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- 18 Aug 2018
- News
Disrupted Teams are Rewriting the Rules of Office(less) Politics
- 2022
- Article
Rapid Growth of Remote Patient Monitoring Is Driven by a Small Number of Primary Care Providers
By: Mitchell Tang, Ateev Mehrotra and Ariel Dora Stern
Growing enthusiasm for remote patient monitoring has been motivated by the hope that it can improve care for patients with poorly controlled chronic illness. In a national commercially insured population in the U.S., we found that billing for remote patient monitoring...
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Keywords:
Remote Monitoring;
Medical Billing;
Health Care Costs;
Telehealth;
Diabetes;
Chronic Disease;
Insurance Claims;
Diseases;
Primary Care Providers;
COVID-19 Pandemic;
Health Care and Treatment;
Insurance;
Cost;
Health Industry;
United States
Tang, Mitchell, Ateev Mehrotra, and Ariel Dora Stern. "Rapid Growth of Remote Patient Monitoring Is Driven by a Small Number of Primary Care Providers." Health Affairs 41, no. 9 (2022): 1248–1254.
- September 2009
- Case
The Risk Management Foundation of the Harvard Medical Institutions, Inc.
By: Richard M.J. Bohmer, Stephen P. Bradley and Natalie Kindred
Through its uniquely proactive approach to medical malpractice risk management, the Risk Management Foundation (RMF) has decreased claims—and premiums—for the Harvard hospitals it insures. The RMF is the captive medico-legal insurer of the Harvard medical institutions...
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Keywords:
Cost Management;
Insurance;
Health Care and Treatment;
Risk Management;
Performance Improvement;
Safety;
Health Industry;
Insurance Industry;
Boston
Bohmer, Richard M.J., Stephen P. Bradley, and Natalie Kindred. "The Risk Management Foundation of the Harvard Medical Institutions, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 610-014, September 2009.
- 2011
- Article
The Causal Impact of Media in Financial Markets
By: Christopher Parsons and J. Engelberg
Disentangling the causal impact of media reporting from the impact of the events being reported is challenging. We solve this problem by comparing the behaviors of investors with access to different media coverage of the same information event. We use zip codes to...
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Parsons, Christopher, and J. Engelberg. "The Causal Impact of Media in Financial Markets." Journal of Finance 66, no. 1 (February 2011): 67–97.
- January 2009 (Revised December 2017)
- Case
Who Broke the Bank of England?
By: Niall Ferguson and Jonathan Schlefer
In the summer of 1992, hedge fund manager George Soros was contemplating the possibility that the European Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM) would break down. Designed to pave the way for a full-scale European Monetary Union, the ERM was a system of fixed exchange rates...
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Keywords:
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Currency Exchange Rate;
Investment;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Financial Services Industry;
European Union
Ferguson, Niall, and Jonathan Schlefer. "Who Broke the Bank of England?" Harvard Business School Case 709-026, January 2009. (Revised December 2017.)
- July 2014 (Revised November 2014)
- Background Note
The Structure and Functioning of the Fashion Industry
By: Mukti Khaire and Hannah Catzen
Fashion is the quintessential social-consumption good; all consumers comply with or react to fashion. Although very few consumers actually control trends, virtually every consumer is affected by fashion and contributes to it by adopting or rejecting popular styles. A...
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- January 2014 (Revised May 2014)
- Case
Tech Mahindra and the Acquisition of Satyam Computers (A)
By: Srikant M. Datar, Anjali Raina and Namrata Arora
Set in 2008, the case details Tech Mahindra, an information technology (IT) company within the Mahindra Group, an Indian multi-industry company with a diverse stable of businesses including automotives, farm equipment, and financial services, and its decision to...
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Datar, Srikant M., Anjali Raina, and Namrata Arora. "Tech Mahindra and the Acquisition of Satyam Computers (A)." Harvard Business School Case 114-049, January 2014. (Revised May 2014.)
- Research Summary
Models of optimal experience (flow)
Flow is a state of profound task-absorption, involvement, and intrinsic enjoyment that makes the person feel one with the activity. Csikszentmihalyi's Flow Theory states that flow is more likely to occur in situations in which the person feels that the activity is very...
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- November 2017
- Article
Overcoming Institutional Voids: A Reputation-Based View of Long Run Survival
Emerging markets are characterized by underdeveloped institutions and frequent environmental shifts. Yet they also contain many firms that have survived over generations. How are firms in weak institutional environments able to persist over time? Motivated by 69...
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Gao, Cheng, Tiona Zuzul, Geoffrey Jones, and Tarun Khanna. "Overcoming Institutional Voids: A Reputation-Based View of Long Run Survival." Strategic Management Journal 38, no. 11 (November 2017): 2147–2167. (Video Abstract.)
- 2016
- Working Paper
Overcoming Institutional Voids: A Reputation-Based View of Long Run Survival
By: Cheng Gao, Tiona Zuzul, Geoffrey Jones and Tarun Khanna
Emerging markets are characterized by underdeveloped institutions and frequent environmental shifts. Yet they also contain many firms that have survived over generations. How are firms in weak institutional environments able to persist over time? Motivated by 69...
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Keywords:
Institutional Voids;
Intangible Resources;
Business Ventures;
Business or Company Management;
Business History;
Reputation;
Emerging Markets
Gao, Cheng, Tiona Zuzul, Geoffrey Jones, and Tarun Khanna. "Overcoming Institutional Voids: A Reputation-Based View of Long Run Survival." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 17-060, January 2017.
- March 2019
- Article
A Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing Analysis of Emergency Department Scribes
By: Robert S. Kaplan, Heather A. Heaton, David M. Nestler, William J. Barry, Richard A. Helmers, Mustafa Y. Sir, Deepi G. Goyal, Derek A. Haas and Annie T. Sadosty
Objectives: To apply time-driven activity-based costing (TDABC) methodology to determine emergency medicine physician documentation costs with and without scribes.
Methods: Two research assistants shadowed attending physicians for a total of 64 hours in the... View Details
Methods: Two research assistants shadowed attending physicians for a total of 64 hours in the... View Details
Kaplan, Robert S., Heather A. Heaton, David M. Nestler, William J. Barry, Richard A. Helmers, Mustafa Y. Sir, Deepi G. Goyal, Derek A. Haas, and Annie T. Sadosty. "A Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing Analysis of Emergency Department Scribes." Mayo Clinic Proceedings: Innovations, Quality & Outcomes 3, no. 1 (March 2019): 30–34.
- 2012
- Chapter
The Small Worlds of Business Groups: Liberalization and Network Dynamics
By: Jon Brookfield, Sea-Jin Chang, Israel Drori, Shmuel Ellis, Sergio G. Lazzarini, Jordan I. Siegel and Juan Pablo von Bernath Bardina
Using comparative data from six major emerging economies — Brazil, Chile, Israel,
Mexico, South Korea, and Taiwan — we examine how ownership networks in those
societies responded to a roughly similar “ structural break ” of economic liberalization during the 1990s...
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Brookfield, Jon, Sea-Jin Chang, Israel Drori, Shmuel Ellis, Sergio G. Lazzarini, Jordan I. Siegel, and Juan Pablo von Bernath Bardina. "The Small Worlds of Business Groups: Liberalization and Network Dynamics." Chap. 3 in The Small Worlds of Corporate Governance, edited by Bruce Kogut, 77–115. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2012.
- 2019
- Chapter
Merchants and the Origins of Capitalism
By: Sophus A. Reinert and Robert Fredona
N.S.B. Gras, the father of business history in the United States, argued that the era of mercantile capitalism was defined by the figure of the “sedentary merchant,” who managed his business from home, using correspondence and intermediaries, in contrast to the earlier...
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Reinert, Sophus A., and Robert Fredona. "Merchants and the Origins of Capitalism." Chap. 11 in The Routledge Companion to the Makers of Global Business, edited by Teresa da Silva Lopes, Christina Lubinski, and Heidi J.S. Tworek. New York: Routledge, 2019.
- September 2016 (Revised September 2016)
- Case
Spectio: A Digital Lighting Company
By: Rajiv Lal and Sarah McAra
Spectio Tech, founded in 2005, developed and implemented intelligent LED lighting solutions for the industrial market. Sensors and wireless connectivity embedded in its LED fixtures not only significantly reduced lighting-related energy use—by up to 90% in some...
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Keywords:
Internet Of Things;
IoT;
LED Lighting;
Start-up;
Energy Efficiency;
Information Technology;
Technology Adoption;
Technological Innovation;
Business Startups;
Internet and the Web
Lal, Rajiv, and Sarah McAra. "Spectio: A Digital Lighting Company." Harvard Business School Case 517-002, September 2016. (Revised September 2016.)
- September 2016
- Article
Enhancing the Practical Relevance of Research
This article seeks to encourage scholars to conduct research that is more relevant to the decisions faced by managers and policymakers and addresses why research relevance matters, what relevance means in terms of a journal article, and how scholars can increase the...
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Keywords:
Research Questions;
Relevance;
Rigor;
Practice-based Research;
Research;
Communication;
Media;
Education Industry
Toffel, Michael W. "Enhancing the Practical Relevance of Research." Production and Operations Management 25, no. 9 (September 2016): 1493–1505. (Sparked a Working Knowledge article about research relevance.)
- 2017
- Working Paper
Merchants and the Origins of Capitalism
By: Sophus A. Reinert and Robert Fredona
N.S.B. Gras, the father of Business History in the United States, argued that the era of mercantile capitalism was defined by the figure of the “sedentary merchant,” who managed his business from home, using correspondence and intermediaries, in contrast to the earlier...
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Reinert, Sophus A., and Robert Fredona. "Merchants and the Origins of Capitalism." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 18-021, September 2017. (Forthcoming in Routledge Companion to the Makers of Global Business. Edited by Teresa da Silva Lopes, Christina Lubinski, Heidi Tworek (2018).)
- Article
The Sciences of Design: Observations on an Emerging Field
By: S. Purao, C. Y. Baldwin, A. Hevner, V. Storey, J. Pries-Heje and B. Smith
he boundaries and contours of design sciences continue to undergo definition and refinement. In many ways, the sciences of design defy disciplinary characterization. They demand multiple epistemologies, theoretical orientations (e.g. construction, analysis or...
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Purao, S., C. Y. Baldwin, A. Hevner, V. Storey, J. Pries-Heje, and B. Smith. "The Sciences of Design: Observations on an Emerging Field." Art. 29. Communications of the Association for Information Systems 23 (2008).
- February 1979
- Article
Effects of External Evaluation on Artistic Creativity
By: T. M. Amabile
Examined the conditions under which the imposition of an extrinsic constraint upon performance of an activity can lead to decrements in creativity. 95 female undergraduates worked on an art activity either with or without the expectation of external evaluation. In...
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Keywords:
Creativity;
Social Psychology;
Performance Evaluation;
Motivation and Incentives;
Situation or Environment
Amabile, T. M. "Effects of External Evaluation on Artistic Creativity." Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 37, no. 2 (February 1979): 221–233.
- May 2004
- Article
The Case for International Coordination of Electricity Regulation: Evidence from the Measurement of Efficiency in South America
A decade of experience has shown that monitoring the performance of public and private monopolies is the hardest part of electricity sector reform in South America—because operators control most of the information needed for effective regulation. South American...
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Keywords:
Information;
Mathematical Methods;
Monopoly;
Globalization;
Energy Sources;
Energy Industry;
South America
Ruzzier, Christian Alejandro, A. Estache, and M. Rossi. "The Case for International Coordination of Electricity Regulation: Evidence from the Measurement of Efficiency in South America." Journal of Regulatory Economics 25, no. 3 (May 2004): 271–295.
- 2014
- Working Paper
Contraceptive Access and Fertility: The Impact of Supply-Side Interventions
By: Nava Ashraf, Erica Field and Jessica Leight
Declining fertility in both the developed and developing world has led to large and potentially welfare-enhancing changes in women's labor supply, education and investment in children in recent decades. However, it has been widely noted that the pace of this decline...
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Ashraf, Nava, Erica Field, and Jessica Leight. "Contraceptive Access and Fertility: The Impact of Supply-Side Interventions." Working Paper, September 2014. (Under review.)