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The Inpatient Discharge Lounge as a Potential Mechanism to Mitigate Emergency Department Boarding and Crowding

By: Brian Franklin, Sharif Vakili, Robert S. Huckman, Sarah Hosein, Nicholas Falk, Katherine Cheng, Maria Murray, Sheila Harris, Charles A. Morris and Eric Goralnick

Delayed access to inpatient beds for admitted patients contributes significantly to emergency department (ED) boarding and crowding, which have been associated with deleterious patient safety effects. To expedite inpatient bed availability, some hospitals have... View Details

Keywords: Health Care Delivery; Emergency Room; Operations Improvement; Operations Management; Health Care and Treatment; Service Delivery; Operations; Management; Performance Improvement; Service Operations

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07 Oct 2020
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Bringing Business Ethics Back to Friedman’s Call to Purpose

11 Dec 2017
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Leadership Lessons from the Basketball Court

translate well to the business world because, when you strip out the ball and the rules, you're talking about people. You're talking about people coming together as one towards... View Details

27 Jun 2007
Lessons from the Classroom

Learning to Make the Move to CEO

executives in his classroom. While they come from countries around the world and from a variety of industries, they share a common characteristic. "They're at a point... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education

01 Sep 2011
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The Business and Environment Initiative at HBS

discipline,” says Henderson. “Here at HBS, it’s designed to support faculty working together across disciplines and across the University, and to make sure we’re all aware of each other’s activities and... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

09 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

The Manager’s Guide to Communicating with Customers Collection

be careful not to prompt the interviewees into saying what they want to hear—a common error that wreaks havoc with the results of customer... View Details

Keywords: by Richard Bierck; Retail

13 Jul 2020
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Merck CEO Ken Frazier Discusses a COVID Cure, Racism, and Why Leaders Need to Walk the Talk

And then there's the mentors about what it's like to be a Black person and to overcome the slings and arrows of racism. Neeley: Well, the reason... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Pharmaceutical

22 Jul 2002
Research & Ideas

How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”

erroneously identified as the common thread of a firm's business. In reality, a given type of customer will frequently have a range View Details

Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat

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Sales Methodologies and Selling

By: Frank V. Cespedes

Sales methodologies play an important role. A common approach in a sales force allows for consistency, dissemination of best practices, acceleration of learning, and it helps the firm to scale because management then has common metrics to monitor and evaluate. However,... View Details

Keywords: Methodology; Sales; Analysis

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18 Mar 2022
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Career Advice: Transforming the Energy Industry

direction. That's one part of the job that I’ve enjoyed quite a bit, which is reinforcing the message that climate change is something that spans View Details

02 Apr 2014
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Has the Post-Capitalist Economy Finally Arrived?

schools of thought in the modern high tech and versatile business environment." David Wittenberg said: " an effective leader must be true to himself. Personalities differ, so leadership styles... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Service

20 May 2013
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The Long-Term Fix to US Competitiveness

the debate and the facts underlying the debate and the political choices and compromises that we can make," said Porter. While many people... View Details

Keywords: by Stephanie Schorow & Harvard Gazette

29 May 2001
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Good News, Not Blues, For the Inner City

advantage of the inner city, though, comes not through the income of residents but rather what he called "income density"—a high... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

06 Aug 2020
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Who Will Give You the Best Professional Guidance?

commonality like all are at roughly the same stage in their careers, stage of company (e.g., pre-series A or post-IPO), or stage of life. Often,... View Details

Keywords: by Julia B. Austin

27 Jul 2015
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The ‘Promotion’ That Makes You Feel Bad

of people are affected by this topic." An estimated 50 percent of multinationals use English as their common company language, Neeley says. Countless more have View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland

30 Mar 2015
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Managing the Family Business: Preparing to Sell

are willing to face the challenges common to post-liquidity business families that can pose threats to unity of the family and View Details

Keywords: by Jonathan Pellegrin; Food & Beverage; Retail

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Introduction - The Production - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

it offered in industrial relations. In courses such as “Human Problems of Administration” and “Personnel Research” students became familiar with prevailing management theories that espoused the importance... View Details

Denial: Why Business Leaders Fail to Look Facts in the Face--And What to Do About It (March 2010)

Denial -- the unconscious belief that a certain fact is too terrible to face and therefore cannot be true -- has torpedoed many good businesses and more than a few great ones. It turns challenges into crises, and dilemmas into catastrophes. It is one of the greatest... View Details

10 Mar 2015
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Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling

women—whose careers could provide some insight into these questions. “I wanted to understand what it is that they did to crack the code,” Kraus says of her research. Through interviews, Kraus and her... View Details

Keywords: April White

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