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  • 17 Sep 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Blue Skies, Distractions Arise: How Weather Affects Productivity

tends to be sunny one day and overcast the next. The purpose of the lab study was to determine whether the distraction created by the temptation of outside activities was indeed what caused a decrease in worker productivity on sunny days.... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 04 Jan 2012
  • First Look

First Look: January 4

  PublicationsCases about Redefining Global Strategy Authors:Pankaj Ghemawat and Jordan I. Siegel Publication:Harvard Business Publishing, 2011 An abstract is unavailable at this time. Publisher's Link:... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • May 2024
  • Article

Tepid Uptake of Digital Health Technologies in Clinical Trials by Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Firms

By: Caroline Marra and Ariel D. Stern
Digital health technologies (DHTs) can enable more patient-centric therapeutic development by generating evidence that captures how patients feel and function, enabling decentralized trial designs that increase participant inclusivity and convenience, and collecting... View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Technological Innovation; Product Development; Health Testing and Trials; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms
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  • April 2021
  • Article

Utilizing Time-driven Activity-based Costing to Determine Open Radical Cystectomy and Ileal Conduit Surgical Episode Cost Drivers

By: Janet Baack Kukreja, Mohamed A. Seif, Marissa W. Merry, James R. Incalcaterra, Ashish M. Kamat, Colin P. Dinney, Jay B. Shah, Thomas W. Feeley and Neema Navai
Objectives
Patients undergoing radical cystectomy represent a particularly resource-intensive patient population. Time-driven activity based costing (TDABC) assigns time to events and then costs are based on the people involved in providing care for specific... View Details
Keywords: Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing; Value-based Healthcare; Health Care and Treatment; Cost; Cost vs Benefits; Analysis
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  • March 2006
  • Module Note

Managing Innovation in an Uncertain World: Module 4: Sensing Opportunity

By: Alan D. MacCormack
Describes the fourth module of the 30-session Harvard Business School elective course Managing Innovation in an Uncertain World. The course helps students understand the challenges that uncertainty implies for innovation and how to overcome them. The course emphasizes... View Details
Keywords: Innovation and Management; Problems and Challenges; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Projects; Opportunities; Risk and Uncertainty; Perspective; Value Creation; Networks; Alignment
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  • Web

For Recruiters - Health Care

Average number of graduates who accept jobs in health care each year 10 % First-year students complete summer internships in health care MBA Recruiting Visit the MBA Recruiting site to access a range of recruiting tools and activities... View Details
  • 10 Apr 2014
  • Research & Ideas

John Kotter’s Plan to Accelerate Your Business

and agility in their processes. Accelerate takes those steps and "turbocharges them," he says. Under a dual operating system, all processes and activities that involve what a company already knows how to do stay on the regular,... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
  • 07 May 2014
  • What Do You Think?

How Should Wealth Be Redistributed?

obvious that we must tax the hell out of vacant properties and/or urban land speculation?" Others suggested non-tax solutions. One such proposal was put forth by Mok Tuck Sung: "(The wealthy) should be encouraged to participate View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • Web

Frequently Asked Questions - Health Care

explore additional ways of getting involved. Join the Health Care Club and attend events at HBS and around the University, such as speaker series, industry conferences, networking events, and social activities Attend any of the 200 health... View Details
  • 30 Jul 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Repugnant Markets and How They Get That Way

activities that seem repugnant strike me as very similar to other activities that are not repugnant. The standard economist argument, which is a good one, is, "That could be a problem, but we can write... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 21 Jun 2022
  • HBS Case

Free Isn’t Always Better: How Slack Holds Its Own Against Microsoft Teams

number is more promising for Slack: 91 of the nation’s Fortune 100 companies had Teams, while 65 also had Slack. Yoffie says that’s significant because all of Slack’s customers actively use the app, while Microsoft’s may or may not. Most... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Information Technology; Technology
  • 20 Oct 2008
  • Research & Ideas

The Seven Things That Surprise New CEOs

incentives are disproportionately tied to stock price. Surprise Seven: You Are Still Only Human Warning signs: You give interviews about you rather than about the company. Your lifestyle is more lavish or privileged than that of other top executives in the company. You... View Details
Keywords: by Michael E. Porter, Jay W. Lorsch & Nitin Nohria
  • 24 May 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Distance Still Matters in Business, Despite the Internet

and operations, 5G for wireless data transmission, VR/AR (virtual reality/augmented reality) for a wide set of applications, support services for many new “autonomous services,” and a range of complementary activities around all of those.... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Transportation; Telecommunications; Shipping; Publishing; Technology
  • 10 Oct 2023
  • Blog Post

Policy Drivers for Environmental Justice: What Businesses Need to Know

of some of these programs. Many of these funds go directly to state, local, or Tribal governments, but the activities they entail are an opportunity for major business involvement. First off, Justice40 tackles issues of legacy pollution.... View Details
  • Fast Answer

Patent search: A comparative table of databases

compound search  Basic tool for analyzing search results Quick help and translation tools are very useful  IPC statistics (global patent activity reports)    Please contact infoservices@hbs.edu for specific search... View Details
  • 30 Nov 2007
  • What Do You Think?

What Is Management’s Role in Innovation?

to B. V. Krishnamurthy, confining such activities to an "R&D function" even though he questioned "whether organizations are ready for open collaboration." Ulrich Nettesheim suggested that, if innovation is to be... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 01 Dec 2019
  • News

Remix

that’s quite different from mainstream festivals. “This has been one of the most intentional and active responses to the #MeToo movement that I’ve seen in the music industry,” Gandhi says. This idea of creating space for marginalized... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; photographed by Chris Sorensen; #MeToo; DefJam; Arts, Entertainment
  • 05 Jun 2009
  • What Do You Think?

What Does Slower Economic Growth Really Mean?

opportunistic ." forms of growth (such as "financial securitization"). Milton Puryear added "truck-type SUV sales" to the list of activities deserving low multiples, commenting that, "How is it growth if it... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Financial Services; Construction; Real Estate
  • 08 Feb 2023
  • Op-Ed

Building an Inclusive Workplace? Prepare to Shield It from Economic Fears

how teams facilitate collaboration will reveal opportunities to build stronger teams through active inclusion. Unlike passive inclusion, which is basically just being polite, active inclusion calls for using... View Details
Keywords: by Hise O. Gibson and Nicole Gilmore
  • 02 Dec 2002
  • Research & Ideas

The Secret of How Microsoft Stays on Top

early 1990s to reflect the increasing use of networks. Then later in the 1990s, Microsoft once again began "re-architecting" its component base to facilitate the delivery of "Web services," applications that can be View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne