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- 02 Sep 2002
- What Do You Think?
What Can Business Schools Do to Avoid Bad Apples?
every day. Not so well by us in the business school field, but in the training of genuine people-handlers like nurses and social workers." Others responded to questions posed (whether or not they accepted the underlying assumptions)... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Cleveland Global Alumni Conference a Sold-Out Success
suggested that the health-care industry is also ripe for disruption. Technological innovations such as improved testing and diagnostic equipment and more targeted drugs could soon break down the existing hierarchy between specialists, family care physicians, and View Details
- 10 May 2022
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2022
teenage sons.” By example: “My parents didn’t teach me their values around work and family—I absorbed them through their example and expectations. My mother was a nurse who was always helping others, and my dad chose to work as a doctor... View Details
- 04 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
Attention Medical Shoppers: What Health Care Can Learn from Walmart and Amazon
Medicare recipients who are admitted to a hospital end up back at the hospital in less than a month. Studies have shown that the frequency of those repeat stays could be reduced drastically if a doctor or nurse followed up with patients a... View Details
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
A. Malachi Mixon, III, MBA 1968
development cycle used to be 24 months; it's now 12." Complementing this, he adds, is a knowledgeable sales force that fosters relationships with home-care providers, nursing homes, and medical equipment retailers; a wide assortment of... View Details
- 17 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 17
nurses speak up about medication administration problems and contribute improvement ideas. We find that each component provides its own contribution to organizational performance. Blockages encourage people to suggest improvement ideas,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Community Colleges as Engines of Economic Opportunity
college immediately following high school or who are adult learners. Because we are a large commuter institution with thousands of students coming to us from all over the state and because many students are working at the front lines of this pandemic—in View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 18 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
New Hires Lose Psychological Safety After Year One. How to Fix It.
knowing the high-stakes industry suffers from significant levels of turnover and spends an inordinate amount of time and money onboarding new staff. In fact, one industry source estimated nurse turnover at more than 20 percent, which... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Prognosis
the hospital. We have deployed 1,500 iPads in COVID-positive patient rooms, which doctors and nurses use to communicate with patients. It decreases the number of times our staff have to go into the room and the amount of personal... View Details
- 25 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health
savings. In the area of prevention, the spread of ever-cheaper mobile smart phones enables citizens in remote rural areas to receive online medical consultations, treatment suggestions, and prescriptions. Readings on diagnostic machines in clinics can be taken by View Details
- 21 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 21, 2009
Norris: Leading Change in the General Surgery Unit Harvard Business School Case 409-090 Barbara Norris struggles to address the many problems facing her as a recently promoted nurse manager in the General Surgery Unit (GSU) at Eastern... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 May 2020
- In Practice
Nonprofits Hurt by COVID-19 Must Hoard Cash to Hold On
only thing everybody can agree on is the desirable end result. In the current crisis, the silver lining has been the civil society: the thoughtful public health officials; the incredibly brave health workers, doctors, nurses and... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 15 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 15
such as HIV/AIDS, TB, malaria, malnutrition, and respiratory and diarrheal diseases. The Zambian Ministry of Health (MoH) realized that in the short-term it would be impossible to train the number of doctors and nurses needed to fill this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Jul 2017
- News
Seeing a Way Forward
in a wheelchair, badly bruised from injuries sustained the day before that had been caused by falling in her home as a result of poor eyesight. “She said she couldn’t take it anymore and felt it just wasn’t worth going on like this,” Leger recalls. Following Soledad’s... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 28 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 28, 2016
of a substantial anticipation effect that presents as a gradual decrease in operational performance beginning several months before the actual cohort turnover. We identify higher overall quality of nursing and increased intensity of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 3, 2008
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=208145 Ophthalmic Consultants of Boston and Dr. Bradford J. Shingleton (2004) Harvard Business School Case 608-151 Dr. Bradford Shingleton has developed some of the highest-quality eye surgery techniques in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Jun 2020
- News
Toronto Copes with COVID-19 Via Webinars; Alumni Respond to Pandemic in Philippines
Chairman and CEO, Integrated Micro-electronics Inc.: “Ayala-led Integrated Micro-Electronics Inc. (IMI) seeks to bring down the cost of nursing COVID-19–afflicted patients back to health by manufacturing alternative ventilators and other... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 25 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Chasing Stars: Why the Mighty Red Sox Struck Out
Gerstner (HBS MBA '65), [General Electric's] Jack Welch, and [Xerox's] Ann Mulcahy, who can manage with multiple styles, but that's rare." Lessons Learned In addition to nursing the pain of the past season, Boston's baseball fans are... View Details
- 17 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 17
succeed in the context of the art market where exclusive access is a prime driver of value? Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/812047-PDF-ENG Telemonitoring at Visiting Nurse Health System F. Warren McFarlan, Mark... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Fair Trade
pharmaceutical companies. Avon bought health care companies and nursing homes. It turned out, however, that beauty and health had diverged too much from their common origin in the past to be reassembled . The two decades after 1990 saw... View Details