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Misers, Moneylenders, and Thieves - Coin and Conscience – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

engraving by Giuseppe Maria Mitelli (1634–1718). [Bologna, 1678]. 27 x 20 cm CA i2 x Number thirteen from his series of fifty engravings illustrating Italian proverbs. A man murders, then steals the victim's... View Details
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The Inpatient Discharge Lounge as a Potential Mechanism to Mitigate Emergency Department Boarding and Crowding

By: Brian Franklin, Sharif Vakili, Robert S. Huckman, Sarah Hosein, Nicholas Falk, Katherine Cheng, Maria Murray, Sheila Harris, Charles A. Morris and Eric Goralnick
Delayed access to inpatient beds for admitted patients contributes significantly to emergency department (ED) boarding and crowding, which have been associated with deleterious patient safety effects. To expedite inpatient bed availability, some hospitals have... View Details
Keywords: Health Care Delivery; Emergency Room; Operations Improvement; Operations Management; Health Care and Treatment; Service Delivery; Operations; Management; Performance Improvement; Service Operations
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A Megastudy of Text-Based Nudges Encouraging Patients to Get Vaccinated at an Upcoming Doctor's Appointment

By: Katherine L. Milkman, Mitesh S. Patel, Linnea Gandhi, Heather N. Graci, Dena M. Gromet, Hung Ho, Joseph S. Kay, Timothy W. Lee, Modupe Akinola, John Beshears, Jonathan E. Bogard, Alison Buttenheim, Christopher F. Chabris, Gretchen B. Chapman, James J. Choi, Hengchen Dai, Craig R. Fox, Amir Goren, Matthew D. Hilchey, Jillian Hmurovic, Leslie K. John, Dean Karlan, Melanie Kim, David Laibson, Cait Lamberton, Brigitte C. Madrian, Michelle N. Meyer, Maria Modanu, Jimin Nam, Todd Rogers, Renante Rondina, Silvia Saccardo, Maheen Shermohammed, Dilip Soman, Jehan Sparks, Caleb Warren, Megan Weber, Ron Berman, Chalanda N. Evans, Christopher K. Snider, Eli Tsukayama, Christophe Van den Bulte, Kevin G. Volpp and Angela L. Duckworth
Many Americans fail to get life-saving vaccines each year, and the availability of a vaccine for COVID-19 makes the challenge of encouraging vaccination more urgent than ever. We present a large field experiment (N = 47,306) testing 19 nudges delivered to patients via... View Details
Keywords: Vaccination; COVID-19; Nudge; Influenza; Field Experiment; Health; Communication Strategy; Behavior
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  • 01 Jun 2003
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South Florida and Minnesota Launch Community Programs

Partners Program in Northern California, as an essential source of expertise to get their groups up and running. Ana Maria Camargo (MBA ’93) of Boston’s Community Action Partners, Judy Benardete (MBA ’95) of the HBS Social Enterprise... View Details
Keywords: Alumni groups; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 28 Oct 2014
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The First Five Years: Nick Soman (MBA 2010)

if you are in control of the information you share.” What have been the best and most challenging parts of launching your company? “The most challenging and best parts are the same—building a company is hard, so the learning curve is incredible. Rainer View Details
Keywords: Telecommunications; Information
  • 24 Apr 2014
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Fueling a sustainable enterprise in Brazil

Ana Maria Diniz (OPM 36, 2007) found a way to convert elephant grass into clean energy. She combined her interest in renewable energy and her keen business sense to cofound Sykué Bioenergya SA, which provides equivalent power to 200,000... View Details
  • 20 Dec 2019
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Top 10 MBA Voices Blogs of 2019

share their interests, their admissions fears, and their goals in our Class of 2020 student profiles. Read More>>> What to Expect from Your First Week at HBS By the time classes started, and before we even knew which sections we... View Details
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Leading Race Work in Business Schools - Race, Gender & Equity

Blancero Donna Maria Blancero is the Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs at Bentley University. Donna Maria previously served as the Dean of Business and the Dean of the Graduate School at... View Details
  • 01 Jun 1998
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25 Years in Show Business

The entire cast of the 25th anniversary HBS Show. Students in "The Dancing Dean," a sketch about the School's fearless leader becoming a successful late-night talk-show host. Roger Morgan (HBS '99) and Scot Mailhot (HBS partner), complete with "Madonna" mikes. photos... View Details
  • 01 Mar 2009
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More Alumni Books

Maria Press) Six Bulls: The Ohioans by Richard Puz (AMP 89, 1982) (Outskirts Press) How Rich Countries Got Rich and Why Poor Countries Stay Poor by Erik S. Reinert (MBA ’76)... View Details
Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 01 Dec 2015
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Estonia, Incorporated

Illustration by Peter and Maria Hoey In June, Aman Kumar (MBA 2014) was appointed the first-ever special advisor to the CIO of the Republic of Estonia. Kumar has a day job, too, working in the New York... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
  • 29 Jan 2010
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Back to Glass-Steagall?

President Obama shocked Wall Street recently with his proposal to cut down to size too-big-to-fail banks by imposing new rules to separate commercial and investment activities. Specifically, Obama would prohibit banks that take customers... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance; Government
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Yueran Ma

and questions in economics. In 8th grade, I needed to learn more English and she pulled from her shelf an English book—it happened to be Greg Mankiw’s Principles of Economics. I read the book sentence by sentence for two months, looking... View Details
  • 01 Mar 2012
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Alumni Book Briefs

(MBA '59) ((North American Business Press)) Inside Luxury: The Growth and Future of the Luxury Goods Industry by Maria Eugenia Giron ((LID Publishing)) The Exile: Journey from Life to Death View Details
Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 01 Dec 2002
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Building a Network for Social Enterprise in Latin America

Angela Serino, manager of corporate responsibility for Natura, a Brazilian cosmetics company, and Maria de Graça Fernandes Branco, principal of Matilde Elementary and High School. The pair are subjects of a case produced View Details
  • 01 Sep 2011
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Green Day

(a representative sample of the School’s green business leaders) are doing just that. — The HBS Green Business Alumni Association welcomes new members and volunteers. A Growth Business Sykué Bioenergia Power Couple: Ana Maria Diniz and... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna;Sarah Auerbach; Agriculture; Manufacturing; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities
  • 09 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 9

has been little empirical evidence on the propensity with which core-periphery structures are observed in practice, the factors that explain differences in the design of such structures, or the manner in which these structures evolve over time. We address this gap... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Dec 2024
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Alumni and Faculty Books

Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The Power of Imperfect Eating By Kavita Bhatnagar (SELP 11, 2022) Penguin Enterprise Rather than dictating which foods are good or bad, this book weaves together stories that mirror the intricate, emotional, and often imperfect... View Details
Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 01 Dec 2013
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Alumni News | Book Briefs

organization to go beyond "very good" and attain and sustain excellence. In his latest book, he shares his hard-won insights and reveals what it takes to be best in class in any industry. Tech and the City: The Making of New York's Startup Community View Details
Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Professional Services; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management
  • 01 Mar 2015
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Providing an Environment for Ideas to Grow

first Jakurski Family Associate Professors of Business Administration. Their chairs are funded by a gift from André R. Jakurski (MBA 1973) and his wife, Maria, and are part of a new effort to invest in the development of the School’s... View Details
Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services