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- 10 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Commodity Busters: Be a Price Maker, Not a Price Taker
the pressure. Competitors, in an attempt to gain market share or market position, often succumb and thus destroy the profitability of whole markets. But, with careful thought and precise execution, managers can be price makers, not price... View Details
Keywords: by Benson P. Shapiro
- January 2008
- Article
Innovation Killers: How Financial Tools Destroy Your Capacity to Do New Things
By: Clayton M. Christensen, Stephen P. Kaufman and Willy C. Shih
Most companies aren't half as innovative as their senior executives want them to be (or as their marketing claims suggest they are). What's stifling innovation? There are plenty of usual suspects, but the authors finger three financial tools as key accomplices.... View Details
Keywords: Investment; Innovation and Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Business and Shareholder Relations; Prejudice and Bias; Value Creation
Christensen, Clayton M., Stephen P. Kaufman, and Willy C. Shih. "Innovation Killers: How Financial Tools Destroy Your Capacity to Do New Things." Special Issue on HBS Centennial. Harvard Business Review 86, no. 1 (January 2008).
- 30 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
Turning Employees Into Problem Solvers
require any number of 100 or 200 services and subprocesses. On top of that, the most knowledgeable people about those subprocesses-the doctors-come and go from the factory and are not employed by it." That complexity makes errors inevitable. And despite the growing... View Details
- 16 Aug 2022
- Op-Ed
Now Is the Time for Entrepreneurs to Play Offense
“Slow is smooth. Smooth is fast.” The best entrepreneurs are taking this slower moment to re-examine their key business processes and make sure that they’re running them more effectively and efficiently. Train your interviewers (Who has time for that? Now you do!) and... View Details
Keywords: by Jeffrey Bussgang
- 18 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
How Disruptive Innovation Changes Education
our schools." The ability of these lenses to shed new light on complicated problems has been proven in contexts ranging from national defense to semiconductors; from health care to retailing; and from... View Details
- 25 Aug 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Raymond Hwang (MBA 2010)
were exposed to at HBS can be applied to problems in health care and medicine. As an industry, we face the same fundamental challenges, just with the addition of some special regulatory and market... View Details
- 18 May 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Rena Xu (MBA 2014, MD 2014)
patient and doctor has few parallels, and I am sure my appreciation of it will only continue to grow as I advance in my career. “HBS greatly enriched my understanding of the challenges and opportunities in health View Details
- 2002
- Book
Searching for a Corporate Savior: The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs
By: Rakesh Khurana
Corporate CEOs are headline news. Stock prices rise and fall at word of their hiring and firing. Business media debate their merits and defects as if individual leaders determined the health of the economy. Yet we know surprisingly little about how CEOs are selected... View Details
Keywords: Managerial Roles; Selection and Staffing; Personal Characteristics; Experience and Expertise; Investment Activism; Corporate Strategy
Khurana, Rakesh. Searching for a Corporate Savior: The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2002.
- 22 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Work of Failure Analysis
that health care organizations typically fail to analyze or make changes even when people are well aware of failures. Whether medical errors or simply problems in the work process, few hospital organizations... View Details
Keywords: by Amy Edmondson & Mark D. Cannon
- 18 Jul 2019
- Lessons from the Classroom
The Internet of Things Needs a Business Model. Here It Is
service.” One company that has been successful with IoT in health care is Philips, whose imaging division has created connected ultrasound and CT scan machines. Instead of just selling the machines to... View Details
- Web
Sexual Harassment - Race, Gender & Equity
Tech 55% 46% 15% 14% Finance/Banking/Investment 53% 48% 18% 17% Consulting/Professional Svcs. 51% 44% 18% 12% Health Care 51% 41% 11% 14% Education 41% 29% 13% 10% “When I was more junior and working in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
@Soldiers Field
Last month, health care executives and clinicians gathered to brainstorm strategies for navigating payment reform for providers, payers, and pharma. Speakers included HBS faculty Leemore Dafny and Robert... View Details
- 03 Feb 2014
- News
Eyes on Medical Breakthroughs
1979), she learned not only about the workings of the human body, but also about the value of relationships and collaboration. It all added up to make her one of the savviest health care sector investors in... View Details
- 05 Oct 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Don't More People Get Flu Shots at Work?
With a yearly price tag of roughly $87 billion in lost productivity and adverse health consequences, the flu is nothing to sneeze at. It’s no surprise that workplace flu vaccination clinics have gained popularity as employers try to keep... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Cure All
interactions between health care providers and payers, as well as antitrust enforcement. Here, they discuss what it would take to improve the provision of care. Say you’re settling into your seat for a... View Details
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
health justice, and social justice. Ultimately, we need to create a new decision-making paradigm, where our business strategies and choices fully consider the short- and long-term impacts we have on the environment, on communities, and on... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
It's academic. (Not!)
business administration (DBA) in accounting and control, marketing, policy and management, or technology and operations management. Another option is a joint program with Harvard University's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences that grants a Ph.D. in business... View Details
- 14 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World
these narratives A common feature of all resilient businesses we interviewed is that they proactively sought information from a variety of sources, including suppliers, trade associations, and health care... View Details
- 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 care facilities." What South... View Details
- 20 Jan 2015
- News
Patient Medical Records, Pocket-sized
health care system. Bushkin’s unassuming item is MedKaz®, a 4-GB flash drive carried on a keychain or in a wallet that can hold a lifetime of medical records, giving patients control over their data and... View Details