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- 26 Jul 2016
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July 26, 2016
health care so that our economy can improve and so that patients can make informed decisions. We must move away from fee-for-service reimbursement, which incentivizes doing more, and begin paying for good outcomes. Health care... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jun 2012
- Research & Ideas
When Business Competition Harms Society
Competition Corrupts Business Practices, suggests that many organizations in highly competitive markets are likely to bend the rules if doing so will keep their customers from leaving for a rival firm. "Competition is generally thought to be View Details
- 17 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Harvard Business School Faculty Comment on Crisis in Japan
are characterized by a sequential mode of production where goods are produced in a series of stages in different countries by vertical specialists who pass them across borders to the next firm in the value chain. Shocks like this ripple... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- Profile
David A. Frankel
for Fund Two and Frankel said they could have easily raised a far larger fund. Instead, at Paley’s insistence, they capped the fund at $70 million. “Eric said `We are just starting to show we’re good at something so let’s keep that going... View Details
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RCS Policies - Research Computing Services
this space are not backed up. As such, you should make efforts to copy back your files as needed to your permanent storage (home folders or project spaces). There are no quotas to prevent other persons from consuming the space. We expect... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Q & A: Herb Kohl
As a boy growing up in Milwaukee, Herbert H. Kohl (MBA '58) spent afternoons and weekends restocking shelves in his immigrant parents' grocery store. It was good training for Kohl, who joined the family business after graduating from HBS... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 30 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 30
selection between high- and low-type firms, which differ in terms of their innovative capacity. We estimate the parameters of the model using detailed US Census micro data on firm-level output, R&D and patenting. The model provides a View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 10
"song-sales" equation estimated using the seemingly unrelated regression method, explicitly accounts for the interaction between sales for the bundle and its components. I find that revenues decrease significantly as digital downloading becomes more prevalent... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Street Singer
your classmates’ experiences. That’s part of the value of HBS. It’s huge.” At Morgan Stanley, which she joined right out of HBS, Harris leads the equity private placements effort in global capital markets and covers the retail and View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
The Levitt Brand
were looking at an icon.” Photo courtesy Joan Levitt In interviews with Levitt’s HBS marketing colleagues, all brought up his love of a provocative argument and a good discussion, as well as the powerful breadth and depth of his mind. “He... View Details
- 19 Jan 2021
- In Practice
Leadership Advice for Biden: Restore a Sense of Calm
a basis for collaboration and consensus, which is what one needs to focus on with a legislative branch that’s effectively tied. One of the considerations for any leader is: What is possible versus what would I like to do? Good managers... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 25 Apr 2005
- Research & Ideas
New Learning at American Home Products
sales to Johnson & Johnson's Tylenol); Dristan and other cold and allergy-relief medicines; and drugs for asthma, hemorrhoids, and other ills. Canned and packaged goods brought in 11 percent, including such brands as Chef Boyardee... View Details
- 22 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019
and Galanz, which has brought microwave ovens to millions of Chinese consumers previously considered too poor to buy such an appliance. What’s more, the essentials of development can be “pulled in” by market-creating innovators—and over... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 03 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 3
plants in Portugal in the 1990s, now had 60 plants across five continents and was a valued partner to large multinational consumer goods companies, many of whom were pressuring Logoplaste to expand. Purchase... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Predictable Surprises
CEOs several decades ago. The airline’s previous generation of leaders settled tough union negotiations, made agreements that allowed them to operate profitably and look good in the short term, and dumped their pension obligations into... View Details
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Donna L. Dubinsky, MBA 1981
everyone's life." Dubinsky found Apple's casual atmosphere—where smart people thrived—a good fit and accepted a position as a support specialist. "Apple had real energy. I loved the notion that we were changing the world. To me that was a... View Details
- 05 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: January 5
contract with the Iraqi government. In addition, the executives in London and Beijing needed to decide whether it made sense to exercise the option they had just purchased. Would they be throwing good money after bad by investing in the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Winners & Success Stories | New Venture Competition
Track: HydroHaul HydroHaul is redefining the hydrogen value chain, linking consumers with producers affordably and flexibly. Team: Eli Litchman (MBA 2025), Fenil Desai. Play Aidra Health: Sacerdote Runner-Up Prize Winner Social Enterprise... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
No Easy Fix for the Financial Crisis
fundamental deterioration in their ability to pay for goods and services from their wages.” Simultaneously, lending standards continued to deteriorate “until we got to the point where we had very lax standards, and we started to see... View Details
- 26 Jun 2000
- Research & Ideas
Presentation Round-Up
creation, production, delivery and use of the Web, as well as toward a service delivery infrastructure. Panelist Katie Burke (HBS MBA '95) noted Web-based e-mail as a good example of how and why software is turning into a service.... View Details