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Quantifying the Benefits from a Care Coordination Program for Tracheostomy Placement in Neonates

By: Christen Caloway, Alisa Yamasaki, Kevin M. Callans, Mahek Shah, Robert S. Kaplan and Christopher Hartnick

Value-based care models are becoming instrumental in structuring clinical care delivery in our healthcare climate. Our objective was to determine the value associated with implementation of a Family-Centered Care Coordination (FCCC) program for neonates undergoing... View Details

Keywords: Family-centered Care; Value-based Healthcare; Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing; Health Care and Treatment; Value; Activity Based Costing and Management

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27 Jul 2015
Research & Ideas

The ‘Promotion’ That Makes You Feel Bad

English speakers in two of the company's US subsidiaries. The mandate, Neeley says, gave the American workers an unexpected—and unearned—boost in their perceived status or worth within the company, which she refers to by the pseudonym... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland

13 Apr 2015
Research & Ideas

3 Ways Firms Can Profit From Environmental Investments

revenue for their companies. "For many firms, it's possible to act sustainably and make money at the same time," says Henderson, the John and Natty McArthur University Professor at Harvard University who has a joint appointment in the General View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Energy; Utilities

10 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

Counting Up the Effects of Sarbanes-Oxley

relentlessly attacked in the US" while those most affected by the act as implemented express "acquiescence or even mild praise." The paper, SOX after Ten Years: A Multidisciplinary Review, is scheduled to be published later... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Accounting; Banking

23 Mar 2016
Research & Ideas

Researchers Prove C-Suite Gender Gap—but Can’t Explain It

they are—unless they can figure out a way to thwart discrimination. That’s the frustrating takeaway of the new research paper “Equal Opportunity? Gender Gaps in CEO Appointments and Executive Pay,” written by Matti Keloharju, a visiting... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

01 Aug 2005
What Do You Think?

Is There an “Efficient Market” in CEO Compensation?

market value of all CEOs is driven by companies hiring leadership from the outside rather than promoting it from within. In other words, there is a market premium paid for outside hires. Hiring from outside often occurs either in... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

09 Nov 2015
Working Paper Summaries

Toxic Workers

Keywords: by Dylan Minor

06 Apr 2007
What Do You Think?

Will Market Forces Stop Global Warming?

Summing Up Debate on this month's questions occurred on at least three levels. Is global warming occurring? Do humans (primarily through CO2 emissions) have much to do with it? Should we rely on market forces to provide appropriate responses, or will this require... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Energy; Utilities

21 Feb 2005
Research & Ideas

The VC Quandary: Too Much Money

School. Intel Capital, the chipmaker's venture division, has scaled back somewhat from the hyper investment levels of 2000, "but I've always thought it was really important in the venture market to stay in the market, be in the market consistently," said Jim... View Details

Keywords: by Julie Jette; Financial Services

04 Dec 2013
Research & Ideas

The Fantastic Horizon: How to Invest in a New City

Editor's Note: Rapid urbanization and resource scarcity pose problems—and opportunities—for businesses and governments all over the world. But who can best lead the building and developing of these municipalities? One model: promotion and regulation View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber; Construction; Real Estate

18 Aug 2014
Research & Ideas

Have a Better Idea To Improve Health Care?

dissemination of ideas," says Richard G. Hamermesh., MBA Class of 1961 Professor of Management Practice at Harvard Business School, and a faculty steering committee member of the Forum, which is a joint collaboration between HBS and... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

22 Feb 2017
Working Paper Summaries

Platforms, Open/User Innovation, and Ecosystems: A Strategic Leadership Perspective

Keywords: by Elizabeth J. Altman and Michael L. Tushman

12 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

Can Religion and Business Learn From Each Other?

uncharted areas that is part of most people's lives, and yet we haven't prepared managers and the business community to think about this very strongly," Nash says. "What we were very concerned about with the book is not to set... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

20 Mar 2014
Working Paper Summaries

Waste, Recycling and Entrepreneurship in Central and Northern Europe, 1870-1940

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Andrew Spadafora

22 Mar 2017
Research & Ideas

What's the Ideal Frequency for a Sales Quota?

spend more than $800 billion annually on those efforts. Sales compensation plans are at the center of all this activity, the primary tool managers use to motivate and incentivize salespeople. Sales reps feed on two forms of compensation:... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

26 Mar 2007
Research & Ideas

Learning from Failed Political Leadership

Weatherhead Jr. Professor of Business Administration, reflects on the book's implications for managers and executives. Martha Lagace: What is there of interest to a businessperson in this book? D. Quinn Mills: This book is full of... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

23 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

This Crisis Loan Program Preserved Jobs—and Made Money

As the US Congress prepares to replenish its Paycheck Protection Program for small businesses, questions still linger: Do guaranteed loans for small businesses work in the long term? Who wins? Employees? Businesses? Taxpayers? The answer appears to be yes for all... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services

16 Jul 2014
HBS Case

Marketing Obamacare

It's safe to say that the rollout of the Affordable Care Act was not pretty. Plagued by technical problems on Healthcare.gov, and stymied by a lack of political support in around half of the 50 states, the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

18 Jun 2001
Research & Ideas

When In-House Research Isn’t Enough

Advanced Management Program and a founding member of Intel. Now executive vice president of that corporation, he is also president of Intel Capital, a corporate venture capital unit investing in companies in this country and companies... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

21 Mar 2004
Research & Ideas

Loyalty: Don’t Give Away the Store

25 percent of your sales, you have a big problem. By using rewards programs, retailers give away things for free that their best customers would have bought anyway. With such a large volume of customers purchasing off the card, you have... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls; Consumer Products; Retail

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