Social Determinants Of Health - Publications - Faculty & Research

22 Aug 2006
First Look

First Look: August 22, 2006

Stanford University Press, forthcoming. Abstract This paper explores the question: Do institutions persist over time and determine current economic outcomes? Specifically, does the adoption or inheritance of... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

21 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

7 Successful Battle Strategies to Beat COVID-19

of the most widely implemented Agile operating approaches) and also a former fighter pilot, draws on his experience of landing a jet on a heaving aircraft carrier. He describes View Details

Keywords: by Euvin Naidoo

23 Jan 2012
Research & Ideas

Break Your Addiction to Service Heroes

that there are a lot of heroic people in service organizations who feel compelled to be the best at everything. That's particularly evident in mission-driven and health care organizations, where managers... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; Service

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Value Judgments: Business Ethics Across Borders

such as support for schools, health centers, sewage disposal, and forest preservation — to be socially responsible within that setting." A series of cases on the Haier... View Details

Keywords: by Judith A. Ross

05 Jul 2006
Research & Ideas

Reinventing the Dowdy Savings Bond

before twelve months. More substantively, he proposes adding a line to the 1040 tax form that would allow filers to invest a part of their refund directly in the savings bond program, making it simpler for people to buy bonds. "We... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Banking; Financial Services

02 Apr 2001
What Do You Think?

Telecommuting: Dangerous to Health?

"as part of a small team building a new company ... the time we spend together (as opposed to the day per week that she and her colleagues telecommute) ... is the most valuable." Jack Downey makes the case for the doubters:... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 May 2020
In Practice

COVID-19’s Hard Lessons Might Prepare Business for Climate Change

The coronavirus pandemic caught the business world by surprise, but the catastrophe might force companies to face a crisis that has been unfolding in plain sight: climate change. We asked faculty members affiliated with the Business and Environment Initiative at... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

09 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

A Diagnostic for Disruptive Innovation

established market. Mapping a product's or service's delivery chain can identify opportunities where removing a link from the delivery chain will allow people to do for themselves what they previously had to rely on others to do for them. The View Details

Keywords: by Scott D. Anthony, Mark W. Johnson & Matt Eyring

17 Mar 2022
Research & Ideas

Navigating Tradeoffs: How Purpose Becomes a Company's ‘Lighthouse in the Storm’

CEO Corie Barry, who says that making money is the company’s business imperative, not its purpose. Barry explains how the company manages to balance pursuing its mission of enriching people’s lives through technology while also focusing... View Details

Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati

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... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg

25 Nov 2013
Research & Ideas

Hiding From Managers Can Increase Your Productivity

"But maybe we aren't as good at battling curiosity or being overloaded by visual stimuli as we might think. The frontline people who perform a particular task 12 hours a day may be the best people to determine whether that task needs... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Manufacturing

04 Oct 2004
Research & Ideas

Start to Measure Your E-commerce Success

"The study of e-commerce has unfolded in much the same way that e-commerce thrust itself on the business world—with a great deal of overstatement," says Marc J. Epstein, Visiting Professor and Wyss... View Details

Keywords: by Marc J. Epstein

22 Jun 2021
Research & Ideas

The COVID-19 Mutiny: When Teams Leave and Take Their Clients

recruiters, interview with companies, and have private conversations with clients and team members (more on that later). Companies monitor productivity and goals, but in a world where COVID-19 has turned many companies into “federations View Details

Keywords: by Robin Abrahams, Boris Groysberg, and Steven L. Manchel

18 Oct 2018
Research & Ideas

How to Use Free Shipping as a Competitive Weapon

price remains a primary determinant of whether a consumer will buy a product, free shipping provides an added enhancement for online merchants to consider. Shoppers are only one-tenth as sensitive to... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Retail

11 Apr 2018
Research & Ideas

Sexual Harassment: What Employers Should Do Now

complaint. Companies should carefully review employee files to see if other complaints have been recorded. It’s important to determine whether the complaint is an isolated incident or whether a pattern of... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

23 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

This Crisis Loan Program Preserved Jobs—and Made Money

2015, it actually made theoretical gains from avoiding payment of unemployment benefits and by collecting tax and social security payments from the workers who would otherwise have been unemployed. “To be... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services

07 Aug 2012
Research & Ideas

Off and Running: Professors Comment on Olympics

access to 26 sporting events, meets revenue and attendance targets, and adheres to the explicit social objective of making the Olympiad "Everybody's Games." To accomplish this, the committee took... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty; Sports

16 Jan 2014
Research & Ideas

Resolving Patent Disputes that Impede Innovation

is thus imperfect. "Sometimes this vagueness (and the consequent inability of parties to agree on a negotiated, 'reasonable' license) will lead to expensive litigation whose cost and risk can impede the adoption View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology; Legal Services

04 Mar 2002
Research & Ideas

Don’t Lose Money With Customers

managing customer relationships in the business-to-business environment into four distinct phases: defining and building a portfolio of customers the firm wants to serve, crafting and implementing relationship-management strategies,... View Details

Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs

24 Oct 2017
Research & Ideas

Tax Reform is on the Front Burner Again. Here’s Why You Should Care

all it provides. Second, we redistribute to a large degree through the tax system, and that's a really important set of social decisions. Finally, we create a set of incentives... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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