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  • January 2020
  • Article

Assessing the Safety of Electronic Health Records: A National Longitudinal Study of Medication-related Decision Support

By: A Jay Holmgren, Zoe Co, Lisa Newmark, Melissa Danforth, David Classen and David Bates
Background Electronic health records (EHR) can improve safety via computerised physician order entry with clinical decision support, designed in part to alert providers and prevent potential adverse drug events at entry and before they reach the patient.... View Details
Keywords: Hospital; Electronic Health Records; Health Care and Treatment; Information Technology; Safety; Performance; Quality; Performance Improvement
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  • February 2008 (Revised April 2008)
  • Case

Avaya (A)

Avaya's top management wants to improve demand generation. This requires an improvement in the relationship between Sales and Marketing. This case series (Avaya (A)-(D)) walks the student through each phase of this process. The (A) case begins with background on the... View Details
Keywords: Marketing; Demand and Consumers; Performance Improvement; Relationships; Sales; Cooperation
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  • November 2007
  • Article

If Private Equity Sized Up Your Business

By: Robert C. Pozen
This article includes a one-page preview that quickly summarizes the key ideas and provides an overview of how the concepts work in practice along with suggestions for further reading. As the dust settles on the recent frenzy of private equity deals (including... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Capital Structure; Private Equity; Investment Return; Governing and Advisory Boards; Executive Compensation; Business and Shareholder Relations; Value Creation; Financial Services Industry
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  • 2002
  • Book

Searching for a Corporate Savior: The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs

By: Rakesh Khurana
Corporate CEOs are headline news. Stock prices rise and fall at word of their hiring and firing. Business media debate their merits and defects as if individual leaders determined the health of the economy. Yet we know surprisingly little about how CEOs are selected... View Details
Keywords: Managerial Roles; Selection and Staffing; Personal Characteristics; Experience and Expertise; Investment Activism; Corporate Strategy
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  • 01 May 2025
  • HBS Seminar

Dan Iancu, Stanford Graduate School of Business

  • 17 Apr 2025
  • HBS Seminar

Maria De-Arteaga, McCombs School of Business, UT Austin

  • 09 Mar 2016
  • HBS Seminar

Katja Seim of The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

  • Web

Five Ways to Rethink Your Job Description - Recruiting

recruiting platform 12twenty" to do so. Make the job title count Be specific and use searchable keywords that HBS students will likely use when looking for roles. Our MBAs are typically looking for mid-senior level roles, so the job title... View Details
  • 24 May 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Distance Still Matters in Business, Despite the Internet

industries, then translate that into locations. A few technologies on the horizon appear to have the capacity to restructure specific industries. Among them are the deployment of new uses for AI (artificial intelligence), such as neural... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Transportation; Telecommunications; Shipping; Publishing; Technology
  • 27 Feb 2019
  • Research & Ideas

The Hidden Cost of a Product Recall

The team’s research suggests that recall prevention is even more valuable than previously thought, given the higher stakes of product failures. Companies would also be wise to develop more internal expertise to not only manage their own recalls but react quickly to... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Manufacturing; Consumer Products; Auto; Medical Devices & Supplies
  • 08 Mar 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Representation Matters: Building Case Studies That Empower Women Leaders

cases taught through the School’s four comprehensive leadership programs had a female protagonist. Among courses that focused on a specific topic, such as innovation or strategy, 19 percent of cases featured a female protagonist. What do... View Details
Keywords: by Colleen Ammerman and Boris Groysberg
  • 15 Oct 2020
  • Research & Ideas

IT Job Wages Are No Longer 'Exceptional'

have lost their “exceptional” luster. IT wage premiums today have more to do with where a job is practiced than with rewarding specific skills. “While it is a popular hypothesis that returns to IT skills are exceptionally high in the... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Information Technology
  • 07 Jan 2019
  • Research & Ideas

The Better Way to Forecast the Future

“overfitting” a statistical model, ensuring the model hits every historical data point and thus making it overly specific and lacking room for future variables. Another problem can develop with miscalibration, failing to consider whether... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Air Transportation; Transportation
  • 11 May 2023
  • News

How FOMO Became a Fixture

specific goods and/or services. Given that I have been using FOMO in speeches, media, and informative materials, the application focused on education and entertainment. "After a long wait (over four years) and ample evidence that I was... View Details
  • 11 Jun 2018
  • Research & Ideas

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

4 to 30 percent once a suit was filed there. “These are big numbers,” says Cohen. They do not even include advertising on social media, where companies can target specific locations and demographics. “I think what we are seeing is just... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Legal Services
  • 11 Mar 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Branding Sells Cereal, Handbags, and Vacations. Can It Sell a Country?

Rings film trilogy elevated New Zealand as a fantasy destination, the country was struggling to set itself apart from Australia. In-depth interviews, focus groups, and surveys revealed that New Zealand could appeal to a specific stripe of... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Tourism
  • 18 Jun 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Industrial Decarbonization: Confronting the Hard Challenges of Cement

Cities like Cairo; Chongqing, China; Delhi; and Kinshasa, Congo are experiencing population explosions accompanied by unprecedented demand for homes, offices, factories, and infrastructure. In the United States, the Biden Administration’s policy-driven infrastructure... View Details
Keywords: by by Janelle Conaway; Green Technology; Energy; Industrial Products; Manufacturing
  • 17 Dec 2014
  • Research & Ideas

How Our Brain Determines if the Product is Worth the Price

primacy (viewing the price first) makes consumers more likely to focus on whether a product is worth its price, and consequently can help induce the purchase of specific kinds of bargain-priced items. Their study, Cost Conscious? The... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail
  • 20 Oct 2010
  • Op-Ed

Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic

specific data and econometric approach used (Rodriguez/Rodrik, 2000; Median-Smith, 2001). There are also questions as to whether the relationship between specific trade policy instruments such as tariffs and... View Details
Keywords: by Christian Ketels
  • 28 Jan 2020
  • Book

Advanced Leadership Requires More Than Outside-The-Box Thinking

help people achieve their own goals. It can’t be about the leader alone. And the more there are some specific demonstrations to point to, the more a leader awakens hope and ensures belief. Change requires a belief in possibility.... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne