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- October 1982 (Revised May 1992)
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Johnson & Johnson: The Tylenol Tragedy
In October 1982, Johnson & Johnson was confronted with a major crisis when seven deaths were attributed to poisoned Tylenol. The case reviews the facts as known a week after the incident occurred, and raises a wide range of questions regarding consumer behavior,... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Behavior; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Competitive Strategy; Crisis Management; Health Care and Treatment; Pharmaceutical Industry
Greyser, Stephen A. "Johnson & Johnson: The Tylenol Tragedy." Harvard Business School Case 583-043, October 1982. (Revised May 1992.)
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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
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General Management Faculty - Faculty & Research
General Management Overview Faculty Curriculum Awards & Honors Doctoral Students Unit Head Leemore S. Dafny Bruce V. Rauner Professor of Business Administration Howard Cox Health Care Initiative Faculty... View Details
- 22 Nov 2004
- Research & Ideas
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
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Hidden Workers, Untapped Talent - Managing the Future of Work
Report Hidden Workers: Part-Time Potential By: Joseph B. Fuller, Manjari Raman, & Francis Hintermann 13 MAR 2023 Part-time workers constitute a substantial segment of America’s hidden workers. They would like to work more but circumstances—e.g., caregiving... View Details
- September 2016
- Article
Enhancing the Practical Relevance of Research
This article seeks to encourage scholars to conduct research that is more relevant to the decisions faced by managers and policymakers and addresses why research relevance matters, what relevance means in terms of a journal article, and how scholars can increase the... View Details
Keywords: Research Questions; Relevance; Rigor; Practice-based Research; Research; Communication; Media; Education Industry
Toffel, Michael W. "Enhancing the Practical Relevance of Research." Production and Operations Management 25, no. 9 (September 2016): 1493–1505. (Sparked a Working Knowledge article about research relevance.)
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Faculty & Researchers - Managing the Future of Work
related to the workforce, including the skills gap, degree inflation, care economics, the role of artificial intelligence in employment outcomes, the effectiveness of social entrepreneurs in improving View Details
- 18 Jul 2023
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The First Five Years: Brooke Biederman (MBA 2019)
work in watches. Next, Discovery, a South African health care company, incentivizes healthy behavioral change that leads to fewer claims and lower premiums for customers as the company's cost to serve them... View Details
Keywords: Robert Bochnak
- 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
- 13 Jul 2023
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The Network Effect
whose background was in investment banking and health care consulting, wanted to become a health care investor. Both were attracted to the View Details
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Information Technology - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
HBS ISC Health Care Health Care Value-Based Health Care View Details
- 24 Mar 2011
- Working Paper Summaries
Individual Rationality and Participation in Large Scale, Multi-Hospital Kidney Exchanges
- 2013
- Working Paper
Increased Speed Equals Increased Wait: The Impact of a Reduction in Emergency Department Ultrasound Order Processing Time
By: Jillian Berry Jaeker, Anita L. Tucker and Michael H. Lee
We exploit an exogenous process change at two emergency departments (EDs) within a health system to test the theory that increasing capacity in a discretionary work setting increases wait times due to additional services being provided to customers as a consequence of... View Details
Keywords: Technology; Demand and Consumers; Service Delivery; Health Care and Treatment; Business Processes; Health Industry
Berry Jaeker, Jillian, Anita L. Tucker, and Michael H. Lee. "Increased Speed Equals Increased Wait: The Impact of a Reduction in Emergency Department Ultrasound Order Processing Time." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 14-033, October 2013.
- July 2020
- Case
King's College Hospital in Crisis
By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock
On December 11, 2017, King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (King’s), one of London’s leading teaching hospital groups, was put into “special measures” by NHS Improvement (NHSI), the financial regulator of England’s National Health Service (NHS). The future of... View Details
Keywords: Hospitals; Financing; Health Care and Treatment; Financial Condition; Crisis Management; Organizational Structure; Transformation; Strategic Planning; United Kingdom
Wells, John R., and Benjamin Weinstock. "King's College Hospital in Crisis." Harvard Business School Case 721-356, July 2020.
- 28 Feb 2023
- Research & Ideas
Can Apprenticeships Work in the US? Employers Seeking New Talent Pipelines Take Note
switched to a new employer 27 percent left employment to attend college or another post-secondary education program 22 percent returned to high school Five percent were neither working nor in school [div class=infogram-embed... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
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Cases & Teaching Notes - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
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Human Behavior & Decision-Making - Faculty & Research
inequities in half—demonstrating the framework’s promise as a guide to targeted, measurable, and sustainable equity improvement. Keywords: Equality and Inequality ; Demographics ; Outcome or Result ; Health 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 Dec 2023
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Thinking Ahead
As we wind down 2023, there’s talk everywhere of generative AI and how it will fundamentally alter the world as we know it; but how does that translate for your corner of the business world? Is TikTok something you need to take seriously? (Is it time to dance?) We... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
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The War Within
When the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine began in February 2022, Nataliia Zhyliak’s world was upended in a matter of days. At the time, Zhyliak, a psychologist in the western Ukrainian city of Kamianets-Podilskyi, was working at an education and rehabilitation... View Details