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Video - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

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27 May 2015
Research & Ideas

Build 'Scaffolds' to Improve Performance of Temporary Teams

you have effective teamwork when you can't have the traditional structural features of effective teams, [and so] I shifted my emphasis from teams to 'teaming,'" Edmondson says. Valentine shared that interest in "messy" teams, making it the focus of her... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Health

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Community | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

events. Health Care Club The Health Care Club's mission is to inspire, support, and connect members within the business of View Details

18 Jan 2016
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Hazard Warning: The Unacceptable Cost of Toxic Workers

that included retail, financial services, and health care. Tip-offs to toxicity The data reveal three traits that indicate which would-be hire needs a warning label. Human resources managers should be alert to signs an applicant is... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland

22 Nov 2004
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Side Effects: The Case of Propecia

physician. But there was disagreement with that tactic. The goal should be to create brand awareness with men and get them into a doctor's office. "Seventy to 80 percent of physicians will write a prescription if a drug is requested by name by the patient, unless... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Health; Health

01 Sep 2023
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Hands-on Learning About Global Markets

knowledge of the health care sector. While still at HBS, the teammates did preliminary work by visiting a senior center in a Boston suburb to understand how comfortable seniors were with technology. In... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

01 Sep 2023
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That Was Then, This Is Now

It started with a question. But before that, it started in the classroom. Tony Deifell (MBA 2002) loved the discussions in his LEAD course, taught by Professor (and now former Dean) Nitin Nohria; wanting to make them more tangible, Deifell adapted the idea of... View Details

Keywords: Photographed by Tony Deifell (MBA 2002); edited by Julia Hanna. Above: Heidi Brooks, photographed in 2003 and 2023.; life experience; family; leadership

Howard H. Stevenson

Howard H. Stevenson is Sarofim-Rock Baker Foundation Professor emeritus, former Senior Associate Dean, Director of Publishing, and Chair of the Harvard Business Publishing Company board. The Sarofim-Rock Chair was established in 1982 to provide a continuing base for... View Details

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Financial Accounting Online Course | HBS Online

Highlights Forecasting: Metropolis Health Care IRR and Payback Period Industry Insights: Assessing Financial Statements Show Hide Details Concepts Pro Forma and Free Cash Flows Valuation Lease Accounting... View Details

29 Jan 2024
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On the Road to Recovery

notes. “Our nurses have had a humongous impact of maintaining hospitals and keeping other health care facilities operating. They’re working very long hours. They’re away from home. It’s just a tough place... View Details

01 Oct 2021
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Dying to Lead: How Reaching the Top Can Kill You Sooner

A warning to CEOs and other top executives in high-pressure positions: Job stress could shave years off your life, causing you to die younger than lower-level workers, new research suggests. After all, modern CEOs face taxing work schedules. And, lifespan tends to drop... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

24 Mar 2011
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Individual Rationality and Participation in Large Scale, Multi-Hospital Kidney Exchanges

Keywords: by Itai Ashlagi & Alvin E. Roth; Health

April 2015
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Carolinas HealthCare System: Consumer Analytics

By: John A. Quelch and Margaret L. Rodriguez

In 2014, Dr. Michael Dulin, chief clinical officer for analytics and outcomes research and head of the Dickson Advanced Analytics (DA2) group at Carolinas HealthCare System (CHS), successfully unified all analytics talent and resources into one group over a three year... View Details

Keywords: Consumer Segmentation; Big Data; Management Information Systems; Hospital Management; Health Care and Treatment; Marketing; Segmentation; Analytics and Data Science; Information Management; Information Technology; Health; Health Industry; United States

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20 Apr 2011
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Blind Spots: We’re Not as Ethical as We Think

Is there anything in the news more recently that illustrates some of your points? A: Sure. Despite attempts at auditor reform a decade ago, we see Ernst & Young charged with contributing to the fall of Lehman Brothers. One can... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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Life at Harvard - Doctoral

option to cross register into courses at the other schools, such as the Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard School of Public Health and MIT; the opportunity to participate in university-wide academic and cultural events; and the use of the... View Details

07 Feb 2023
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Supervisor of Sandwiches? More Companies Inflate Titles to Avoid Extra Pay

see it happening at the Gap and Pizza Hut, but we also see it happening at Facebook, JPMorgan, and health care firms.” There are now hundreds of thousands of workers across the US with dubious managerial... View Details

Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis

Christopher A. Bartlett

Professor Christopher A. Bartlett received an economics degree from the University of Queensland, Australia (1964), and both the masters and doctorate degrees in business administration from Harvard University (1971 and 1979).

As a practicing manager prior... View Details

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Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition

Track, 2024 Solara Rea Savla (MBA 2024) Vishesh Mehta Social Enterprise Track Winner Providing an on-demand solar irrigation service to Indian farmers, increasing their access to affordable, reliable, and clean irrigation. Trans Health HQ... View Details

14 Jan 2019
Op-Ed

These 4 CEOs Created a New Standard of Leadership

Mayo Clinic in 2009, the world-famous medical center was struggling financially. Congress would soon be negotiating the terms of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the Obama Administration’s signature health... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George; Health; Health; Health; Health

16 Jan 2013
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The Messy Link Between Slave Owners and Modern Management

it was also built on the backs of slaves who were literally the opposite of free. "It's a much bigger, more powerful question to ask, If today we are using management techniques that were also used on slave plantations," she says, "how much more View Details

Keywords: by Katie Johnston

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