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  • 25 Aug 2010
  • Working Paper Summaries

Managerial Practices That Promote Voice and Taking Charge among Frontline Workers

Keywords: by Julia Rose Adler-Milstein, Sara J. Singer & Michael W. Toffel; Health
  • 23 Sep 2009
  • Working Paper Summaries

Operational Failures and Problem Solving: An Empirical Study of Incident Reporting

Keywords: by Julia Adler-Milstein, Sara J. Singer & Michael W. Toffel; Health
  • 08 Dec 2006
  • Working Paper Summaries

When Learning and Performance are at Odds: Confronting the Tension

Keywords: by Sara J. Singer & Amy C. Edmondson
  • 22 Aug 2012
  • Working Paper Summaries

A Randomized Field Study of a Leadership WalkRounds™-Based Intervention

Background: Leadership WalkRounds have been widely adopted as a technique for improving patient safety and safety climate. WalkRounds involve senior managers directly observing frontline work and soliciting employees' ideas about improvement opportunities. However, the... View Details
Keywords: by Anita L. Tucker & Sara J. Singer; Health
  • 30 Aug 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Turning Employees Into Problem Solvers

reports. The paper, authored by Julia Adler-Milstein, an HBS doctoral candidate in the Health Policy Management program; Sara View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Health
  • 27 Aug 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Employee-Suggestion Programs That Work

Sara J. Singer show that the commonly accepted "analysis" approach, wherein great attention is given to identifying and prioritizing a large number of problems, is not... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Guttry
  • 22 Feb 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Manager Visibility No Guarantee of Fixing Problems

Motions: An Empirical Test of Management Involvement in Process Improvement," HBS professor Anita L. Tucker and Harvard School of Public Health professor Sara J. Singer... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Health
  • 17 Feb 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Tales of the Newly-minted MBA

more pressing demands of earning a living. After stints at Bain & Co., J. Crew, and Old Navy, he landed his current position as vice president of People's Bank in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Now he's decided to follow another turn in his... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 21 Jan 2010
  • Working Paper Summaries

Going Through the Motions: An Empirical Test of Management Involvement in Process Improvement

Keywords: by Anita L. Tucker; Health
  • 25 Aug 2022
  • News

Hair Today

When Britney Winters (MBA 2016) tuned in to this year’s Super Bowl, she was more focused on the halftime show than the game itself. When that moment came, Winters watched as Grammy Award–winning singer Mary View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; hair; beauty; Houston; Super Bowl
  • 15 Dec 2015
  • News

The Year in Ideas 2015

to explore.) PLUS: Alumni experts on what big ideas we’ll see in 2016. The experiment started with weather balloons attached to Styrofoam beer coolers, each with a wireless router inside. It was proof of concept for an ambitious endeavor called Project Loon, headed... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna, Christine Lejeune, Dan Morrell, and April White
  • 17 Jul 2012
  • First Look

First Look: July 17

WalkRoundsTM—Based Intervention Authors:Anita L. Tucker and Sara J. Singer Abstract Background: Leadership WalkRounds have been widely adopted as a technique for improving... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Jan 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles of 2010

doctoral student Julia Adler-Milstein, Harvard School of Public Health professor Sara Singer, and HBS professor Michael W. Toffel examine this question in a hospital setting.... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 17 Jan 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: January 17

Transitions: How Trait Self-Control and Work-related Prospection Offset Negative Effects of Lengthy Commutes By: Jachimowicz, Jon M., Julia J. Lee, Bradley R. Staats, Jochen I. Menges, and Francesca Gino... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Feb 2014
  • First Look

First Look: February 11

cross-departmental collaboration mechanisms that enable improvement in the flow of materials across departmental boundaries. August 2013 Production and Operations Management The Effectiveness of Management-By-Walking-Around: A Randomized Field Study By: Tucker, Anita... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Feb 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019

Howard, Sara J. Singer, and Amy C. Edmondson Abstract— For too long, the worlds of business and health have been mired in a checkered, sometimes contentious, history. Millions of deaths worldwide can be... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 2011
  • Working Paper

Managerial Practices That Promote Voice and Taking Charge among Frontline Workers

By: Julia Adler-Milstein, Sara J. Singer and Michael W. Toffel
Process-improvement ideas often come from frontline workers who speak up by voicing concerns about problems and by taking charge to resolve them. We hypothesize that organization-wide process-improvement campaigns encourage both forms of speaking up, especially voicing... View Details
Keywords: Communication; Employees; Knowledge Sharing; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Management Practices and Processes; Operations; Business Processes; Performance Improvement
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  • 2009
  • Working Paper

Operational Failures and Problem Solving: An Empirical Study of Incident Reporting

By: Julia Rose Adler-Milstein, Sara J. Singer and Michael W. Toffel
Operational failures occur in all industries with consequences that range from minor inconveniences to major catastrophes. Many organizations have implemented incident reporting systems to highlight actual and potential operational failures in order to encourage... View Details
Keywords: Communication Strategy; Legal Liability; Management Practices and Processes; Service Operations; Failure; Health Industry
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Faculty & Research - Entrepreneurship

owners’ consumption responded to changes in business revenues during the COVID-19 crisis. In the first two months following the National Emergency, business revenues declined by 40 percent, large... More Research June 2025 Article... View Details
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Technology & Operations Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Management Theory-to-Practice Paper Award in the Health Care Management Division of the Academy of Management for his paper with Julia Adler-Milstein and Sara J. Singer,... View Details