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  • 22 Jul 2014
  • First Look

First Look: July 22

use process mapping and time-driven activity-based costing to measure the costs of treating patients over a complete cycle of care for a specific medical condition. With valid outcome and cost information,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Feb 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Rating Fund Managers by the Company They Keep

Many tools for rating the performance of mutual funds and their managers rely heavily on past performance. But what about the future? Now comes a system devised by Randolph B. Cohen View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
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By: Matthew C. Weinzierl

My academic research centers on uncovering and closing gaps between the theory and reality of tax policy. My main contribution has been to identify and address a mismatch between the goals for taxation typically assumed in theory and the goals the public and... View Details

  • 20 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 20

advertising agency services and the slow pace of change over several decades. We model an agency's decision as a tradeoff between the fixed cost to the advertiser of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • January 2016
  • Case

Haiti Hope: Innovating the Mango Value Chain

By: Amy C. Edmondson and Jean-François Harvey
This case study examines a market-based approach to economic development through the eyes of NGO TechnoServe's project manager, implementing a US$9.5 million five-year public-private partnership between Coca-Cola, IDB, and USAID. The case ends at the beginning of the... View Details
Keywords: Sustainability; Economic Development; Corporate Social Responsibility; Emerging Country; Teaming; Public-private Partnership; Inter-organizational Relationships; Collaboration; Strategy Implementation; Agricultural Commodity; Plant-Based Agribusiness; Public Sector; Supply Chain Management; Customer Value and Value Chain; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Learning; Partners and Partnerships; Private Sector; Developing Countries and Economies; Social Enterprise; Food and Beverage Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Haiti
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  • 03 Dec 2018
  • Research & Ideas

How Companies Can Increase Market Rewards for Sustainability Efforts

those efforts and proactively addressing issues when negative stories arise. “The positive association between ESG performance and market... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • July 2024
  • Article

Mass General Brigham’s Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement System: A Decade of Learnings

By: Jason B. Liu, Robert S. Kaplan, David W. Bates, Mario O. Edelen, Rachel C. Sisodia and Andrea L. Pusic
This article describes the strategies that leaders at the Mass General Brigham (MGB) health system have used in launching a standardized patient-reported outcome measure (PROM) collection program in 2012, a major step in the value-based transformation of health care.... View Details
Keywords: Patient-reported Outcomes; Value Based Health Care; Health Care and Treatment; Transformation; Outcome or Result; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Performance Improvement; Health Industry
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  • 28 Sep 2010
  • First Look

First Look: September 28, 2010

of their corporate governance, placing them within the wider context of the economic and social history of Germany. Based on both quantitative data and archivally based case studies, this book explores how... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 2012
  • Working Paper

Earnings Management from the Bottom Up: An Analysis of Managerial Incentives Below the CEO

By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Julie Wulf
Performance-based pay is an important instrument to align the interests of managers with the interests of shareholders. However, recent evidence suggests that high-powered incentives also provide managers with incentives to manipulate the firm's reported earnings. The... View Details
Keywords: Compensation and Benefits; Interests; Business and Shareholder Relations; Motivation and Incentives; Earnings Management; Performance Evaluation; Stock Options
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  • 27 Jan 2016
  • Research & Ideas

A Politician's Investment Portfolio Might Tip Off Corruption Potential

while he was in Congress. DeLay’s portfolio between 2004 and 2006 was allocated 100 percent to stocks, Minor says. Lessons for the boardroom The implications extend beyond the Senate or House floor to the... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
  • 24 Jul 2007
  • First Look

First Look: July 24, 2007

processes were already equipped for the challenge. Successful firms, by contrast, developed an explicit strategy for collaboration and made organizational changes to aid performance in these efforts.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 07 Feb 2012
  • First Look

First Look: February 7

minimizes a convex approximation of this metric. We further develop an exponential penalty approach and show that its computational performance is far superior and its... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • November 9, 2019
  • Article

Effect of Revealing Authors' Conflicts of Interests in Peer Review: Randomized Controlled Trial

By: Leslie K. John, George Loewenstein, Andrew Marder and Michael Callaham
Objective: To assess the impact of disclosing authors’ conflict of interest declarations to peer reviewers at a medical journal.
Design: Randomised controlled trial.

Setting: The study was conducted within the manuscript review process at the... View Details
Keywords: Conflicts Of Interest; Peer Review; Randomized Controlled Trial; Scientific Publication; Conflict of Interests; Journals and Magazines; Science
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  • 21 Jul 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Solving the Marketing Resources Allocation Puzzle

customers to target, which new customers to acquire, and how to balance resources between promotions and advertising, allocate promotional dollars, View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Feb 2012
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 28

performance and the flow of sustainability related information to markets. Aviva Investors, a GBP 259 billion fund, is the investment arm of the large British insurance company, Aviva plc. Aviva Investors is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Faculty & Research

deployment of this technology at scale. We begin to address this urgent question by focusing on the context of mental health and “companion AI”: applications designed to provide consumers with synthetic interaction partners. A Pilot Study... View Details
  • 30 Aug 2016
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August 30, 2016

variation generated by the experimental treatments, we model sales force performance to identify the effectiveness of various forms of conditional and unconditional compensation. We account for salesperson... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 16 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 16, 2008

cross-section or over time. Among the most stable elements in a platform architecture are the modular interfaces that mediate between the platform and its complements. These interfaces are even more stable... View Details
  • 18 Oct 2004
  • Research & Ideas

The Bias of Wall Street Analysts

reports. For example, whereas sell recommendations were virtually unheard of previously, they now constitute 10-20 percent of recommendations. In addition, the rules place limitations on interactions within the brokerage between sell-side... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services
  • 13 Dec 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 13

Power: Norway and International Cartels and Trusts, 1919-1939 Authors:Pal Thonstad Sandvik and Espen Storli Publication:Scandinavian Economic History Review 59, no. 3 (2011)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne