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- 26 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 26, 2008
b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=208126 Patient Flow at Meldon Hospital (B) Harvard Business School Supplement 608-172 This case is an e-mail that follows up on the original case, which describes a day at Meldon Hospital when the View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Power of the Noncompete Clause
months after resigning from a practice over a dispute with the owner. While his noncompete, like many in the medical and dental fields, was confined to a radius around the practice (in his case, twenty miles), he realized that there were...
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by Martha Lagace
- 03 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
5 New Year's Resolutions You Can Keep (With the Help of Behavioral Science Research)
scientists Michael Norton and Francesca Gino found that rituals alleviate and reduce grief after a devastating emotional loss—even among people who don’t inherently believe in the efficacy of rituals. In short, people who performed rituals after a View Details
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by Carmen Nobel
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
A Perfect Fit: Aligning Organization & Strategy
their espoused strategy and management principles. Beer and Eisenstat began implementing the process ten years ago at Becton Dickinson and Company, a medical products and diagnostic systems supplier. "Ray Gilmartin, who was CEO at...
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by Judith A. Ross
- 12 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 12
outcomes to controls similar in terms of industry, size, age, and prior growth. Relative to controls, employment at target establishments declines 3% over two years post buyout and 6% over five years. The job losses are concentrated among...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 2
"l" Author:Richard Bohmer Publication:British Medical Journal, January 27, 2010 Abstract What exactly do we mean by leadership in health care? Does it mean to take formal positions in senior leadership teams in hospitals,...
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Martha Lagace
- 29 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel
has proven to be unexpectedly fragile in a way that I think nobody I know really understood," Light said. To illustrate his point about the interlocking nature of housing and the U.S. financial system, Light said that for decades beginning in the 1930s, the View Details
- 17 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
What’s Good about Quiet Rule-Breaking
place them in a readily available collective. Paramedics are a telling example given the costly implications of malpractice in the United States. Paramedics are supposed to bring patients to attending physicians (most often in emergency rooms) and are not supposed to...
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by Martha Lagace
- 13 Feb 2024
- Blog Post
Harvard Students Reflect on COP28
the Azerbaijan and Brazil presidencies to ensure that international cooperation is catalyzed in upcoming NDCs.” Madeleine Kline, Harvard Medical School “One of the main reasons I wanted to go to COP28 was because it had the first ever...
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- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
medical innovations. Jessica Beck and Marcela Sapone (both MBA 2015) launched the automated “personal butler” service Hello Alfred in a crowded on-demand marketplace. The service corrals other on-demand services, offering customers both a...
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- 19 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19
consolidated into a single constraint. This helps to avoid a distortionary situation where different constraints bind for different banks performing the same activity. Second, while a regulatory framework that relies primarily on minimum capital View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Sep 2003
- Lessons from the Classroom
HBS Cases: Developing the Courage to Act
Harvard Business School professor David A. Garvin has studied the development of the case method of teaching at Harvard's law, business, and medical schools. Garvin wanted to see how the schools are similar and different in their use of...
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by David A. Garvin
- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Waking Up a Sleeping Company
undermined the company's performance. For all its strengths, it was my impression that Medtronic's culture was too Minnesota Nice. I realized that these aspects of Medtronic's culture had to change if we were going to be an effective competitor and realize our vision...
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by Bill George
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
One-on-One with Dr. Margaret Chan
have died.” Chan, who hails from the People’s Republic of China, obtained her medical degree from the University of Western Ontario in Canada. In 1994, she was named Director of Health for Hong Kong, where she began her public-health...
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- 04 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018
W. Feeley Abstract—Patients and providers are frustrated with seemingly endless data entry. We used our patients’ vested interest in their own health care by actively engaging them in the entry of their own medical information into the...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Life Lessons
the loss of my father taught me perseverance, independence, and hard work,” he observes. “It prepared me for later challenges.” After a charismatic West Point recruiter visited his high school, Sundy applied for and received an...
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- 29 Mar 2023
- News
Supporting Earthquake Victims in Turkey and Syria
iStock The faculty, students, and staff of Harvard Business School are thinking about the people of Turkey and Syria who were impacted by the recent earthquake. We have all been touched by the loss of life, the hopeful stories of survival, and the rapid response of...
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- 21 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 21
Collins Properties, must decide with its equity partner whether to continue funding the building's losses while trying to lease the vacant space, restructure the debt, or default on the loan and turn the building over to its lenders. The...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
One-on-One with Robert McNamara
McNamara was out of the hos- pital in six weeks, but was told that Margy would never walk again. Facing the prospect of years of costly medical bills on a professor’s modest salary, the private sector beckoned. “I would have been happy to...
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Garry Emmons
- 02 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 2, 2016
bankruptcy losses (moral hazard) and are subject to a regulatory capital requirement. In contrast, shadow bank liabilities are subject to runs and credit risk and thus typically less liquid compared to commercial banks. Shadow banks...
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Sean Silverthorne