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- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Blissful Thinking
“aims to give students a competitive advantage.” How can understanding happiness, both that of our colleagues and our own, make one a more effective leader? One of the big problems that we have is that when people don’t understand... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Golden State of Mind
him are heroes, plain and simple, because they have the capacity to change the world for the better. “Tim recognizes the difficulty of effecting change, and the need to celebrate the people who do that work,” says Jennifer Fonstad (MBA... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The City Solution
the mayor of New York City, Michael Bloomberg (MBA 1966) is also the chairman of the C40, a group of fellow mayors from the world’s 40 largest cities who have banded together to fight climate change. Bloomberg has recently returned from a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL
focusing on and expecting major growth with younger fans (especially ages 6–13), US Hispanics ("more of whom watched the last Super Bowl than the last World Cup final"), and women ("a strong group and getting stronger"). To reach the... View Details
- 23 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ‘Talk, Inc.’
of the ways in which ideas, images, and other forms of organizational content pass between leaders and employees, or from one employee (or group of employees) to another. It occupies roughly the same space that "corporate communication"... View Details
Keywords: Re: Boris Groysberg
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
September 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
him to beautiful, aristocratic friends at parties in chateaux across Europe. However, Mason discovers that not everyone in his new friend group is who they appear to be. Framed for a crime he didn't commit, Mason finds himself completely... View Details
- 02 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 2, 2016
the response. The small price effect, compared to the large message effect, can be explained by two countervailing effects of a lower price: an inducement to settle early, but a lower threat of escalation. Furthermore, acknowledging... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Competition the Cure for Healthcare
destroy value by adding administrative costs and leads to structures involving health plans and providers and other actors, which are misaligned with patient value. In a world of zero-sum competition, for example, providers will consolidate into provider View Details
- 25 Oct 2024
- Blog Post
Harvard Business School Announces Latest RISE Fellows
executive leader in corporate philanthropy, brokering partnerships that bring the resources and influence of enterprise to the causes and people that need them. She said, “I believe that to cause meaningful change in the world, we must engage View Details
- 14 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance
Q: Can you each describe organizations that are effective in managing to outcomes? What are they doing differently? Ebrahim: I have two examples that are rather different from each other. The Acumen Fund is an intermediary funder that... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 10 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 10, 2009
and suggest the effects on subsequent reporting periods and competitor behavior are greater than previously documented. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-073.pdf Geography, Poverty and Conflict in Nepal (revised)... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
New at the Helm: A Talk with HBS Dean Light
curriculum as well. Last year we launched learning teams for first-year students. These are diverse groups of roughly seven who work together on projects throughout the year. Writing is an important component of what they do, in addition... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Local Hero
day game guy, all the way.” Instant replay in baseball? “Very limited use is probably OK, but I prefer human judgment.” Favorite player? “Mays, the greatest ballplayer ever.” The group Baer helped assemble paid $100 million for a storied... View Details
- 15 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 15
cooperation and coordination. Prior research has emphasized cooperation, and specifically the partners' commitment and alignment of interests, as the key determinant of collaborative success. Scholars have paid less attention to the critical role of coordination-the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- Web
Harvard Business School
HBS. We were the first student group at HBS formed on some basis other than professional aspirations." 7 Darden is Professor in Organizational Theory and Management, Emeritus at Pepperdine University's School of Business. He is author of... View Details
- 04 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018
an electronic version of a patient questionnaire that had been designed and vetted by a group of subspecialty experts. We integrated that survey into our EHR. To assess the effects of our new EHR system and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Prognosis
people in lower socioeconomic groups are much more vulnerable than others. When we started admitting patients with COVID-19, it was quickly noted that about 40 percent of them were Spanish-speaking, which is much more than our baseline.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Up by the Roots
analyzing the size of their addressable markets, to figuring out how they will scale their businesses to satisfy demand. And members of all three groups can serve as resources well beyond the program itself, investing in the startups they... View Details
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
The New Space Race
This entrepreneurial energy is following a decidedly terrestrial opportunity. The nonprofit advocacy group Space Foundation estimated that the global size of the industry reached $330 billion in 2014, with an annual growth rate of 9... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 29 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 29, 2015
its installation and customization, no surgical subspecialties besides the congenital heart and transplant surgery groups conducted prospective, patient outcomes measurement, but by 2015, the outcomes of over 1,300 unique patients with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne