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- 04 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
Attention Medical Shoppers: What Health Care Can Learn from Walmart and Amazon
knew the goal of the procedure, and making sure they had ample blood available. Since the checklist system has been deployed throughout several operating rooms, he said, there has been an average reduction in death of 47 percent.... View Details
- 24 Oct 2007
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Innovation
innovative solutions? Can Innovation And Creativity Be Managed? High Note: Managing the Medici String Quartet Many managers in business experience difficulty dealing with their best creative thinkers. So how does violinist Paul Robertson,... View Details
- 12 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
Amager Bakke: I Like This Waste Incinerator in My Backyard!
and lift the waste into the incinerator. The two incinerators can process up to 42 tons per hour at temperatures as high as 1,100°C (2000°F). The exhaust stream reaches twin boilers which produce high View Details
- 04 Feb 2015
- What Do You Think?
Is There a Stanford-Google-Silicon Valley School of Management?
attracts and retains creative people—at least up to now. But there was a healthy skepticism about how influential Google's approach will be in other organizations, particularly outside the realm of high technology. There was general... View Details
- 16 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
The Rise of The Sixes: Interview with CEO and Founder Franci Girard
pressure test her interest instead of wondering “what if?”, Girard followed her instincts to jump into learning more about the fashion industry. After full days at Goldman, Girard attended Parson’s School of Design at night working... View Details
- 24 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
The FDA: What Will the Next 100 Years Bring?
state after an outbreak of illness. Approved the first generic versions of Coreg, a widely used medication for high blood pressure and chronic heart failure. Proposed new... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- Blog Post
Aisha Fatima Dozie is Igniting Confidence as the Founder of Bossy Cosmetics
closest to me.” The feelings of stress exhibited themselves in a very physical way as they often can, and Dozie’s doctor explained to her that she had severe hypertension. Unless she found ways to de-stress and bring her blood View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship
- 14 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Connection between 1930s Weather and Today's Labor Unions
still had to feed your family. So you traveled to the closest city and tried to get a job. Of course, that put pressure on people who did have jobs. They were working for a dollar an hour, and you were willing to come and do the same job... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 07 Apr 2017
- News
Transforming the “Misery Towns” of Buenos Aires
working, learning and leisure evenly disbursed around the capital, in order to relieve pressures on the traditional city centre. Mr. Rodríguez Larreta has made what he calls a “major commitment” to upgrading public spaces, such as... View Details
- 08 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017
characteristic-based portfolio strategy that requires relatively low annual turnover. This is a continuum, with small size (a very persistent characteristic) at one end of the spectrum and high frequency reversal at the other. Unlike... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
A Bold Proposal for Investment Reform
high quality information in the asset management business comes from increases over time in liquidity for investors. Liquidity is typically thought of as a positive, since it allows investors to quickly switch their savings out of poor... View Details
- 15 Jan 2009
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Career & Life Balance
the people and society around them, while at the same time being dead inside. Leaders need the capacity to distance themselves from the pressures and seductions of success and to think and live for themselves. Am I Working Too Hard?... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 06 Aug 2018
- Research & Ideas
Supersmart Manufacturing Tools are Lowering Prices on TVs, Bulbs, and Solar Panels
furnace when it is at the right working temperature and uses a variety of tools to blow, cut, or deform it into the desired shape using skilled hands and air pressure from the mouth. These are skills that he or she developed over many... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
$how Me the Money
Structure How should companies behave in such an environment? Clearly, refusing to pay or receive bribes and acting according to high ethical standards is the best course of action. But operating in the real world is a complicated matter,... View Details
- 30 Sep 2020
- Blog Post
Reflecting on my service
dependably meeting the demands of the high stakes and high pressure environment. More than just surviving, the Marines taught me how to thrive in the intensity and ambiguity... View Details
- 12 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: Strength in Numbers
Gerald Marwell and Ruth Ames. In their 1979 study, groups of high school students were given funds to invest. Participants could opt to invest individually, at a relatively low rate of return, or to add some or all of their funds to a... View Details
Keywords: Re: Gunnar Trumbull
- 09 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 9
Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 612-016 Lowell General Physician Hospital Organization This case focuses on the Alternative Quality Contract (AQC), a novel payment program designed to incentivize providers to deliver less costly, View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 23, 2016
occupancy, high guest satisfaction, and high return-visitor rates, not to mention increasing profits from HBC’s single location in Fethiye, Turkey. Although branching out had been on the agenda for a couple... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
The Drive for Excellence: An Interview with Jim Henderson
James A. Henderson (MBA '63) is chairman and CEO of Indiana-based Cummins Engine Company, one of America's most respected industrial corporations. Prior to joining Cummins, where he has worked for more than thirty years, Henderson, who graduated from HBS with View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Research With Impact: Changing Global Health Practices
provider behavior.” To that end, Ashraf has designed and conducted numerous field studies, including several in Zambia. One study targeted Zambia’s high birthrate with an experiment based on improving access to modern contraceptives. In... View Details