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25 Jun 2024
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How Transparency Sped Innovation in a $13 Billion Wireless Sector

2018, much of which came from the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) massive database of Wi-Fi products. The researchers used the FCC documents and other sources to observe firms' positions in a supply chain with rich detail,... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald; Technology

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Adding a Social Dimension to Strategy - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

supporting community development Purpose-Based Strategic Positioning A clear social purpose opens up new opportunities for growth and profitability, while motivating and attracting employees, consumers,... View Details

04 May 2015
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Need to Solve a Problem? Take a Break From Collaborating

problem-solving process. To pursue the efficacy of collaboration the research team developed a straightforward experiment that mirrored real-world problem-solving work. Rather than start from scratch, they customized a platform called... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Video Game; Web Services

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Research Community Research Resources Our research and teaching resources are unmatched. The research and teaching resources at Harvard are unmatched by any other school. Students can make use of virtually any methodology required to... View Details

April 2023
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Performance on Patient Experience Measures of Former Chief Medical Residents as Physician Exemplars Chosen by the Profession

By: Lucy Chen and J. Michael McWilliams

OBJECTIVE To compare care for patients of primary care physicians (PCPs) who were former chiefs with care for patients of nonchief PCPs.

DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS Using 2010 to 2018 Medicare Fee-For-Service Consumer Assessment of Healthcare... View Details

Keywords: Performance Evaluation; Forecasting and Prediction; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Competency and Skills; Surveys; Health Industry

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Online Leadership Principles Course | HBS Online

regular deadlines This course earns you a Certificate of Completion from HBS Online. What you earn . Overview Syllabus Enrollment Stories FAQs Enroll Now Key Concepts Understand your motivational drivers, emotional intelligence, and View Details

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For Alumni - Entrepreneurship

For Alumni Rock100 Network When HBS alumni entrepreneurs connect, share their experiences, and learn together, a powerful community is established. Join the Rock100 global network, an exclusive community for... View Details

10 Oct 2023
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Policy Drivers for Environmental Justice: What Businesses Need to Know

refers to disadvantaged communities, it generally follows this guidance. The White House has developed a tool to identify DACs for Justice40 purposes, although it only includes geographically defined View Details

17 Dec 2020
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Making Club History in Japan; Startup Accelerator Case Goes Virtual in Atlanta

making the HBS Club of Japan a source of inspiration and connection for alumni.” According to Tanaka, Japan ranks the lowest among developed countries in the World Economic Forum’s Gender Gap Index. “Female representation in leadership in... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

May 2009 (Revised October 2009)
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Newton-Wellesley Hospital

By: Richard M.J. Bohmer and Natalie Kindred

How will Newton-Wellesley Hospital (NWH) preserve its private practice tradition while remaining effective and competitive in a healthcare industry demanding increasing integration between physicians and hospitals? This is the decision facing Newton-Wellesley Hospital... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Profit; Health Care and Treatment; Growth and Development Strategy; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Structure; Competitive Strategy; Integration; Health Industry; Massachusetts

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19 Dec 2022
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What Motivates People to Give Generously—and Why We Sometimes Don't

play a part in how much good people do in the world. Having looked under the hood, what’s your outlook on our capacity for giving, broadly speaking? “I often ask: How do people develop excuses not to give? Then I try to explore ways to... View Details

Keywords: by Jen McFarland Flint, HBS Alumni Bulletin

22 Feb 2023
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Meet the Disability Advocacy and Affinity Group (DAAG)

accommodations for all current students, prospective students, alumni, and their families. We also want to create greater awareness of these issues through community events, speaker series, listening tours, and more. Cassidy Wald (MBA... View Details

19 Sep 2023
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2023 Summer Internships in Business & Environment

software, Spectra. Nabig's role prior to HBS was a Graduate Developer at Cal-Adapt Analytics Engine, a data platform for analyzing climate change impacts in California. Rhea Choudhury (MBA 2024, Section F), Summer Internship: Business... View Details

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Online Business Strategy Courses | HBS Online

Specialization. With our past participant discount, you'll receive 30% off your second and third courses for a total savings of $1,110 . Here are three learning pathways we recommend based on your career goals and stage. Strategy Foundations: For those newer to... View Details

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HBS Alumni Conference: Accelerating Climate Solutions - Alumni

perspective of collaboration. But this becomes a delicate balance between anti-competitive legal territory and the benefits of the collective development of standards and crystallization of emerging demand signals, all paving the way for... View Details

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Alternative Investments Course | HBS Online

Self-Paced with regular deadlines This course earns you a Certificate of Completion from HBS Online. What you earn . Overview Syllabus Enrollment Stories FAQs Enroll Now Key Concepts Speak the language of alternative investments so that you can better View Details

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How the Other Half Thinks: The Psychology of Advising

By: Hayley Blunden and Francesca Gino

This chapter integrates research on advice interactions, motivations for advising, and the psychological consequences of serving in an advisor role to develop a more comprehensive perspective on the psychology of advising. By connecting this work, which spans various... View Details

Keywords: Advice; Advice Giving; Advisor; Self-other; Helping; Interpersonal Communication; Cognition and Thinking; Social Psychology

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First Look: January 3, 2007

Working PapersCan Higher Prices Stimulate Product Use? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Zambia Authors:Nava Ashraf, James Berry, and Jesse M. Shapiro Abstract The pricing of health products in the developing world has become a center... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

20 Apr 2015
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The 5 Strategy Rules of Bill Gates, Andy Grove, and Steve Jobs

would move beyond the computer to use a range of electronic devices for entertainment and communication and then systematically rolled them out one step at a time—the iPod, iPhone, and iPad. Building an Ecosystem Gates was the first of... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Computer

June 1994 (Revised September 1994)
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Commercializing Technology: Imaginative Understanding of User Needs

By: Dorothy A. Leonard

The transformation of technology into commercially successful products is a process fraught with risk and uncertainty, and increasing pressure on time to market is exacerbating the difficulties. This note first describes a study conducted by Hewlett-Packard to improve... View Details