Dynamic Treatment Effects - Publications - Faculty & Research

05 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019

structures within a single supplier hastens improvement. Our focus on the internal structural dynamics of suppliers extends the existing decoupling literature and provides the first empirical investigation of internal buffering of... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

16 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business

gone. This is an opportunity to learn Slack and Zoom and have a mentor teach you how to use these tools. The second thing is, working remotely is very effective if you can also restructure the organizational processes for how... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

03 Jul 2008
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Are Followers About to Get Their Due?

followership dynamics are really one and the same. Those who lead in one instance may follow in another." As C. J. Cullinane put it, "... to be a great leader you first have to be at some time in your career a great... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

10 Aug 2015
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New Medical Devices Get To Patients Too Slowly

different effects or methods of action, trials essentially consist of monitoring patients for proper dosage, effectiveness, and side effects. Medical devices, meanwhile, can differ from each other in almost every respect, including how... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health; Technology

11 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 11

greater competence. August 2013 Business History Review Charting Dynamic Trajectories: Multinational Firms in India By: Choudhury, Prithwiraj, and Tarun Khanna Abstract—In this article, we provide a synthesizing framework that we call the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

25 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

Why IT Does Matter

effectiveness has come the ability to do things truly differently. American Hospital Supply's distribution software and American Airlines' SABRE reservation system are examples of victories in past technologies. The firms were the first... View Details

Keywords: by F. Warren McFarlan & Richard L. Nolan

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Molly Welch

private sectors. Coming to HBS is like... ...drinking from a firehose, to use a tired but effective analogy! It’s an environment with lots of new people, information, and ideas, and can feel overwhelming at first, but also very exciting.... View Details

2010
Article

Estimating the Attributable Cost of Physician Burnout in the United States

By: Shasha Han, Tait D. Shanafelt, Christine A. Sinsky, Karim M. Awad, Liselotte N. Dyrbye, Lynne C. Fiscus, Mickey Trockel and Joel Goh

Background: Although physician burnout is associated with negative clinical and organizational outcomes, its economic costs are poorly understood. As a result, leaders in health care cannot properly assess the financial benefits of initiatives to remediate... View Details

Keywords: Physicians; Burnout; Health; Health Care and Treatment; Employees; Cost; Programs; Policy; Health Industry

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Strategy Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Continue: Coke and Pepsi in 2010” with Renee Kim (HBS Case 711-462) and also winner in the Strategy and General Management category for “Apple Inc. in 2012” with Penelope Rossano (HBS Case 712-490). 2014 Frank Nagle : "Drivers and View Details

15 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 15

geographically insulate their trades from the broader commerce, creating in effect two circuits. Yet the professionals also promote specific practices of trade within their circuit to help them distinguish their own pursuit from an... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

15 Dec 2003
Research & Ideas

Women Leaders and Organizational Change

willing and able to question how they do their work and why they do it that way. Is it because it's the most effective way, or is it because it's the way it's always been done? If the answer is the latter, and if the practice may be... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark

26 Oct 2010
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First Look: October 26, 2010

many "multicultural marketing" efforts are both limited and limiting, and how firms can go beyond demographic data to craft effective strategies for selling to ethnic markets within the U.S. Read the Paper: View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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The overarching goal of my research is to produce works that are influential and informative to both academics and practitioners in the field of operations management. To accomplish this, I collaborate with industry partners who provide knowledge about their field,... View Details

02 Jun 2021
Research & Ideas

A Rare Find in Health Care: A Simple Solution to Racial Inequity

to wait 20 or 50 years to reduce them.” "This is something we could change tomorrow." The findings emerge as health care institutions are wrestling with the deep-seated effects of institutional racism. During the past year, amid a... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

15 Dec 2003
Research & Ideas

The New Global Business Manager

constraining, it can move to another one. So while there are few effective transnational governmental bodies, there are very effective transnational corporations. With that power comes a huge responsibility... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

12 Jun 2018
Research & Ideas

In a Landscape of 'Me Too' Drug Development, What Spurs Radical Innovation?

was invented as a treatment for chronic myelogenous leukemia, and by the study’s measures was quite a novel drug. Novartis shares jumped almost 7 percent the day Gleevec was approved by the FDA. The drug proved View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Health; Pharmaceutical

2009
Working Paper

Broadening Focus: Spillovers, Complementarities and Specialization in the Hospital Industry

By: Jonathan R. Clark and Robert S. Huckman

The long-standing argument that focused operations outperform others stands in contrast to claims about the benefits of broader operational scope. The performance benefits of focus are typically attributed to reduced complexity, lower uncertainty, and the development... View Details

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Medical Specialties; Performance Capacity; Diversification; Health Industry

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09 Dec 2009
Working Paper Summaries

Mental Health in the Aftermath of Conflict

Keywords: by Quy-Toan Do & Lakshmi Iyer

27 Feb 2006
Research & Ideas

When Rights of First Refusal Are a Bad Deal

the traditional ultimatum game and reverse ultimatum game help explain the dynamics of BA-ROFR? A: You might as well ask how experiments helped explain the BA-ROFR. Contracts exist in a complicated world, and there's a lot more going on... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Construction; Real Estate; Entertainment & Recreation

September 2016
Article

Value Based Care and Bundled Payments: Anesthesia Care Costs for Outpatient Oncology Surgery Using Time-driven Activity-based Costing

By: Katy E. French, Alexis B. Guzman, Augustin C. Rubio, John C. Frenzel and Thomas Feeley

Background: With the movement towards bundled payments, stakeholders should know the true cost of the care they deliver. Time-driven activity-based costing (TDABC) can be used to estimate costs for each episode of care. In this analysis, TDABC is used to both... View Details

Keywords: Cost; Insurance; Health Care and Treatment; Insurance Industry; Health Industry

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