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  • 27 Jan 2015
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First Look: January 27

health care providers have devoted significant efforts to improve performance regarding patient safety and quality of care. To address the lagging involvement of health care providers in the cost component... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 18

consumers who have access to vouchers must generally be lower than those of consumers who do not have access to vouchers. Offering vouchers tends to be more profitable for firms that are patient or relatively unknown and for firms with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Sep 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19

increased by 0.75 percentage points, increasing sales dispersion. Calibrating conventional inventory-ordering models, we show that to respond optimally to the observed increase in dispersion, the retailer would need to increase its cycle and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 9, 2008

patient's health outcomes since 1995. The protagonist of the case, Dr. James Goldfarb, faces a number of challenges. As the medical director of a nationally-renowned fertility program at the Cleveland Clinic, he must run an efficient and effective practice that draws... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Nov 2011
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First Look: November 15

The company could also revisit the previous two applications, tracking and tracing processed meat and tracking employee safety practices. At the other extreme, after seven years of R&D and marketing efforts and millions of dollars in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Dec 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard

improvement programs kept failing. Meliones created a leadership team with representatives from each of the three employee groups to redefine the mission and to develop a Balanced Scorecard that incorporated two apparently conflicting objectives—lower costs, improve... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
  • 15 Dec 2009
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First Look: Dec. 15, 2009

explored in this paper. Restructuring Within an Academic Health Center to Support Quality and Safety: The Development of the Center for Quality and Safety at the Massachusetts General Hospital Authors:Richard Bohmer, Jonathan David Bloom,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 31 Jan 2017
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First Look at New Research: January 31, 2017

Abstract—The Food and Drug Administration approves new medical devices after in-depth reviews of safety and effectiveness data. Some have advocated for shorter review times to encourage innovation. We evaluated whether regulatory review... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 31 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 31, 2009

expertise affirmation as a dimension of psychological safety is a promising avenue through which to integrate positive identity with existing theory on interpersonal collaboration. Psychological safety is... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 29 Sep 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel

the liquidity of institutions. That in fact is where we are today," Light said. Just as a hospital treats patients by focusing on three tasks, so too should we remedy financial turmoil, he said. First, stabilize the patient, in this... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services
  • 06 Nov 2007
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First Look: November 6, 2007

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=708448 Children's Hospital and Clinics (B) Harvard Business School Supplement 608-073 Explores the numerous initiatives Children's Hospital and Clinics has undertaken to improve View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Oct 2007
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First Look: October 30, 2007

Changing Context of Pharmaceutical Risk Mitigation Author:Arthur A. Daemmrich Periodical:Pharmacy in History 49, no. 2 (2007): 61-75 Abstract In the wake of Vioxx, Avandia, and other recent prominent cases of drugs found to cause side effects after marketing, the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 17

WalkRoundsTM—Based Intervention Authors:Anita L. Tucker and Sara J. Singer Abstract Background: Leadership WalkRounds have been widely adopted as a technique for improving patient safety and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Jan 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 3, 2018

Sources of Inefficiency in Health Care By: Chandra, Amitabh, and Douglas O. Staiger Abstract—In medicine, the reasons for variation in treatment rates across hospitals serving similar patients are not well understood. Some interpret this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Apr 2017
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First Look at New Research, April 25

results will be affected by (a) when the inspection occurs within an inspector’s daily schedule and (b) the inspection outcomes of the inspector’s prior inspected establishment. Analyzing thousands of food safety inspections, we find that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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