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- 07 Mar 2018
- Research & Ideas
Electronic Health Records Were Supposed to Cut Medical Costs. They Haven't.
$215 depending on the type of visit. That’s despite the fact that Duke has an established electronic health record (EHR) system and an efficient, centralized billing department, Kaplan says. Administrative costs account for at least a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Taking Care of Business
adapted and changed its model since launching in 2010, first crowning a single winner, then introducing multiple business tracks, and finally opting for three categories—most innovative, greatest impact, and best investment. New this... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 18 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Essentials for Enlightened Experimentation
R&D systems for performing experiments that will generate the information needed to develop and refine products quickly. The challenges are managerial as well as technical: Organize For Rapid Experimentation Examine and, if necessary,... View Details
Keywords: by Stefan Thomke
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Opening the Door
as a pressing issue. What sparked your interest? Originally I came to the DBA Program to study finance, but I switched to control, primarily because of the pathbreaking work that Bob Anthony was doing on control in nonprofits. Bob was... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
On The Case: The Base Factor
In her research as a marketing modeler, Professor Eva Ascarza focuses on understanding customers—and predicting, in particular, who will be a good one and how best to retain them. Without customers, obviously, there is no business. That could also be the tagline for... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 24 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 24, 2017
Management Journal Discordant vs. Harmonious Selves: The Effects of Identity Conflict and Enhancement on Sales Performance in Employee-Customer Interactions By: Ramarajan, Lakshmi, Nancy Rothbard, and Steffanie Wilk Abstract—Across View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 26
http://www.people.hbs.edu/shanson/long_rate_paper_20140814_FINAL.pdf August 2014 Journal of Experimental Psychology: General Guilt Enhances Sense of Control and Drives Risky Judgments By: Kouchaki, M., C. Oveis, and F. Gino Abstract—The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
How to Fix a Broken Marketplace
An economic handyman of sorts, Alvin E. Roth fixes broken markets. As a Nobel Prize-winning pioneer in the field of market design, the Harvard Business School professor cofounded a kidney donation matching system for New England,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Riding It Out
But Westley was just one horse in a stable full of horses, each with its own nutritional needs. Sometimes he got his vitamins, sometimes he didn’t. After talking to the barn’s owner, Minard began to appreciate how complicated it can be to keep track of View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
The Exchange: The Road Ahead for Crypto
to actually spend it, so no one’s playing the game, which then destroys value. And if it’s too liquid, then there’s suddenly too much of it in play, it loses all the value, and the game’s economic system collapses. It’s a very careful... View Details
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Early Years at HBS - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
B. Donham offered Doriot a position as assistant dean. 3 Doriot's career as an educator started when he began teaching Factory Problems and the Taylor System course. 4 In 1926, the Dean appointed Doriot Associate Professor of Industrial... View Details
- 13 Jun 2014
- Op-Ed
World Cup Soccer: 770 Billion Minutes of Attention
they do on 50 million viewers. So FIFA drives up the value of those eyeballs by selling exclusive broadcasting rights to only one broadcaster per country rather than splintering attention among multiple outlets. In Brazil for example, the... View Details
- 12 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurship and Multinationals Drive Globalization
War I, the management of political risk became a central concern for firms operating internationally. These risks were on many levels, from expropriation to exchange controls and other economic policies. The issue is explored in View Details
- 23 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 23, 2008
platform has a single provider that solely controls its technology, for example, Federal Express, Apple Macintosh, or Google. With a shared platform, such as Visa, DVD, or Linux, multiple firms collaborate... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Ask the Expert: Bounce Back
web optimization and cookies, there’s no way to know exactly who is visiting your site, especially when devices and browsers are shared by multiple users, such as among family members, for example. Email accounts are very rarely shared,... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Executives Convene to Discuss Consumer-Driven Health Care
U.S. consumers more power over decisions related to health care. Those who advocate consumer-driven health care - including conference chair Professor Regina E. Herzlinger - believe that shifting control of health-care purchasing... View Details
- 13 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 13, 2015
Here we explore the effects of "sleeping on it" on preference-based decisions among multiple options. In two studies, individuals viewed several attributes describing a set of items and were asked to select their preferred item... View Details
- 21 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 21, 2010
heterogeneous telecommunication costs arising from different regulatory regimes) strengthens our results. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-023.pdf Employee Selection as a Control System... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Mar 2009
- Research & Ideas
How to Revive Health-Care Innovation
similar way, write the authors. "There is little dispute that we need a system that is competitive, responsive, and consumer-driven, with clear metrics of value per dollar spent." In the following excerpt, they outline three... View Details
- 07 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
XTV: Xerox’s Attempted Recovery From “Fumbling the Future”
his partners began reviewing the company's inventions. The first opportunity they uncovered was Advanced Workstation Products (AWP). Xerox's high-end printers actually were complex computer systems that contained extensive networking... View Details
Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough