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Emotional Experience, Expression, and Regulation

By: Alison Wood Brooks

Once considered irrational, emotions often exert a more profound influence on decision-making and workplace outcomes than logic or reason. Professor Brooks studies emotional experience, emotional expression, and how individuals can regulate their emotions... View Details

  • 26 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019

compared to the distance to universities that offer only business or medical education (or neither). We argue that supplying joint MBA-healthcare courses may be a channel through which universities increase medical business skills and raise View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
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Front-line Staff Perspectives on Opportunities for Improving the Safety and Efficiency of Hospital Work Systems

By: Anita L. Tucker, Sara J. Singer, Jennifer E. Hayes and Alyson Falwell

Objective To link safety-related concerns raised by frontline staff about hospital work systems (operational failures) to the safety and efficiency of hospitals, and to contrast these concerns with national patient safety initiatives.

Data... View Details

Keywords: Perspective; Opportunities; Safety; Performance Efficiency; System; Failure; Conferences; Employees; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Experience and Expertise; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry; United States
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  • 03 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 3

leadership development programs for residents. The authors first present a definition of clinical leadership and highlight evidence that effective frontline clinical leadership improves both View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 11 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 11

Maintenance of Certification Examinations By: Valentine, Melissa A., S. Barsade, Amy C. Edmondson, A. Gal, and R. Rhodes Abstract—Context: Physicians can demonstrate mastery of the knowledge that supports continued clinical competence by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Jul 2013
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Five Imperatives for Improving Health Care

anything we do to improve quality becomes almost irrelevant if we can't finance the system to deliver it." Hence the imperative to focus on value, the quality of outcome achieved per unit of cost spent by the system. "There's a... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health
  • 14 Nov 2017
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New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017

expensive. How can health care organizations change this? One key is to prioritize quality improvement over cost cutting. By harnessing IT to help design better clinical practices, it’s possible to achieve better patient View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 27 Feb 2019
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The Hidden Cost of a Product Recall

significant, the researchers say. Competitors ramp up major innovation efforts in response to rival recalls. Large-scale new product development projects cost more, take longer to complete, and require specialized teams to manage complex processes, such as View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Manufacturing; Consumer Products; Auto; Medical Devices & Supplies
  • 13 Mar 2023
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The Power of Personal Connections: How Shared Experiences Boost Performance

formed a relationship. The authors chose to focus on patient ratings of specialists instead of specific medical outcomes because they assess an “important dimension of quality” that transcends the clinical... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Health
  • 14 Jan 2019
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These 4 CEOs Created a New Standard of Leadership

Mayo Clinic in 2009, the world-famous medical center was struggling financially. Congress would soon be negotiating the terms of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the Obama Administration’s signature health care legislation. From the outset,... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George; Health; Banking; Food & Beverage; Consumer Products
  • 30 Aug 2016
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August 30, 2016

Rapidly Developed Patient-Centered Outcome Measures By: Shah, Kevin P., Tracy E. Spinks, and Thomas W. Feeley Abstract—In 2014, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center created a streamlined process for developing measure sets... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 03 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 3, 2018

one emerging economy. Based on an exploratory field study of medical device development projects in India, we observe the frequent, iterative testing of prototypes in clinical settings and investigate the related learning process. The... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 23 May 2017
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First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017

patients, and 12% of total Medicare spending are associated with physician beliefs unsupported by clinical evidence. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49218 Stock Price Synchronicity and Material... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 22 Aug 2005
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The Hard Work of Failure Analysis

rationalizations for the failures. Specifically, managers attributed large failures to uncontrollable events outside the organization (e.g., the economy) and to the intervention of outsiders. Small failures were interpreted as flukes, the natural View Details
Keywords: by Amy Edmondson & Mark D. Cannon
  • 25 Sep 2019
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The Economic Cost of Physician Burnout

the dollar losses were related to physician turnover and reduced clinical hours. The research adds to previous work showing how physician stress generates negative clinical and organizational outcomes. No... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health
  • 2011
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Detour: My Unexpected, Amazing, Life Changing Journey With OnStar

By: Chet Huber
Detour is the story behind the launch of OnStar’s now well known blue button, as told through the eyes of its founder and CEO of over fourteen years, Chet Huber. It’s a personal narrative that describes the events that led up to General Motors’ unexpected choice... View Details
Keywords: General Motors; OnStar; Technological Innovation; Business Startups; Transportation; Safety; Personal Development and Career; Creativity; Success; Business History; Auto Industry
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  • 17 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 17

experiential quality demonstrate better clinical outcomes as measured by length of stay and readmissions, but have worse performance with regard to cost efficiency. This may result in hospitals inability to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Nov 2009
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Management’s Role in Reforming Health Care

for-profit institution. In terms of health-care delivery, the absence of a profit motive doesn't mean that people should tolerate poorly designed processes and systems—especially when organizational performance is a necessary component of realizing the absolute best... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health
  • 11 Jul 2017
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First Look at New Ideas and Research, July 11

patients with laryngeal cleft seen between 2008 and 2013 at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary Pediatric Aerodigestive Center. Retrospective chart review was performed to identify clinic utilization by patients as well as patient... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Oct 2017
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First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017

increase medical business skills and raise clinical performance. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53281 Tournament Incentive Plans Incorporating Objective and Subjective Criteria: Implications for a... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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