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- 18 Nov 2021
- News
Strength in Numbers
is that thing,” Verdi says. “It’s one of the top three causes of our age,” adds Swartz. Both the Verdi and Swartz families have witnessed, firsthand, the negative effects of our nation’s disjointed treatment of mental illness. “It’s View Details
Keywords: April White
- 20 Nov 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, November 20, 2018
structure may affect borrowing costs. Corporate legal structure refers to the legal fragmentation of a firm into multiple, separately incorporated entities. This fragmentation is bound to be a factor when... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Learning Curve: Making the Most of Outsourcing
telemedicine and specialized providers of niche services such as retail clinics, single-specialty hospitals, and disease management companies. The research, he says, reflects the traditional pendulum swing in health care between centralization and View Details
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Managing the Future of Work - Course Catalog
in front of these trends? New labor models. Will remote work and the gig economy lead to fragmentation of the employment relationship? Will it change the geography of firms? We will consider firms managing the choice between contractors... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
School Ties
largest school districts in the country, the survey found that business is involved in 95 percent of America's school districts, but mostly in a fragmented array of efforts that focus on short-term benefits for students (e.g., donating... View Details
- 26 Jun 2000
- Research & Ideas
Three Countries, Three Choices in Post-Soviet Eurasia
Citizens also did not like the nationalists' anti-Russian, pro-European content. "Put most simply," Abdelal writes, "Belarus's fragmented national identity allowed economics to influence the foreign policy orientation of... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2017
- Research & Ideas
A Good Thing Happens When Doctors Start Talking to Their Patients
recovery costs weren’t borne by the hospitals, they had not been motivated to find the low total cost alternative. After Kaplan pointed out the discrepancy, some hospitals switched to the lower-cost pre-surgical consultations. Kaplan cites diabetes care, also highly... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Wake-Up Call: Farewell to the American Dream?
come to an end. It has been replaced by a system of fragmented markets and relatively unstandardized products that has led to intensified competition, a more unstable economy, and greater business uncertainty. This rising uncertainty, I... View Details
- 27 Feb 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: Development while Decarbonizing - Understanding India’s Agriculture Landscape
agricultural sector, which is respectful of the structural and cultural norms that still persist today. At the core of WayCool's strategy lies a deep understanding of the challenges plaguing Indian farmers – from fragmented supply chains... View Details
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
The State of the Markets
guided by the invisible hand of the stock market. In Germany alone, some 2,500 companies that would qualify to go public are not listed on any exchange." In rectifying that problem, Europe must deal with another one of considerable importance—its capital markets... View Details
Keywords: by James E. Aisner
- 26 Oct 2017
- Research Event
In an Era of 'Fake News,' What is the Future of Advertising and Publishing?
citizens and reporters outside the targeted population to even see what information or disinformation was being promoted during the election, and who was seeing it. This led to the feeling of a fragmented society that many experienced... View Details
- 17 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Where Did My Shopping Mall Go?
shopping trips, both online and in-store, become more targeted and baskets shrink, retail continues to fragment between brick-and-mortar stores and ecommerce. As consumers, too, fragment along income lines,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Digital Health Care: Empowering Consumers
with chronic diseases or disabilities who are frequently lost among the cracks of our present fragmented system. How has the pandemic changed the health care sector? We have seen a much broader acceptance of telemedicine and changes in... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Q & A: Bain & Company's Thomas J. Tierney
fragmented sector of over a million highly dissimilar organizations. How do you begin to encourage for-profit business leaders to become more involved with the nonprofit sector? To bring these elements together, we need to build a conduit... View Details
- 08 Jan 2001
- What Do You Think?
Have We Extended the Boundaries of the Firm Too Far?
described by Michael Porter is being fragmented by organizations; value addition ... is taking place in numerous forms ..." Their comments reflected the general assumptions among respondents that organization boundaries will continue... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
A Market-Based Prescription
something that will be tailored to their needs. They will not tolerate the fragmentation and hassles inherent in the present system. How long will it take to implement a consumer-driven system in this country? It took only about five... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Case Study: The Doctor Deficit
you’re doing today will change as you evolve. Don’t give the doctors and hospitals a suboptimal experience on their first try with your service. Don’t let the VC hype force you to expand faster than you should. (I say this as a health care VC.) —John Lonergan (MBA... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 03 Dec 2001
- What Do You Think?
What Happens When the Sumo Master Learns Judo?
fragmented market ..." Citing the popularity of Linux at the server level, Eckel points out that "what that 800 lb. Gorilla (MS) is fighting against is a guerrilla army that is free." These comments reflect general beliefs... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Health IT at the Bedside
puzzled through the fragments of his history, my mom and I did our best to fill in the gaps. Clinical decisions are only as good as the information you have to make them. As competent and well-meaning as my dad’s doctors were, they lacked... View Details
- 13 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Making Biotech Work as a Business
just create a bottleneck somewhere else. Real gains in productivity, he suggested, will probably come from integrated improvements across multiple components of the system. Finally, he offered, the economic barriers in biotech once again illuminate the problems of... View Details