Access To Care - Publications - Faculty & Research

27 Oct 2008
Lessons from the Classroom

Achieving Excellence in Nonprofits

words, the organization has as its main purpose the advancement of a set of social goals and the creation of social value. That obviously (by law!) includes nonprofit organizations, but it can also include the so-called new social enterprises (for-profit organizations... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

02 Mar 2016
What Do You Think?

Is Apple’s Real Privacy Challenge Technology Innovation Itself?

put it, “Remember, if you lose personal liberty and privacy, you lose everything. Be very careful what you would wish for in the cause of ‘national interest’.” Commenting that it requires some subtlety to... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Technology

27 Jun 2005
Research & Ideas

The Potential Downside of Win-Win

shared second-choice dinner option, and movie E, their shared second-choice movie option. But these two professionals, both trained in value-creation negotiation, realize that Al cares much more about where they eat dinner, while Marie... View Details

Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman

12 May 2003
Research & Ideas

How Hot is the “Hot Spot” Business?

high-speed Internet access over a short distance of a few hundred feet. A portable computer or PDA equipped with a Wi-Fi card can tap into the hot spot and jump onto the Net for wireless surfing. Although the hot-spot phenomenon is big... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne & Martha Lagace; Technology; Communications; Telecommunications

13 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

Why Public Companies Underinvest in the Future

private firms differs.” So when Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Joan Farre-Mensa learned he'd been granted access to a database of accounting information on tens of thousands of private American... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish

19 Nov 2014
HBS Case

Marketing Marijuana

segment shows different dynamics in terms of its sensitivity to price, marketing, and convenience. Medicinal consumers, for example, do not care so much about variety. "Once you find the strain and... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Food & Beverage

18 Sep 2000
Research & Ideas

Getting It Done: Improving Nonprofit Performance

Whereas the for-profit capital markets provide transparent objective criteria for making early- and later-stage investment decisions, balance risks with return, and create a "performance-driving cycle" by rewarding improvements in the top and bottom lines with View Details

Keywords: by James E. Aisner

29 Jan 2015
Op-Ed

The Fall of Greece

allocated in competitive markets) is far superior to a centrally planned economy where the means of production are controlled by the political process. And the superiority does not come only in terms of economic growth, but also... View Details

Keywords: by George Serafeim

16 Aug 2016
First Look

August 16, 2016

Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51488 June 2016 American Journal of Managed Care When Doctors Go to Business School: Career Choices of Physician-MBAs By: Ljuboja, Damir,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

12 Jan 2015
Research & Ideas

Regulators Ease Up on Companies Generating Political Benefits

charity care to uninsured patients. "It's a Robin Hood story," Heese says. "These hospitals overbill the insured patients to generate money View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

19 Feb 2018
Sharpening Your Skills

Amazoned: Is Any Industry Safe?

discussion on health care management, experts looked to the retail industry as a possible model for delivering medical services more effectively. What's your take on Amazon? Share your thoughts in the reader... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

03 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

5 New Year's Resolutions You Can Keep (With the Help of Behavioral Science Research)

likely to work out if they know whether their peers are working out, too. The researchers assigned the employees to one of three conditions. Some employees had access only... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

20 Mar 2017
Book

Why Companies Are Placing Users at the Core of Their Innovation Strategies

innovation. Who should read this book—and what do you hope they take away from it most of all? Karim Lakhani: There are two main audiences for the book. The first is executives and managers who care about innovation and how View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

12 Jun 2006
Research & Ideas

The Promise of Channel Stewardship

companies that have tried to improve their go-to-market strategies, we have learned that almost everyone agrees it is difficult to effect significant change in distribution channels. Even though technology... View Details

Keywords: by V. Kasturi Rangan & Marie Bell; Consumer Products

10 Mar 2002
Research & Ideas

Breakthrough Negotiation: Don’t Leave It On the Table

and with the record of prior negotiations, and probe the backgrounds and reputations of their counterparts. At the same time, they recognize that conventional preparation has limitations. Even the best-equipped negotiating team must cope with constraints on time,... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Watkins

17 Jul 2017
Op-Ed

Op-Ed: As America Recedes from Global Leadership, Its CEOs are Stepping Up

sustainability. Health care executives are voicing vigorous public opposition to the Republican health care bill pending in the Senate. In late June, 17 high-tech CEOs,... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

13 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

Small Businesses Are Worse Off Than We Thought

and is working through the details of a partnership with GoFundMe to help facilitate donations for businesses. Other platforms such as Uber are working on similar initiatives. Distrust of government aid The survey data also shed light on... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Financial Services

27 Feb 2006
Research & Ideas

Take Responsibility for Rising Stars

have typically fallen into HR's domain. The prevailing wisdom has been that if HR took care of those often intangible "soft" issues, line managers and executives would be free to focus on... View Details

Keywords: by Jeffrey M. Cohn, Rakesh Khurana & Laura Reeves

05 Sep 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 5, 2017

students and the classroom teaching plan for instructors. Information on how to access and use these multimedia components is included in the Teaching Note. Purchase this case:... View Details