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- 03 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017
https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53161 forthcoming European Accounting Review The Role of Overbilling in Hospitals' Earnings Management Decisions By: Heese, Jonas Abstract—This paper examines the role of overbilling in hospitals’ earnings management...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Aug 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
Key Drivers of Successful Implementation of an Employee Suggestion-Driven Improvement Program
- 12 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019
equivalent arrival and service rates, total service capacity can be increased. Who Should Select New Employees in Geographically Dispersed Organizations: Headquarters or the Unit Manager? Consequences of Centralizing Hiring at a Retail...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 16 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restaurant Revolution: How the Industry Is Fighting to Stay Alive
we now see an industry back on its heels, massively disrupted by an external force so unprecedented it is almost unfathomable. The severity of this business interruption will continue to endure and be further complicated by the mandate of many local governments that...
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- 18 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 18
effects on productivity a priori, inhibiting effective capacity management in high load systems. We categorize load into in-process inventory (congestion) and incoming inventory, decomposing the latter into its levels of bottleneck (BN)...
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Carmen Nobel
- 07 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
What Customers Need to Hear from You During the COVID Crisis
where they can and work together with NGOs and governments, recognizing that they have the capacity to jointly enact solutions.” The core expectation that consumers have of brands in any situation, but particularly in a crisis, is that...
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by Jill Avery and Richard Edelman
- 28 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Coronavirus Could Create a 'Bankruptcy Pandemic'
see a ‘pandemic’ of bankruptcy filings in the near future,” Gilson says. “The pandemic analogy is particularly apt, in that if the number of new filings is sufficiently high, the bankruptcy courts, like hospitals treating COVID-19...
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- 03 Apr 2017
- What Do You Think?
How About Investing in Human Infrastructure?
revenue-producing capacity of the worker from $60,000 (a rough figure for the hospitality industry) to $110,000 (a similarly rough figure for “health care and social assistance”). A $30,000 investment in...
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- 14 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World
solutions such as the construction of mobile COVID test units with medical teams, which have so far tested over 60,000 people. The design was donated to 10 hospitals and is now also available for free online. Case 2: Leverage and protect...
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- 30 May 2007
- Research & Ideas
Health Care Under a Research Microscope
death. Professor Alvin Roth has used his expertise in game theory, experimental economics, and market design to create a program that helps match kidney donors with potential recipients. His work also matches medical residents with jobs at American hospitals. View Details
- 30 Dec 2013
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2013
litigations on firm strategy. Increased Speed Equals Increased Wait: The Impact of a Reduction in Emergency Department Ultrasound Order Processing Time This study of ultrasound test orders in hospital emergency departments shows that,...
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by Staff
- 20 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 20
mechanism. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-055.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsJetBlue Airways: Deicing at Logan Airport Douglas Fearing and Robert S. HuckmanHarvard Business School Case 612-028 The case explores a deicing View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Oct 2014
- Op-Ed
Ebola’s Call To Arms About Disaster Preparedness
the United States. In the absence of having to be on alert for treating infectious diseases, American hospitals have let their guard down and their skills lapse. Partisan politics has exacerbated the problem by leaving the nation in the...
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- 09 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 9
Download working paper: http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/15-016_c6e7c9cc-70a3-4119-bd7b-8e4b25a26312.pdf Technology Choice and Capacity Portfolios Under Emissions Regulation By: Drake, David, Paul R. Kleindorfer, and Luk N....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018
Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center: Managing Capacity in Neurology In December 2014, Dr. Anthony Furlan, chair of the Department of Neurology at University Hospitals Cleveland...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 16 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 16, 2015
Business Review You Need an Innovation Strategy By: Pisano, Gary P. Abstract—Why is it so hard to build and maintain the capacity to innovate? The reason is not simply a failure to execute but a failure to articulate an innovation...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2015
- First Look
First Look -- September 1, 2015
hospital industry. We posit that mandatory nonfinancial performance measurement has an information effect and a referent performance effect. The information (referent performance) effect arises because the new performance signals induce...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 15, 2008
fixed capacity viable. Another constraint is the poor state of its basic financial systems. Morale is low and thus staff turnover is high, with many clinicians taking patients with them into their private practice when they go. TBC is...
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Martha Lagace
- 18 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018
case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/519011-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 119-027 Fundraising at St. Camillus Hospital St. Camillus is a fictional non-profit hospital in rural Maine facing a serious...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 22 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 22
in the credit market that have deep roots in the system's structure, conduct, and regulation. The time has come for a clear-eyed assessment of what happened and how the system should be strengthened and restructured. Such reform will have a profound and lasting impact...
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Sean Silverthorne