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  • 01 Dec 2011
  • What Do You Think?

Thinking Slow: An Argument for Bureaucracy?

rigidity, unthinking application of age-old rules (vs.) careful reflective thought on matters that need intelligent application of criteria." Just how to promote slow thinking where it is appropriate stimulated an interesting and... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 02 Sep 2002
  • What Do You Think?

What Can Business Schools Do to Avoid Bad Apples?

Summing Up This month's column resulted in a number of suggestions for sorting out the "bad apples" among applicants to MBA programs across the country. But just as many respondents questioned the underlying assumptions of the column. Many respondents... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 24 Apr 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018

Evidence on Attitudes, Behavior, and Cognitive Biases By: Carpena, Fenella, Shawn A. Cole, Jeremy Shapiro, and Bilal Zia Abstract—This paper uses a large-scale field experiment in India to study attitudinal, behavioral, and cognitive constraints that can stymie the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Apr 2014
  • First Look

First Look: April 15

in India and outline both quantitative and qualitative evidence from 42 Indian state-owned laboratories to support this argument. August 2013 Journal of Economic History Colonial Institutions, Commodity Booms, and the Diffusion of Elementary View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 May 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Ethics Bots and Other Ways to Move Your Code of Business Conduct Beyond Puffery

When health insurer Cigna Corp. appeared in front of a judge for allegedly misleading shareholders on Medicare regulations this spring, plaintiffs thought they had a strong case. After all, Cigna had published its own document titled... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 25 Jan 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Why a Harvard Finance Instructor Went to the Kumbh Mela

up here. Prof. Greg Greenough of the Harvard School of Public Health is directing researchers interested in everything from the pH of the Ganga to the quality and quantity of toilets to the structure of the medical response teams in... View Details
Keywords: by John D. Macomber; Construction; Real Estate
  • 02 Dec 2009
  • What Do You Think?

Should Immigration Policies Be More Welcoming to Low-Skilled Workers?

of cost shifting." J. Boxer points out that "there's a high cost to cheap labor, and that cost (free education, free health care, etc.) is passed on to the state and the taxpayer, generally." Eloton Fowler said, "Our... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 21 Oct 2014
  • First Look

First Look: October 21

Publisher's link: http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780198704072.do October 2014 Handbook of Conflict Management Research Reframing Hierarchical Interactions as Negotiations to Promote Change in Health View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Aug 2020
  • Research & Ideas

6 Ways to Support COVID-Weary Employees

Petriglieri, associate professor at INSEAD: Making special accommodations for employees who are at high-risk of COVID infection is legally, morally, and reputationally the right course of action for employers. In many countries, employers have a legal duty of View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • March 2017
  • Case

Cantel Medical

By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth
Cantel Medical Corporation provided infection prevention and control products and services for patients, caregivers, and other healthcare providers. In 2016, Cantel generated sales of $665 million and net profits of $60 million, double the levels of five years earlier.... View Details
Keywords: Cantel; Charles Diker; Furniture Industry; Matrix Organization; Acquisition; Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Conglomerates; Business Units; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Organization; For-Profit Firms; Chemicals; Profit; Revenue; Geographic Scope; Multinational Firms and Management; Health; Health Care and Treatment; Business History; Business or Company Management; Goals and Objectives; Growth and Development Strategy; Organizational Structure; Problems and Challenges; Research and Development; Opportunities; Strategy; Adaptation; Business Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Diversification; Expansion; Information Technology; Health Industry; Health Industry; Health Industry; Health Industry; Health Industry; Health Industry; United States; New Jersey
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  • 15 Oct 2008
  • First Look

First Look: October 15, 2008

significant operational reform within the nation's health care delivery organizations, new financing models, payment systems, or structures are unlikely to realize their promise. Adapting insights from... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 21 Apr 2020
  • Research & Ideas

7 Successful Battle Strategies to Beat COVID-19

teams in territory that models cannot predict. COVID-19 events deliver surprises daily to many organizations, from health care specialists to government officials. The decision-making process that responds... View Details
Keywords: by Euvin Naidoo
  • 07 Nov 2017
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017

for its commitment to improving health care outcomes and lowering costs by reducing treatment variation, made the surprising decision to invest significant resources in an innovative precision medicine unit,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 05 Aug 2014
  • First Look

First Look: August 5

important and previously unidentified metric for assessing the health of the human emotional ecosystem. Publisher's link: http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/quoidbach%20et%20al_372259e1-d8a0-4488-b09a-b4978f06f406.pdf August... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Jun 2007
  • First Look

First Look: June 19, 2007

company and a publicly-traded company. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=507001 Arizona Department of Public Health: The Challenges of Preparing for a Public Health Emergency Harvard... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 22 Dec 2015
  • First Look

December 22, 2015

co-creation of markets and value, multinationals without firm-specific advantages, and born-global firms. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50242 November 13, 2015 Harvard Business Review If CEOs Care About... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 18 Aug 2009
  • First Look

First Look: August 18

students in the EC course, "Competing Through Business Models." Purchase this course overview : http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/710409-PDF-ENG Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center: Spine Care Harvard Business School Case... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • August 2023
  • Technical Note

Two Ways of Pursuing a Calling

By: Leslie Perlow and Hannah Weisman
Work can be a means to a financial end, a stepping stone to higher-level jobs, or a meaningful end in itself: a calling. The technical note provides an overview of two different ways people can pursue a calling: with an internal focus or external focus. View Details
Keywords: Personal Development and Career; Job Search; Job Design and Levels; Happiness; Identity; Well-being; Motivation and Incentives; Human Needs; Satisfaction; Mission and Purpose; Health Industry; Health Industry; Health Industry; Health Industry; Health Industry
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  • 14 Feb 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: February 14

institutionalized in America over subsequent decades in a way that has been difficult to replicate in other countries. The role of history helps to explain why. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52209 December 8, 2016 Harvard Business... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Apr 2011
  • First Look

First Look: April 19

generates these benefits. Using the empirical context of cardiovascular care within hospitals, we first examine the relationship between a hospital's level of specialization in cardiovascular care and the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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