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  • 12 Apr 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Why Productivity Suffers When Employees Are Allowed to Schedule Their Own Tasks

given diagnosis; the researchers found that only 0.3 percent of the images in the sample (about 80 cases) received even a minor customer complaint. “These people are highly trained, and they think deeply about their work,” Ibáñez says.... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health
  • Web

HBS - The year in Review

staff with an eye toward identifying and responding to trends. Faculty Total 322 Female 28% Minority 28% Staff Total 1,325 Female 65% Minority 26% More Key Faculty & Staff Metrics Cash House Dedication On... View Details
  • Web

Latin America - Global

trade-offs between governance models (joint ventures vs. alliances), alliance membership vs. independence, and the risks and benefits of minority equity partnerships. The case provides an in-depth setting to apply competitive strategy,... View Details
  • 2008
  • Article

Entrepreneurial Ventures and Whole-body Donations: A Regional Perspective from the United States

By: Michel Anteby and Mikell Hyman

Human cadavers are crucial to medical science. While the debate on how to secure sufficient cadavers has focused primarily on donors' behaviors, procuring organizations' roles in increasing donations remain less explored. The United States offers a unique setting in... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Behavior; Programs; Nonprofit Organizations; Business Ventures; Health Testing and Trials; Demand and Consumers; Supply Chain; For-Profit Firms; Organizations; Training; United States
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  • 02 Jul 2013
  • First Look

First Look: July 2

candidates. We find that increasing the political representation of Muslims improves health and education outcomes in the district from which the legislator is elected. We find no evidence of religious favoritism: Muslim children do not... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 01 Mar 2024
  • News

Vital Signs

Image by Edmon De Haro Illustration by Edmon De Haro The signs of strain were there long before the pandemic: Health care workers had been managing under tremendous pressures while working long hours in understaffed hospitals. Then COVID unleashed an unprecedented... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance
  • 23 Jan 2024
  • Book

More Than Memes: NFTs Could Be the Next Gen Deed for a Digital World

piece of paper, or likely even for a ticket to a local minor league baseball game (which is more or less a deed to a seat). But plenty of people would pay that much for the deed to a house.* *Technically, people are generally paying for... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Information Technology; Technology; Financial Services
  • Web

HBS - The year in Review

faculty and staff with an eye toward identifying and responding to trends. Faculty Total 324 Female 30% Minority 31% Staff Total 1,454 Female 65% Minority 27% More Key Faculty & Staff Metrics Commencement... View Details
  • 27 May 2014
  • First Look

First Look: May 27

of technology. It reviews some opportunities for innovation that will solve the pain points and bottlenecks facing the system and outlines high-priority policy areas. It becomes clear that individual airlines have often been managed back to View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Apr 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Blind Spots: We’re Not as Ethical as We Think

interest to remain, the leaders are responsible for the boundedly unethical actions that follow. Q: How do you become aware of your blind spots? A: By looking at the data. If you firmly believe that you want to give women and minorities... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Faculty & Researchers - Managing the Future of Work

to Compensation Changes: Evidence from a Sales Firm (pdf) , Management Science, 2021. With Jason Sandvik, Richard Saouma, and Nathan Seegert. The Gig Economy Beyond Local Services and Transportation (pdf) , CESifo Forum, 2020. With Catherine Thomas. How Has COVID-19... View Details
  • Web

Interviewing - Alumni

other than a traffic violation? Response : No. I've never been convicted of anything other than a minor traffic violation. Follow Up Guidelines Send each person you meet with a thank you email as soon as possible. If you are sending... View Details
  • April 2023
  • Article

Performance on Patient Experience Measures of Former Chief Medical Residents as Physician Exemplars Chosen by the Profession

By: Lucy Chen and J. Michael McWilliams
OBJECTIVE To compare care for patients of primary care physicians (PCPs) who were former chiefs with care for patients of nonchief PCPs.

DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS Using 2010 to 2018 Medicare Fee-For-Service Consumer Assessment of Healthcare... View Details
Keywords: Performance Evaluation; Forecasting and Prediction; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Competency and Skills; Surveys; Health Industry
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  • 19 Sep 2023
  • Blog Post

2023 Summer Internships in Business & Environment

basalt reacts with CO2, trapping it for 10,000+ years while improving soil health and increasing crop yields for partner farmers. Lithos uses novel soil models and machine learning to maximize CO2 removal and only delivers empirically... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2019
  • News

Bridging the Gap

County Schools (FRI). An initiative now in its second year, FRIs offer high school students the opportunity to complete standard high school curricular requirements while gaining access to hands-on experience and accreditation opportunities in fields that include... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustration by Josh Cochran; photographed by Melissa Golden; cross sector collaboration; local government; nonprofits; education; leadership; Administration of Economic Programs; Government
  • 17 Nov 2016
  • Op-Ed

What's Behind the Unexpected Trump Support from Women

percent voted for him—the lowest percentage of all groups--reflecting, perhaps, their concern about the treatment of blacks in the criminal justice system as well as their recognition of Clinton’s stronger support of minorities and her... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Morgan Roberts and Robin Ely
  • 05 Oct 2020
  • Book

Want to Be Happier? Make More Free Time

unnecessary phone calls, emails, and paperwork. Workers often stretch themselves thin by allowing a colleague’s sense of urgency about something minor interrupt their more important work. After all, responding to multiple emails the... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 29 Jan 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019

endowments, mergers, and limited liability. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55499 January 2019 Health Affairs Decreases In Readmissions Credited to Medicare's Program to Reduce Hospital Readmissions Have... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 29 Aug 2018
  • What Do You Think?

What Should Harley-Davidson’s Management Do?

European market overseas, and (3) concentrate on designing and producing new products for new and existing markets. There were several minority opinions, however. ASGMark commented, “The very idea of moving manufacturing of an American... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Auto
  • 15 Oct 2001
  • Research & Ideas

What You Don’t Know About Making Decisions

observed that the "truth springs from arguments amongst friends." There are two ways to measure the health of a debate: the kinds of questions being asked and the level of listening. There are two ways to measure the View Details
Keywords: by David A. Garvin & Michael A. Roberto