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- 01 Apr 1998
- News
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practical guide for managers who wish to understand how cost and performance management systems can increase profits and performance. Its authors, HBS professor Robert S. Kaplan and Robin Cooper of the Peter F. Drucker Graduate Management... View Details
- 18 Oct 2016
- Op-Ed
Why Business Should Invest in Community Health
improve health in their communities. The business case for investing in community health is compelling, especially for companies that depend on communities for workers and customers. Sick and absent workers cost American firms some $225... View Details
- 08 Nov 2024
- Op-Ed
How Private Investors Can Help Solve Africa's Climate Crisis
African people, businesses, and nations are becoming increasingly stressed by climate-related perils like droughts, river flooding, extreme heat, and rising sea levels. This is leading not only to the destruction of assets but also challenges to lives and... View Details
- 15 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Growing Pains: Prescriptions for U.S. Health Care
examples have already begun to appear in the form of specialized treatment centers that concentrate, for instance, on cardiac or renal disorders or high-tech medical imaging. This narrow focus minimizes overhead View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Why Layoffs are a Losing Strategy
into these outliers began in the late 2000s, after teaching the Malden Mills case in the MBA required course Leadership and Corporate Accountability. Most in the class believed Feuerstein had made a grave mistake; the decision had cost... View Details
- 27 Mar 2005
- Research & Ideas
Should I Pay the Bribe?
around the topic of extortion. "The Shakedown" looks at the conflicts faced by the owner of a software development center in Kiev. Pavlo Zhuk, the U.S.-based co-owner, is notified by his partner that their Kiev office has been... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia D. Churchwell
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Past Projects | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
using brachytherapy. Our next step will be to compare outcomes across these two centers, giving us both outcome and cost data for these different treatment paradigms (comprehensive academic center vs.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Noted & Quoted
“Some Democrats view Medicare as a successful cost controller, pointing to its low administrative overhead, which they peg at 3 percent. But that figure ignores an inconvenient truth: Medicare’s unfunded liabilities, estimated at about... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- Research & Ideas
For Migrant Workers, Homesickness Can Reduce Productivity
Freedom to use vacation time to attend celebrations with family and friends helps improve performance for employees who work far away from their hometowns, new research by Prithwiraj Choudhury suggests. When employees move away from their hometowns for work, they... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 08 Dec 2008
- Research & Ideas
Thinking Twice About Supply-Chain Layoffs
unavoidable, research by HBS assistant professor Zeynep Ton suggests that retailers should make labor decisions thoughtfully. "Many retailers see labor more as a cost driver than a sales driver." Her advice: Consider the supply-chain foot... View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Daniel L. Vasella, M.D.
rational thinking. It enhanced my confidence, so that even as a physician, I would be able to compete in business and make lifelong learning a passionate experience." COMMUNITY OUTREACH Governor, The Peres Center for Peace Member,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Competencies and Credentials
degree inflation: Over the last decade, changes in employment expectations have created a powerful combination of underachievement and misalignment that is costing both US competitiveness and working-class Americans aspiring to a decent... View Details
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Employers - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
their employees for complex conditions and bring in house care for common conditions. Key Action Steps for Employers Set the goal of increasing health value, not minimizing health benefit costs Develop program for employee wellness in the... View Details
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
The New Space Race
payload—this one delivered the company’s New Shepard module that someday could give human passengers a taste of space travel—and are destroyed on the way up or crash back to Earth in pieces. With rockets costing tens of millions of... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Mar 2017
- Research & Ideas
A Good Thing Happens When Doctors Start Talking to Their Patients
condition—to patients and society—than it should be.” By some estimates, about 10 percent of costs in the health care system are due to diabetes-related procedures. “If you had a diabetes center giving... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
No Place Like Home
Illustration by Mercedes McDonald. Orchard Gardens photo by Ed Quinn/Saba In many parts of the country, housing costs and shortages have begun to show signs of adversely affecting corporations, workers, and local economies. Affordable... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 20 Jan 2015
- News
Patient Medical Records, Pocket-sized
the cost of care. The records are secure—encrypted, password-protected, HIPAA-compliant, and not stored on a server. In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Bushkin read of displaced New Orleanians whose paper medical records had been... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Tracking a Turnaround
The newly hired president and CEO of a local medical center faces a daunting task: Under intense public scrutiny, he must save a complex, rapidly failing organization whose culture is marred by indecision and distrust — and do so in an... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
At Your Service
Anne Morriss (MBA 2004) maintain that it is possible for organizations to reduce costs while dramatically enhancing customer service. That win-win approach involves “looking at your biggest buckets of cost... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Case Study: Declawing the Competition
in subscriber growth and customer feedback. However, the lucrative market opportunity ($8 billion, growing at 4 percent year-over-year) and the low costs of entry are attracting new competition. New cat-focused subscription boxes have... View Details