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The commercialization of egg freezing for fertility preservation spawned a market in information and education as much as in clinical services. Even before there was a technically viable mode to freeze eggs, Christy Jones envisioned "educational seminars" as a key "marketing and education" programmatic strategy in her 2004 contest-winning business plan for an egg freezing company at Harvard Business School. A decade and a half after Jones first proposed them, in-person informational events have become an industry trend. Given the transparent objective of recruiting paying clients, these events must inevitably combine persuasion with education. Through participant observation at three such information sessions held by different clinics in a large city in the eastern US, I present an analysis of their content and form. The article examines the extent to which these events adhered to guidelines on securing informed consent and how the form of these events produce a complex blend of affect and sociality that likely affect how information is received. I argue that egg freezing informational events employ subtle techniques of persuasion that cultivate anxiety and link egg freezing to desirable traits or lifestyles through social enactment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The author reflects on 30 years of teaching business ethics at Harvard Business School. The paper presents tactical lessons for teaching courses in professional ethics and introduces “managerial pluralism.” This concept is akin to Isaiah Berlin’s value pluralism and directly addresses the complexity of ethical decision-making in business. Managerial pluralism also raises challenging questions about judgment, and the article argues that, while we can distinguish good and bad judgment, we fundamentally do not know what judgment is or how we make final judgments on complex moral and practical issues. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

social learning is the ability to learn from others by observing their behavior. Today, we have technological advances and digital media that provide us with more information and learning tools. The users who have made the most of them are millennials, who use social media and these new technologies in their social and educational spheres. The case method has proven to be very effective in executive education since its inception at Harvard Business School in 1908 and has been widely disseminated in numerous business schools. This research seeks to assess social learning through social media as an alternative to the case-based method. The hypothesis holds that social learning through social media and the case method enable an equivalent level of learning. A mixed experimental method was used with two groups of millennials, both exposed to these methodologies. In the experiments carried out to evaluate their effectiveness, we reached two conclusions: (1) the average achieved in grades using social learning is slightly higher than the average achieved using the case method, and (2) in analyzing means, the difference is not statistically significant. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

There is a great deal of criticism of the low relationship between the research processes and the business context in faculties, the management programs, and the poorly positioned business schools. This paper aims at determining relevant topics in administrative sciences by applying the analysis of networks to identify the institutions that handle recurrent topics, those that address specialized topics, and the territories that include research in the administrative field. The study identified the best worldwide and nationwide faculties, management programs, and business schools; and from this selection, we built a relational model of the interactions between institutions and topics by using the network theory. This type of analysis was implemented since it allows a systematic review, and the results become inputs that contribute to subsequent decision making by institutions involved in this field. Among the results, we identified the Columbia Business School, INSEAD Business School, Cornell Business College, Harvard Business School and, finally, the SLOAN School of Management of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as notable institutional nodes. Finally, the relevant thematic nodes were identified: those that are related to finance, entrepreneurship, globalization, and leadership. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The study is aimed at exploring the growth of Byju's Market in K12, which has brought new and emerging trends in the field of education, especially e‐learning has been made easy through visualized, animated video, and audio classes for grades 4th to 12th especially for mathematics and science subjects. It also extends its courses for CAT, JEE, NEET, and IAS. The objective of the study is to describe the growth of this startup to unicorn and becoming one of the most valued startup in India standing in the 4th spot. The founder of Byju's wish to make the Indian education like what the Mouse House did for entertainment. The study focused with comparison of fellow rival brands along with their SWOT analysis, purely based on secondary and behavioral data which was collected from available websites, rating agencies, articles, and case study of Harvard Business School, which were published in newspapers by different personalities. There is high scope for the project in future for researchers in this industry. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Psychological safety at work means that you can be yourself at work and speak up with a dissenting opinion without fear of reprisals. I'm lucky to have worked more often than not in cultures predominantly defined by respect and with colleagues who not only make me feel safe but who also routinely inspire me to bring my best self to the office. Can the same be said for most workplaces in America? If you study this question, you will find that all roads lead to the extraordinary scholarship of Harvard Business School's Amy Edmondson. This editorial reviews the advantages of building a fearless health promotion profession and argues that we need to substitute some natural, understandable tendencies with some unnatural but powerful traits. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Looking at the contemporary educational practice, we come across a host of buzzwords such as immersive environments, participatory learning, experiential learning, experimental learning, etc. Due to the drastic development in the information and communication technology areas, various new educational methods have emerged such as e-learning and virtual learning environment. Education, especially, the higher education scenario has witnessed the boom of new pedagogical tools. Among this, ‘simulations’ is a new mode of teaching and learning in the management pedagogy that is gaining ground and appreciation. Simulations act as an essential educational tool in the virtual learning environment. There has been a significant increase in the use of business simulation games in the area of management education. Business simulations attempt to bring real-life business scenarios to life in the classroom to develop the desired capacities and skills of the students. The most important advantage of a simulation is that they help to establish a new learning relationship with the students and assigning new roles to them and build their capacities regarding participatory learning. This paper highlights the concept of simulation, and it also explores the role of simulation in management education. It discusses various business simulations available in the market. This article also shares the Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode library’s experience about the facilitation of simulations with a special reference to Harvard Business School Publishing Simulations, for its academic programmes during the past few years. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

There is a growing focus on reigning in costs while simultaneously optimizing patient outcomes via a value-based health care (VBHC) transformation. To date, the true cost of care has not been well delineated and many proxies for cost (eg, negotiated reimbursement rates) have been used but are inaccurate and not comprehensive. More robust cost analysis can be done using time-driven activity-based costing (TDABC), a well-documented approach out of Harvard Business School to accurately measure costs. 1) To determine the variation of total cost in 1- or 2- level lumbosacral decompression and fusion surgery and the breakdown of total cost by pre-, intra-, and postoperative care; 2) To determine differences in characteristics between high-cost (top decile) and non-high cost lumbosacral decompression surgeries; 3) To determine the primary cost drivers of 1- or 2-level lumbosacral decompression surgery. Multicenter (one quaternary referral academic medical center and one community hospital) economic analysis. A total of 405 patients who underwent primary 1- or 2-level lumbosacral decompression surgery between November 2, 2021 and December 2, 2022. Variation in total cost, differences between high- and non-high cost patients, and main drivers of total cost (broken down into pre-, intra-, and postoperative cost), as calculated using TDABC. Patients undergoing primary 1- or 2-level lumbosacral decompression and fusion surgery were identified from our institutional database. TDABC methodology was used to calculate total cost. The episode of care was defined as three phases: pre-, intra-, and postoperative. Patient and surgery-related characteristics were identified. To abide by institutional requirements, total cost was normalized to a mean of 1. The variation of total cost was assessed by looking at the most and least expensive total cost. Consistent with prior literature, high cost patients were defined as being in the top decile and a comparison of all factors were made between them and non-high cost patients. Multivariable linear regression was used to identify factors associated with total cost. The highest total cost for a 1- or 2-level lumbosacral decompression and fusion surgery was 9.5x the lowest total cost. On average, intraoperative cost accounted for 87% of the total cost of care. Overall, the hardware itself accounted for 30% of the total cost of care; however, this ranged from 6% to 44% of the total cost of care. High cost patients more often had commercial insurance (n=25 [63%] versus n=190 [52%], p=0.007). When accounting for all other factors, length of stay was associated with increased cost (Regression Coefficient [RC]: 0.02 (95% CI: 0.003 to 0.04), p=0.02). Outpatient surgery (RC: -0.10 (95% CI: -0.18 to -0.01), p=0.027) and multiple surgeons (Surgeons 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 9, 11, 13, 14, and 15; all p<0.05) were associated with decreased total cost. A wide variation (9.5x difference) in total cost for primary 1- or 2-level lumbosacral decompression and fusion exists. In addition, this study confirms that just under 90% of the total cost is driven by the intraoperative cost, with the large majority being the hardware and technology. Thus, for the same indications, this wide variation in total cost appears to be driven by surgeon preference and idiosyncrasy. Spine surgeons should appreciate these findings and help lead discussions around initiatives and innovations to reduce cost, while also optimizing patient outcomes as part of the VBHC transformation This abstract does not discuss or include any applicable devices or drugs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article offers information on the Africa by the professor and Vice President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Oluyemi Oluleke Osinbajo. The topics addressed include details on experiences of Oluyemi during a talk at the Harvard Business School; unemployment in Africa; and details on malnutrition in children which is growth and poor development of the brain ability of both individual and society.

The purpose of this study was to examine interactions among in-service music teachers in a graduate music teacher education programme using Wenger, McDermott, and Snyder's [2002. Cultivating Communities of Practice: A Guide to Managing Knowledge. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press] Communities of Practice (CoPs) framework. The results revealed that a music teacher interaction in a graduate music education programme evolved into CoPs. The domain, teachers' shared understanding of their practice, indicated that music teachers wanted to become better educators of their subjects. Music teachers in an INSTEP (Intensive Summer Teacher Education Program) understood that class materials would be helpful for their teaching and students, so they actively participated in interaction among classmates and shared their own knowledge and teaching experiences, which was defined as the practice. Also, through the cohort structure and group projects, music teachers continuously interacted with other colleagues, and this regular interaction in INSTEP classes, defined as the community, enabled a deeper level of community sense, also referred to as CoPs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Rethinking Malaria Leadership Forum, held at Harvard Business School in February 2017 with collaboration of the Barcelona Institute for Global Health and the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, identified this training gap as a high priority for both analysis and action. The gap in human resource training for malaria elimination needs to be addressed in order to assure continued progress. This paper identifies major gaps in skills and human resources, suggests institutions that can assist in filling the training gaps, and proposes global actions to implement expanded training for malaria elimination in endemic countries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The sociologist Michel Crozier went to North America several times, including visits to the universities of California, Harvard, Michigan, and Stanford. He always saw himself as a friend, even an admirer, of the United States. But what scholarly impact did he have on the US field of organizational behavior? Relying on an analysis of Crozier's citation-impact within a sample of organizational behavior journals, this article demonstrates that his footprint on this academic field proved fairly light. His refusal to adopt a unitary normative approach can in part explain this relatively limited impact. Crozier preferred to unearth multiple truths (plural) rather than only one truth (singular). His ideology of non-ideology might otherwise have gained more followers in certain faculties, most notably at the Harvard Business School, where his position echoed the dominant viewpoint. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

El artículo presenta una entrevista con Valeria Fratocchi, máster en Dirección y Administración de Empresas y profesora de Comportamiento Humano en la Organización del IEEM. Comenta sobre el Global Colloquium (Glocall) on Participant-Centered Learning Program, un curso de la escuela de negocios de Harvard. También discurre sobre las innovaciones educativas, el estado de la educación en Uruguay y el rol de los directivos de hoy.

An editorial on treatment of haemophilia patients is presented. It mentions the role of haemophilia treatment centers in providing the multidisciplinary care for haemophilia. It also mentions the need to improve haemophilia care along with the issues relating to the medical cost and the views of Michael Porter, professor at Harvard Business School.

The article offers information on the organizational development (OD) effort at the Dow Chemical Company in Michigan conducted by a combination of an external consultant from the Harvard Business School. Topics discussed include role of corporate education programs; information on National Training Laboratories (NTL) and training the future OD specialists; and the democratic beliefs and participatory actions.

The concept of creating shared value was first advanced by Harvard Business School and adopted by companies to develop sustainability strategies to maximize their positive impacts on society. Eco-efficiency is a sustainability concept and a prevalent operational decision support tool that assesses the environmental performance of a system as a function of its value. This paper proposes a novel multidimensional value eco-efficiency framework based on a life cycle perspective that broadens the value dimension assessment in keeping with the concept of creating shared value. The framework is tested and implemented in a case study in the Canadian dairy industry. It uses a systemic approach to compare the eco-efficiency performance of 11 multifunctional Greek yogurt systems delivering various co-products with different functions and economic values across the value chain. It makes it possible to identify the trade-offs between the environment and various value dimensions (economic or functional) based on stakeholders' interests. The results show that the scenarios that create the most economic value for the Greek yogurt processors do not perform as well for the other stakeholders along the value chain or in terms of overall environmental performance. By developing a multi-criteria value assessment, this enhanced eco-efficiency framework brings consistency in covering the same scope of analysis between value creation and environmental impacts. More specifically it breaks with the industry's prevailing value creation philosophy and value measurement in eco-efficiency analysis, which is usually based on cost-effectiveness and profit maximization for one stakeholder at the expense of the others in the value chain. Ultimately, it contributes to align companies' efforts in improving their eco-efficiency with sustainability goals and minimize the risk of burden shifting. [Display omitted] • Novel eco-efficiency framework to measure shared value creation. • Multidimensional value indicators to assess trade-offs among the value chain actors. • Case study on 11 Greek yogurt production systems in the Canadian dairy sector. • New metrics to better align company efforts with global sustainability objectives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Due to the increasing amount of scientific work and the typical delays in publication, promptly assessing the impact of scholarly work is a huge challenge. To meet this challenge, one solution may be to create and discover innovative indicators. The goal of this paper is to investigate whether Facebook likes for unpublished manuscripts that are uploaded to the Internet could be used as an early indicator of the future impact of the scientific work. To address our research question, we compared Facebook likes for manuscripts uploaded to the Harvard Business School website (Study 1) and the bioRxiv website (Study 2) with traditional impact indicators (journal article citations, Impact Factor, Immediacy Index) for those manuscripts that have been published as a journal article. Although based on our full sample of Study 1 (N = 170), Facebook likes do not predict traditional impact indicators, for manuscripts with one or more Facebook likes (n = 95), our results indicate that the more Facebook likes a manuscript receives, the more journal article citations the manuscript receives. In additional analyses (for which we categorized the manuscripts as psychological and non-psychological manuscripts), we found that the significant prediction of citations stems from the psychological and not the non-psychological manuscripts. In Study 2, we observed that Facebook likes (N = 270) and non-zero Facebook likes (n = 84) do not predict traditional impact indicators. Taken together, our findings indicate an interdisciplinary difference in the predictive value of Facebook likes, according to which Facebook likes only predict citations in the psychological area but not in the non-psychological area of business or in the field of life sciences. Our paper contributes to understanding the possibilities and limits of the use of social media indicators as potential early indicators of the impact of scientific work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: Comprehensive, multi-year mass fundraising campaigns in American higher education began with the Harvard Endowment Fund (HEF) drive, which extended from 1915 to 1925. Notwithstanding this prominence, the archival records of the campaign have never been studied closely, and in the absence of archival research, scholars have misunderstood the HEF campaign. According to the received and presentist view, the university president initiated the HEF campaign, which professional consultants then directed to a swift and successful conclusion, drawing on their expertise. Focus of study: The fundamental purpose was to learn from the archives what actually happened in this pathbreaking campaign. The research soon revealed that the unpaid organizers had to negotiate virtually all aspects of this novel venture among competing and conflicting groups of alumni, units of the university, and university administrators, including the president. The purpose then became to understand the divergent values and interests of the participants and how those perspectives contributed to the new goals, strategies, tactics, and practices introduced by the campaign. Setting: The research was conducted primarily in the Harvard University Archives and the Special Collections of Harvard Business School library. Research Design: The archival records comprise some fifty three boxes containing about forty thousand unindexed sheets of letters, memos, drafts, minutes, accounts, pamphlets, and other materials reposited in the Harvard University Archives. A chronological and topical examination of these materials over the past five years provides the research for this essay, which also draws upon a review of related collections in the Harvard University Archives and the Special Collections of Harvard Business School library. Conclusions: The research led to several surprising conclusions: that the landmark campaign failed to meet its goal, that professional consultants did not organize or run the campaign but emerged from it, that now longstanding features of university fundraising resulted less from deliberate planning than from contentious negotiations among conflicting groups, that the campaign prompted the university administration to centralize and control alumni affairs and development efforts for the first time, and, above all, that a central ideological tension arose between mass fundraising and the traditional approach of discretely soliciting wealthy donors. The unintended and unofficial outcome was to establish today's ubiquitous episodic pattern of continuous fundraising, in which mass comprehensive campaigns alternate with discrete solicitations of wealthy donors, whose dominant roles have never changed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]