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- 25 Aug 2016
- News
Announcing the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative
and administered through Harvard, the initiative will equip city leaders with the tools, skills, and support increasingly required to tackle the complex leadership and management challenges faced in governing cities around the globe. The... View Details
Keywords: Government
- Career Coach
Philippe Taieb
internationally. He was a consultant at Braxton Associates, a strategy consulting firm, in London and Paris and then led business units for Swiss company SGS, the world leader in certification and quality control, in Senegal, Haiti and Chile. Within the social sector,... View Details
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Books - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Health Delivery Project The Institute for Cancer Care Innovation MOC Network ICIC U.S. Cluster Mapping Project U.S. Competitiveness Project FSG Shared Value Initiative Social Progress Imperative AllWorld Network VBHCD Initiative VBHCD... View Details
- 31 Jan 2023
- News
Female Founders' Dilemmas; UK Tech Startups
panelists said the ability to anticipate is critical, as is recognizing the need to adopt different management styles as you are scaling your company. Careful attention to hiring—and authentic empathy in... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 28 Apr 2021
- News
Psychological Safety in a Hybrid World
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Alumni Books
mistakes. Managing Health Care Business Strategy by George B. Moseley III (MBA ’65) (Jones & Bartlett) This textbook examines strategic planning and management in the special... View Details
- 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM PDT, 17 Oct 2016
- HBS Alumni Events
Alumnae Circles Open House: Palo Alto
Women's groups are launching- are you interested?
Register for this upcoming open house to learn more. View Details
- Profile
Nabihah Sachedina
pursue a degree at the Harvard Kennedy School. “But as I worked in government,” Nabihah says, “I saw that policy formation was only part of the picture; when it comes to implementation, management principles are incredibly important.”... View Details
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Drivers of the Variation in Prosthetic Implant Purchase Prices for Total Knee and Total Hip Arthroplasties
By: Derek A. Haas, Kevin J Bozic, Anthony M. DiGioia, Zirui Song and Robert S. Kaplan
Previous studies have documented wide variation in health-care spending and prices; however, the causes for the variation in supply purchase prices across providers are not well understood. The purpose of this study was to determine the drivers of variation in... View Details
Keywords: Costing; Cost Variation; Total Knee Arthroplasty; Total Hip Arthroplasty; Prosthetic Implant Cost; Health Care and Treatment; Cost Management; Health Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry
Haas, Derek A., Kevin J Bozic, Anthony M. DiGioia, Zirui Song, and Robert S. Kaplan. "Drivers of the Variation in Prosthetic Implant Purchase Prices for Total Knee and Total Hip Arthroplasties." Journal of Arthroplasty 32, no. 2 (February 2017): 347–350.
- 26 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 26
positions were significantly more likely than others to repatriate dividends to parent companies in the United States. Download the paper: http://papers.nber.org/papers/w18107 How Do Risk Managers Become Influential? A Field Study of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
James O. McKinsey
McKinsey founded the largest management consulting firm in the world. His greatest contribution was focusing attention on budgeting as a major instrument of management. He asserted the need for continued education for future executives... View Details
Keywords: Services
- 16 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
Transitions of Power Are Difficult. What Joe Biden and Other Incoming Leaders Need to Know.
losing teams have star players, but those players often play for themselves, for their own statistics and career, and don’t really care whether their team actually wins games, as I showed in my book Confidence: How Winning Streaks and... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Addressing The Financial Security Gap
was widowed with four young children to support on a teacher’s pension—wrote to her when she learned that BlackRock managed a segment of the New York State Teachers’ Pension Fund. “It said, ‘Dear Anne, please take View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 02 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 2
leadership and management is to prioritize among competing accountability demands. This involves deciding both to whom and for what they owe accountability. This paper provides an overview of the accountability pressures facing nonprofit... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Aug 2016
- News
Improving Wellness Through Better Nutrition
With a background in consumer health care at Johnson & Johnson, when Beth Burrough (MBA 1991) joined Mom’s Meals Nourishcare as a partner and chief marketing officer in 2006, she already understood the company’s potential to improve the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Slam Dunk
Stephen Pagliuca (MBA '82), H. Irving Grousbeck (MBA '60), and Grousbeck's son, Wycliffe, are the proud owners of a Boston institution: the city's NBA team, the Boston Celtics. Pagliuca, managing director at Bain Capital, Grousbeck père,... View Details
- 01 Apr 2024
- News
Generosity Multiplied
called Gift Aid, which adds another 25 percent to the public donations. In this case, if all donations were eligible, that would add an extra £5,000 for the cause. “We call this the ‘generosity multiplier,’” says Reed. “It’s very attractive to donors. They can give... View Details
- 24 Jan 2025
- News
The Network Effect
Karan Mathur (left) and Dina Model (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) When Dina Model and Karan Mathur (both MBA 2015) met through mutual friends during their first year at HBS, neither was envisioning a future business deal. “We didn’t realize that we had shared... View Details
- 08 Mar 2017
- News
A Steady Voice in Difficult Times
Denise Welsh (MBA 1981) is a pediatric chaplain at Mount Sinai Medical Center, a second career after having spent many years in the finance field. In this video, she talks about her role in the intensive care unit and the impact of... View Details
- November 2005 (Revised December 2005)
- Case
County Department of Public Health: Organizing for Emergency Preparedness and Response
By: Lynda M. Applegate, Ajay Vinze and Minu Ipe
The anthrax attacks of 2001 exposed serious inadequacies in the response of the U.S. public health system to meet such grave threats. The public health infrastructure required rebuilding to respond to any type of large-scale health emergency. The Public Health... View Details
Keywords: Information Technology; Change Management; Crisis Management; Health Care and Treatment; Infrastructure; Public Administration Industry; Health Industry; United States
Applegate, Lynda M., Ajay Vinze, and Minu Ipe. "County Department of Public Health: Organizing for Emergency Preparedness and Response." Harvard Business School Case 806-089, November 2005. (Revised December 2005.)