Publications

Educators

2022
Working Paper

The Regulation of Medical AI: Policy Approaches, Data, and Innovation Incentives

By: Ariel Dora Stern

For those who follow health and technology news, it is difficult to go more than a few days without reading about a compelling new application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to health care. AI has myriad applications in medicine and its adjacent industries, with... View Details

Keywords: AI and Machine Learning; Health Care and Treatment; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Technological Innovation; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry

July 2002 (Revised August 2002)
Case

Washington Hospital Center (D): Emergency Medicine After September 11

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Michelle Heskett

The all-risks-ready emergency room prototype project becomes widely accepted as a need after September 11, 2001. The already operational medical informatics system, Insight, comes under heavy demand after its strong performance during crises and is noticed by various... View Details

Keywords: Change Management; Health Care and Treatment; Nonprofit Organizations; Medical Specialties; Organizational Culture; Crisis Management; Technological Innovation; Higher Education; Performance Productivity; Health Industry; District of Columbia

Educators

Fall 2017
Article

The Alternative Business History: Business in Emerging Markets

By: Gareth Austin, Carlos Davila and Geoffrey Jones

This article suggests that the business history of emerging markets should be seen as an alternative business history rather than merely adding new settings to explore established core debates. The discipline of business history evolved around the corporate strategies... View Details

Keywords: Globalization; History; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Developing Countries and Economies; Business History; Asia; Latin America; Africa

June 2007 (Revised October 2007)
Case

Information Technology and Clinical Operations at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

By: Richard M.J. Bohmer, F. Warren McFarlan and Julia Rose Adler-Milstein

Describes the history of clinical computing at Boston's Beth Israel Hospital and the development, since the 1996 merger to form the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, of an information system designed to support the delivery of patient care. The hospitals' CIO, John... View Details

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Product Design; Service Delivery; Information Technology; Applications and Software; Health Industry; Boston

Educators

27 Feb 2006
Research & Ideas

Take Responsibility for Rising Stars

leaders, operating managers, not HR executives, are at the front line of planning and development. In fact, many senior executives now hold their line managers directly responsible for these activities. In this worldview, it is part of... View Details

Keywords: by Jeffrey M. Cohn, Rakesh Khurana & Laura Reeves

01 Feb 2012
News

How business differs in the emerging world

Web

Interviews - Creating Emerging Markets

Interviews The Creating Emerging Markets interview archive forms a permanent and unique resource held in Harvard Business School’s Baker Library. Each interview page includes the transcript, associated video clips and supporting resources... View Details

December 2016
Article

Selective Regulator Decoupling and Organizations' Strategic Responses

By: Jonas Heese, Ranjani Krishnan and Frank Moers

Organizations often respond to institutional pressures by symbolically adopting policies and procedures but decoupling them from actual practice. Literature has examined why organizations decouple from regulatory pressures. In this study, we argue that decoupling... View Details

Keywords: Regulator Leniency; Beneficence; Mispricing; Upcoding; Nonprofit Organizations; Health Care and Treatment; Revenue; Health Industry

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Research Summary

Buyers, Sellers, Manufacturers in China’s Emerging Market around 1900

Ever since the economic reforms in the post-Mao period China’s economy as an emerging market has attracted much interest. However, we tend to forget that China was already an emerging market at the turn of the 19^th century, if not earlier. This... View Details

01 Oct 2020
News

Does Your Company Need a Chief Medical Officer?

October 2010
Article

The Emerging Global Regime for Investment:: A Response to Jeswald W. Salacuse, 'The Emerging Global Regime for Investment' in Harvard International Law Journal vol. 51, no. 2 (2010): 427

By: Louis T. Wells

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2016
Article

Integrated Care from the Patient's Perspective and its Relationship to Medical Group Attributes.

By: Michaela Kerrissey, Jonathan Clark, Ashley-Kay Fryer, Wei Jiang, Maryaline Catillon, Patricia Ramsay, Stephen Shortell, Lawrence Casalino, Mark Friedberg and Sara J. Singer

Integrating care for patients with multiple chronic conditions is essential to improving quality. Yet little is known about care integration from the patient’s perspective and how it relates to medical group characteristics. We created a nationally representative... View Details

Keywords: Care Coordination; Integrated Care; Health; Health Care and Treatment; Quality; Perspective; Health Industry

05 Dec 2017
Research & Ideas

What We've Learned from 101 Entrepreneurs in Emerging Markets

into the digital age. And so we became ever more ambitious: to transform both the research and the teaching about business and entrepreneurship in emerging markets. Silverthorne: In terms of public response... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

Web

Research & Teaching - Creating Emerging Markets

Uses for Research & Teaching Research Guidelines Teaching Guidelines Research Guidelines The Creating Emerging Markets project provides a unique and freely accessible resource for scholars and researchers. In his Oral History in Latin... View Details

05 May 2003
Research & Ideas

Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance

of integrity has to do it. In the same way that medical ethics do not compel a physician to do something that violates his or her own personal ethics, corporate law does not require directors to check their sense of right and wrong... View Details

Keywords: by Carla Tishler

2012
Chapter

Leading in Crises: Observations on the Political and Decision-Making Dimensions of Response

By: Herman B. Leonard and Arnold M. Howitt

Emergency response organizations, as we have argued in earlier writing, must deal with both "routine emergencies" (dangerous events, perhaps extremely severe, that are routine because they can be anticipated and prepared for) and "true crises" (which, because of... View Details

Keywords: Strategy; Leadership; Decision Choices and Conditions; Crisis Management; Government and Politics

Web

Published Materials - Creating Emerging Markets

2023 Book Faculty Research Deeply Responsible Business: A Global History of Values-Driven Leadership By: Geoffrey Jones SEPT 2022 Article Journal of Business Ethics Drivers of Philanthropic Foundations in View Details

July 2014
Article

Making Boston Stronger

By: Dutch Leonard, Arnold M. Howitt, Christine M. Cole and Philip B. Heymann

In the wake of the Boston Marathon bombing in 2013, a team from Harvard University carried out extensive interviews with participants to identify strengths and weaknesses in the incident response to the terror attack. This abridged version of their final report focuses... View Details

Keywords: Boston Marathon Bombing; Disaster Response; Emergency Preparedness; Crisis Management; Cooperation; Boston

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March 2019
Article

A Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing Analysis of Emergency Department Scribes

By: Robert S. Kaplan, Heather A. Heaton, David M. Nestler, William J. Barry, Richard A. Helmers, Mustafa Y. Sir, Deepi G. Goyal, Derek A. Haas and Annie T. Sadosty

Objectives: To apply time-driven activity-based costing (TDABC) methodology to determine emergency medicine physician documentation costs with and without scribes.

Methods: Two research assistants shadowed attending physicians for a total of 64 hours in the... View Details

Keywords: Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing; Health Care and Treatment; Analysis