Publications

11 Oct 2016
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October 11, 2016

Exploring Langerian Models Understanding Confidence: Its Roots and Role in Performance By: Kanter, Rosabeth M., and Daniel Fox Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51716 October 2016 Harvard Business Review... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

20 Jan 2015
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First Look: January 20

rededicating themselves to improving the value they deliver to their patients: better outcomes and lower costs. Time-driven activity-based costing offers the potential for clinicians to redesign their care processes toward that end. This... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

06 Sep 2005
Research & Ideas

The Best Place for Retirement Funds

bonds are relatively highly taxed, and shifting high-tax assets into the pension plan maximizes the value of the tax subsidy from the government and increases the value of the firm. In principle, the impact... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

04 Aug 2021
Research & Ideas

Worried About the Great Resignation? Be a Good Company to Come From

practices that companies can follow to put this into place: Link work to social purposes employees care about Recruit Holdings believes work should add value to society. It also operates under the philosophy that a good manager should... View Details

Keywords: by Sandra J. Sucher and Shalene Gupta

23 Nov 2010
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First Look: November 23

Abstract Because the market for online advertising is both new and fast-changing, participants experiment with all manner of variations. Should an advertiser's payment reflect the number of times an ad was shown, the number of times it was clicked, the number of sales... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

14 Mar 2011
Research & Ideas

Water, Electricity, and Transportation: Preparing for the Population Boom

the need to change," Delorme said, adding that electricity demand will double in 20 years if we maintain status quo practices. This raised an important question: "How do we connect the energy consumers with a value proposition... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

September 2017 (Revised January 2019)
Case

FJ Management Inc.

By: Lynda M. Applegate and Matthew G. Preble

In late 2015, Crystal Call Maggelet, president and CEO of FJ Management, is working with her investment committee to help set the company’s strategic direction. Maggelet, daughter of the company’s founder, has led FJ Management since 2009 when she stepped in as CEO... View Details

11 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 11

from the athenahealth practice management system and EHR task logs. Methods: We developed monthly measures of EHR use and delegation to support staff from task logs. Productivity was measured using work relative value units (RVUs). Using... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

October 2020 (Revised February 2021)
Case

The Tulsa Massacre and the Call for Reparations

By: Mihir A. Desai, Suzanne Antoniou and Leanne Fan

How should historic social injustices be addressed? Survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Massacre and their descendants, including Representative Regina Goodwin of Tulsa, believe they should be addressed through reparations and have consequently continued to push the government... View Details

10 Jan 2017
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First Look at New Research: January 10, 2017

zone is located. In tandem with its value in practice, BATNA has become a wildly successful acronym (with over 17 million Google entries). Yet the initial characterization of this concept in Getting to Yes (Fisher, Ury, and Patton, 1991)... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

30 Aug 2016
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August 30, 2016

economy or aggregation of citizens’ preferences, government preferences are present biased, resulting in an over accumulation of debt. Calibrating this parameter with values in the literature, the model can reproduce debt levels and... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

03 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty on Supreme Court Health Care Ruling

are covered by employers or Medicaid. The healthy people in these insurance pools subsidize the costs of the sick. But many employers, weary of uncontrolled and unpredictable health care costs, will likely soon switch to a pension-like defined contribution system,... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty; Health

08 Mar 2011
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First Look: March 8

shareholder value in concentrated industries. By contrast, non-delay provisions have an unambiguously negative relation with value, and more so in concentrated industries. Overall, our analysis suggests that there are governance... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

02 Aug 2006
Research & Ideas

Investor Protection: The Czech Experience

partner—Vladimír Železný, an experienced and politically connected television executive—managed to divert the entire value of the underlying entity for his personal benefit. After court battles escalated to the level of international... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Media & Broadcasting; Entertainment & Recreation

12 Jul 2016
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July 12, 2016

fundamentally change the trajectory of a broken system. The bundled payment model, in contrast, triggers competition between providers to create value where it matters—at the individual patient level—and puts health care on the right... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

12 Apr 2016
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April 12, 2016

time is lower, such as during school breaks or time off from work, then such models predict that the number of ideas developed will be greater, but the average quality will be lower due to the lower expected value of marginal ideas.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

29 Mar 2016
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March 29, 2016

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=45842 Strategic Channel Selection with Online Platforms: An Empirical Analysis of the Daily Deal Industry By: Zhang, Lingling, and Doug J. Chung Abstract—The platform—a business model that creates View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

18 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 18, 2009

in order to capture value in the by-product market ("full+ conversion"), or only convert part of its waste into by-product so as not to flood the by-product market ("partial conversion"). As waste is now a useful input... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

April 2022 (Revised August 2022)
Case

Conflicts of Interest at Uptown Bank

By: Jonas Heese

In 2013, two employees debated whether to blow the whistle on their employer, Bell Bank, after completing an internal review that revealed undisclosed conflicts of interest. Bell Bank’s Asset Management business disproportionately invested clients’ money in Bell Bank’s... View Details