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- 29 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
A Manager’s Moral Obligation to Preserve Capitalism
Capitalism's moral logic was perhaps most famously articulated by free market champion Milton Friedman when he said that "the social responsibility of business is to increase its profits." That sentiment puts faith in the market to distribute wealth in the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- October 2015 (Revised October 2016)
- Case
Building Watson: Not So Elementary, My Dear! (Abridged)
By: Willy C. Shih
This case is set inside IBM Research's efforts to build a computer that can successfully take on human challengers playing the game show Jeopardy! It opens with the machine named Watson offering the incorrect answer "Toronto" to a seemingly simple question during the... View Details
Keywords: Analytics; Big Data; Business Analytics; Product Development Strategy; Machine Learning; Machine Intelligence; Artificial Intelligence; Product Development; AI and Machine Learning; Information Technology; Analytics and Data Science; Information Technology Industry; United States
Shih, Willy C. "Building Watson: Not So Elementary, My Dear! (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 616-025, October 2015. (Revised October 2016.)
- 01 May 2013
- News
Edward E. Matthews, MBA 1957
private investment firm. “HBS expanded my horizons to the way people really thought. I loved it.” In fact, Matthews excelled at HBS and graduated with high distinction as a Baker Scholar. Matthews supports HBS as well as a broad range of... View Details
- 23 May 2023
- Research & Ideas
Lessons on Life, Graffiti, and Value: 'It's in That Darkness That You Can Actually Develop and Evolve'
pursued. It’s really the ethos that I’ve carried with me from when I was 13 to right now.” “Being neurodivergent and having learning differences, creative outlets like drawing were always a way for me to express myself when finding the... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
- December 2006 (Revised October 2016)
- Case
eClinicalWorks: The Paths to Growth
By: Robert F. Higgins and Mark Rennella
In January 2006, eClinicalWorks (eCW) had an acquisition opportunity that could fundamentally change the way they had done business since the inception of the company in 1999. eClinicalWorks was a privately run business in the healthcare information technology field... View Details
Keywords: Young Companies; Strategic Revelation; Strategy And Execution; Strategy Development; Strategy And Leadership; Financing Strategy; Financing Risk; Financing; Expansion; Business Growth and Maturation; Organizational Culture; Financing and Loans; Customer Focus and Relationships; Acquisition; Growth and Development Strategy; Information Technology Industry; Health Industry; Massachusetts
Higgins, Robert F., and Mark Rennella. "eClinicalWorks: The Paths to Growth." Harvard Business School Case 807-025, December 2006. (Revised October 2016.)
- 24 Feb 2022
- Op-Ed
Want to Prevent the Next Hospital Bed Crisis? Enlist the SEC
attempts to avoid bed shortages by sharing capacity have generally failed, in part, because of the persistence of an independent hospital culture. As COVID-19 surged in 2020, capacity varied widely even among hospitals in the same city, according to data from 189... View Details
- 02 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 2, 2016
countries whether to participate in the United Nations Global Compact. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=47799 Copyright Enforcement: Evidence from Two Field Experiments By: Luo, Hong, and Julie... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 17
medical/surgical units at two hospitals, shadowed support staff who provided materials, and interviewed employees about their internal supply chain's performance. These activities created a database of 120 operational failures and the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Nov 2001
- Op-Ed
Why Corporate Budgeting Needs To Be Fixed
truth. It turns business decisions into elaborate exercises in gaming. It sets colleague against colleague, creating distrust and ill will. And it distorts incentives, motivating people to act in ways that run counter to the best... View Details
Keywords: by Michael C. Jensen
- 19 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 19, 2010
One explanation for these patterns is that U.S. firms are organized in a way that allows them to use new technologies more efficiently. A model of endogenously chosen organizational form and IT is developed to explain these new micro and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
My First Job
it’s almost an unavoidable fact that blunders will be made. We might wish we could forget them and focus instead on the more successful stages of work life, but the lessons that we take from those earliest failures have a way of sticking... View Details
- 10 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 10
Corstjens and Rajiv Lal Publication:Harvard Business Review 90, no. 4 (April 2012) Abstract Most companies assume that the easiest way to grow is by investing overseas and that the developing world offers the best opportunities for... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 04 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Smart Cities are Complicated and Costly: Here's How to Build Them
Chombosan Much promotion of smart cities assumes that municipalities will take a proactive, top-down, technology-first approach to urban progress. Thus far, these initiatives look for some forward-thinking city official (or immensely deep-pocketed private investor) to... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Breaking News
The decline of the community newspaper in the United States has been steep and severe. A quarter of American papers have folded in the last 15 years, and industry-wide consolidation has eviscerated the newsrooms of those that are left,... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Advisory Boards Help HBS Assess and Attain Its Goals
future. The Alumni Association Board of Directors, the Board of the Directors of the Associates, and the Visiting Committee all assist HBS in ways that bring a valuable viewpoint to the School. James C. Schroeder, executive director of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Very Continental
Ngoyi at the Fund for Export Development in Africa: creating sustainable development at scale. (Courtesy of Marlene Ngoyi) Born in Brussels to Congolese parents and raised in Gabon, Marlene Ngoyi (MBA 2009) has lived and worked in countries including Guatemala, the... View Details
- 29 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 29, 2016
institution’s patient portal. Conclusions. As healthcare costs continue to rise in the United States and around the world, a value-based approach with explicit, transparently reported patient outcomes will not only create opportunities... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Business, Government & the International Economy Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Reshmaan N. Hussam : Recipient of a United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Research and Innovation Fellowship, 2014-2015. Sophus A. Reinert : Winner of the 2015 Center for Research Libraries (CRL) Primary Source Award... View Details
- 06 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Strategic Intelligence: Adapt or Die
the United States, identifies the final strategic imperatives it is trying to achieve and then translates them into action plans. At the end of each month the management team steps back and says, "Do our strategic imperatives make... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 09 Jun 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
Monetizing IP: The Executive’s Challenge
but have proliferated in recent years. Goods covered by patent pools totaled at least $100 billion in the United States in 2000, while multiple standard-setting bodies today cover virtually every high-technology product. Moreover, the... View Details