Filter Results:
(3,205)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(3,205)
- People (1)
- News (910)
- Research (1,998)
- Events (7)
- Multimedia (36)
- Faculty Publications (941)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(3,205)
- People (1)
- News (910)
- Research (1,998)
- Events (7)
- Multimedia (36)
- Faculty Publications (941)
- 16 Nov 1999
- Lessons from the Classroom
Leading Change and Organizational Renewal
A member of the Executive Education staff spoke recently with HBS Professors Michael Tushman and Charles O'Reilly, developers of the program Leading Change and Organizational Renewal. In that discussion they describe their thinking about... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 07 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 8, 2018
redeploying anesthesiologists to duties that are more appropriate and reducing their unnecessary duties by 30%. Furthermore, the change in epidural placement location alone in 80% of cases reduced costs by... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jul 2023
- Research & Ideas
STEM Needs More Women. Recruiters Often Keep Them Out
non-traditional applicants.” Certificate programs often pay off for participants, and ensuring success for all involved—the universities, graduates, and future employers—is big business. Some 40 percent of graduates studied received a raise or promotion View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 17 Nov 2008
- Research & Ideas
Decoding the Artful Sidestep
instead provide distraction by answering something they would rather have been asked. And what is more, oftentimes their listeners either do not notice the verbal sleight of hand or do not mind it. New research View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 27 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
New Cluster Mapping Project Helps Companies Locate Facilities
Too often corporations decide to locate facilities based solely on cost savings. And that's shortsighted, argues Harvard Business School professor Michael Porter. Instead, business leaders should look for locations that gather... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jun 2012
- Research & Ideas
When Business Competition Harms Society
UCLA Anderson School, and Michael W. Toffel of Harvard Business School. In the quest to discover whether competition breeds unethical behavior, the researchers examined the vehicle emissions testing program in New York State, one of... View Details
- 18 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
Hazard Warning: The Unacceptable Cost of Toxic Workers
what he calls the negative outliers. The estimated cost—based on turnover triggered by the toxic worker and the cost associated with new hires and training—is likely on the low end, Minor says, because it doesn’t take into account... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
- 25 Sep 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Politics is Failing America, and What Business Can Do To Help
According to a new Harvard Business School report from Michael E. Porter, the Bishop William Lawrence University Professor, and co-author Katherine Gehl, a former CEO and political activist, Washington’s proverbial “swamp” isn’t a set of... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
- November 2019 (Revised December 2019)
- Case
Martini Klinik: Prostate Cancer Care 2019
By: Michael E. Porter, Jens Deerberg-Wittram and Thomas W. Feeley
Since its establishment in 2005, Hamburg’s Martini Klinik had single mindedly focused on prostate cancer care with a commitment to measure long-term health outcomes for every patient. A wholly owned subsidiary of the University Hospital Hamburg, Martini Klinik was a... View Details
Keywords: Health Care; Michael Porter; Jens Deerberg-Wittram; Clifford Marks; Prostate Cancer; Health Care Policy; Value Agenda; Integrated Practice Units; Outcomes Measurement; Health Care and Treatment; Value; Health Disorders; Insurance; Medical Specialties; Outcome or Result; Measurement and Metrics; Business Processes; Insurance Industry; Health Industry; Germany
Porter, Michael E., Jens Deerberg-Wittram, and Thomas W. Feeley. "Martini Klinik: Prostate Cancer Care 2019." Harvard Business School Case 720-359, November 2019. (Revised December 2019.)
- 14 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
You're Right! You Are Working Longer and Attending More Meetings
Work-from-home employees whose days seem longer, with more meetings and emails than ever before, may find a new Harvard Business School study validating. An analysis of the emails and meetings of 3.1 million people in 16 global cities found that the average workday... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 18 Apr 2020
- Working Paper Summaries
How Are Small Businesses Adjusting to COVID-19? Early Evidence From a Survey
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Throwing Your Opponent: Strategies for the Internet Age
with Microsoft (The Free Press), Yoffie and Michael A. Cusumano of MIT's Sloan School of Management use this high-tech confrontation to outline a comprehensive approach to strategy in the ultracompetitive environment created View Details
Keywords: by Daniel Penrice
- 28 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
Online Match-Making with Virtual Dates
current model is artificial and static, and far removed from everyday social interaction," says Jeana H. Frost, who along with Michael I. Norton and Dan Ariely is taking an academic look at online dating and how it can be improved.... View Details
- 30 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Asking Questions Can Get You a Better Job or a Second Date
intelligent as well.” The research, published in the paper It Doesn’t Hurt to Ask: Question-Asking Increases Liking, examined data from online chats and face-to-face speed dating conversations. In addition to Brooks, the coauthors were Karen Huang, HBS and Department... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 08 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Japan Compete? [Part Two]
In our January 2 update, we featured the first part of a two-part interview with HBS professor Michael E. Porter, an internationally influential expert on strategy and competition. (Porter was recently appointed to a University... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer
- 02 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Japan Compete? [Part One]
considered exemplary policies and practices by government. By looking more closely, however, Porter, Takeuchi, and Sakakibara also began to discover what they call "another Japan." While the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer
- 02 Mar 2007
- What Do You Think?
What Is the Government’s Role in US Health Care?
from government. Suggestions of causes of the current challenge of rapidly rising costs in relation to quality of outcomes, at least by the imperfect measure of life expectancy, included waste in the system (Julie Maire, Edward Hare, and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- HBS Case
A Nike Executive Hid His Criminal Past to Turn His Life Around. What If He Didn't Have To?
street-to-prison cycle that had ravaged his youth. He had passed a high school equivalency test and had earned a college degree, and by that point could envision a bright future as a budding accountant at Arthur Andersen, the firm he... View Details