Medical Research - Publications - Faculty & Research

13 Aug 2024
Op-Ed

Can AI Save Physicians from Burnout?

neurology at Harvard Medical School. She is also an OpEd Project Fellow and director of the Center for Value-based Healthcare and Sciences with MGH. Katie Sonnefeldt is a research associate at HBS,... View Details

Keywords: by Susanna Gallani, Lidia Moura, and Katie Sonnefeldt; Health

08 Jan 2007
What Do You Think?

Neuro Economics: Science or Science Fiction?

associated with findings based on research in need of standards and more fully-developed methods. Joseph Mello points out that "these studies will produce results along two lines. First, there will be conclusions that can impact the... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

09 Apr 2012
Research & Ideas

Who Sways the USDA on GMO Approvals?

asking that question through research on the controversial issue of genetically modified organisms (GMOs), agricultural products that are genetically altered to increase yield, incorporate pesticide properties, or exhibit other beneficial... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Food & Beverage; Biotechnology; Agriculture & Agribusiness

29 May 2006
Research & Ideas

Why CEOs Are Not Plug-and-Play

"Is talent management portable?" That's the question asked and answered in a recent Harvard Business Review article discussing issues surrounding how top managers can transfer their skill sets to a new company. The authors—faculty and a View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Andrew N. McLean & Nitin Nohria; Employment

11 Aug 2014
HBS Case

The Business of Behavioral Economics

people's thinking: loss aversion. Research has shown that people are much more averse to losing something they have than they are inclined toward gaining something they don't. So by putting up their own money toward their goal, they try... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Food & Beverage; Health

17 Feb 2009
Research & Ideas

What’s Good about Quiet Rule-Breaking

focuses on potentially contested practice where few norms seem to prevail. Whole-body donations for medical education and research provide the setting for this project. The goal is to understand how... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

19 May 2011
Research & Ideas

Empathy: The Brand Equity of Retail

example of a hospital patient who consistently refused to follow medical orders, gave all the doctors bad reviews in customer surveys regardless of quality of care, and eventually threatened to strip naked in the hospital lobby and threw... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

04 Aug 2003
What Do You Think?

Are We Facing an Attitude Shortage?

life." Where do you stand on these issues? What do you think? Original Article Studies conducted by various researchers over the past two decades point to the importance of hiring and promoting for certain attitudes (for example,... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

16 Sep 2015
Research & Ideas

Can Applied Economics Save Homeless Puppies?

In 2012, two seasoned scholars shared the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for their research on designing markets. Lloyd Shapley had developed theoretical methods to create stable matches in unstable markets. Alvin Roth had... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail

04 Jun 2007
Research & Ideas

Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?

book, Who Killed Health Care? We asked Herzlinger, the Nancy R. McPherson Professor of Business Administration Chair at the Harvard Business School, to discuss her latest work and her more than 30 years of research in the health care... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Health

07 Aug 2000
Research & Ideas

The Business of Biotech

Although much of the debate focuses on the possible health hazards posed by genetically engineered crops, as well as their potential for causing environmental harm, some observers have also expressed ethical concerns regarding the medical... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Biotechnology; Health; Technology

13 Jan 2003
Research & Ideas

Making Biotech Work as a Business

technologies for drug discovery.) And patients with previously unmet medical needs can now get treatments that were not available before. That should be inspiring, he reminded the audience. Economic frustrations remain, however. Pisano... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Biotechnology; Health; Technology

26 Jun 2000
Research & Ideas

Presentation Round-Up

get out of the way. But we also have to be prepared. Where the market fails to provide the service, we have to step in." Genes On The Web In a discussion moderated by HBS Professor Josh Lerner, participants in the panel on "Genes on the Web" emphasized the positive... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Kenneth Liss; Technology; Communications; Telecommunications

03 Feb 2016
Research & Ideas

The State of Customer Service Leadership

Clinic. It’s organized around the patient, not the care provider. The work and pay are largely based on team performance. Medical “stars” would find the place very uncomfortable. And yet, through collaboration and teamwork, the people of... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner; Retail

14 May 2020
Research & Ideas

What Leaders Can Do to Fight the COVID Fog

aspect of doing business must be completely rethought for both short-term survival and long-term advantage—and CEOs are profoundly aware of that. We want to share with you both high-level findings about the sleep-robbing concerns of corporate leaders, but also what... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams

21 Nov 2006
First Look

First Look: November 21, 2006

Kathryn S. Roloff Abstract The emergence of a research literature on team learning has been driven by at least two factors. First, longstanding interest in what makes organizational work teams effective leads naturally to questions of how... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Feb 2011
First Look

First Look: Feb. 1

the conditions to thrive tomorrow. We argue that organizational sustainability depends on attending to strategic paradox, engaging contradictory yet interrelated strategies simultaneously. Drawing on our research and the work of others,... View Details

30 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Entering the Age of Alliances

been collaborating for three years to increase the number of African American biologists and chemists. In 1995, they launched the UNCF Merck Science Internships. The undergraduates, doctoral students, and postdoctoral scientists who receive these internships are... View Details

Keywords: by James Austin

09 Nov 2010
First Look

First Look: November 9, 2010

Academy, business schools, medical schools, law schools, military institutions, and research centers. This workshop is intended to serve as a catalyst for global leadership development at the highest levels... View Details