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02 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

Health Care Research and Prospects

life sciences. The initiative was started in 1997 at the behest of Dean Kim Clark. We asked professor Gary P. Pisano, who heads up the initiative, to give HBS Working Knowledge a peek into the work being accomplished in the initiative.... View Details

Keywords: by Wendy Guild Swearingen; Health

31 Jan 2023
News

Female Founders' Dilemmas; UK Tech Startups

leading a class of 32 HBS students in an Immersive Field Course (IFC) on the Tech Startup Ecosystem in the UK and Europe. The featured panel of UK-based HBS alumni entrepreneurs, who shared actionable insights on how to overcome challenges amid market uncertainty,... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Jun 1999
News

Conference Brings Global Perspective to Cape Town

economist for Merrill Lynch South Africa, noted that "there is only so much a macroeconomic policy can do. The central task is to create a stable environment." The final keynote speaker was Dean Kim B. Clark, who presented an update on... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

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Working Groups, Upcoming Event, and Resources | About

potential pathways forward . The session will be moderated by Harvard Kennedy School’s Professor Tarek Masoud and will include four renowned scholars: Professor Shai Feldman (Brandeis University and President of Sapir Academic College in Israel), View Details

28 Mar 2019
News

California Alumni Explore Role of Capitalism in Addressing Climate Change

leaders. The ECLM was followed by the School’s Campaign Celebration, where attendees joined Dean Nohria and more than 250 alumni and guests at the Natural History Museum in London to celebrate the conclusion of a successful campaign. HBSA... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Dec 2016
News

HBS Alumni On Leading Their Alma Mater

From top: Angela Crispi, Rick Melnick, and Steve Gallagher Photos by, from top: Evgenia Eliseeva; Russ Campbell (2) From top: Angela Crispi, Rick Melnick, and Steve Gallagher Photos by, from top: Evgenia Eliseeva; Russ Campbell (2) Executive View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

01 Aug 1998
News

A Roaring Success in the Windy City

that want to get ahead should focus on strategy. "Sound strategy involves tradeoffs," said Porter. "You must pick a different endpoint than your rivals." Dean Kim B. Clark introduced conference participants to the HBS intranet,... View Details

01 Jun 2015
News

Learning from Global Immersion Experiences

government officials, and academics around topics of relevance to South Asia. “Borrowing from what Dean Nitin Nohria has said, the problems of the world are so interconnected and so large that the solutions can no longer be the... View Details

01 Dec 2018
News

Competencies and Credentials

Joseph Fuller (photo by Russ Campbell) Joseph Fuller (photo by Russ Campbell) American businesses can’t afford to ignore the reality: The nature of work is changing. If companies hope to hire and hold on to employees, they need to be ready to respond to the forces... View Details

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A 680,000-Person Megastudy of Nudges to Encourage Vaccination in Pharmacies

By: Katherine L. Milkman, Linnea Gandhi, Mitesh S. Patel, Heather N. Graci, Dena M. Gromet, Hung Ho, Joseph S. Kay, Timothy W. Lee, Jake Rothschild, Jonathan E. Bogard, Ilana Brody, Christopher F. Chabris, Edward Chang, Gretchen B. Chapman, Jennifer E. Dannals, Noah J. Goldstein, Amir Goren, Hal Hershfield, Alex Hirsch, Jillian Hmurovic, Samantha Horn, Dean Karlan, Ariella S. Kristal, Cait Lamberton, Michael N. Meyer, Allison H. Oakes, Maurice E. Schweitzer, Maheen Shermohammed, Jaochim H. Talloen, Caleb Warren, Ashley V. Whillans, Kuldeep N. Yadav, Julian J. Zlatev, Ron Berman, Chalanda N. Evans, Rahul Ladhania, Jens Ludwig, Nina Mazar, Sendhil Mullainathan, Christopher K. Snider, Jann Spiess, Eli Tsukayama, Lyle Ungar, Christophe Van den Bulte, Kevin G. Volpp and Angela L. Duckworth

Encouraging vaccination is a pressing policy problem. To assess whether text-based reminders can encourage pharmacy vaccination and what kinds of messages work best, we conducted a megastudy. We randomly assigned 689,693 Walmart pharmacy patients to receive one of 22... View Details

Keywords: Vaccination; Vaccines; Nudges; Communication Strategy; Communication Technology; Consumer Behavior; Health Care and Treatment

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01 Apr 2001
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Student Conferences Tackle Business Issues

“The Internet Ecosystem: Are You Ready?” HBS professor Howard H. Stevenson, senior associate dean and director of External Relations, then provided an overview of recent events and initiatives at the School. In addition, prospective... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

01 Mar 2003
News

Inside the Revolution

academic institution for shaping ideas about management and enterprise in the field of life sciences. “What was needed,” he says, “was an initiative to pull things together and examine the business and industrial dynamics of it.” When West prepared a proposal for a... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Eileen McCluskey; Jonathan West; Life Sciences Project; LSP; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

05 Mar 2020
News

Green Light

Deane Falcone, an expert plant biologist from the University of Massachusetts, to start defining the science side. “I was trying to figure out the technology road mapping for an industry that didn’t have a road map and, in fact, wasn’t an... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Scott Nobles

01 Feb 1997
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Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS

embarked on a career as a successful venture capitalist. Then, in 1980, the role of entrepreneurship at HBS changed dramatically with the appointment of Dean John H. McArthur. In one of his first acts as Dean, McArthur elevated the status... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry and Susan Young; profiles by Garry Emmons

09 Feb 2022
News

A Conversation with Satya Nadella, Chairman and CEO of Microsoft

15 Sep 2008
Research & Ideas

The Coming Transformation of Social Enterprise

Jim Austin, picked by Dean John McArthur to lead the new initiative, saw the potential for research, curriculum, and career development around the challenges of social enterprises, including both nonprofit and for-profit organizations.... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson

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Commencement 2016 Address | About

Commencement 2016 Address Play Video duration: 14:32 Remarks as prepared by Dean Nitin Nohria, 26 May 2016 Class of 2016, friends and family, and members of the Harvard Business School community. Good afternoon and welcome. One of the... View Details

03 Jan 2018
What Do You Think?

In the Wake of #MeToo, Should Corporate Boards Hire Compliance Officers?

systems." Citing Robert Clarke, past Dean of Harvard Law School, Joe recalled Clarke noted that "Boards could be stewards of the corporation, looking after its long term health, or compliance officers using the Board's time to... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

26 Jun 2000
Research & Ideas

What’s an Internet Business Model? Ask a Health Care Professional

panelists went on to describe could not claim that ideal framework, the projects they described did identify niches and illuminate business issues that are already reshaping the health care field. Daniel D. Moriarty, Assistant Provost and Chief Information Officer of... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health

05 Apr 2022
Blog Post

The HBS New Venture Competition Turns 25: Celebrating A Quarter Century of Innovation and Entrepreneurship

for the $10,000 Tough Technology Prize (pdf). “Entrepreneurship is an integral component of the HBS experience, as it gives students and alumni a chance to create a product or service that can effect real change,” said HBS Dean Srikant... View Details

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