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- 01 Mar 2017
- Research & Ideas
A Good Thing Happens When Doctors Start Talking to Their Patients
that could occur later” “If doctors can’t charge for doing certain things, they tend not to do them even when they can make the patient better off,” he says. “On the other hand, sometimes doctors do things they shouldn’t, just because they can charge for them. It’s a... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Faculty Research Symposium
sometimes motivates dysfunctional behavior.” Hall's research also points to some overlooked advantages of stock relative to options. “Although options create leveraged incentives, they also create more fragile incentives relative to... View Details
- 19 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Wrapping Your Alliances In a World Wide Web
partners...—Andrew McAfee Better information sharing among alliance partners may have subtle yet important benefits. One of the most common and striking dysfunctions of manufacturing supply chains is the "bullwhip effect," where... View Details
Keywords: by Andrew McAfee
- 29 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 29
crisis, several commentators concluded that the continuing expansion of risk measurement is dysfunctional (Taleb, 2007; Power, 2009). This paper asks whether the expansion of measurement-based risk management in banking is as inevitable... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
What Others Are Saying - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
dysfunctional health care system into one in which value-based competition leads to better health and greater efficiency. They argue for fundamental changes in how we think about heath care and offer specific guidance to health care... View Details
- 03 Aug 2016
- What Do You Think?
How Can We Hold the “Leadership Industry” Accountable?
How can aspiring leaders raise their voices when they see dysfunctional behavior at the top but fear losing the opportunity to have a shot at the top job? To what extent are the kinds of performance measures used—largely financial and... View Details
- 14 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Difficulties for Women Bridging Racial, Generational, and Global Divides
symposium focused on bridging race, bridging generations, bridging the global divide among women, and ways in which gender imbalance can fuel dysfunctional relationships among women in the workplace. In each, experts presented the... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 02 Jul 2014
- What Do You Think?
Are Today’s Business Heroes Challenging Our Ideas About Leadership?
heroes of these large successful corporations, in spite of their dysfunctional 'leadership'." Today's leadership heroes, however, stimulated debate about just what constitutes leadership. It is an important discussion, as several... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 06 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
After Germanwings, More Attention Needed on Employee Mental Health
stigmatization and dysfunctional finger-pointing being the result." Stress Or Mental Illness? A culture of 3 a.m. emails and competition in the conference rooms can contribute to workplace stress. A 2013 survey by the American Psychiatric... View Details
- 29 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
How Economics May Lead to Better Football Games
six years the bowls and athletic conferences went through three major reorganizations in the apparently dysfunctional system of matching teams. The upshot, in economist terms, is that the market has since become increasingly thick—larger... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Profits and Purpose
system generates such unequal access to opportunities for people, which leads to dysfunctions in the system and lack of meritocracy. I asked myself why this is happening and looked into the idea that we’re terrible at measuring the things... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 May 2006
- Research & Ideas
What Companies Lose from Forced Disclosure
that performance measure look more favorable. Surprisingly, this extra work can be dysfunctional from a firm's perspective, especially when labor markets are most competitive. In a hot labor market, a firm will lose employees to its... View Details
- 23 Sep 2020
- News
Alumni Consider Election Reform; Clubs Explore Parenting by Case Method
(MBA 1967), and Herb Kaplan (MBA 1965) hope that energized reaction from the business community will turn into active engagement in fixing a decidedly broken electoral system. “Our political dysfunction is harming American... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 11 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research, July 11
that’s essential for creativity and efficiency. Chopped-up schedules interrupt deep thinking, so people come to work early, stay late, or use weekends for quiet time to concentrate. And dysfunctional meeting behaviors are associated with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Michael Porter’s Prescription For the High Cost of Health Care
stifle competition, which in turn slows quality and efficiency improvements that would otherwise benefit all patients. Without service-by-service competition, costs spiral ever higher while quality lags. The cost of dysfunctional... View Details
- 03 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Lehman Brothers Plus Five: Have We Learned from Our Mistakes?
banking sectors with Dodd-Frank, we have failed to execute the new regulations, due largely to a dysfunctional Congress refusing to appropriate the funds needed to write the new rules and have them enforced. We may have missed the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
An American Odyssey
is that it is explicitly about race, and the magnitude of the social debt is very large in dollar terms.” In the latest of his several books, Lift the Hood, due out this year, America addresses the problems of unjust enrichment and of internal behavioral View Details
- 14 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 14
explores dysfunctional dynamics, adversarial, and politically charged relationships, and those that are harmful to well-being. Evocative constructs are leveraged, including secrets, betrayals, anthropomorphism, lying, infidelity,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: First Look: October 10
broad-based therapies. Instead, the focus should be on enrolling subpopulations, based on diagnostic testing, in trials of targeted drug treatments and on monitoring and assessing effectiveness after drugs are approved. A dysfunctional... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Don’t Listen to “Yes”
violate the accepted norms and rules of engagement. If someone clearly engages in personal attacks or withholds a dissenting view only to obstruct the implementation later, they need to be held responsible for such dysfunctional behavior.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace