Publications

September 2015
Article

Banks as Patient Fixed-Income Investors

By: Samuel G. Hanson, Andrei Shleifer, Jeremy C. Stein and Robert W. Vishny

We examine the business model of traditional commercial banks when they compete with shadow banks. While both types of intermediaries create safe "money-like" claims, they go about this in different ways. Traditional banks create money-like claims by holding illiquid... View Details

Keywords: Shadow Banking; Safe Money-like Claims; Commercial Banking

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August 2011 (Revised February 2012)
Background Note

A Note on Water

By: Robert G. Eccles, Amy C. Edmondson, George Serafeim and Sarah E. Farrell

This note provides background on the complex issues regarding the supply and consumption of water and how this natural resource is at increasing risk, resulting in significant economic, political and environmental issues. View Details

Keywords: Economics; Government and Politics; Demand and Consumers; Supply and Industry; Risk and Uncertainty; Natural Environment; Pollutants; Environmental Sustainability

24 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 24, 2009

would have far reaching consequences. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=209060 PublicationsInstructor's Manual to Accompany Corporate Information Strategy and Management: Text and Cases. 8th ed. Authors:Lynda M.... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

13 Jul 2010
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First Look: July 13

School Supplement 510-120 This case supplements the "Flying J" case. Purchase this supplement:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/510120-PDF-ENG The Greening of DUMBO Robert G. Eccles, Amy C.... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

January 2003
Article

Economic Evaluation in Orthopaedics

By: Kevin J Bozic, Aaron G. Rosenberg, Robert S. Huckman and James H. Herndon

Keywords: Economics; Health

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19 Oct 2010
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First Look: October 19, 2010

provide these experiences? Purchase this module note:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/611004-PDF-ENG Southwest Airlines One Report TM Robert G. Eccles, Beiting Cheng, and Susan ThyneHarvard Business... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

December 2022
Article

Collaborative Rooming: An Innovative Pilot Project to Overcome Primary Care Challenges

By: Gagandeep Singh, Jill G. Lenhart, Richard A. Helmers, Michele Renee Eberlee, Heather Costley, Joel B. Roberts and Robert S. Kaplan

Primary care physicians are overburdened with growing complexities and increasing expectations for primary care visits. To meet expectations, primary care physicians must multitask during visits and spend extra hours in the office for charting, billing, and... View Details

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Groups and Teams; Job Design and Levels; Health Industry

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09 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 9

Social Legitimacy and Global Capitalism Authors:Rawi Abdelal and John G. Ruggie Publication:Chap. 7 in New Perspectives on Regulation, edited by David Moss and John Cisternino, 151-162. Cambridge, Mass.: The Tobin Project, 2009 Abstract... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

September 2017 (Revised February 2023)
Case

Intermountain Healthcare: Pursuing Precision Medicine

By: Richard G. Hamermesh, Kathy E. Giusti, Robert S. Huckman and Julia Kelley

Headquartered in Salt Lake City, Intermountain Healthcare operates 23 hospitals and hundreds of clinics in Utah and Idaho and provides insurance to approximately 850,000 patients through its insurance arm, SelectHealth. In 2013, Intermountain, known for its commitment... View Details

Keywords: Precision Medicine; Healthcare; Innovation; Cancer; Cancer Research; Health Care; Technology; Health Care and Treatment; Innovation Leadership; Disruptive Innovation; Entrepreneurship; Decision Choices and Conditions; Health Industry; Insurance Industry; Utah; United States; North America

January 2012 (Revised April 2012)
Case

Intel: Exploring Market Opportunities in Water

By: Robert G. Eccles, Amy C. Edmondson, George Serafeim and Sarah E. Farrell

Keywords: Markets; Opportunities; Technology

02 Jan 2012
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles of 2011

Behavior and Performance (1,002) http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-035.pdf http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/6865.html Published: November 14, 2011 Paper Released: November 2011 Robert G. Eccles, Ioannis Ioannou,... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

12 Mar 2013
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First Look: March 12

dramatically four years later. The case is based upon data and information from public sources. Purchase this case:http://hbr.org/search/613001-PDF-ENG CLP: Powering Asia Serafeim, George, Robert G. Eccles,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 1996
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Four Professors to Retire

engineering, McKenney earned a Ph.D. in business administration from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1961. A full professor at HBS since 1968, he was named the John G. McLean Professor of Business Administration in 1989. In... View Details

Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb and John Prestage

October 2, 2015
Article

The Harvard Contest That's Trying to Improve Health Care Delivery

By: Richard G. Hamermesh, Robert S. Huckman, Barbara McNeil, Joseph P. Newhouse and Cara Sterling