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- 20 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Acquirers
understudied subject of business research. After all, the economic activity generated by these deals is huge—North American M&A deals in 2011 were estimated at $450 billion. But another reason, says Harvard Business School's Matthew...
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- 11 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Digital Designs on the Inner City
opportunities in inner city businesses, said surveys show a general increase in computer ownership and online access among inner city families. Even so, she pointed out, computer use in the inner city remains significantly lower than in...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Women Leading Business: A New Kind of Conversation
mentor the next generation of women. My colleagues' and my work on women's management styles has revealed significant differences between generations. I hope we'll have some practitioners talking about this...
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Re: Myra M. Hart & Cynthia A. Montgomery
- 03 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 3, 2009
(February 2009) Abstract Pharmacy benefits managers (PBMs) have a unique opportunity to promote public health and generate value in the healthcare system. However, PBMs are largely evaluated on their ability...
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Martha Lagace
- 05 Jun 2006
- Research & Ideas
Using Competition to Reform Healthcare
surgical team, the overall care cycle is crucial. Unless the patient's problem is accurately diagnosed, the patient is properly prepared, and recovery and rehabilitation are managed well, patient results will suffer. Indeed, the impact of...
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- 17 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Why E-commerce Didn’t Die With the Fall of Webvan
case was taught, the general consensus was that the economics of the business were very shaky. Q: How so? A: There were two parts to the economics. You could say there was the part of the business that ran in the digital world and there...
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- 29 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 29
We prove that if a group of women employs truncation strategies or weakly successfully manipulates, then all other women weakly benefit and all men are weakly harmed. We show that our results do not appropriately generalize to the...
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Martha Lagace
- 27 Jan 2015
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First Look: January 27
psychological discomfort of dissonance. Similarly, physically cleansing oneself eliminated the relationship between inauthenticity and prosocial compensation. Finally, we demonstrated additional evidence for discriminant validity: these effects were not driven by View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Dec 2014
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First Look: December 16
Publications December 2014 Management Science When Performance Trumps Gender Bias: Joint Versus Separate Evaluation By: Bohnet, Iris, Alexandra van Geen, and Max Bazerman Abstract—We examine a new intervention to overcome gender biases in...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 15
economic reasons. The conventional wisdom is that politically motivated aid is less effective in promoting developmental objectives. We examine the ex-post performance ratings of World Bank projects and generally find that projects that...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Mapping Your Board’s Effectiveness
performance management system into corporate governance processes. The Balanced Scorecard strategy map portrays, on a single page, a company's strategy. It includes the financial outcomes expected; performance with targeted customers and...
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by Robert S. Kaplan
- 12 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
Creating Value Across Borders
Business sat down with HBS associate professor Walter Kuemmerle to discuss the entrepreneurial process in an international setting. Kuemmerle, a Novartis Fellow, holds a joint appointment in Entrepreneurial and Service Management and...
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- 01 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 1
propose a general mechanism of partner choice, "screening," that is similar to the economic theory of mechanism design. Imposing the appropriate costs and rewards may induce the informed individuals to screen themselves...
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- 08 Jan 2008
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First Look: January 8, 2008
breakthrough it needs. The team's leader, Stanley Carmine, who has managed to get a few weeks' extension from management, needs to figure out how best to manage Grady under the looming deadline. He studies...
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Martha Lagace
- 23 Jun 2009
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First Look: June 23
Antoine Lambert, General Manager of Coeur Tendre (an ex-entrepreneur whose company Deronde had bought); Yang Jianguo, Country Manager of Deronde International's Chinese...
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Martha Lagace
- 15 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
High Ambition Leadership
of the firm. There is substantial evidence for this: see Danny Miller and Isabelle Le Breton-Miller's book Managing for the Long Run: Lessons in Competitive Advantage from Great Family Businesses. These leaders also start with the...
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by Martha Lagace
- 10 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Learning Curve: Making the Most of Outsourcing
shorter read times did not appear to come at the expense of clinical quality; the rates of "discrepancies" reported by customers was low. The researchers point to prior research to explain why. Repeated experience helps the service provider learn the customer's...
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- 17 Mar 2021
- Research & Ideas
Beyond Pajamas: Sizing Up the Pandemic Shopper
companies. Namely, do they yield more product returns, which are notoriously higher online than in the physical world? What about product returns? Product returns are too common in online channels. They are often attributed to the inability to inspect items before...
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- 02 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Japan Compete? [Part One]
former HBS professor who is now dean at the new Graduate School of International Corporate Strategy at Tokyo's Hitotsubashi University; and Sakakibara, a former Ministry of Trade and Industry (MITI) official with a doctorate from Harvard who is now an assistant...
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by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer
- 30 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 30
proportional to dividend yields. Portfolio strategies differ in the pace of capital gains realization. We use the federal tax codes from 1926 through 2007 to construct the after-tax returns that individual investors, corporations, and broker-dealers would have View Details
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Sean Silverthorne