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- 01 Sep 2015
- First Look
First Look -- September 1, 2015
these modalities. An incomplete understanding of the value of costly, yet effective, technologies could impede medical innovation and decrease the quality of cancer care through a reduction of patient access by third-party payers. With...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 8
fundamental business model has not changed in more than 100 years: very smart outsiders go into organizations for a finite period of time and recommend solutions for the most difficult problems confronting their clients. But at...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 8
leads a high-performing engineering organization. The case focuses specifically on Coughran's encouraging two teams of engineers to develop competing solutions for application storage systems. It also shows how Coughran assembled an...
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Martha Lagace
- 19 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 19
case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/711452-PDF-ENG BlackRock Solutions Kenneth A. Froot and Scott WaggonerHarvard Business School Case 211-082 The BlackRock Solutions case examines the different...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
What Leaders Can Do to Fight the COVID Fog
“Meditation” as we define it—based on the work of Herbert Benson performed at Harvard Medical School—is a simple practice that neither requires spiritual belief nor supplants other beliefs or methods you may follow. For 10 to 20 minutes,...
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by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
- 20 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 20
higher charity care and medical education. After observing regulator leniency, beneficent hospitals demonstrate higher upcoding. Our results suggest that lenient enforcement assists beneficent nonprofits to obtain higher revenues in...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 17
Medication Administration By: Tucker, Anita L. Abstract—Operational failures persist in hospitals, in part because employees work around them rather than attempt to prevent recurrence. Drawing on a process improvement tool-the Andon...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance
these social leaders viewed those advantages as a vehicle for contributing to solutions of certain social problems. According to Juan Carr, founder of the Solidarity Network (Red Solidaria, hence RS), the institution's mission "to...
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- 25 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 25
rights who nevertheless need to collaborate to help make the venture a success? We outline the ways in which these coordination frictions manifest themselves, describe the underlying drivers, and document several contractual solutions...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 5
http://hbr.org/2012/09/will-working-mothers-take-your-company-to-court/ar/1 Working PapersColocation and Scientific Collaboration: Evidence from a Field Experiment Authors:Kevin Boudreau, Ina Ganguli, Patrick Gaule, Eva Guinan, and Karim Lakhani Abstract We present...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 29, 2007
social entrepreneur," was born in 1963 and grew up in poverty, like virtually all non-white South Africans during apartheid. During the 1970s and 1980s, he served in leadership positions in the ANC, struggling against apartheid. After apartheid ended, Surve served...
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Martha Lagace
- 06 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017
is a critical shortage of surgical care required to treat these conditions. This case describes an innovative solution to the shortage of professional skills: an international collaboration between a hospital in Milan and a hospital in...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 12, 2009
Should Linden Lab continue to offer an open platform or build its own solutions for customers? Should it target adult consumers, teens, enterprise customers, or the education market? Purchase this case:...
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Martha Lagace
- 14 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 14
objectives in case method learning. One challenge for case method instructors is the assessment of students' class participation, particularly in large classes. This article offers a solution that mines the practices of peer-to-peer...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 2
medical schools continue to focus on the basic sciences, to the exclusion of such managerial topics as running effective teams. The approach to executing reform appears to assume that practice managers and entrepreneurs can undertake the...
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Martha Lagace
- 14 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2006
device company selling products to physicians for use with patients suffering chronic end-stage disease, to a medical technology company providing life-long solutions for people with chronic diseases. With...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
consumers use “smart” devices to discover online prices in stores. Our findings provide insights for managers on how and when self-matching can be an effective pricing strategy. Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53829 forthcoming...
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- 23 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018
formulate strategy in large, evolving technical systems. I argue that the points of value creation and value capture in a technical system are the system’s bottlenecks. Bottlenecks arise first as important technical problems to be solved. Once the problem is solved,...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 20 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 20
right solution for Bangladesh. He assembled a critical group of partners in a venture, GrameenPhone, which included Scandinavian telecom operators; Grameen Bank, the microfinance pioneer; Bangladesh Railways; as well as a Japanese...
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Martha Lagace
- 15 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 15, 2009
firm-level, and that recording back-up solutions is most valuable at medium levels of environmental change. Optimal Taxation in Theory and Practice Authors:N. Gregory Mankiw, Matthew C. Weinzierl, and Danny Yagan Publication:Journal of...
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Martha Lagace