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  • 07 Jan 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Pursuing a Deadly Opportunity

There is a market for everything—even dead bodies. Medical students use cadavers to gain experience, and their future patients are better off for it. Traditionally, cadavers have been obtained through university programs, but now... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Health
  • Forthcoming
  • Article

The Anatomy of a Hospital System Merger: The Patient Did Not Respond Well to Treatment

By: Raffaella Sadun, Martin Gaynor, Adam Sacarny, Chad Syverson and Shruthi Venkatesh
Despite the continuing US hospital merger wave, it remains unclear how mergers change, or fail to change, hospital behavior and performance. We open the “black box” of hospital practices through a mega-merger between two for-profit chains. Benchmarking the merger's... View Details
Keywords: Performance Improvement; Mergers and Acquisitions; Health Industry
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    Markets, Morals, and Practices of Trade: Jurisdictional Disputes in the U.S. Commerce in Cadavers (article)

    This study examines the U.S. commerce in human cadavers for medical education and research to explore variation in legitimacy in trades involving similar goods. It draws on archival, interview, and observational data mainly from New York state to analyze market... View Details

    • 20 Dec 2016
    • First Look

    December 20, 2016

    forthcoming Research in Organizational Behavior The Dynamic Componential Model of Creativity and Innovation in Organizations: Making Progress, Making Meaning By: Amabile, Teresa M., and Michael G. Pratt Abstract—Leveraging insights gained... View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel
    • November 2002
    • Compilation

    Four Principles of Biomedical Ethics: Definitions and Examples

    By: Sandra J. Sucher
    Introduces four principles of biomedical ethics, excerpted from Principles of Biomedical Ethics, Tom L. Beauchamp and James F. Childress (Oxford University Press, 2001). The principles provide a conceptual framework for the analysis and resolution of moral problems... View Details
    Keywords: Framework; Moral Sensibility; Health Care and Treatment; Distribution; Problems and Challenges; Research; Emotions; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Pharmaceutical Industry; Health Industry
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      Leslie K. John

      Leslie K. John is a Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Currently, she teaches on the topics of Negotiation, Marketing and Behavioral Economics in various Executive Education courses, including in the Program for Leadership Development.... View Details

      Keywords: diet services; health care; internet; marketing industry
      • 30 Mar 2021
      • Research & Ideas

      Commuting Hurts Productivity and Your Best Talent Suffers Most

      workers’ subjective well-being,” the researchers write. How can companies ease the commuting pain? While Wu is quick to note that some “knowledge work” depends on in-person collaboration, including medical... View Details
      Keywords: by Lane Lambert
      • 05 May 2022
      • Research & Ideas

      Why Companies Raise Their Prices: Because They Can

      Grocery bills may be ridiculously high these days, but supply chain problems, energy costs, and inflation aren’t the only factors to blame. New research suggests that companies are raising prices simply because they can. In 2021, US... View Details
      Keywords: by Rachel Layne
      • 05 Nov 2009
      • Research & Ideas

      A Market for Human Cadavers in All but Name?

      for cadavers. Anteby's current research examines the morality of markets by focusing on the U.S. supply and demand of cadavers for medical research and education.) Anyone who... View Details
      Keywords: by Michel Anteby; Health
      • Article

      A Field Experiment on Search Costs and the Formation of Scientific Collaborations

      By: Kevin Boudreau, Tom Brady, Ina Ganguli, Patrick Gaule, Eva C. Guinan, Anthony Hollenberg and Karim R. Lakhani
      We present the results of a field experiment conducted at Harvard Medical School to understand the extent to which search costs affect matching among scientific collaborators. We generated exogenous variation in search costs for pairs of potential collaborators by... View Details
      Keywords: Search Costs; Cost; Marketplace Matching; Groups and Teams; Science; Collaborative Innovation and Invention
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      • 08 May 2019
      • HBS Seminar

      Mara Lederman, University of Toronto, Rotman School of Management

      • 03 Apr 2025
      • HBS Seminar

      Ziad Obermeyer, UC Berkeley School of Public Health

      • 16 Nov 2021
      • Cold Call Podcast

      Can Mass General Brigham Diversify Its Community of Innovators?

      Keywords: Re: Katherine B. Coffman; Health
      • 30 May 2024
      • Research & Ideas

      Racial Bias Might Be Infecting Patient Portals. Can AI Help?

      to an inquiry? Researchers analyzed more than 57,000 message threads between patients and physician teams at Boston Medical Center and found that white patients were more likely to receive answers from their... View Details
      Keywords: by Ben Rand; Health
      • Research Summary

      Front-Line Organizational Learning

      Dr. Tucker uses operations management and organizational learning theory to understand and improve front-line work processes.  Specifically, she examines the conditions under which the problem solving routines of front-line workers are likely to result in positive... View Details
      • July 2011 (Revised January 2013)
      • Case

      Digital Microscopy Is Making Me Crazy!

      By: Willy Shih
      For Carl Zeiss Microimaging, modular hardware and software enabled customers to tailor Zeiss's broad range of microscopy systems hardware and software to meet a wide range of needs from basic scientific research in the biological and medical sciences to clinical... View Details
      Keywords: Information Infrastructure; Applications and Software; Corporate Strategy; Disruptive Innovation; Science-Based Business; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Business Conglomerates; Digital Platforms; Opportunities; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry
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      • 13 Mar 2023
      • Research & Ideas

      The Power of Personal Connections: How Shared Experiences Boost Performance

      percentage points higher in patient satisfaction surveys than specialists with whom the primary care doctor didn’t train, finds new research published in JAMA Internal Medicine. PCPs and specialists who spent their early years together... View Details
      Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Health
      • Research Summary

      The Economics of Enterprise IT

      By: Shane M. Greenstein

      Why do some organizations adopt new information systems while others do not? Why do some face high costs while others do not? Professor Greenstein has been pursuing this stream of research throughout his career, analyzing the factors shaping the costs of acquiring... View Details

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      Leaving It to Chance"—Passive Risk Taking in Everyday Life

      By: Ruti Keinan and Yoella Bereby-Meyer
      While risk research focuses on actions that put people at risk, this paper introduces the concept of "passive risk"—risk brought on or magnified by inaction. We developed a scale measuring personal tendency for passive risk taking (PRT), validated it using a 150... View Details
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      • 16 Apr 2018
      • Research & Ideas

      Can Consumers Be Saved From Their Misguided Decisions?

      generics like ibuprofen. A middle-aged man needs heart medication to avoid another attack. He’s more likely to take his pills regularly if his plan doesn’t have a copay for the prescription. Yet, even with a copay, he’s arguably much... View Details
      Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Consulting; Retail