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31 Mar 2009
First Look

First Look: March 31, 2009

F. Sharpe, Robert C. Merton, and Myron S. Scholes Author:Robert C. Merton Publication:Vol. 2, edited by Howard R. Vane and Chris Mulhearn. Pioneering Papers of the Nobel... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Transforming Health Care Delivery - Course Catalog

HBS Course Catalog Transforming Health Care Delivery Course Number 2196 Associate Professor Susanna Gallani Professor Robert Huckman Spring; Q3Q4; 3.0 credits Paper At the root of the transformation... View Details

Research Summary

Building a Corporate Culture of Health

This stream of Professor Huckman's work involves developing and implementing a survey of U.S. corporations regarding their commitments to developing a “culture of health” aimed at improving well-being for employees, consumers, communities, and the environment. This... View Details

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Innovation and Performance Improvement in Health Care

This stream of Professor Huckman's work examines how organizations delivering health care can structure and manage their activities to improve operational performance. It addresses issues including the impact of various forms of familiarity on performance, the impact... View Details

April 2010 (Revised July 2010)
Teaching Note

JetBlue Airways: Managing Growth (TN)

Teaching Note for [609046]. View Details

Keywords: Growth Management; Air Transportation; Air Transportation Industry

December 2009 (Revised April 2010)
Teaching Note

GlaxoSmithKline: Reorganizing Drug Discovery (TN) (A) and (B)

Teaching Note for [605074] and [605075]. View Details

Keywords: Restructuring; Health; Pharmaceutical Industry

January 2006
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Hospital Integration and Vertical Consolidation: An Analysis of Acquisitions in New York State

Keywords: Integration; Health; Consolidation; Theory; Mergers and Acquisitions

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2002
Working Paper

The Utilization of Competing Technologies within the Firm: Evidence from Cardiac Procedures

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Technology and Operations Management - MBA Required Curriculum

This course enables students to develop the skills and concepts needed to ensure the ongoing contribution of a firm's operations to its... View Details

February 2023
Supplement

Performance Management at Afreximbank (B)

By: Robert S. Kaplan, Siko Sikochi, Anna Ngarachu and Namrata Arora

Supplements the (A) case. Founded in October 1993, the Cairo-based African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) was a specialized continental financial institution designed to address the low level of intra-African trade, the decline in financial flows to Africa, the... View Details

Keywords: COVID-19 Pandemic; Performance Evaluation; Organizational Culture; Crisis Management; Banking Industry; Africa

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What Will U.S. Health Care Look Like After the Pandemic?

The pandemic crisis is almost certain to change many American industries. It would be a shame if health care is not one of them. A number of major practices have been altered to help the country cope with the extraordinary demands that the pandemic has imposed on the... View Details

Keywords: Health Pandemics; Health Care and Treatment; Change; Health Industry; United States

April 2010
Teaching Note

New Balance Athletic Shoe, Inc. (TN)

Teaching Note for [606094]. View Details

Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Production; Strategy; Performance Improvement; Brands and Branding; Networks; Management; Consolidation; Competition; Opportunities; Apparel and Accessories Industry

April 2010
Teaching Note

Wyeth Pharmaceuticals: Spurring Scientific Creativity with Metrics

Teaching Note for [607008]. View Details

Keywords: Restructuring; Decisions; Innovation and Invention; Research and Development; Health Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry

Article

Toward a Corporate Culture of Health: Results of a National Survey

By: Michael Anne Kyle, Lumumba Seegars, John M. Benson, Robert J. Blendon, Robert S. Huckman and Sara J. Singer

Context: The private sector has a large potential role in advancing health and well-being, but attention to corporate practices around health tends to focus on a narrow range of issues and on large businesses. Systematically describing private sector engagement in... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Health; Social Determinants Of Health; Health Policy; Public Health; Organizations; Health; Policy; Surveys

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08 Dec 2009
First Look

First Look: Dec. 8

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-038.pdf Fluid Teams and Fluid Tasks: The Impact of Team Familiarity and Variation in Experience (revised) Authors: Robert S. Huckman and... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

Article

Achieving Value in Highly Complex Acute Care: Lessons from the Delivery of Extra Corporeal Life Support

By: Michael Nurok, Jonathan Warsh, Erik Dong, Jeffrey Lopez, Mayumi Kharabi and Robert S. Kaplan

We applied a value (outcomes and cost) analysis to extracorporeal life support (ECLS), a relatively rare but very expensive ICU therapy with highly variable outcomes. To address the outcome component of the value approach, we created guidelines for ECLS delivery; to... View Details

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Cost Management; Value; Analysis

20 Mar 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, March 20, 2018

link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54267 February 6, 2018 Harvard Business Review What Could Amazon's Approach to Health Care Look Like? By: Huckman, Robert S. Abstract—No abstract... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

2019
Working Paper

Intelligent Design of Inclusive Growth Strategies

By: Robert S. Kaplan, George Serafeim and Eduardo Tugendhat

Improving corporate engagement with society, as advocated in the Business Roundtable’s 2019 statement, should not be viewed as a zero-sum proposition where attention to new stakeholders detracts from delivering shareholder value. Corporate programs for sustainable and... View Details

Keywords: Inclusion; Sustainability; Performance Measures; Environmental Sustainability; Social Issues; Strategy; Governance; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business and Stakeholder Relations

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