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- July 1996 (Revised August 2024)
- Case
Innovative Opportunities to Manage Health Care Delivery
By: Regina E. Herzlinger and D. Scott Lurding
The purpose of this case is:
To familiarize the students with the changing landscape of health care delivery, through chains of retail medical centers and those offering value-based care (VBC).
To discuss fundamental managerial decisions about their... View Details
To discuss fundamental managerial decisions about their... View Details
Herzlinger, Regina E., and D. Scott Lurding. "Innovative Opportunities to Manage Health Care Delivery." Harvard Business School Case 197-011, July 1996. (Revised August 2024.)
- January 2014
- Supplement
The PGA Tour (D)
By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Cole Magrath
In 1994, the PGA Tour (the "Tour"), the dominant incumbent professional golf circuit, had created tremendous value for its players. In the 1974 season, players competed for $8 million in prize money; by the 1994 season, the total prize purse had increased to $56... View Details
- 04 Oct 2021
- What Do You Think?
How Do We Make Sure the Right People End Up with Power in Organizations?
systems or processes.” Bill Edwards added, “Trust is a trait! Like any trait, it is earned by action and repetition.” Bill Fotsch added, “Companies that have clear goals, transparency of performance and compensation aligned around those... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Feb 2021
- What Do You Think?
Has the New Economy Finally Arrived?
involve initially educating the senior leaders, as these are the folks who can open the right doors, make the needed resources available, and align the D&I process with all of the business objectives. Additionally, leadership must be... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 16 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Adam Smith, Behavioral Economist?
sacrifice realism for tractability. Only recently has the field of economics advanced enough to have the tools to reincorporate the factors that Smith and others had always felt were important in human interaction: our caring about each other and about fairness, our... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 2008
- Chapter
Corporate Honesty and Business Education: A Behavioral Model
By: Rakesh Khurana and Herbert Gintis
Since the mid-1970s neoclassical economic theory has dominated business school thinking and teaching in dealing with the nature of human motivation. However valuable in understanding competitive product and financial markets, neoclassical economic theory employs an... View Details
Keywords: Business Education; Ethics; Managerial Roles; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Organizational Culture; Business and Shareholder Relations; Mathematical Methods; Behavior
Khurana, Rakesh, and Herbert Gintis. "Corporate Honesty and Business Education: A Behavioral Model." In Moral Markets: The Critical Role of Values in the Economy, edited by Paul J. Zak. Princeton University Press, 2008.
- 14 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
Understaffed and Overworked: What Now?
applied a five-part litmus test to each of her existing goals by asking these questions: — "What is its economic impact?" How will this goal affect the company economically and move it forward? — "Is it aligned with the... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Michelman
- 29 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
How Organizations Create Social Value
organizations wanting to create social value. The researchers stressed the importance of synergies between Economic Value (EV) and Social Value (SV), calling them "two sides of the same coin." By aligning EV and SV, both... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 15 Nov 2018
- Book
Can the Global Food Industry Overcome Public Distrust?
JamesBrey Food is the largest segment of the global economy. It is also widely recognized as more critical for human health than any pharmaceutical drug on the planet. But significant changes in the industry are making people lose trust in many institutions involved in... View Details
- 11 May 2009
- Research & Ideas
The IT Leader’s Hero Quest
team at Harvard Business Press, led by the talented Kathleen Carr, had been generating a host of innovative ideas that naturally aligned with this book's innovative format—the use of artistic illustrations was their suggestion, and we... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
When Benchmarks Don’t Work
of benchmarking when used to assess the performance of human resources, information technology, finance, and other internal support or shared services groups. In our forthcoming book, Alignment, David Norton and I devote a chapter to View Details
- 27 Nov 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
Skilled Immigration and the Employment Structures of US Firms
- 26 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Office of Strategy Management
scorecards to align the organization? How can we ensure that our people understand our strategy? How do we use the scorecard to improve how we conduct our management meetings? An OSM typically emerges when the Balanced Scorecard team... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 03 Jul 2013
- What Do You Think?
What Are the Limits of Transparency?
presentations and record them for our internal Web site. We open that for review to a 360-degree workshop. What happened? You cannot lie You are going to put your best work into it ." This policy may not be appropriate for all organizations. It has to be View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 18 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Looking in the Mirror: Questions Every Leader Must Ask
doesn't stand still and it's natural for companies to fall out of alignment with achievement of key objectives. Too often, leaders don't realize how off-track they are until serious damage has been done to the business or the firm's... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- June 2021
- Case
Akira Fukabori and Kevin Kajitani at avatarin (A)
By: Linda A. Hill and Emily Tedards
In 2016, Akira Fukabori and Kevin Kajitani, aeronautical engineers at All Nippon Airways Co., Ltd., began to wonder why, in a world of accelerating globalization and digital connectivity, those who lived in far-remote villages or impoverished urban areas could not... View Details
Keywords: Agility; Ecosystem; Innovation Ecosystems; Crowdsourcing; Open Innovation; Partnership; Government; Collaboration; Co-creation; Purpose; Impact; Social Impact; Movement; Organizational Behavior; Organizational Ambidexterity; Ambidexterity; Culture; Culture Change; Global Teams; Experimentation; Space; Airline Industry; Start-up; Platform Business; Platform Strategy; Platform; Digital; Robotics; Robots; Mobility; Strategy; COVID-19; Intrapreneurship; Public-private Partnership; XPRIZE; Space Industry; Avatar; Telepresence; Innovation Lab; Innovation and Invention; Technological Innovation; Partners and Partnerships; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Alignment; Leadership; Leading Change; Diversity; Organizational Culture; Change Management; Entrepreneurship; Digital Platforms; Transportation Industry; Aerospace Industry; Japan
Hill, Linda A., and Emily Tedards. "Akira Fukabori and Kevin Kajitani at avatarin (A)." Harvard Business School Case 421-089, June 2021.
- 15 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
Women Leaders and Organizational Change
success, are closely aligned with idealized masculine interests, attributes, and life situations is a hard sell, especially to those who have become successful within this system—whether men or women, rich or poor, white or minority.... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
- 05 Nov 2021
- Op-Ed
Is the Business World Finally Ready for the Wisdom of Shibusawa?
financial loss and other burdens they understood and aligned with the mission,” Niinami says. At a time of crisis, Shibusawa’s spirit came into full force and multiple stakeholders aligned to achieve the... View Details
- 16 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Nonprofit Networking: The New Way to Grow
management strategy for nonprofits is still relatively uncommon. Wei-Skillern noticed that each unit of Mass Audubon operated quite independently. A new CEO tried to align the units better on a day-to-day basis by instituting a new... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 24 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Much Will Remote Work Continue After the Pandemic?
professor. They surveyed 1,770 members of Alignable, an online platform for small-business leaders. To supplement that small-business data, a second survey was completed by 70 business economists belonging to the National Association for Business Economics (NABE).... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz