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20 Aug 2014
News

With No Time to Lose

Education Elements in San Francisco. “We created a pot of money—a prize—to get people to focus on what we thought was important.” This unique approach was the result of a meeting with drug companies and top researchers convened by Kremer... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

August 2022 (Revised January 2023)
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Icario Health: AI to Drive Health Engagement

By: David C. Edelman

Icario Health has built a market-leading artificial intelligence (AI) engine to help health insurers drive better health behaviors for their members, enabling the insurers to improve their Medicare performance. View Details

Keywords: Marketing; Health Care and Treatment; AI and Machine Learning; Health Industry; United States

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11 Sep 2018
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Bringing Government Up to Code

current events really are helping us all see that society is not working for a lot of people. And the question I get a lot is, well, should I go be a product manager at Twitter and really learn some of the skills of the trade first and... View Details

24 Apr 2014
News

The path to philanthropic entrepreneurship

Sherry Coutu (MBA 1993) recalls that one of the things she liked most about attending HBS was that it empowered its graduates to continually strive to have increased impact in their endeavors. This has... View Details

28 Apr 2025
Blog Post

How to onboard recently graduated MBAs

uninitiated. Brennan suggests that employers look beyond their formal policies to “inventory the expectations that have not been officially codified” and that, once identified, can be shared with newcomers. Look View Details

Keywords: All Industries

06 Oct 2015
Blog Post

Henry McGee: From HBO to HBS

commitment to turning out leaders who will make a difference in the world. Students learn that as business leaders they have responsibilities that go far beyond the bottom line. For example, I teach a... View Details

22 Nov 2022
Research & Ideas

When Agreeing to Disagree Is a Good Beginning

Learning and the Harvard Alumni Association. "What can we all do so that disagreement turns out to be productive rather than damaging?" Gino opened the evening with an example of such constructive sparring.... View Details

Keywords: by Clea Simon, Harvard Gazette

20 May 2024
Blog Post

Get to Know Class Day Student Speaker Erik Roberts

had a stint at an autonomous vehicle infrastructure startup. An MBA, he said, was an opportunity to learn a new problem-solving language. “I’ve thought about each step of my life as View Details

17 Apr 2019
News

Give It to Me Straight

but also be really effective. I learned so much at Google about this. I want to tell you the story about getting criticism from my boss because I learned a lot from this... View Details

Keywords: Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Mar 2006
News

Fast Lane to Country Lane

TOGETHERNESS: Mark and Kim Lackley based their furniture business in Vermont. Learn on someone else’s dime. That’s a lesson from HBS that served Kim Alley Lackley (MBA ’94) well as she made the leap from software and Internet start-ups... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Furniture and Home Furnishings Stores; Retail Trade

01 Sep 2020
Blog Post

6 Ways to Support COVID-Weary Employees

autonomy among employees. Reduced autonomy on the job may lead to lower well-being. One of the challenges for leaders working in the virtual world is to learn View Details

Keywords: All Industries

08 Nov 2010
Research & Ideas

How to Fix a Broken Marketplace

writes in "What Have We Learned from Market Design?" "Among the general tasks markets have to perform, difficulties in providing thickness, dealing with congestion, and making participation... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

31 Jul 2006
Research & Ideas

When Not to Trust Your Gut

to be overly confident about their odds of success despite being proven wrong in the past. In other words, most of us fail to learn from experience. When deciding whether View Details

Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman & Deepak Malhotra

18 Apr 2023
Research & Ideas

The Best Person to Lead Your Company Doesn't Work There—Yet

isn’t necessary when looking for the right top executive; industry expertise often counts more. Many of these leaders have previous public-company management experience, and they deliver outsized returns for themselves and the PE-backed companies they are recruited... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services

06 Oct 2020
News

Clearing the Path to Citizenship

Photo courtesy Xiao Wang Photo courtesy Xiao Wang Thirty years ago, at the age of three, Xiao Wang (MBA 2014) came to the United States from Nanjing, China, to join his parents in Los Angeles. The couple had... View Details

Keywords: April White

20 May 2013
Research & Ideas

The Long-Term Fix to US Competitiveness

ecosystem of partnerships and collaborations." Three panelists outlined some of those collaborations. Mary L. Fifield, president of Bunker Hill Community College, described that school's partnership with a consortium of local businesses View Details

Keywords: by Stephanie Schorow & Harvard Gazette

22 Dec 2003
Research & Ideas

How to Build a Better Board

their time by providing directors with better information. As we mention in the book, encourage directors to get out and do things between the meetings to learn more about the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

11 Oct 2004
Research & Ideas

Four Ways to Create Lasting Change

work of creating new processes, systems, and behaviors. You've learned, however, that it is important to lay the groundwork much earlier on. What attracted you to the "Alpha Corporation" in order... View Details