Outcomes - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Mar 2009
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Model Patient

would receive comprehensive treatment from a team designed to deliver it. Insurers would require that hospitals set fixed and transparent prices covering various ailments and their treatment. This approach, Herzlinger says, would produce better health View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Health, Social Assistance

01 Dec 2000
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Opening Doors: Inside the World of Museum Management

visibility and visitorship. This light, open, and completely handicapped-accessible facility attracts tourists from around the world, and its signature fish-eye spiral staircase is a work of art itself. The Outcome of Income As leisure... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; museums; marketing; management; nonprofits; education; facilities; Internet; Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions; Arts, Entertainment; Advertising, Public Relations, and Related Services; Professional Services

23 Feb 2023
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In My Humble Opinion: Hometown Reboot

children the benefit of our success but not the burden of it. I think what they would say is that the constant refrain from us has been, ‘If you’ve done the best that you can, then we will celebrate with you no matter what the outcome... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Jun 2020
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Prognosis

research, please visit www.hbs.edu/healthcare/. We’ve seen real disparity in patient outcomes with this disease. How is the hospital responding to this, and what can we learn from it? PS: This pandemic has really underscored the... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; COVID-19; Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance

01 Mar 2010
News

How to Spur Prosperity

LERNER: The federal government lacks a clear, rational process for spending $40 billion to boost the nation’s clean-tech industry. Across the decades and around the globe, governments have tried various approaches to kick-starting entrepreneurial activity. In his new... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

19 Jun 2017
News

Can Neuroscience Find You the Perfect Job?

calibrating the algorithm so that even if they're trained on a non-diverse set, they will spit out equal outcomes for men and women, for people of different ethnic backgrounds. So that was reassuring. But that was kind of the first... View Details

03 Mar 2017
News

Big Blue’s Big Bet

efficiently; and Watson was to translate all that into outcomes that reduced morbidity. The reality is that subtle biases or a lack of full information lead doctors to the wrong decision, which in turn leads to bad health outcomes,... View Details

Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page

02 Mar 2016
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The New Space Race

members heavily invested in more than 30 companies, grouped in segments that include “habitats and real estate” and “microgravity research.” “The pace is really fast in this industry, and there have been some very good investment outcomes... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley

01 Feb 2002
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Karen Tumulty Reports on America

perhaps the most prestigious bad job in journalism." At HBS, Tumulty discovered that "the case method is the best kind of training in the mental discipline that a journalist needs, especially for covering politics, which is really all about View Details

Keywords: News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

01 Sep 2010
News

RX for Change

table, a tray of sandwiches nearby. Two more join via videoconference. The pesky buzz of BlackBerries punctuates the lengthy and sometimes contentious discussion. It’s a familiar scene in the modern business world, but not one normally associated with a hospital. The... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Health, Social Assistance; Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance

12 Apr 2023
News

Step Change

implemented, even if the outcome affects millions. For now, business is another, more immediate lever for impact. "If you're not trying to change the process, then don't complain about the process." Enan is talking about working in... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance

15 Jun 2021
News

June 2021 Books and Podcasts

addressing these and similar questions, the book also examines the role that multinational corporations play in the outcomes that policymakers care about most: economic growth, jobs, inequality, and tax fairness. The Power of Trust: How... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Dec 2002
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Bad Times for Business

Perhaps we're in the midst of a larger technological and information- driven transformation, a rare inflection point in industrial capitalism, in which there's been widespread exuberance and some bad bets made to this point, but in which a range of more positive View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Apr 1999
News

Spirit at Work

such initiatives, say some experts, can be a happier, more productive cadre of employees-and, with that, a healthier bottom line. But beyond the potential for profit, the longer-lasting outcome of the move to find deeper meaning in the... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

01 Mar 2018
News

Realizing The Potential Of One Harvard

Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) to address the increasingly complex issues faced by school principals on the front lines of K–12 public education, offering them strategies and actionable practices to improve outcomes for... View Details

15 Jun 2021
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Alumni Work to Reverse Bias Through Philanthropy

The high-profile deaths last year of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, and George Floyd were not the first tragic outcomes of racial injustice in the United States to send shock waves across the globe. But in their wake—and in... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Jun 2009
News

Insights from the Post-Macho Workplace

or in a cubicle on Wall Street, seeing how elements of the status quo actually inhibit desired outcomes — and breaking with those elements — is the real value-added of diversity in the workplace. —Deborah Blagg View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining

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