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January 2016
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Incorporating Longitudinal Pediatric Patient-centered Outcome Measurement into the Clinical Workflow Using a Commercial Electronic Health Record: A Step Toward Increasing Value for the Patient

By: Kathleen Carberry, Zachary Landman, Michelle Xie, Thomas W. Feeley, John Henderson and Charles Fraser Jr.

Patient-centered outcomes measurement provides healthcare organizations with crucial information for increasing value for patients; however, organizations have struggled to obtain outcomes data from electronic health record (EHR) systems. This study describes how Texas... View Details

Keywords: Epic; Electronic Health Records; Outcomes; Value; Patient-Centered Outcomes Measurement; Value Creation; Information Technology; Health Care and Treatment; Customer Focus and Relationships; Health Industry; Texas

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01 Dec 2018
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Action Plan: The Power of Story

As a guy who makes his living getting—and keeping—people’s attention, Charles Henderson (MBA 1991) appreciates the value of a memorable tagline. He knows that his is more compelling than most. “I call it my ‘heroin-to-Harvard’ story,” he... View Details

Keywords: Ryan Jones

April 2020
Supplement

Should a Pension Fund Try to Change the World? Inside GPIF's Embrace of ESG

2016
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Unpacking the Dynamics of Successful Change: Ten Insights from the Private Sector

Book Abstract: The aim of this book is to catalyze global interest in the pursuit of transformational changes in natural resource and environmental management. It is shown that transformational policy reforms involve fundamental shifts in strategy with far-reaching... View Details

Keywords: Change Management; Environmental Sustainability; Policy; Transformation; Australia; New Zealand; China; United States; Europe; Southeast Asia

November 2002 (Revised June 2003)
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Corning, Inc.: Technology Strategy in 2003

Corning, Inc. has a 150-year history of building a strategy around innovation. Founded as a glass manufacturer in 1851, the company quickly established itself as a maker of specialty glass products and over the next 100 years diversified into light bulbs, television,... View Details

Keywords: Information Technology; Strategy; Innovation Strategy; Situation or Environment; Research and Development; Consumer Products Industry; United States

Educators

22 Apr 2010
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Harvard Business School Faculty on Business and the Environment

17 Mar 2024
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How To Find A Greater Sense Of Purpose At Work

10 Jan 2021
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Business Can’t Take Democracy for Granted

November 11, 2016
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The Fortune 500 Can't Go Along with a Rollback on Climate Policy

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10 Jun 2021
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Managing Sustainable Advantage with Key ESG Cofounders, Anne-Marie Schoonbeek and Heleen van Poecke

managing performance, but also translates it into ESG metrics relevant to their industry. “The metrics we use are based on the latest academic research (including research from HBS professors Rebecca View Details

02 Jan 2018
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Bringing Teachers to All of America

Jared Henderson (MBA 2007) was executive director of Teach for America in Arkansas until winter 2017, when he announced a run for governor of the state. In this interview, conducted during Spring Reunion in May 2017, View Details

2013
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Constructing Green: The Social Structures of Sustainability

By: Rebecca Henn and Andrew J. Hoffman

Buildings are the nation's greatest energy consumers. Forty percent of all our energy is used for heating, cooling, lighting, and powering machines and devices in buildings. And despite decades of investment in green construction technologies, residential and... View Details

Keywords: Environmental Sustainability; Green Technology; Green Building; Transition; Social Issues

2012
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Schumpeterian Competition and Diseconomies of Scope: Illustrations from the Histories of Microsoft and IBM

By: Timothy F. Bresnahan, Shane Greenstein and Rebecca M. Henderson

We address a longstanding question about the causes of creative destruction. Dominant incumbent firms, long successful in an existing technology, are often much less successful in new technological eras. This is puzzling, since a cursory analysis would suggest that... View Details

Keywords: Technological Innovation; Opportunities; Competition; Information Technology; Innovation and Management; Organizations; Relationships; Information Technology Industry

01 Mar 2012
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Thinking Green

As part of the cross-University program Harvard Thinks Big, in December six professors from different Harvard schools offered their thoughts on climate change. University Professor Rebecca Henderson and... View Details

Keywords: awards; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Finance; Mining; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade

18 Jul 2018
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Ensuring HBS Remains a Dynamic Community

Rebecca Sumner Lien (MBA 1993) (photo by Genevieve Shiffrar) Rebecca Sumner Lien (MBA 1993) (photo by Genevieve Shiffrar) A part-time job at a... View Details

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2022 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

Gender and Work Symposium Harvard Business School Symposium Co-chairs, Robin Ely (HBS) and Lakshmi Ramarajan (HBS) welcome attendees to the conference. Symposium Co-chairs, Robin Ely (HBS) and Lakshmi Ramarajan (HBS) welcome attendees to the conference. View Details

Winter 2023
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Moral Firms?

Building a new political economy requires transforming our markets, our institutions, and our policy and regulatory regimes. In this essay, I argue that it also requires transforming the purpose of the firm: from a singular focus on maximizing financial returns to the... View Details

Keywords: Transformation; Mission and Purpose; Economy

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September 2021
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Innovation in the 21st Century: Architectural Change, Purpose, and the Challenges of Our Time

Understanding the process of innovation has been a central concern of management researchers, but despite this progress, there remains much that we do not understand. Deepening our knowledge is critically important given the enormous environmental and social challenges... View Details

Keywords: Architectural Innovation; Systemic Innovation; Innovation and Invention; Mission and Purpose; Environmental Sustainability