Richard M.J. Bohmer
There are 3 articles for this faculty member.
About Faculty in this Article:
Richard M.J. Bohmer is a physician and the MBA Class of 1973 Senior Lecturer of Business Administration at Harvard Business School.
Health Care Under a Research Microscope
| Published: | May 30, 2007 |
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| Feature: | Research & Ideas |
Perhaps no industry has caught the research attention of Harvard Business School faculty as much as health care. Researchers are investigating business-focused solutions on everything from improving team work among surgical teams to developing market motivations that increase the use of water purification in poor villages.
Published in 2005
Learning Tradeoffs in Organizations: Measuring Multiple Dimensions of Improvement to Investigate Learning-Curve Heterogeneity
| Authors: | Francesca Gino, Richard M.J. Bohmer, Amy C. Edmondson, Gary P. Pisano, and Ann B. Winslow |
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| Published: | July 5, 2006 |
| Paper Release Date: | January 2005, revised May 2006 |
| Feature: | Working Papers |
How and why experience leads to performance improvement has made the learning curve an important management topic for sites ranging from nuclear power plants to cardiac surgical units. This new research looks deeper at learning curves by focusing on learning rates in technology adoption in similar organizations along multiple, potentially competing dimensions. Using longitudinal data from sixteen hospitals that are adopting a new technology for cardiac surgery, it specifically studies two dimensions: efficiency and application innovation and the potential tradeoff between efficiency and application innovation. It also asks how such tradeoffs are influenced.
Published in 2000
Inside the OR: Disrupted Routines and New Technologies
| Published: | August 21, 2000 |
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| Feature: | Research & Ideas |
A hospital operating room may seem an unlikely place to attract the attention of a group of management professors. But for HBS faculty members Amy Edmondson, Richard Bohmer and Gary Pisano it's a setting that offers great insights into work teams and the ways they adapt and learn.
