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  • 31 Mar 2009
  • First Look

First Look: March 31, 2009

  PublicationsInnovator's Prescription: A Disruptive Solution for Health Care Authors:Clayton M. Christensen, Jerome H. Grossman M.D., and Jason Hwang M.D. Publication:McGraw-Hill, 2009 Abstract A... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 Apr 2010
  • Research & Ideas

The History of Beauty

the consumer products giant Unilever, published some years ago. This company had a long-established business in soap and other toiletries, but spent decades after World War II striving without great success to expand its business into other categories of the beauty... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Beauty & Cosmetics
  • September 2009
  • Case

The Risk Management Foundation of the Harvard Medical Institutions, Inc.

By: Richard M.J. Bohmer, Stephen P. Bradley and Natalie Kindred
Through its uniquely proactive approach to medical malpractice risk management, the Risk Management Foundation (RMF) has decreased claims—and premiums—for the Harvard hospitals it insures. The RMF is the captive medico-legal insurer of the Harvard medical institutions... View Details
Keywords: Cost Management; Insurance; Health Care and Treatment; Risk Management; Performance Improvement; Safety; Health Industry; Health Industry; Boston
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Bohmer, Richard M.J., Stephen P. Bradley, and Natalie Kindred. "The Risk Management Foundation of the Harvard Medical Institutions, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 610-014, September 2009.
  • 29 Oct 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Are You Paying a Tip--or a Bribe?

about and weighs the past and future. In some places, tips are provided not so much to reward good service but to encourage good service in the future—a perception that brings the tip closer to the purpose... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 15 May 2017
  • Sharpening Your Skills

The Promises and Limitations of Big Data

How Will the Age of Big Data Affect Management? How do we avoid losing useful knowledge in a seemingly endless flood of data? Jim Heskett's readers offer some wise suggestions. Consumer-centered Health Care... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services; Financial Services; Financial Services; Financial Services
  • 01 Jun 2023
  • News

In Full Flower

80 percent of the company’s customers are women gifting to other women, and they give steadily, all year. “Our product is more about being thoughtful and caring than the grand gesture,” explains Gelbard, who says the pink-and-peach Miss... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; florist; marketing; supply chain management; Personal Services
  • 01 Mar 2010
  • News

John Crowley’s Extraordinary Measures

FAMILY PORTRAIT: John and Aileen Crowley with Megan, John Jr., and Patrick. When John Crowley (MBA ’97) flew to Portland, Oregon, last spring to watch the filming of a movie about his life, what he saw was “beyond surreal.” The actors’ trailers all sported the full... View Details
Keywords: Sarah Auerbach; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Ambulatory Health Care Services
  • March 2017
  • Case

Swagbucks

By: Jeffrey F. Rayport and Matthew G. Preble
In early 2016, Chuck Davis, chairman and CEO of Prodege LLC, parent company of the brand promotion business Swagbucks, and Josef Gorowitz, Prodege’s founder and president, must decide whether to acquire MyPoints, a competitor to Swagbucks, after the company’s... View Details
Keywords: Loyalty Management; Scaling; Scale; Entrepreneurship; Human Resources; Employees; Employee Relationship Management; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Organizational Design; Leading Change; Growth Management; Religion; Technology; Online Technology; Internet; Transition; Leadership; Web Services Industry; Web Services Industry; United States
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Rayport, Jeffrey F., and Matthew G. Preble. "Swagbucks." Harvard Business School Case 817-068, March 2017.
  • June 2013
  • Case

Ron Ventura at Mitchell Memorial Hospital

By: Frank V. Cespedes and Heide Abelli
Mitchell Memorial Hospital is a 750-bed regional academic medical center in Ohio. Andy Prescott, Chief of the Cardiovascular Center, is reviewing the performance evaluations of his star vascular surgeon Ron Ventura. The evaluations, the result of a 360-degree... View Details
Keywords: Performance Expectations; Conflict Management; Behavior; Groups and Teams; Organizational Culture; Resignation and Termination; Health Care and Treatment; Performance Evaluation; Health Industry; Ohio
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Cespedes, Frank V., and Heide Abelli. "Ron Ventura at Mitchell Memorial Hospital." Harvard Business School Brief Case 913-572, June 2013.
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Chris Aguemon

think growing up, I always thought leadership was foremost about taking charge of a situation and that the strongest should lead. The reality is that leadership is foremost about service to others alongside a willingness to continue to... View Details
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Faculty & Staff - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

kahern@hbs.edu Dashka Bernard Program Manager, Health Care Fax: 617-496-7392 Email: dbernard@hbs.edu Richard Bryden Director of Information Products Phone: 617-495-6777 Fax: 617-384-7268 Email:... View Details
  • 20 Oct 2015
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October 20, 2015

on the home country remains unclear. We know very little about return migration of workers engaged in innovation and entrepreneurship, except that it is rapidly growing in importance. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49887 View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Apr 2020
  • What Do You Think?

What Are Lessons for Leaders from This Black Swan Crisis?

the past year or two. All of it is now down the drain as 80 percent of the economy shuts down while the other 20 percent operates beyond its supposed capacity. What’s the lesson here? Be careful of how much time is devoted to this kind of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 24 Jan 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Rethinking Activity-Based Costing

practical capacity is grossly in error, the process of running the time-driven ABC system will reveal the error over time. The capacity of most resources is measured in terms of time availability. Returning to our example, let's assume that the customer View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & Steven R. Anderson
  • 20 Dec 2017
  • Lessons from the Classroom

How to Design a Better Customer Experience

Click HereHarvard Business School Professor Stefan Thomke describes how his Executive Education students use LEGO blocks to design customer experiences. (Video by Executive Education) Why do some product or service experiences have enough... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Health; Health
  • January 2024
  • Article

Cost of Exempting Sole Orphan Drugs from Medicare Negotiation

By: Matthew Vogel, Olivia Zhao, William B. Feldman, Amitabh Chandra, Aaron S. Kesselheim and Benjamin N. Rome
Importance: The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) requires Medicare to negotiate prices for some high-spending drugs but exempts drugs approved solely for the treatment of a single rare disease.
Objective: To estimate Medicare spending and global... View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Insurance; Price; Health Industry
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Vogel, Matthew, Olivia Zhao, William B. Feldman, Amitabh Chandra, Aaron S. Kesselheim, and Benjamin N. Rome. "Cost of Exempting Sole Orphan Drugs from Medicare Negotiation." JAMA Internal Medicine 184, no. 1 (January 2024): 63–69.
  • 16 Apr 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer

the same music download as Apple's iTunes, and at no charge, why have millions of users chosen to pay a fee using Apple's service rather than download for free from p2p networks? A: The choice between p2p and iTunes is not trivial. Both... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Music
  • 18 Jan 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Hazard Warning: The Unacceptable Cost of Toxic Workers

data to decipher traits belonging to toxic workers. The result was anonymized personal data of almost 60,000 workers from 11 firms, about 70 percent of which were based in the United States. The positions were similar front-line, customer View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
  • 25 Aug 2014
  • HBS Case

Starbucks Reinvented

clear, unwavering message that Starbucks' transformation would represent a return to its roots and an uncompromising commitment to core values, such as health care benefits for any partners working at least... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Food & Beverage
  • December 2014
  • Case

DaVita HealthCare Partners and the Denver Public Schools: Creating Connections

By: John J-H Kim and Christine S. An
In 2011, DaVita HealthCare Partners (DaVita)—a Fortune 500 healthcare services company specializing in kidney dialysis services—and the Denver Public Schools (DPS)—the largest school district in Colorado—forged a plan to incorporate greater intentional focus on culture... View Details
Keywords: Corporate-community Partnerships; K-12; School Districts; DaVita; Kent Thiry; Tom Boasberg; Denver Public Schools; Wisdom Team; DaVita Way; Creating Connections; Social Enterprise; Community Impact; Education Reform; Public Schools; Leadership Development; Partners and Partnerships; Social Entrepreneurship; Education; Business and Community Relations; Culture; Health Industry; Health Industry; Colorado
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Kim, John J-H, and Christine S. An. "DaVita HealthCare Partners and the Denver Public Schools: Creating Connections." Harvard Business School Case 315-047, December 2014.
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