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Front-line Staff Perspectives on Opportunities for Improving the Safety and Efficiency of Hospital Work Systems

By: Anita L. Tucker, Sara J. Singer, Jennifer E. Hayes and Alyson Falwell

Objective To link safety-related concerns raised by frontline staff about hospital work systems (operational failures) to the safety and efficiency of hospitals, and to contrast these concerns with national patient safety initiatives.

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Keywords: Perspective; Opportunities; Safety; Performance Efficiency; System; Failure; Conferences; Employees; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Experience and Expertise; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry; United States
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  • 23 Aug 2010
  • Research & Ideas

The Drive to Acquire’s Impact on Globalization

now give to the overall benefits of globalization. As practiced today, Ricardo's classic system results in win-win exchanges when both trading partners are either (1) industrialized nations with modern impulse/check/balance governments,... View Details
Keywords: by Paul R. Lawrence
  • Research Summary

Sustainable Inner-City Economic Development

By: Michael E. Porter
Michael E. Porter is using the framework he developed in The Competitive Advantage of Nations to examine the economic development problems in distressed inner-city areas. He seeks to understand the potential of inner-city businesses, government policies, and... View Details
  • 2022
  • Working Paper

On the Origins of Our Discontent

By: Rawi Abdelal and Thomas J. DeLong
Signs of discontent with global capitalism and national capitalisms abound. Unless we find ways to create better jobs and then improve those jobs further with empathic management and thoughtful mentoring, then we will be unable to create a more stable, purposeful... View Details
Keywords: Capitalism; Human Needs; Public Opinion; Social Issues; Wealth and Poverty; Globalization; Government and Politics
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  • August 2018 (Revised September 2018)
  • Case

Predicting Purchasing Behavior at PriceMart (A)

By: Srikant M. Datar and Caitlin N. Bowler
This case follows VP of Marketing, Jill Wehunt, and analyst Mark Morse as they tackle a predictive analytics project to increase sales in the Mom & Baby unit of a nationally recognized retailer, PriceMart. Wehunt observed that in the midst of the chaos that surrounded... View Details
Keywords: Data Science; Analytics and Data Science; Analysis; Consumer Behavior; Forecasting and Prediction
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  • April 2017
  • Case

China Hospitals Inc.: The Growth of Private Hospitals in China

By: Kevin Schulman, Xiao Yu and Ariel Hwang
This case examines the privatization of hospitals in China. China Hospitals, Inc. has become the largest for-profit hospital company in China, purchasing government owned hospitals in Tier 2 cities. The case profiles CEO Frank Hu. To build his company, he has to... View Details
Keywords: Privatization; For-Profit Firms; Growth and Development Strategy; Business Model; Health Industry; China
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  • 29 Oct 2015
  • Other Presentation

Social Progress: The Next Development Agenda

By: Michael E. Porter and Scott Stern
How do we measure development? The Social Progress Index was launched in 2013 as a holistic approach to benchmarking countries' social performance, independent of economic measures. SPI has been widely taken up on a global basis in evaluating national performance, and... View Details
Keywords: Economic Development; Development Economics; Society; United States
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  • February 2015 (Revised November 2015)
  • Case

Building an Integrated Biopharma Company: Crucell (A)

By: Richard G. Hamermesh, Marianne Van Der Steen and Susan S. Harmeling
By 2009, Crucell had become the largest biopharma company in the Netherlands and a symbol of national pride. The case traces the evolution of the company from a University spin-off into a fully-integrated company. Crucell's success, particularly in the vaccine space,... View Details
Keywords: Biotechnology; Biopharmacy Company; Licensing; Licensing Agreements In Biopharmacy; Human Cell-line Technology; Vaccine; Healthcare Innovation; Global Health; Partners and Partnerships; Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development Strategy; Biotechnology Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; Netherlands
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  • January 2013 (Revised March 2013)
  • Supplement

MuMaté (B-2): Confidential for Cantor

By: Thomas R. Eisenmann and Alex Godden
MuMaté, a fictional cult beverage company, requires capital to fund national expansion. Its cofounders, who have bootstrapped to this point, are now negotiating with venture capital firms to raise a $3 million funding round. The case describes MuMaté's inception, early... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital; Expansion; Negotiation; Valuation; Entrepreneurship; Food and Beverage Industry
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  • January 2013 (Revised December 2024)
  • Case

MuMaté

By: Thomas Eisenmann and Alex Godden
MuMaté, a fictional cult beverage company, requires capital to fund national expansion. Its cofounders, who have bootstrapped to this point, are now negotiating with venture capital firms to raise a $3 million funding round. The case describes MuMaté's inception, early... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital; Growth Management; Negotiation; Expansion; Valuation; Entrepreneurship; Organizational Culture; Business Startups; Food and Beverage Industry
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  • 24 Mar 2013
  • News

There’s a Reason for Deposit Insurance

  • 05 Oct 2009
  • News

The World Bank must fix its business model

  • 22 Jul 2021
  • News

Three Keys to Unlock Lasting DEI Change in Organizations

  • 26 Dec 2017
  • News

Breaking Down the New U.S. Corporate Tax Law

  • Web

Value-Based Health Care - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

the correct provider, treatment, and setting. Geography of Care National centers of excellence providing care for exceedingly complex patients. Information Technology An information technology system designed to support the major elements... View Details

    Jay W. Lorsch

    Jay W. Lorsch is the Louis Kirstein Professor of Human Relations at the Harvard Business School. He is editor of View Details

    • January 2016 (Revised October 2016)
    • Case

    Saudi Aramco and Corporate Venture Capital

    By: Joseph B. Fuller, Matthew Rhodes-Kropf and Nathaniel Burbank
    Saudi Aramco launched an internal venture capital arm in 2011, which promptly became the world's largest investor in energy related startups. In choosing to proceed, the company's New Business Development unit (NPD) wrestled with a number of challenges. How should the... View Details
    Keywords: Venture Capital; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Energy Industry; Saudi Arabia
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    • September 2022 (Revised January 2025)
    • Case

    The Pokémon Company: Evolving into an Everlasting Brand

    By: Tomomichi Amano and Masaki Nomura
    Super Bowl 50, the fiftieth annual championship game of the American National Football League played in February 2016, featured 52 commercials, and brands spent more than six million dollars each for a 30-second commercial slot. Surprisingly, the commercial that... View Details
    Keywords: Advertising; Brands and Branding; Marketing Strategy; Consumer Behavior; Growth and Development Strategy; Video Game Industry; Japan
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      John F. Batter

      John Batter is a retired Litigation Partner in the Boston Office of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP where his practice focussed on on the defense of public and private companies and their directors and management against breach of fiduciary duty claims and... View Details

      • 03 May 2011
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Big BRICs, Weak Foundations: The Beginning of Public Elementary Education in Brazil, Russia, India, and China, 1880-1930

      Keywords: by Latika Chaudhary, Aldo Musacchio, Steven Nafziger & Se Yan