Accountable Care Organizations - Publications - Faculty & Research

18 Jul 2024
Research & Ideas

New Hires Lose Psychological Safety After Year One. How to Fix It.

employees clam up, the overall performance of an organization often suffers—and the effects can be dire, especially in an industry like health care. “Delivering patient care is one of those situations where... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

01 Dec 2003
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Roger Ullman: Going Green with E2

research scientist. The pair realized they knew many busy, successful businesspeople who cared about the environment — the challenge was to create an organization that leveraged their skills and enthusiasm... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

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Southwest Airlines One ReportTM

By: Robert G. Eccles, Beiting Cheng and Susan Thyne

In 2009, Southwest Airlines produced its first integrated annual report, the Southwest Airlines One Report, combing financial and nonfinancial performance information. This case examines Southwest's environmental and corporate social responsibility (CSR) reports... View Details

Keywords: Environmental Accounting; Financial Reporting; Integrated Corporate Reporting; Innovation and Invention; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Sustainability; Air Transportation Industry; United States

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03 Mar 2017
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Big Blue’s Big Bet

only one to ask that question. At the time, Sean Hogan (MBA 1993), a VP in IBM’s health care unit, was tasked with finding the major trends in the health and life sciences sectors that could lead to billion-dollar businesses. “We saw an... View Details

Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page

20 Mar 2020
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How Small Businesses Can Survive the Coronavirus Outbreak

01 Dec 2003
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HIV/AIDS and Business

“It’s making corporations question the boundaries of who and what they are accountable for in their communities.” Barrett presented guidelines for cross-sector partnerships to fight the epidemic at “HIV/AIDS and Business in Africa and... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Health, Social Assistance

30 Sep 2008
First Look

First Look: September 30, 2008

(forthcoming) Abstract This paper analyzes the association between ownership, top management incentives, and expenditures on accounting information. We argue that organizations with privately appointed... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Dec 1997
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Growing Together

performance. The process helps these organizations measure the volume of services they deliver, determine customer satisfaction, apply special analytic techniques to evaluate performance, and keep the public abreast of the results.... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry

06 Jan 2011
What Do You Think?

How Should Management Deal With “Anonymous”?

Apparently it still exists to some degree for one third of the organizations that have taken precautions to protect themselves. It works, too, for individuals who are careful about changing passwords... View Details

Keywords: by James L. Heskett

Charles E. Mitchell

Under Mitchell’s presidency, National City Bank was converted into a modern retail banking organization and a world-wide banking empire with offices from London to Singapore. He popularized checking accounts... View Details

Keywords: Finance

17 Feb 2015
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The First Five Years: Justin Pasquariello (MBA 2010)

translate for us, willingness to donate isn’t so different—and so my strategy class has also been very helpful. I use accounting to evaluate finances and develop budget documents both here and in my role on the board of the View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance

09 Sep 2009
First Look

First Look: September 9

Many organizations have implemented incident reporting systems to highlight actual and potential operational failures in order to encourage problem solving and prevent subsequent failures. Our study is among the first to develop and... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

17 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

Many Small-Business Employees May Be Close to Losing Health Insurance

insurance coverage going forward,” the authors write. Small businesses, which account for more than 40 percent of economic activity in the United States, prioritized employee health insurance premiums as the COVID-19 pandemic hit,... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Health

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Research in Action - Alumni

explains his action research, which aims to lower the cost of health care and engaging with practitioners. Using Data to Explore Uncharted Territories Associate Professor Raffaella Sadun explains how she uses data to explore how... View Details

01 Mar 2010
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Spin Cycle

Linn (MBA ’00), later organized the annual Cycle for Survival (www.CycleForSurvival.org), an indoor team cycling fundraising competition. A January event in New York City featured more than 2,000 participants, received donations from... View Details

05 Aug 2015
What Do You Think?

What Happened to the ‘Innovation, Disruption, Technology’ Dividend?

How Patient Should We Be In Waiting for the Tech Productivity Dividend? Respondents to this month’s column cited a number of factors accounting for the fact that there is no discernable increase in the rate of improvement in human... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Computer; Technology

10 Apr 2013
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Learning Curve: Making the Most of Outsourcing

the vendor of outsourced services can improve the efficiency and perhaps the quality of services delivered—particularly in health care, where outsourcing is on the rise. In research recently published in the journal Organization Science,... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Guttry; Health

06 Feb 2006
What Do You Think?

Should CEOs of Public Companies Offer Earnings Guidance?

retrospective data compensate for projections? What is "real information"? And do conservative estimates of the future lead organizations to underperform? What do you think? Original Article This question is not as innocuous as... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Financial Services

03 Mar 2015
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