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  • 01 Sep 2017
  • News

Is Private Equity Blockchain’s Killer App?

Illustration by Jon Krause When trying to explain how blockchain works, it helps to have a mass-culture analogue. Mike O’Grady (MBA 1992), president of Chicago-based Northern Trust, uses social media: Blockchain, he says, is a transaction ledger that is accessible to... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
  • 2017
  • Working Paper

Identifying Sources of Inefficiency in Health Care

By: Amitabh Chandra and Douglas O. Staiger
In medicine, the reasons for variation in treatment rates across hospitals serving similar patients are not well understood. Some interpret this variation as unwarranted and push standardization of care as a way of reducing allocative inefficiency. However, an... View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Performance Efficiency; Performance Productivity; Mathematical Methods
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  • October 2016
  • Article

Technical Debt and System Architecture: The Impact of Coupling on Defect-related Activity

By: Alan MacCormack and Daniel J. Sturtevant
Technical debt is created when design decisions that are expedient in the short-term increase the costs of maintaining and adapting this system in future. An important component of technical debt relates to decisions about system architecture. As systems grow and... View Details
Keywords: Information Infrastructure; Performance Efficiency; Applications and Software; Infrastructure
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Are Cost Advantages from a Modern Indian Hospital Transferable to the United States?

By: R. S. Kaplan, F. Erhun, V.G. Narayanan, B. Mistry and K. Brayton, et al
We use time-driven activity-based costing to estimate the cost of personnel and space for an elective coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery at two U.S. hospitals, Intermountain and Baylor Heart, and Narayana Health (NH), in India. All three hospitals use modern... View Details
Keywords: Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing; Health Care and Treatment; Cost; Organizational Structure; Performance Efficiency; India; United States
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  • 01 Sep 2011
  • News

Making a Difference in the World

“If people want to reduce carbon emissions, they must reduce their energy use.” — Paul Baier (MBA ’94) The residential sector is the single-largest end-use sector for energy, accounting for 25 percent of global demand. If every US home replaced one light bulb with the... View Details
Keywords: Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities
  • Web

Buildings & Cities - Business & Environment

the world’s population lives in cities, cities are an important place to innovate to reduce greenhouse gases. Several types of innovations offer promise [36] : Energy demand-reducing innovations that increase the efficiency of existing... View Details
  • June 2018
  • Supplement

Feeding America (B)

By: Scott Duke Kominers and Alan Lam
Supplements the (A) case. View Details
Keywords: Social Enterprise; Nonprofit Organizations; Food; Resource Allocation; Fairness; Performance Efficiency; United States
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  • 09 Jan 2018
  • Working Paper Summaries

Identifying Sources of Inefficiency in Health Care

Keywords: by Amitabh Chandra and Douglas O. Staiger; Health
  • August 1994
  • Case

Higashimaru Shoyu Company, Ltd. (A): Price Control System

Illustrates how Japanese firms use profit pressures to increase efficiency. In particular, explores how pseudo profit centers create pressure on workers to increase revenues and reduce costs, and the use of semiautonomous teams in a traditional Japanese workforce. View Details
Keywords: Cost Management; Groups and Teams; Organizational Structure; Performance Efficiency; Management Systems; Japan
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  • 01 Dec 2013
  • News

Curing Health Care

Prescriptions: Free the Data! Build a Killer App Measure Health Care's Real Costs Make Medicine Personal Leverage Human Nature Integrate Preventive Care and Payment BUSH: A passionate advocate for improving health care efficiency and... View Details
Keywords: Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance; Management; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 10 Apr 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Learning Curve: Making the Most of Outsourcing

the vendor of outsourced services can improve the efficiency and perhaps the quality of services delivered—particularly in health care, where outsourcing is on the rise. In research recently published in the journal Organization Science,... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Guttry; Health
  • Research Summary

Leadership and Leadership Development: An Ontological Approach

This summarizes my research program over the last twelve years (with my co-investigators Werner Erhard, Steve Zaffron, and more recently Kari Granger) in which the objective has been to rigorously distinguish leader and leadership and to create a technology for... View Details

  • 2011
  • Chapter

Changing Identity, Changing Language

By: Kathleen L. McGinn and Jeffrey T. Polzer
Environmental jolts and shifting membership challenge a group's efficacy and survival. Group identity is critical for a shared interpretation of and response to these challenges, but external and internal changes may require corresponding changes in a group's... View Details
Keywords: Change; Spoken Communication; Performance Efficiency; Problems and Challenges; Safety; Identity; California
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  • 01 Jun 2002
  • News

In VMI Partnerships, the Devil is in the Data

decade, however, influential manufacturers such as Procter & Gamble and Campbell Soup initiated such partnerships to help smooth production cycles and improve profits. Retailers were wooed by the potential efficiencies of better inventory... View Details
Keywords: Laura Singleton (MBA 1988)
  • June 2012
  • Case

Reconfiguring Stroke Care in North Central London

By: Michael E. Porter, James Mountford, Kamalini Ramdas and Samuel Takvorian
In 2006, surgeon Ara Darzi identified several key areas, including acute stroke care, for improving health care across London. In response to his seminal call to action, stroke care was reorganized around eight hyper-acute stroke units covering London's five sectors,... View Details
Keywords: Health Care; Health Care and Treatment; Performance Improvement; Performance Efficiency; Integration; Health Industry; London
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  • 01 Jan 2006
  • News

Who Has the D

Keywords: Paul Rogers, Marcia Blenko
  • Web

Investment Strategies - Course Catalog

relevant for corporate finance, investment banking, and personal finance. A cornerstone of any investment philosophy is a view on the efficiency of markets. An efficient market is one where prices reflect... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2011
  • News

HBS Chapel Earns Gold Certification

two-year process toward certification resulted in the chapel cutting energy consumption 49 percent by installing new climate controls, upgrading to more efficient lighting, and insulating basement pipes. New fixtures reduced water... View Details
Keywords: Construction of Buildings; Construction

    John R. Simplot

    Investing in businesses that ranged from cattle to potatoes to fertilizer, Simplot used his talent at achieving efficiency and at spotting a growing market to garner enormous profits. Simplot capitalized on the Army’s World War II demands... View Details
    Keywords: Food & Tobacco
    • 19 Nov 2014
    • News

    Creating solutions for the oil industry

    Retired high-tech entrepreneur Thomas Scambos (MBA 1954) started a company that developed additives to make oil flow more efficiently and also help deal with oil spills. (Published November 2014) View Details