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  • July 23, 2019
  • Article

Is the U.S. on Its Way to Becoming a Cashless Society?

By: Shelle Santana
The rise of digital payments, including credit cards, debit cards, and mobile payments systems, have contributed to the steady shift in payment practices among consumers. According to the FDIC, cash represented just 30% of all payments in 2017, and the percentage of... View Details
Keywords: Payment Methods; Cash; Credit Cards; Consumer Behavior; Change; United States
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  • 04 Mar 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Want to Make Diversity Stick? Break the Cycle of Sameness

of the time and white people 75 percent of the time. “People ... seem to ignore the diversity of the remaining group, which is what you’d think they’d care about if they think that diversity is good... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 21 Apr 2017
  • News

Good Riddance to Big Insurance Mergers

  • 01 Mar 2009
  • News

A New Approach to Health-Care Reform

they know what disruptive innovation means, but I’ve found it’s often misunderstood. The simplest way to describe it — in a way that applies to health care or any industry — is... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Health, Social Assistance
  • 01 Dec 2018
  • News

Adapting to Meet Changing Needs

it across in a very limited amount of time—typically threeto five-minute learning segments that build on each other. That turned out to be a complicated challenge,” says Mayo, the Thomas S. Murphy Senior Lecturer of Business... View Details
  • 06 Dec 2019
  • Blog Post

Moving to the States with My Daughter to Pursue an MBA and Switch Careers

exciting industry for science and technology innovation and breakthrough. Boston is also a global hub city for health care and as a result, there are seemingly endless opportunities to learn beyond the... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2010
  • News

Students Reach Out to Haiti

Medicine Institute, Seth Moulton (HBS ’11) collaborated on the development of an iPhone electronic health record application that doctors can use to track patients in the field. And Haiti native Jules Walter and Jean-Claude Homawoo (both... View Details
Keywords: disaster relief; Educational Support Services; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance
  • Mar 2012
  • Article

How to Make Finance Work

has been mixed. The sector's growth has been beneficial for U.S. corporations, which enjoy ready access to the deepest capital markets in the world. Venture capital, for example, and the public equity... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2012
  • News

Taking Time to Make Time

results are the most important factor in evaluating performance, if someone leaves early or comes in late in order to take care of a family matter, it's a non-issue—as long as that person is getting their... View Details
Keywords: Time management
  • August 23, 2018
  • Article

Using a New EHR System to Increase Patient Engagement, Improve Efficiency, and Decrease Cost

By: Katy French, Barbra Bryce Speer, Alexis B. Guzman, Tayab Andrabi, Iris Recinos, Keith A. Shook, James R. Incalcaterra, John C. Frenzel and Thomas W. Feeley
Patients and providers are frustrated with seemingly endless data entry. We used our patients’ vested interest in their own health care by actively engaging them in the entry of their own medical information into the EHR. Prior to the implementation of the new EHR we... View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Analytics and Data Science; Performance Efficiency; Cost Management
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  • 18 Apr 2023
  • Research & Ideas

The Best Person to Lead Your Company Doesn't Work There—Yet

Companies looking for the best possible leaders—and leaders looking to become CEOs—would do well to heed the model of private-equity (PE) backed companies, which often look outside their ranks when hiring... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services
  • 05 Jun 2000
  • What Do You Think?

What’s Happening to Our Patience?

brain that records time. Further, it measures the time associated with a task and sets our expectations in subsequently performing similar tasks. That's why we become so impatient when it takes a couple of extra seconds to View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 23 Jan 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Break Your Addiction to Service Heroes

that there are a lot of heroic people in service organizations who feel compelled to be the best at everything. That's particularly evident in mission-driven and health care organizations, where managers... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; Service
  • 21 Dec 2017
  • News

A Decent Place to Live

where you work. Your access to things. How safe you feel. So, home is really at the center of development and being able to live a happy, flourishing life. “Being able View Details
  • 01 Mar 2018
  • News

Democratizing Data to Favor Farmers

specialty crops like lentils, yellow peas, and garbanzo beans. The network has created the first semi-public repository of what Baron calls “real-world performance” data on inputs like seeds and chemicals. It functions as an information co-op: Individual farmers can... View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
  • 04 Feb 2011
  • News

Using Crowdcasting To Find Treatments

Keywords: crowdcasting; contests; Health, Social Assistance
  • 2023
  • Working Paper

Data Governance, Interoperability and Standardization: Organizational Adaptation to Privacy Regulation

By: Sam (Ruiqing) Cao and Marco Iansiti
The increasing availability of data can afford dynamic competitive advantages among data-intensive corporations, but governance bottlenecks hinder data-driven value creation and increase regulatory risks. We analyze the role of two technological features of data... View Details
Keywords: Organizations; Information Technology; Performance Productivity; Growth and Development; Transformation
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  • 01 Apr 2000
  • News

Student "Treks" Lead to Jobs and Opportunities

the skills and values needed to nurture a company and enable it to grow and prosper," he notes. "The numerous treks and special conferences organized by our students complement that goal by giving them View Details
  • 01 Mar 2003
  • News

A Casual Approach to Success

Francisco Free Clinic, an organization that provides free health care to the needy and is run by one of their children. The proud grandparents of twelve, Warren and Chris Hellman have a seemingly endless... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
  • 17 Sep 2020
  • News

HBS Goes Back To School

2022), which offers guidance for students, staff, and faculty during re-entry—including details on community policies, information on campus access protocols, and a list of FAQs. AUGUST 21 In reaction to the... View Details