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- 30 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
India’s Ambitious National Identification Program
you can't prove who you are.” The scope and scale of the project, and its progress so far in already enrolling 200 million people, make this the largest-scale project of its kind in the world, says Harvard Business School Professor Tarun... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Nov 2012
- News
First and Goal
Swearengin: Leadership with the game on the line. Photo courtesy Julian Swearengin Julian Swearengin (MBA 2003) has loved football ever since he began playing the game at age 5. “Growing up poor and on welfare in Detroit, the classroom and the field were the only two... View Details
- 15 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Growing Pains: Prescriptions for U.S. Health Care
from their systems to regain competitiveness on their market's low end. At the same time, reducing resources makes these organizations less competitive at the high end. What's needed is an entirely new model better attuned to current... View Details
- 19 Jan 2016
- News
Electric Avenues
on a Tuesday at 2 p.m., who’s going to show up?” Agora, the online platform Sze launched last year, offers a place for citizens to interact with their elected representatives using everything from message boards to streaming video chats.... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- Profile
Adil Seetal
and making the most of them." Tapping sources of potential For the summer, Adil will intern with Chesapeake Partners in Baltimore, Maryland. He plans on expanding his hedge fund experiences there with further fund work in the U.S. or... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Inside the Bestseller List with Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
to make these issues, these conflicts, these development discussions deeply personal.” Lemmon’s latest book, Ashley’s War, is a very different tale, but it addresses some of the same issues of resilience, courage, and leadership she... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 05 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
Are Consumers the Cure for Broken Health Insurance?
consumerist revolution can take place with health care benefits—if companies are willing to give their employees substantially enhanced choice among health plans, much greater control over how much they spend for various health care... View Details
Keywords: by Regina E. Herzlinger
- 18 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
Embracing Activism for Social Change
communities. Everyone was scrambling to direct resources to places where they could do the most good.” “We wanted to place behavioral health professionals in situations where their expertise would View Details
- 02 Dec 2016
- News
The Story Behind the Stories
downturn. And I thought, wow, no one thinks of Afghanistan as a place that inspires and creates hope. White: How do you communicate to your reader, both this idea that we are talking about people who are very similar to us in a lot of... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
From Das’s Desk
As I write this, spring reunions are barely in the rear view mirror. We are using the summer to reflect not only on the many elements that went into making Reunion Weekend so successful, but also on what we might do to View Details
Keywords: Das Narayandas
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
One-on-One with Carter Roberts
wide array of projects, but their work wasn’t at all connected. What I saw as the institution’s greatest strength was its combination of field-based conservation work and policy work, but it was dispersed across 100 countries. We decided to focus on nineteen View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 15 Dec 2011
- News
An HBS gift guide
Bill Roedy, Sweetriot, S’well bottle, the Nature Conservancy, Tea Collection, and Zobha) Guilt-free holiday jewels Amy Jain & Daniella Yacobovsky (MBA 2010) Co-founders, BaubleBar “As hard as we tried, we couldn’t find a place to buy high... View Details
- 20 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
New Dean Sets Five Priorities for HBS
proposition of MBA education, said Nohria. "We need to innovate to make the value proposition of what it means to come here even more compelling." While remaining steadfast about the central educational role of the case method,... View Details
- 01 Apr 2019
- What Do You Think?
Does Our Bias Against Federal Deficits Need Rethinking?
US attempting to manipulate currency/money to its advantage, as MMT would suggest.” DanWChicago added: I would say that the proper place to find “MMT” is directly under the back end of a bull. It is a sop for leaders who don’t want to... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 20 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
Changing the Face of Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital at Harlem Capital
led Harlem Capital to invest in exciting women and diverse-owned companies including 4Degrees, Cashdrop, Malomo, and Repeat. These innovative companies are doing important work driving the economy forward, while also inspiring future leaders to View Details
- 20 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Acquirers
M&A research examined topics such as how structured credit impacted the buyout boom and bidding strategies of private equity firms, little focus had been placed on the competition between acquiring companies themselves. In earlier... View Details
- 02 Jul 2010
- What Do You Think?
Is Profit as a “Direct Goal” Overrated?
commented, "Operationally, profit as a final goal is probably impossible because of principal/agent problems and lack of information and knowledge. This makes intermediate targets that affect profit important." Steve Brogan,... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 11 Feb 2016
- Blog Post
First Came Love, then Came Business School
the same days off and holidays! We have had the chance to go to some incredible places with the friends we have met here at HBS. We know how lucky we are to have the chance to travel together. We chose to go to different locations for... View Details
- 14 Mar 2018
- News
Do the Things You Love
important, but it really isn't. You're going to graduate from the Harvard Business School or you are a graduate of the Harvard Business School, or you wouldn't be watching this, and you're going to be fine. There's going to be enough money for a nice View Details
- 10 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
Breakthrough Negotiation: Don’t Leave It On the Table
takes place before the parties sit down across the table from each other. Even after negotiations begin, they continue to shape the structure by molding the agenda, introducing action-forcing events, and linking or delinking negotiations.... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Watkins