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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
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century
decade I believe the research agenda at business schools will be driven by the desire to apply management principles to addressing complex social problems (like balancing energy security with environmental sustainability), whose solutions... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Nov 2017
- Research & Ideas
Handgun Waiting Periods Prevent Hundreds of Homicides Each Year
solution that doesn’t impose any restrictions on who can own a firearm, according to the co-authors of the study, Harvard Business School professors Deepak Malhotra and Michael Luca, and doctoral candidate Christopher Poliquin. “We’re... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 25 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
An Organization Your Customers Understand
to solve the organization structure problem. The solution will be derived through analysis of the first of our four Cs: customer definition. Using an "outside-in" approach, we will start by designing units that work most closely... View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons
- 03 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 4, 2008
faced a tough decision: should they pass the bill and gamble with the untried insurance fund, or should they go seek a more traditional solution to the state's banking woes? Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 3
sacrificing his health or family life. In this article he presents six of them. Know your comparative advantage. Focus not on what you do best but on what your organization most needs from you-and don't spend too much time on operational... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Aug 2002
- Op-Ed
Using Big Business to Fight Poverty
amount of talk about free markets or balanced budgets will make a difference. The solution is an entirely new engine of change: a World Development Corporation (WDC). This entity could be chartered by the United Nations and established as... View Details
Keywords: by George C. Lodge
- 11 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 11
Michael Beer and Lynda St. ClairHarvard Business School Case 913-521 A new Dallas-based health and beauty spa aims to use a highly distinctive human resource system as the foundation of its competitive strategy. By encouraging employees... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 23
findings of behavioral scientists and experimental economists. Further, this approach does not generally assume that all the elements of the "game" are common knowledge. It tends to de-emphasize the application of game-theoretic View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 13 Feb 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 13, 2018
Case 118-051 Partners In Health: Costing Primary Care in Haiti Partners in Health, a global NGO focused on delivering health care to residents of rural underserved communities, conducts a project on the cost of primary care at five sites... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 18, 2018
18.2%—an effect driven by substitution of water for sugary drinks. Study 2 showed that graphic warning labels work by heightening negative affect and prompting consideration of health consequences. Study 3 indicated that public support... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 14
objectives in case method learning. One challenge for case method instructors is the assessment of students' class participation, particularly in large classes. This article offers a solution that mines the practices of peer-to-peer... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 13, 2008
procedures of Pratt (2007), including the Nash bargaining procedure, satisfy this. Other prominent efficient procedures do not. In two-agent problems, reducing the feasible set between the solution and one agent's maximum point increases... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 29, 2008
situation facing Gary Gottlieb, president of Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH), prior to the opening of BWH's integrated cardiovascular center. This case allows students to develop an appreciation of the strategic, financial, organizational, clinical, and physical... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: First Look: October 10
to customize therapy for individuals. However, adoption of this approach has progressed slowly and unevenly because the trial-and-error treatment model still governs how the health care system develops, regulates, pays for, and delivers... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 8
to the company's future. I argue that there may be a geographic solution to this dilemma. In such a solution, a fast-growing emerging market plays a central role in orchestrating a complete strategy for corporate entrepreneurship. I also... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 2
focused," but they don't deliver solutions to customers' thorniest problems. Why? Because they're stymied by the rigid "silos" they're organized around. In Reorganize for Resilience, Ranjay Gulati reveals how resilient... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 2, 2016
health care reform in driving the value. The case provides an opportunity to estimate the potential return on investment as well as to evaluate the structuring of the transaction. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 24
in great part on the ability to innovate. The perennial challenge, then, is to build an organization capable of innovating again and again. Traditional, direction-setting leadership can work well when the solution to a problem is known... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 13
behavior and preferences into service cost and productivity standard metrics. Optimal Value and Growth Tilts in Long-Horizon Portfolios Authors:W. Jakub Jurkek and Luis M. Viceira Publication:Review of Finance (forthcoming) Abstract We develop an analytical View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace