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  • 27 Feb 2007
  • First Look

First Look: February 27, 2007

pricing, and that reinsurers' high costs of capital appear to play an important role. Institutional Portfolio Flows and International Investments Authors:K. A. Froot and T. Ramadorai Periodical:Review of Financial Studies (forthcoming).... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • January 2006 (Revised April 2007)
  • Case

General Electric Healthcare, 2006

By: Tarun Khanna and Elizabeth Raabe
In January 2006, Joe Hogan, head of General Electric (GE) Healthcare Technologies, prepared to step into William Castell's shoes as CEO of GE Healthcare, the world's leading manufacturer of diagnostic imaging equipment. In 2004, former CEO Jeff Immelt acquired Amersham... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Entrepreneurship; Cost vs Benefits; Growth and Development Strategy; Mergers and Acquisitions; Machinery and Machining; Global Range; Multinational Firms and Management; Product Design; Technological Innovation; Expansion; Value Creation; Business Subsidiaries; Health Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry
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  • 11 May 2010
  • First Look

First Look: May 11

entrepreneur or as an investor. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/810072-PDF-ENG U.S. Healthcare Reform: International Perspectives Arthur A. Daemmrich and Elia PineiroHarvard Business School Case 710-040 The... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 Aug 2023
  • Research & Ideas

How Workplace Wellness Programs Can Give Employees the Energy Boost They Need

While companies may tout their wellness programs as a way of investing in their employees’ well-being, many are overly focused on reducing healthcare costs, so they tend to offer step challenges and gym discounts that workers don’t have... View Details
Keywords: by Hise Gibson
  • 27 Mar 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, March 27, 2018

risks for physicians on innovation may be positive or negative, depending on the characteristics of the technology. Empirically, we find that, on average, laws that limit the liability exposure of healthcare providers are associated with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Mar 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019

Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55886 Can Biometric Tracking Improve Healthcare Provision and Data Quality? Experimental Evidence from Tuberculosis Control in India By: Bossuroy, Thomas, Clara... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • April 2017
  • Supplement

Imprimis (C)

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Karen Elterman and Marc Appel
This case is a supplement to Imprimis (A & B). Set in 2015, it first describes Imprimis’s decision to introduce its own line of compounded eye drop medication called LessDrops. The case then examines the moral dilemma faced by CEO Mark Baum, who was struck by the... View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Cost; Moral Sensibility; Competitive Strategy; Decision Choices and Conditions; Pharmaceutical Industry; United States
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  • 23 Jun 2023
  • HBS Case

This Company Lets Employees Take Charge—Even with Life and Death Decisions

Is it possible to truly empower employees to make their own decisions—even when those decisions could mean life or death? That is the question posed by Dutch home healthcare organization Buurtzorg, which has radically avoided almost all... View Details
Keywords: by Annelena Lobb; Health
  • 26 May 2015
  • First Look

First Look: May 26

in the world where factor costs are favorable. This paper re-examines this assumption and suggests that not all manufacturing is highly mobile. We suggest that manufacturing sectors should be viewed along a continuum from highly mobile to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • September 2011 (Revised January 2012)
  • Case

Telemonitoring at Visiting Nurse Health System

By: F. Warren McFarlan, Mark Keil and Mala Kaul
The Telemonitoring at Visiting Nurse Health System case presents one home healthcare organization's efforts to use telemonitoring to improve the quality of care provided to at-risk patients who were discharged from hospitals and needed home care. After two years of... View Details
Keywords: Capital Budgeting; Cost vs Benefits; Risk Management; Technology Adoption; Technological Innovation; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Competitive Strategy; Health Industry; Technology Industry
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  • 26 Oct 2010
  • First Look

First Look: October 26, 2010

Shih-Ta Chen, and Keith Chi-Ho WongHarvard Business School Case 210-089 A residential real estate developer competes in a heated auction for a prime retail development site in the interior of China during the 2009 boom. Total project cost... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 May 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 8, 2018

in HAI and present-on-admission (POA) infection reporting rates that are strongly suggestive of upcoding. We conservatively estimate that 10,000 out of 60,000 annual reimbursed claims for POA infections (18.5%) were upcoded HAIs, costing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 31 Oct 2018
  • What Do You Think?

What is the Function of Fear in Leadership?

reminds us that, “a recent tidal wave of harassment claims highlights the costs of failing to create a psychologically safe workplace for women.” Edmondson has the numbers to back up her arguments. She has, for example, conducted many... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 25 Aug 2015
  • First Look

First Look Tuesday

mitigates information costs for buyers and sellers and thus facilitates transactions in the market for ideas. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=45527 Coactive Vicarious Learning: Towards a Relational... View Details
  • 25 Jul 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas: July 25, 2017

lowers costs compared to competitors and allows Cotopaxi to offer lower prices, but they face a challenge in positioning their products as high quality. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/717488-PDF-ENG Harvard... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 11 Jan 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Feeling Seen: What to Say When Your Employees Are Not OK

healthcare workers in a children’s hospital whether they trusted their coworkers and whether their colleagues had acknowledged their feelings in the previous two weeks. They posed questions like: “When my coworkers see that I am... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
  • 14 Jun 2016
  • First Look

June 14, 2016

Understanding Psychological Safety in Healthcare and Education Organizations: A Comparative Perspective By: Edmondson, Amy C., Monica Higgins, Sara J. Singer, and Jennie Weiner Abstract—Psychological safety plays a vital role in helping... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Aug 2012
  • First Look

First Look: August 7

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/13-002.pdf The Cost of Friendship Authors:Paul Gompers, Vladimir Mukharlyamov, and Yuhai Xuan Abstract This paper explores two broad questions on collaboration between individuals. First, we investigate... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Jan 2022
  • Research & Ideas

How to Get Companies to Make Investments That Benefit Everyone

company takes that create unintended consequences for others—can be good or bad. An example of a positive externality is reduced healthcare costs for everyone when employees are required to get COVID-19... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
  • 22 Nov 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Side Effects: The Case of Propecia

the wives or barbers of balding men? All these issues and more faced Tom Casola, who in 1997 was heading the Propecia marketing effort for the drug maker Merck & Co. The case was discussed by audience members at the 5th Annual Alumni View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Health; Pharmaceutical

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