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  • July 2014
  • Article

Second-Opinion Pathologic Review is a Patient Safety Mechanism That Helps Reduce Error and Decrease Waste

By: Lavinia Middleton, Thomas W. Feeley, Heidi W. Albright, Ronald Walters and Stanley Hamilton
We have a crisis in health care delivery, originating from increasing health care costs and inconsistent quality-of-care measures. During the past several years, value-based health care delivery has gained increasing attention as an approach to control costs and... View Details
Keywords: Pathology; Diagnostic Errors; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry; North and Central America
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  • June 2010
  • Article

The Pathologies of Online Display Advertising Marketplaces

By: Benjamin Edelman
Display advertising marketplaces place "banner" ads on all manner of popular sites. While these services are widely used, they suffer significant challenges, including weak user response and low accountability for both advertisers and web site publishers. I survey a... View Details
Keywords: Misleading and Fraudulent Advertising; Online Advertising; Cost; Corporate Accountability; Information Publishing; Consumer Behavior; Relationships; Web Sites
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  • 23 Jun 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Psychology, Pathology, and the CEO

In recent years, I have been inside nearly two dozen turnaround situations, in various stages of progress, in which new leaders were bringing distressed organizations back from the brink of failure and setting them on a healthier course. In every case, I saw—and agreed... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
  • 20 Apr 2021
  • Working Paper Summaries

The Emergence of Mafia-like Business Systems in China

Keywords: by Meg Rithmire and Hao Chen
  • 07 Aug 2014
  • News

General Electric Wants to Act Like a Startup

  • February 2002 (Revised May 2004)
  • Case

U.S. Labs

By: Michael J. Roberts and Robert F. Higgins
Describes the evolution of a start-up venture in the pathology lab segment of the clinical lab business. U.S. Labs tries a series of business models before running out of cash. The company is in dire need of financing, as its venture capital backers are refusing to put... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Venture Capital; Financial Strategy; Financing and Loans; Business Model; Business or Company Management; Planning; Business Strategy; Health Industry
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  • Article

Entrepreneurship in the Large Corporation: A Longitudinal Study of How Established Firms Create Breakthrough Inventions

By: Gautam Ahuja and Curba Morris Lampert
We present a model that explains how established firms create breakthrough inventions. We identify three organizational pathologies that inhibit breakthrough inventions: the familiarity trap—favoring the familiar; the maturity trap—favoring the mature;... View Details
Keywords: Radical Innovation; Organizational Learning; Technology; Strategy; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Business Processes; Innovation and Invention; Chemical Industry
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  • March 2021
  • Case

VideaHealth: Building the AI Factory

By: Karim R. Lakhani and Amy Klopfenstein
Florian Hillen, co-founder and CEO of VideaHealth, a startup that used artificial intelligence (AI) to detect dental conditions on x-rays, spent the early years of his company laying the groundwork for an AI factory. A process for quickly building and iterating on new... View Details
Keywords: Artificial Intelligence; Innovation and Invention; Disruptive Innovation; Technological Innovation; Information Technology; Applications and Software; Technology Adoption; Digital Platforms; Entrepreneurship; AI and Machine Learning; Technology Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; North and Central America; United States; Massachusetts; Cambridge
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  • June 2024
  • Case

Aidoc: Building a Hospital-Centric AI Platform

By: Ariel D. Stern and Susan Pinckney
In 2023, Israel-based AI health care company Aidoc evaluated its future. The company, founded in 2016, had grown from commercializing a single AI product for radiologists to a software platform that could detect 20 conditions and immediately notify care teams of... View Details
Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; Business Organization; Business Startups; Disruption; Cost vs Benefits; Decision Choices and Conditions; Decisions; Private Sector; Entrepreneurial Finance; Global Range; Global Strategy; Globalized Markets and Industries; Governance Compliance; Governance Controls; Governing and Advisory Boards; Policy; Medical Specialties; AI and Machine Learning; Digital Platforms; Digital Transformation; Technology Adoption; Disruptive Innovation; Innovation and Management; Innovation Strategy; Laws and Statutes; Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Distribution; Product Development; Success; Performance Efficiency; Strategic Planning; Research and Development; Risk and Uncertainty; Business Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Value Creation; Health Industry; Israel
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  • 2007
  • Working Paper

Recognizing the New: A Multi-Agent Model of Analogy in Strategic Decision-Making

By: Giovanni Gavetti and Massimo Warglien
In novel environments, strategic decision-making is often premised on analogy, and recognition lies at its heart. Recognition refers to a class of cognitive processes through which a problem is interpreted associatively in terms of something that has been experienced... View Details
Keywords: Interpersonal Communication; Decision Choices and Conditions; Mathematical Methods; Cognition and Thinking; Power and Influence
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  • 12 Jul 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Enron’s Lessons for Managers

five-legged cow; it doesn't really make sense. I think that Enron's pathologies are not unique, save in their collective occurrence and collective impact. Very few of us who engage in competitive endeavors have not in some way been... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 15 Jul 2019
  • Book

Many Executives Are Afraid of Finance. Here's How They Can Gain Confidence

problem and the various pathologies that are associated with it. In short, the capital allocation problem is simple. The dominant question for managers is: Do you keep free cash or do you distribute it? If you keep it, should you invest... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • Profile

Jeff Bernstein

master's degree in speech pathology from Boston University. Looking ahead, they seek a balance between rewarding careers and a rich community life. "I'd like to find something at the intersection between infrastructure and... View Details
  • 25 Apr 2014
  • News

Helping high achievers achieve even more

As cofounder of Summit Partners, E. Roe Stamps IV (MBA 1974) spurred economic growth and created jobs in a broad range of industries, from fiber optics to pathology laboratories, to electronics and semiconductor manufacturers. Established... View Details
  • 20 Jul 2017
  • News

Life Lab Nurtures Early Stage Startup Day Zero Diagnostics

ability to treat patients with targeted therapeutics within hours of being admitted to the hospital—on Day Zero. The five-member founding team includes two MD PhDs who specialize in infectious disease (Doug Kwon) and clinical pathology... View Details
Keywords: Scientific Research and Development Services
  • 01 Feb 2002
  • News

Health Industry Alumni Convene for Conference

and CEO of Mediconsulting, Inc., spoke about creating a better model for business collaborations between biotech and pharmaceutical firms. Said Klietmann, the conference's biotechnology chair and a lecturer in pathology at Harvard Medical... View Details
Keywords: Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance
  • 26 Jun 2013
  • Op-Ed

A Roadmap for Afghanistan’s Economic Future

things we take for granted in the West” Lack of jobs is a likely cause of rising addiction rates, with their myriad attendant pathologies and costs. Whereas Afghanistan once just grew poppies, its inhabitants are now increasingly addicted... View Details
Keywords: by Tarun Khanna
  • Web

Michael Danzi | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

his client firms, serving as its president and chairman before launching his most recent venture US Labs, which provides high-end laboratory and pathology services to hospitals throughout the United States. In December 2001, at his office... View Details
  • 05 Mar 2025
  • News

Uncertain Terms

After Amar Bhidé (MBA 1979/DBA 1988) became an HBS assistant professor in 1988, then-dean John H. McArthur (MBA 1959/DBA 1963) gave him a copy of economist Frank Knight’s 1921 book Risk, Uncertainty and Profit. Knight’s idea that “uncertainty” must be distinguished... View Details
  • 05 May 2010
  • What Do You Think?

Is Denial Endemic to Management?

Bullard suggested that "Ruthless realism is, itself, pathological . The professional pilot denies a crash is inevitable until a second before impact, and that ability to believe one can save the ship is critical to the attitude of... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett