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Rare Disease Day – Small Numbers, Big Challenges… and Big Opportunities - Blog: Health Supplement
Patients like my mother have become the pioneers of change for rare diseases, advocating for themselves and educating their physicians in real time. Patient advocacy organizations and disease-focused, nonprofit, research foundations have... View Details
- 20 Oct 2010
- Op-Ed
Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic
broader based growth strategy. Overall, the discussion suggests that there are sufficient grounds to be skeptical that exports are the right foundation to build a growth agenda on. Exports play a role in growth but it is doubtful whether... View Details
Keywords: by Christian Ketels
- 09 Jun 2024
- Blog Post
The EC Formula: MBA Class of 2024 Looks Back
take. It allowed them to integrate everything they learned into situations they were likely to encounter in the workforce. As someone who is pursuing a career that requires me to evaluate businesses but also learn its operations, this... View Details
- 25 Jan 2024
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #15: Hilton Augustine III on Financing Climate Ventures
on those foundations to accelerate the time to deployment.” At Harvard College, Hilton started an energy club and set up a solar technology demonstration for Earth Day. He studied engineering and sought out “classes on energy policy,... View Details
- 09 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Leadership Lessons of the Great Recession: Options for Economic Downturns
even as they invest relatively comprehensively in the future by spending on marketing, R&D and new assets,” Gulati, Nohria, and Wohlgezogen wrote in their Harvard Business Review article Roaring Out of Recession. “Their approach doesn’t just combat a downturn; it... View Details
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Course Development
By: Debora L. Spar
Managing International Trade and Investment
Despite the ease with which it is often conducted, doing business across borders is not the same as doing it at home. Rather, it entails a whole new set of managerial challenges: re-assessing competitive... View Details
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Mastering Strategy Execution
By: Robert Simons
Professor Robert Simons’ research encompasses three areas of management accountability that are the foundation for successful strategy execution: organization design, performance measurement and control, and risk management. In addition, Simons is interested in the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
50 Years & Counting
the Bias Trap Max Bazerman "The project...taps into earlier work I've done on how joint evaluation leads to better and more ethical decisions." - MAX BAZERMAN In a research project conducted with colleagues at the Harvard Kennedy School,... View Details
- 06 Jun 2018
- News
The Business of Social Justice
Heidi Brooks (MBA 2003) is the chief operating officer of the Schott Foundation for Public Education, a nonprofit organization focused on strengthening public education through grants and advocacy. The foundation’s mission aims at ending... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Teachable Moments
2020 Thomas J. DeLong. All rights reserved. A Baker Foundation Professor of Management Practice, Professor DeLong is co-chair of the Executive Education program The Reflective Leader, developed specifically for mid-career MBA alumni.... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
MBA Cohorts Will Merge Next Year
future benefits. "Students' evaluations of their educational experience in the January cohort and their prospects in the job market have been consistently on par with those of students in the September cohort," Kester said. "The system... View Details
- 03 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 3, 2008
Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-099WP.pdf Evaluating the Impact of SA 8000 Certification Authors:Michael J. Hiscox, Claire Schwartz, and Michael W. Toffel Abstract SA 8000, along with other types of certification... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Profile
Marco Crespo
For Marco Crespo, the motivation behind getting an MBA goes straight to the roots of his ambitions. After completing an engineering degree and working at Boston Consulting Group in Sao Paolo, “I wanted to learn the foundations of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Transformers
intentions and a sense of loyalty to a local organization. As for the foundations that distributed billions to nonprofits, they rarely held their beneficiaries accountable for results. Just as result-driven thinking entered the business... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
New Releases
Foundations of Organizational Strategy by Michael C. Jensen (Harvard University Press) Economists have historically concentrated on analyzing markets while glossing over the complexities of organizations inside those markets. Behavioral... View Details
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Phil Wong
operational foundation for running healthcare practices. Prior to pivoting into healthcare, Phil was a portfolio manager at a fund of hedge funds managing $1Bn+ on behalf of pension plans and insurance companies. His investing role... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Corporate Finance; Financial Services (All); Investment Banking; Financial Services (All); Investment Management; Financial Services (All); Private Equity; Financial Services (All); Venture Capital; Financial Services (All); Health Care; Startup - Founder; Entrepreneurship
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
in household income? At the end of the day, did we reduce poverty? "We measure quantified objectives beforehand, monitor them during implementation, and evaluate them afterward," Bloom continues. "It's all very public, very explicit, and... View Details
- 09 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Social Entrepreneurs Can Increase Their Investment Impact
Foundation has made frequent use of investments in the form of “program-related investments” to support its social and environmental goals. How can an entrepreneur trying to do good evaluate the best form of... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 07 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 7
management task in all innovating organizations. In this paper, we focus on the evaluation of frontier scientific research projects. We argue that the "intellectual distance" between the knowledge embodied in research proposals... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne