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- 19 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
Here Comes Internet2—Time to Shed Dot Vertigo
networks of networks. Currently, he said, universities and labs use it to connect researchers working on collaborative projects. These projects can range from building virtual reality models of the ear—a View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 09 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Incentives and Operational Excellence
Whether you're running a major medical supply company or a hole-in-the-wall video store, chances are you know how common operational problems are. If you are the medical supplier, for instance, you probably... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 13 Mar 2005
- Research & Ideas
Reinforcing Values: A Public Dressing Down
all the others." Calls for sacrifice and self-discipline are met with cynicism, skepticism, and knee-jerk resistance. Our research into organizational transformation has involved settings as diverse as multinational corporations,... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Garvin & Michael A. Roberto
- 12 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Solving COVID'S Mental Health Crisis
encouraged and instructed teens how to safely dispose of unused prescription medications in their homes. “Several thousand teens participated online or watched replays,” Langford says. SUD treatment providers are also searching for ways... View Details
- 08 Nov 2017
- Research & Ideas
Handgun Waiting Periods Prevent Hundreds of Homicides Each Year
why we shouldn’t do that.” While the call for waiting periods is bound to receive some pushback, the researchers are encouraged by the broad support waiting periods receive. The American Medical Association... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Mar 2017
- Research & Ideas
A Good Thing Happens When Doctors Start Talking to Their Patients
performing costly medical procedures. And that’s a problem, argues Senior Fellow Robert S. Kaplan, the Marvin Bower Professor of Leadership Development, Emeritus, at Harvard Business School. “It becomes obvious that you can make the... View Details
- 25 Apr 2005
- Research & Ideas
New Learning at American Home Products
division integrating product development and marketing, but without significant research capability. For all but chemicals and prescription drugs, the corporate focus was on marketing, especially advertising.24 In prescription drugs, the... View Details
- 07 Aug 2009
- What Do You Think?
Why Can’t Americans Get Health Care Right?
country that provides more medical research to the world than any other, can't Americans get health care right? Is it a problem of too much money chasing the problem? The wrong kinds of capacity? The wrong... View Details
- 08 Mar 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: Can the Proposed American Health Care Act Improve on 'Obamacare'?
it passes in Congress. About the Authors John A. Quelch is the Charles Edward Wilson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He also holds a joint appointment at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health as Professor in Health Policy and... View Details
- 09 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Unconscious Executive
research at HBS, in close collaboration with Harvard Medical School. In addition to researching sleep, creativity, and decision making, he studies influence, persuasion, voice... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 21 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Bio-Piracy: When Western Firms Usurp Eastern Medicine
In May 1995, two scientists at the University of Mississippi were granted an American patent for the use of turmeric to treat flesh wounds. Soon thereafter, an Indian research organization won a lawsuit challenging the novelty of the... View Details
- 25 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health
be headquartered in England in order to achieve a lower corporate tax rate. The British government favored the merger as it would boost the high-priority life sciences sector, but little attention was paid to whether the integration of the two company View Details
- 01 Feb 2022
- What Do You Think?
Is Concierge Management an Answer to the “Big Quit”?
needed an advocate in case of a serious health problem. In a sense, we needed inclusion and “voice” just as much as the employees Amy Edmondson wrote about in her book, The Fearless Organization. We needed access to the medical system and... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
A Perfect Fit: Aligning Organization & Strategy
their espoused strategy and management principles. Beer and Eisenstat began implementing the process ten years ago at Becton Dickinson and Company, a medical products and diagnostic systems supplier. "Ray Gilmartin, who was CEO at... View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross
- 05 Oct 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Don't More People Get Flu Shots at Work?
Economics; Brigitte C. Madrian, Aetna Professor of Public Policy and Corporate Management at the Harvard Kennedy School; and Gwendolyn I. Reynolds, with the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, MA. The team has completed... View Details
- 13 Dec 2006
- Research & Ideas
Improving Public Health for the Poor
instrumental in working out a framework in which both HBS and the School of Public Health can try to identify what high-impact interventions are. I've also been looking, along with my research associate, Jean Hazel, and others, at models... View Details
- 18 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 18, 2007
exploit mature products and markets (e.g., mainframe computers, middleware). Research and Relevance: Implications of Pasteur's Quadrant for Doctoral Programs and Faculty Development Authors:Michael Tushman and Charles A. O'Reilly III... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Jul 2018
- Research & Ideas
No More General Tso's? A Threat to 'Knowledge Recombination'
Turmeric is prepared into medicine. Doucefleur In the early 1990s, an Indian plastic surgeon at the University of Mississippi, S. K. Das, was about to amputate the leg of a patient because of a wound that wouldn’t heal. Colleague Hari P. Cohly stopped him. A View Details
- 21 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
What Health Care Managers Need to Know--and How to Teach Them
Global health care is entering its most challenging era, with increasing demand for services from consumers newly arrived in the middle class, under-served people, and rapidly aging populations, all the while dealing with the need to manage advanced View Details
- 26 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 26
http://hrleadsbusiness.org/rise-of-hr-e-book May 2015 JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association Medicine's Continuous Improvement Imperative By: Huckman, Robert S., and Ananth Raman Abstract— Maintaining quality and spurring... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne