Retrospective - Publications - Faculty & Research

April 2024
Article

A Machine Learning Algorithm Predicting Risk of Dilating VUR among Infants with Hydronephrosis Using UTD Classification

By: Hsin-Hsiao Scott Wang, Michael Lingzhi Li, Dylan Cahill, John Panagides, Tanya Logvinenko, Jeanne Chow and Caleb Nelson

Backgrounds: Urinary Tract Dilation (UTD) classification has been designed to be a more objective grading system to evaluate antenatal and post-natal UTD. Due to unclear association between UTD classifications to specific anomalies such as vesico-ureteral reflux (VUR),... View Details

Keywords: Health Disorders; Health Testing and Trials; AI and Machine Learning; Health Industry

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February 2025
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Variation in Batch Ordering of Imaging Tests in the Emergency Department and the Impact on Care Delivery

By: Jacob C. Jameson, Soroush Saghafian, Robert S. Huckman and Nicole Hodgson

Objectives: To examine heterogeneity in physician batch ordering practices and measure the impact of a physician's tendency to batch order imaging tests on patient outcomes and resource utilization.
Study Setting and Design: In this retrospective study, we used... View Details

Keywords: Health Care; Operations Management; Productivity; Health Care and Treatment; Operations; Outcome or Result; Resource Allocation; Health Industry; United States

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16 May 2023
In Practice

After Silicon Valley Bank's Flameout, What's Next for Entrepreneurs?

life of an early-stage business. When a situation is declared code red, startups should know who’s on point for communication with each stakeholder, who’s leading a process and how each process will be led. Also, plan for retrospectives... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman; Technology; Financial Services

02 Apr 2020
What Do You Think?

What Are Lessons for Leaders from This Black Swan Crisis?

in my condo recently, I took the opportunity to reread Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s book, The Black Swan. In it, he defines a Black Swan (always capitalized) as having three characteristics: “rarity, extreme impact, and retrospective (though... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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Health Care - Faculty & Research

ordering practices and measure the impact of a physician's tendency to batch order imaging tests on patient outcomes and resource utilization. Study Setting and Design: In this retrospective study, we used comprehensive EMR data from... View Details

17 Sep 2018
Research & Ideas

Welcome to Retirement. Who Am I Now?

he bought a new motorcycle to reawaken his biker identity. Retrospectively revising a pre-transition identity: After retiring, some people reframe who they were while working to mesh with their new identity. One man who said in an early... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Entertainment & Recreation

11 Apr 2011
Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching a ‘Lean Startup’ Strategy

painfully." “Lean startups don't try to scale up the business until they have product market fit, a magical event-more easily recognized in retrospect than in the moment-when they finally have a solution that matches the problem.”... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology; Computer

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Events - Business History

addition to offering a retrospective analysis of where corporate sustainability has fallen short, the conference explored the incentives, organizational designs, and institutional systems that would allow sustainability to take hold. Jun... View Details

06 Sep 2004
Research & Ideas

The Innovator’s Battle Plan

process: Step 1: Entrants enter behind a shield of asymmetric motivation; early incumbent response leads to cramming. Incumbents pass over what in retrospect turn out to be multibillion-dollar opportunities because attackers take... View Details

Keywords: by Clayton M. Christensen, Scott D. Anthony & Erik A. Roth

07 Feb 2019
Book

How Big Companies Can Outrun Disruption

managers for missing disruptive threats, but I don’t think it’s entirely fair. Leaders making decisions are staring in a foggy lens into the future. In retrospect these disruptive threats look painfully obvious, but they are not obvious... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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Louise Bourgeois Eye Benches II 1996-1997 | About

quality of your eyes and the strength of your eyes that are expressed here. Nobody is going to keep me from seeing what is instead of what I would like.” In 1982, Bourgeois was the first female artist to have a retrospective at New York’s... View Details

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Melvin Edwards Searching for the Word 1989/2019 | About

Melvin Edwards moved to New York in 1967. In 1970, he became the first African American sculptor to have a solo exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, and in 1978 he had a retrospective at The Studio Museum in Harlem. Best... View Details

01 Mar 2004
News

David Horgan: Iraqi Briefing, 21st November, 2003

different approach. But Iraq can still be fixed, if we change policy now: How to fix Iraq Restore the national police, army and even security services. If you’ve evidence of wrongdoing against individuals, prosecute the individuals. But no collective or View Details

Keywords: Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

03 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

Facebook’s Future

posted, occasionally offering a comment, but often just scrolling down through content. As such, Facebook is a retrospective medium, a place to share experiences already completed and then put them on display. But the company does little... View Details

Keywords: by Mikolaj Piskorski

07 Jun 2016
Op-Ed

Can Brand Trump Win a Presidency?

Ronald Reagan's vision of a shining city on a hill. "The world of commerce has never seen a brand insult its way to market share leadership" Superficially, Trump's call to make America great again offers a similar aspiration. But, unlike Reagan's vision,... View Details

Keywords: by John A. Quelch; Advertising; Media & Broadcasting

02 May 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research: May 2, 2017

Asante Should Governments Demand Equity in Foreign-Owned Extractive Projects? By: Wells, Louis T. Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52573 2016 The Challenge of BRIC Multinationals Third World... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

11 Jul 2017
First Look

First Look at New Ideas and Research, July 11

patients with laryngeal cleft seen between 2008 and 2013 at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary Pediatric Aerodigestive Center. Retrospective chart review was performed to identify clinic utilization by patients as well as patient... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

11 Dec 2020
Research & Ideas

Economic Jitters Push Pandemic Job Seekers to Big Companies, Not Startups

and consider your long-term career path. “The career trajectory is quite path-dependent. And the choices that you're making today are going to affect the choices that you're going to make tomorrow,” he says. It’s important to recognize that over the long haul, “things... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

06 Feb 2006
What Do You Think?

Should CEOs of Public Companies Offer Earnings Guidance?

retrospective data compensate for projections? What is "real information"? And do conservative estimates of the future lead organizations to underperform? What do you think? Original Article This question is not as innocuous as... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Financial Services

09 Jan 2020
Blog Post

Navigating Grey in the Ever-Evolving Tech Community

perhaps a bit self-congratulatory, but in retrospect this has certainly been 100% true. There’s a reason everyone always remembers the Erik Peterson case. I ended up spending the second semester of my second year with that very... View Details

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