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- 23 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 23
involved a phased process, focusing first on coverage expansion and then turning to delivery system innovation and cost containment. In 2006, the state adopted an individual mandate to obtain View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 14 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance
speak the same language for the most part. In the social sector we don't have nearly that degree of agreement over what constitutes useful, common metrics, even in subsectors like health care, education, and... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 12 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 12, 2008
Commercializing a Diagnostic Test Harvard Business School Case 308-090 What are the barriers and opportunities to commercializing genetic diagnoses for disease? Purchase the case:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 May 2016
- HBS Case
Food Safety Economics: The Cost of a Sick Customer
when more than 50 people in 11 states were sickened by an initial E. coli outbreak. “Do those smaller local organic growers have the experience, resources, and commitment to test their products for various... View Details
- 03 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 3
small cancer diagnostics start-up is deciding whether to acquire a laboratory to make and sell its bladder cancer test or build its own manufacturing and sales team. Purchase... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
What Can the World’s Largest Refugee Camp Teach Us About the Meaning of Work?
day.” Testing the unique benefits of work By all accounts, overcrowding, extreme poverty, and the experience of forced displacement inside the camps has taken a profound toll. Doctors Without Borders has... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 06 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 6
residential real estate and away from more productive investments. Third, the cost of professional investment management is too high, which drains talent from other industries. The financial sector could promote the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 7
Kingdom's National Health Service. We show that low levels of structural closure (i.e., structural holes) in a change agent's network aid the initiation and adoption of changes that diverge from the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jan 2021
- In Practice
Leadership Advice for Biden: Restore a Sense of Calm
the world into a multidimensional crisis. We are not only facing a health crisis, but economic and social crises, too, characterized by rising inequalities on top of an environmental crisis. A common root of... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 14 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 14, 2007
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-005.pdf Can Higher Prices Stimulate Product Use? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Zambia Authors:Nava Ashraf, James Berry, and Jesse M. Shapiro Abstract The controversy over whether View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 27
health care providers have devoted significant efforts to improve performance regarding patient safety and quality of care. To address the lagging involvement of health care... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Oct 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is Leadership an Increasingly Difficult Balancing Act?
advantage in a world of impatient investors, restive employees, and demanding customers? Do they require leaders who have fewer answers, more questions, and a bias for testing... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 17 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
America Needs a Manufacturing Renaissance
foundation upon which future innovative sectors can be built is crumbling. When the semiconductor production business moved to Asia in the 1980s, it brought with it a whole host of capabilities—electronic-materials processing, deposition View Details
- 05 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 5
By: Jaeker, Jillian Berry, Anita L. Tucker, and Michael H. Lee Abstract—We exploit an exogenous process change at two emergency departments (EDs) within a health system to test... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 27
Prima facie, it is unclear whether media outlets are favoring their own authors because these are the authors that their readers prefer or simply because they are trying to collude. We provide a test to distinguish between these two... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 18 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas, April 18
https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/717430-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 814-033 A Note on Healthcare IT and Applications to the Healthcare Industry This note provides an overview of three key healthcare IT areas: electronic... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 17
Publications August 2013 California Management Review What Impact? A Framework for Measuring the Scale & Scope of Social Performance By: Ebrahim, Alnoor, and V. Kasturi Rangan Abstract—Organizations with social missions, such as... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
Creating a Global Business Code
of an organization than the people in the middle and on the front lines."—Lynn Paine The team noticed key differences according to who authored each code: Those written by business practitioners generally emphasized the company's... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 14 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 14
Psychological Science Psychologically Informed Implementations of Sugary Drink Portion Limits By: John, Leslie, Grant Donnelly, and Christina Roberto Abstract—In 2012, the New York City Board of Health... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
significant operational reform within the nation's health care delivery organizations, new financing models, payment systems, or structures are unlikely to realize their promise. Adapting insights from high-performing companies in other... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace