Professor Bill George - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Mar 2009
News

Model Patient

fatigue syndrome (CFS), which for a long time went undiagnosed; battling CFS for some ten years, she could no longer work and therefore lost her health insurance. Her prescription bills alone were $600 a month, and she sometimes had to... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Health, Social Assistance

09 Jan 2019
Research & Ideas

The UK Needs a Bold Strategy Around Competition to Survive Brexit

There is a moment in the musical Hamilton, right after America wins the Revolutionary War, when British King George III strides on stage and asks cheekily, “What comes next?” This is an urgent question for the United Kingdom as it lurches... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

01 Sep 2005
News

Making History, Starting Over

where he found inspiration for his entrepreneurial inclinations from Professor Georges F. Doriot, a venture capital pioneer. “My father brought me up to work for myself, never to be part of a large... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance

13 Dec 2006
Research & Ideas

Improving Public Health for the Poor

course with HBS professor V. Kasturi Rangan on business serving the so-called "base of the pyramid" sector. Chu says microfinance is one of the few effective responses to poverty that he is aware of, and its concepts and... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health

14 Nov 2017
First Look

New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017

similarly in U.S. and international samples. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53447 November–December 2017 Harvard Business Review The Board's New Innovation Imperative: Directors Need to Rethink Their Roles and Their Attitude to Risk... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

07 Dec 2010
First Look

First Look: Dec. 7

win in the marketplace. This means channeling resources into the right efforts, striking a balance between innovation and control, and getting everyone to pull in the same direction. How do you accomplish all this? Continually ask the right questions, advises Harvard... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

04 Sep 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018

Republican administration of U.S. President George H. W. Bush and the Democratic administration of U.S. President Bill Clinton during its implementation. It created the largest free trade area in the world... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

01 Jun 2009
News

Letters to the Editor

bailed out at the expense of taxpayers. As George Soros argued in his book The Crisis of Global Capitalism: “Capitalism and democracy obey different rules.... The interests that are supposed to be served are different: in capitalism it is... View Details

Keywords: News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

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Innovation & the War Effort - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

produced by the Polaroid Corp." 27 In 1943, Newsweek magazine featured on its cover a photograph of U. S. Army General George Patton wearing Polaroid goggles. 28 The Polaroid facility included a machine gun training room with 20-foot high... View Details

26 Aug 2016
News

Connecting with the Past

storeroom.” At HBS, Diamond remembers studying cases with professors Thomas Raymond and C. Roland Christensen, who made learning “both fun and stimulating.” One of the lessons that helped him in business and in establishing JRI-Poland... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

10 Jan 2005
Research & Ideas

The Knowledge Coach

"Deep smarts," as Harvard Business School professor emerita Dorothy Leonard and collaborator Walter Swap see the term, is the intuition, judgement, and knowledge, both explicit and tacit, that is stored in the heads and hands of... View Details

Keywords: by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap

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

24 Apr 2020
Op-Ed

Lessons from the NFL: Virtual Hiring, Leadership, Building Teams and COVID-19

but Coach Bill Belichick got to see Edelman in action at Kent State’s pro day and was so impressed by his speed that he drafted him as a wide receiver. Edelman went on to become one of the most celebrated wide receivers in NFL history... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Abbott , Boris Groysberg, Tali Groysberg, and Abhijit Naik; Sports

01 Oct 1996
News

Lasting Impressions

connect the short-term perspective with intermediate and long-range goals. Chris was a master in the classroom, and his Business Policy course was fantastic." Belkin clearly remembers the late marketing professor Steven Star asking him to... View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg

01 Jun 2018
News

The Long Run

existing electronic system for tracking opioid prescriptions. Today the group will have the chance to review a bill from the office of Georgia State Senator Renee Unterman, chair of the Senate Health and Human Services Committee. She now... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Melissa Golden

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

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

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

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