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  • 01 Mar 2024
  • News

Vital Signs

Image by Edmon De Haro Illustration by Edmon De Haro The signs of strain were there long before the pandemic: Health care workers had been managing under tremendous pressures while working long hours in understaffed hospitals. Then COVID unleashed an unprecedented... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance
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Interviews - Recruiting

preparation and more focused student decisions. Contact us for help understanding student timelines and availability. First year interviews may begin January 6. Recruiting Standards of Conduct & Dates By hosting an interview publicized... View Details
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Health Care - Faculty & Research

First, patients stop taking drugs that are both high value and suspected to cause life-threatening withdrawal syndromes when stopped. Second, using machine learning, we identify patients at the highest risk of drug-preventable adverse events. Contrary to the... View Details
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Investment Banking & Securities Underwriting | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

developments [that] unfolded during his lifetime. Until then the emphasis of economic progress had been on production, on opening and developing our continental treasure house. Imperceptibly but surely it was now switching to distribution, in line with a rapid rise of... View Details
  • 14 Aug 2006
  • HBS Case

On Managing with Bobby Knight and “Coach K”

their own beliefs about human nature and leadership. And they are also contemplating this question: Knight or Krzyzewski, whom would you hire? While the deck seems stacked in favor of Coach K, at least under today's standards of behavior,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Sports
  • 02 Nov 2006
  • Working Paper Summaries

Resolving Information Asymmetries in Markets: The Role of Certified Management Programs

Keywords: by Michael W. Toffel
  • August 2020
  • Article

Does Spending Money on Others Promote Happiness? A Registered Replication Report

By: Lara B. Aknin, Elizabeth W. Dunn, Jason Proulx, Iris Lok and Michael I. Norton
Research indicates that spending money on others—prosocial spending—leads to greater happiness than spending money on oneself (e.g., Dunn, Aknin, & Norton, 2008, 2014). These findings have received widespread attention because they offer insight into why people engage... View Details
Keywords: Prosocial Spending; Generosity; Well-being; Replication; Happiness; Behavior; Spending
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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship

Interactive Messaging Unit (IMU), the online industry's catalyst for going "beyond the banner" and standardizing new ad formats that dramatically enhanced both the user experience and ad performance. His influence in this evolution earned... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2023
  • News

Startup Success Beyond Silicon Valley

Professor Paul Gompers visited Endeavor Saudi Arabia, a nonprofit that promotes startups in emerging markets. Pictured are Alpana Thapar and Fares Khrais (both of the Middle East and North Africa Research Center), Gompers, Lateefa Alwaalan (Endeavor Saudi Arabia), and... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Mele
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Data - Advancing Racial Equity

of 2023 & 2024 to ~1000 each. The Department of the Interior via the Office of Civil Rights provides federal guidelines for maintaining, collecting, and presenting data on race and ethnicity. HBS is required to follow these standards... View Details
  • 11 Aug 2010
  • Working Paper Summaries

The Influence of Prior Industry Affiliation on Framing in Nascent Industries: The Evolution of Digital Cameras

Keywords: by Mary J. Benner & Mary Tripsas; Electronics
  • July – August 2009
  • Article

Restoring American Competitiveness

By: Gary P. Pisano and Willy C. Shih
For decades, U.S. companies have been outsourcing manufacturing in the belief that it held no competitive advantage. That's been a disaster, maintain Harvard professors Pisano and Shih, because today's low-value manufacturing operations hold the seeds of tomorrow's... View Details
Keywords: Competitive Advantage; Value; Production; Innovation and Invention; Product Development; Government and Politics; Social Issues; Management Practices and Processes; Investment; Research and Development; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Competency and Skills; Service Industry; United States
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  • 16 Apr 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Strategy and the Internet

companies were forced to adapt their ways of doing things to the software. As a result, IT has been a force for standardizing activities and speeding competitive convergence. Internet architecture, together with other improvements in... View Details
Keywords: by Michael E. Porter
  • 18 Jun 2020
  • Research & Ideas

What Is an "Essential" Purchase for a Low-Income Family?

person—an average of $152—compared to only $125 for the lower-income person. It was a simple demonstration of the potentially far-reaching behavioral implications this implicit double standard may have. The research was completed before... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
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Student Research - Doctoral

against 13 transactions. However, using the FTC’s standard screening tools, we find that 20% of these mergers could have... November 2024 Article Hospital Pediatrics A National Analysis of General Pediatric Inpatient Unit Closures and... View Details
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The Railroads: The First Big Business - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School

In 1883 railroad executives met to establish a system of Standard Time in four time zones in the United States. Charles Perrow, Organizing America: Wealth, Power, and the Origins of Corporate Capitalism. Princeton: Princeton University... View Details
  • 30 May 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Racial Bias Might Be Infecting Patient Portals. Can AI Help?

use very simple language models to standardize the text presented to clinicians,” Stern says. “What if there were a way to develop a tool that would scan and repackage information to make triage more efficient?” Reducing inequality beyond... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand; Health
  • 16 Jul 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Restaurant Revolution: How the Industry Is Fighting to Stay Alive

treating their employees well is the best way for them to ensure that customers’ concerns about safety are front of mind in every aspect of service while maintaining high standards for hospitality. Restaurant implementation of highly... View Details
Keywords: by Michael S. Kaufman, Lena G. Goldberg, and Jill Avery; Food & Beverage
  • 2020
  • Working Paper

Social Influence in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Community Establishments’ Closure Decisions Follow Those of Nearby Chain Establishments

By: Abhishek Nagaraj, Mathijs de Vaan, Saqib Mumtaz and Sameer Srivastava
As conveners that bring various stakeholders into the same physical space, firms can powerfully influence the course of pandemics such as COVID-19. Even when operating under government orders and health guidelines, firms have considerable discretion to keep their... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19; Peer Influence; Closure Decisions; Health Pandemics; Business Ventures; Decisions; Business and Community Relations
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  • June 2008
  • Article

The Multiunit Enterprise

By: David A. Garvin and Lynne C. Levesque
A multiunit enterprise is a geographically dispersed organization built from standard units (stores, restaurants, or branches) that are aggregated into larger geographic groupings (districts, regions, and divisions). Although this organizational structure has become... View Details
Keywords: Globalized Firms and Management; Organizational Structure; Global Range; Research; Business Ventures; Problems and Challenges; Business or Company Management; Business Headquarters; Organizational Design; Talent and Talent Management; Goals and Objectives
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