Patient-centered Medical Home - Publications - Faculty & Research

12 Feb 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019

organization theory. Theoretical consilience will enable the accumulation of empirical research into a cohesive body of knowledge on entrepreneurial resource mobilization. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55593 forthcoming Nature... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

05 May 2022
Research & Ideas

Why Companies Raise Their Prices: Because They Can

category, including private-label products. The data included unit sales and revenue by universal product code, or UPC, for each week and physical store. Products included everything from cereal, bottled water, paper towels, and over-the-counter cold View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

14 Feb 2023
HBS Case

Is Sweden Still 'Sweden'? A Liberal Utopia Grapples with an Identity Crisis

country is shifting away from the liberal Social Democratic Party that has been the benchmark of its system. Fewer young Swedes are joining unions, and American-style private schools and medical care have taken root. “Americans, myself... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

01 Apr 2014
First Look

First Look: April 1

intermediary organizations. To test our theory, we examine every relationship between entrepreneurial firms and their venture capital investors in the minimally invasive surgical segment of the medical device industry over a 22-year... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

How To Make Restructuring Work for Your Company

may be delayed, or not happen, to the detriment of all parties. Inter-claimholder conflicts played a large role in Navistar International's restructuring. The company had amassed a $2.6 billion liability for the medical expenses of... View Details

Keywords: by Stuart C. Gilson

31 Jul 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 31, 2018

forthcoming Journal of Medical Internet Research Reimagining Health Data Exchange: An Application Programming Interface-Enabled Roadmap for India By: Balsari, Satchit, Alexander Fortenko MD, MPH, Joaquin A. Blaya PhD, Adrian Gropper MD,... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

02 Apr 2020
What Do You Think?

What Are Lessons for Leaders from This Black Swan Crisis?

geographically, including some home grown production capacity will ensure a much more resilient operation.” Among other things, Chris Taylor suggested that leaders in this crisis will have learned that it paid to be calm in bearing,... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

19 Dec 2017
First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 19, 2017

epigenetic, and protein biomarkers—create a better match between individuals with specific disease subtypes and medications that are more effective for those patients. These treatments are expected to be both more effective and more... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

17 Sep 2021
Research & Ideas

The Trial of Elizabeth Holmes: Visionary, Criminal, or Both?

Ramesh Balwani, had long known that Theranos’ home blood test didn’t work, but misled investors to keep money flowing in. Holmes and Balwani are accused of defrauding patients, doctors, and investors of over $700 million. At its peak in... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette; Medical Devices & Supplies; Medical Devices & Supplies; Medical Devices & Supplies

29 Jul 2022
Research & Ideas

Will Demand for Women Executives Finally Shrink the Gender Pay Gap?

Job-hopping doesn’t benefit lower-level workers. Women in lower-level positions did not gain the same advantage over men that senior executive women did. Men still take home more. Salaries for men were still 14 percentage points higher... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

07 May 2020
Research & Ideas

The One Good Thing Caused by COVID-19: Innovation

mitigating the risk of contagion. Other examples of this in the past have been less extreme, but include, for example, medical device advancement developed in response to a rise in consumer awareness of radiation risk. We recently... View Details

Keywords: by Hong Luo and Alberto Galasso

14 Mar 2022
Research & Ideas

Lessons from COVID-19: The Business Skills Doctors Need

practice. All of these abrupt changes called for medical professionals to have a certain level of management prowess, says Robert Huckman, Albert J. Weatherhead III Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. “Outside... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

31 Aug 2021
Book

Feeling Powerless at Work? Time to Agitate, Innovate, and Orchestrate

and children by not only providing medical care, but also working to rehabilitate people’s homes and provide vocational training for parents. She initially shied away from seeking help from the rich and... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

06 Oct 2020
Sharpening Your Skills

18 Tips Managers Can Use to Lead Through COVID's Rising Waters

this a priority, nagging them like worried grandmothers and sending chicken soup to their home offices if that is what it takes. Leaders also need to model self-care for their teams. Looking disheveled and exhausted in virtual meetings... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

11 Apr 2012
Research & Ideas

The High Risks of Short-Term Management

companies was more volatile—and riskier—than that of the long-termers. The team also identified industries that appear to be short-term-oriented (banking, electronic equipment, business services, and wholesale) and long-term-focused (beverages, retail, pharma, and... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services

29 Jan 2021
Op-Ed

How Influencers, Celebrities, and FOMO Can Win Over Vaccine Skeptics

convince more people to get vaccinated. [div class=infogram-embed data-id=_/4llCHjEqY1XunMkYbjrB][/div] Three steps to speed vaccine adoption Governments are prioritizing certain groups to receive the vaccine, with medical professionals... View Details

Keywords: by Rohit Deshpandé, Ofer Mintz, and Imran S. Currim

08 Feb 2000
Research & Ideas

Building Effective R&D Capabilities Abroad

present an instructive contrast. Xerox established a home-base-augmenting laboratory in Grenoble, France. Its objective: to tap new knowledge from the local scientific community and to transfer it back to its home base. Having already... View Details

Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle

21 Oct 2015
Research & Ideas

How to Predict if a New Business Idea is Any Good

In 2008, entrepreneur Brian Chesky and his two San Francisco roommates made the rounds of Silicon Valley VC firms with what they thought was a great idea: a website and mobile app that would allow homeowners to open their homes to... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Accommodations; Financial Services

25 May 2021
Research & Ideas

White Airbnb Hosts Earn More. Can AI Shrink the Racial Gap?

lodging demand. "If other companies invest in building similar race-blind algorithms, that may even the playing field for users." The research results could also have broader implications for promoting racial equity at a wide range of businesses, from financial... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Technology; Accommodations

08 Sep 2015
Research & Ideas

Knowledge Transfer: You Can't Learn Surgery By Watching

his own research, he has spent hundreds of hours studying a similarly fraught industry—high-risk medical transport teams—to learn how they acquire knowledge that can literally mean the difference between life and death. He found that much... View Details