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- 17 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
What’s Good about Quiet Rule-Breaking
What do software engineers, flight attendants, factory workers, mail carriers, truck drivers, and hospital nurses have in common? According to HBS professor Michel Anteby, these professions—and many others just as dissimilar, maybe even... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 17 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 17
111-012 This case describes the operating model and philosophy of this high-end set of global properties. Aman relies on employees taking considerable initiative to deliver the highest quality personalized service in the hospitality... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 16, 2015
https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/815086-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 315-018 MedCath Corporation (C) MedCath is a horizontally integrated chain of heart hospitals that partners with local cardiologists. It claims that its... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 23
Hospital in Houston, was contemplating the future direction of the congenital heart disease program. The nation's largest pediatric hospital, Texas Children's was ranked by U.S. News & World Report as #4 in the nation in 2012-2013. It... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 18 Apr 2019
- Research & Ideas
Open Innovation Contestants Build AI-Based Cancer Tool
contests with real impact in healthcare. We have two programs underway with the Connectivity MAP at the Broad Institute for accelerating drug discovery, and one program with Massachusetts General Hospital on genomic sequencing. Our goal... View Details
- 21 Jul 2015
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First Look: July 21, 2015
acquisitions of companies that were important providers of transaction software in the retail and hospitality industries. Now, in late November 2013, Nuti and his team were considering a third potential major acquisition: Digital Insight,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 17
Research Design: Fifty-six work areas from 19 randomly selected hospitals agreed to implement an 18-month long WalkRounds -based program to improve safety. We compared their results to 138 work areas in 48 randomly selected control... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jul 2008
- Op-Ed
What Should Employers Do about Health Care?
a hospital worked together to create an integrated practice unit for migraine care. In the first six months, absenteeism for migraine sufferers was reduced from 57 percent who missed a week of work or more per year to 11 percent. Third,... View Details
- 08 May 2020
- In Practice
Nonprofits Hurt by COVID-19 Must Hoard Cash to Hold On
only thing everybody can agree on is the desirable end result. In the current crisis, the silver lining has been the civil society: the thoughtful public health officials; the incredibly brave health workers, doctors, nurses and compassionate volunteers; and the... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 09 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 9
OrthoChoice: Bundled Payments in the County of Stockholm (B) By the end of 2008, all major hospitals (one of which was private) and three private specialized orthopedic centers signed OrthoChoice contracts. In 2009, hip and knee... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 18
units in New York, Boston, San Francisco, and San Diego located close to several premier Academic Medical Centers (AMCs), or hospitals with adjoining medical schools. The goal of these units was to redesign collaboration with Pfizer and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Slow, Steady Battle to Fix Cancer Care
payment model undoubtedly simplifies billing matters for the patients, the main impetus is to lower health care costs while simultaneously improving quality of care. In the traditional fee-for-service model, hospitals secure permission... View Details
- 25 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 25, 2018
used as a platform for discussing sources of value and risks associated with distressed investing. Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/219018-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School 218-039 "Capital Allocation at HCA In early 2017, HCA Holdings, an... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 5, 2017
mostly, but not entirely, settled. Some, but not all, of the key hospital leaders had signed on to participate in the event. Rittgers wondered what she could do to nudge the hackathon towards success. Were these just expected hurdles, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 28, 2008
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=208071 Fortis Healthcare (A) Harvard Business School Case 308-030 Should the Indian hospital chain enter the medical travel market or should it focus on expansion in the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Do I Dare Say Something?
investigating the effects of psychological safety on process improvement in a number of hospital intensive care units. One future research goal is to study multiple voice episodes for a given individual, so we can disentangle what part of... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 20 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
How CEOs Sustain Higher-Ambition Goals
participants have led higher-ambition efforts at their companies for years. Office supply company United Stationers started a foundation to connect employees with charitable activities, including raising money for a children's hospital... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 20 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Big Deal: Reflections on the Megamerger of American and US Airways
arguably within reason when balanced against the value created in a successful reorganization. Chapter 11 isn't perfect. Just as not every hospital patient is cured or every prison inmate rehabilitated, not every sick company that enters... View Details
- 18 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
New Hires Lose Psychological Safety After Year One. How to Fix It.
knowing the high-stakes industry suffers from significant levels of turnover and spends an inordinate amount of time and money onboarding new staff. In fact, one industry source estimated nurse turnover at more than 20 percent, which costs the average View Details
- 02 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 2
Evidence from a Field Experiment Authors: Kevin Boudreau, Tom Brady, Ina Ganguli, Patrick Gaule, Eva Guinan, Karim Lakhani, and Tony Hollenberg Abstract We present the results of a field experiment conducted within the Harvard Medical School system of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne