Publications

March 1999 (Revised February 2000)
Case

Patient Care Delivery Model at the Massachusetts General Hospital, The

By: Amy C. Edmondson, Richard M.J. Bohmer and Emily Heaphy

Examines the implementation of a new patient care delivery model at Massachusetts General Hospital. Uses clinical and financial data to examine different choices for staffing non-physician health care professionals and to understand the challenges of managing change... View Details

Keywords: Change Management; Service Delivery; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry; Massachusetts

Educators

2008
Article

Perspectives: Massachusetts Life Sciences—Locally Linked, Globally Connected

By: Christian H.M. Ketels

December 2007
Case

Ruling the Modern Corporation: The Debate over Limited Liability in Massachusetts

By: David A. Moss and Eugene Kintgen

In 1830, Governor Levi Lincoln, Jr. urged the Massachusetts state legislature to introduce a limited liability regime for manufacturing corporations similar to that adopted in neighboring states. At least since 1809, shareholders in the state's manufacturing... View Details

Keywords: Capital; Debt Securities; Legal Liability; Production; Business and Shareholder Relations; Manufacturing Industry; Massachusetts

Educators

January 1992
Case

Calling For Cash: The Massachusetts Lottery 900-Number Decision

By: Stephen A. Greyser

Keywords: Decision Making; Massachusetts

June 1978
Article

How Foreign Businesses Decide to Invest in Massachusetts

By: L. T. Wells Jr.

Keywords: Business Ventures; Investment; Massachusetts

December 2014
Teaching Note

Massachusetts Pay-for-Success Contracts: Reducing Juvenile and Young Adult Recidivism

By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Sarah Appleby

Teaching Note for 514-061. View Details

November 1986 (Revised December 1987)
Case

Division of Capital Planning and Operations, Commonwealth of Massachusetts

March 2021
Teaching Note

State of Charge: The Massachusetts Energy Storage Initiative

By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock

Winter 2021
Article

Can Staggered Boards Improve Value? Causal Evidence from Massachusetts

By: Robert Daines, Shelley Xin Li and Charles C.Y. Wang

We study the effect of staggered boards (SBs) using a quasi-experiment: a 1990 law that imposed an SB on all Massachusetts-incorporated firms. The law led to an increase in Tobin's Q, investment in CAPEX and R&D, patents, higher-quality patented innovations, and... View Details

Keywords: Staggered Board; Entrenchment; Life-cycle; Tobin's Q; Innovation; Profitability; Investor Composition; Governing and Advisory Boards; Investment; Innovation and Invention; Institutional Investing; Value

SSRN

June 1999
Supplement

United Way of Massachusetts Bay and Valley of the Sun

By: David E. Bell

winter 1994
Article

Negotiating NIMBYs: Learning from the Failure of the Massachusetts Siting Law

By: M. A. Wheeler

Keywords: Negotiation; Learning; Failure; Law; Massachusetts

April 2000
Teaching Note

Patient Care Delivery Model at the Massachusetts General Hospital, The TN

By: Amy C. Edmondson, Richard M.J. Bohmer and Emily Heaphy

Teaching Note for (9-699-154). View Details

Keywords: Health Industry; Service Industry; Massachusetts

1988
Book

Creating the Future: The Massachusetts Comeback and Its Promise for America

By: M. S. Dukakis and Rosabeth M. Kanter

Keywords: Economics; Massachusetts

24 Mar 2009
Other Presentation

Massachusetts at a Crossroads: Renewing the Competitiveness of Boston and the State

By: Michael E. Porter

Keywords: Economics; Growth and Development; United States

10 Oct 2003
Other Presentation

Massachusetts Regional Competitiveness Councils: Survey Results for Berkshire, Pioneer Valley, and Central Regions

By: Michael E. Porter

Keywords: Economics; Growth and Development

30 Sep 2003
Other Presentation

Massachusetts Regional Competitiveness Councils: Regional Competitiveness Profiles Northeast, Southeast, and Cape & Island Regions

By: Michael E. Porter

Keywords: Economics; Growth and Development

25 Apr 2004
Conference Presentation

Secular Changes in Testosterone over 17 Years: Results from the Massachusetts Male Aging Study

By: William B. Simpson, Andre B. Araujo, Christopher Longcope and John B. McKinlay

Keywords: Change; Health; Age Characteristics; Gender Characteristics; Massachusetts

May 2012
Case

BoldFlash: Cross-Functional Challenges in the Mobile Division

By: Michael Beer and Rachel Shelton

Roger Cahill has spent less than a year as head of the Mobile Division of BoldFlash, a flash memory component maker. On the corporate level, BoldFlash has adapted to an evolving and difficult marketplace, but the Mobile Division is struggling. The four groups within... View Details

Keywords: United States; Massachusetts; Morale; Human Resource Management; Technology; Leadership; Opportunities; Organizational Design; Conflict and Resolution; Product Development; Change Management; Information Infrastructure; Business Processes; Manufacturing Industry; Electronics Industry; Massachusetts

Educators

2012
Other Unpublished Work

The Long-Term Impact of Business Cycles on Innovation: Evidence from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

By: Pian Shu