Hospital To Home - Publications - Faculty & Research

20 Feb 2020
Op-Ed

Love in the Office Is Wonderful. Except for CEOs.

raises and benefits so the hospital would not be forced to lay off its lowest-paid workers. In response, the State’s Attorney General (AG), charged with overseeing charities, criticized board members and... View Details

Keywords: by Regina Herzlinger

22 Sep 2021
Blog Post

Meet LASO: The HBS Latino Student Organization

for Co-President because I wanted to further strengthen the Latino community at HBS and to ensure pre-pandemic traditions carried forward for future LASO members.” Ale Eguren “Why did I join LASO? Because... View Details

05 May 2022
Research & Ideas

Why Companies Raise Their Prices: Because They Can

cost-cutting plan” to slash $3.6 billion in expenses by 2019. In 2021, well into the economic disruption caused by the pandemic, P&G management announced price increases for a range of products, from adult diapers and baby care... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

05 Jun 2020
Research & Ideas

How Anchor Investors Help Impact Funds Succeed

Investors come in more shapes and sizes than hats and tacos: Angel, VC, limited, corporate, banks, institutional, friends and family—these are just some of the categorizations used to describe them. Now, a recent paper explores who might... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services

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By: Gary P. Pisano

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by Amy Bernstein, strategy+business, Summer 2007

A leading student of the biotech business describes the problems holding the industry back, and how it can overcome... View Details

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Profiles - MBA

learned a lot about how different stakeholders (e.g. clinicians, patients, insurance companies, hospital administrators, researchers) must be balanced when designing new healthcare-adjacent technology. Professional goals: I'd like View Details

Portrait Project

Sarah Moore

Growing up, bouncing from one unstable home to the next, I learned three truths: I was shameless: I lacked respect for others I was scrappy: I used my circumstances to get my... View Details

02 Nov 2016
Blog Post

The Benefits of a Residential Campus

to find friends with rooms on campus that I could crash in for a quick nap or just to relax. Second, I used the Shad showers and facilities shamelessly. Sometimes I would go in just for a quick shower... View Details

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Finance - Faculty & Research

Mortgage Convexity By: Samuel G. Hanson Most home mortgages in the United States are fixed-rate loans with an embedded prepayment option. When long-term rates decline, the effective duration of mortgage-backed securities (MBS) falls due... View Details

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The Forgotten Real Estate Boom - Bubbles, Panics & Crashes – Historical Collections – Harvard Business School

data on 1920s home prices and foreclosures means that many questions remain unanswered. 22 Historical trade publications like the weekly New York Real Estate Record and Builder’s Guide, of which Baker Library holds a sixty-year run, allow... View Details

06 Jul 2023
News

Lessons from Major League Baseball's Game-Changing Innovations

the bat, the exit velocity when you hit the ball. That didn't exist 10 years ago. And what you're seeing is that hitters are now optimizing their swing to hit home runs and pitchers are optimizing their... View Details

February 2025 (Revised April 2025)
Case

Institutional Neutrality, Restraint or Convenience?

By: Clayton S. Rose, Nicole Zelazko and Alexis Lefort

In the fall of 2023 and winter of 2024, college campuses across the U.S. experienced protests and encampments in the aftermath of the October 7, 2023 terrorist attack on Israel by the Islamist militant group Hamas, and Israel’s subsequent invasion of Gaza. These... View Details

Keywords: Distribution; Cost vs Benefits; Ethics; Governance; Leadership; Crisis Management; Risk Management; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Civil Society or Community; Social Issues; Adaptation; Disruption; Communication Strategy; Higher Education; United States

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21 Feb 2023
Research & Ideas

What's Missing from the Racial Equity Dialogue?

the lives of most White people much worse. Take single-family zoning. Legislating that only single-family homes of a certain size can be built together was a radical experiment that initially aimed to... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

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Publications - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

significant changes will be required. A set of six tests for physicians... June 2020 Are cost advantages from a modern Indian hospital transferable to the United States? by F. Erhun, PhD, a,b R. S. Kaplan,... View Details

14 Jun 2022
Blog Post

Meet the HBS Jewish Student Association

undergrad and led Moishe House programming for Delaware’s young adult Jewish community. Celebrating Shabbat and holidays through traditions, finding a home among a community of Jewish young professionals, and (of course) playing “Jewish... View Details

18 Jul 2019
Lessons from the Classroom

The Internet of Things Needs a Business Model. Here It Is

barrel careening over Niagara Falls. It’s not that IoT has flopped; far from it. Everything in our homes seems to be connected. IoT devices enable networks that make possible smart speakers, smart TVs, smart... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Computer

14 Mar 2022
Research & Ideas

Lessons from COVID-19: The Business Skills Doctors Need

put management tools—such as finance, strategy, operations, and leadership—together to take on larger leadership roles.” Handling hard conversations The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed the importance of these skills, the authors say. As... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

30 Nov 2018
Blog Post

8 Reasons the Section Experience is the Best Part About HBS

imagine staying posted in one seat while different professors come in and out. Two weeks in, I “got it.” Today, when friends visit campus, I take them to the Section C classroom – my home on campus – the... View Details

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2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

such as retail pharmacies, ambulatory surgery centers, urgent care centers, telemedicine, and wireless sensors. Public policy enabled these changes in many ways: allowing access to telemedicine and pharmaceuticals by mail; redefining... View Details

21 Jun 2022
HBS Case

Free Isn’t Always Better: How Slack Holds Its Own Against Microsoft Teams

When COVID-19 forced companies to send employees home two years ago, newly remote workers largely reconnected on two collaboration apps: Slack and Microsoft Teams. The pandemic propelled Slack beyond its... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Information Technology; Technology

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