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- 12 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 12
A. Arnaout Publication:Nature Biotechnology Abstract Advances in biotechnology have fueled the generation of unprecedented quantities of data across the life sciences. However, finding analysts who can address such "big data"... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Jul 2005
- What Do You Think?
How Can Business Schools Be Made More Relevant?
whether business schools in general have lost their relevance by following "the scientific model" of graduate schools of arts and science as opposed to "the professional model" of medical... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 26 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
How Toyota Turns Workers Into Problem Solvers
American Big Three and many other auto companies had done major benchmarking studies, and they and other companies had tried to implement their own forms of the Toyota Production System. There is the Ford Production System, the Chrysler Operating System, and View Details
- 21 Aug 2017
- Lessons from the Classroom
Companies Love Big Data But Lack the Strategy To Use It Effectively
design. Deighton discussed how new sources of data starting to be generated by the Internet of Things will impact the advertising-based hegemony of Google, Amazon, and Facebook. “The best picture we have today of an industry running on... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 07 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
What Customers Need to Hear from You During the COVID Crisis
as Miller Lite’s virtual tip jar for bartenders or Yum Brands $1,000 bonuses to its Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, and KFC general managers during mandated restaurant closures and emergency medical relief fund for... View Details
Keywords: by Jill Avery and Richard Edelman
- 19 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018
Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center: Managing Capacity in Neurology In December 2014, Dr. Anthony Furlan, chair of the Department of Neurology at University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center (UH), faced a... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 20 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 20
applying project management principles to medical research. The resulting innovation, Integrative Research Centers, are novel in this field and present a substantial challenge to the Institute's culture, which had previously allowed... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Nov 2013
- Research & Ideas
Pulpit Bullies: Why Dominating Leaders Kill Teams
negative effects generated by an overpowering leader can make non-leaders feel more empowered to assert their own point of view—whether or not the person dominating the conversation is a formal leader. Life And Death The Gino team has... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 10 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
Globalization: The Strategy of Differences
independently from the way it chooses to compete in product markets. Some companies have gone further. Consider the case of GE Medical Systems (GEMS), the division that Jeffrey Immelt built up between 1997 and 2000 before he was tapped to... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 02 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 2
Evidence from a Field Experiment Authors: Kevin Boudreau, Tom Brady, Ina Ganguli, Patrick Gaule, Eva Guinan, Karim Lakhani, and Tony Hollenberg Abstract We present the results of a field experiment conducted within the Harvard Medical... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Is the Future of MBA Education?
director of research. Garvin, the C. Roland Christensen Professor of Business Administration, teaches courses for MBAs and executives on leadership, general management, and operations. Garvin is also faculty chair of the School's... View Details
- 03 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 3
played in improving eating disorder care over time. It ends with a discussion of Schön's innovative bundled reimbursement models and challenges the reader to explore how to develop new pricing and care delivery models that encourage integration of care around patient... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 18
environmentally beneficial functions: it diverts waste from landfill and it produces renewable energy. At the same time, the waste-to-energy firm serves and collects revenue from two types of customers: waste generators who pay for waste... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Oct 2009
- Research & Ideas
7 Lessons for Navigating the Storm
sitting on a rare opportunity, and they must be systematic in how they take advantage of it if they want to make positive changes," says George, a Professor of Management Practice at HBS and the former chairman and CEO of Medtronic, which develops View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 14 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World
rapidly leveraging new ways of doing things, both from an operational and commercial standpoint, quickly became a number one priority. Keeping up to date with the latest governmental information was a useful starting point for many, but it wasn’t enough to View Details
- 18 Apr 2019
- Research & Ideas
Open Innovation Contestants Build AI-Based Cancer Tool
difficult and time-consuming even in countries with sufficient medical resources, much less in developing countries where the need is great but fewer personnel have the time and training. Harvard researchers wondered: Could programmers... View Details
- 08 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Clayton Christensen on Disrupting Health Care
for the number and cost of the services they provide rather than by the value of those services in helping patients. In short, medical professionals make money when their patients become sick. Here's one example of how the problem plays... View Details
- 15 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Growing Pains: Prescriptions for U.S. Health Care
at its upper end." Christensen sees the same pattern in health care. Sophisticated procedures and treatments, along with an abundance of highly trained professionals, have combined to drive costs out of sight. Today's general... View Details
- 23 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 23, 2008
Authors:Michel Anteby and Mikell Hyman Periodical:Social Science & Medicine (forthcoming) Abstract Human cadavers are crucial to medical science. While the debate on how to secure sufficient cadavers has focused primarily on donors'... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Jun 2006
- Research & Ideas
Using Competition to Reform Healthcare
Business Around Medical Conditions The starting point for developing strategy in any field is to define the relevant business or businesses in which an organization competes. Health care delivery is no different. Health care providers do... View Details