Routine - Publications - Faculty & Research

30 May 2007
Research & Ideas

Health Care Under a Research Microscope

Wal-Mart, and even department stores—that treat minor illnesses and provide routine screenings. "They are a delivery model and an operating system that's configured to the lowest complexity patients," Bohmer says. "It tells... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Health; Biotechnology

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Lessons in Economics | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

and lay blame at “a tiny handful of steel executives whose pursuit of power and profit exceeds their sense of public responsibility.” 51 PR campaigns to educate U.S. Steel stockholders, employees, customers, suppliers, and the public on the economics of steel... View Details

05 Jul 2017
Research & Ideas

Are Stockbrokers Illegally Leaking Confidential Information to Favored Clients?

Source: Raw Pixel Stockbrokers are taking advantage of their privileged position to increase profits for favored investors and hedge funds, all at the expense of their other customers, new research suggests. A team of economists has found evidence that brokers View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services

21 May 2020
Research & Ideas

Fighting the COVID Blues: Advice from Business Research

we’re good at and enjoy, we may discover that all the meetings we used to hold in the office sucked up too much time or that a trip to the children’s museum wasn’t the key to bringing the family joy. “Rather than fighting for ways to get back to our usual View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman and Danielle Kost

07 Oct 2024
Research & Ideas

Election 2024: Why Demographics Won't Predict the Next President

reliable, according to the paper. However, assuming demographic voting trends are monolithic and impervious to slight—if not large—changes from one election to the next is where demographic forecasts routinely falter, the authors... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

30 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

Readers Ask: I Need Tips for Working at Home

and find a routine that works for you, so that you can get stuff done even when you have kids around and life is not normal. Do you think companies will stick with remote work post-pandemic? Choudhury: Companies might be tempted to go... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

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What Others Are Saying - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Television, Rochester, MN “Redefining Health Care is a must read for anyone interested in health policy. The authors have identified the single most important problem in health care and it is a problem health economists tend to routinely... View Details

01 Dec 2020
News

Digital Health Care: Empowering Consumers

complicated life so much better.” Will the health care sector embrace artificial intelligence? I think it could be a powerful tool for routinizing the practice of medicine. Artificial intelligence digs through mounds and mounds of data... View Details

Keywords: April White

03 Jan 2019
Research & Ideas

Everyone Knows Innovation is Essential to Business Success—Except Board Directors

out by more immediate, short-term issues,” says Cheng. Their survey showed, however, that those companies that routinely took a longer-term view did better on innovation overall. “It’s necessary for boards to carve out and protect time on... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

05 Feb 2019
News

Protecting the Power Grid

inadequate protection from disasters that occur infrequently and have consequences beyond the routine responsibilities of commercial enterprises. “Resilient societies need deliberate actions for the long-range common good,” Popik says.... View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli; terrorism; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

09 May 2018
Research & Ideas

A Simple Way for Restaurant Inspectors to Improve Food Safety

new research about how scheduling affects worker behavior. The potential result: Americans could avoid 19 million foodborne illnesses, nearly 51,000 hospitalizations, and billions of dollars of related medical costs. Government health officers View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Food & Beverage; Service

26 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

How Electronic Patient Records Can Slow Doctor Productivity

allows for information exchange through summary reports, it's a great innovation because it allows them to share information they were not routinely sharing before." Lessons For Business Aside from the implications for physicians, the... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Health

25 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

Should You Sell Your Digital Privacy?

regulatory approach? Isn't the telemarketing hotline working? Deighton: Regulation solution routinely disappoints. Rules lag behind the cunning of those who want to exploit the limitations of the rules, particularly in the nimble digital... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls & Sean Silverthorne; Advertising

01 Dec 1997
News

Banking on HBS

institutional agility are also priorities. In addition, Wolfensohn wants to create a "Knowledge Bank," to take advantage of new technology as a repository of the Bank's decades of accumulated data, information, and know-how that could View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

12 Jun 2014
News

The First Five Years: Minal Mehta (MBA 2011)

personal well-being has allowed me and my team to build a strong community." Can you finish this statement? "A great fitness routine is " "One that keeps you coming back for more. Ever heard of BollyX?" Follow Minal Mehta on Twitter at... View Details

Keywords: fitness; Arts, Entertainment

11 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

The Paradoxical Quest to Make Food Look 'Natural' With Artificial Dyes

million boxes of fresh oranges shipped out of state were colored with synthetic dyes.” By the 1930s, synthetic food dyes were used routinely in sausages, pastas, candies, ice cream, and a host of other foods. By 2016, the global food dye... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

11 Jun 2020
In Practice

Are Digital Organizations Better at Overcoming COVID?

strain. They had a robust configuration that enabled new purposes, new software deployments, and new coordinated routines across teams. The best can use this as an opportunity to experiment and learn where technology can deliver service... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

12 May 2009
First Look

First Look: May 12, 2009

Working PapersDishonest Deed, Clear Conscience: Self-Preservation through Moral Disengagement and Motivated Forgetting (revised) Authors:Lisa Lixin Shu, Francesca Gino, and Max H. Bazerman Abstract People routinely engage in dishonest... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

21 Nov 2016
Research & Ideas

It Matters That Your CEO Doesn't Know Much About Sales

really a misnomer to call planning strategic,” he says. Rather, most planning is an annual affair linked to the budget process, routinely taking four or five months to complete. “But sales must respond customer by customer in market time,... View Details