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- 2013
- Working Paper
iPosture: The Size of Electronic Consumer Devices Affects Our Behavior
By: Maarten W. Bos and Amy J.C. Cuddy
We examined whether incidental body posture, prompted by working on electronic devices of different sizes, affects power-related behaviors. Grounded in research showing that adopting expansive body postures increases psychological power, we hypothesized that working on... View Details
Bos, Maarten W., and Amy J.C. Cuddy. "iPosture: The Size of Electronic Consumer Devices Affects Our Behavior." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 13-097, May 2013.
- 29 Oct 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Next Marketing Challenge: Selling to ’Simplifiers’
manufacturers benefited. Larger homes with bigger refrigerators can absorb more inventory. Flat birth rates in developed economies have put pressure on durable consumer-goods companies desperate for top-line growth. Product quality... View Details
- 02 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
Food Stamp Entrepreneurs: How Public Assistance Enables Business Bootstrapping
bootstrapped the funds to launch a vocational training program for dental assistants. Revenue from the new business pushed them out of poverty and into the middle class. Olds, a budding economist, was intrigued. “The rate of new business View Details
- 22 Mar 2017
- Research & Ideas
What's the Ideal Frequency for a Sales Quota?
higher-profit sales, then giving them a less-frequent quota—consistent with the length of the sales process—would make sense. The important thing is to consider what kind of outcome you want." Readers: Have you found that quotas... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 08 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 8, 2015
high-level positions as less desirable yet equally attainable. In Studies 5–7, when faced with the possibility of receiving a promotion at their current place of employment or obtaining a high-power position after graduating from school, women and men anticipated... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 14 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance
expertise to improve the lives of children and youth of low-income families in the Washington, D.C., region. Morino is the author of Leap of Reason: Managing to Outcomes in an Era of Scarcity. Alnoor S. Ebrahim is an associate professor... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 28 Jun 2010
- HBS Case
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
considered itself to be among the best hospitals in the country, even though it had scant evidence to benchmark its performance against others. But data co-collected by the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation instead showed that the outcome for... View Details
- 08 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The Civic Benefits of Google Street View and Yelp
led cities to digitize more of their own information, putting everything from tax records and public health inspection scores online. “They take a dataset that used to be in an obscure database or on paper, and now it’s available for the... View Details
- 24 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
The FDA: What Will the Next 100 Years Bring?
point out in the book's introduction, the FDA must also operate as a political and governing agency. Decisions are expected to be made in transparent rule- and procedure-based ways, and in many cases they produce outcomes that reach... View Details
- 04 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
Is Your Org Chart Stuck in a Rut? Try a Scientific Experiment
it could drive a reorganization of our existing organizational structures.” Other participants in the refinement stage include a health care professional, who proposed an experiment around the idea of “creating cross organizational teams... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- March 2023 (Revised June 2023)
- Teaching Note
Ransomware Attack at Springhill Medical Center
By: Suraj Srinivasan and Li-Kuan (Jason) Ni
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 123-065. In July, 2019, Springhill Medical Center (“SMC”) in Mobile, Alabama fell prey to a malicious ransomware attack that crippled the hospital’s internal network systems and public-facing web page. While the hospital rushed to... View Details
Keywords: Disruption; Communication; Communication Strategy; Decision Making; Decision Choices and Conditions; Judgments; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Disclosure; Corporate Governance; Governance Controls; Policy; Employees; News; Cybersecurity; Digital Strategy; Information Infrastructure; Information Management; Internet and the Web; Crisis Management; Business or Company Management; Resource Allocation; Risk Management; Negotiation Tactics; Failure; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Attitudes; Behavior; Perception; Reputation; Trust; Public Opinion; Social Issues; Health Industry; Alabama; United States
- 02 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 2
outcomes such as employment, earnings, and health and safety change when employers adopt ISO 9001. We analyzed a matched sample of nearly 1,000 companies in California. ISO 9001 adopters subsequently had far... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Summer 2014
- Article
Designed for Workarounds: A Qualitative Study of the Causes of Operational Failures in Hospitals
By: Anita L. Tucker, W. Scott Heisler and Laura D. Janisse
Frontline care providers in hospitals spend at least 10% of their time working around operational failures, which are situations where information, supplies, or equipment needed for patient care are insufficient. However, little is known about underlying causes of... View Details
Tucker, Anita L., W. Scott Heisler, and Laura D. Janisse. "Designed for Workarounds: A Qualitative Study of the Causes of Operational Failures in Hospitals." Permanente Journal 18, no. 3 (Summer 2014): 33–41.
- 02 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 3, 2008
its effects on employee outcomes such as employment, earnings, and health and safety. We analyzed a matched sample of nearly 1,000 companies in California. ISO 9001 adopters subsequently had far lower... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
Man vs. Machine: Which Makes Better Hires?
who has studied how companies make organizational decisions in industries such as health care and education. “They are figuring out how to use the information of managers and combine it with this new technology.” Testing the testers To... View Details
- March 1999 (Revised July 1999)
- Case
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, The
By: Richard M.J. Bohmer and Ann Winslow
Describes the death of a cancer patient in one of the nation's premier cancer treatment centers and examines the organizational and process characteristics that may have contributed to the medical error. View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Quality; Service Operations; Management Practices and Processes; Business Processes; Failure; Health Industry
Bohmer, Richard M.J., and Ann Winslow. "Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, The." Harvard Business School Case 699-025, March 1999. (Revised July 1999.)
- June 2008
- Case
Gordon Williams: Clinical Research at Brigham and Women's Hospital
By: H. Kent Bowen and Courtney Purrington
Clinical research is a critical element of biomedical research and development. This case describes the challenges of clinical research, and its role in bringing breakthroughs to patients. Dr. Williams leads through his own research and special programs to train... View Details
Keywords: Training; Health Care and Treatment; Success; Programs; Research and Development; Health Industry; Health Industry
Bowen, H. Kent, and Courtney Purrington. "Gordon Williams: Clinical Research at Brigham and Women's Hospital." Harvard Business School Case 608-168, June 2008.
- 23 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 23, 2018
consequence of actual leverage than it is of risk premiums. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53733 2017 India as a Pioneer of Innovation The Private Provision of Missing Public Goods: Evidence from Narayana View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 5
role of firms as facilitators of globalization during the nineteenth century and more recently and as preservers of it when governments sought to close it down in the interwar years. However the ability of firms to shape the world was always constrained, especially by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018
for geographically distant participants, where the potential for improving alignment is greater. Lastly, we find some evidence that participants’ resource-constraints (potentially affecting unfairness concerns) impact outcomes under the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne