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  • April 1996 (Revised June 2001)
  • Case

Partners HealthCare System, Inc. (B): Cardiac Care Improvement

By: Gary P. Pisano and Maryam Golnaraghi
Explores the challenges confronting the CEO at the Brigham and Women's Hospital in the wake of radical changes in the health care environment. As pressures have risen for cost containment in health care, the hospital has embarked on a series of reengineering efforts to... View Details
Keywords: Consolidation; Health Care and Treatment; Mergers and Acquisitions; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Change Management; Management Teams; Operations; Innovation and Invention; Cost Management; Health Industry; Massachusetts
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Pisano, Gary P., and Maryam Golnaraghi. "Partners HealthCare System, Inc. (B): Cardiac Care Improvement." Harvard Business School Case 696-063, April 1996. (Revised June 2001.)
  • 18 Aug 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Have a Better Idea To Improve Health Care?

system, while 20 percent felt "strongly negative." The feedback resulted in a call to arms, a report that detailed five imperatives to improve the situation. Among these imperatives: the need to integrate newly developed approaches into... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health
  • 05 Aug 2019
  • News

Navy saves money, improves patient outcomes through value-based care pilot: study

  • November 29, 2023
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To Earn Trust, Climate Alliances Need to Improve Transparency

By: Peter Tufano, Chris Thomas, Knut Haanaes, Matteo Gasparini, Robert Eyres and Christopher Chapman
Businesses are increasingly joining together as part of climate alliances to accelerate the transition away from fossil fuels. But these alliances raise antitrust issues: When competitors collaborate, it can come at the expense of customers or workers. To mitigate... View Details
Keywords: Climate Change; Partners and Partnerships; Corporate Disclosure; Energy Sources
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Tufano, Peter, Chris Thomas, Knut Haanaes, Matteo Gasparini, Robert Eyres, and Christopher Chapman. "To Earn Trust, Climate Alliances Need to Improve Transparency." Harvard Business Review (website) (November 29, 2023).
  • January 2010
  • Article

Does Public Ownership of Equity Improve Earnings Quality?

We compare the quality of accounting numbers produced by two types of public firms-those with publicly traded equity and those with privately held equity that are nonetheless considered public by virtue of having publicly traded debt. We develop and test two... View Details
Keywords: Private Equity; Business Earnings; Public Equity
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Givoly, Dan, Carla Hayn, and Sharon P. Katz. "Does Public Ownership of Equity Improve Earnings Quality?" Accounting Review 85, no. 1 (January 2010): 195–225. (Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 09-105.)
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An Integrated Decision-Making Approach for Improving European Air Traffic Management

By: Yael Grushka-Cockayne, Bert De Reyck and Zeger Degraeve
We develop a multistakeholder, multicriteria decision-making framework for Eurocontrol, the European air traffic management organization, for evaluating and selecting operational improvements to the air traffic management system. The selected set of improvements will... View Details
Keywords: Decision Making; Framework; Operations; Performance Improvement; Government Administration; Air Transportation Industry; Europe
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Grushka-Cockayne, Yael, Bert De Reyck, and Zeger Degraeve. "An Integrated Decision-Making Approach for Improving European Air Traffic Management." Management Science 54, no. 8 (August 2008): 1395–1409.
  • 01 Aug 2020
  • News

How Can Technology Improve 21st Century Health Care

  • 13 Jul 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Experimental Researcher Helps Improve Health Care in Zambia

Sometimes big ideas start with small experiments. That's been the experience of Harvard Business School professor Nava Ashraf, whose experimental approach to research in developing countries has produced insights that have influenced... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Health
  • 16 Jun 2023
  • Blog Post

Improve Decision-Making in Hiring: Common Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them

The importance of naming and addressing institutional racism has many people focusing on what can be done—as individuals and as employers—to improve diversity, inclusion, and understanding in an organization. Below are several resources... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • 24 Apr 2014
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Get involved in improving your local community

Former chairman and CEO of American Express James Robinson III (MBA 1961) talks about how business can get involved in improving their local communities. (Published April 2014) View Details
  • January 1997 (Revised September 1997)
  • Case

Improving the Product Development Process at Kirkham Instruments Corp.

By: Clayton M. Christensen
Describes the efforts of a manufacturer of scientific instruments to implement new methods of managing new product development, which its executives had learned in a Harvard Business School seminar. The executives left the seminar excited to implement a new way of... View Details
Keywords: Change Management; Product Launch; Innovation and Invention; Product Development; Manufacturing Industry; Technology Industry; United States
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Christensen, Clayton M. "Improving the Product Development Process at Kirkham Instruments Corp." Harvard Business School Case 697-058, January 1997. (Revised September 1997.)
  • 14 Dec 2011
  • Research & Ideas

The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance

For-profit businesses have a common goal: create value for owners or shareholders by creating value for customers. It's a focus that must seem enviably straightforward from the perspective of nonprofit organizations and social enterprises... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 15 Jan 2019
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Working to Improve the End of Life

educate the public and medical professionals about end-of-life issues, like advance directives, palliative care, and hospice. We provide individual counseling to patients who are dying and their families, and advocate to get the laws changed in New York State to View Details
Keywords: Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance
  • 24 Apr 2014
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Working to improve California's public education system

Katherine Welch (MBA 1988) found her passion in working to improve public education in California. In this video she reviews how she arrived at this personal and civic mission, serving as a board member of the advocacy group Educate Our... View Details
  • 31 Oct 2014
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Do Team Games for Employees Really Improve Productivity?

  • 09 Mar 2016
  • Lessons from the Classroom

In This Classroom, Beer Can Improve Your Grade

In a large circular classroom called The Hives, Ramon Casadesus-Masanell is roaming the floors this week as he oversees the second running of Strategic Brew, a computerized business simulation designed for first-year MBA students at... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Education; Food & Beverage
  • 15 Jan 2020
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This 5 Second Trick Has Been Proven To Drastically Improve Your Presentation Skills

  • August 2018 (Revised July 2019)
  • Background Note

Conducting a Kaizen

By: Willy Shih
Kaizen, meaning change for the better in Japanese, is a set of activities directed at improving standardized work, equipment, and procedures for carrying out daily production or other business operations. It was popularized by Toyota as an integral part of its Toyota... View Details
Keywords: Best Practices; Continuous Improvement; Kaizen; Process Improvement; 5S; Muda; Toyota Production System; Production; Service Operations; Performance Improvement; North and Central America; Asia; Japan
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Shih, Willy. "Conducting a Kaizen." Harvard Business School Background Note 619-016, August 2018. (Revised July 2019.)
  • 29 Sep 2014
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Harvard’s Michael Porter Unveils New Tool to Improve Economic Development

  • 02 Jun 2020
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Great Leaders Use Tough Love to Improve Performance

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