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- 09 Jul 2021
- News
Three Ways Employers Can Best Support Caregivers Returning To Work
- March 31, 2022
- Article
Two Approaches to Capping Health Care Prices
By: Michael E. Chernew, Maximilian J. Pany and Leemore S. Dafny
High health care prices for the privately-insured contribute to high premiums, which put downward pressure on wages, and induce employers to reduce benefit generosity and charge employees more for coverage. As the average annual premium for family coverage currently... View Details
Chernew, Michael E., Maximilian J. Pany, and Leemore S. Dafny. "Two Approaches to Capping Health Care Prices." Health Affairs Forefront (March 31, 2022).
- 05 Sep 2023
- Book
Failing Well: How Your ‘Intelligent Failure’ Unlocks Your Full Potential
childhood friend Bill, who had arranged for her to travel from Vassar College to Princeton, New Jersey, to spend a weekend dining, dancing, and socializing with his friend. The weekend turned out to be a... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- January 2013
- Case
Omidyar Network: Pioneering Impact Investment
By: Michael Chu and Lauren Barley
Omidyar Network, having deployed to date over $500 million in ways ranging from donations to commercial equity capital, must decide whether to back Anudip, an Indian organization dedicated to providing the rural unemployed and marginalized with livelihoods linked to... View Details
Keywords: Social Enterprise; Social Entrepreneurship; Investment; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; India
Chu, Michael, and Lauren Barley. "Omidyar Network: Pioneering Impact Investment." Harvard Business School Case 313-090, January 2013.
- 03 May 2016
- News
Henry McGee
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Senior Executive Leadership Program—India
establish or expand presence in the India and South Asia region. Participants typically represent organizations including: Large, established companies Entrepreneurial ventures—either new companies or new ventures within established... View Details
- 20 Dec 2021
- News
Care Is Needed to Ensure the Hybrid Office Works for All
- 25 Oct 2019
- News
Can Big-Box Retailers Provide Local Health Care?
- March 2000 (Revised May 2000)
- Case
Spec's Music (A)
By: John A. Davis and Susan Harmeling
Presents the story of a music retailer in Miami which started in the late 1940s, grew throughout the 1960s and 1970s, and went public in 1985 before experiencing a deep industry crisis in the mid-1990s. At issue in 1996 is whether the company should attempt to sell... View Details
Keywords: History; Family Business; Business Exit or Shutdown; Decision Choices and Conditions; Management Succession; Entrepreneurship; Crisis Management; Performance Improvement; Music Industry; Miami
Davis, John A., and Susan Harmeling. "Spec's Music (A)." Harvard Business School Case 800-336, March 2000. (Revised May 2000.)
Jaxon Wu
Jaxon Wu earned his Bachelor of Arts with High Honors from Johns Hopkins University where he studied History and Mathematics. His current work intersects machine learning, team science, and healthcare operations. Specifically, he aspires to design intelligent... View Details
- October 2006 (Revised August 2023)
- Background Note
Note on Student Outcomes in U.S. Public Education
By: Stacey M. Childress, Stig Leschly and John J-H Kim
Surveys educational outcomes among public school students in the United States. Educational outcomes are categorized as achievement outcomes (measured primarily by students' performance on standardized test results) and attainment outcomes (measured primarily by... View Details
Keywords: Demographics; Education; Outcome or Result; Public Administration Industry; Education Industry; United States
Childress, Stacey M., Stig Leschly, and John J-H Kim. "Note on Student Outcomes in U.S. Public Education." Harvard Business School Background Note 307-068, October 2006. (Revised August 2023.)
- 11 Feb 2014
- News
Manage Your Work, Manage Your Life
- Teaching Interest
Negotiation
Negotiation is an Elective Curriculum course for HBS MBA students. Success at work and at home requires the ability to negotiate. Whether you are forging an agreement with your suppliers, trying to ink a deal with potential customers, raising money from investors,... View Details
MARTINEZ-RODRIGUEZ, S. “Mistresses of Company Capital: Female Partners in Multiowner Firms, Spain (1886-1936)"
Contrary to the impression put forth in the literature, Spanish women at the turn of the twentieth century played an active and visible role in the business sphere. Using a unique database containing microdata on the founders of Spanish multi-owner firms from... View Details
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Admissions & Financial Support - Doctoral
More Diversely By: Kai Krautter , Anabel Büchner and Jon M. Jachimowicz 01 JUL 2025 | Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin Tax Elasticities of Top Donors: Evidence from View Details
- 2008
- Other Unpublished Work
Are Private Equity Firms Better Managed?
By: Nicholas Bloom, Raffaella Sadun and John Van Reenen
We use an innovative survey tool to collect management practice data from over 4,000 medium sized manufacturing firms across Asia, Europe and the US. These measures of managerial practice are strongly associated with firm-level performance (e.g. productivity,... View Details
Keywords: Private Equity; Management Practices and Processes; Production; Performance Improvement; Manufacturing Industry; Asia; Europe; United States
Bloom, Nicholas, Raffaella Sadun, and John Van Reenen. "Are Private Equity Firms Better Managed?" December 2008. (Slides.)
- 30 Apr 2020
- News
Leading Your Team Past the Peak of a Crisis
- September 1985 (Revised July 2007)
- Case
Population Services International: The Social Marketing Project in Bangladesh
Population Services International (PSI) was a not-for-profit agency founded to disseminate family planning information and to market birth control products, primarily in less developed countries seeking to curb their population explosions. In 1976, PSI concluded an... View Details
Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Health; Marketing Strategy; Social Marketing; Business and Government Relations; Nonprofit Organizations; Bangladesh
Rangan, V. Kasturi. "Population Services International: The Social Marketing Project in Bangladesh." Harvard Business School Case 586-013, September 1985. (Revised July 2007.)
- April 1990 (Revised November 1992)
- Case
Population Services International: The Social Marketing Project in Bangladesh (Abridged)
By: James E. Austin
Population Services International (PSI) was a not-for-profit agency founded to disseminate family planning information and to market birth control products, primarily in less developed countries seeking to curb their population explosions. In 1976, PSI concluded an... View Details
Keywords: Conferences; Developing Countries and Economies; Information Publishing; Growth and Development Strategy; Marketing Strategy; Social Marketing; Agreements and Arrangements; Product; Nonprofit Organizations; Pharmaceutical Industry; Bangladesh; Washington (state, US)
Austin, James E. "Population Services International: The Social Marketing Project in Bangladesh (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 590-061, April 1990. (Revised November 1992.)