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Front-line Staff Perspectives on Opportunities for Improving the Safety and Efficiency of Hospital Work Systems

By: Anita L. Tucker, Sara J. Singer, Jennifer E. Hayes and Alyson Falwell

Objective To link safety-related concerns raised by frontline staff about hospital work systems (operational failures) to the safety and efficiency of hospitals, and to contrast these concerns with national patient safety initiatives.

Data... View Details

Keywords: Perspective; Opportunities; Safety; Performance Efficiency; System; Failure; Conferences; Employees; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Experience and Expertise; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry; United States
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  • 27 Jun 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27

performance. Molinas and her largely female and Turkish senior leadership team grapple with the significant financial impact of massive protests in Turkey, the rise of anti-American sentiments, growing national View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • October 2022
  • Case

Afrigen Biologics: Vaccines for the Global South

By: Debora L. Spar and Julia Comeau
The majority of vaccines used on the continent of Africa (99%) are produced offshore. This makes African nations reliant on the West for major health care needs, a problem which was exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Afrigen Biologics (in partnership with the WHO)... View Details
Keywords: Vaccination; Vaccine; mRNA; COVID; COVID-19; Inequity; Hub-and-spoke; Health Care and Treatment; Health Pandemics; Production; Social Issues; Business and Government Relations; South Africa; Africa
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  • 28 Oct 2011
  • Working Paper Summaries

Fairness, Efficiency, and Flexibility in Organ Allocation for Kidney Transplantation

Keywords: by Dimitris Bertsimas, Vivek F. Farias & Nikolaos Trichakis; Health
  • 08 May 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 8, 2018

New Jersey, and the New York metropolitan area, providing a wide range of services from primary care to complex specialty care. In 2016, U.S. News and World Report had ranked CHOP as the number 2 pediatric hospital in the nation and among... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

    Alvin E. Roth

    Al Roth is the George Gund Professor of Economics and Business Administration in the Department of Economics at Harvard University, and in the Harvard Business School. His research, teaching, and consulting interests are in game theory, experimental economics, and... View Details

    Keywords: health care; health care; health care; health care; health care; health care
    • June 2010 (Revised September 2010)
    • Case

    athenahealth: Innovating in Response to a Crisis in Healthcare

    When Jonathan Bush and his partner, Todd Park, realized that their revolutionary approach to delivering clinical care was being stymied by the inefficiencies in the healthcare system and insurance red tape, they turned their proprietary technology, athenaNet, to a new... View Details
    Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Health Care and Treatment; Information Management; Innovation and Invention; Brands and Branding; Product Development; Health Industry; United States
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    • November 2007
    • Class Lecture

    The Baby Business (FSS)

    By: Debora L. Spar
    In vitro fertilization and genetic screening are possible with the advent of biotechnology. International adoptions, surrogacy, and other approaches to family planning are on the rise. But few rules govern these measures, medical costs can be prohibitive, and... View Details
    Keywords: Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Policy; Demand and Consumers; Business and Government Relations; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Genetics; Societal Protocols; Commercialization; Health Industry; Health Industry
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    • January 2015 (Revised July 2019)
    • Case

    CVS Health: Promoting Drug Adherence

    By: Leslie John, John Quelch and Robert Huckman
    Email mking@hbs.edu for a courtesy copy.

    The case describes a program that CVS Health recently implemented to improve medication adherence, an important problem from a societal, public policy, and firm... View Details
    Keywords: Medication Adherence; Affordable Care Act (ACA); Marketing Strategy; Communication Strategy; Customer Value and Value Chain; Decisions; Health Care and Treatment; Goals and Objectives; Resource Allocation; Marketing Communications; Consumer Behavior; Measurement and Metrics; Service Delivery; Behavior; Motivation and Incentives; Social Issues; Information Technology; Value Creation; Health Industry; Health Industry; Health Industry; Health Industry; Health Industry; United States
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    • April 2017
    • Case

    Global Leadership in a Dynamic and Evolving Region: Molinas @ The Coca-Cola Company (A)

    By: Tsedal Neeley and Esel Çekin
    Galya Frayman Molinas, President of Coca-Cola's Turkish business and a 20-year company veteran, is unexpectedly asked to take the helm of a newly expanded territory with operations across eight additional countries in Central Asia: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia,... View Details
    Keywords: Functions; Structure; Centralization; Decentralization; Diversity; Country Of Origin Effects; Global Contextual Intelligence; Leading Change; Crisis Management; Organizational Structure; Experience and Expertise; Situation or Environment; Central Asia; Turkey
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    • October 2023 (Revised March 2024)
    • Case

    KOKO Networks: Bridging Energy Transition and Affordability with Carbon Financing

    By: George Serafeim, Siko Sikochi and Namrata Arora
    The problem was massive: two million hectares of African forests were lost annually to charcoal production for cooking, an area equivalent to 13 times Greater London, resulting in one billion tons of carbon emissions yearly. At the same time, an estimated 700,000... View Details
    Keywords: Clean Tech; Digital; Carbon Credits; Carbon Offsetting; Africa; Emerging Markets; Energy; Climate Change; Entrepreneurship; Energy Sources; Environmental Sustainability; Health; Market Design; Business Startups; Transition; Environmental Regulation; Policy; Energy Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Africa; Kenya; Rwanda
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    • 30 Jul 2013
    • First Look

    First Look: July 30

    Participation of Disability Insurance Applicants By: Shu, Pian Abstract—Using panel data from the RAND Health and Retirement Study, I show that rejected applicants for Social Security Disability View Details
    Keywords: Anna Secino
    • 16 Dec 2014
    • First Look

    First Look: December 16

    challenges facing Dr. John Noseworthy, president and CEO, in implementing a long-term strategy for the growth of the Mayo Clinic-a leading academic medical center with a reputation for excellence in tertiary and quaternary health care.... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • Web

    Business & Environment

    how it differs from traditional seawalls or breakwaters. Alex also discusses navigating public policy, permitting, and insurance incentives, and finally, Alex shares her career advice for those who are interested in climate resilience.... View Details
    • December 2016
    • Article

    Selective Regulator Decoupling and Organizations' Strategic Responses

    By: Jonas Heese, Ranjani Krishnan and Frank Moers
    Organizations often respond to institutional pressures by symbolically adopting policies and procedures but decoupling them from actual practice. Literature has examined why organizations decouple from regulatory pressures. In this study, we argue that decoupling... View Details
    Keywords: Regulator Leniency; Beneficence; Mispricing; Upcoding; Nonprofit Organizations; Health Care and Treatment; Revenue; Health Industry
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    Internal Deadlines, Drug Approvals, and Safety Problems

    By: Lauren Cohen, Umit Gurun and Danielle Li
    Absent explicit quotas, incentives, reporting, or fiscal year-end motives, drug approvals around the world surge in December, at month-ends, and before respective major national holidays. Drugs approved before these informal deadlines are associated with significantly... View Details
    Keywords: Health; Economics; Government and Politics; Innovation and Invention; Research; Science; Health Industry; Health Industry; Health Industry
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      Michael Lingzhi Li

      Keywords: health care; health care
      • 25 Apr 2000
      • Research & Ideas

      Adjusting the Fit for Government

      pointed out. Panelist Dean Donovan, managing partner of Bain & Company in South Africa, said the imperatives for African governments are many, and are all intertwined. The key underpinnings include a health policy that deals with... View Details
      Keywords: by Martha Lagace
      • 20 Jul 2010
      • First Look

      First Look: July 20

      case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/710054-PDF-ENG Jiamei Dental: Private Health Care in China William C. Kirby and G.A. DonovanHarvard Business School Case 910-404 With the recent announcement from the Chinese government that the... View Details
      Keywords: Martha Lagace
      • Web

      Placement - Doctoral

      Economics, 2022 Placement: Australian National University Dissertation: Essays in Applied Microeconomics Advisors: David Laibson (Chair), Andrei Shleifer , Edward Glaeser , and Gabriel Kreindler Frank Pinter Business Economics, 2022... View Details