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- 30 May 2007
- Research & Ideas
Health Care Under a Research Microscope
game is supposed to be quality up and cost down. And this is one where that has not happened. And it's been very slow with the quality movement." Professor Regina Herzlinger, who has studied the health care system for three decades,... View Details
- 24 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
Stimulus Surprise: Companies Retrench When Government Spends
professors Lauren Cohen, Joshua Coval, and Christopher Malloy discovered to their surprise that companies experienced lower sales and retrenched by cutting payroll, R&D, and other expenses. Indeed, in the years that followed a... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- Profile
Lara Hodgson
it. She, along with her co-founder John Hayes, who years earlier had founded Peachtree Accounting Software, created her own solution by founding NOW Corp in 2010. The concept is simple: A small business with a bill out to any business or... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Down the Memory Chute
course, “such reports to be graded not only in substance but also on English,” HBS professor Melvin Copeland later wrote. Four-fifths of the students promptly failed. Thus began decades of experimentation and modification, with decidedly... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Rescue & Recovery
for Humanity. Before that, she had worked in the public sector (at USAID), philanthropy (at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation), and the business world (with roles at General Electric, American Express, and McKinsey). Mercy Corps saw... View Details
- 07 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 7
many users but also multiple types of users. For example, it's not enough that many customers want to book taxis by smartphone. Drivers must also be willing to accept smartphone bookings. Harvard Business School professor Ben Edelman has... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
lateral career move. There are benefits to being a working parent, of course—not only for family income and personal fulfillment but also potentially for children’s choices as adults. Research by Kathleen McGinn, Cahners-Rabb Professor of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
The Business of Biotech
Goldberg, the School's George M. Moffett Professor of Agriculture and Business, Emeritus, suggest that traditional boundaries between businesses will continue to dissolve, resulting in "the largest industry... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 21 Nov 2017
- News
Alumni Peer into the Future of Energy
I went to business school without having taken any business courses previously. So, for me, the two courses that had the most impact were Large-Scale Investment with Ben Esty, and Entrepreneurial Finance with Bill Sahlman. I think every... View Details
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
coauthored by Professor Tom Eisenmann and researcher Lisa Mazzanti, is under discussion by first-year students in The Entrepreneurial Manager. Wallace has the opportunity to offer a firsthand perspective and listen as her decision points... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
What We’re Reading
important not to forget the humans “on the other side” at a time of heightened geopolitical tensions. —Felix Oberholzer-Gee is the Andreas Andresen Professor of Business Administration in the Strategy Unit and author of the upcoming... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Fab Four
afforded me so many opportunities.” (The EiR position is unpaid.) Novakovich also researched and wrote a case with HBS faculty Mike Roberts and Bill Sahlman and offered a four-part “how-to” series for students interested in the... View Details
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3 Technologies that Will Change the World in the Next Decade - Course Catalog
HBS Course Catalog 3 Technologies that Will Change the World in the Next Decade Course Number 1632 Professor of Management Practice Shikhar Ghosh Spring; Q3Q4; 3.0 credits Paper ‘The real problem of humanity is that we have Paleolithic... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
A Conversation with Dean Clark
materials, and so on. Within those course materials are embedded links to sites on the Internet, supplied by the professor, which are intended to help them think through the case. They can input responses to assignment questions, which then become available to the... View Details
- 15 Sep 2020
- News
How To Make Diversity a Reality
their Competition and Strategy professor Michael Porter. The group thought it would be a good opportunity to take some of Porter’s ideas about what makes a nation competitive and apply those on a city level. Two organizations spun out of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
June 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
Geoffrey Jones, Isidor Straus Professor of Business History, and Tarun Khanna, the George Paulo Lemann Professor Penguin Random House, India Society tends to glorify the... View Details
- 11 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 11, 2007
Barron, Stephen George Leider, and Jennifer N. Stack Periodical:Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes (forthcoming) Abstract In many contexts we are warned against engaging in risky behavior only after having past safe... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
How Many U.S. Jobs Are ‘Offshorable’?
The controversial topic of offshoring U.S. jobs may have been shoved out of the headlines by recent events, but it remains front and center for senior business leaders operating in an increasingly global, competitive economy. To give MBAs a deeper understanding of this... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 14 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Blockbuster! Why Star Power Works
Gravity, the space thriller released last week, features two of Hollywood's brightest stars: George Clooney and Sandra Bullock. It rocketed to an October record $55 million gross in its opening week, well on its way to returning a profit... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
every field of business endeavor. Their impact has been significant and broad-based: according to research by Associate Professor Amarnath V. Bhidé, more than one-third of HBS alumni currently manage their own firms twenty years after... View Details