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  • 17 Dec 2007
  • Research & Ideas

The Rise of Medical Tourism

What used to be rare is now commonplace: traveling abroad to receive medical treatment, and to a developing country at that. So-called medical tourism is on the rise for everything from cardiac care to plastic surgery to hip and knee replacements. As a recent Harvard... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health; Medical Devices & Supplies
  • 22 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 22, 2008

a non-manufacturing setting we move beyond the artifacts and gain insight into the principles that may lead to improved performance. Combining a detailed case study and empirical analysis we document the internal processes that the lean... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 07 May 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Rediscovering Schumpeter: The Power of Capitalism

by a better product or a better method or a better organization or a better strategy. Schumpeter believed the exact opposite, and of course he was right. This is an extremely hard lesson to accept, particularly by successful people. But... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Education
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By: Vincent Pons
Professor Pons studies questions in political economy and development with the goal of understanding how democratic systems function, and how they can be improved.

He decomposes the electoral cycle into four essential steps: the factors affecting voter... View Details
  • 23 Jun 2009
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First Look: June 23

communities, and make our cities smarter. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-141.pdf The Optimal Taxation of Height: A Case Study of Utilitarian Income Redistribution Authors:N. Gregory Mankiw and Matthew Weinzierl... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 May 2016
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May 10, 2016

that “Gathering direct and original facts is a tedious and dif cult task, and it is not surprising that such work is avoided.” For the 50th JAR Conference, we introduce a framework to help researchers understand the complementary value of seven empirical View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 22 Aug 2005
  • Research & Ideas

The Hard Work of Failure Analysis

outside facilitators, can help keep the process productive. Next, skills for managing a group process of analyzing a failure with a spirit of inquiry and sufficient understanding of the scientific method are essential inputs to learning... View Details
Keywords: by Amy Edmondson & Mark D. Cannon
  • 30 Sep 2014
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First Look: September 30

  Publications September 2014 Social Entrepreneurship and Research Methods Building an Infrastructure for Empirical Research on Social Enterprise: Challenges and Opportunities By: Lee, Matthew, Julie Battilana, and Ting Wang... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Jan 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Mixing Open Source and Proprietary Software Strategies

product used in econometrics, is a good example of this. “Our research plainly shows that value creation doesn't necessarily lead to value capture.” In cases where values are intermediate, we find that the firm prefers to open the core... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Web Services
  • 29 Jan 2008
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First Look: January 29, 2008

unobserved heterogeneity bias. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-051.pdf   Cases & Course MaterialsTata Motors: The Tata Ace Harvard Business School Case 108-011 Considers the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 13 Apr 2010
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First Look: April 13

demanding that middle- and lower-level managers redo their forecasts, plans, and budgets. In some cases, top executives simply acquiesce to increasingly unrealistic analyst forecasts and adopt them as the basis for setting organizational goals and developing internal... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 22 Dec 2015
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December 22, 2015

demand, and supporting infrastructures, including business ecosystems) and, when feasible, the wider institutional, regulatory, and even cultural context that conventional International business literature takes as a datum. This is examined conceptually and by using... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 05 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 5, 2008

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=208025 Silic (A): Choosing Cost or Fair Value on Adoption of IFRS Harvard Business School Case 108-030 A French real estate firm must choose to report its primary asset... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Apr 2013
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First Look: April 16

variety of valuation approaches, from techniques widely used in practice to methods less frequently seen in practice today but likely to be increasingly important in the future years. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Feb 2015
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First Look: February 18

case in each chapter illustrates key concepts and helps students place the material in the context of real-world practice. And deep integration with MyAccountingLab provides students numerous opportunities to review and hone their... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 28

distinctive methods of prediction to investors and businesses and thrived in the boom years that followed World War I. Yet, almost to a man, they failed to predict the devastating crash of 1929. Despite their failures, this first... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 22

to determine the importance of attributes, a willingness that extends to following explicit recommendations of online agents based on those attributes (Study 5).   Cases & Course MaterialsGenzyme's CSR Dilemma: How to Play Its HAND... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 08 Mar 2016
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March 8, 2016

manager (PBM) sector processes prescription drug claims on behalf of companies that offer a prescription drug benefit to their employees. This case follows Bob Nease, chief scientist at Express Scripts, as he considers View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 31 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 31, 2009

be attributed to donor firms' concerns about the potentially negative consequences of scrutiny over outsourcing for themselves and for their affiliated candidates. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-103.pdf   Cases... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 Feb 2012
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First Look: February 14

will disagree about the optimal choice from a randomly selected available set. We provide an algorithmic method to compute these metrics in the case where the probability of a given feasible set is a... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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