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  • 15 Nov 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Solving the Health Care Conundrum

services. Health plans will eliminate their restrictive networks, allowing members to choose in a competitive (and regional or even national) marketplace the providers that offer the best value for their condition. Plans will help patients make the best decisions View Details
Keywords: by Michael E. Porter; Health
  • October 2021 (Revised January 2022)
  • Supplement

Michael Ku and Global Clinical Supply at Pfizer Inc.: Bringing Hope to Patients (C)

By: Linda A. Hill and Emily Tedards
This case is the third installment in a series about the 10-year cultural and digital transformation of Pfizer’s Global Clinical Supply organization. In 2011, Michael Ku became Pfizer’s Vice President of Global Clinical Supply (GCS) after the company had undergone... View Details
Keywords: Clinical Supply Chain; COVID-19; Vaccine; Agile; Innovation and Invention; Change Management; Organizational Culture; Transformation; Leadership; Corporate Strategy; Health Pandemics; Crisis Management; Mission and Purpose; Health Care and Treatment; Supply Chain Management; Digital Transformation
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  • 16 Apr 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Breaking the Code of Change

Two dramatically different approaches to organizational change are being employed in the world today, according to our observations, research, and experience. We call these Theory E and Theory O of change. Like all managerial action, these approaches are guided View Details
Keywords: by Michael Beer & Nitin Nohria
  • 10 Aug 2015
  • Research & Ideas

New Medical Devices Get To Patients Too Slowly

implantable defibrillators or transcatheter heart valves, the FDA's regulatory approval process appears to delay those approvals, which in turn adds to development costs borne by device manufacturers, according to Innovation under... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health; Technology
  • 19 Jul 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Why Government 'Nudges' Motivate Good Citizen Behavior

suitcases at the airport. But now agencies are finding that subtle “nudges” can motivate behavior much better than ads, fines, or deadlines. Nudges, or small changes to the context in which decisions are made, are the subject of a new analysis View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • Article

Unexpected Benefits of Deciding by Mind Wandering

By: Colleen Giblin, Carey K. Morewedge and Michael I. Norton
The mind wanders, even when people are attempting to make complex decisions. We suggest that such mind wandering—allowing one's thoughts to wander until the "correct" choice comes to mind—can positively impact people's feelings about their decisions. We compare... View Details
Keywords: Decisions; Satisfaction; Decision Choices and Conditions; Cognition and Thinking
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  • 24 Jul 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Value Maximization and Stakeholder Theory

"Every organization attempting to accomplish something has to ask and answer the following question," writes HBS professor Michael C. Jensen in the introduction to his recent working paper: "What are we trying to... View Details
Keywords: by Michael C. Jensen
  • 05 Sep 2023
  • Book

Thriving After Failing: How to Turn Your Setbacks Into Triumphs

it. Those emotions are deep-seated from an evolutionary standpoint. “From a survival perspective, we are risk-averse,” she says. “Just as we are interested in other people thinking well of us. Long ago, rejection by the group could, in... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 14 Jan 2020
  • Research & Ideas

The Business Case for Becoming a Jack-of-All-Trades

that by becoming the world’s expert in a very narrow area.” If anything, people in businesses tend to be even more hyper-focused than academics, Nagle says, siloing R&D workers in very narrow research areas that give them a... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 11 Mar 2015
  • Research & Ideas

How Do You Grade Out as a Negotiator?

then at least in the fog” "We negotiate, if not in the dark, then at least in the fog," says Michael Wheeler, a senior fellow at Harvard Business School and retired MBA Class of 1952 Professor of Management Practice, who taught... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 30 Nov 2015
  • News

Five Ways to Give Better Gifts (Backed by Science)

  • 12 May 2021
  • Book

The Hard Truth About Being a CEO

About the Author Michael Blanding is a writer based in Boston. [Image: iStockphoto/LL28] What's the best management advice you've heard? Share your insights in the comments below. Book Excerpt Five Ways To Keep Connected View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 11 Jun 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Why South Korea's Samsung Built the Only Outdoor Skating Rink in Texas

featuring music by the local symphony as 250,000 Christmas lights lit up the county courthouse. Then revelers could head to the Samsung Ice Skating Rink, the only outdoor venue of its kind in all of Texas—which also happened to be located... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Legal Services
  • 16 Apr 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Strategy and the Internet

If average profitability is under pressure in many industries influenced by the Internet, it becomes all the more important for individual companies to set themselves apart from the pack—to be more profitable than the average performer.... View Details
Keywords: by Michael E. Porter
  • 10 Mar 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Breakthrough Negotiation: Don’t Leave It On the Table

In a new book, Breakthrough International Negotiation: How Great Negotiators Transformed the World's Toughest Post-Cold War Conflicts, Harvard Business School professor Michael Watkins dissects the art of give-and-take. This excerpt... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Watkins
  • 12 Sep 2016
  • Research & Ideas

What Brands Can Do to Monitor Factory Conditions of Suppliers

View Video Video by Amelia Kundhardt They keep on coming—corporate scandals involving revelations of deplorable working conditions at overseas factories. If it’s not the Foxconn factories that Apple employs in China, then it’s Gap’s... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
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  • 31 Oct 2023
  • HBS Case

Checking Your Ethics: Would You Speak Up in These 3 Sticky Situations?

behavior by colleagues—shortcuts in analysis, intoxication on the job, inappropriate relationships. In general, the question you must ask is whether the issue ultimately affects the work delivered to clients and whether it harms the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Consulting