Value Of Data - Publications - Faculty & Research

12 Jul 2006
Research & Ideas

Competition the Cure for Healthcare

destroy value by adding administrative costs and leads to structures involving health plans and providers and other actors, which are misaligned with patient value. In a world of zero-sum competition, for... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Health

06 Aug 2001
Research & Ideas

Go Global—or No? Can You Make the Case?

your comments published in an upcoming issue of HBS Working Knowledge—it will cost you $6.00 to download the full story from HBR. See details below. For two years, U.S.-based DataClear has all but had a stranglehold on the View Details

Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle

28 May 2012
Research & Ideas

A Pragmatic Alternative for Creating a Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy

the company's bottom line, as well as the environmental or social impacts of one or more of its value chain partners. Theatre 3 encompasses programs targeted at fundamentally... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

22 Feb 2010
Op-Ed

Tragedy at Toyota: How Not to Lead in Crisis

In a crisis, people insist on hearing from the leader. Akio Toyoda can't send out public relations specialists or his American executives to explain what happened. Having lost sight of his company's True North—its View Details

Keywords: by William George; Auto

24 Oct 2007
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Innovation

"customer focused." Try to create value out of novelty. Succumbing too much to commercial pressures such as taking on easy jobs may lose your distinctiveness. Where Do Creative Ideas Come From? How... View Details

06 Apr 2016
What Do You Think?

As Tim Cook, How Would You Tackle Apple's Next Challenge?

government requests to extract data from iPhones.” Apple’s product security team has also undergone changes. Again, according to the same report, the team was broken up last year and the privacy group began reporting to a new manager.... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Computer

13 Aug 2024
Op-Ed

Can AI Save Physicians from Burnout?

many patients as possible. Rewards for quality and value creation are rare, if at all present, in physician compensation plans. As time previously devoted to compiling EMR documentation becomes available, institutions may increase their... View Details

Keywords: by Susanna Gallani, Lidia Moura, and Katie Sonnefeldt; Health

01 Oct 2024
Research & Ideas

How Politics Drives Business Decisions in a Polarized Nation

How politics cuts across business Written with Margarita Tsoutsoura, an associate professor of finance at Washington University in St. Louis, the analysis draws from data such as executive surveys, voter... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

27 Jun 2007
Lessons from the Classroom

Learning to Make the Move to CEO

customer, while you look after your other constituents on an as-needed basis." In the east quadrant, Simons focuses on performance variables and the theory of value creation. "We build strategy... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education

14 May 2012
Research & Ideas

Breaking the Smartphone Addiction

at the firm for the long term (58 percent versus 40 percent) and were more likely to perceive that they were providing significant value to their clients (95 percent versus 84 percent). BCG clients reported a range View Details

Keywords: by Leslie A. Perlow

15 Mar 2010
HBS Case

Developing Asia’s Largest Slum

estate values in the world. “Government is not one person, obviously; it's many people with many agendas, particularly in India." —Lakshmi Iyer In "Dharavi: Developing Asia's Largest Slum," HBS assistant professor Lakshmi... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Construction; Real Estate

18 Oct 2018
Research & Ideas

How to Use Free Shipping as a Competitive Weapon

shipping fees." Many multichannel strategies to consider Retailers have a number of options when deciding how to fulfill customer orders while attempting to maximize profit and customer satisfaction, says Ngwe. To help them, Ngwe... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Retail

18 Sep 2013
Research & Ideas

Unspoken Cues: Encouraging Morals Without Mandates

inner workings of his own employer. “Vocal silence allows organizations to instill rather than impose morals” Manufacturing Morals: The Values of Silence in Business School... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Education

19 Aug 2013
Research & Ideas

Studying How Income Inequality Shapes Behavior

It's clear that inequality in America has grown at a fast clip in recent years. From 1980 to 2010, the top 1 percent's share of income has doubled from 10 percent to 20 percent, while the income share of the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

09 Sep 2013
Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching Climate Change to Skeptics

A few years ago, Joseph B. Lassiter traveled to San Francisco, Houston, and New York to hold discussions with Harvard alumni on the topic of business and the environment. Each time, he surveyed the audience about the touchy subject of climate change and how society... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

03 Dec 2001
Research & Ideas

Healthcare Conference Looks At Ailing Industry

Cancer research, it has been said, is not unlike a group of blind men studying an elephant. One man feels the elephant's tail and says it is a rope. Another blind man handles its tusk and calls it a spear, and yet another declares its... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health

30 Apr 2001
What Do You Think?

Dot.Com Shakeout: Chess or Roulette?

indeed survive—as always. In his words, "Out of every disaster, you can create an opportunity. The shake-up is realignment in the offing, the Internet still provides a window of opportunity. The only... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

04 Nov 2002
What Do You Think?

What’s Best for the Corporate Brain?

to be transferred into the corporate brain," a formidable task in many organizations. Those stressing the importance of memory placed the greatest value on the retention View Details