Electronic Health Record Systems - Publications - Faculty & Research

29 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019

over time, the relationship between firm size and corporate vulnerability is relatively time invariant. All else being equal, large firms in emerging markets are more financially vulnerable and also systemically important. Consistent with... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

31 May 2004
Research & Ideas

How Team Leaders Show Support–or Not

projects included new product development (e.g., a high-strength fabric; a home health aid, an electronic recording device), solving complex client problems (e.g., developing a... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Jun 2023
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From Big Pharma to Startup

venture-backed biotech startup in Cambridge that Goble leads as CEO. Goble says his transformation into a startup founder would not have been possible without the support system for entrepreneurs he discovered at HBS. He originally... View Details

Keywords: April White

08 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 8

Thomas H. Lee Abstract—In health care, the days of business as usual are over. Around the world, every health care system is struggling with rising costs and uneven quality,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Nov 2022
Research & Ideas

A Penny for Your Thoughts? For Big-Picture Ideas, the Right Pay Structure Matters

upgrading its management techniques. Hoping to spur employees to develop ideas for bettering the company’s performance, the firm launched a system in which workers who put forth ideas were recognized with small sums of money. The company... View Details

Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis

09 May 2017
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New Research and Ideas, May 9

to dealers with whom they have the strongest ties, and more so during periods of market turmoil. Systemically important dealers exploit their connections at the expense of peripheral dealers as well as clients, charging higher markups... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Emily Schlichting

about how the ACA helps people like her. "It exposed me to the duality of the health care problem," Emily says. "I saw the complexity of the system itself while experiencing more viscerally... View Details

Keywords: Healthcare/Biotech; Nonprofit/Government/Education

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HBS Alumni Conference: Accelerating Climate Solutions - Alumni

in partnership with the Business & Environment Initiative was part of Harvard Climate Action Week . Recordings of several of the day's sessions will be available to view on the Live from Klarman Hall webpage at the end of May. HBS... View Details

13 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Merck CEO Ken Frazier Discusses a COVID Cure, Racism, and Why Leaders Need to Walk the Talk

criminal justice reform, other issues like that, health care reform, but the nexus between corporate America and what Black America needs and the most, in my opinion, is employment. And so if we can do something about the 5.5 million... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Pharmaceutical

23 Nov 2020
Research & Ideas

COVID Was Supposed to Increase Bankruptcies. Instead, They've Gone Down.

January to August using court records through the federal Public Access to Court Electronic Records (PACER) and the Federal Judicial Center (FJC) databases. PACER View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

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Effects of Climate Change - Business & Environment

accessed September 8, 2019. “ July 2019 Was Hottest Month on Record for the Planet ,” National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), August 15, 2019. “ The Global Risks Report 2019 ,” World Economic Forum (WEF), January 15, 2019.... View Details

21 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 21, 2009

Working PapersHow Firms Respond to Being Rated (revised) Authors:Aaron K. Chatterji and Michael W. Toffel Abstract While many rating systems seek to help buyers overcome information asymmetries when making purchasing decisions, we... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

26 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

How Toyota Turns Workers Into Problem Solvers

focus, setup minimization, etc. The products and services characteristic of our modern economy are far too complex for any one person to understand how they work. It is cognitively overwhelming. Therefore, organizations must have some mechanism for decomposing the... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston; Manufacturing; Transportation; Auto

15 Mar 2022
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This Workplace Certification Made Already Safe Companies Even Safer

according to the working paper Do Management System Standards Indicate Superior Performance? Evidence from the OHSAS 18001 Occupational Health and Safety Standard. To earn the voluntary certification,... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

14 Nov 2017
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New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017

organizations have made sizable investments in information technology. They’ve used their IT systems to replace paper records with electronic ones and to improve billing... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

12 Jul 2006
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Competition the Cure for Healthcare

Health plans have an important role in encouraging medical records because it will help them drive higher value in the system. Health plans can create incentives and standards... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Health

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Technology & Operations Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Serguei Netessine. Himabindu Lakkaraju : Honorable Mention for the Workshop on Trustworthy and Socially Responsible Machine Learning (TSRML) Outstanding Paper Award at the 2022 Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems... View Details

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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

Rogoff 09 JAN 2015 Following the 2008 financial crisis, many of the world’s economies experienced significant expansion in public sector balance sheets. This occurred as advanced economies faced near record levels of private and external... View Details

04 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018

an electronic version of a patient questionnaire that had been designed and vetted by a group of subspecialty experts. We integrated that survey into our EHR. To assess the effects of our new EHR system and... View Details