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sufficiently generous to support inefficiencies. Therefore providers must turn to other incentives to motivate a shift in costing practices. Medical Conditions Q: How is the medical condition defined? A: A medical condition is defined by...
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- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Winning Legally
a common language? Top management needs to place a higher value on legal literacy. Training and incentives are important. Potential problem areas can vary depending on industry and functional role, but they are easily recognizable if...
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Deborah Blagg
- 02 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2006
Existing corporate structures, controls, and incentives do work against out-of-the-box thinking. Professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter, who has just published a Harvard Business Review article on the topic, discusses her research into the...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
The U.S. Patent Game: How to Change It
applications to be granted! Furthermore, the new orientation creates strong incentives for the patent office to process applications as quickly as possible, and at the lowest possible cost. As a result, there has been a widely perceived...
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by Ann Cullen
- 26 Aug 2024
- Research & Ideas
Can AI Match Human Ingenuity in Creative Problem-Solving?
When ChatGPT and other large language models began entering the mainstream two years ago, it quickly became apparent the technology could excel at certain business functions, yet it was less clear how well artificial intelligence could handle more creative tasks. Sure,...
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- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Case Study: Paper Chase
And if you can incent folks to make and post their videos too, you will have a social goldmine! —Alejandro Paiuk (MBA 2007) Got a case? To take part in a future “Case Study,” send an outline of your company’s challenge to bulletin@hbs.edu
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- 07 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 7
incentives to engage with shareholders. Misaki Capital was founded in 2013 with a strategy of constructively engaging with portfolio firms, providing operational and financial advice to management in order to improve shareholder value....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 28
We see author-level ranking as one filter for navigating the scholarly literature and note that such rankings generate incentives for more open scholarship, as authors are rewarded for making their work available to the community as early...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 21
multinational, dispersed shareholder, and private-equity owned firms are typically well managed. Stronger product market competition and higher worker skills are associated with better management practices. Less regulated labor markets are associated with improvements...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 10
managed, while multinational, dispersed shareholder, and private-equity owned firms are typically well managed. Stronger product market competition and higher worker skills are associated with better management practices. Less regulated labor markets are associated...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 7
Career penalties for failing to meet the analyst consensus estimate are no different for firms where forecasting earnings is harder. Moreover, such penalties have increased in the post-SOX period. Our evidence suggests that incentives of...
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Martha Lagace
- 18 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Bias of Wall Street Analysts
example, the trading commissions that remain are largely driven by big institutional investors who have brokerages execute their trades. Sell-side analysts have incentives to hype stocks to generate trading business through these large...
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- 19 May 2016
- Research Event
Crowdsourcing, Patent Trolls, and Other Research Insights Highlighted at Harvard Business School Symposium
looking to hire. Holding contests to seek advice from the crowd may help companies fill the need for innovative answers more cheaply and quickly. “Contests create incentives and drive parallel search,” Lakhani said. “What you want when...
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by Dina Gerdeman & Carmen Nobel
- 20 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 20
competitors, prize allocation and structure, divisionalization, open entry) as a means of reconciling non-monotonic incentive responses to competition, effectively manipulating the number and skills distribution of contestants facing one...
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Anna Secino
- 15 Nov 2004
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Health Care Conundrum
care delivery system. By focusing on greater value, the issues of who should be covered (access) and what should be covered will be easier to resolve. While policy changes to require informational disclosure and to align incentives can...
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- 01 Mar 2012
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Competitiveness at Risk
in competitiveness because it must set the rules, regulations, and incentives that govern the nature of competition. Government also must invest in public assets on which all business depends: physical infrastructure, public education,...
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- 20 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 20
securitization of other asset classes because securitized loans are fractions of syndicated loans. Therefore, mechanisms used to align incentives in a lending syndicate are likely to reduce adverse selection in the choice of CLO...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 30
incentive to default through inflation versus hedging against unforeseen shocks. We model and calibrate these arguments to assess their quantitative importance. We use a dynamic equilibrium model with tax distortion, government outlays...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Management’s Role in Reforming Health Care
for care, management tools such as practice guidelines, performance measurement and reporting, and financial performance incentives for physicians have predominated. This approach to the management of the care itself has, however, failed...
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- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New News
exciting. Michael Aft: We exist because traditional media is struggling. There are perverse incentives tied to the ad-revenue model that have made it challenging to consume high-quality content, and that’s true for everything from general...
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