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- 10 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Little Understood Problem Confronting Diverse Workplaces
working closely with students in small groups, assisting teachers, and running extracurricular programs.) The ethos of the school centers on a “no excuses,” high standards approach for performance and behavior, backed by a system of... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 01 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Encouraging Dissent in Decision-Making
What lessons could the humid shores of the Caribbean, the freezing heights of the Himalayas, or the farthest reaches of Earth's atmosphere hold for your company or organization? Although those places couldn't be more different, all were the scenes of disastrous... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 14 Jan 2019
- Op-Ed
These 4 CEOs Created a New Standard of Leadership
value. Through their leadership they encouraged other corporate leaders to embrace this multi-stakeholder approach. Harvard Business School’s Michael E. Porter called this idea “creating shared value” in January 2011. Let’s examine how... View Details
- 01 Apr 2019
- What Do You Think?
Does Our Bias Against Federal Deficits Need Rethinking?
accompanied by lower inflation and interest rates—that justify deficit spending to produce both economic growth and social programs designed to improve our quality of life and reduce social inequality” (JohnfrmClevelnd). Or, it prompts... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 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.)
- 12 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
Using the Law to Strategic Advantage
such as increasing student loans, to not only comply but also gain profitable business in the process. Michael Porter and others have described a similar process occurring with respect to environmental compliance. View Details
- 17 Sep 2024
- Research & Ideas
Advice for the New CEO: Talk to Your Employees Early and Often
to research by Harvard Business School Professor Raffaella Sadun. “A CEO transition is a major organizational event, and communication inside the company is such an important aspect of that transition.” Sadun and colleagues describe how a... View Details
Keywords: by Ami Albernaz
- 04 Jun 2018
- What Do You Think?
Are There Conditions Under Which Directors Should Consider Hiring a CEO Fired Elsewhere for Inappropriate Behavior?
circumstances under which such a hire might be made. Michael E opined, “I don’t believe you can generalize across the breadth of potential situations all people deserve second chances under appropriate conditions as difficult as it may... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 10 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
John Kotter’s Plan to Accelerate Your Business
structure driven by the accelerators." Two Is Better A dual operating system is a nod to what Kotter believes is some of the most interesting management thinking of the past few decades, from Michael... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 07 Aug 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is There Still a Role for Judgment in Decision-Making?
was a way of injecting a certain amount of objectivity and analysis into the decision to be made. In recent years, we have been advised to make certain decisions in a "blink" by Malcolm Gladwell, to "think twice" View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 20 Aug 2008
- Op-Ed
The Time is Right for Creative Capitalism
contributed an essay on creative capitalism to the blog Creative Capitalism: A Conversation (No longer available, -ed.), run by Michael Kinsley and Conor Clarke. We reprint her comments here with permission... View Details
Keywords: by Nancy Koehn
- 06 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
The Truth About Authentic Leaders
Critiques of authenticity But recently three leading scholars at Insead, Stanford, and Wharton challenged the concept of authentic leadership. Like all movements—Harvard University Professor Michael Porter’s famous five forces of strategy... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 10 Jan 2007
- HBS Case
The Challenge of Managing National Security
Advanced Competitive Strategy: Integrating the Enterprise. Rivkin's most recent case, coauthored with former HBS colleague Michael Roberto and published this year, is "Managing National Intelligence (A): Before 9/11." The case... View Details
- 22 Nov 2022
- Research & Ideas
When Agreeing to Disagree Is a Good Beginning
being, the more they wanted to work with them.” Key to these perceptions, the researchers found, was language. Using a language-processing algorithm designed by Imperial College Business School Assistant Professor View Details
Keywords: by Clea Simon, Harvard Gazette
- 20 Oct 2010
- Op-Ed
Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic
Editor's Note: Christian Ketels wrote this paper for the World Bank's Development Debate, "What Do We Mean by Export Competitiveness and How Do Countries Achieve it in an Uncertain World?" held March 29, 2010. Ketels is... View Details
Keywords: by Christian Ketels
- 12 Jul 2020
- Book
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2020
What They Are Reading Jeff Bussgang Two of my books during the “summer of COVID” have been a deep case study into perhaps history’s greatest leader in crisis, The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 11 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Digital Designs on the Inner City
for the creation of jobs and wealth among urban families. Moderator Randall Pinkett of M.I.T. Laboratory Anne Habiby, executive vice president of the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City, a national nonprofit founded by HBS professor... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Wide Horizon
earlier in the week. The father initially wondered if this was just the “fever effect,” a phenomenon of behavioral improvements noted by some parents of children with ASD when their kids have fevers, which he had previously observed in... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; Photos by Sarah Wilson
- 29 Jan 2018
- Book
How 'Teaming' Saved 33 Lives in the Chilean Mining Disaster
initial best option for extracting the miners. At that point, no expert considered rescue of the 33 men a reasonable possibility. Nonetheless, within 70 days all of them would be alive and reunited with their families. This outcome was the result of an extraordinary... View Details