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Measuring the Scientific Effectiveness of Contact Tracing: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

By: Thiemo Fetzer and Thomas Graeber

Contact tracing has for decades been a cornerstone of the public health approach to epidemics, including Ebola, severe acute respiratory syndrome, and now COVID-19. It has not yet been possible, however, to causally assess the method’s effectiveness using a randomized... View Details

Keywords: COVID-19; Contact Tracing; Public Health; Infectious Diseases; Health Pandemics

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2011
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Juner: On the Road to IPO

By: F. Warren McFarlan, Donglin Xia, Ning Jia and Ziqian Zhao

Keywords: Going Public; Initial Public Offering

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01 Oct 2021
News

No Time Like the Present

Reunion. Now the subject of an HBS case study himself, Delle still regularly reviews his collection of cases from his days as an MBA in order to glean new insights. He was initially interested in earmarking... View Details

12 Nov 2021
News

Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge

critical role in global society. In the lead-up to COP26, the Business & Environment Initiative asked HBS alumni business leaders from a wide range of sectors and disciplines... View Details

06 Dec 2021
News

Leadership in the Digital Age

six HBS Global Research Centers, Hill and her Leadership Initiative team hosted a series of virtual roundtable discussions on the pressing issues that accompany digital transformation. View Details

Keywords: April White

28 May 2019
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Ask the Expert: In Security

there: ransomware, the security of our electric grid, and international espionage, for example. Young has worked in the field from his early-career startup days through posts at AOL, Cisco, and Intel, where... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; cybersecurity

07 Jul 2022
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Pathlight: Reimagining the Developer Onboarding Experience

be open-minded about your learnings. Don’t just look for the data points that validate your initial hypothesis, but rather focus on the whole picture of what you’re learning.... View Details

11 Jul 2016
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Neurodiversity: The Benefits of Recruiting Employees with Cognitive Disabilities

Professor of Information Systems, Ivey Business School, delve into the growing neurodiversity initiative at software behemoth SAP in their case study SAP SE: Autism at Work. Software testing is exacting and... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Technology

01 Dec 2002
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The Campaign for Harvard Business School

other priorities. At $475 million (as of June 30), the campaign is close to its initial dollar goal, but definitely not over. Several campaign initiatives have not reached... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

01 Dec 2001
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BOOK: You Can't Enlarge the Pie

psychology professor at the University of Pennsylvania, argue that too many government decisions and initiatives are shaped by psychological biases and unproductive thinking habits. View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

14 Jan 2014
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Spreading the Seeds of Entrepreneurship

'aha' moment came with a survey we do at the beginning and end of the class, asking students if they think they will come back to the county. In View Details

Keywords: CEO (Creating Entrepreneurial Opportunities); Educational Services; Agriculture; Manufacturing

11 Nov 2002
Research & Ideas

Women Entrepreneurs Usher in the Next Generation

you entrepreneurial.' "From the very get-go, we get very different messages about who we are as economic beings," she observed. Women's economic education, continued Godfrey, a former social... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

19 Jul 2004
Research & Ideas

Why Innovations Sit on the Shelf

leadership has the courage to initiate the measures necessary to do so. We've discovered that standard initiatives such as employee surveys,... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Beer, Russell Eisenstat & Derek Schrader

02 Mar 2023
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Women, Work, and the "M" Word

Santander Bank are setting a new standard by creating meaningful benefits to support menopausal employees. The rest of us should catch up without delay. About the author: Jannine Versi is View Details

01 Jun 2007
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Profiles from the class of 2007

who speaks fluent Hebrew, Arabic, and English and who has long been involved with peace-related initiatives and nonprofits, that experience convinced him “to work on the business side of peace.” “Peace in... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Lewis I. Rice

09 Oct 2012
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Dean Nohria Reflects on 50 Years of Women at HBS

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The John H. McArthur Fellowship for Canadian MBA Students - Global

ability. The Initiative also hopes to further remove debt burden considerations from job choice and early career decisions. It is the goal of these generous alumni that future... View Details

29 Oct 2019
Blog Post

Merging the Worlds of Finance, Investing, and Environmental Impact

Established in 2010, the HBS Business & Environment Initiative (BEI) works to deepen understanding of the environmental challenges facing business leaders and inspire new... View Details

01 Oct 1996
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Mastering the Competition — Michael E. Porter (MBA 1971)

result of his research was the establishment two years ago of the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City, a national nonprofit organization dedicated to putting Porter's model... View Details

Keywords: James E. Aisner

12 Apr 2004
Research & Ideas

Operations and the Competitive Edge

telecommunications technologies, particularly the Internet, which enabled entirely new ways to communicate with customers and suppliers, as well as internally. This was the era when everybody was developing... View Details