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10 May 2022
Research & Ideas

Being Your Own Boss Can Pay Off, but Not Always with Big Pay

to quit their jobs at record rates and try new posts and career paths. But self-employment, an option many workers are reportedly pursuing during the so-called Great Resignation, may not be as lucrative as it once was, according to a... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

11 Apr 2012
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The High Risks of Short-Term Management

companies was more volatile—and riskier—than that of the long-termers. The team also identified industries that appear to be short-term-oriented (banking, electronic equipment, business services, and wholesale) and long-term-focused... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services

08 Aug 2005
Research & Ideas

A Balanced Scorecard Approach To Measure Customer Profitability

summarizes customer profitability. Consider the situation faced in the 1990s by one of the nation's largest distributors of medical and surgical supplies. In five years, sales had more than tripled to nearly $3 billion, yet selling,... View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan

24 May 2018
Research & Ideas

Distance Still Matters in Business, Despite the Internet

allowed all areas to gain access to the riches provided by electronic commerce and data-enabled media. Technically led growth enabled rich areas to gain more than other areas, even when everyone was growing–largely in part because they... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Transportation; Telecommunications; Shipping; Publishing; Technology

27 Feb 2020
Sharpening Your Skills

How Following Best Business Practices Can Improve Health Care

health care landscape through a lens of disruptive innovation. How Electronic Patient Records Can Slow Doctor Productivity Instead of making health care delivery more efficient, View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Medical Devices & Supplies; Medical Devices & Supplies

19 Dec 2017
First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 19, 2017

epigenetic, and protein biomarkers—create a better match between individuals with specific disease subtypes and medications that are more effective for those patients. These treatments are expected to be both more effective and more... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

15 May 2017
Sharpening Your Skills

The Promises and Limitations of Big Data

How Will the Age of Big Data Affect Management? How do we avoid losing useful knowledge in a seemingly endless flood of data? Jim Heskett's readers offer some wise suggestions. Consumer-centered Health Care Depends on Accessible Medical... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services; Utilities; Public Administration; Health

23 Nov 2020
Research & Ideas

COVID Was Supposed to Increase Bankruptcies. Instead, They've Gone Down.

January to August using court records through the federal Public Access to Court Electronic Records (PACER) and the Federal Judicial Center (FJC) databases. PACER View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

18 Dec 2013
HBS Case

Lessons from the Lance Armstrong Cheating Scandal

tarnishing the entire sport of professional cycling. When Armstrong confessed to Oprah Winfrey in January 2013 that he had "doped"—taken performance-enhancing drugs—to win his record seven consecutive Tour de France victories... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Sports

31 May 2004
Research & Ideas

How Team Leaders Show Support–or Not

projects included new product development (e.g., a high-strength fabric; a home health aid, an electronic recording device), solving complex client problems (e.g., developing a database management system for... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

January 2017
Case

The Six CEOs of Tyco International Ltd.

By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth

In September 2016, Johnson Controls, Inc. completed the acquisition of Tyco International PLC, a $9.9 billion business with operating profits of $884 million. The purchase consideration was $14.4 billion. Although the deal was billed as a merger, Ireland-based Tyco... View Details

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13 Sep 2021
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Science: The Unlikely Frontier for New Business Ideas

study highlights two vastly disparate companies—Coca-Cola and McKesson—that sought patents within the same technology class. The companies proposed devices that used carousel-like storage systems to dispense beverages and medical... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

22 Aug 2005
Research & Ideas

The Hard Work of Failure Analysis

certain clinical areas to understand better how failures occurred, thereby proactively improving medical safety. One clinical group developed something they called a "Good Catch Log" to record... View Details

Keywords: by Amy Edmondson & Mark D. Cannon

January 2017
Case

Danaher Corporation, 2007–2017

By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth

On July 2, 2016, Danaher Corporation completed the spinoff of Fortive Corporation. The previous day, Danaher’s stock price had reached an all-time high. In 2015, Danaher had decided to split off its test and measurement, fuel and fleet management, and automation... View Details

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26 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

How Toyota Turns Workers Into Problem Solvers

into a meaningful, harmonious whole. This common yet nevertheless challenging problem is obviously evident when we talk about the design of complex technical devices. Automobiles have tens of thousands of mechanical and electronic parts.... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston; Manufacturing; Transportation; Auto

15 Jun 2007
Research & Ideas

Remembering Alfred Chandler

great-grandfather, the business editor and analyst Henry Varnum Poor, to 2 recent volumes, published while he was in his 80s: Inventing the Electronic Century: The Epic Story of the Consumer Electronics and... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

24 Feb 2020
Research & Ideas

The Hidden Vulnerabilities of Open Source Software

million, of secure web servers on the internet and allowed numerous data breaches, including the theft of 4.5 million medical records from a large hospital chain. In response to Heartbleed, the Linux... View Details

Keywords: by Frank Nagle and Jenny Hoffman; Computer

September 2013 (Revised August 2015)
Background Note

Leadership and Teaming

By: Ethan Bernstein

Small differences in the leadership of teams can have large consequences for the success of their efforts. Many initiatives fail not because of a fatal error in judgment or insufficient ideas, knowledge, motivation, or capabilities to deliver a solution. They fail... View Details

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18 Apr 2019
Research & Ideas

Open Innovation Contestants Build AI-Based Cancer Tool

Mark Kostich] Related Reading: Electronic Health Records Were Supposed to Cut Medical Costs. They Haven't. New Medical Devices Get To Patients... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Medical Devices & Supplies; Medical Devices & Supplies

25 May 2016
Research & Ideas

How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health

private treatment that they and their families can afford. In poor countries, consumers are best advised to keep their own medical records since nothing approaching an View Details

Keywords: by John A. Quelch; Health

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Being Your Own Boss Can Pay Off, but Not Always with Big Pay

The High Risks of Short-Term Management

A Balanced Scorecard Approach To Measure Customer Profitability

Distance Still Matters in Business, Despite the Internet

How Following Best Business Practices Can Improve Health Care

New Research and Ideas, December 19, 2017

The Promises and Limitations of Big Data

COVID Was Supposed to Increase Bankruptcies. Instead, They've Gone Down.

Lessons from the Lance Armstrong Cheating Scandal

How Team Leaders Show Support–or Not

The Six CEOs of Tyco International Ltd.

Science: The Unlikely Frontier for New Business Ideas

The Hard Work of Failure Analysis

Danaher Corporation, 2007–2017

How Toyota Turns Workers Into Problem Solvers

Remembering Alfred Chandler

The Hidden Vulnerabilities of Open Source Software

Leadership and Teaming

Open Innovation Contestants Build AI-Based Cancer Tool

How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health

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