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- May 2018 (Revised December 2018)
- Case
Baupost Group: Finding a Margin of Safety in London Real Estate
By: Adi Sunderam, Luis M. Viceira, Shawn O'Brien, Sam Merkel and Franklin Muanankese
Sunderam, Adi, Luis M. Viceira, Shawn O'Brien, Sam Merkel, and Franklin Muanankese. "Baupost Group: Finding a Margin of Safety in London Real Estate." Harvard Business School Case 218-126, May 2018. (Revised December 2018.)
- July 2013
- Case
Sample6: Innovating to Make Food Safer
By: Robert F. Higgins and Kirsten Kester
Tim Curran, CEO of Sample6, a start-up biotechnology company developing a novel food safety diagnostics platform, must decide how to partner with food industry players. How can he best convince leaders in this mature industry to adopt a new technology and improve food... View Details
Keywords: Data Analytics; Food Safety; Biotechnology; Nutrition; Entrepreneurship; Product; Partners and Partnerships; Food; Technological Innovation; Business Startups; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Product Development; Agribusiness; Information Technology; Globalization; Performance Improvement; Safety; Technology Adoption; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; United States; Boston; Massachusetts
Higgins, Robert F., and Kirsten Kester. "Sample6: Innovating to Make Food Safer." Harvard Business School Case 814-014, July 2013.
- August 1997
- Article
Continuous Quality Improvement Decreases Length of Stay and Adverse Events: A Case Study in an Interventional Cardiology Program
By: H. Hashimoto, Richard Bohmer, L. C. Harrell and I. F. Palacios
Hashimoto, H., Richard Bohmer, L. C. Harrell, and I. F. Palacios. "Continuous Quality Improvement Decreases Length of Stay and Adverse Events: A Case Study in an Interventional Cardiology Program." American Journal of Managed Care 3, no. 8 (August 1997): 1141–1150.
- 27 Sep 2011
- Working Paper Summaries
Salience in Quality Disclosure: Evidence from the U.S. News College Rankings
- 2022
- Article
Improving Efficiency and Reducing Costs of MRI-Guided Prostate Brachytherapy Using Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing
By: Nikhil G. Thaker, Rajat J. Kudchadker, James R. Incalcaterra, Tharakeswara K. Bathala, Robert S. Kaplan, Ankit Agarwal, Deborah A. Kuban, Benjamin D. Frank, Prajnan Das, Thomas W. Feeley and Steven J. Frank
Integrated quality improvement (QI) and cost reduction strategies can help increase value in cancer care. We applied standard QI and TDABC methods to improve workflow efficiency and reduce costs for MRI-guided prostate brachytherapy. We constructed process maps,... View Details
Keywords: Brachytherapy; Quality Improvement; Prostate; Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing; Cost Accounting; Health Care and Treatment; Performance Efficiency; Health Industry
Thaker, Nikhil G., Rajat J. Kudchadker, James R. Incalcaterra, Tharakeswara K. Bathala, Robert S. Kaplan, Ankit Agarwal, Deborah A. Kuban, Benjamin D. Frank, Prajnan Das, Thomas W. Feeley, and Steven J. Frank. "Improving Efficiency and Reducing Costs of MRI-Guided Prostate Brachytherapy Using Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing." Brachytherapy 21, no. 1 (2022): 49–54.
- March 2012 (Revised April 2013)
- Case
Schön Klinik: Eating Disorder Care
By: Michael E. Porter, Emma Stanton, Jessica A. Hohman and Caleb Stowell
The Schön Klinik is a private, for-profit German hospital group trying to establish itself as a premium health care provider in a competitive German market. The case details Schön Klinik's founding, its early focus on measurement and improvement, and the design and... View Details
Keywords: Health Care Quality; Outcomes; Quality Improvement; Strategy And Performance Measurement; Integration; Measurement and Metrics; Competition; Health Disorders; Health Care and Treatment; Outcome or Result; Performance Evaluation; Business Processes; Health Industry; Germany
Porter, Michael E., Emma Stanton, Jessica A. Hohman, and Caleb Stowell. "Schön Klinik: Eating Disorder Care." Harvard Business School Case 712-475, March 2012. (Revised April 2013.)
- July–August 2008
- Article
Interview with a Quality Leader: Regina E. Herzlinger on Consumer-Driven Healthcare
Regina E. Herzlinger is the Nancy R. McPherson Professor of Business Administration Chair at the Harvard Business School, Cambridge, MA. She received her bachelor's degree from MIT and her doctorate from the Harvard Business School The first woman to be tenured and... View Details
"Interview with a Quality Leader: Regina E. Herzlinger on Consumer-Driven Healthcare." Journal for Healthcare Quality 30, no. 4 (July–August 2008): 17–19.
- 01 Jan 1999
- Conference Presentation
A Framework for Measuring the Quality of Medication Prescribing Using Administrative Data
By: R. S. Stafford, Richard Bohmer and R. Gaudette
- June 2019
- Supplement
Improving Worker Safety in the Era of Machine Learning: Practicum in Predictive Analytics
By: Michael W. Toffel and Dan Levy
- June 2018
- Supplement
PCAOB Efforts to Improve Audit Quality (B): Excerpts of Public Comment Letters
By: Aiyesha Dey and Paul Healy
Dey, Aiyesha, and Paul Healy. "PCAOB Efforts to Improve Audit Quality (B): Excerpts of Public Comment Letters." Harvard Business School Supplement 118-109, June 2018.
- November 2008
- Article
The Effects of Colleague Quality on Top Performance: The Case of Security Analysts
By: Boris Groysberg and Linda-Eling Lee
Groysberg, Boris, and Linda-Eling Lee. "The Effects of Colleague Quality on Top Performance: The Case of Security Analysts." Special Issue on Professional Service Firms: Where Organization Theory and Organizational Behavior Might Meet, edited by Roy Suddaby, Royston Greenwood, and Celeste Wilderom Journal of Organizational Behavior 29, no. 8 (November 2008): 1123–1144.
- October 2008
- Article
The Effect of Macro Information Environment Change on the Quality of Management Earnings Forecasts
The 1990s were characterized by substantial increases in the performance of and investor reliance on financial analysts. Because managers possess superior private information and issue forecasts to align investors' expectations with their own, we predict that... View Details
Keywords: Information; Performance Expectations; Earnings Management; Financial Reporting; Forecasting and Prediction
Baginski, Stephen P., John M. Hassell, and Michael D. Kimbrough. "The Effect of Macro Information Environment Change on the Quality of Management Earnings Forecasts." Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting 31, no. 3 (October 2008): 311–330.
- August 2020
- Article
The Tradeoffs Between Safety and Alert Fatigue: Data from a National Evaluation of Hospital Medication-related Clinical Decision Support
By: Zoe Co, A Jay Holmgren, David C Classen, Lisa P Newmark, Diane Seger, Melissa Danforth and David W Bates
Co, Zoe, A Jay Holmgren, David C Classen, Lisa P Newmark, Diane Seger, Melissa Danforth, and David W Bates. "The Tradeoffs Between Safety and Alert Fatigue: Data from a National Evaluation of Hospital Medication-related Clinical Decision Support." Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association 27, no. 8 (August 2020): 1252–1258.
- 06 Nov 2008
- Conference Presentation
Quality Management & Job Quality: How ISO 9001 Affects Employees & Employers
- Article
On the Causality and Cause of Returns to Organizational Status: Evidence from the Grands Crus Classés of the Médoc
By: Daniel Malter
This paper identifies the causal symbolic effect of status on the prices organizations charge for their products. I exploit the classification of the châteaux of the Médoc, which sorted 61 wine producers into five growth classes in 1855, as a fixed hierarchical symbol... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Status; Quality Signals; Conspicuous Consumption; Wine Classification Of 1855; Grand Cru; Status and Position; Quality; Reputation; Price; France
Malter, Daniel. "On the Causality and Cause of Returns to Organizational Status: Evidence from the Grands Crus Classés of the Médoc." Administrative Science Quarterly 59, no. 2 (June 2014): 271–300.
- June 2019
- Supplement
Improving Worker Safety in the Era of Machine Learning: Practicum in Predictive Analytics
By: Michael W. Toffel and Dan Levy
- 2014
- Working Paper
Islam, Inequality, and Pre-Industrial Comparative Development
By: Stelios Michalopoulos, Alireza Naghavi and Giovanni Prarolo
This study explores the interaction between trade and geography in shaping the Islamic economic doctrine and in turn the comparative development of the Muslim world. We build a model where an unequal distribution of land quality in presence of trade opportunities... View Details
Keywords: Islam; Inequality In Land Quality; Wealth Accumulation; Public Good Investment; Conflict; Wealth; Geography; Religion; Trade
Michalopoulos, Stelios, Alireza Naghavi, and Giovanni Prarolo. "Islam, Inequality, and Pre-Industrial Comparative Development." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 15-076, March 2015.
- Article
Integrating: A Managerial Practice that Enables Implementation in Fragmented Health Care Environments
By: Michaela J. Kerrissey, Patricia Satterstrom, Nicholas Leydon, Gordon Schiff and Sara J. Singer
How some organizations improve while others remain stagnant is a key question in health care research. This inductive qualitative study examines primary care clinics implementing improvement efforts in order to identify mechanisms that enable implementation despite... View Details
Keywords: Organization And Management Theory; Quality Improvement; Health Care and Treatment; Performance Improvement; Integration; Cooperation
Kerrissey, Michaela J., Patricia Satterstrom, Nicholas Leydon, Gordon Schiff, and Sara J. Singer. "Integrating: A Managerial Practice that Enables Implementation in Fragmented Health Care Environments." Health Care Management Review 42, no. 3 (July–September 2017): 213–225.
- Fall 2011
- Article
Exclusivity and Control
By: Andrei Hagiu and Robin S. Lee
We analyze platform competition for content in the presence of strategic interactions between content distributors and content providers. We provide a model of bargaining and price competition within these industries and show that whether or not a piece of content ends... View Details
Keywords: General Strategy; Entertainment And Leisure; Software; Quality; Competition; Price; Sales; Expansion; Digital Platforms; Revenue; Negotiation
Hagiu, Andrei, and Robin S. Lee. "Exclusivity and Control." Journal of Economics & Management Strategy 20, no. 3 (Fall 2011).
- March 2024
- Article
Flight to Safety: How Economic Downturns Affect Talent Flows to Startups
By: Shai Bernstein, Richard Townsend and Ting Xu
Using proprietary data from AngelList Talent, we study how individuals’ job search and application behavior changed during the COVID-19 downturn. We find that job seekers shifted their searches toward more established firms and away from early-stage startups, even... View Details
Bernstein, Shai, Richard Townsend, and Ting Xu. "Flight to Safety: How Economic Downturns Affect Talent Flows to Startups." Review of Financial Studies 37, no. 3 (March 2024): 837–881.