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- September 2003 (Revised January 2005)
- Case
Bridges to Excellence: Bringing Quality Health Care to Life
By: Richard M.J. Bohmer, Ingrid Marie Nembhard and Robert Galvin
General Electric launched Bridges to Excellence Diabetes Care Link, a program through which enrolled physicians receive bonuses of up to 10% of their salary for delivering quality care to diabetic patients covered by a participating employer or health plan. A day...
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Health Care and Treatment;
Motivation and Incentives;
Programs;
Ethics;
Quality;
Moral Sensibility;
Service Delivery;
Compensation and Benefits;
Health Industry
Bohmer, Richard M.J., Ingrid Marie Nembhard, and Robert Galvin. "Bridges to Excellence: Bringing Quality Health Care to Life." Harvard Business School Case 604-030, September 2003. (Revised January 2005.)
- 09 May 2013
- News
Road Trip
share what we learn with a larger, supportive community of fellow entrepreneurs, professors, venture capitalists, and anyone else committed to entrepreneurship. We'd like this trip to be a growth engine for entrepreneurial practice generally." The MBAxAmerica students...
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Deals Q2 - Course Catalog
implementation of agreements; complexities that can arise through agency, asymmetric information, moral hazard, and adverse selection; structural, psychological, and interpersonal barriers that can hinder agreement; and the particular...
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- November 2012 (Revised January 2018)
- Teaching Note
Chris and Alison Weston (A), (B), (C)
By: Sandra J. Sucher
Teaching Note for Chris and Alison Weston(A), (B) and (C) cases.
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- 17 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
Resisting the Seductions of Success
resources described in earlier chapters [of my book]—having a good dream, a sound moral code, or unsettling role models—matters at all if leaders cannot resist the flow of success. Tony's story is set in the 1960s, a time when the...
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- 2011
- Working Paper
Free to Punish? The American Dream and the Harsh Treatment of Criminals
By: Rafael Di Tella and Juan Dubra
We describe the evolution of selective aspects of punishment in the U.S. over the period 1980-2004. We note that imprisonment increased around 1980, a period that coincides with the "Reagan revolution" in economic matters. We build an economic model where beliefs about...
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Crime and Corruption;
Economy;
Moral Sensibility;
Mathematical Methods;
Opportunities;
Behavior;
United States
Di Tella, Rafael, and Juan Dubra. "Free to Punish? The American Dream and the Harsh Treatment of Criminals." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 17309, August 2011.
- September 2007
- Case
Nonverbal Communication: Distinguishing Truth and Lies
This video-based coursework illuminates the importance--and difficulty--of judging whether people are trustworthy. Students can test their skills at assessing whether contestants in a high-stakes game show will cooperate or defect.
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Wheeler, Michael A. "Nonverbal Communication: Distinguishing Truth and Lies." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Case 908-702, September 2007.
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Too Big To Fail
to help, has the government unwittingly created the mother of all moral hazards — implicit rescue guarantees as far as the eye can see? No doubt about it, says HBS professor and economic historian David Moss. “The extension of implicit...
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- 01 Feb 2000
- News
New Releases
course The Business World: Moral and Spiritual Inquiry Through Literature. Finding Your Religion offers guidance and inspiration to people who may harbor negative childhood associations with religion or feel daunted by the seeming...
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Data: The Ever-Expanding Frontier - Race, Gender & Equity
hopes that morale improves. Operating with openness, humility, and an investment in cultivating cognitive integrity enables us to expand our capacity for critique. It only improves the work. When the gaps in our technology and...
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- June 2013
- Case
Ken Traub at American Bank Note Holographics
By: Suraj Srinivasan and Michael Norris
Ken Traub is hired as CFO for American Bank Note Holographics, the market-leading security holograph company in January 1999, but discovers on his first day that the company has misstated its financials and resigns. After consulting with the company for the next...
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Keywords:
Information Technology;
Moral Sensibility;
Earnings Management;
Crime and Corruption;
Personal Development and Career;
Management Teams;
Technology Industry;
Service Industry;
United States
Srinivasan, Suraj, and Michael Norris. "Ken Traub at American Bank Note Holographics." Harvard Business School Case 113-073, June 2013.
- Profile
Anthony Martore
a time-constrained environment. This exercise was memorable because real world events often vary from strategic plans, and the step of evaluating all elements of a process, from the throughput unit numbers to organizational culture and design, is critical to maximize...
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- 21 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
From Tigers to Kaleidoscopes: Thinking About Future Leadership
group The first two points are not as clear-cut as they might appear. While the leader's standard charge is to set direction, a leader also has to communicate a moral and strategic vision that actually inspires people to give their all....
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by Martha Lagace
- 29 May 2014
- Research & Ideas
Research Symposium 2014
amortization from its constitution, in favor of fair value accounting. Ramanna said that there are no unequivocal villains in thin political market situations, but rather "a quilt of special interests." Still, he argued that managers in thin political markets have a...
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- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Rx for Too Big to Fail
taxpayers on the hook when things went bad. The upshot is that the nation’s largest financial institutions now live in a “heads I win, tails you lose” world of moral hazard. No wonder calls to end too big to fail have hit a fever pitch....
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- 27 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 27
Publisher's link: http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/Wurgler_Paper_78db6340-ae41-4630-8e25-d990b547171b.pdf January 2015 Psychological Science The Moral Virtue of Authenticity: How Inauthenticity Produces Feelings of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Expanded Elective Curriculum Offers Students A Wealth of Choices
Sebenius's Dealmaking: Financial and International Negotiations, and Professor Joseph L. Badaracco's seminar, The Moral Leader. "These and other small courses showcase the exciting areas that faculty are exploring," says Salter. "Many...
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- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Andrew H. Tisch
of the hotel school's student body and organized protests against U.S. involvement in Vietnam. He credits his parents with his abiding interest in leadership and social issues. “They provided us with a moral compass and emphasized the...
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- 21 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 21
model that explains employees’ moral evaluations of and reactions to referral practices based on the power relationship between a referrer and a hiring manager. Specifically, we predict that employees are more likely to see the acceptance...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
A Market for Human Cadavers in All but Name?
for cadavers. Anteby's current research examines the morality of markets by focusing on the U.S. supply and demand of cadavers for medical research and education.) Anyone who has been trained as a physician—or is close to someone who has...
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