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December 2015
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Task Shifting in Surgery: Lessons from an Indian Heart Hospital

By: Budhaditya Gupta, Robert S. Huckman and Tarun Khanna

We present a case study that illustrates task shifting, the transfer of activities from senior to junior colleagues, in the context of cardiac surgery at the Narayana Health City Cardiac Hospital (NH) in India. The case discusses the factors driving the adoption of... View Details

Keywords: Service Delivery; Rank and Position; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry; India

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spring 1991
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Lessons from a Middle-Market LBO: The Case of O.M. Scott

By: George P. Baker and Karen Wruck

Keywords: Learning; Leveraged Buyouts

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1997
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Matsushita Leadership: Lessons from the 20th Century's Most Remarkable Entrepreneur

By: J. P. Kotter

Keywords: Leadership; History; Japan

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1993
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Lessons from a Middle-Market LBO: The Case of O.M. Scott

By: George P. Baker and Karen H. Wruck

Keywords: Leveraged Buyouts

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11 Apr 2012
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5 Founder Lessons From a Decade of Data on Startups

22 May 2018
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'Britain Is Teaching America A Lesson Here' With Royal Wedding

15 Feb 2012
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Harvard biz alums have a job lesson for the U.S.

Kissinger the Negotiator: Lessons from Dealmaking at the Highest Level

22 Apr 2021
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Driving a Large Transformation with Leadership and Purpose – Lessons from the Turnaround at Best Buy

April 2013
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What Roger Fisher Got Profoundly Right: Five Enduring Lessons for Negotiators

By: James K. Sebenius

Roger Fisher, who died in 2012, enjoyed a remarkable career that modeled one way that an academic, especially in a professional school such as law or business, could make a significant, positive, and lasting difference in the world. Distinctive aspects of his career... View Details

Keywords: Bargaining; Conflict Resolution; Dealmaking; Negotiation; Personal Development and Career; Conflict and Resolution

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24 Oct 2023
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From P.T. Barnum to Mary Kay: Lessons From 5 Leaders Who Changed the World

phone, “You can do it, Mary Kay, you can do it.” When she launched her own firm, Beauty by Mary Kay, she leaned on the early lesson her mother taught her about motivation to inspire her salespeople. “Especially in the beginning, the... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

April 24, 2020
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Lessons from the NFL: Virtual Hiring, Leadership, Building Teams and COVID-19

By: Sarah Abbott, Boris Groysberg, Tali Groysberg and Abhijit Naik

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2011
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Macroprudential Policy and Monetary Policy: Some Lessons from the Euro Area

By: Domenico Giannone, Michele Lenza, Huw Pill and Lucrezia Reichlin

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2015
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Are CEOs Born Leaders? Lessons from Traits of a Million Individuals

By: Renée Adams, Matti Keloharju and Samuli Knüpfer

What makes a CEO? We merge data on the traits of more than one million Swedish males, measured at age 18 in a mandatory military enlistment test, with data on their service as a CEO of any Swedish company decades later. CEOs have higher cognitive and non-cognitive... View Details

Keywords: Personal Characteristics; Management Teams

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2009
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Small and Medium Firm Lending in Mexico: Lessons and Current Issues

By: Rodrigo Canales and Ramana Nanda

Mexico is often cited as one of the world's most entrepreneurial countries in terms of the percentage of its population that has started or is in the process of starting a business venture. Yet Mexico does not seem to be very friendly to entrepreneurs, as confirmed by... View Details

Keywords: Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Policy; Competition; Mexico

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