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- 10 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 10, 2017
Medicine program allows patients to record their blood pressure at home and share readings with their medical providers in real time. A year and a half after launching the program, the health system’s... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
A Bold Proposal for Investment Reform
high quality information in the asset management business comes from increases over time in liquidity for investors. Liquidity is typically thought of as a positive, since it allows investors to quickly switch their savings out of poor... View Details
- 06 Aug 2018
- Research & Ideas
Supersmart Manufacturing Tools are Lowering Prices on TVs, Bulbs, and Solar Panels
furnace when it is at the right working temperature and uses a variety of tools to blow, cut, or deform it into the desired shape using skilled hands and air pressure from the mouth. These are skills that he or she developed over many... View Details
- 17 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Enterprising Women
people," said Cynthia Fisher (HBS MBA '90). In 1993, using her own capital, Fisher founded ViaCord, a business that allows customers to bank cord blood stem cells for possible future use in the treatment of cancer and autoimmune... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 04 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
Attention Medical Shoppers: What Health Care Can Learn from Walmart and Amazon
knew the goal of the procedure, and making sure they had ample blood available. Since the checklist system has been deployed throughout several operating rooms, he said, there has been an average reduction in death of 47 percent.... View Details
- 14 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Connection between 1930s Weather and Today's Labor Unions
still had to feed your family. So you traveled to the closest city and tried to get a job. Of course, that put pressure on people who did have jobs. They were working for a dollar an hour, and you were willing to come and do the same job... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 23 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
Product Disasters Can Be Fertile Ground for Innovation
discovered that the error was made a year before when it had reconfigured a scanner to improve doctors’ ability to see blood flow in the brain. More than 200 patients had suffered the same fate, receiving up to eight times the normal dose... View Details
- 24 Oct 2007
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Innovation
innovative solutions? Can Innovation And Creativity Be Managed? High Note: Managing the Medici String Quartet Many managers in business experience difficulty dealing with their best creative thinkers. So how does violinist Paul Robertson,... View Details
- 04 Feb 2015
- What Do You Think?
Is There a Stanford-Google-Silicon Valley School of Management?
attracts and retains creative people—at least up to now. But there was a healthy skepticism about how influential Google's approach will be in other organizations, particularly outside the realm of high technology. There was general... View Details
- 08 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017
characteristic-based portfolio strategy that requires relatively low annual turnover. This is a continuum, with small size (a very persistent characteristic) at one end of the spectrum and high frequency reversal at the other. Unlike... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jun 2019
- Book
Are You a Digital Manager?
Lagace: As you teach MBA students and Executive Education participants, are they describing new pressures that weren’t there before? Hill: Leadership is truly getting more demanding. I don’t think anyone ever succeeded by him- or herself... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 19 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
Doomsday Coming for Catastrophic Risk Insurers?
"That's not great protection, but at least it's some coverage. But for really devastating kinds of large losses, the coverage levels actually fall from there. They should continue to increase, but don't—and even fall for the most devastating events." Prices... View Details
- 12 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: Strength in Numbers
Gerald Marwell and Ruth Ames. In their 1979 study, groups of high school students were given funds to invest. Participants could opt to invest individually, at a relatively low rate of return, or to add some or all of their funds to a... View Details
Keywords: Re: Gunnar Trumbull
- 09 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 9
Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 612-016 Lowell General Physician Hospital Organization This case focuses on the Alternative Quality Contract (AQC), a novel payment program designed to incentivize providers to deliver less costly, View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 23, 2016
occupancy, high guest satisfaction, and high return-visitor rates, not to mention increasing profits from HBC’s single location in Fethiye, Turkey. Although branching out had been on the agenda for a couple... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Business Case for Diabetes Disease Management
it. "We have the medical knowledge to do it. And it's not being done. Just under one-half of identified diabetics in this country don't have their blood sugar under control," she said. Diabetes manifests as Type I or Type II... View Details
- 15 Jan 2009
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Career & Life Balance
the people and society around them, while at the same time being dead inside. Leaders need the capacity to distance themselves from the pressures and seductions of success and to think and live for themselves. Am I Working Too Hard?... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 28 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Responsible Leadership in an Unforgiving World
company-no matter how large-was immune to failure, and that the lessons he was learning from startups could be applied far more broadly. "I realized it wasn't just small companies who were fragile, and whose leaders were facing high... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 18 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Penn State Lesson: Today’s Cover-Up was Yesterday’s Opportunity
them immediately? Many leaders strive for such a high degree of perfection that they are unwilling to admit mistakes. They feel tremendous external pressure to be perfect, but in reality they are far more... View Details
- 28 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
Eyes Shut: The Consequences of Not Noticing
extensive evidence that Walmart places extreme price pressures on its suppliers. This can translate, as it is claimed to have with Blitz, to a supplier realizing that adding commonsense safety features to a product can prevent it from... View Details