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Wonder Women: Sex, Power, and the Quest for Perfection

By: Debora L. Spar

In this book, Spar explores how American women’s lives have—and have not—changed over the past fifty years. Armed with reams of new research, she details how women struggled for power and instead got stuck in an endless quest for perfection. The challenges... View Details

  • July 1991 (Revised August 2000)
  • Case

California PERS (A)

By: Jay O. Light, Jay W. Lorsch and James O. Sailer
Examines California Public Employees Retirement System (CalPERS), the world's fourth largest pension fund. Dale Hanson, CEO of CalPERS, has a problem; how does he use CalPERS' influence as the holder of a small percentage of 1,300 American companies to put pressure on... View Details
Keywords: Employees; Retirement; System; Asset Pricing; Performance Improvement; Corporate Governance; Investment Funds; Investment Return; California
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  • 3 Dec 2008
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Value-Based Health Care Delivery: Implications for Japan

By: Michael E. Porter
Dr. Yuji Yamamoto made substantial contributions to this presentation. The author also thanks Jennifer Baron, Senior Researcher, for her valuable assistance. This presentation draws on Michael E. Porter and Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg: Redefining Health Care:... View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Japan
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  • 09 Sep 2015
  • News

Starting a Business is Easy (for Harvard Business Grads)

  • 06 May 2019
  • News

Forget Socialism. The U.S. Needs Responsible Capitalism

  • 09 Mar 2018
  • News

Why Is A Harvard Business Professor Is Studying Independent Bookstores?

  • 30 May 2024
  • Video

BiGS Voices from Latin America: An Interview with Gaston Bottazzini

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businesses afford to exclude the roughly one in three working Americans with criminal records from the economy? In a case study, Paul Gompers explores the challenges a social justice startup encounters in helping the formerly... View Details
  • 24 Jan 2017
  • Blog Post

A Journey From HBS to Human Resources

as the Head of North American Private Equity HR and Talent Development, she uses her HBS skill sets to think strategically about their human capital. Gain insights into how her experience at HBS helped her become more efficient at talent... View Details
Keywords: Consulting; Health Care; Manufacturing
  • December 1986 (Revised November 1990)
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Club Med (A)

The rapidly growing American subsidiary of an international resort company seeks to identify the factors underlying its success. The case describes the forces that shape the industry's structure, raising the issue of where it is possible for Club Med to establish a... View Details
Keywords: Competitive Advantage; Organizational Culture; Tourism Industry; United States
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  • 15 Jun 2020
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Anti-racism action plan

  • 02 Feb 2022
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The Key to Retaining Low Wage Workers? Opportunity for Growth, Survey Says

    David G. Fubini

    David G. Fubini is a Senior Lecturer in the Organizational Behavior Unit and leader of the Leading Professional Services Firm and Mergers & Acquisitions Programs for Harvard Business School’s Executive Education. His MBA teaching has concentrated on teaching the... View Details

    • 19 Dec 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    $15 Billion in Five Years: What Data Tells Us About MacKenzie Scott’s Philanthropy

    achievement gap, she started giving to affiliates of Communities in Schools, a nonprofit that supports public schools. In 2022—a year marked by rising homelessness, a mental health crisis among American youth, and the overturning of Roe... View Details
    Keywords: by Matthew Lee, Brian Trelstad, and Ethan Tran
    • February 2016 (Revised January 2018)
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    Democracy, Sovereignty, and the Struggle over Cherokee Removal

    By: David Moss, Marc Campasano and Dean Grodzins
    By the mid-1830s, the U.S. Government and the State of Georgia had for years been pushing the Cherokees to turn all of their territory over to white settlers and move west, yet it appeared that most Cherokees wanted to keep their ancestral homeland. In October 1835,... View Details
    Keywords: Governance; Nationality; Ethics; Government and Politics; Agreements and Arrangements; History; United States
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    • July 2002 (Revised March 2003)
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    North East Medical Services

    By: Thomas J. DeLong and Wendy Carter
    Sophie Wong, president and CEO of North East Medical Services, a health care organization dedicated to serving the underprivileged Asian American community in San Francisco, must decide how to reposition the organization to serve patients from multiple income levels... View Details
    Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Human Resources; Leadership; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Health Industry; San Francisco
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    • February 1999 (Revised August 2004)
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    Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA)

    By: Stephen A. Greyser
    Chronicles the background of the founding of the WNBA, its basic business concept, some of the key research information used by the NBA in launching it, and other related information. Students must analyze the "basic business model" involved and compare it to that of... View Details
    Keywords: Business Model; Research; Outcome or Result; Sports; Gender; Sports Industry
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    • 27 Jul 2014
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    Are We Seeing A Manufacturing Renaissance?

    • 29 Apr 2013
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    Nicolas Retsinas Diagnoses the Recovering U.S. Housing Market

    • 17 Feb 2010
    • News

    Cut Costs and Improve Care? That's True Reform