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- 19 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019
health-economics literature has done a better job documenting consumer-choice mistakes in insurance and treatment choices than explaining why those mistakes occur, it is clear that we should not ignore these mistakes in our analyses. We document evidence showing that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Sep 2001
- Lessons from the Classroom
Getting Back on Course
that the choice women make to leave and re-enter the workforce is just one of many gender-related issues that has long needed understanding. Though it's not unique to executives, it is a particularly compelling View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 23 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
of capital, causing them to shrink and possibly exit the market. The strategy was used by Sun Microsystems in the 1980s and Dell Computer in the 1990s. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-063.pdf The Determinants View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
Why Online Retailers Should Hide Their Best Discounts
those who were more sensitive to price continued to spend the extra time to find bargains on the website, showing little difference in the cost of the items they purchased. However, customers who valued... View Details
- 22 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 22
Publications August 2013 hfm (Healthcare Financial Management) Improving Value with TDABC By: Kaplan, Robert S. Abstract—The article discusses the benefits of time-driven activity-based costing (TDABC)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jul 2016
- First Look
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... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Feb 2015
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: The Battle for San Francisco
for Silicon Valley, brandishing signs that read "Stop Displacement Now!" "The incident brought to the surface the values and aspirations of long-standing residents and the challenges they were... View Details
- 08 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017
have produced an unintended consequence: a rising sense of time scarcity. We provide evidence that using money to buy time can provide a buffer against this time famine, thereby promoting happiness. Using... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Markets or Communities? The Best Ways to Manage Outside Innovation
after identifying a structural weakness. “Apple has shown the way in how to build a market of external innovators.” According to Harvard Business School professor Karim R. Lakhani, Boeing's approach is an excellent example View Details
- 02 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Gurus in the Garage
Why do so many wanna-be entrepreneurs like Scott Rozic, founder and CEO of XMarkstheSpot, head for Silicon Valley? The reason may seem as obvious as why Willie Sutton robbed banks—because that's where the View Details
Keywords: by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap
- 30 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Market Makers Bid for Success
any marketplace was having a large number of buyers and sellers. And while any one marketplace could do pretty well at it, we thought that by leveraging the power of all of our... View Details
- 28 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 28
information and thus protect IP. We investigate the impact of modularity on IP protection by formally modeling the threat of expropriation by agents. The principal has three options to address this threat:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 2
legal change applied). These reductions in agency costs were followed by an increase in average leverage and a reduction in interest costs. Finally, we can estimate the welfare implications of agency costs, because firm View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Diagnosing the ‘Flutie Effect’ on College Marketing
interest, the subject of the current research, is probably the tertiary reason. "I am hesitant to say schools choose to invest in athletics just because of the spillover... View Details
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Kanwaljit Bakshi
We're going to push money laundering laws, because they are very broad and they allow us to take a lot of the value away from the perpetrators." After nearly a decade with... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
A Boomtown's Echo
scenario—that there will be a few people who make a lot of money and leave behind a mess for others to clean up. And the main thing is that the expectations of a long-term... View Details
- 27 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on 2010’s Biggest Business Developments
add over $10 trillion to outstanding federal debt. But closer inspection of government data reveals that these figures grossly understate both the current deficit and level of debt. Consider, for example,... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 20 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Fixing Corporate Governance: A Roundtable Discussion at Harvard Business School
the issue of top-management compensation? Brian Hall: As you all know, stock options were intended to give executives incentives to get share prices to rise, which in theory would create value for... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 16 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 16, 2008
Experiment 1 compares a condition where participants sequentially predict the colored outcomes of a roulette wheel with a condition where the wheel's past outcomes are presented all at once. Subjects are... View Details
- 26 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 26, 2016
subject to the constraints of market mechanisms. In this chapter, I outline another alternative to shareholder primacy that aims to improve upon existing alternatives and avoid some View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne