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  • 21 Aug 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Inside the OR: Disrupted Routines and New Technologies

coordination; and engagement in process innovation. Teams that prepare by setting aside time to gather together and preview all aspects of a disruptive procedure, for example, are more likely to successfully implement the technology. At one of the successful hospitals,... View Details
Keywords: by Hilah Geer
  • 28 Mar 2012
  • What Do You Think?

Are Factory Jobs Important to the Economy?

book The Next Convergence, Spence focuses on what he calls tradable jobs (making things like cars that can be made somewhere else—largely manufacturing jobs) and nontradable jobs (like nurses and auto mechanics, the vast majority of whom... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Manufacturing
  • 2024
  • Working Paper

Does Private Equity Have Any Business Being in the Health Care Business?

By: Nori Gerardo Lietz and Zirui Song
Private Equity (“PE”) has come under increased scrutiny by the press, academics, and policymakers, as well as the public, for its investments in health care delivery. This scrutiny has been exacerbated by recent high profile hospital bankruptcies following PE... View Details
Keywords: Private Equity; Government Administration; Acquisition; Health Industry
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  • 12 Aug 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Why Investors Often Lose When They Sue Their Financial Adviser

proliferation of arbitration Companies from internet service providers to nursing home operators use arbitration to shield themselves from expensive, protracted lawsuits. Proponents say the approach resolves disputes faster than the court... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Financial Services
  • 22 Mar 2021
  • Research & Ideas

How to Learn from the Big Mistake You Almost Make

accountable to each other and comfortable speaking up, but there was significant variance depending on position, with higher-ranked employees, like physicians, generally feeling safer to speak their minds compared to lower-ranked employees, like View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Health
  • 27 May 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Build 'Scaffolds' to Improve Performance of Temporary Teams

Policy (Management) doctoral program at HBS. (Edmondson chaired her dissertation committee.) Prior to the redesign, the hospital used ad hoc groupings in the emergency department—any available nurse would triage a patient, then return the... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Health
  • 18 Jul 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Looking in the Mirror: Questions Every Leader Must Ask

Conversely, if you love doing something, you are likely to arrange your time so you can do more and more of it. The question then becomes, how do your passions coincide with the needs of the business? Have you reconciled your passions with these business needs? The CEO... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 14 Mar 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Lessons from COVID-19: The Business Skills Doctors Need

doctors had to switch from their traditional specialties to treat patients affected by the virus. Given the isolation of coronavirus patients from family members, many doctors and nurses who were not accustomed to providing end-of-life... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health
  • 17 Dec 2007
  • Research & Ideas

The Rise of Medical Tourism

care, state-of-the-art facilities, and skilled doctors are available in many parts of the world, including in developing countries. Auxiliary health-care providers such as nurses go where care is needed. Filipino View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health; Medical Devices & Supplies
  • 23 Nov 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Management’s Role in Reforming Health Care

experiments are underway with professionals trying different ways of configuring and managing services. On that list I include experiments with disease management programs, substituting nurse practitioners for physicians in certain... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health
  • 27 Aug 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Employee-Suggestion Programs That Work

perspective. "I believe it was not that senior leaders were solving problems, but that they were just making sure things didn't fall through the cracks," she says. Tucker also explains this finding in terms of "boundary spanning." Nurses... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Guttry
  • 19 Aug 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Codeacademy’s Delicate Work of Adding Monetization Without Crushing Mission

are relevant for a large subset of those jobs. It's not just those who can actually code—building mobile apps and websites—who are in great demand, but also those who are comfortable manipulating technology. Just as nurses and health... View Details
Keywords: Re: Jeffrey J. Bussgang; Technology
  • 31 Jul 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 31, 2018

doctor, palliative care specialist, nurse coordinator, clinical pharmacy specialist, and behavioral and social service specialists. The team focuses on the highest-risk patients to see if the new, proactive care model can improve patient,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 17 Sep 2013
  • First Look

First Look: September 17

nurses speak up about medication administration problems and contribute improvement ideas. We find that each component provides its own contribution to organizational performance. Blockages encourage people to suggest improvement ideas,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Aug 2008
  • First Look

First Look: August 26, 2008

working on finding a bed for Dugar's patient on the Coronary Care Unit (CCU) while at the same time, the TSICU attending, Dr. Fred Moran, was debating with the nurse manager about whether they should accept Dugar's patient. Ultimately,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 May 2020
  • In Practice

Nonprofits Hurt by COVID-19 Must Hoard Cash to Hold On

only thing everybody can agree on is the desirable end result.  In the current crisis, the silver lining has been the civil society: the thoughtful public health officials; the incredibly brave health workers, doctors, nurses and... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
  • 15 Mar 2011
  • First Look

First Look: March 15

such as HIV/AIDS, TB, malaria, malnutrition, and respiratory and diarrheal diseases. The Zambian Ministry of Health (MoH) realized that in the short-term it would be impossible to train the number of doctors and nurses needed to fill this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Feb 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Growing Pains: Prescriptions for U.S. Health Care

declares. "The fact of the matter is, advances in medical technology now make it possible for nurse practitioners to handle many cases with considerable expertise and at considerably less expense. Similarly, family physicians can now... View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Health
  • 01 Mar 2017
  • Research & Ideas

A Good Thing Happens When Doctors Start Talking to Their Patients

skilled nursing facilities for their recovery, where they could learn how to walk, climb stairs, and get into a car with their new knee or hip. In other hospitals, however, those skills were discussed in a 30- to 60-minute conversation in... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health
  • 08 Aug 2017
  • First Look

First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017

managing labor and delivery units in the United States and assess the associations between unit management and maternal outcomes. Methods: We developed and administered a management measurement instrument using structured telephone interviews with both the primary... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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