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2019 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
a Senior Research Scholar at the VMware Women’s Leadership Innovation Lab at Stanford University. She is also an affiliate at the Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality . She was the lead researcher for Lean In: Women, Work, and the... View Details
- 17 Aug 2010
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First Look: August 17
their communication quality and ultimately to benefit their performance. Paper not available. Boundary Spanning in a For-profit Research Lab: An Exploration of the Interface Between Commerce and Academe Authors:Christopher C. Liu, Toby E. Stuart Abstract In View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 May 2007
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First Look: May 8, 2007
and business problem. Design of market-based systems to reduce carbon emissions has proven difficult. More broadly, national attempts to comply with the provisions of the Kyoto Protocol present both governments and firms with significant... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- August 2012 (Revised August 2014)
- Case
Cancer Treatment Centers of America® (A)
By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Natalie Kindred
Cancer Treatment Centers of America (CTCA), a U.S. network of four privately owned oncology focused factory hospitals, was weighing options for growth. CTCA was entirely cancer focused and specialized in treating patients with complex and advanced-stage cancers, who... View Details
Keywords: Cancer; Cancer Treatment; Health Care; Healthcare; Accountability; Outcomes; Outcomes Measurement; Outcomes Reporting; Hub And Spoke Cancer Care; Hub And Spoke; Hub-and-spoke; Focused Factory; Mission and Purpose; Private Ownership; For-Profit Firms; Health Disorders; Medical Specialties; Policy; Business Model; Expansion; Decision Choices and Conditions; Advertising; Health Care and Treatment; Innovation and Invention; Health Industry; United States
Herzlinger, Regina E., and Natalie Kindred. "Cancer Treatment Centers of America® (A)." Harvard Business School Case 313-012, August 2012. (Revised August 2014.)
- 10 May 2011
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First Look: May 10
http://www.hbs.edu/research/facpubs/workingpapers/papers1011.html#wp11-111 Embracing Paradox Authors:Michael L. Tushman, Wendy K. Smith, and Andy Binns Abstract Trying to resolve the paradox between innovation and the core business only... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Dec 2015
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December 22, 2015
2015 The $13 Trillion Question: How America Manages Its Debt The Optimal Maturity of Government Debt By: Greenwood, Robin, Samuel Gregory Hanson Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jul 2019
- What Do You Think?
Are Super Stretch Goals Only for the Very Young?
further growth, and essentially the loss of control of the company by the board, which was even required to remake its composition. At Volkswagen, eerily similar things happened, this time with engineering practices and goals. This sad episode in the history of a proud... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- September 2023
- Teaching Note
Patagonia: 'Earth Is Now Our Only Shareholder'
By: Brian Trelstad, Nien-hê Hsieh, Michael Norris and Susan Pinckney
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 323-057. Patagonia’s change of ownership from a privately held company to a perpetual purpose trust and 501(c)(4) nonprofit in order to use the company’s profit to fight the environmental crisis and be a model for future businesses. View Details
Keywords: Trusts; Business Ventures; Business Organization; Family Business; Restructuring; Change; Disruption; Transition; Decision Making; Ethics; Values and Beliefs; Finance; Financial Management; Governance; Corporate Governance; Investment Activism; Innovation Leadership; Labor; Law; Common Law; Management; Goals and Objectives; Organizations; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Ownership; Ownership Type; Family Ownership; Private Ownership; Social Enterprise; Nonprofit Organizations; Society; Social Issues; Wealth and Poverty; Value; Value Creation; Apparel and Accessories Industry; United States
- 31 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 31
successful agreement. Following Robert Putnam's (1988) two-level games schema, I characterize such "behind the table," or "Level II," barriers more broadly, offer several innovative examples of how each side can help... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 27 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
What South Korea Teaches the World About Fighting COVID
country innovated in ways to minimize physical contact during the test procedure, such as drive-through and phone booth testing facilities, which protected both medical staff and other patients. These sites motivated people to voluntarily... View Details
- 03 Mar 2015
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First Look: March 3
by the financial sector, a possible housing bubble, and an approaching referendum on Scotland's independence. Moreover, many claimed the UK was at risk of secular stagnation, a slowdown in economic growth caused by a structural deficiency in demand. What could the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Dec 2006
- Research & Ideas
Improving Public Health for the Poor
government as their partner because government has the potential to provide scale and permanence. But the problem is that you also need efficacy and efficiency, and the constancy of both. And for many... View Details
- 31 Jan 2012
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First Look: Jan. 31
literacy may slow adoption of these products. This article reports on a field experiment that offered an innovative new financial product, rainfall insurance, to 600 small-scale farmers in India. A customized financial literacy and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel
- 17 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
Navigating Tradeoffs: How Purpose Becomes a Company's ‘Lighthouse in the Storm’
commitments that influence the supply chain, and governments creating proper incentives and market dynamics to fuel innovation and usher in improvements.” Puri and his team did indeed make the decision to... View Details
Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati
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Executive Education Courses Executive Education Courses Strategy for Health Care Delivery (Fall) November 16 -18, 2022 Summary Innovative health care organizations worldwide are moving toward better value measurement models to improve... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Learning from Global Immersion Experiences
Campaign for Harvard Kennedy School, was so pleased with the innovative course that he doubled his commitment. Mayo notes another unexpected incident during the stay—a labor protest that, in part, targeted President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s... View Details
- October 2010
- Teaching Note
From Imitation to Innovation: Zongshen Industrial Group (TN)
By: Willy C. Shih
Teaching Note for 610057. View Details
- 09 Aug 2016
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August 9, 2016
paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51309 Innovation under Regulatory Uncertainty: Evidence from Medical Technology By: Stern, Ariel Dora Abstract—This paper explores how the regulatory approval process affects View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance
industries, with great public exposure. For example, Coca-Cola de Argentina and Tetra Pak Mexico both confronted similar challenges: as a result of the widespread success of their products, their disposable containers inevitably attracted the attention of View Details
- 02 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
Women, Work, and the "M" Word
international development, big tech at Google, government service in the Obama administration, and on the founding team of the healthcare startup Cityblock Health, I watched fertility and pregnancy companies enter the digital health... View Details