Leading Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2021

When they converge, they’ll produce sea changes that sink companies and wash away entire industries overnight. In Beyond Collaboration Overload , Babson professor Rob Cross solves this paradox by showing how top performers who thrive at work collaborate in a more purposeful way that makes them 18-24% more efficient than their peers.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2012

And yet this illusion to which we so desperately cleave — health care is a private industry! running according to free-market efficiencies! And the health care sector is an industry no other industry should want to be tethered to. Adam Smith 4eva! — has now put American employers in an untenable position.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

In some cases, companies’ moats have enabled them to survive multiple technology disruptions and industry shifts over time, making their founders some of richest people in the world: think Bill Gates, Carlos Slim, Amancio Ortega, and Larry Ellison. So is there something different about the managers who do succeed?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2013

The health care industry has survived economically by cross-subsidizing margin shortfalls in one activity with the revenues generated from others. Kaplan and Michael E. But the very existence of these cross-subsidies is symptomatic of deep flaws in the health care reimbursement system. The benefits from better utilization of capacity.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2017

The basic facts are these: Most industries in the U.S. In this view, companies in seemingly every industry are struggling to fend off digital competitors, and in traded sectors they also face competition from overseas. When I spoke to Zingales, he told me that he thinks different industries in the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 13, 2018

For example, Charles Babbage’s invention of computational machines powered by punch cards, the foundation of modern computers, was inspired by Babbage’s knowledge of the silk-weaving industry, which used cards with holes to create patterns in the silk fabric. There is no one-size-fit-all strategy to promote creativity.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2015

But, as Michael Porter and Robert Kaplan of Harvard Business School have argued , we need to examine costs at a more granular level at which clinical outcomes are matched with the business and administrative processes. We believe that the United States should pursue both strategies. By also pursuing other concrete opportunities (e.g.,

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