Social Systems - Publications - Faculty & Research

23 Dec 2002
Research & Ideas

Setting the Stage: A Young Scholar at HBS

healthcare industry. Wadhwani earned his Ph.D. in history at the University of Pennsylvania, where his research focused on the institutional and regulatory origins of popular banking in the United States. He has received awards and fellowships for his work from the... View Details

Keywords: by Laura Linard; Banking; Financial Services

01 Oct 1996
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vision has resulted in many financially driven companies becoming more mission-oriented. In this changing climate, HBS professor Robert Kaplan and David Norton (DBA '73), president of Renaissance Solutions, offer a performance measurement View Details

02 Jul 2019
Blog Post

Fast-track to Better Outcomes: Yoonjin Min and RapidSOS

number of projects for hospital systems and pharmacies, then, inspired by the opportunity to explore health in a larger context, joined Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance. An international organization affiliated with WHO and UNICEF, Gavi... View Details

Keywords: Health Care; Technology

11 Nov 2014
First Look

First Look: November 11

implementing a national evaluation system of green GDP, and before forming the system complexity model, the easiest issues first can be taken to establish the evaluation system... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

2023
Working Paper

Cognitive Uncertainty in Intertemporal Choice

By: Benjamin Enke and Thomas Graeber

This paper studies the relevance of cognitive uncertainty – subjective uncertainty over one's utility-maximizing action – for understanding and predicting intertemporal choice. The main idea is that when people are cognitively noisy, such as when a decision is complex,... View Details

Keywords: Cognitive Uncertainty; Intertemporal Choice; Cognition and Thinking; Complexity; Decision Choices and Conditions

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13 May 2013
Blog Post

Being Uncomfortable at HBS

novelty. If curiosity killed the cat. Then, lucky I am not a cat. Therefore, it isn’t a surprise that I enjoyed my time as a consultant, because it enabled me to jump from helping to develop a strategy for a large health system to... View Details

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2018 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

and facilitator training. Flora passionately advocates for the benefits of experiential learning. She has designed, directed, and staffed many experiential conferences, simulations, and retreats for executives on the dynamics of organizational life using View Details

08 Aug 2013
News

Cause Marketing Gets Personal

was a moving experience. I had one woman talk to me who was blind in one eye, someone with a profound learning disability, another with a pain issue," she says. "They all said, 'I didn't think anyone would understand.'" But Langer has recognized her purpose—one that... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken; Health, Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

25 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 25, 2007

for Improving the Safety and Efficiency of Hospital Work Systems Authors:Anita L. Tucker, Sara J. Singer, Jennifer E. Hayes, and Alyson Falwell Abstract Objective. To link safety-related concerns raised by frontline staff about hospital... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

25 Feb 2020
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Profits and Purpose

in my spare time, and we were trying to find our way. Right from the beginning, the question was: What is the role of business in the broader systemic conversation? My own work has always been focused on climate change, and if I have to... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

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Jason Flood

that he had. “I realized that my college education, my relatively high socio-economic status, and my employer-provided insurance were privileges most of America does not have access to.” Improving a flawed system from multiple angles... View Details

Keywords: Healthcare/Biotech; Tech

01 Jun 2022
News

Closing the 'Network Gap'

addition to taking Austin’s Startup Operations field course, the founders were Social Enterprise Summer Fellows, and the company was part of the Rock Accelerator program. The Equity Network was also a semifinalist in the View Details

Keywords: April White

18 Feb 2015
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First Look: February 18

address this threat: trust, licensing, and paying agents to stay loyal. We show how the principal can influence the value of these options by modularizing the system and by hiring clans of agents, thus exploiting relationships among them.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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The Global Health Delivery Project - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Delivery Project The Institute for Cancer Care Innovation MOC Network ICIC U.S. Cluster Mapping Project U.S. Competitiveness Project FSG Shared Value Initiative Social Progress Imperative AllWorld Network The Global Health Delive...... View Details

17 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

Can China Maintain Its Economic Power?

in social structure, in economic strategy, and in government" A: You could see the social fabric wearing thin in a number of places over the past several years. The fact that so many factory workers had... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg

06 Jun 2005
Research & Ideas

Microsoft vs. Open Source: Who Will Win?

superior product, adding to the probability of success. However, OSS has disadvantages too. Most importantly, it comes from behind in terms of market share (installed base). Because the value of an operating system depends critically on... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology

18 Jun 2020
Blog Post

Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 3/5

Black students in our community have spent the last few weeks grappling with the weight of a devastating truth: that our country and society has undeniably and systemically failed Black communities – and the false narrative that being... View Details

02 Apr 2015
Research & Ideas

Digital Initiative Summit: Who Has the Power in the Music Industry?

new environment? To the latter question, Sider suggested that musicians need to learn a new set of skills. "If you're a musician and you were coming out 20 years ago, you would have had to go through a rigid system to distribute your... View Details

Keywords: Re: Felix Oberholzer-Gee; Music

01 Jun 2018
News

June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books

Publishing The 2008 financial crisis triggered a worldwide recession. Unlike the American banking system, which experienced massive losses, takeovers, and taxpayer-funded bailouts, Canada’s banking system withstood the crisis relatively... View Details

18 Jun 2014
Research & Ideas

Leading Innovation is the Art of Creating ‘Collective Genius’

miles from Burbank, California, to Emeryville, near San Francisco, setting the systems up over a weekend. The move worked and the studio hit both deadlines. The book cites short-term innovation, in the decision to borrow the computers,... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

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