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October 2003 (Revised February 2010)
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The Duke Heart Failure Program

By: Richard M.J. Bohmer and Laura Feldman

Duke University Health System has for the past five years operated a specialized clinic for the management of congestive heart failure, a very common and costly condition in the surrounding community. Nurse practitioners, whose work is guided by highly specified... View Details

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Health Disorders; Medical Specialties; Time Management; Service Delivery; Service Operations; Outcome or Result; Health Industry

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The Essential Porter - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

2001 to further his work and research. Impact & recognition Advisor to countries, corporations, non-profits, and academic circles across the globe Seven-time winner of the McKinsey Award for the best Harvard Business Review article of the year Ranked among the world’s... View Details

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Hiring at HBS: How Summer Interns Make an Impact at Emerson Collective - Recruiting

development of sectors like education, the environment, immigration, and health care through impact investing, philanthropy, advocacy, and more. The organization brings together entrepreneurs, academics, artists, and community leaders, to... View Details

01 Dec 2019
News

Remix

running throughout—you have to page back to an earlier chapter of Dixon’s life, in 2017. That’s when the bottom dropped out. That fall, she was raising money for a tech/beauty startup called EverythingDid, designed to help women and girls of color View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; photographed by Chris Sorensen; #MeToo; DefJam; Arts, Entertainment

15 Aug 2022
Book

University of the Future: Finding the Next World Leaders in Higher Ed

what kind of nation we’ve become if we let these most valuable assets slip into a period of decline.’” Why should elite private universities care about the decline of public schools? “Make no mistake: the slow-motion defunding of US... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Education

10 Sep 2020
Blog Post

Founding a Company at the Intersection of Medicine and Technology

Paxton Maeder-York is a proud member of the MBA class of 2019, Section G. He deferred between his RC and EC years to complete an additional master’s degree in Computational Science. Having studied Biomedical Engineering as an undergraduate and worked as a Product... View Details

13 Feb 2020
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Coronavirus Likely to Infect the Global Economy

01 Jan 2011
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Seth Klarman, MBA 1982

"We care about the urgent needs of our local community." The foundation bearing the family name, run by Beth, has supported medical, educational, religious, and social service organizations, including McLean and Beth Israel Deaconess... View Details

14 Feb 2012
First Look

First Look: February 14

Publication:Pediatrics (forthcoming) Abstract Objective: To examine whether parents' delivery room management decisions for extremely preterm infants are influenced by (a) the degree of detail with which options-comfort View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

02 Dec 2002
Research & Ideas

The Secret of How Microsoft Stays on Top

application/exploitation; and evolution/adaptation. Inside Microsoft and other successful firms we've studied, managers give careful consideration to how each of these activities is conducted. In doing so,... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

17 Feb 2022
Book

When Employees Feel a Sense of Purpose, Companies Succeed

of subduing individuality and ensuring conformity. Culture offers an inexpensive and informal way of regulating behavior that is all the more effective because it occurs inside the minds of employees and relies on peer pressure as a mechanism. “When we View Details

Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati

08 Oct 2008
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: A Sense of Urgency

organization off its complacent platform and into a good direction. But it didn't happen. Instead of mobilizing people into action, the crisis led many managers into making fewer decisions because they didn't want to be accused of... View Details

Keywords: by John P. Kotter

16 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business

should be pruned altogether? Where do you add the most value to collective goals that you care about, whether that is through performing specialized individual tasks, managing projects, inspiring people... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

01 Dec 2019
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Bridging the Gap

care workers and is keeping her options open, curious to keep learning and see where she might fit in. “So many times we approach business and say, this is what we want you to do,” says Hamilton County Schools Superintendent Bryan... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustration by Josh Cochran; photographed by Melissa Golden; cross sector collaboration; local government; nonprofits; education; leadership; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

27 May 2015
Research & Ideas

Build 'Scaffolds' to Improve Performance of Temporary Teams

"Four minutes," a triumphant Amy C. Edmondson exclaims as she arrives at her Harvard Business School office, clutching a bike helmet and explaining that her commute is 10 minutes faster by bicycle than by car. Edmondson, the Novartis Professor of Leadership... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Health

26 Jul 2022
Research & Ideas

Burgers with Bugs? What Happens When Restaurants Ignore Online Reviews

important for review sites such as Yelp to post chronological reviews that reflect current conditions, since hygiene can vary wildly based on new management and staff, the research team says. “Review sites should be View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin; Entertainment & Recreation; Food & Beverage; Retail

15 May 2017
Sharpening Your Skills

The Promises and Limitations of Big Data

financial robots, and passing along the savings to their customers. Luis Viceira explains the rise of "fintech" in a new case study. Man vs. Machine: Which Makes Better Hires? Danielle Li and colleagues find that computers make better hiring decisions than... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services; Utilities; Public Administration; Health

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Key Stakeholders - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

sustainable competition. Providers Stay competitive by adopting a strategic approach, restructuring the delivery of care, and measuring costs and outcomes to increase patient value. Patients Participate actively in managing personal... View Details

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Investing in Emerging Industries | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

created its own closed-end investment company, the Lehman Corporation, which traded its own stocks and bonds on the New York Stock Exchange. “The management of someone elses [sic] money is a great responsibility under any conditions,”... View Details

October 2016 (Revised March 2019)
Case

Carrum Health: Scaling Bundled Payments

By: Robert S. Huckman and Sarah Mehta

Founded in 2014, Carrum Health helped self-insured employers located in three markets (San Diego, California; Seattle, Washington; and San Francisco, California) save money on their employees’ planned surgeries. It did so by contracting directly with top-quality... View Details