by Barbara DeLollis - Publications - Faculty & Research

May 15, 2012
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Ensuring Quality Cancer Care: A Follow-Up Review of the Institute of Medicine’s 10 Recommendations for Improving the Quality of Cancer Care in America

By: Tracy E. Spinks, Heidi W. Albright, Thomas W. Feeley, Ron Walters, Thomas W. Burke, Thomas Aloia, Eduardo Bruera, Aman Buzdar, Lewis Foxhall, David Hui, Barbara Summers, Alma Rodriguez, Raymond DuBois and Kenneth I. Shine

Responding to growing concerns regarding the safety, quality, and efficacy of cancer care in the United States, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the National Academy of Sciences commissioned a comprehensive review of cancer care delivery in the US health care system... View Details

Keywords: Cancer; Quality; Cancer Care In The U.S.; Quality Improvement; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry; North and Central America

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21 Apr 2009
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to deliver patient care. In fact, GSU's patient satisfaction scores, although average, had been declining steadily over the past few years. Barbara has been asked by EMU's Director of Nursing to turn the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Megastudies Improve the Impact of Applied Behavioural Science

By: Katherine L. Milkman, Dena Gromet, Hung Ho, Joseph S. Kay, Timothy W. Lee, Pepi Pandiloski, Yeji Park, Aneesh Rai, Max Bazerman, John Beshears, Lauri Bonacorsi, Colin Camerer, Edward Chang, Gretchen Chapman, Robert Cialdini, Hengchen Dai, Lauren Eskreis-Winkler, Ayelet Fishbach, James J. Gross, Samantha Horn, Alexa Hubbard, Steven J. Jones, Dean Karlan, Tim Kautz, Erika Kirgios, Joowon Klusowski, Ariella Kristal, Rahul Ladhania, Jens Ludwig, George Loewenstein, Barbara Mellers, Sendhil Mullainathan, Silvia Saccardo, Jann Spiess, Gaurav Suri, Joachim H. Talloen, Jamie Taxer, Yaacov Trope, Lyle Ungar, Kevin G. Volpp, Ashley V. Whillans, Jonathan Zinman and Angela L. Duckworth

Policy-makers are increasingly turning to behavioural science for insights about how to improve citizens’ decisions and outcomes. Typically, different scientists test different intervention ideas in different samples using different outcomes over different time... View Details

Keywords: Policy Making; Behavioral Science; Behavior; Change; Decision Making; Policy

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29 Apr 2014
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Publications August 2013 Journal of Financial Economics X-CAPM: An Extrapolative Capital Asset Pricing Model By: Barberis, Nicholas, Robin Greenwood, Lawrence Jin, and Andrei Shleifer Abstract—Survey evidence suggests that many investors form beliefs about future... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Oct 2001
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Finding Their Way

The best-laid plans — even those designed and implemented by the remarkably talented alumni of HBS — are seldom immune to life's twists and turns. This is perhaps the overriding lesson that each member of the Class of 1976 has learned... View Details

Keywords: Management

01 Apr 2000
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Time to Vote in University Elections

Harvard Business School alumni are invited to participate in Harvard University's elections for both the Board of Overseers and the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA). Ballots will be mailed during the first week of April, and completed ballots must be received View Details

01 Jun 2011
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Faculty Think Tank

charts and notes on modules aimed at delivering throughout the year small-group learning experiences that are experiential, immersive, and field-based. HBS plans to roll out FIELD this fall. Pictured, clockwise from left, are Joshua Margolis, Josh Coval, Alan... View Details

Keywords: FIELD program

01 Jun 2004
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Partners’ Club Strives to Broaden Appeal

members with children. Men said they did not join because the events focused on women. As a result, this past year the copresidents decided to make the organization more responsive to all partners’ needs. They started by rewriting the... View Details

Keywords: Shawna Frieze; Section P; HBS Partner's Club; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

10 Feb 2016
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A Leader’s Call to Action

Barbara Nick (AMP 165, 2003) has spent more than 30 years in the gas and electric industry, honing her skills to become an award-winning leader in business and in her community. She knew her success was due in part to other leaders—the... View Details

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Research Resources | Baker Library

(Series IV) Detailed correspondence, memoranda, and test photographs of Polaroid products by Ansel Adams in his role as consultant photographer from 1949 to 1984. Records Related to Edwin H. Land, 1927–1995 (Series V) Records associated... View Details

01 Sep 2007
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Last Look

Section I in the photo. Alas, close but no cigar! And thanks to classmates Mark Bell, John Davis, Melinda Muth, Jeremy Silverman, and Bruce Young, who identified MBA ’81, Section A, in the photo. Davis recognized Barbara Apple in the top... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Jun 2016
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Fellowships Have Impact

More than 500 fellowship donors and recipients gathered on April 21 in Shad Hall for the annual MBA Fellowship Dinner. (photo by Susan Young) “The generosity of donors has acted as a quiet reminder to me to be the best person I can — I... View Details

01 Mar 2015
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A Boomtown's Echo

an hour south of Watford City. A Pool Past Its Peak? Barbara George (MBA 1980) Williston farmer Steve Jensen surveys the cleanup process after more than 20,000 barrels of oil leaked on his land. “The research View Details

Keywords: Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining

01 Oct 2001
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Helping Hands for HBS

Illustration by Robin Jareaux "Giving back" is an important activity for the vast majority of HBS alumni, and the Class of 1976 is no exception. Among the entities benefiting from the class's expertise and largesse is HBS itself. The... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Dec 2002
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Wan Heads HBSP

not-for-profit enterprise wholly owned by Harvard University, lists a collection of priorities that includes expanding HBSP's global reach, increasing collaboration across all publishing platforms, building on relationships with HBS, and... View Details

01 Dec 2014
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Customizing Couture Online

East—can drop the hemline on a Barbara Tfank pencil skirt, for example, add sleeves to a Martin Grant swing dress, or design their own Tinker Tailor–branded wares. The customers have embraced choice: “In a lot of the investor meetings we... View Details

Keywords: April White; fashion; Professional Services

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Artist Support | Baker Library

Artist Support Photo: Ansel Adams and Gerry Sharpe, test photograph by Ansel Adams, 1958, © The Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust. Polaroid Corporation Corporate Archives Records, b. IX.42, f. 4. Meroë Morse served as Polaroid’s liaison... View Details

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Judy L. Allen Oral History - Business Education For Women At Harvard University | Harvard Business School

Home Site map Map / Directions Search: Harvard Business School About Faculty & Research MBA Doctoral Executive Education Alumni Building the Foundation: Business Education for Women at Harvard University: 1937-1970 Baker Library Home The Exhibit Oral Histories Research... View Details

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Sara B. Wilkinson Oral History - Business Education For Women At Harvard University | Harvard Business School