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  • 14 Feb 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: February 14

order. This paper considers the operational implications of “discretionary task ordering,” defined as the task sequence resulting from an individual’s ability to select which task to complete next from a work queue. Using data from more than 2.4 million radiological... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Nov 2006
  • First Look

First Look: November 14, 2006

device company selling products to physicians for use with patients suffering chronic end-stage disease, to a medical technology company providing life-long solutions for people with chronic diseases. With the new vision setting... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Feb 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: February 21

negotiation scholars—can be taught to physicians in a one-hour lecture. We found evidence that even this minimal intervention can decrease overtreatment of patients with low-risk prostate cancer. Our novel approach offers a framework to... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 08 Oct 2013
  • First Look

First Look: October 8

achieving the best outcomes at the lowest cost. We must move away from a supply-driven health care system organized around what physicians do and toward a patient-centered system organized around what patients need. We must shift the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Mar 2016
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March 29, 2016

Multidisciplinary physician teams met to inform a 3-phase process of (1) concept development, (2) measure specification, and (3) implementation via EHR integration. Results. Outcomes were divided into 3 tiers that reflect the entire cycle... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Sep 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Customer Experts Lose Influence When Teams are Pressured

dynamics include the founding team in an entrepreneurial venture, a research group comprising physicians and scientists, a financial services team evaluating a possible deal, a governing board for a nonprofit organization, and a corporate... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
  • 03 Nov 2015
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November 3, 2015

sequence resulting from an individual’s ability to select which task to complete next from a work queue. Using data from 91 physicians reading a total of more than 2.4 million radiological studies over a period of two and a half years, we... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 May 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Fighting the COVID Blues: Advice from Business Research

shows. We need to remember to set work aside and make time to connect in meaningful ways with family and friends, says Whillans, whose partner’s stressful work as an emergency room physician is a daily reminder to set her priorities... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman and Danielle Kost
  • 11 Apr 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Sexual Harassment: What Employers Should Do Now

PeopleImages In 2012, federal court jurors listened as Ani Chopourian described the sexual harassment she endured as a cardiac surgery physician assistant at a Sacramento hospital. One surgeon greeted her each morning with “I’m horny” and... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 25 Oct 2016
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October 25, 2016

high-volume U.S. hospitals for delivering a primary total knee arthroplasty without major complicating conditions. Hospital and physician personnel costs were calculated using time-driven activity-based costing. Consumable supply costs,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Dec 2015
  • News

The Year in Ideas 2015

innovators.” -Jordan Amadio (MD 2009, MBA 2010), cofounder and partner, NeuroLaunch; senior resident physician in neurosurgery, Emory University Revealing bad behavior—to a potential romantic partner or a potential employer—can be better... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna, Christine Lejeune, Dan Morrell, and April White
  • 12 Jul 2021
  • News

Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis

test protocol (who gets tested, how often, etc.), to physician ordering/sample taking, to executing the COVID test, to support for contact tracing. They also have teams of scientists working on technologies that could reduce testing costs... View Details
  • 14 Feb 2012
  • First Look

First Look: February 14

individuals bring well-articulated preexisting preferences to such decisions. Understanding beliefs and attitudes motivating these preferences can assist physicians in helping parents make informed decisions consistent with their values.... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
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Year in Review | Annual Report 2024

(HBS) and Harvard Medical School (HMS) MD/MBA Program celebrated two decades of educating leaders who navigate the complex intersections of health care and business. Since its inception in 2004, the program has maintained its mission: to develop outstanding View Details
  • 26 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 26, 2008

agents. Truncation Strategies in Matching Markets Author:Lars Ehlers Periodical:Mathematics of Operations Research (forthcoming) Abstract Roth and Rothblum showed that for matching markets using the deferred acceptance algorithm a View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace