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- 01 Jun 2008
- News
“Where can we find such a person?”
In a 2006 case he prepared about the Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI), HBS professor Bill Sahlman quotes HSCI cochairman and codirector of science Douglas Melton as Melton pondered the management skills HSCI was looking for in its...
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- 12 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Private Sector, Public Good
this is not what business does or should do, Henderson said. “If managers can support public institutions and provide public goods and make money, why aren't they?” "They say the answer is regulation or the answer is taxation,"...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 09 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
Actions Organizations Can Take to Communicate Their Commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging
Director of Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging at Harvard Business School, offered the following guidance to help organizations understand the metrics that serve as a baseline for diversity and inclusion initiatives and improve View Details
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- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Rethinking Call Centers: Effective Delivery of Service is Key
two colleagues, Ann Evenson and Patrick T. Harker, both of Wharton, have written a working paper on this subject titled "Effective Call Center Management: Evidence from Financial Services." The authors go beyond earlier research to look at the View Details
- 25 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 25
Institutional Investors Frame Their Losses: Evidence on Dynamic Loss Aversion from Currency Portfolios Authors:Kenneth A. Froot, J. Arabadjis, S. Cates, and S. Lawrence Publication:Journal of Portfolio Management (forthcoming) Abstract...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Educating, Connecting, and Mobilizing Around Climate Change
Since its founding in 2010, the Business and Environment Initiative (BEI) at HBS has worked to educate students and business leaders about the environmental challenges and opportunities confronting companies and organizations today, and advance faculty research that...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- Web
Private Equity Finance - Course Catalog
consistently add value: what are the persistent and repeatable sources of risk-adjusted excess returns in the private equity space, what skills and institutional features enable that success, and what opportunities and challenges are...
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- 10 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
COVID's Surprising Toll on Careers of Women Scientists
isn’t often considered when institutions craft broad work policy meant to cover as many employees as possible. The issue may linger as institutions plan to reopen amid the...
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- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Case Study: The Doctor Deficit
that today’s nurse shortage could reach 1.2 million vacancies in the same time frame. Alexi Nazem (MBA 2011) has seen the impact of these shortages firsthand. “Health care is a very broken system,” says the doctor and cofounder of Nomad Health, an online marketplace...
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April White
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Floor It
That’s the imperative of the Kraft Precision Medicine Accelerator, established in 2016 with a $20 million gift from the Robert and Myra Kraft Family Foundation, led by Robert Kraft (MBA 1965), in partnership with HBS and the Broad View Details
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Julia Hanna; illustration by Mengxin Li
- Profile
Terrance McGuire
effort. With MIT, the Broad Institute and the Whitehead Institute as centers of biomedical research, the Kendall Square section of Cambridge has become a fertile birthing...
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- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Dean Clark Reflects on the School’s Key Initiatives
passionate teaching, the building of intellectual capital, and the broad communication of ideas, we are advancing knowledge of how organizations and institutions can perform more effectively and, ultimately,...
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- 02 Jul 2015
- Op-Ed
The Future of the Greek Economy
away from petty, small disputes and think about embracing the broad idea of Europe writ large. That would help in the search for a sustainable solution to this agonizing, destabilizing, and never-ending Greek crisis. While notable View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Corporate Governance Conference Addresses Global Challenges
corporate-governance practices to reap similar benefits. "I think all kinds of business institutions are trying to achieve transparency," said Froot. "Effective global governance isn't completely encompassed in one type of ownership." The...
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- 11 Jul 2012
- News
A Man, and a Plan, in Africa
smiling these days. Despite Washington’s contentious political environment, he’s employed at a US government foreign-aid organization, the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), that actually enjoys broad bipartisan support. Everybody,...
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- 16 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 16
development of host developing countries. A hypothesis is suggested that, given adequate domestic growth-supporting institutions and human capital development, developing countries achieve more sustained development from excluding...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
New Releases
broad range of companies and industries, including Microsoft, General Electric, and L.L. Bean, the contributors address important topics such as connecting with customers, merging network infrastructures, and developing strategy. "The...
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- 05 Dec 2013
- Op-Ed
Encourage Breakthrough Health Care by Competing on Products Rather Than Patents
Edythe L. Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, at November's Healing Ourselves Health Care Forum event. There, Lander made a potent case for creating a multi-corporate consortium that would openly share...
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- 01 Jun 2009
- Lessons from the Classroom
The Challenges of Investing in Science-Based Innovation
question: What are the best business management processes and practices needed by executives heading up companies that incorporate science-based innovation? A Different Management Strategy Sato believes that the challenges particular to businesses and View Details
- 20 Jun 2012
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching Leadership: What We Know
practices; and there is scant empirical evidence that any of these approaches really work (Pfeffer & Fong, 2002; Mintzberg, 2004). In short, the current state of leadership education lacks the intellectual rigor and institutional...
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