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- 24 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
How to Get People Addicted to a Good Habit
shirking) makes people wash more today,” Hussam says. This, Hussam hopes, is the primary takeaway of the study. While the experiment focused on a specific behavior in/among a specific area of India, the findings may prove valuable to... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Step Change
At Consoleya, a coworking space in Cairo’s former French Consulate, multiple levels of meeting rooms and workspaces operate at capacity, from a ground-floor café to a rooftop deck. The scene—coders bent over laptops, concepts scrawled on whiteboards, clusters of people... View Details
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
High Honors
Norfolk Ledger-Dispatch and the Virginian-Pilot. Despite his youth, Batten gained the respect and admiration of his colleagues. He made ethical, careful reporting a top priority, strongly supported school desegregation, and encouraged... View Details
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Frequently Asked Questions | HBS Online
grade. Of course, we expect you to approach this element of participation with the same degree of care as you do other parts of the course participation. In addition, it is in your own interest to complete these questions thoroughly since... View Details
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Involvement in Faculty & Student Ventures | About
in the world. An HBS faculty member’s primary responsibility to students is to educate them, help them develop their leadership skills, and prepare them to graduate. Faculty Interaction: Important components of the HBS educational... View Details
- 15 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Remembering Alfred Chandler
academics talk a good game about the need for interdisciplinary thinking, but we usually fall back on the strengths (or prejudices) of our primary discipline. Chandler was heavily influenced by sociologists such as Max Weber and Talcott... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
careful to save back some of the crop for next year’s planting. “It’s changed me as a person, to understand the cycles of how things grow.” “It’s changed me as a person, to understand the cycles of how things grow.” Researching the... View Details
- 10 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Commodity Busters: Be a Price Maker, Not a Price Taker
two primary competitors, Checkpoint and Sensormatic, went at each other mercilessly, unbridled competition can be destructive. Sensible business managers focus primarily on their own success, not on creating failure for their competitors.... View Details
Keywords: by Benson P. Shapiro
- 19 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?
“Most [business scholars] would agree that our primary duties include teaching our students and generating new knowledge in our research,” writes Toffel. “But the lack of practical relevance of much of our research might suggest that few... View Details
- 27 Apr 2018
- News
Placing Nurses Where They Are Needed
Alejandro Moreno (MBA 1988) is CEO of Nightingale Nurses, a service that provides traveling nurses to hospitals and health care facilities across the United States. In this interview, he talks about the advantages of flexibility and the... View Details
- 06 Dec 2012
- News
New Thinking on Healthcare Reform
shortage of primary care physicians," said Sussman. "We need to continue to broaden our thinking about the healthcare team to include nurse practitioners and pharmacists and allow them to practice at the top... View Details
- 16 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 16
dynamic, long-term impacts of bundling on demand. The primary explanation for the profitability of bundling relies on homogenization of consumer valuations for the bundle, allowing the firm to extract more surplus. We find bundling can be... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 17 Aug 2020
- News
Democratizing Medicine
right? A primary care clinician, if they see a patient, they have a question, they are trying to figure out what the right diagnosis or care plan is for their patients, they... View Details
- 18 Nov 2014
- News
Touching the lives of patients and their loved ones
Ebru Dorman (MBA 1999) is deputy CEO of the largest private health care provider in Turkey, focused on improving the patient experience. She is also working to introduce the “softer skills” into the primary... View Details
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Ebru Dorman
Ebru Dorman (MBA 1999) is deputy CEO of the largest private health care provider in Turkey, focused on improving the patient experience. She is also working to introduce the “softer skills” into the primary... View Details
- 22 Jan 2018
- News
The First Five Years: ‘30 Under 30’ Edition
retail onto the social media platform.” Gaglani: “We are on a mission to educate the world’s health professionals. There are clinician shortages across the professions and globe, from primary care physicians... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Health IT at the Bedside
medical history existed. His primary care doctor was unaware of what his specialists were doing. A summary I had once written was now outdated. As much as any medication, my father needed health IT. This... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Summer Fellowship Recipient is a Changemaker in Tanzania
care facilities in Tanzania. The country was chosen because Mutasingwa was established there, the needs were great, and government ministers wanted to find a solution. The goal is to expand to 100 of the country’s 6,000 public View Details
Keywords: April White
- 28 Jul 2016
- Op-Ed
Where is TripAdvisor for Doctors?
hernia surgeons in my area by going online and reading patient reviews, rather than just relying on a referral from my primary care physician, no matter how much I trust him or her. Hopefully, the operation... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- Research & Ideas
A Good Thing Happens When Doctors Start Talking to Their Patients
another case in point. “Patients see their primary care physician, who advises them on insulin therapy, but no one follows up to make sure patients are taking their insulin,” he says. Why not? Doctors aren’t... View Details