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Course Requirements
Students are required to prepare a business plan, which employs the framework of this course, to explore an entrepreneurial opportunity in health care, and to evaluate their classmates' plans.
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Students are required to prepare a business plan, which employs the framework of this course, to explore an entrepreneurial opportunity in health care, and to evaluate their classmates' plans.
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- 02 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
Investor Protection: The Czech Experience
victory from the Czech Republic. Železný somehow managed to turn the loss to his advantage and ended up a member of the European Parliament. For business managers and investors, the story of TV Nova and the joint venture that spawned it...
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- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley The Happiness Handbook By Landon Carter (MBA 1967) Marshall and McClintic Publishing Have you ever wished you had the instruction manual for being a happy human on planet Earth? This book will answer some of life’s fundamental questions: Who am...
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- 04 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
Need to Solve a Problem? Take a Break From Collaborating
Chatter, Microsoft's Yammer, and Jive Software's suite of namesake products. The global enterprise social software market is forecast to grow to $8.14 billion in 2019, according to MarketWatch, from $4.77 billion in 2014. “When it comes...
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- 01 Dec 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
How Many U.S. Jobs Are ‘Offshorable’?
The controversial topic of offshoring U.S. jobs may have been shoved out of the headlines by recent events, but it remains front and center for senior business leaders operating in an increasingly global, competitive economy. To give MBAs...
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by Julia Hanna
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Student Research - Doctoral
drugs approved solely for the treatment of a single rare disease. Objective: To estimate Medicare spending and global revenues for drugs that... January–February 2024 Article Organization Science The Challenge of Maintaining Passion for...
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- June 2006 (Revised August 2006)
- Module Note
The Virtual Entrepreneurial Team Exercise (VETE); Note to Instructors
By: Daniel J. Isenberg
Describes the virtual entrepreneurial team exercise, a role-play simulation involving teams of five students from several international business schools around the world. Provides a detailed set of instructions to faculty from non-HBS business schools. The teams...
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- 05 Jan 2015
- News
Make in India should focus on advanced manufacturing
- 26 Jun 2014
- News
Q. and A.: William C. Kirby on ‘Can China Lead?’
- 15 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 15, 2017
well as with leading institutions around the world. Would HKU be able to maintain its position as a top institution linking East and West in an increasingly connected and complex global society? Purchase this...
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Sean Silverthorne
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Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
Transforming Practice This event brought together scholars and practitioners to explore how research can effectively reach and influence practice to advance gender equity in business and society. 2014 Symposium 03–04 APR 2014...
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- September 2009
- Article
Structural Homophily or Social Asymmetry? The Formation of Alliances by Poorly Embedded Firms
By: Gautam Ahuja, Francisco Polidoro Jr. and Will Mitchell
Recent research shows that preexisting network structure constrains the formation of new interorganizational alliances. Firms that are poorly embedded in a network structure are less likely than richly embedded firms to form alliances, because they lack informational...
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Interorganizational Networks;
Interfirm Collaboration;
Embeddedness;
Networks;
Joint Ventures;
Alliances
Ahuja, Gautam, Francisco Polidoro Jr., and Will Mitchell. "Structural Homophily or Social Asymmetry? The Formation of Alliances by Poorly Embedded Firms." Strategic Management Journal 30, no. 9 (September 2009): 941–958.
- 11 Mar 2019
- Research & Ideas
Branding Sells Cereal, Handbags, and Vacations. Can It Sell a Country?
overcome decades of TV footage of soldiers and tanks that linger in the mind. To Harvard Business School marketing professor Elie Ofek, it’s more proof that influencing long-held perceptions about a region requires more strategic...
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- 28 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
Unilever: Transformation and Tradition
authority over its businesses in the United States. Unilever's weak performance in the United States market was an unsustainable position for a firm that aspired to be a global consumer goods player. The...
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- October 2008
- Case
Financial Crisis in Asia: 1997-1998 (Abridged)
By: Huw Pill, Rafael M. Di Tella and Jonathan Schlefer
What caused the 1997-98 Asia Crisis: Asian nations' poor economic management, international financial contagion, close "crony" relations between local politicians and capitalists? This case examines how the crisis erupted in Thailand and spread in a chain of events...
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Developing Countries and Economies;
Financial Crisis;
Ethics;
Financial Institutions;
Financial Management;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Business and Government Relations;
Asia
Pill, Huw, Rafael M. Di Tella, and Jonathan Schlefer. "Financial Crisis in Asia: 1997-1998 (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 709-004, October 2008.
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What We Do - Research Associates
Project Imagining Beauty: The Global Beauty Business since 1820 By: Daniel Schnieder “The book that we are working on—a history of the globalization of the beauty industry over...
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Career Re-Entry & Flexible Work - Alumni
ready. Taking a Step Back Even the most ambitious and accomplished of HBS professionals will want, or need, to step back from business commitments to address more personal concerns, such as: Childcare and family growth Elder care and...
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- 19 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Designing Cities for a Sustainable Future
On a June day in Manhattan with temperatures heading into the 90s, a straphanger named Mike is taking his customary subway ride to work. People are grumbling about the heat, but hey, it's summer, it's supposed to be hot, and besides, "Whaddya gonna do?" New Yorkers...
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By: Vincent Pons
Professor Pons studies questions in political economy and development with the goal of understanding how democratic systems function, and how they can be improved.
He decomposes the electoral cycle into four essential steps: the factors affecting voter... View Details
He decomposes the electoral cycle into four essential steps: the factors affecting voter... View Details
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For Alumni - Health Care
For Alumni Making a Difference in Health Care Harvard Business School With more than 8,000 graduates working in all health care industries around the globe, our alumni play important roles from supporting faculty with research to helping...
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