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02 Jun 2021
Research & Ideas

A Rare Find in Health Care: A Simple Solution to Racial Inequity

for these long-standing disparities.” For the past 20 years, Chandra has been examining differences in health outcomes between white and Black Americans, searching for solutions to shrink the gap. View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

19 Apr 2016
Blog Post

First Minutes are Critical in New-Employee Orientation

workforce. For example, will the results differ if employees reflect on their weaknesses as well as their strengths? If you think your company would be interested in participating View Details

Keywords: All Industries

28 May 2019
News

The Physical Campus in a Virtual World

On the north wall of my office hangs a series of framed architectural drawings that date from the early 1920s. Each of these antique blueprints depicts a different architect’s vision for what would become the first buildings of the... View Details

Keywords: Nitin Nohria

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Investing in Life Sciences - SIP Resources

Market research: BCC Research - Reports on major economic, scientific, and technological developments in industrial, pharmaceutical, and high technology worldwide. Frost & Sullivan - Reports and market trends encompassing various... View Details

February 2015
Article

'Open' Disclosure of Innovations, Incentives and Follow-on Reuse: Theory on Processes of Cumulative Innovation and a Field Experiment in Computational Biology

By: Kevin J. Boudreau and Karim R. Lakhani

Most of society's innovation systems―academic science, the patent system, open source, etc.―are "open" in the sense that they are designed to facilitate knowledge disclosure among innovators. An essential difference across innovation systems is whether disclosure is of... View Details

Keywords: Open Innovation; Cumulative Innovation; Incentives; Search; Disclosure And Access; Knowledge Sharing; Motivation and Incentives; Collaborative Innovation and Invention

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Innovating in Science and Engineering or 'Cashing In' on Wall Street? Evidence on Elite STEM Talent

By: Pian Shu

Using data on MIT bachelor's graduates from 1994 to 2012, this paper empirically examines the extent to which the inflow of elite talent into the financial industry affects the supply of innovators in science and engineering (S&E). I first show that finance does not... View Details

Keywords: Higher Education; Engineering; Personal Development and Career; Science; Finance

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29 Apr 2002
Research & Ideas

Star Power! How to Win in Professional Services

this point before. But we want to review the key differences briefly from the perspective of the CEO because the implications are crucial: for how the job of the senior leader is defined, and for what successful performance View Details

Keywords: by Jay W. Lorsch & Thomas J. Tierney

09 Jul 2024
Research & Ideas

Chance Encounters: What's at Stake in Return-to-Office Decisions

Late one day in the fall of 2021, as she was packing up to head home, Assistant Professor Maria Roche bumped into Andy Wu, a colleague in the Strategy Unit whose office is next to hers. Roche asked how his... View Details

Keywords: by Jen McFarland Flint, HBS Alumni Bulletin

02 Sep 2002
Research & Ideas

Foreign Multinationals in the U.S.: A Rocky Road

Sarbanes-Oxley Act is another. Q: What noteworthy differences do you see between the way multinationals operate in the United Kingdom as opposed to the United States? A: There has historically been a... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston & Martha Lagace

23 Jul 2008
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Sharpening Your Skills: Balanced Scorecard in Action

eventually learned about problems with the strategy despite a lack of reliance on such formal analysis. Analysis of the Balanced Scorecard could have yielded more timely information as well as more detail on why the strategy was not working as planned. Multiple... View Details

23 Jul 2001
Research & Ideas

Looking for CEOs in All the Wrong Places

"Three-Party Exchanges: The Case of Executive Search Firms and the CEO Search," he describes how the function of search firms in CEO recruiting differs from the role they perform when recruiting... View Details

Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs; Employment

01 Dec 1999
News

EMC's Ruettgers Finds Gold in Data Storage

is very different from any other industry; it's winner take all," explained Ruettgers, whom Business Week has named one of the world's top 25 executives. "There's a clearly defined winner's circle, and if you're View Details

07 Mar 2000
Research & Ideas

Putting Health Care Consumers in the Driver’s Seat

one of four topics: different models of consumer-driven health care; the role of consumer-driven health care in supporting innovative solutions to chronic problems in the... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Health

01 Dec 2012
News

Alvin Roth Wins Nobel Prize in Economics

Shapley, of the 2012 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. The men were recognized for their contributions to solving a core economic problem—how to match View Details

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Media Metamorphosis: Advertising in the Technology Age

instance — is what the researchers call the intramedia decision. Here there is considerably more price sensitivity and a greater willingness to reallocate expenditures. A fundamental question bearing on rivalry in the advertising industry... View Details

Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs; Advertising

11 Jul 2012
News

A Man, and a Plan, in Africa

continent with about one billion people and over 50 countries with radically different natural resources, cultures, and histories. Some countries will likely remain poor but a number are poised to grow dynamically. The growth... View Details

Keywords: Administration of Economic Programs; Government

01 Oct 1999
News

New Chairman Updates Development in MBA Program

students - the CitiAssist Loan Program - that has made aid available to a wider cross section of students. In addition, we are working even harder to reach women and minority candidates. Is there a View Details

14 Mar 2011
Research & Ideas

Keeping Credit Flowing to Consumers in Need

strengthen consumer protections. The risk they run is that too stringent regulation could make it harder for borrowers in need to get money. In today's challenging economic climate and with high... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services; Construction; Real Estate

13 Feb 2006
Research & Ideas

When Gender Changes the Negotiation

negotiation can set the stage for differences in outcomes negotiated by men and by women, particularly when (1) the opportunities and limits of the negotiation are unclear; and (2) situational cues View Details

Keywords: by Dina W. Pradel, Hannah Riley Bowles & Kathleen L. McGinn

07 Sep 2021
News

Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 2

with Hank Paulson and Tim Geithner in different settings. So when the sky was falling in 2008, I didn't have to call Tim Geithner and say, "Hey, Tim, I'd like to introduce... View Details

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