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- 04 Jun 2020
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It’s Not About You: Why Leaders Need to Look Outward
diagnose whether or not you're optimizing on it. And then, more important, how you can fix it immediately. It’s not, “Oh, my gosh. We have to rebuild trust. Let's come up with a five-year plan.” You will have wasted four years and 11 months. Senz: What are some... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 17 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
Why Business Should Support Employees Who Are Caregivers
Companies with care cultures: Understand their employees’ evolving caregiving needs. They routinely survey their employees and evaluate the company’s demographics, so they can offer meaningful benefits and policies. They promote existing... View Details
- 07 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Better Way to Forecast the Future
Whether it’s booking a hotel, renting a movie, or buying a car, many of us consult multiple reviews before deciding. It’s called aggregating opinions, and we do it without even thinking about it. Crowdsourcing works so well, in fact, says... View Details
F. Warren McFarlan
Professor McFarlan earned his AB from Harvard University in 1959, and his MBA and DBA from the Harvard Business School in 1961 and 1965 respectively. He has had a significant role in introducing materials on Management Information Systems to all major programs at... View Details
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Delivery Project The Institute for Cancer Care Innovation MOC Network ICIC U.S. Cluster Mapping Project U.S. Competitiveness Project FSG Shared Value Initiative Social Progress Imperative AllWorld Network ICHOM International Consortium... View Details
- 22 Apr 2019
- Research & Ideas
Why Salespeople Struggle at Leading
HBS and recently wrote an article called Sales Managers Must Manage for Top Sales Magazine. “It’s all about the difference between learning to take care of yourself and learning to take care of others, from... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 21 Sep 2022
- Research & Ideas
You Don’t Have to Quit Your Job to Find More Meaning in Life
It’s a philosophical debate as old as time: What is the secret to leading a meaningful life? For many, the question gained new urgency after years of social distancing and upheaval during the COVID-19 pandemic. After surviving a public View Details
Keywords: by Shalene Gupta
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Rounding the Bend
algorithms, photographed automatically, and offered for sale on its online marketplace. ThredUp is a tech company in the thrift-store business. Processing 100,000 unique items a day takes careful automation and creates a ton of View Details
- 07 May 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
Broadening Focus: Spillovers and the Benefits of Specialization in the Hospital Industry
- 24 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 24
trust, employee commitment, and "ownership" behaviors of both employees and clients-could explain and be used to predict up to half of the difference in operating income between agency offices of a global service provider. The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- July 2013 (Revised May 2024)
- Case
BMVSS: Changing Lives, One Jaipur Limb at a Time
By: Srikant Datar and Saloni Chaturvedi
Bhagwan Mahaveer Viklang Sahayata Samiti (BMVSS) is an Indian not-for-profit organization engaged in assisting differently-abled persons by providing them with the legendary low-cost prosthesis, the Jaipur Foot, and other mobility-assisting devices, free of cost. Known... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit Organizations; Financial Condition; Health Care and Treatment; Diversity; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Growth and Development Strategy; Health Industry; Health Industry; India; Asia
Datar, Srikant, and Saloni Chaturvedi. "BMVSS: Changing Lives, One Jaipur Limb at a Time." Harvard Business School Case 114-007, July 2013. (Revised May 2024.)
- 29 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Are You Paying a Tip--or a Bribe?
though that's not what the employees are getting paid to do," Torfason ssaysaid. "Executives need to be careful not to use their positions to start expecting benefits that go beyond their corporate... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 25 May 2021
- Blog Post
The Surprising Power of Nostalgia at Work
creative and inspired. I’ve been conducting research on the psychology of nostalgia for almost 20 years. Based on what I’ve learned, I believe managers can use the power of nostalgia to help their organizations thrive. Nostalgia Is a... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- Article
Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing in Emergency Medicine
By: Robert S. Kaplan, Brian J. Yun, Anand M. Prabhakar, Jonathan Warsh, John Brennan, Kyle E. Dempsey and Ali S. Raja
Value in emergency medicine is determined by both patient-important outcomes and the costs associated with achieving them. However, measuring true costs is challenging. Without an understanding of costs, emergency department (ED) leaders will be unable to determine... View Details
Keywords: Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing; Emergency Room; Health Care and Treatment; Value; Cost Management; Activity Based Costing and Management
Kaplan, Robert S., Brian J. Yun, Anand M. Prabhakar, Jonathan Warsh, John Brennan, Kyle E. Dempsey, and Ali S. Raja. "Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing in Emergency Medicine." Annals of Emergency Medicine 67, no. 6 (June 2016): 765–772.
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
Scalable Energy Efficient Quantum Computing and pronounced “seek”—is using to achieve this computational dream looks like something straight out of a sci-fi film. The gleaming steel cylinders hanging from the ceiling, for example, are... View Details
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- 19 Apr 2023
- News
A Kick Start for Latin American Startups
unlock partnerships or who can help founders think through problems." The tech MAYA is funding is also fulfilling its transformative mission. Alice, for example, is a Brazilian startup that is upending the health View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 28 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 28
Working PapersNone this week PublicationsAdverse Selection in Online 'Trust' Certifications Author:Benjamin Edelman Publication:Proceedings of ICEC'09 (forthcoming). ACM International Conference Proceeding Series Abstract Widely used... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 2021
- Article
Don't Get It or Don't Spread It: Comparing Self-interested versus Prosocial Motivations for COVID-19 Prevention Behaviors
By: Jillian J. Jordan, Erez Yoeli and David Rand
COVID-19 prevention behaviors may be seen as self-interested or prosocial. Using American samples from MTurk and Prolific (total n = 6,850), we investigated which framing is more effective—and motivation is stronger—for fostering prevention behavior intentions. We... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19; Prevention; Prosocial Motivation; Health Pandemics; Behavior; Motivation and Incentives
Jordan, Jillian J., Erez Yoeli, and David Rand. "Don't Get It or Don't Spread It: Comparing Self-interested versus Prosocial Motivations for COVID-19 Prevention Behaviors." Art. 20222. Scientific Reports 11 (2021).
- 05 Jun 2009
- What Do You Think?
What Does Slower Economic Growth Really Mean?
Other activities included in GDP, such as health care costs, do not reflect the fact that spending more on health care is, in John Caddell's... View Details