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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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  • 15 Nov 2016
  • News

HBS and SEAS Explore Opportunities for Innovative Thinking

Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) was the subject of the schools’ first joint research symposium in May 2016. Held at HBS, it sparked excitement about what could be achieved when... View Details
  • March 15, 2006
  • Article

Increasing the Opportunity of Live Kidney Donation By Matching for Two and Three Way Exchanges

By: Susan L. Saidman, Alvin E. Roth, Tayfun Sönmez, M. Utku Ünver and Francis L. Delmonico
Keywords: Opportunities; Health
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  • 24 Apr 2014
  • News

Launching a business creates employment opportunities for others

Christinzin Gajardo (PLDA 14, 2013) talks about her role as an entrepreneur in providing jobs for others. (Published April 2014) View Details
  • 05 Feb 2021
  • News

Amid pandemic tragedy, an opportunity for change?

  • 21 Aug 2019
  • Blog Post

Leveraging Academic Opportunities to Attain My Post-HBS Job

advice is to take advantage of opportunities at HBS that let you explore your interests in creative ways – you never know what other opportunities, both personal and professional, those may lead to.... View Details
  • 03 Feb 2019
  • News

A Harvard professor says most of us squander 5-minute opportunities to be happier every day

  • January 2011
  • Article

Good Intentions, Optimistic Self-Predictions, and Missed Opportunities

By: Derek Koehler, Rebecca White and Leslie K. John
Self-predictions are highly sensitive to current intentions but often largely insensitive to factors influencing the readiness with which those intentions are translated into future behavior. When such factors are under a person's control, they could be used to... View Details
Keywords: Planning; Saving; Behavior; Forecasting and Prediction
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  • April 1978
  • Case

General Foods: Opportunities in the Dog Food Market

Illustrates uses of various sources of market and consumer behavior data, including psychographics, product positioning, and market segmentation decisions for a new dog food product. Based on cases by E.T. Popper and L.S. Ward. View Details
Keywords: Product Positioning; Consumer Behavior; Product Development; Consumer Products Industry; Food and Beverage Industry
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  • 18 Jul 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Penn State Lesson: Today’s Cover-Up was Yesterday’s Opportunity

The most damaging portion of former FBI Director Louis Freeh's comprehensive report on the Pennsylvania State pedophilia scandal is his conclusion that four senior university officials concealed football coach Jerry Sandusky's child abuse... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George; Education
  • 18 Jul 2012
  • News

Penn State Lesson: Today’s Cover-Up was Yesterday’s Opportunity

  • August 1995 (Revised September 1995)
  • Background Note

Managing in an Information Age: Organizational Challenges and Opportunities

By: Lynda M. Applegate
Managers and management theorists spent the majority of this century building and perfecting the hierarchy; however, if we believe the press, they now appear to be engaged in destroying it. While many proclaim the dawning of the "Information Age" organization and the... View Details
Keywords: Management; Information Technology; Problems and Challenges; Opportunities
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  • 22 Apr 2020
  • Research Event

How Investors Are Sizing Up Climate Change’s Risks—and Opportunities

enough when it comes to managing climate risk. “We have been told how to diversify portfolios that hedge the risk of the capital markets,” said Mizuno, a guest speaker. “But we never knew how to prepare our portfolios for this kind View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Financial Services
  • January 2010
  • Case

Opportunities in Business and Life after Virgin Money: Asheesh Advani

Asheesh Advani is in an enviable position for a successful entrepreneur: he has sold his business and is trying to decide what to do with the next phase of his life. For the first two years after selling CircleLending—a pioneer in the person-to-person lending field—to... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Investment; Managerial Roles; Personal Development and Career
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  • 10 Jan 2017
  • News

The Risk And Opportunity For America's Corporate Pension Plans

  • 02 Dec 2018
  • News

An Investor’s Guide to Climate Change: Risks and Opportunities

is being used and advocate for climate-smart investments. Looking ahead to 2030, Ellis, of Inherent Group, emphasized opportunities in water reuse and efficiency, and Broido Johnson, View Details
Keywords: Allison Webster; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • 30 Jan 2018
  • Blog Post

HBS Global Opportunity Fellowship: Making a Difference in Africa

About the Global Opportunity Fellowship (GO:Africa) HBS offers a variety of career support and exploration programs for eligible students that provide financial assistance for those who choose careers in... View Details
  • Article

Missing the Near Miss: Recognizing Valuable Learning Opportunities in Radiation Oncology

By: Palak Kundu, Olivia Jung, Luca F. Valle, Amy C. Edmondson, Nzhde Agazaryan, John Hegde, Michael Steinberg and Ann Raldow
“Near miss” events are valuable low-cost learning opportunities in radiation oncology as they do not result in patient harm and are more pervasive than adverse events that do. Near misses vary depending on the presence of a latent error of behavior or process, and the... View Details
Keywords: Radiation Oncology; Cognitive Biases; Health Care and Treatment; Learning
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  • 17 Jun 2014
  • News

Shedding light on business issues and opportunities in Asia

When Michael Shih-ta Chen (MBA 1972) attended HBS in the early 1970s, only a handful of case studies featured businesses in Asia. Now, some 25 cases a year focus on business issues in China, Korea, Australia, Southeast Asia, and other... View Details
  • 11 Jun 2014
  • News

The Digital Opportunity Staring Credit Cards in the Face