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  • 15 Dec 2015
  • First Look

December 15, 2015

payments—single payments that cover all the care for a patient’s medical condition or treatment over a specified timeframe—are increasingly being deployed to motivate the delivery of better patient outcomes at lower costs. Hoag Orthopedic... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 29 Aug 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 29

client portfolio. The case enables a discussion of different types of clients in a global professional service firm in terms of relative revenues, profitability, and strategic significance. It also highlights the tensions between local... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Feb 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Building Communities as Well as Companies

offering nationwide negotiation and representation services to professional athletes. "I didn't have a lifelong desire to be an entrepreneur," said Paula E. Groves (HBS MBA '91), founding partner of Axxon Capital, a venture... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 06 Sep 2006
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Mixing Students and Scientists in the Classroom

Despite earning two engineering degrees at Stanford, HBS associate professor Lee Fleming says he always knew he "wanted to study more than electrons." Even so, the former professional musician and bike racer, who worked at... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; Education
  • 06 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 6

residential real estate and away from more productive investments. Third, the cost of professional investment management is too high, which drains talent from other industries. The financial sector could promote the health and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 4

Lerner, Morten Sorensen, and Per Strömberg Publication:Journal of Finance (forthcoming) Abstract A long-standing controversy is whether LBOs relieve managers from short-term pressures of dispersed shareholders, or whether LBO funds themselves are driven by short-term... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 20 Jan 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Fixing Corporate Governance: A Roundtable Discussion at Harvard Business School

in governance. In spite of all the checks and balances, failures occurred with boards of directors, auditors, regulators, financial analysts, and professional investors and money managers. We thought we had a pretty good system, one the... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
  • 31 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 31

the constraints and opportunities of their representation structure are reflected in the micro-interactions, the broad improvisations, and the resulting substantive and relational outcomes. Looking Up and Looking Out: Career Mobility Effects of Demographic Similarity... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 14 May 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Getting Down to the Business of Creativity

deeply satisfying and personally challenging inspires the highest levels of creativity, whether it's in the arts, sciences, or business," she says. Dear Diary As a way to delve deeper into the link between motivation and creativity,... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 25 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 25

creativity increases dishonesty. We propose that a creative personality and creativity primes promote individuals' motivation to think outside the box and that this increased motivation leads to unethical... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 14

2016 Scientists Making a Difference: One Hundred Eminent Behavioral and Brain Scientists Talk about Their Most Important Contributions The Motivation for Creativity By: Amabile, Teresa M. Abstract—Scientists Making a Difference is a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Nov 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Come Fly with Me: A History of Airline Leadership

opportunities and promise where others see only defeat.” At each stage of aviation's business life cycle—start-up, growth, maturity, decline, rebirth—new types of leaders emerged, such as entrepreneur C.E. Woolman at Delta in the 1920s and '30s; View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Air Transportation
  • 03 Oct 2017
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First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017

powerful insights and practical guidelines that allow managers to bridge professional divides and organizational boundaries in order to work together effectively, this is a new exploration of the challenges involved in today's global... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Mar 2007
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First Look: March 13, 2007

financial returns but are also deeply committed to improving the environment and making a difference in people's lives. Robert Salas, CEO, wants a management system that communicates and motivates Amanco's three high-level goals.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 29 Jan 2013
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First Look: Jan. 29

(in a pilot test) and experimental manipulations (Experiments 1, 2a, and 2b), we found that an essentialist mind-set is indeed hazardous for creativity, with the relationship mediated by motivated closed-mindedness (Experiments 2a and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Nov 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Management’s Role in Reforming Health Care

opinion, there is another important set of discussions to be had around how we actually organize care. Many of these issues are managerial in nature, rather than policy issues. Questions we need to answer include: What is the best way of configuring and managing... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health
  • 20 May 2014
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First Look: May 20

company is faced with the challenge of motivating its district managers to support the highly incentivized store teams. On one hand, the district managers are expected to drive a profitable expansion, supporting complex day-to-day... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Feb 2009
  • What Do You Think?

Why Can’t We Figure Out How to Select Leaders?

Freeman would ask, "... how will the selected individual handle power?" Edward Hare suggested that results fall short of expectations "... because we don't understand motives (of the candidate for the leadership position)... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 25 Jul 2006
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First Look: July 25, 2006

http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/b02/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=206046   PublicationsLasting Success for the Christian in Business Author:Laura L. Nash Periodical:Business and Professional Ethics Journal 23, no. 4 (spring... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Jun 2009
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First Look: June 9

and professional activities of academic biomedical scientists. In qualitative and quantitative analyses, we show that scientists match to their postdoctoral mentors based on two dominant factors, geography and scientific focus. They then... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

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