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- 27 Sep 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
The Impact of Conformance and Experiential Quality on Healthcare Cost and Clinical Performance
- 22 May 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
Hidden Structure: Using Network Methods to Map System Architecture
- November 2019
- Article
A Review of Bundled Payments in Total Joint Replacement
By: Olivia Manickas-Hill, Kevin J. Bozic and Thomas W. Feeley
The Bundled Payments for Care Improvement (BPCI) initiative, developed by the U.S. Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation, aims to reduce health care expenditures while maintaining or improving patient outcomes.
Several published reports evaluating the impact... View Details
Several published reports evaluating the impact... View Details
Manickas-Hill, Olivia, Kevin J. Bozic, and Thomas W. Feeley. "A Review of Bundled Payments in Total Joint Replacement." Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery Reviews 7, no. 11 (November 2019).
- 25 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
Who is to Blame for 'The Great Training Robbery'?
the push toward lean manufacturing. Beer cites a manufacturing company whose CEO was committed to improving quality and launched a lean training program in multiple plants. The effectiveness of that training was hampered in plants where... View Details
- 02 Jun 2010
- What Do You Think?
How Do You Weigh Strategy, Execution, and Culture in an Organization’s Success?
much is the level of my execution diminishing my level of profits ." Eddie Jiang provided an alternative way of thinking about the relationship of these three factors by suggesting that they are multiplicative rather than additive.... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 14 Feb 2017
- Research & Ideas
A Strategy For Steady Leadership in an Unsteady World
external circumstances, without altering strategic course. This is not a time for continuing the financial engineering so prevalent in the past decade. Rather, leaders need multiple contingency plans while preserving strong balance sheets... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 07 Aug 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
Debating the Responsibility of Capitalism in Historical and Global Perspective
Keywords: by Geoffrey G. Jones
- July 2019 (Revised May 2021)
- Case
Acelerex
By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock
In early 2019, Randell Johnson, Founder and Chief Executive of Acelerex, was reflecting on the company’s first year of rapid growth and the challenges of scaling the business that lay ahead. Acelerex was riding the waves of change taking place in electrical power grids... View Details
Keywords: Energy; Energy Sources; Growth Management; Expansion; Global Strategy; Cash Flow; Energy Industry; Web Services Industry; Consulting Industry
Wells, John R., and Benjamin Weinstock. "Acelerex." Harvard Business School Case 720-360, July 2019. (Revised May 2021.)
- 22 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Work of Failure Analysis
resources, and incentives to bring multiple perspectives and multiple minds together to carefully analyze what went wrong and how to prevent the occurrence of similar failures in the future are lacking in... View Details
Keywords: by Amy Edmondson & Mark D. Cannon
- 21 Nov 2015
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Stella McCartney Combines High Fashion with Environmental Values
were multiple dimensions as I read the case. You mentioned it’s part of a new course. Explain a little bit your thought process about how this would help you achieve what you were trying to in the course. A: Sustainability is a very... View Details
- 15 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
What You Don’t Know About Making Decisions
linked with superior outcomes. While they are no guarantee of success, their combined presence sharply improves the odds that you'll make a good decision. Multiple Alternatives. When groups consider many alternatives, they engage in more... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Garvin & Michael A. Roberto
- Research Summary
Overview
By: Feng Zhu
Professor Zhu’s research focuses on the design of platform business models and its impact on platform performance. Platforms have become central to our economy. A platform is a product or service that enables two or more customer groups to interact. For example,... View Details
- 04 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Schmoozing with the Boss Helps Men Get Promoted
says. “If you are a woman, you might have to try even harder.” As for companies, the researchers advise organizations to change their promotion practices. In addition to basing promotions on objective data, such as worker productivity, companies could also ask View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 29 Jan 2021
- Op-Ed
How Influencers, Celebrities, and FOMO Can Win Over Vaccine Skeptics
prefer not to take the trouble to protect against it” proved to be effective and led the late majority to vaccinate their children. Since multiple vaccines and data on vaccines may be available by the time the late majority and laggards... View Details
- 2018
- Chapter
New Prospects for Organizational Democracy?: How the Joint Pursuit of Social and Financial Goals Challenges Traditional Organizational Designs
By: Julie Battilana, Michael Fuerstein and Michael Lee
For an extended period during the first half of the 20th century, industrial democracy was a vibrant movement, with ideological and organizational ties to a thriving unionism. In 2015, however, things look different. While there are instances of democracy in the... View Details
Battilana, Julie, Michael Fuerstein, and Michael Lee. "New Prospects for Organizational Democracy? How the Joint Pursuit of Social and Financial Goals Challenges Traditional Organizational Designs." In Capitalism Beyond Mutuality? Perspectives Integrating Philosophy and Social Science, edited by Subramanian Rangan, 256–288. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2018.
- 22 Jul 2019
- Book
How to Be a Digital Platform Leader
sufficient condition. Beyond network effects, successful platforms make it hard for their users to multihome. Multihome means users can participate on multiple platforms at the same time. In the old days, it was hard to use both a Windows... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 19 Aug 2021
- Op-Ed
Don't Ignore Your Employees' Misery—TAKE Control
agile counterparts. Organizations might also pursue multiple paths simultaneously, varying the amount of time and effort on each stage. To be clear, moving too slowly is a major risk now. Spending a year or more developing a plan without... View Details
Keywords: by Hise O. Gibson and MaShon Wilson
- Research Summary
Markets of Progress: Coffee, Commerce, and Community in the Soconusco, Chiapas, 1867-1920
Markets of Progress presents a new holistic story of rural development in Mexico at the turn of the century. In the Soconusco, as in regions throughout the world, the accelerating circulation of commodities and capital, ideas and immigrants reshaped society... View Details
Keywords: Commodities; Coffee; Mexico; Foreign Investment; Institutions; Immigration; Developing Agriculture; Development; Export Crop; Emerging Market; Property Rights; Labor History; History; Capital Markets; Business History; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Latin America; Mexico; Central America
- 2019
- Working Paper
Rehabilitating Corporate Purpose
In this paper, I address how the ascendance of the theory of shareholder value maximization into the central consciousness of public corporations and its canonization as the only legitimate expression of corporate purpose has contributed to both a widening breach... View Details
Keywords: Capitalism; Justice; Corporate Purpose; Shareholder Value Maximization; Ethical Reciprocity; Economic Systems; Business Ventures; Mission and Purpose; Ethics; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact
Salter, Malcolm S. "Rehabilitating Corporate Purpose." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 19-104, April 2019.
- 19 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?
successful fights against adware and spyware companies, and coauthored multiple studies that revealed racial discrimination among Airbnb hosts and guests. He also has published numerous articles in top academic journals. That said, he has... View Details