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- 01 Mar 2017
- Research & Ideas
A Good Thing Happens When Doctors Start Talking to Their Patients
condition—to patients and society—than it should be.” By some estimates, about 10 percent of costs in the health care system are due to diabetes-related procedures. “If you had a diabetes center giving... View Details
- 01 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Slow, Steady Battle to Fix Cancer Care
1996. "Unlike traditional health care organizations, we're organized around the type of cancer that the patient has," says Feeley. "So if you come to our thoracic center with lung cancer, you... View Details
- 01 May 2020
- In Practice
COVID-19’s Hard Lessons Might Prepare Business for Climate Change
of Management Practice in Environmental Management, Retired. THE CORONAVIRUS CRISIS More Business-Related Pandemic Coverage from Around Harvard and Beyond COVID-19 Business Impact Center (Harvard Business... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 13 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
Managing the Support Staff Identity Crisis
departments traditionally focused on support functions. (He elaborates on the subject of cross-silo collaboration in his recent book, Reorganize for Resilience: Putting Customers at the Center View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 05 Apr 2017
- Research & Ideas
For Women Especially, It Pays to Know What Car Repairs Should Cost
call center staff had experience in extracting repair prices from service shops. “They were willing to have their experienced employees use our scripts, so that was ideal for us to test the effect of... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- Research & Ideas
For Migrant Workers, Homesickness Can Reduce Productivity
production centers spread across the country. They learned that first-year workers were usually permitted to travel home for the festivals of Diwali, while the more experienced third-year workers had to stay... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 21 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
7 Successful Battle Strategies to Beat COVID-19
business applications, aimed at empowering teams to better respond to changing customer and competitive threats, are already au fait with this idea of using military strategy to guide project decision-making. Many Agile-immersion... View Details
Keywords: by Euvin Naidoo
- 22 Aug 2006
- First Look
First Look: August 22, 2006
description of the district's strategy from 2000-2006, called Excellence for All, which focused on academic achievement for all students, the equitable allocation of district... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer
first, these operations eventually become profitable. The WDC would be a center of research and learning about the impact of business on poverty reduction. Q: In what ways... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 02 Jul 2024
- Book
Five Essential Elements to Build the Capital You Need to Lead
leadership lessons focused on what he calls “the five Cs”: capability, culture, communication, connection, and confidence. Each of these five Cs acts as a building block for developing and deploying leadership capital. In the following... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 29 Jun 2015
- HBS Case
Consumer-centered Health Care Depends on Accessible Medical Records
in information analytics, attempting to get their arms around the wide array of patient data. Government incentives are helping the push. In 2011, the US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services... View Details
- 06 Jan 2012
- Op-Ed
Where Green Corporate Ratings Fail
News Corporation—a multinational media conglomerate that includes BSKYB, Dow Jones, Fox News, 20th Century Fox and Star, among other units—announced earlier this year that it has become climate neutral, meaning that its operations have no net impact on global climate... View Details
- 11 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Road Map to Fix America’s Transportation Infrastructure
Any highway commuter who has wasted hours stuck in traffic can see the cracks in the United States' transportation system, as can any airline passenger who has been stranded overnight in an airport. Yet while many agree that the need for infrastructure change is... View Details
- 22 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
Name Your Price. Really.
price. ©iStock.com/Rawpixel Ltd Examples of PWYW pricing abound in all industries: Radiohead's self-released its In Rainbows album with "name your price" downloads; the Dallas Theater Center holds... View Details
- 02 Dec 2019
- What Do You Think?
How Does a Company like Boeing Respond to Intense Competitive Pressure?
Hans-Peter Sebregondi, quoting from a Deloitte thought piece, wrote, “If your executive suite is like most discussion usually centers on the positive aspects of the company’s strategy and the need to rally... View Details
- 15 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Founding CEO’s Dilemma: Stay or Go?
Aage Sorensen Memorial Award for sociological research. With his coauthor, Rock Center Entrepreneur-in-Residence Henry McCance of Greylock Partners, professor Wasserman recently completed a case study about... View Details
- 06 Dec 2013
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Remember Nelson Mandela
"treason" for 27 years by the apartheid government of South Africa, he emerged from his Robben Island purgatory as an inspiration to a nation, a continent, and people in every corner of the globe.... View Details
- 25 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Cyber-Marketing: Scouting the Digital Communications Frontier
including one centered on the acceptance of high-speed Internet cable access by residents of a middle-class Toronto suburb during the past four years. That community, they say,... View Details
Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs
- 06 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Winners and Losers at the Olympics
so. The enormous size of the market in China and the importance of establishing a corporate presence for the future are irresistible attractions. For two-and-a-half weeks, Beijing will be the View Details
- 01 Nov 2024
- In Practice
Layoffs Surging in a Strong Economy? Advice for Navigating Uncertain Times
the layoff research of our colleagues as a touchpoint, we are troubled by the potential long-term costs of this trend, including reduced innovation, lower team engagement, and attrition View Details