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- 24 Nov 2008
- Research & Ideas
Harvard Business School Discusses Future of the MBA
in large and small groups. They wrote case studies on MBA programs at Chicago, INSEAD, Stanford, Yale, and HBS, plus a case on the Center for Creative Leadership (all are available from Harvard Business Publishing); collected data on aggregate trends in MBA View Details
- 04 Mar 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Lessons from Running GM’s OnStar
tenure as head of OnStar, one of his former employees, now a second-year student at HBS, enrolled in a relatively new course called Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise, taught by Christensen. The final paper required that... View Details
- 14 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
Creating a Global Business Code
discussing doing something empirical to test this notion of an ethical gap," Deshpandé says. The team developed 62 questions based on the principles in their newly created codex, and then pilot-tested their survey with volunteers among executives View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 27 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Customer Loyalty Programs That Work
Successful retailers connect with customers via loyalty programs at three levels. The first is an introduction of sorts: the customer receives a generic reward for enrolling in the program. At the second level, the retailer contacts the... View Details
- 19 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
Public Education Goes to School
schools, they enroll over 20 percent of all students, and around 40 percent of minority and low-income students. A national report issued in November by the U.S. Department of Education shows that a few urban districts made progress last... View Details
- 05 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 5
similar to that of advertising. A major challenge is that privacy laws prevent us from observing information about the applicant pool. I overcome this challenge by using order statistic distribution to infer applicant quality from information on View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Nov 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017
available. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/317078-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 618-008 CareMore Health System CareMore Health System—a physician-founded care delivery system and health plan—had developed and refined an innovative... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Apr 2014
- HBS Case
Are Electronic Cigarettes a Public Good or Health Hazard?
companies have gotten in on the game. Quelch, who holds a joint appointment at HBS and Harvard School of Public Health, wrote the case for a new course debuting next year called "Consumers, Corporations, and Public Health," which will View Details
- 18 Jun 2012
- Research & Ideas
Better by the Bunch: Evaluating Job Candidates in Groups
Protection Act of 2006, which mandated in part that employees be automatically enrolled in a pension plan upon hiring and must choose to opt out rather than opt in—Bohnet, Bazerman, and van Geen decided to apply the theory to evaluation... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 26 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019
enrolled at centers with biometric monitoring are 25% less likely to interrupt their treatment than those at regular centers—an improvement driven by increased attendance and efforts by health workers and greater protocol adherence by... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 23 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
Hospitals have the option of enrolling only their hard-to-match patient-donor pairs, while conducting easily arranged exchanges internally. This behavior has already started to be observed. We show that the cost of making it individually... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Reforming New Orleans Schools After Katrina
schools are public schools of choice that operate outside the governance and policies of their local school districts. In nearly all states, charter schools must be open to all students, just like traditional public schools. Families choose to View Details
- 02 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 2
creation of a vision for the future that represents a significant departure from the past, one that requires breakthroughs for its realization; 2) the creation of a system that facilitates enrollment into and elicits voluntary commitment... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
High Ambition Leadership
and more mature economies. He sold off many other unrelated businesses to successfully focus on this one, with remarkable success until very recently. Having forged an identity that defines strategy and the company's animating beliefs and values, higher-ambition... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 21 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: December 21
contrast, managers without positional power over team members proactively used redundant communication to enroll team members in the interpretation process—leading team members to believe that they had come up with the idea that... View Details
- 09 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
redistribution as a medium to bring out the best in humanity. By the end of 2019, the Robin Hood Army was present in twelve countries, was serving over 500,000 meals per month, and had helped more than 750 children enroll in public... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019
the BCBS affiliate and its rivals increased premiums following conversions in markets where the converting affiliate had substantial market share. Medicaid enrollment rates also increased in these markets, a pattern consistent with "crowd... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 14
known as one of the leading public universities in both the U.S. and the world, has seen turbulent times recently. While student enrollment and costs have increased steadily in recent years, the school, which has been fiercely proud of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne