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- 27 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
What South Korea Teaches the World About Fighting COVID
whereas South Korea has 216 cases per million. "South Korea created a vast number of testing sites, which included not only big hospitals but local clinics and public health care facilities." What South Korea teaches us is that proactive... View Details
- 05 Oct 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Don't More People Get Flu Shots at Work?
typically isn’t as high as employers—or the CDC—would like. “Whenever you are thinking about promoting these investment-type activities like preventive health care, you need to make it as easy as possible,... View Details
- 22 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Work of Failure Analysis
that health care organizations typically fail to analyze or make changes even when people are well aware of failures. Whether medical errors or simply problems in the work process, few hospital organizations dig deeply enough to... View Details
Keywords: by Amy Edmondson & Mark D. Cannon
- 10 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot
challenge. For example, LVHM, a French multinational corporation and conglomerate specializing in luxury goods, announced it will cease the production of perfumes in some of its factories in order to make hand sanitizer, and Nike stated it will start producing personal... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- Research & Ideas
A Good Thing Happens When Doctors Start Talking to Their Patients
performing costly medical procedures. And that’s a problem, argues Senior Fellow Robert S. Kaplan, the Marvin Bower Professor of Leadership Development, Emeritus, at Harvard Business School. “It becomes obvious that you can make the tradeoff to spend more time earlier... View Details
- 12 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Competition the Cure for Healthcare
Last month HBS Working Knowledge offered an excerpt from Redefining Health Care: Creating Value-Based Competition on Results, by Harvard Business School professor Michael E. Porter and Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg. The U.S. healthcare... View Details
- 24 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
These Coronavirus Heroes Show Us How Crisis Leadership Works
their companies. If ever there was a time for leaders to be authentic, this is it. They need to be humble, open, and realistic about the health care and logistical challenges they are facing while using the best scientific and technical... View Details
- 06 Sep 2022
- Research & Ideas
Curbing an Unlikely Culprit of Rising Drug Prices: Pharmaceutical Donations
Prescription drug costs continue to climb in the United States, but tightening a loophole in a federal law may help curb rising expenses, according to research published this week in Health Affairs. Efforts to control US View Details
- 18 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
New Hires Lose Psychological Safety After Year One. How to Fix It.
employees clam up, the overall performance of an organization often suffers—and the effects can be dire, especially in an industry like health care. “Delivering patient care is one of those situations where timely speaking up can be a... View Details
- 05 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
A Market for Human Cadavers in All but Name?
trying to secure specimens. Alongside primary medical education providers, a large number and wide range of other users are also trying to secure cadavers for their own needs. The continuing training of medical doctors, for instance, relies on cadavers. In addition,... View Details
- 17 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Business Case for Diabetes Disease Management
analyze the complexities of disease management and check all avenues for potential business opportunities. The participants, almost all of them health professionals, sorted through the risks and benefits of disease management for... View Details
- 30 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
Turning Employees Into Problem Solvers
context of the health-care industry drew instant attention. Preventable medical errors resulting in injury cost the industry somewhere between $9 billion and $15 billion a year, the report stated. Even more shockingly, by some measures... View Details
- 06 Aug 2014
- Research & Ideas
Climbing Down from the Ivory Tower
could have been prevented if parents and local health care workers had been involved in designing a solution. Indeed, oral rehydration therapy was successful in countries like Bangladesh, where cooperation... View Details
- 20 Apr 2020
- Book
Why COVID-19 Raises the Stakes for Healthy Buildings
enhance cognitive performance. “Offices with the premier health story will get the premium rent and get the tenants, and the offices with a lagging health story will lag.” To convey to managers the benefits... View Details
- 21 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Altruistic Capital: Harnessing Your Employees’ Intrinsic Goodwill
that organizations could motivate employees simply by showing them how their work helped others—in other words, by harnessing and increasing their altruistic capital. In December 2009, the Society for Family Health (SFH), an affiliate of... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 24 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
The FDA: What Will the Next 100 Years Bring?
stars. Announced actions against an Iowa dairy after illegal drug residues were found in the dairy's cows; a Tennessee company for selling a substance billed as both a preventative against skin cancer and a tanning agent; and a medical... View Details
- 11 Aug 2014
- HBS Case
The Business of Behavioral Economics
says Norton. "I haven't prevented you from gaining weight or removed all of the French fries from the world." At the same time, the strategy uses people's biased thinking against them. For example, behavioral economics has shown that... View Details
- 25 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Planning for Surprises
surprises, say Bazerman and Watkins, are a common form of leadership failure. "Predictable surprises happen when leaders had all the data and insight they needed to recognize the potential, even the inevitability, of major problems, but failed to respond with... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 10 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
Cross-Sector Collaboration: Lessons from the International Trachoma Initiative
The aim, write the authors, is "to deepen our understanding of the process of cross-sector collaboration in the public health arena and the factors contributing to effective partnering." They begin with brief descriptions of... View Details
- 13 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
From Turf Wars to Learning Curves: How Hospitals Adopt New Technology
groups within the firm. The key in such situations is for managers to use their knowledge of a firm's particular social context to prevent turf battles from hindering the adoption of technologies that would otherwise improve productivity.... View Details