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- 19 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 19, 2010
different organizational contexts, i.e., summer field training and during academic semesters. Leader performance was measured with leadership grades (supervisor ratings) aggregated over four years at West Point. Findings-After controlling for View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Healthcare Conference Looks At Ailing Industry
payment to the company that decides to go ahead. Such an arrangement, he said, "doesn't work perfectly, but it's consistent with our internal prioritization of what projects we will be working on." Sea Change, Please How about the future of healthcare for the... View Details
- 04 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018
W. Feeley Abstract—Patients and providers are frustrated with seemingly endless data entry. We used our patients’ vested interest in their own health care by actively engaging them in the entry of their own medical information into the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 09 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
A Simple Way for Restaurant Inspectors to Improve Food Safety
new research about how scheduling affects worker behavior. The potential result: Americans could avoid 19 million foodborne illnesses, nearly 51,000 hospitalizations, and billions of dollars of related medical costs. Government health... View Details
- 29 May 2006
- What Do You Think?
How Important Is the “Service Sector Effect” on Productivity?
motives, our paradigms, and what we are willing to accept and ignore to get what we think that we need." C. J. Cullinane was concerned that "This trend (service sector relative growth) will indeed catch up with the United States in the form of fewer View Details
- 05 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 5
all its emphasis on data and number crunching, conventional strategic planning is not actually scientific. It lacks the hypothesis generation and testing that's at the heart of the scientific method. To produce novel and successful... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 26
identifying the types of GPs that drive the identified correlation between GPs and reduced shareholder value. Publisher's link: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1718488 August 2013 American Journal of Managed Care Testimonials Do Not Convert Patients... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance
procurement policies. General Médica, a vendor of high-complexity medical equipment, knew that their products were competitive, but it was also aware that they could not compete on price. A demanding market... View Details
- 13 Feb 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 13, 2018
on those earnings, targeting behavior is muted and no longer generates a negative effort response to higher wages. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53905 in press Games and Economic Behavior Games of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Apr 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
Chris Christensen: Legend of the Classroom
educators across academic disciplines, as are the hundreds of cases he produced on what he called the "artistry" of teaching. Inspired by Christensen's example, successive generations of teachers—in business, law, medicine, and... View Details
- 12 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: Strength in Numbers
population, have material and evident interest in finding a cure. They also clearly face strategic reasons for letting someone else take on the task. What is important about these medical examples is that the collective interest is... View Details
Keywords: Re: Gunnar Trumbull
- 27 Aug 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
Learning From Japan’s Remarkable Disaster Recovery
Clinic, a provider of medical services; Fast Retailing Group, which owns a chain of apparel stores; and Lawson's, which operates more than 40,000 convenience stores. The cases underscore disaster recovery challenges that are both... View Details
- 24 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Can Obamacare Be Saved?
quality or prices for consumers. Such mergers reduce competition in the insurance market, ultimately dampening much-needed innovation. What’s more, there’s no requirement or expectation that any savings from synergies generated from the... View Details
- 11 Nov 2013
- Research & Ideas
A Smarter Way to Reduce Customer Defections
marketing priority—and they've been given bigger budgets to fight the battle. But as Gupta points out, identifying potential defectors to target is not as easy as it sounds. For years, companies have used churn management strategies that View Details
- 25 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Why a Harvard Finance Instructor Went to the Kumbh Mela
up here. Prof. Greg Greenough of the Harvard School of Public Health is directing researchers interested in everything from the pH of the Ganga to the quality and quantity of toilets to the structure of the medical response teams in... View Details
- 03 Jan 2017
- First Look
January 3, 2017
silos within numerous academic medical centers, pharmaceutical companies, and some disease-based foundations. For new precision therapies to be developed, these data sets need to be shared broadly. Patients can help lead this effort by... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 18 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 18, 2009
amount of waste generated to improve the efficiency of the by-product process. In addition to the managerial implications, this analysis can inform policy as we show that increasing disposal cost decreases the size of the primary market... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Nov 2024
- In Practice
Layoffs Surging in a Strong Economy? Advice for Navigating Uncertain Times
Management Practice in the General Management Unit at HBS. Frances X. Frei and Anne Morriss: Managers, it’s story time The tech sector continues to shed workers after hiring prodigiously during the demand peaks of pandemic living, a shift... View Details
- 10 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018
filing of the 13D. Informed traders find it profitable to concentrate their trades with a leaking broker because the loss due to the information leakage is more than compensated by the gains derived from trading on the information View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 24 Nov 2008
- Research & Ideas
Harvard Business School Discusses Future of the MBA
render the most complete contemporary picture of MBA education. "The level of cross-school cooperation was unprecedented," Datar said afterward. For Datar and Garvin, the two-day session was a "thank-you" to the participants for their View Details