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- August 2000
- Case
Developing Nurse Practitioners at the College of St. Catherine
By: Clayton M. Christensen and Sarah S. Khetani
Margaret McLaughlin has just begun her new appointment as the Dean of Health Professions at the College of St. Catherine in Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota. As an education leader, her charge is to develop Minnesota's health care workforce for the future. She is... View Details
Keywords: Trends; Debates; Decision Choices and Conditions; Higher Education; Teaching; Growth and Development; Technological Innovation; Leading Change; Goals and Objectives; Value Creation; Health Industry
Christensen, Clayton M., and Sarah S. Khetani. "Developing Nurse Practitioners at the College of St. Catherine." Harvard Business School Case 601-039, August 2000.
- 30 May 2024
- Research & Ideas
Racial Bias Might Be Infecting Patient Portals. Can AI Help?
percent lower likelihood of physician response respectively. In contrast, attending physicians sent half of their responses to white patients, despite these patients comprising only one-fifth of the study population. “Remarkably similar... View Details
- 12 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
New Research Explores Multi-Sided Markets
intermediaries other than multi-sided platforms that perform similar functions. For example, retailers save the shared costs of suppliers individually selling to consumers and on the search costs of consumers looking for a given product.... View Details
- 12 Sep 2022
- Research & Ideas
When Experts Play It Too Safe: Innovation Lessons from a NASA Experiment
Evolutionary Nature of Breakthrough Innovation: Re-Evaluating the Exploration vs. Exploitation Dichotomy Science: The Unlikely Frontier for New Business Ideas Engineering Serendipity: The Role of Cognitive Similarity in Knowledge Sharing... View Details
- 17 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
How Our Brain Determines if the Product is Worth the Price
and when the price came first, the question seemed to be 'Is it worth it?' " That said, price primacy didn't have much of an effect on actual purchasing behavior. Participants bought about the same number of items and reported View Details
- 29 Aug 2022
- Op-Ed
Income Inequality Is Rising. Are We Even Measuring It Correctly?
available to researchers do not contain sufficient information to conduct the kinds of analyses we have demonstrated here. So if we want to move beyond the US in studying inequalities, similar high-quality data from other countries needs... View Details
- 28 Mar 2023
- Research & Ideas
The FDA’s Speedy Drug Approvals Are Safe: A Win-Win for Patients and Pharma Innovation
regulatory resources on products that can either address a new medical problem or assist with an existing problem better than any available drug on the market. While COVID vaccines weren’t BTD drugs—the FDA prioritized them even further as part of Operation Warp... View Details
- 04 Jun 2020
- Book
It’s Not About You: Why Leaders Need to Look Outward
And how do I do it with people who are increasingly different from me? And the reason I want to do it with people who are increasingly different from me is that if I get to have a team that is increasingly different than I am, and you have a team that is increasingly... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 29 Jul 2022
- Research & Ideas
Will Demand for Women Executives Finally Shrink the Gender Pay Gap?
counterparts, but a woman in a senior leadership role who switches to a new firm can now expect a salary bump of 25 percent on average, whereas a man making a similar move will see 9 percent more pay, says Paul Healy, the James R.... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 16 Nov 2015
- Research & Ideas
Does Competition Make Us More Creative?
course, discarding creativity in favor of playing it safe by sticking with the design that was highly rated. Why mess with success? “Once they get their first five-star review, they generally make a full transition from experimenting to tweaking,” Gross says. “The... View Details
- 07 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 7
exhibit quantitatively similar degrees of time variation. We estimate a systematic liquidity premium in U.S. inflation-indexed yields over nominal yields, which declined from 100 bps in 1999 to 30 bps in 2005 and spiked to over 150 bps... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 02 Jul 2018
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Tax Cuts Don't Increase Middle Class Incomes
more money in their pockets. Other factors that contribute to income disparity are more based in societal issues or on how companies go about their business. For example, large companies may pay more for a similar job than a smaller firm;... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
- 18 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
Unethical Amnesia: Why We Tend to Forget Our Own Bad Behavior
half did not. Immediately after the task, all participants filled out a survey that measured their relative level of psychological and moral discomfort. Two days later, they filled out a similar survey, along with a survey asking them to... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 16 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
The Most Successful Startups Have Hands-On Founders
were more likely to include items related to management practices. Eight months later, founders were surveyed to provide results from changes that had occurred at their companies. Hands-on wins in practice Founders who received advice from hands-on founders were more... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 2023
- Article
Evidence from the First Shared Medical Appointments (SMAs) Randomised Controlled Trial in India: SMAs Increase the Satisfaction, Knowledge, and Medication Compliance of Patients with Glaucoma
By: Nazlı Sönmez, Kavitha Srinivasan, Rengaraj Venkatesh, Ryan W. Buell and Kamalini Ramdas
In Shared Medical Appointments (SMAs), patients with similar conditions meet the physician together and each receives one-on-one attention. SMAs can improve outcomes and physician productivity. Yet privacy concerns have stymied adoption. In physician-deprived nations,... View Details
Sönmez, Nazlı, Kavitha Srinivasan, Rengaraj Venkatesh, Ryan W. Buell, and Kamalini Ramdas. "Evidence from the First Shared Medical Appointments (SMAs) Randomised Controlled Trial in India: SMAs Increase the Satisfaction, Knowledge, and Medication Compliance of Patients with Glaucoma." e0001648. PLoS Global Public Health 3, no. 7 (2023).
- 28 Feb 2022
- Research & Ideas
How Racial Bias Taints Customer Service: Evidence from 6,000 Hotels
titles? Do they end all messages with “best” or other polite language? How are perks, like hotel upgrades and free drinks, distributed? Run experiments. Conduct email tests similar to the ones Feldberg and Kim used in their studies. Gauge... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
- 09 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
Professional Networking Makes People Feel Dirty
spontaneous meeting had benefited them professionally. The third and fourth conditions were similar to the first two, but participants were focused on personal gain instead. Afterward, all the participants were asked to complete a series... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 2021
- Chapter
Multinationals' Need for State Protection: The Creation of the Swiss Investment Risk Guarantee in the 1960s
By: Sabine Pitteloud
This chapter focuses on the role of Industrie-Holding, the Federation of Swiss Industrial Multinational Companies, in the introduction of an investment risk guarantee during the 1960s. The chapter therefore contributes to a) the growing body of literature on how... View Details
Keywords: Investments; Multinational Companies; Political Risk; Business ＆ Government Relations; Investment; Multinational Firms and Management; Risk and Uncertainty; Business and Government Relations; Switzerland
Pitteloud, Sabine. "Multinationals' Need for State Protection: The Creation of the Swiss Investment Risk Guarantee in the 1960s." In Security and Insecurity in Business History: Case Studies in the Perception and Negotiation of Threats, edited by Mark Jakob, Nina Kleinöder, and Christian Kleinschmidt, 111–134. Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, 2021.
- 13 Nov 2013
- Research & Ideas
Should Men’s Products Fear a Woman’s Touch?
women, they flocked to Coke Zero. PepsiCo took a similar successful tack with Pepsi Max, the manly alternative to Diet Pepsi. And the Dr Pepper Snapple Group went all out with Dr Pepper Ten; the 10-calorie soda's unapologetic slogan is... View Details
- November 2007
- Article
Solve the Succession Crisis by Growing Inside-Outside Leaders
By: Joseph L. Bower
This article includes a one-page preview that quickly summarizes the key ideas and provides an overview of how the concepts work in practice along with suggestions for further reading. In his interviews and data analysis, Harvard Business School professor Bower found... View Details
Keywords: Talent and Talent Management; Leadership Development; Management Practices and Processes; Management Succession; Planning
Bower, Joseph L. "Solve the Succession Crisis by Growing Inside-Outside Leaders." Harvard Business Review 85, no. 11 (November 2007).