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  • 08 Sep 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Knowledge Transfer: You Can't Learn Surgery By Watching

carries out his or her job. “I could watch a colleague challenge a student and I could think that’s the way I should teach, but what I miss is the backstory, about why he is doing it in that particular case.” Perhaps even more crucial, those View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health
  • 26 Nov 2001
  • Research & Ideas

How Toyota Turns Workers Into Problem Solvers

focus, setup minimization, etc. The products and services characteristic of our modern economy are far too complex for any one person to understand how they work. It is cognitively overwhelming. Therefore, organizations must have some mechanism for decomposing the... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston; Manufacturing; Transportation; Auto
  • 07 Jan 2019
  • Research & Ideas

The Better Way to Forecast the Future

connecting passengers. The system allows airport and airline officials to address likely bottlenecks before the security or immigration queues back up, and identify passengers at risk of missing connecting flights. Using real-time data... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Air Transportation; Transportation
  • 17 Sep 2013
  • First Look

First Look: September 17

serve as an accountability system for restaurants. However, cities (which are responsible for inspections) have limited resources to dispatch inspectors, which in turn limits the number of inspections that can be performed. We argue that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 May 2020
  • Research & Ideas

The One Good Thing Caused by COVID-19: Innovation

mitigating the risk of contagion. Other examples of this in the past have been less extreme, but include, for example, medical device advancement developed in response to a rise in consumer awareness of radiation risk. We recently... View Details
Keywords: by Hong Luo and Alberto Galasso
  • 02 Jun 2021
  • Research & Ideas

A Rare Find in Health Care: A Simple Solution to Racial Inequity

George Floyd’s murder last year forced many people to recognize the systemic racism that pervades American institutions, from law enforcement to health care. Even so, identifying those inequities is different than fixing them. “I don’t... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health
  • 22 Aug 2005
  • Research & Ideas

The Hard Work of Failure Analysis

medical errors tend to have multiple, systemic causes. In addition, she made structural changes within the organization to create a context in which failure could be identified, analyzed, and learned from.... View Details
Keywords: by Amy Edmondson & Mark D. Cannon
  • 08 Aug 2005
  • Research & Ideas

A Balanced Scorecard Approach To Measure Customer Profitability

summarizes customer profitability. Consider the situation faced in the 1990s by one of the nation's largest distributors of medical and surgical supplies. In five years, sales had more than tripled to nearly $3 billion, yet selling,... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan
  • 18 Dec 2013
  • HBS Case

Lessons from the Lance Armstrong Cheating Scandal

Rose sees more of a lesson in the decisions made by his followers—fellow riders, medical staff, and training staff—to go along with Armstrong's deceptions. "How do you start to go down that slippery slope?" Rose asks. "What... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Sports
  • 12 Oct 2011
  • First Look

First Look: October 12

accountability reporting system is likely to be more useful if it (1) accommodates for a delegate's information advantage over her delegator, (2) produces periodic performance and position reports, and (3) has a mutually agreeable due... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Sep 2021
  • Research & Ideas

Science: The Unlikely Frontier for New Business Ideas

study highlights two vastly disparate companies—Coca-Cola and McKesson—that sought patents within the same technology class. The companies proposed devices that used carousel-like storage systems to dispense beverages and View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
  • 18 Dec 2012
  • First Look

First Look: December 18

Bias for Normal Science: Evidence from Randomized Medical Grant Proposal Evaluations Authors:Boudreau, Kevin J., Eva C. Guinan, Karim R. Lakhani, and Christoph Riedl Abstract Central to any innovation process is the evaluation of proposed... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 01 Sep 2006
  • What Do You Think?

Are We Ready for Self-Management?

authors maintain that the Costco model not only is more attractive for workers but also creates fewer social costs for such things as medical expenses. What would seem to be a "win-win" answer to the scarcity of good managers... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • September 2013 (Revised August 2015)
  • Background Note

Leadership and Teaming

By: Ethan Bernstein
Small differences in the leadership of teams can have large consequences for the success of their efforts. Many initiatives fail not because of a fatal error in judgment or insufficient ideas, knowledge, motivation, or capabilities to deliver a solution. They fail... View Details
Keywords: Teams; Teaming; Leadership And Managing People; Leadership; Team Effectiveness; Team Performance; Team Design; Team Leadership; Teamwork; Team Process; Team Function; Team Launch; 60/30/10 Rule; Team Boundary; Distribution Of Leadership Authority; Self-Managed Teams; Virtual Teams; Unbounded Teams; Acts Of Leadership; Execution Teams; Decision Making Teams; Creativity Teams; Team Size; Task Design; Team Timeline; Team Roles; Team Representation; Diversity; Team Familiarity; Collective Intelligence; Team Stages Of Development; Team Coaching; Performance Pressure; X-Teams; Team Focus; Interaction; Management Teams; Managerial Roles; Management Systems; Management Style; Management Skills; Management Practices and Processes; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Performance Effectiveness; Performance Efficiency; Performance Productivity; Groups and Teams; Networks; Social Psychology; Behavior; Conflict and Resolution; Creativity; Social and Collaborative Networks; Satisfaction; Prejudice and Bias; Power and Influence; Personal Characteristics; Familiarity; Cognition and Thinking; Attitudes; Projects; Organizational Culture; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Leadership Development; Leadership Style; Leading Change; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Knowledge Sharing; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Management; Innovation Leadership; Design; Interpersonal Communication; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Asia; North and Central America; South America; Atlantic Ocean; Central Asia; Europe; Latin America; Middle East; Oceania; West Indies
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  • 10 Nov 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Globalization: The Strategy of Differences

independently from the way it chooses to compete in product markets. Some companies have gone further. Consider the case of GE Medical Systems (GEMS), the division that Jeffrey Immelt built up between 1997... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
  • 06 Mar 2012
  • First Look

First Look: March 6

not been well served by the financial sector's boom. First, the shift from deposit-based banking to a market-based "shadow banking" system, without adequate regulatory adjustments, has left the financial system vulnerable to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Feb 2020
  • Sharpening Your Skills

How Following Best Business Practices Can Improve Health Care

like? Doesn’t sound possible, but South African company Vitality is doing just that. How Cost Accounting is Improving Healthcare in Rural HaitiWhat happened when a pioneering cost accounting system examined wide variances in Haiti's... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Medical Devices & Supplies; Medical Devices & Supplies
  • 14 Jul 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World

systems of adherence. Case 1: Learn and deploy new information Geographic diversification is often seen by managers as a useful way to tap into new sources of growth. In case of a pandemic, a specific form of geographic... View Details
Keywords: by Raffaella Sadun, Andrea Bertoni, Alexia Delfino, Giovanni Fassio, and Mariapaola Testa
  • 03 May 2010
  • Research & Ideas

What Is the Future of MBA Education?

learning process. Garvin: Faculty could be expanded in creative ways. Think of Harvard Medical School. It has incoming classes of 165 students and 10,000 faculty! It's an astonishing number that makes sense only after you realize Harvard... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education
  • 23 Mar 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Product Disasters Can Be Fertile Ground for Innovation

In 2009, a stroke victim at a Los Angeles medical center started losing his hair following a CT brain perfusion scan. After some confusion, doctors determined he had been subject to a radiation overdose—a serious accident that might lead... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Medical Devices & Supplies; Medical Devices & Supplies
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