Administrative and Support Services - Publications - Faculty & Research

06 Jul 2017
News

Leadership on a Global Scale

service and leadership on a global stage. He called the summit––now an annual event renamed the Service Academies Global Summit––the ultimate business development View Details

01 Dec 2000
News

HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report

committees to create and sustain valuable educational programs for alumni that keep them current on major trends in business, business skills, and business education, specifically the HBS curriculum. The... View Details

Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Support Services

15 Jun 2016
Research & Ideas

These VC Partners May Make Your Firm Less Innovative

Capital, Competitor Ties, and Entrepreneurial Innovation, published in the October 2015 Academy of Management Journal and co-written with Emily Cox Pahnke and Benjamin Hallen... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services; Financial Services

12 Jul 2004
Research & Ideas

Michael Porter’s Prescription For the High Cost of Health Care

contributes to cost shifting, drives up administrative costs, and makes price and value comparisons virtually impossible. Under positive-sum competition, providers would have... View Details

Keywords: by Michael E. Porter; Health

02 Jun 2019
News

A Data-Driven Approach to Gun Policy

and Prevention. “We spent the first year understanding the landscape around gun policy and research,” says Luca, whose research largely focuses on applying insights from behavioral economics to improve... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie; Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities; Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities

08 May 2019
News

Fellowships Enable Students to Broaden Their Impact

the data analytics team, he brought to the nonprofit his solid background in behavioral economics from Emory University and his financial acumen from his trading days. Agarwal’s goal was to use data and... View Details

Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Support Services

01 Jun 2006
News

A Capital Asset

Cohen At Around 4 a.m. on August 7, 1998, a telephone wakens Bonnie Cohen in her Washington, D.C., home. It’s not the bedside phone but the secure phone upstairs in her home office not a good sign. A young operations officer reports that America’s embassies in Kenya... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support

05 Oct 2016
News

Harvard to Open Life Sciences Lab

block in Harvard's efforts to create an innovation hub in Allston that encourages our students and faculty to explore and nurture ideas that lead to new knowledge, new products, new View Details

Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Support Services; Educational Support Services

11 Jun 2020
In Practice

Are Digital Organizations Better at Overcoming COVID?

pays to be nuanced here. A large portion of the challenges facing businesses are industrywide (and worldwide). For instance, hotels have government-imposed limitations on the services they can offer. These restrictions bind equivalently... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

01 Jun 2010
News

One Student’s HBS Journey

dreamed of,” said Wallace of her time at HBS, during which she cochaired this year’s Social Enterprise Conference and the Democrats Club, participated in the 2009 New Orleans service immersion, View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools

April 2007 (Revised April 2008)
Case

Corrections Corporation of America

This case illustrates a comprehensive valuation of a publicly traded firm specializing in building and managing prisons. Students must assess the firm's strategy and risks, evaluate key financial reports, derive forecasts of future performance, and use these forecasts... View Details

Keywords: Financial Statements; Buildings and Facilities; For-Profit Firms; Crime and Corruption; Forecasting and Prediction; Risk Management; Valuation; Public Administration Industry; Public Administration Industry; Public Administration Industry

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Rawiah Abdallah

supportive and the career development services deeply helpful. My fellow students play a big part, too; I've learned from their experiences. How has HBS prepared you for your... View Details

Keywords: Other Financial Services; Other Financial Services

14 Dec 2011
Research & Ideas

The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance

substantial investment of $3 million to $5 million and work extensively with the management team as strategic advisors to help them build that organization. And in fact, some of our investment partners have... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

01 Dec 2000
News

A Latin American Vision: New HBS Research Center Opens

Professor Austin nostalgically recalled a journey he had made 34 years before, returning from Peace Corps service in Chile to study at HBS. "When the plane took off, it flew over the Andes," Austin told conference attendees. "It was early... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace; Educational Support Services; Educational Support Services

19 Jul 2019
Blog Post

Meet PRIDE, the student association for LGBTQ+ MBAs at Harvard Business School

campus. We rally the broader HBS community behind us during key events such as National Coming Out Day, World AIDS Day, and Transgender Day of Visibility. Additionally, we work with the administration to... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

01 Mar 2006
News

Presidential Adviser

When President George W. Bush (MBA ’75) went on the road in early January to promote his stalled economic policies, he was accompanied by his top economic adviser, Allan Hubbard (MBA ’72). It’s Hubbard’s job on such trips to sit down with the local media View Details

Keywords: Administration of Economic Programs; Administration of Economic Programs; Administration of Economic Programs; Administration of Economic Programs

16 May 2012
Research & Ideas

Can Decades of Military Overspending be Fixed?

Fox, the Tiampo Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus, analyzes efforts since the Kennedy administration to reform defense spending on aircraft, ships, submarines, tanks, missiles, satellites and... View Details

Keywords: by J. Ronald Fox; Service

15 Oct 2019
News

Engaging More Deeply with Business in Africa

visitors. “We are focusing on initiatives targeted to improve the economic prosperity of the people.” The message resonated with the HBS group, who visited 20 companies in Nairobi and Mombasa, Kenya; and... View Details

03 Apr 2019
Book

Fintech's Game-Changing Opportunities for Small Business

United States economy, and how innovation in financial services will reduce the friction and barriers in small-business lending, helping more of them thrive. In our Q&A,... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services; Financial Services

22 May 2020
In Practice

Post-COVID Health Care: More Screens, Less Red Tape?

high-paying ones. Wherever possible, health care professionals have shifted from their normal service lines to serve COVID patients. Primary care provider offices and outpatient View Details