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  • 23 Jul 2020
  • News

How to Be a Good Boss in Trying Times

  • 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

        Goran Calic

        The Chair in Entrepreneurial Leadership and Associate Professor of Strategy, DeGroote School of Business

        Goran Calic is the Chair in Entrepreneurial Leadership and Associate Professor of Strategy at the DeGroote School of Business, McMaster University, where... View Details
        • 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
        • 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
        • 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
        • 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

        • 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
        • 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
        • 13 Sep 2021
        • Research & Ideas

        Science: The Unlikely Frontier for New Business Ideas

        “Fail fast” has become the corporate innovation mantra, but new research suggests that inventions that build on science, with its systematic observation and methodical experiments, may deliver more value to companies. US patent filings... View Details
        Keywords: by Avery Forman
        • 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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        • 01 Sep 2009
        • First Look

        First Look: September 1

        649-651 Abstract In my second week of medical internship, I received a "friend request" on Facebook, the popular social-networking Web site. The name of the requester was familiar: Erica Baxter. Three years earlier, as a View Details
        Keywords: Martha Lagace
        • 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

        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