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  • 22 Dec 2003
  • Research & Ideas

How to Build a Better Board

limited time and limited knowledge. Therefore, it's very important for independent directors to be in the best positions they can be for developing their knowledge. Those... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • Article

The Inpatient Discharge Lounge as a Potential Mechanism to Mitigate Emergency Department Boarding and Crowding

By: Brian Franklin, Sharif Vakili, Robert S. Huckman, Sarah Hosein, Nicholas Falk, Katherine Cheng, Maria Murray, Sheila Harris, Charles A. Morris and Eric Goralnick
Delayed access to inpatient beds for admitted patients contributes significantly to emergency department (ED) boarding and crowding, which have been associated with deleterious patient safety effects. To expedite inpatient bed availability, some hospitals have... View Details
Keywords: Health Care Delivery; Emergency Room; Operations Improvement; Operations Management; Health Care and Treatment; Service Delivery; Operations; Management; Performance Improvement; Service Operations
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  • 01 Jun 2007
  • What Do You Think?

How Should Pay Be Linked to Performance?

corporate objectives to your employees ." The perverse effects of pay for performance were also targeted. Sylvia Lee pointed out that "we want knowledge sharing but reward knowledge hoarding."... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 04 May 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Need to Solve a Problem? Take a Break From Collaborating

clustered positions were more likely to copy an incorrect theory from a neighbor than their less-clustered counterparts. "We realized that the network structure seemed to... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Video Game; Web Services
  • 01 Dec 2018
  • News

Adapting to Meet Changing Needs

Anthony Mayo—members of the School’s Organizational Behavior Unit recognized for their excellence in the classroom—quickly realized they needed to reinvent the way they taught. “We had to rethink basic... View Details
  • 19 Jun 2013
  • News

Your Guide to Social Enterprise

Georgia Levenson Keohane Photo courtesy of Georgia Levenson Keohane What is social entrepreneurship? Is it simply an approach to business in which profit comes hand in hand with some positive social change? Or is it the application of... View Details
Keywords: Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • 2023
  • Working Paper

Design-Based Confidence Sequences: A General Approach to Risk Mitigation in Online Experimentation

By: Dae Woong Ham, Michael Lindon, Martin Tingley and Iavor Bojinov
Randomized experiments have become the standard method for companies to evaluate the performance of new products or services. In addition to augmenting managers’ decision-making, experimentation mitigates risk by limiting the proportion of customers exposed to... View Details
Keywords: Performance Evaluation; Research and Development; Analytics and Data Science; Consumer Behavior
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  • 01 Oct 2001
  • Research & Ideas

How To Make Restructuring Work for Your Company

profitable when it decided to do its spin-off. What can be done to encourage companies to restructure sooner rather than later? In the case of United Air Lines, management in... View Details
Keywords: by Stuart C. Gilson
  • 01 Jun 1996
  • News

GMAT Added to Admissions Criteria

In April, Dean Kim B. Clark announced that Harvard Business School will add the Graduate Management Admissions Test (GMAT) to the portfolio of criteria used to evaluate a candidate's application View Details

    Design-Based Confidence Sequences: A General Approach to Risk Mitigation in Online Experimentation.

    Randomized experiments have become the standard method for companies to evaluate the performance of new products or services. In addition to augmenting managers' decision-making, experimentation mitigates risk by limiting the proportion of customers exposed to... View Details
    • 20 Aug 2014
    • News

    With No Time to Lose

    Avi Kremer (MBA 2007) A Network for Life “We were just a group of friends, bringing our skill sets from our jobs, to help Avi,” says Amy Yamner Jenkins (MBA 2006), who became very close View Details
    Keywords: Margie Kelley
    • 01 Sep 2005
    • News

    Clark Bids Farewell to HBS

    more than rigorous and relevant. It should give some measure of inspiration and aspiration to the world. Part of our work is providing the means to more effectively mobilize... View Details
    Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
    • 06 May 2015
    • Research & Ideas

    A Flood of Picassos Threatens to Water Down the Art Market

    early-period paintings, for instance) are subject to the pressures of supply and demand. This leaves little opportunity for newer investors to buy low and watch the value of their pieces grow over time,... View Details
    • June 2021
    • Article

    Does the Freedom of Information Act Foil the Securities and Exchange Commission's Intent to Keep Investigations Confidential?

    By: Braiden Coleman, Kenneth Merkley, Brian Miller and Joseph Pacelli
    The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has a long-standing policy to keep formal investigations confidential. In this study, we examine the extent to which compliance with the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) provides investors with information about ongoing SEC... View Details
    Keywords: Securities And Exchange Commission (SEC) Investigations; Freedom Of Information Act (FOIA); Exemption Denials
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    • 22 Sep 2003
    • Research & Ideas

    How Businesses Can Respond to AIDS

    nations, but the diseases' effects and potential impact on businesses and organizations is only recently coming into stark relief, particularly in Africa and Asia. Approximately 38 million adults and children in Africa and Asia (including... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace
    • 01 Dec 2008
    • News

    Leadership: Getting Down to Fundamentals

    spring Harvard Business Press will publish an edited volume of the colloquium papers, which we expect to serve as the foundation for a doctoral course on leadership research and scholarship. We’ve also established the Leadership Research... View Details
    Keywords: Julia Hanna
    • April 2012
    • Article

    Retail Doesn't Cross Borders: Here's Why and What to Do about It

    By: Marcel Corstjens and Rajiv Lal
    Most companies assume that the easiest way to grow is by investing overseas and that the developing world offers the best opportunities for boosting revenues and profits today. However, success abroad varies widely, and research shows that it's often tough to... View Details
    Keywords: Operations; Growth and Development Strategy; Globalization; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Local Range; Retail Industry
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    • 31 Mar 2023
    • Blog Post

    How to Come Out at Work

    right approach - every situation is unique,” said Schlacks. Your existing network is a great place to start when seeking out a mentor, but you can also connect with HBS alumni. Great places View Details
    • 03 Jun 2020
    • Blog Post

    How to Thrive as a Remote Manager and Employee

    projects to allow time for reflection and utilize meeting time most effectively Encourage employees to “unplug.” Set expectations for standard work times across time zones.... View Details
    • 06 Oct 2015
    • Blog Post

    Henry McGee: From HBO to HBS

    Nick Nicholas, HBS ’64, he convinced me that HBO had the potential to revolutionize the industry.  His vision was so compelling that I signed on and didn’t leave for 34 years when I retired and return to... View Details