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  • 02 Jan 2020
  • Op-Ed

Medicare for All or Public Option: Can Either Heal Health Care?

by current users, not future generations. The public option plan should also avoid the government accounting gimmicks that artificially lower Medicare’s costs. It must include all its expenses, such as the unfunded liabilities for... View Details
Keywords: by Regina E. Herzlinger and James Wallace; Health; Public Administration
  • 21 Dec 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Good Banks, Bad Banks, and Government’s Role as Fixer

not Lehman Brothers? Ironically, Congress in 1991 passed a statute establishing specific procedures (including stating a rationale) to be followed before a bank could be rescued and mandating an after-the-fact audit by the Comptroller... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Banking; Financial Services
  • 24 Oct 2006
  • First Look

First Look: October 24, 2006

political conflict and individual and group biases occasioned by organizational differentiation. We categorize the sources of functional bias into intentional, driven by misalignment of incentives, and unintentional resulting from informational and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Aug 2024
  • Op-Ed

Can AI Save Physicians from Burnout?

procedure performed or patient seen, without explicit rewards for the quality of the services rendered. This model translates internally into an incentive system that prioritizes patient volume over patient value. That is, physicians are... View Details
Keywords: by Susanna Gallani, Lidia Moura, and Katie Sonnefeldt; Health
  • 01 Sep 2020
  • News

Maintaining a Resilient Democracy

solutions. Braun believes term limits would make lawmakers more accountable to constituents by diluting the outsized influence of lobbyists, money, and special interest groups in Washington. Harder suggests the way to give “the people” a... View Details
Keywords: Deb Blagg
  • 12 Dec 2017
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017

Overall Cost Comparison of Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Procedures with Endoscopist- or Anesthesia-Supported Sedation by Activity-Based Costing Techniques By: Helmers, Richard A., James A. Dilling, Christopher R. Chaffee, Mark V. Larson,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Apr 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Attention Medical Shoppers: What Health Care Can Learn from Walmart and Amazon

and counting, according to research—that the human body can fail. "The delivery of health care is arguably the delivery of 13,360 different service lines, town by town, of anyone who needs care," Gawande said. He then told the audience that 5 percent of... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health
  • 01 Sep 2008
  • News

Mara Aspinall

1,500-person division is a leader in the emerging field of personalized medicine, which treats cancer and other diseases with customized therapies that take into account the patient’s specific genetic traits. With HBS professor Richard... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance
  • 18 Feb 2015
  • First Look

First Look: February 18

While many texts teach the theories and frameworks of management education, Managerial Accounting goes further by covering the capabilities and techniques necessary for effective management practice, as well as fostering attitudes that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Dec 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 7

variables are you tracking? How are you creating accountability for performance on those variables? (4) What strategic boundaries have you set? Does everyone know what actions are off-limits? (5) How are you generating creative tension?... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Sep 2006
  • First Look

First Look: September 19, 2006

rises rapidly; it is now four times as high as in 2000. Many underdogs thus in fact appear to be losers. We also find evidence of a superstar effect. Among the best-performing titles, an ever-smaller number of titles accounts for the bulk... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Aug 2008
  • Op-Ed

Google-Yahoo Ad Deal is Bad for Online Advertising

bids. The API is an automated method for efficient computer-to-computer communications—letting an advertiser use software to manage its account automatically. The AdWords API provides a function whereby an advertiser can retrieve its ads,... View Details
Keywords: by Benjamin G. Edelman; Advertising; Publishing
  • 05 Feb 2008
  • First Look

First Look: February 5, 2008

and unintentional, resulting from informational and procedural blind spots. We show that the forecasting process, together with the supporting mechanisms of information exchange and elicitation of assumptions, is capable of managing the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 22 May 2012
  • First Look

First Look: May 22

question of social change and organizations. Some are anchored in more macro accounts of how and why social change processes occur, while others approach the question from a more psychological or social psychological perspective. Many of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Sep 2014
  • First Look

First Look: September 23

  Publications September 2014 Research in Organizational Behavior The Governance of Social Enterprises: Mission Drift and Accountability Challenges in Hybrid Organizations By: Ebrahim, Alnoor, Julie Battilana, and Johanna Mair Abstract—We... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Jun 2012
  • First Look

First Look: June 5

  PublicationsTowards an Understanding of the Role of Standard Setters in Standard Setting Authors:Abigail M. Allen and Karthik Ramanna Publication:Journal of Accounting & Economics (forthcoming) Abstract We investigate the effect of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Nov 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Management’s Role in Reforming Health Care

health-care reform is a management problem. It can't be solved by policymakers acting at a distance.” Having said that, I think we have to recognize that in the last 10 to 15 years there have been substantial advances. Mortality rates for major View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health
  • 18 Feb 2009
  • First Look

First Look: February 18, 2009

must choose to improve an old technology (steel) or to develop a new material (carbon fiber). The decision must take into account a complicated context: increased demand for the "old" steel products made in Italy, increasing... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 03 Apr 2007
  • First Look

First Look: April 3, 2007

address questions of distributive and procedural justice in post-Apartheid South Africa, and how should the CEO recover from a crucial misstep at the start of the strike? Chronicles the challenges and missteps of previous CEOs and the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 27 Sep 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Customer Experts Lose Influence When Teams are Pressured

team boundaries to include clients. In my ongoing research across industries, I have found that the very best teams actually include clients as members of the core team, giving them joint accountability for helping to develop the team's... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert