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- 25 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 25, 2007
safety and efficiency, fixing operational failures can yield benefits for both. Thus, prioritizing improvement of work systems in general, rather than focusing more narrowly on specific clinical conditions,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
Many Small-Business Employees May Be Close to Losing Health Insurance
A health insurance crisis may be looming for employees of small businesses, with many firms struggling to cover their share of these costs, new research from Harvard Business School finds. Nearly one-third of employers surveyed weren’t... View Details
- 21 Dec 2016
- Blog Post
The Best Little Secret of the Harvard MBA
and it is noisy. The noise comes from the aggregated voices of hundreds of HBS MBA students. They have gathered in their discussion groups to have some breakfast while they review cases they have had to read for the day’s classes and... View Details
- 30 Oct 2019
- Blog Post
Candidates Seeking Opportunities After Graduation: Lessons Learned
pause for travel, Matt resumed his search in earnest, reaching out to colleagues in clean tech; two of them happened to work for Tesla and Zoox (an autonomous electric vehicle... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 07 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
How to Help Small Businesses Survive COVID's Next Phase
online. An Alignable survey found that 25 percent of respondents were turning to social media to reach customers while 18 percent were engaging them through email. [div class=infogram-embed data-id=_/jF8KxCrlVaEnmbl0ELf4][/div] The key is... View Details
- 28 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Six Lessons from Mobile Money Ventures in Developing Countries
mobile money service, so it’s important for operators to reach out to regulators early to gather input. Lal found that a test-and-learn approach is best, with regulators establishing guidelines that allow... View Details
- 30 Nov 2018
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Best Administrative Approach to Climate Change?
Summing Up: Should a 'Montreal Protocol' for Administering Global Warming Be Pursued? Climate change and how to manage it is a daunting subject. Nevertheless, several readers of this month’s column were willing to venture a model or two for administering a system... View Details
- 15 May 2020
- Blog Post
Words from an HBS Partner: Reflections on the Partner Experience
Upon making the move from Los Angeles to Boston, I reached out to the Career and Professional Development office and signed up for career coaching. I was connected with a career coach who has been an... View Details
- 21 Aug 2000
- Lessons from the Classroom
Under the Magnifying Glass: The Benefits of Being a Case Study
themselves, is it good business wisdom to reveal our company's weaknesses, in a case study that anyone may read—including our competitors? Would that not be arming our enemies with quite a lot of powerful ammunition? For several... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 08 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Height Tax, and Other New Ways to Think about Taxation
less burdensome for all citizens. "While the idea of a height tax follows directly from the standard economic framework for tax analysis, most people find the idea crazy," allows HBS professor... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 28 Jul 2014
- Blog Post
Mid-summer Update
I’m flying back from a mid-summer report out at Danaher’s headquarters in Washington, D.C. The past three days were full of reflection and feedback, as well as some fun after-hour jaunts in the city. For some of the interns, it was a... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing
- 05 Oct 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Vanguard Corporation
and want to make a difference on some of the world's big problems. We're close to finishing the first year and getting ready for the second year of fellows. I'm also working on "Smarter Cities, Smarter Communities," a project... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 29, 2008
professionals from more than 30 PSFs have yielded four principles for firms to heed as they rediscover this lost art. First, mentoring is personal. Rather than relying on standardized programs, mentors must... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 16, 2010
PublicationsKeiei no Ryugi (The Management Ritual) Authors:Mitsuaki Shimaguchi and Hirotaka Takeuchi Publication:Nihon Keizai Shimbun Publishing, 2010 An abstract is unavailable at this time. Joint Evaluation as a Real World Tool for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Sep 2024
- HBS Case
The Climate Targets Leaders Need to Know as Regulations Loom
As investor pressure mounts on companies to show their environmental impacts, leaders are encountering an unwieldy tangle of terms and approaches. Climate accounting basics and a dictionary of sorts can help demystify the calculations and voluntary targets that... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 09 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
supply of ethically and environmentally sourced diamonds from artisanal and small-scale mines (ASM) in Sierra Leone. Whether this project would yield a meaningful supply of rough diamonds for De Beers,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 11 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 11, 2018
“ancient quest to measure.” Specific discontinuities in the practice of information science are identified that, the paper argues, have large consequences for the social order. The infrastructure that runs on big data is described as... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 26 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 26
Working PapersCompeting Ad Auctions: Multi-homing and Participation Costs Authors:Itai Ashlagi, Benjamin Edelman, and Hoan Soo Lee Abstract We model competing auctions for online advertising, with attention to the participation costs... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 May 2017
- Blog Post
Learning through the Case Method
crunching the numbers is straightforward. For others, I have to start on a more basic level. Maybe I read the case and just don’t understand what’s going. Or, worse, I think that I do but don’t have a strong conviction or what to do... View Details
- 13 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 13
initially positive indirect network effects decrease in strength, reach their limit, and eventually turn negative. The limit to network effects is different for different types of agents. View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace