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- 29 Jun 2015
- HBS Case
Consumer-centered Health Care Depends on Accessible Medical Records
entered the industry with health care dashboards that track and aggregate data from various health wearables, such as heart rate monitors and step counters. Apple is also partnering with several EMR companies to make medical records and... View Details
- 25 Jun 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
FIELD Trip: Conquering the Gap Between Knowing and Doing
day." One month into the entrepreneurial project, teams are encouraged to take a tough look at the work they've done and the feedback they've received, to decide whether they are on the right track or need a radical course correction... View Details
- 06 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 6, 2007
patients' families in an ongoing organizational learning process. The two-case series is particularly distinctive in tracking an organizational change initiative for almost a decade and, as such, uncovers and promotes discussion of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Have Marketers Ignored America’s Man-of-Action Hero?
makes sense to many people because they are so influenced by the most spectacular fragments of men's consumption that appear on the popular culture radar: Harley rallies in Sturgis, the Million Man March, men howling in the woods à la Iron John, men View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 15 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 15
competence—expertise in technology—and its skilled people to accomplish what government and relief agencies could not: an information system and supply chain that tracked and managed the flow of relief supplies. Its efforts were crucial... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 26, 2007
in America with 99% of its revenues deriving from its simple, text-only advertising services. It is on track to bring in roughly $9.5 billion in advertising revenue in 2006, which would place it fourth among American media companies in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Diagnostic for Disruptive Innovation
frustrated by their track record in making acquisitions. Many companies find that large acquisitions provide stable but lackluster returns, whereas small acquisitions typically have highly variable outcomes, occasionally producing... View Details
- 16 Nov 2010
- Lessons from the Classroom
Data.gov: Matching Government Data with Rapid Innovation
deliverable that is customer-facing should be ready within 6 months. On Data.gov we put up our IT Dashboard, an interactive site that tracks Federal IT investments over time, in 60 days." A key aspect of the Data.gov case is the... View Details
- 22 Mar 2010
- Research & Ideas
One Strategy: Aligning Planning and Execution
each with a remarkable track record of innovations that built on past capabilities. The same assets, processes, and capabilities that make established firms complex and hard to manage also make them incredibly powerful and impactful. The... View Details
- 08 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 8, 2008
Abstract We use oil price fluctuations to construct a new instrument to test the impact of transfers from wealthy OPEC nations to their poorer Muslim allies. The instrument identifies plausibly exogenous variation in foreign aid. We investigate how aid is spent by... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 22
know-how. A key barrier to empirical progress on this front has been a lack of direct measures of absorption. In this paper, we develop a novel measure of absorptive capacity that attempts to directly track the influence of external... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 20
found in the existing literature. The data available permitted concentration levels to be tracked for the period 1977-2007 in the case of advertising agencies and for 1997, 2002, and 2007 for the other industry sectors. Firm level... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Slow, Steady Battle to Fix Cancer Care
measures: the resources needed to perform an activity, and the time it takes to perform it. Feeley, Kaplan, and a team at UnitedHealthcare are using TDABC to track the costs for the bundled payment pilot. "Bob Kaplan made the point... View Details
- 12 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
What Brands Can Do to Monitor Factory Conditions of Suppliers
While these general factors might help a company decide in which country to invest its production, of course different factories will have different track records—so it’s important to look at individual audits. But how can a multinational... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 31 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Faculty Reader: Who is Reading What This Summer?
thinker as she tracks leads and confronts complex mysteries across 25 books. I’m glad that John Lescroart is still writing about lawyer Dismas Hardy and police inspector Abe Glitzky (half-Black, half-Jewish) and has added Diz’s daughter... View Details
- 23 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 23
so fluid that all desks have wheels to allow free movement between "cabals" (teams) on a regular basis (which happens frequently enough that Valve created a homegrown tracking app to allow peers to find each other), a unique... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 14
allowed users to "check in" to a location using an application on a smartphone. Foursquare kept track of a user's check-ins, shared them with users' friends, and unlocked "Specials" that gave users discounts at nearby... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 23
strong validation of our client franchise and future prospects." For his part, Buffett called Goldman "an exceptional institution" with " an unrivaled global franchise, a proven and deep management team, and the intellectual and financial capital to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 22, 2008
I find that government-owned bank lending tracks the electoral cycle, with agricultural credit increasing by 5-10 percentage points in an election year. There is significant cross-sectional targeting, with large increases in districts in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 2, 2007
agreements. Set in early 2007, nearly two years after significant modifications in these systems and procedures. Stryker has compiled a remarkable track record of consistently high growth in profitability over more than 20 years. The... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace