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Describing Wait Time Bottlenecks for ED Patients Undergoing Head CT

By: Jonathan G. Rogg, Robert S. Huckman, Michael Lev, Ali Raja, Yuchiao Chang and Benjamin White

Study objectives: Facing increased utilization and subsequent capacity and budget constraints, EDs must better understand bottlenecks and their effect on process flow to improve process efficiency. The primary objective of this study was to identify bottlenecks in... View Details

Keywords: Health Care; Bottleneck; Health Care and Treatment; Operations; Health Industry; United States

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14 Sep 2021
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Dashun Wang, Northwestern

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Impact | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Influencing practice and advancing the field for over 25 years. Through the work of the faculty, the Social... View Details

Judo Strategy: Turning Your Competitors’ Strength to Your Advantage

Why do some companies succeed in defeating stronger rivals, while others fail? This is a question that, sooner or later, all ambitious competitors must face. Whether you’re a tiny start-up taking on industry giants or a giant moving into markets dominated by... View Details

16 Jul 2013
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Visualizing and Measuring Enterprise Architecture: An Exploratory BioPharma Case

Keywords: by Robert Lagerstrom, Carliss Baldwin, Alan MacCormack & David Dreyfus

27 Mar 2017
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Should Entrepreneurs Get an MBA?

take the opposite position of Peter Thiel and Elon Musk and argue that business school is for everyone or every entrepreneur – I’m sure it is not – but instead to say that each View Details

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Entrepreneurial Management Curriculum - Faculty & Research

YEAR) Course Title Faculty Name Term Quarter Credits 3 Technologies that Will Change the World Shikhar Ghosh Spring 2026 Q3Q4 3.0 Avoiding Startup Failure DJ DiDonna Spring 2026 Q3Q4 3.0 B2B Sales and Distribution (also listed under... View Details

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Entrepreneurship - Faculty & Research

empowerment, others condemned it as a disaster for the poor. Female empowerment has often been seen as one of the key promises of View Details

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Streamlined Real-Time Slide Generation and Editing

Lets an instructor build slides during class, based on class discussion -- "the chalkboard alternative." Student view offers a clean display with no distracting details (no menus, toolbars, or the... View Details

06 Oct 2010
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John Kotter: Four Ways to Kill a Good Idea

achieved if an audience feels uneasy with those presenting a proposal. Without even saying the words, a question is raised about whether you are smart enough to have done careful homework on a problem, or visionary enough to see better... View Details

Keywords: by John Kotter & Lorne A. Whitehead

06 Dec 2011
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First Look: Dec. 6

as identity work and show how subtle forms of gender bias in the culture and in organizations interfere with the identity work of women leaders.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

13 May 2013
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How to Spot a Liar

would happen naturally," Van Swol says. Ultimately, the receiver had to decide whether the proposed allocation was fair and honest, based only on a conversation with View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

21 Oct 2015
Research & Ideas

How to Predict if a New Business Idea is Any Good

the researchers drilled down into the data, however, they found some marked differences in the ability to forecast success based on View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Accommodations; Financial Services

13 Aug 2012
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When Good Incentives Lead to Bad Decisions

incentives came with bigger rewards or penalties than others. The researchers found that incentive schemes based solely on origination resulted in a 16 percent increase in lending compared with a... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Banking

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By: Feng Zhu

Professor Zhu’s research focuses on the design of platform business models and its impact on platform performance. Platforms have become central to our economy. A platform is a product or service that enables two or more customer groups to interact. For example,... View Details

20 Dec 2013
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Zooming In: A Practical Manual for Identifying Geographic Clusters

Keywords: by Juan Alcácer & Minyuan Zhao

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The Information Age has introduced well-received opportunities to track performance. Fitbits and Fuelbands allow individuals to track their own performance; companies like Uber and leading hospitals help you choose a driver or a doctor based on how others rated... View Details

Keywords: Management Accounting; Disclosure; Performance Measurement; Incentives; Control; Education; Education Industry; Health Industry; Transportation Industry; Energy Industry; Auto Industry; United States; Japan; India

13 Nov 2013
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Should Men’s Products Fear a Woman’s Touch?

Porsche owners, even though they drove Porsche sports cars." Here's a sample of comments from an online conversation in one of the Porsche brand communities, which Avery... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Consumer Products; Food & Beverage; Auto

16 Jan 2006
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Adam Smith, Behavioral Economist?

it's been able to develop tractable models with strong predictive capacity; in other words, it simplifies the complex phenomena of human decision-making, interaction, and exchange into its barest form and... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

June 2020
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How Scheduling Can Bias Quality Assessment: Evidence from Food Safety Inspections

By: Maria Ibanez and Michael W. Toffel

Accuracy and consistency are critical for inspections to be an effective, fair, and useful tool for assessing risks, quality, and suppliers—and for making decisions based on those assessments. We examine how inspector schedules could introduce bias that erodes... View Details