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- 18 Apr 2005
- Research & Ideas
Tips to Reinvent the Department Store
Retail and Luxury Goods Conference on April 3. Chadwick noted that while department stores used to be where shoppers went for everything from baby clothes to furniture to power tools, many stores have now limited their assortment and... View Details
- 12 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Hot is the “Hot Spot” Business?
Internet pioneers looked at everything from Wi-Fi "hot spots" to the future of broadband at a recent telecommunications conference at Harvard Business School. The issues were debated at the Bandwidth Explosion colloquium held... View Details
- 14 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Water, Electricity, and Transportation: Preparing for the Population Boom
Infrastructure, and Resources"—tackled three giant subjects: water, energy, and transportation. The conference was sponsored by Harvard Business School's Business and Environment Initiative and co-chaired by professors Rebecca M.... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
What It Takes to Restore Trust in Business
more difficult than anyone would wish. According to Mills, who offered the closing comments at the Restoring Confidence in American Business conference held at Harvard Business School on April 21, which drew about 350 attendees, it is... View Details
- 21 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Are Crummy Products Your Next Growth Opportunity?
Business School professor Clayton M. Christensen. At the Harvard Business School Entrepreneurship Conference 2003, Christensen provided an advance peek at his new book, which follows on his influential The Innovator's Dilemma: When New... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Aug 2000
- Lessons from the Classroom
Under the Magnifying Glass: The Benefits of Being a Case Study
themselves, is it good business wisdom to reveal our company's weaknesses, in a case study that anyone may read—including our competitors? Would that not be arming our enemies with quite a lot of powerful ammunition? For several View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
SEC Commissioner Sees “Healing and Reform”
optimism were New Jersey Senator and former Goldman Sachs co-head Jon S. Corzine, and Ernst & Young chairman James S. Turley. In assessing the current business climate at the Restoring Confidence in American Business conference at... View Details
Keywords: by Catherine Walsh
- 10 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 10
in Conference Calls of Non-U.S. Firms By: Brochet, Francois, Patricia L. Naranjo, and Gwen Yu Abstract—We examine how linguistic complexity affects the capital market reaction to information disclosures. We define linguistic complexity as... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
Five questions for Regina E. Herzlinger
employers will likely maintain their present funding for health insurance, consumer-driven pension plans have been primarily self-funded since 1999. Q: What steps are you taking to move your idea forward, and what has been the reception from business and government? A:... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 31 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
A Scholarly Crowd Explores Crowdsourcing
Versus Deterministic Explanations of Crowdsourcing Success" to "Patients and Caregivers as Sources of Innovative Ideas and Solutions." In addition to open innovation, a conference track was devoted to scholarship around... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Calderón: Economic Arguments Needed to Fight Climate Change
streamline efforts to combat climate change. "I think fixing climate change might be easier than reforming the United Nations," Henderson responded wryly. Henderson asked Calderón about the 2010 Climate Change Conference in... View Details
- 18 Aug 2014
- Research & Ideas
Have a Better Idea To Improve Health Care?
share $150,000 and the opportunity to present their ideas at the Forum's invitation-only conference in April 2015, which attracts senior executives from big pharma, for-profit and non-profit hospitals, major insurance companies, and... View Details
- 17 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Business Case for Diabetes Disease Management
Conference on November 7. Beaulieu's research focuses on many aspects of healthcare—including contracting, quality competition in managed care, and human capital management and performance measurement. At the session, she prodded her... View Details
- 26 Oct 2017
- Research Event
In an Era of 'Fake News,' What is the Future of Advertising and Publishing?
White House popularized the term “fake news,” the influence of social media advertising and online publishing requires serious reexamination. That began to happen October 24 at the The Future of Advertising and Publishing conference held... View Details
- 23 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Gulf: It’s a Family Affair
family companies in the Gulf Region was written for a conference organized by the Kennedy School in Doha, Qatar in 1997. The frameworks and approaches I used in this article really helped me get some leverage on understanding the problems... View Details
Keywords: by Wendy Guild & Andrea Schulman
- 07 Mar 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Rise of Innovation in Asia
in the U.S. may soon have as much to fear about losing their jobs to overseas competitors as call center employees do today. Executives debated "The Present and Future of Innovation in Asia" during the 2005 Asia Business View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- Article
Front-line Staff Perspectives on Opportunities for Improving the Safety and Efficiency of Hospital Work Systems
By: Anita L. Tucker, Sara J. Singer, Jennifer E. Hayes and Alyson Falwell
Objective To link safety-related concerns raised by frontline staff about hospital work systems (operational failures) to the safety and efficiency of hospitals, and to contrast these concerns with national patient safety initiatives.
Data... View Details
Keywords: Perspective; Opportunities; Safety; Performance Efficiency; System; Failure; Conferences; Employees; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Experience and Expertise; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry; United States
Tucker, Anita L., Sara J. Singer, Jennifer E. Hayes, and Alyson Falwell. "Front-line Staff Perspectives on Opportunities for Improving the Safety and Efficiency of Hospital Work Systems." Health Services Research 43, nos. 5, pt.2 (October 2008).
- 24 Mar 2002
- Lessons from the Classroom
Case Study: A Lesson in Private Venture Financing
growth. Being listed on the stock exchange does mark a company's value but in this case it was a low mark.— Walter Kuemmerle Kuemmerle fired questions at conference participants on Gray's available options. Should they go public? Doing so... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 03 Sep 2014
- What Do You Think?
Who Should Choose Your Boss?
feel they have. Some research suggests that the perceived quality of an employee's boss has a significant influence on job satisfaction. This underlines the importance of the most recent Conference Board study results showing that, for... View Details
- 30 Dec 2013
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2013
information flow to the market through their specific organization and choreographing of earnings conference calls, report Lauren Cohen, Dong Lou, and Christopher Malloy. View Details
Keywords: by Staff