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health care Research Collections Advancing Global, Public, and Societal Health Building Entrepreneurial Organizations Fostering Innovation in Life Sciences Increasing Value in Care Delivery Understanding Health Systems, Payors, and... View Details

26 Jun 2020
Research & Ideas

Why Japanese Businesses Are So Good at Surviving Crises

to do what must be done for the common good, including those on the front lines.” Yamato donates to rebuilding devastated areas Makoto Kigawa, CEO of Yamato—a home delivery service of everything from fresh... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

10 Jan 2024
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Technology and COVID Upended Tipping Norms. Will Consumers Keep Paying?

Avery says. “Some of these are point-of-sale situations where we didn’t traditionally think about tipping 15 percent, such as counter service or delivery of our order after we ordered it on an app.” She... View Details

Keywords: by Anna Lamb, Harvard Gazette

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Research - Global

Fintech Champion By: Juan Alcacer and Manuel Franck Ualá, founded by Pierpaolo Barbieri in 2017, is a fast-growing fintech company on a mission to revolutionize financial services in Latin America. Starting with a 14-person team and a... View Details

November 2011
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WrapItUp: Developing a New Compensation Plan

By: W. Earl Sasser Jr. and Rachel Shelton

A restaurant chain based in California offers made-to-order sandwich wraps using fresh, healthy ingredients. The founders of the company take a very active role in day-to-day business and tightly control every aspect of the restaurant operation from hiring store... View Details

Keywords: Empowerment; Middle Management; Human Resource Management; Compensation; Incentives; Motivation; Motivation and Incentives; Change Management; Business Growth and Maturation; Service Delivery; Entrepreneurship; Employees; Compensation and Benefits; Service Industry; Service Industry; Service Industry; California

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Publications - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Services (CMS) recently announced that it will be removing more than 250 musculoskeletal surgeries from its “inpatient-only list” in January 2022. An additional 1,500 surgeries will be eliminated in the following year. The change... 01... View Details

16 Jul 2020
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Restaurant Revolution: How the Industry Is Fighting to Stay Alive

and delivery only and the prospects for returning to full employment by June 30 were dim given the constraints imposed by capacity caps. "I have no idea what to do with the PPP loan that I’ve been approved for; I’m not sure I will... View Details

Keywords: by Michael S. Kaufman, Lena G. Goldberg, and Jill Avery; Food & Beverage

14 Aug 2014
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The State of Small Business Lending: Credit Access During the Recovery and How Technology May Change the Game

Keywords: by Karen Mills & Brayden McCarthy; Financial Services; Financial Services

15 Jul 2013
Research & Ideas

Five Imperatives for Improving Health Care

innovation efforts traditionally have focused on new products such as drugs and devices, survey respondents ranked process improvements in care delivery as the most promising opportunity for improving the cost and quality of health care.... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

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Systems Integration - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

system as a whole. Delivering the right care at the right location in a multi-site care delivery system is a key element of a value-based health care system. To integrate care effectively, providers need to re-define the scope of View Details

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Profiles - MBA

not only enhance military operations and improve the lives of service members but also transform various industries and improve society as a whole. Professional goals: My goal is to leverage my experience to bridge the gap between the... View Details

26 May 2015
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First Look: May 26

case examines an exciting new approach to health care that will help care providers identify when hospice services are the appropriate type of care for patients. The company, Medalogix, already has a product on the market that uses a... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Health Care - Faculty & Research

too often, when graduates of these programs enter the workforce, they find themselves unequipped to meet the challenges for innovation of 21st century health care. December 2014 Article No Margin, No Mission? A Field Experiment on Incentives for Public View Details

04 May 2021
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Best Buy: How Human Connection Saved a Failing Retailer

store.” Instead, the sales associates—nicknamed “blue shirts” after Best Buy’s trademark royal-blue collared shirts—brought the injured T. rex to a service counter and performed “surgery” on the toy as they surreptitiously traded it out... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Retail

01 Dec 2023
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A More Accommodating Approach

Shelly Nooner (GMP 33, 2022) had already proven herself to be visionary and execution-focused during her two decades at Trimble, an industrial technology company that provides hardware, software, and services across agriculture, construction, geospatial, and... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

07 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 7, 2008

online grocer to address this question. In general, we find that as the delay between order completion and delivery increases, grocery customers spend less, order a higher percentage of "should" items (e.g., vegetables), and... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Geography of Care - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Measure Outcomes & Cost for Every Patient Aligning Reimbursement with Value Systems Integration Geography of Care Information Technology Geography of Care Geography of Care Today’s top health care providers can help lead the way toward a nationwide value-based health... View Details

June 2014 (Revised January 2017)
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Focus Financial Partners and the U.S. RIA Industry in 2014

By: Luis Viceira and Emily A. Chien

In the Spring of 2014, Rudy Adolf, CEO and founder of Focus Financial, and the two other co-founders of the firm are considering alternative growth strategies to solidify Focus Financial's position as a leading aggregator of independent wealth management firms in the... View Details

Keywords: Financial Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Business Model; Financial Services Industry