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  • 01 Dec 2002
  • News

Mary Callahan Erdoes

public-offering practices, every business cycle produces reasons for the two of them to come together to figure out how to improve the system. The process feels a little tense at times — and we are going through one of those periods today — but the View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
  • 01 Mar 2003
  • News

All in a Day's Work

says. “It’s all about brainstorming how you can leverage resources and market forces to spin off quality outcomes like affordable housing, new job opportunities, and goods and services that may be missing in a community.” At BCC’s weekly... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Boston Community Capital; Samsung; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management; Real Estate
  • Article

Front-line Staff Perspectives on Opportunities for Improving the Safety and Efficiency of Hospital Work Systems

By: Anita L. Tucker, Sara J. Singer, Jennifer E. Hayes and Alyson Falwell

Objective To link safety-related concerns raised by frontline staff about hospital work systems (operational failures) to the safety and efficiency of hospitals, and to contrast these concerns with national patient safety initiatives.

Data... View Details

Keywords: Perspective; Opportunities; Safety; Performance Efficiency; System; Failure; Conferences; Employees; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Experience and Expertise; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry; United States
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  • 21 Apr 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Are Crummy Products Your Next Growth Opportunity?

the last possible moment, just the information from the required books you need to pass the course. With Cram.com you would have no need to even buy the book. That may not be a desired outcome from society's perspective, but it is a... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Aug 2022
  • News

On Purpose

advisory that the negative representations of people or culture “were wrong then and are wrong now.” One of the most important outcomes of the exercise, Cohen says, was that it created an opening for the company to talk about how they... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment
  • 01 Jun 2020
  • News

Vital Signs

schedules to reduce the spread of disease. So for non-high-risk mothers who would’ve had 12 in-person appointments before, that’s getting cut in half. Perhaps we’ll find that outcomes are the same, and we just made the prenatal health... View Details
Keywords: Jen Mele; COVID-19; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance
  • 18 Oct 2004
  • Research & Ideas

The Bias of Wall Street Analysts

when investors will disregard stock research entirely? And if they did, what other forms of analysis would they likely find more reliable? A: This would be a great outcome indeed, but probably for different reasons than intended by the... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services
  • September 8, 2009
  • Article

The New Governance Paradigm

By: Nathaniel Foote and Michael Beer
Boards members of failed banks in 2008 or of the many companies like Enron who were caught up in scandals are by and large honorable, well intentioned, and competent people. So what went wrong and what can be done about it. This article argues that the problem lies in... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Governance; Competency and Skills; Banks and Banking; Failure; Goals and Objectives; Leadership; Management Practices and Processes; Ethics; Performance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Crime and Corruption
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Strategic Networks and Entrepreneurial Ventures

Much research suggests that social networks shape the emergence and development of nascent ventures. Scholars have argued that founders' and firms' networks influence innovation and the identification of entrepreneurial opportunities, as well as facilitate the... View Details
Keywords: Social and Collaborative Networks; Innovation and Invention; Opportunities; Value; Body of Literature; Research; Outcome or Result; Business Ventures; Entrepreneurship; Relationships; Management Practices and Processes; Power and Influence
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  • December 2010
  • Article

The Case for Professional Boards

By: Robert C. Pozen
When the world's largest financial institutions had to be rescued from insolvency in 2008, many experts laid the blame at the feet of corporate boards. But insufficient board oversight is a problem that had supposedly been solved in 2002. As the United States... View Details
Keywords: Financial Institutions; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Governing and Advisory Boards; Failure; Accounting Audits; Quality; Behavior; Legal Liability; Experience and Expertise; Corporate Governance; Governance Controls; Performance Effectiveness; United States
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  • 05 Jul 2017
  • What Do You Think?

Can Innovation Save Us From Ourselves?

Summing Up Do We Need to Give More Attention to the Dark Side of Innovation? Innovation may be able to help us deal with problems such as famine, pollution, and even global warming. But unless it can prove to be just as effective in combating destructive human traits... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Technology
  • 08 Feb 2016
  • Research & Ideas

The Civic Benefits of Google Street View and Yelp

to use it, and when not to use it.” Taming the data flow To get a handle on all this data and to better predict outcomes of policies, Luca believes cities need to develop algorithms to coordinate their own data with online information. In... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Consumer Products
  • 07 Dec 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Are Creative People More Dishonest?

outcomes of creativity without triggering the bad outcomes?" While "The Dark Side of Creativity" doesn't answer that question directly, Gino hopes that the research will remind innovative organizations not to give short... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Advertising
  • 01 Sep 2024
  • News

Alumni Books

Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books 20+ Years of Urban Rebuilding: Lessons from the Revival of Lower Manhattan after 9/11 By Patrice Derrington (MBA 1991) and Rosemary Scanlon (PMD 42, 1981) Routledge Following the destruction of the World Trade Center and the... View Details
  • 14 Nov 2012
  • Research & Ideas

New Agenda for Corporate Accountability Reporting

helping companies separate their accountability reporting into what in financial accounting is called "stocks" and "flows"; and (3) by helping companies develop technologies to clearly compare actions and outcomes in... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Accounting; Energy; Utilities
  • 27 Apr 2021
  • Research & Ideas

New Research: Surviving Bankruptcy, Useful Economics, and Retirement

variable analysis and use the differences in the likelihood of retirement driven by Social Security retirement incentives in the United States to find a sizable increase in purpose in life as an outcome of retirement.” Emotional... View Details
  • 11 Mar 2015
  • Research & Ideas

How Do You Grade Out as a Negotiator?

understanding others' needs and creatively forging compromises. In Schwartz terminology, they tend to be "satisficers" who are generally content with the outcome of a negotiation that meets basic criteria, even if it leaves money on the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 05 Sep 2012
  • What Do You Think?

Will Business Management Save US Health Care?

for-profit health care organization led to better patient outcomes at the same time that "provider engagement and feeling of satisfaction have increased, our costs have fallen and our net profit has increased." One of the basic... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Health
  • 12 Nov 2008
  • First Look

First Look: November 12, 2008

Working Papers Direct versus Indirect Colonial Rule in India: Long-term Consequences (revised) Author: Lakshmi Iyer Abstract This paper compares economic outcomes across areas in India which were under direct British colonial rule with... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 Jun 2008
  • First Look

First Look: June 10, 2008

races. Election outcomes for candidates are also systematically associated with the extent of donors' downwards earnings management in closely watched races, but not all other races. The findings are consistent with firms managing... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace