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11 Jan 2022
Research & Ideas

Feeling Seen: What to Say When Your Employees Are Not OK

trust,” Yu says, “because if there is an expectation, especially that the leader is supposed to take care of their employees, and this is such a difficult time, staying silent can be harmful.” [Image:... View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds

02 Aug 2021
Blog Post

ALUMNI WORK TO REVERSE BIAS THROUGH PHILANTHROPY

pillars of underfunded structural challenges: policing and criminal justice reform; economic empowerment; health care equity; and youth education, empowerment, and civic engagement. Black and brown social entrepreneurs who work on these... View Details

14 Dec 2009
Research & Ideas

Can Entrepreneurs Drive People Movers to Success?

these charges removed from the credit card ecosystem. Meanwhile, this holiday shopping season users ought to exercise special caution. A link promising extra savings may not be what it seems. Be careful even... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Transportation

March 2022 (Revised May 2022)
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Reclaiming the Land of Purple: Purpl’s Mission to Unlock Finance in Lebanon

By: Lauren Cohen and Grace Headinger

Karl Naim, Co-Founder and CEO of Purpl, embarked on a venture to lower remittance costs for his native Lebanon. Since October 2019, the Lebanese economy had entered a free fall as its banking sector collapsed and large swathes of its population were plunged into... View Details

Keywords: Business Startup; Fintech; Inflation; Deflation; Cross-border Frictions; Remittances; Business Startups; Diasporas; Financial Crisis; Money; Entrepreneurship; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Poverty; Financial Institutions; Banking Industry; Financial Services Industry; Technology Industry; Lebanon

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Principles that Matter: Sustaining Software Innovation from the Client to the Web

By: Marco Iansiti

Economic analysis often reviews the role of principles—such as respect for intellectual property rights—in driving innovation. Given the interdependent nature of innovation in information technology, three core principles have emerged that work together to ensure that... View Details

Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Technological Innovation; Intellectual Property; Partners and Partnerships; Competition; Information Technology; Internet and the Web

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01 Jun 2015
News

Alumni Take Action to Improve US Competitiveness

resources for the full length of the research, he also provided pro-bono, unlimited access to one year of Burning Glass data to analyze the middle skills gap in America. The... View Details

Keywords: Erin Peterson; Walmart; Health, Social Assistance; Retail Trade

24 Feb 2022
News

Want to Prevent the Next Hospital Bed Crisis? Enlist the SEC

14 Sep 2021
Blog Post

How to Support Your Employees' Career Development

choose to have a career coach on retainer that employees can work with, or they will hire career coaches for employees on an ad-hoc basis for discussions around career progression, professional development, and managing workloads.... View Details

January 2017 (Revised March 2021)
Case

Fitbit

By: Regina E. Herzlinger, Christine Snively and Sarah Mehta

In 2019, Fitbit lost its leadership in the wearable sensor market to Apple and to cheaper alternatives.
Why did it lose its market position?
How will the proposed acquisition affect it and Google? View Details

Keywords: Wearable Sensors; Smart Watches In Health Care; Google Acquisition; Health Care and Treatment; Information Technology; Acquisition

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01 Dec 2017
News

A Safer—and Speedier—Way to Name Your Startup

sector, taking what we had learned about name selection and availability and making it accessible inexpensively to everyone, everywhere,” says Master. Say you have a name in mind for a financial planning... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

18 Aug 2014
Research & Ideas

Have a Better Idea To Improve Health Care?

analysis program for health care providers. Innovations will be judged on the basis of their impact on cost, quality, or access to health care; evidence of initial success; and... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

11 Apr 2017
News

Some Strategies to Limit Sugary Drinks May Backfire

24 Feb 2016
Research & Ideas

Why It's Best to Take Tests Early in the Day

should consider whether the structure of the school day is ideal. Should we have more breaks to ensure that low-performing children can recover, for instance? Two, in accountability systems we often compare and evaluate based on test... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education

12 Aug 2020
News

Harvard Business School Kraft Precision Medicine Accelerator Launches Strategic Playbook For Organizations Working To Bring Cures To Patients

11 Jul 2017
News

A better way to measure the patient experience

13 Aug 2021
Research & Ideas

Managers, Here’s How to Bond with New Hires Remotely

with managers is valuable—and it’s especially important for newly hired workers. In fact, Bojinov recommends: “Go to your remote workers first.” “Managers have to be careful of... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

31 Aug 2021
Book

Feeling Powerless at Work? Time to Agitate, Innovate, and Orchestrate

through persuasion or coercion.” But where does this power come from? It derives from controlling access to what others value, such as income, status, achievement, belonging, autonomy, and moral purpose.... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

June 5, 2023
Article

How to Tap the Full Potential of Telemedicine

By: Mitchell Tang, Louise Short, Ryan June, Matthew Dowling and Ateev Mehrotra

Telemedicine visits in the United States have fallen sharply since April 2020, but the end of the pandemic should not spell the end of telemedicine. It can play a valuable role in the delivery of health care. The key to tapping its potential is to bring many elements... View Details

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Technological Innovation

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20 Aug 2020
Book

From the Plow to the Pill: How Technology Shapes Our Lives

For centuries, the creation of innovative technology—from steam engines and automobiles to computers and smartphones—has dramatically changed the nature of our work. Less deeply understood has been the impact of technology on the inner currents of our personal lives,... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman