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  • 01 Dec 2011
  • News

At Your Service

system has been designed to favor speed of diagnosis over choice of physician. You will still get high-quality health care, but within a system designed around the concept that tradeoffs exist. When health... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg; customer service; Health, Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance
  • Profile

Marie Kyle

marathon that raised money for local nonprofit organizations — became a passion she was determined to pursue. At Bridgespan, Marie developed a new case-management system for a Philadelphia family-services provider, collaborated on an... View Details
  • 05 Mar 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019

Organizational Challenge of Pursuing Joint Social and Financial Goals: Social Enterprise as a Laboratory to Understand Hybrid Organizing By: Battilana, Julie Abstract— While in recent decades the View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 19 Dec 2006
  • First Look

First Look: December 19, 2006

explore why various firms responded differently to crises, and question the basic wisdom of some of the enthusiasm for privatization. The authors tell how firms, countries, and multilateral development organizations can build a conflict-management View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 1998
  • Working Paper

CEO Incentives and Firm Size

By: Brian Hall and George P. Baker
What determines CEO incentives? A confusion exists among both academics and practitioners about how to measure the strength of CEO incentives, and how to reconcile the enormous differences in pay sensitivities between executives in large and small firms. We show that... View Details
Keywords: Business Ventures; Motivation and Incentives; Executive Compensation; Size; Management Systems
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  • September 2008
  • Article

Firm Heterogeneity and Credit Risk Diversification

By: Samuel G. Hanson, M. Hashem Pesaran and Til Schuermann
This paper examines the impact of neglected heterogeneity on credit risk. We show that neglecting heterogeneity in firm returns and/or default thresholds leads to under estimation of expected losses (EL), and its effect on portfolio risk is ambiguous. Once EL is... View Details
Keywords: Volatility; Credit; Investment Return; Outcome or Result; Risk and Uncertainty; Loss; Diversification; Complexity; United States
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  • 28 Feb 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Capital Rules: The Tensions of Global Finance

right to freedom applied always and everywhere. Policymakers understand the international financial system very differently, however, in the first decade of a new century. Caution toward full capital mobility now prevails within the... View Details
Keywords: by Rawi Abdelal
  • Web

AllWorld Network - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Delivery Project The Institute for Cancer Care Innovation MOC Network ICIC U.S. Cluster Mapping Project U.S. Competitiveness Project FSG Shared Value Initiative Social Progress Imperative AllWorld Network AllWorld Network AllWorld Network... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2022
  • News

Students Ready to Make an Impact

process of fully developing their ventures in agritech, social enterprise, and sustainability. Their journeys illustrate the ways in which HBS delivers the knowledge base that fuels innovation and the support View Details
  • November 2005 (Revised January 2006)
  • Case

Commercialization at the Garvan Institute for Medical Research (A)

A large and successful not-for-profit medical research institute must decide strategy to commercialize its discoveries. In the process, it must balance multiple conflicting demands from its stakeholders. View Details
Keywords: Decisions; Public Sector; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Nonprofit Organizations; Conflict and Resolution; Commercialization; Balance and Stability; Health Industry
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  • 01 Dec 2017
  • News

Pencils Up: Taking Note of New Courses

students will work on-site with a nonprofit or government client in Boston, New York, or Washington, DC, to analyze a problem and develop recommendations based on behavioral decision research and economics—the idea that we can build behavioral “nudges” into the View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
  • 13 Jul 2020
  • News

Locally Grown

socially responsible investing was in its infancy; the now-common phrase impact investing had been coined just a few months earlier. For the first eight years of the fund’s existence, Fenwick-Smith was raising money, but he couldn’t wait... View Details
Keywords: April White
  • 01 Dec 2018
  • News

Supporting Global Understanding, Locally

economic and social consequences when the financial system fails.” Sabanci Dincer’s gift will provide financial aid for international students as well as funding for faculty research that furthers global... View Details
  • 17 Dec 2024
  • News

Solving the Underemployment Crisis

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, it’s Dan. Today, we are sharing a brief excerpt from Managing the Future of Work, the critically-acclaimed podcast from my colleagues at Harvard Business School. Each episode, HBS professors Bill Kerr... View Details
  • 01 Aug 2007
  • Op-Ed

Company Town: Fixing Corrupt Governments

Corporations could do a good job of running corrupt Third World governments. Corruption rules in too many of the world's democratically elected governments. From Achocalla, Bolivia, to Mayuge, Uganda, voters pick their leaders through the ballot box, but an entrenched... View Details
Keywords: by Eric Werker
  • 19 Jul 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Political Turmoil and Mexico’s Economy

Mexico's overall prosperity, this is pretty small potatoes." And foreign investment is no substitute for domestic investment in institutions such as education, the judicial system, and health and social welfare programs. A View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 2023
  • Working Paper

Setting Gendered Expectations? Recruiter Outreach Bias in Online Tech Training Programs

By: Jacqueline N. Lane, Karim R. Lakhani and Roberto Fernandez
Competence development in digital technologies, analytics, and artificial intelligence is increasingly important to all types of organizations and their workforce. Universities and corporations are investing heavily in developing training programs, at all tenure... View Details
Keywords: STEM; Selection and Staffing; Gender; Prejudice and Bias; Training; Equality and Inequality; Competency and Skills
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  • 09 Jun 2009
  • First Look

First Look: June 9

particular relationship at hand. In so doing, they are exposed to unanticipated social influences because counterparts have more interests, attitudes, and preferences than would-be associates considered when they first chose to pair. This... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 13 Aug 2021
  • Blog Post

Exploring Racial Justice with the Scaling Minority Businesses Course

Nimisha Ganesh is a Class of 2021 MBA graduate from Harvard Business School and the Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer of GenUnity, a civic leadership startup. Prior to HBS, she worked at Goldman Sachs and Kitamba, a U.S.-based View Details
  • Web

What Others Are Saying - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Healthcare Prize What Others Are Saying What Others Are Saying What Others Are Saying “When someone like Michael Porter tells companies that sustainability and related social and environmental issues will affect the future of the... View Details