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  • July 1980 (Revised November 1981)
  • Case

Strike in Space

A three-man skylab crew, after repeatedly unsuccessful attempts to influence Houston Mission Control to slow down the work pace, turns off radio communication and refuses to talk. Questions for the class: What leads up to this break? How does one repair it? View Details
Keywords: Working Conditions; Conflict and Resolution; Aerospace Industry; Houston
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  • Web

Application Requirements - Doctoral

It should largely be your own work and you should be prepared to discuss the content and your contributions. It should be no more than 10 pages of text, plus references. GRE & GMAT All applicants are required to take either the General... View Details
  • 21 Oct 2008
  • First Look

First Look: October 21, 2008

  Working PapersCan Higher Prices Stimulate Product Use? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Zambia (revised) Authors:Nava Ashraf, James Berry, and Jesse M. Shapiro Abstract The controversy over whether and how much to charge for health... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 27 Sep 2016
  • HBS Seminar

Catherine Tinsley, Georgetown University McDonough School of Business

  • August 1985
  • Case

Bob Malott and Product Liability Law Reform

Robert Malott, Chairman and CEO of FMC, must decide whether or not to continue his work on product liability law reform, an issue on which he has worked for almost 10 years. Malott must decide how extensive his own involvement should be and what arguments he can or... View Details
Keywords: Management; Decision Choices and Conditions; Personal Development and Career; Legal Liability
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  • 11 Sep 2018
  • Blog Post

Care for the Elderly: Process is More Important Than the Destination

With the support of the HBS Summer Fellows Program, I had the opportunity to follow my passion and work on my project to support senior care in China. As China is entering into an ageing society sooner than everyone might have imagined... View Details
Keywords: Health Care

    Learning to Successfully Hire in Online Labor Markets

    Hiring in online labor markets involves considerable uncertainty: which hiring choices are more likely to yield successful outcomes and how do employers adjust their hiring behaviors to make such choices? We argue that employers will initially explore the value... View Details
    • November 22, 2022
    • Article

    Is Novel Research Worth Doing? Evidence from Peer Review at 49 Journals

    By: Misha Teplitskiy, Hao Peng, Andrea Blasco and Karim R. Lakhani
    There are long-standing concerns that peer review, which is foundational to scientific institutions like journals and funding agencies, favors conservative ideas over novel ones. We investigate the association between novelty and the acceptance of manuscripts submitted... View Details
    Keywords: Research; Journals and Magazines
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    Megastudies Improve the Impact of Applied Behavioural Science

    By: Katherine L. Milkman, Dena Gromet, Hung Ho, Joseph S. Kay, Timothy W. Lee, Pepi Pandiloski, Yeji Park, Aneesh Rai, Max Bazerman, John Beshears, Lauri Bonacorsi, Colin Camerer, Edward Chang, Gretchen Chapman, Robert Cialdini, Hengchen Dai, Lauren Eskreis-Winkler, Ayelet Fishbach, James J. Gross, Samantha Horn, Alexa Hubbard, Steven J. Jones, Dean Karlan, Tim Kautz, Erika Kirgios, Joowon Klusowski, Ariella Kristal, Rahul Ladhania, Jens Ludwig, George Loewenstein, Barbara Mellers, Sendhil Mullainathan, Silvia Saccardo, Jann Spiess, Gaurav Suri, Joachim H. Talloen, Jamie Taxer, Yaacov Trope, Lyle Ungar, Kevin G. Volpp, Ashley V. Whillans, Jonathan Zinman and Angela L. Duckworth
    Policy-makers are increasingly turning to behavioural science for insights about how to improve citizens’ decisions and outcomes. Typically, different scientists test different intervention ideas in different samples using different outcomes over different time... View Details
    Keywords: Policy Making; Behavioral Science; Behavior; Change; Decision Making; Policy
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    • June 30, 2020
    • Article

    Scaling Up Behavioral Science Interventions in Online Education

    By: Rene F. Kizilcec, Justin Reich, Michael Yeomans, Christoph Dann, Emma Brunskill, Glenn Lopez, Selen Turkay, Joseph J. Williams and Dustin Tingley
    Online education is rapidly expanding in response to rising demand for higher and continuing education, but many online students struggle to achieve their educational goals. Several behavioral science interventions have shown promise in raising student persistence and... View Details
    Keywords: Online Learning; Behavioral Interventions; Scale; Education; Online Technology; Performance Improvement
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      [Dissertation Research] Bringing Worlds Together: Cultural Brokerage in Multicultural Teams

      My dissertation (2013 Organization Science/ INFORMS Dissertation Proposal Competition Finalist) examines the dynamics and creative performance of multicultural teams. Using both qualitative and quantitative methods, I introduce the concept of "cultural... View Details

      • Forthcoming
      • Article

      People Overestimate How Harshly They Are Evaluated for Disengaging from Passion Pursuit

      By: Zachariah Berry, Brian J. Lucas and Jon M. Jachimowicz
      The call to pursue one’s passion is ubiquitous advice, and prior research highlights the many upsides to doing so. To pursue one’s passion sustainably, people need to try different pursuits— and critically, drop those that are not tenable for them. However,... View Details
      Keywords: Moral Sensibility; Attitudes; Perception; Judgments; Behavior; Goals and Objectives
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      • November–December 2010
      • Article

      A Method for Defining Value in Healthcare Using Cancer Care as a Model

      By: Thomas W. Feeley, Heidi Albright, Ronald Walters and Thomas W. Burke
      Value-based healthcare delivery is being discussed in a variety of healthcare forums. This concept is of great importance in the reform of the US healthcare delivery system. Defining and applying the principles of value-based competition in healthcare delivery models... View Details
      Keywords: Value Creation; Cancer Care In The U.S.; Healthcare; Health; Management; Measurement and Metrics; Health Industry; North and Central America
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      • August 2023
      • Case

      Stay or Go? Sarah Reynolds at Kensington Partners

      By: David G. Fubini, Amr Seifeldin and Patrick Sanguineti
      Sarah Reynolds, a Partner at the global Kensington Partners strategy consulting firm, has headed the firm's Telecommunications Group for a few years. Thanks to her stellar track record with clients, she has brought the group, and herself, a range of accolades and... View Details
      Keywords: Consulting; Consulting Firms; Client Service; Career Management; Success; Time Management; Decision Choices and Conditions; Personal Development and Career
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      • Web

      Value-Based Health Care - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

      HBS ISC Health Care Health Care Value-Based Health Care Health Care Courses Fast Facts Value-Based Health Care Value-Based Health Care Cases & Teaching Notes Key Concepts Key Stakeholders Publications Team Work With Us Presentations... View Details
      • September 2018 (Revised December 2019)
      • Case

      Zebra Medical Vision

      By: Shane Greenstein and Sarah Gulick
      An Israeli startup founded in 2014, Zebra Medical Vision developed algorithms that produced diagnoses from X-rays, mammograms, and CT-scans. The algorithms used deep learning and digitized radiology scans to create software that could assist doctors in making... View Details
      Keywords: Radiology; Machine Learning; X-ray; CT Scan; Medical Technology; Probability; FDA 510(k); Diagnosis; Business Startups; Health Care and Treatment; Information Technology; Applications and Software; Competitive Strategy; Product Development; Commercialization; Decision Choices and Conditions; Health Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Technology Industry; Israel
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      • 16 Dec 2014
      • First Look

      First Look: December 16

      more or less effective. We develop these ideas in a multi-method study of a hospital emergency department (ED) redesign. Before the redesign, people coordinated in ad-hoc groupings, which provided flexibility because any nurse could work... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • 11 Sep 2017
      • Research & Ideas

      Why Employers Favor Men

      findings may help employers train recruiters to be aware of their biases and work around them. The two faces of discrimination Gender discrimination clearly runs through the workplace. Women earn about 78 cents on the dollar compared to... View Details
      Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
      • September 2017
      • Case

      Dr. William Carson— Intrapreneurial Innovation in the Pharmaceutical Industry

      By: Steven Rogers and Alyssa Haywoode
      Dr. William Carson, an African-American alum of Harvard University became the President and CEO of a multi billion dollar division of Otsuka, a Japan based pharmaceutical company. His ascension to this leadership position followed a thriving career in academic medicine... View Details
      Keywords: Dr. Williams Carson; Otsuka America Pharmaceutical; Harvard; Abilify; Aripiprazole; Health Testing and Trials; Globalized Firms and Management; Globalized Markets and Industries; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Decision Choices and Conditions; Pharmaceutical Industry; Japan
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      • May 1982 (Revised May 1985)
      • Case

      Human Resources at Hewlett-Packard

      By: Michael Beer and Richard O. von Werssowetz
      Provides an overview of all the human resource policies and practices applied by Hewlett-Packard. As such, it is an opportunity to analyze Hewlett-Packard's practices in all four policy areas; stakeholder influence, flows, rewards, and work systems. View Details
      Keywords: Human Resources; Management Practices and Processes; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Working Conditions; Policy
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