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- 03 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Truck Driver Who Reinvented Shipping
"One of the nation's oldest and sickest industries is embarking on a quiet attempt to cure some of its own ills. The patients are the operators of coastwise and intercoastal ships that carry dry cargoes." The cure, the article... View Details
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Research - Health Care
Brewster The CommunityConnect case management program for Medicaid beneficiaries is run by Contra Costa Health, a county safety net health system in California. Case management infrastructure modestly improved Covid-19 vaccine uptake in a... View Details
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Social Enterprise - Faculty & Research
Ratings ; ESG Reporting ; ESG Disclosure ; Sustainability ; Climate ; Climate Finance ; Climate Risk ; Social Accounting ; Investment ; Governance ; Safety ; Climate Change ; Environmental Sustainability ; Corporate Social Responsibility... View Details
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Past Issues - Alumni
blueprint may just end up saving the pharmaceutical industry too. Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL The world's premier league of spectacle and sport has an ambitious plan for growth. But some formidable challenges—everything from player View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
From Big Pharma to Startup
people with disabling hearing loss Buoy Health—provides AI-powered feedback on symptoms and makes recommendations for care options Careport Health—offers care coordination software solutions to manage patient transitions across the... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 22 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Work of Failure Analysis
large and small. She bolstered her own technical knowledge of how to probe more deeply into the causes of failure in hospitals by attending the Executive Sessions on Medical Errors and Patient Safety at... View Details
Keywords: by Amy Edmondson & Mark D. Cannon
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books You Got This! A Straightforward, No-Nonsense Playbook for Crushing 130+ Workplace Challenges By Heidi Abelli (MBA 1993) Palmetto Publishing Stepping into the corporate world can feel like navigating a labyrinth, especially when... View Details
- 29 Jan 2021
- Op-Ed
How Influencers, Celebrities, and FOMO Can Win Over Vaccine Skeptics
With people all over the world beginning to get COVID-19 vaccines, most of the press coverage so far has focused on its amazing development. What’s receiving less attention is a critical last-mile issue that could stand in the way of achieving herd immunity: View Details
- 16 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business
intermediate term, we will see companies that rely on global supply chains be hurt. Once companies run through their existing safety stocks of raw materials or parts provided by a far-flung supplier base, they may face challenges filling... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
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2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
session, we will explore why psychological safety matters now more than ever for success in hybrid and shifting work environments, as well as how to help people team across boundaries of all kinds to accomplish challenging work together.... View Details
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Annual Report 2020 - Annual Report 2020
of the disease, that it would be infeasible to ensure the safety and well-being of the more than 1,000 MBA students, faculty, and staff involved in the year’s program. Executive Education Given rapidly changing travel and quarantine... View Details
- 07 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
What Customers Need to Hear from You During the COVID Crisis
responding more quickly and effectively to the pandemic than their government was, demonstrating the faith that consumers have in their brands and the companies that stand behind them. 86 percent of surveyed consumers view their brands as an essential View Details
Keywords: by Jill Avery and Richard Edelman
- 27 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Employee-Suggestion Programs That Work
Bumping up against accepted theories in process improvement, a new research paper from Harvard Business School questions the value of prioritizing problems identified by frontline employees. Citing a hospital safety improvement program... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Guttry
- 15 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 15, 2008
and efficiency of hospitals and to contrast these concerns with national patient safety initiatives. Data Sources: Primary data include semi-structured interviews with frontline staff and 1,732... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Martin November
Marty (HBS '98) is an MD/MBA and practicing OBGYN physician who has broad expertise in the healthcare sector as the former Medical Director for Patient Safety and Risk Management at Atrius Health, Harvard... View Details
- 07 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 7
comparative advantages of intermediate versus final disclosure policies in fostering innovation. Publisher's link: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2288746 October 2014 The Compass (Newsletter of the American Society of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health
too often still result in decisions that take scant account of public health and whether the health of individual citizens is being advanced. When worker safety is jeopardized by unenforced building codes or exposure to harmful industrial... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Fixing What Ails the Drug Industry
presentation to upwards of 280 HBS alumni who gathered on the Harvard Medical School campus, is better regulatory science. That translates into faster decision-making and a better balance between safety and innovation with respect to... View Details
- 23 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
Product Disasters Can Be Fertile Ground for Innovation
discovered that the error was made a year before when it had reconfigured a scanner to improve doctors’ ability to see blood flow in the brain. More than 200 patients had suffered the same fate, receiving up to eight times the normal dose... View Details
- 09 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
How to Create a Psychologically Safe Workplace
Children's Hospital & Clinics of Minnesota COO Julie Morath to increase patient safety at the hospital captures proactive inquiry perfectly: “Was everything as safe as you would like it to have been this... View Details