Health and Personal Care Stores - Publications - Faculty & Research

13 Apr 2021
Book

How Inclusive Managers Create Glass-Shattering Organizations

others’ views and insights. Superficial recognition that doesn’t allow women to fully contribute won’t placate employees who feel their voices are unheard. Indeed, lip service can be all the more frustrating, as expressed by one woman... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

June 2016
Article

When Doctors Go to Business School: Career Choices of Physician-MBAs

By: Damir Ljuboja, Brian W. Powers, Benjamin Robbins, Robert S. Huckman, Krishna Yeshwant and Sachin Jain

There has been substantial growth in the number of physicians pursuing Master of Business Administration (MBA) degrees over the past decade, but there is continuing debate over the utility of these programs and the career outcomes of their graduates. The authors... View Details

Keywords: Medical Education; MD; MBA; Physicians; Executive Education; Training; Personal Development and Career; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry; United States

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25 Oct 2016
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October 25, 2016

Bonitas to innovate, grow, and compete with market leader Discovery as well as providers of alternative insurance products. Bonitas must also plan ahead for the rollout of national health insurance—a deeply... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

19 Sep 2016
Research & Ideas

Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?

not see their role ‘as an enabler of direct public participation in decision-making through formats such as deliberative meetings, and do not believe there are personal benefits for investing in these... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education

24 Oct 2024
Research & Ideas

With Millions of Workers Juggling Caregiving, Employers Need to Rethink Support

Millions of Americans, from hourly retail staffers to corporate vice presidents, wrestle with the demands of work while parenting young children, caring for a sick spouse or aging parent—or both. That juggling act is made even tougher by... View Details

Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette

24 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

These Coronavirus Heroes Show Us How Crisis Leadership Works

their companies. If ever there was a time for leaders to be authentic, this is it. They need to be humble, open, and realistic about the health care View Details

Keywords: by Bill George; Health

24 Sep 2007
Research & Ideas

The FDA: What Will the Next 100 Years Bring?

they hear the words "national health insurance," but it is disturbing that we fail to provide health care to so many of our citizens. At the same time, firms in the United... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Health; Health; Health; Health

27 May 2020
Research & Ideas

What South Korea Teaches the World About Fighting COVID

whereas South Korea has 216 cases per million. "South Korea created a vast number of testing sites, which included not only big hospitals but local clinics and public health View Details

Keywords: by Doug J. Chung; Health

16 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 16

influence when the vast majority can't? The authors tracked 68 change initiatives in the UK's National Health Service, an organization whose size, complexity, and tradition can make reform difficult. They... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

18 Jul 2024
Research & Ideas

New Hires Lose Psychological Safety After Year One. How to Fix It.

employees clam up, the overall performance of an organization often suffers—and the effects can be dire, especially in an industry like health care. “Delivering patient care is one of those situations where... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

13 Aug 2018
Research & Ideas

Women Heart Patients Have Better Survival Odds with Women Doctors

matter who that person is? And yes, it sort of does. Here we find that who you are and who is advocating for you, who is treating you, is making a difference.” Results don’t... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Health

23 Sep 2014
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First Look: September 23

served tens of millions of transactions with total dollar value in the billions. Users have been drawn to Bitcoin for its decentralization, intentionally relying on no single server or set of servers to store transactions View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Oct 2008
Research & Ideas

How Much Time Should CEOs Devote to Customers?

must get out and meet customers on their home turf—in their homes, on job sites, in their offices. Here the CEO has to set an example. AG Lafley, CEO of Procter & Gamble, reinstituted consumer home visits View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch

15 Sep 2011
Research & Ideas

High Ambition Leadership

returns on the investments in our assets. And then we will be able to grow and deliver more health care to more people." But what was most... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

19 May 2011
Research & Ideas

Empathy: The Brand Equity of Retail

agreed, sharing the story of a woman whose luggage was lost on the eve of her husband's funeral. Staff at a local Nordstrom store responded by staying open so she could purchase a few outfits, and her family... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

14 Apr 2021
Research & Ideas

The High Cost of the Slow COVID Vaccine Rollout

accounting that includes health care costs puts the savings figure closer to $1.3 trillion. And capacity to produce an additional 1 billion vaccine courses could similarly be... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

02 Sep 2014
Research & Ideas

Food Stamp Entrepreneurs: How Public Assistance Enables Business Bootstrapping

advisers that what I was seeing was reproducible and scientifically valid. It also just happened to be personally valid for me." “Having the net made these people more willing to walk on the high wire.”... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

04 Aug 2009
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First Look: August 4

709-474 In 2005, Partners in Health (PIH) was invited by the Rwandan Ministry of Health to assume responsibility for the management of public health View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

11 Oct 2004
Research & Ideas

Four Ways to Create Lasting Change

Clinics in Minnesota. That effort produced enduring behavioral and cultural changes regarding an issue (medical errors) that has proven very difficult to address for many health View Details