Systems Thinking - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2010
News

Health IT at the Bedside

implementation. Systems need to be selected, workflows altered, and the inevitable kinks ironed out. Change is hard. Yet, in my experience, after an individual or organization undergoes the transition from paper to digital, few would ever... View Details

Keywords: Sachin H. Jain; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information

13 Sep 2019
Blog Post

An Uncommon Summer: Project Management at an Education Non-Profit

largest charter school systems with 54 schools in six cities serving underprivileged communities. The vast majority of their student bodies are filled with children of color from low-income backgrounds. Given such a high need for quality... View Details

15 Jul 2002
Research & Ideas

Going Green Makes Good Business Sense

Twenty-five years ago, the average businessperson did not need to think too much about the environment. Although there was concern over clean air and water, safe food, and an intact ozone layer, people didn't summon the words "the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

29 Apr 2020
Book

The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages

Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

01 Dec 2007
News

Rediscovering America

ingenuity built this country. New ideas involve a kind of thinking where you’re able to challenge orthodoxy and look at the world in a different light, from a different angle, and sometimes combine existing elements in a different way. I... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

25 Aug 2022
News

Clean Slate

says. To get there, Massport is reducing the carbons tied to the operation of its airports, container ship and cruise terminals, and all related equipment and vehicles. Logan’s central heating system represents the biggest opportunity:... View Details

Profile

Inessa Lurye

today, Inessa heads up product strategy at Maxwell Health, an "operating system for employee benefits" that centralizes health and benefits data to help employees navigate options more simply and satisfactorily. "I hadn't... View Details

18 Feb 2016
Blog Post

Honing an Interest in Healthcare at HBS

healthcare to identify interesting opportunities and stay connected to the Health Care Club. What advice do you have for prospective students? I strongly encourage students to think outside the box and pursue unusual opportunities,... View Details

01 Oct 1998
News

A Community Investment

resources than government. The enthusiasm of private parties for various approaches to solving social problems needs to be tempered by an overall concern for the interests of society. Schell: I think that in almost every case the free... View Details

23 Feb 2021
Research & Ideas

COVID-19 Shines New Light on Working Conditions in Supply Chains

already-stressful situation—not only for factories, but for corporate offices, schools, and other organizations, Toffel says. “Why is it that every school system has had to develop their own standards and policies for masks, for... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Apparel & Accessories

01 Dec 2002
News

Bad Times for Business

true. But this has really made me think more about the role that institutions and public policy play and about how vulnerable the system is unless we really do have checks and balances. In addition to formal... View Details

01 Jun 2013
News

Lesson Plans

Blended learning looks like the vehicle to do a lot of this, but we're thinking of it more as a student-centric system that allows for mastery-based learning. Undergirding that approach with technology is... View Details

Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services

18 Feb 2022
Blog Post

Short Intensive Program (SIP): Climate Adaptation

of Business: A Systems Approach with Explicit Integration of Public Health Co-Benefits Professor Macomber structured the course to have students approach the topic from four points of view, and assigned student team projects to View Details

01 Jun 2020
News

Homeschooled

what we have done thus far and think about, ‘How do you make this a truly transformative experience if we need to continue with online learning in the fall?’” says Kim, who teaches the second-year MBA course Transforming Education through... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie; online learning; Educational Services

01 Jun 2002
News

In VMI Partnerships, the Devil is in the Data

other words, if a retailer only gives the manufacturer warehouse stock information rather than actual sales data, or if the data is sent by fax instead of electronic transfer (which can be more efficiently verified), VMI may not pay off. To the degree the View Details

Keywords: Laura Singleton (MBA 1988)

01 Mar 2012
News

Alumni Book Briefs

structures and systems as well as reconciling the varying speeds at which divisions within a company may develop. Merson explores these different aspects of growth and outlines strategies and tactics to enable businesses to move forward... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Jun 2008
News

Alumni Books

while also respecting humanistic values. They lay out the positivist, social constructionist, and postmodernist perspectives on the theory of educational organization to help readers develop new ways of thinking about organizational... View Details

Keywords: Management

23 Mar 2003
Research & Ideas

Putting the Project Puzzle Together

School, discusses his findings in this interview. Benko (HBS MBA '89), is Deloitte Consulting's global e-business leader. Lagace: A company's project portfolio, according to you and your co-author, Cathleen Benko, is a significant agent of organizational change. Why do... View Details