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- 07 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 8, 2018
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53835 July–August 2018 Journal of Healthcare Management Using Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing to Model the Costs of Various Process-Improvement Strategies in Acute Pain Management By: Popat, Keyuri, Kelly Ann Gracia,...
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by Sean Silverthorne
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From the CFO - Financial Report 2015
core operations over the long term by creating new endowment accounts, and to support major capital projects. Together with endowment gifts and gifts for capital projects, current use giving is vital to the...
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- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Speakers Share Triumphs and Challenges
CEO Aaron Feurstein of Malden Mills On a bitter-cold December night in 1995, a devastating fire—driven out of control by gale-force winds—raged through the factory complex of Malden Mills, a privately held maker of fabrics (including the...
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James E. Aisner
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Everything Old Is New Again: The History of Technological Frontiers
into public stock offerings capitalizing on the boom, only to experience financial heartache when the bubble burst. Sound like the Internet revolution of the 1990s? Try the radio revolution of the 1920s. In a presentation to alumni at a...
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- 16 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
Actively Addressing Unconscious Bias in Recruiting
candidates. Unconscious bias and a resulting lack of diversity can also impact a company’s bottom line. A study of venture capital firms found that “the more similar the investment partners, the lower their investments’ performance.” A...
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- 20 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 20
likelihood that they will exploit their current exchange partners, even after controlling for the leverage provided by the outside options. Our results demonstrate that previously sunken investments lead to a heightened sense of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jul 2015
- Op-Ed
The Future of the Greek Economy
measures. But he is wrong in his assumption that the approach he has followed for the past six months will help the Greek people. Greece is now closer than ever to an exit from the European Union. As of today, capital View Details
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CFO Letter - Annual Report 2017
confronting the most interesting business challenges and opportunities. HBS disseminates the resulting intellectual capital to educate leaders and influence the practice of management on a global scale, both through its educational...
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- 03 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Web Services
Aneel Bhusri, general partner at the venture capital firm Greylock. "Customers are quietly starting to use this technology, and they're driving significant cost savings." Investment has taken place across four categories:...
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- 30 Apr 2001
- What Do You Think?
Dot.Com Shakeout: Chess or Roulette?
pieces on a chessboard. It assumes that the most deserving dot.coms will get financed or bought. The question is, are the venture capital or strategic investment markets as perfect as the stock market? In their current states, are there...
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by James Heskett
- June 2011
- Article
Watch What I Do, Not What I Say: The Unintended Consequences of the Homeland Investment Act
By: Dhammika Dharmapala, C. Fritz Foley and Kristin J. Forbes
This paper analyzes the impact of the Homeland Investment Act of 2004, which provided a one-time tax holiday for the repatriation of foreign earnings and thereby reduced the cost to U.S. multinationals of accessing a source of internal capital. Lawmakers and lobbyists...
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Dharmapala, Dhammika, C. Fritz Foley, and Kristin J. Forbes. "Watch What I Do, Not What I Say: The Unintended Consequences of the Homeland Investment Act." Journal of Finance 66, no. 3 (June 2011): 753–787.
- 24 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 24
in external auditing, and 6) auditing management information systems. Working PapersEmployee Selection as a Control System Author:Dennis Campbell Abstract Theories from the economics, management control, and organizational behavior...
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Carmen Nobel
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Transforming Health Care Delivery - Course Catalog
challenge of improving clinical outcomes while controlling costs. Addressing this challenge will require dramatic improvements in the processes by which care is delivered to patients. This, in turn, will involve novel technologies,...
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- 15 Feb 2017
- Op-Ed
What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects
States, where the ability to fund infrastructure is less obvious than it may seem at first glance. The infrastructure paradox There is plenty of capital in the global financial system: upward of US $20 trillion invested in fixed income...
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- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
each originator minimizes his reliance on costly informed capital in good times by issuing safe securities. Our model suggests regulations that limit the issuance of safe securities in good times. Read:...
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Carmen Nobel
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Light Years Ahead
my application aside and asked whether I’d like to get a doctorate instead,” recalls Light. After discussions during a visit to the campus, Light agreed to enter a new doctoral program in decision and control theory, a joint program...
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- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Work to Reverse Bias Through Philanthropy
Disease Control and Prevention, declared racism a serious public health threat. Shell is a coalition builder and a longtime observer of “where human capital is invested and where it isn’t.” He grew up in New...
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Deborah Blagg
- 21 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Altruistic Capital: Harnessing Your Employees’ Intrinsic Goodwill
human capital, which measures the economic value of an employee's skill set and intellect. And now there's a new member of the capital lexicon: altruistic capital. "Altruistic capital is the idea that every...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 12 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 12, 2007
years. We argue that the current world economic conjuncture is the product of a large and unusual divergence or "wedge" between the returns on capital and the cost of capital. Globalization—in particular the integration of the...
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Martha Lagace
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Field Course: Transforming Health Care Delivery - Course Catalog
in the health care industry—both in the United States and internationally—is the fundamental challenge of improving clinical outcomes while controlling costs. Addressing this challenge will require dramatic improvements in the processes...
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