evaluating Job Candidates in Groups
Protection Act of 2006, which mandated in part that employees be automatically enrolled in a pension plan upon hiring and must choose to opt out rather than opt in—Bohnet, Bazerman, and van Geen decided to apply the theory to evaluation... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 12 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Unexpected Link Between Cadavers and Careers
initiate the contact with the program by asking for an enrollment sheet, but then would go on to request an additional sheet for the other spouse to enroll." Seeking to help donation programs improve and target their outreach... View Details
- 18 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Want to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part I]
the students, enrolled last fall in one of three sessions of Harvard Business School's elective "Entrepreneurial Finance" course, found the possibilities intriguing. They were having fun. But then Sahlman, who was having as much... View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
- 15 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
A Better Business Model for Fighting Cancer
fully enroll in clinical trials, Hamermesh says. “We’re not just looking for anyone with pancreatic cancer—it’s patients with these three particular mutations.” That underlines the importance of making patients aware of the benefits of... View Details
- 17 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Business Case for Diabetes Disease Management
HealthPartners, an independent nonprofit that is one of three health maintenance organizations (HMOs) in the Minneapolis market. HealthPartners has an enrollment of about 675,000 people, and its network consists of approximately 3,700... View Details