Healthcare As An Investment - Publications - Faculty & Research

07 Dec 2010
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First Look: Dec. 7

productive even when they are engaging in leisure activities, as they "check off" items on an "experiential check list" and build their "experiential CV." A series of laboratory... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

13 Oct 2015
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search engine, it has increasingly developed and promoted its own content as an alternative to results from other websites. By prominently displaying Google content in response to search queries, Google is... View Details

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Publications - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

or set of related conditions to be served, as well as defining patient needs across the care cycle and mapping... 01 Jul 2020 Assessing the Training Costs and Work of Diagnostic Radiology Residents Using Key... View Details

24 Nov 2014
Research & Ideas

Corrupting Silence: Companies Must Speak Up Against Bribes

offering more ways of tracing and communicating such activities," says Healy. (He wrote an article article on such initiatives in the Harvard Business Review with HBS Associate Professor Karthik Ramanna.) If the most egregious forms of... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

27 Jun 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27

drive up the cost of capital and curb investment. This paper evaluates the effects of capital controls on firm-level stock returns and real investment using data from Brazil. On average, there is a statistically significant drop in... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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specialties. "Patients First!" takes shape as the... May 2008 (Revised Apr 2018) HBS Case Collection The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center: Interdisciplinary Cancer Care by Michael E. Porter and Sachin H. Jain In 2006,... View Details

16 Nov 2016
Blog Post

My HBS Journey

View Video As I find myself looking out the window, as the airplane leaves Boston behind, I realize just how special the MBA experience was at HBS. Before I came here I heard from a few people, "You... View Details

06 Nov 2000
Research & Ideas

The Determinants of Corporate Venture Capital Success

in venture-backed firms since the early 1970s. For instance, it had joined a variety of venture capitalists in investing in Rolm, Apple, and a number of other firms. While the investments were successful... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Gompers & Josh Lerner

15 Aug 2019
Blog Post

Stan Chang: “A Guided Experience into the World of Entrepreneurship”

an app to optimize energy usage in buildings. On the business side, I’m looking for players in this space who could be potential partners with technology we can leverage.” As he had hoped, interning at... View Details

Keywords: Technology; Entrepreneurship

06 Oct 2008
Research & Ideas

Updating a Classic: Writing a Great Business Plan

that they are on the right track. I explain that I would need to get to know them and their opportunity much better than what is possible in an e-mail and that the written document is not as important View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

25 Jul 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: July 25, 2017

individual ethics and as a specific version of a broader argument made for centuries by theorists from Hume to Hayek. I also provide evidence of an example in which real-world policy judgments are consistent... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

16 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Breaking the Code of Change

want to develop business organizations that satisfy shareholders and yet have the capacity to adapt and survive as viable institutions in the long run. Theory E In 1994 Al Dunlap became CEO of troubled Scott Paper. Like Champion... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Beer & Nitin Nohria

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Okan Okutgen

motivations, strategies and develop their plan to break into new industries. As an international student himself, Okan has navigated the immigration system of the USA and experienced working under multiple... View Details

2015
Working Paper

Measurement Errors of Expected-Return Proxies and the Implied Cost of Capital

By: Charles C.Y. Wang

Despite their popularity as proxies of expected returns, the implied cost of capital's (ICC) measurement error properties are relatively unknown. Through an in-depth analysis of a popular implementation of ICCs by Gebhardt, Lee, and Swaminathan (2001) (GLS), I show... View Details

Keywords: Measurement and Metrics; Cost of Capital; Investment Return

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12 Mar 2008
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Allocating Marketing Resources

Keywords: by Sunil Gupta & Thomas J. Steenburgh

30 Mar 2021
Research & Ideas

Commuting Hurts Productivity and Your Best Talent Suffers Most

where they locate their offices and where their employees live, with an eye on keeping commutes as short as possible. “There should be serious consideration of: Should you plan... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

16 May 2023
In Practice

After Silicon Valley Bank's Flameout, What's Next for Entrepreneurs?

investments and triggered a run on deposits, gave pause to startup investors and also holds lessons for founders going forward. Harvard Business School faculty suggest some key takeaways for the startup ecosystem View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman; Technology; Financial Services

05 Feb 2009
Research & Ideas

In Praise of Marketing

Marketing and innovation produce results; all the rest are costs." Warren Buffett, America's most celebrated investor, has religiously invested in companies with strong brand names such as Coca-Cola and... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch; Advertising

07 Mar 2023
Blog Post

Deconstructing LEGO’s Decarbonization

implications of collaboration versus IP protection for competitive advantage. Cooperation can standardize processes that catapult an industry toward emission reductions while minimizing investment risks.... View Details

29 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 29, 2007

seemed the government's Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) policies were only enriching a few. In 1997, Surve and three of his comrades founded Sekunjalo, an investment holding company that sought to offer... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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