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- 03 Sep 2020
- Op-Ed
Why American Health Care Needs Its Own SEC
Commission. Why health care needs an SEC equivalent For more than eight decades, the SEC has brought transparency to the financial system, policing the market to ensure robust disclosure that complies with Generally Accepted Accounting... View Details
- 16 Jul 2014
- HBS Case
Marketing Obamacare
and people don't like buying or paying for it. Therefore it takes skillful marketing to attract the attention of people and motivate the desired purchase behavior you are looking for." Amidst the generally dismal track record of the... View Details
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Look at Globalization Now
there is actually no systematic evidence on this subject. Given that dearth of evidence, I adopted the research strategy of picking an interesting sector and zooming in on a particularly interesting case within it, and then generalizing... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 22 Apr 2015
- Op-Ed
Reforming Greece: Myths and Truths
around privatizations, further confusing foreign investors. Survey data from the same IMD competitiveness report are striking. Asked to rate Greece on the statement "risk of political instability is very low," the score declined... View Details
Keywords: by George Serafeim
- 27 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Employee-Suggestion Programs That Work
previous research suggests increases such programs' positive impact on culture. The process generated a tick list of approximately 20 items, which was evaluated by the senior and unit leadership together in a debriefing. Is It A Priority?... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Guttry
- 11 Jun 2012
- Research & Ideas
When Business Competition Harms Society
Competition Corrupts Business Practices, suggests that many organizations in highly competitive markets are likely to bend the rules if doing so will keep their customers from leaving for a rival firm. "Competition is generally... View Details
- 16 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 16
process with team-level prioritizing, updating, and helping, based on new-found accountability, overlapping representations of work, and belonging-despite the lack of stable team composition. Quantitative data revealed changes to the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Fearing Fox News, Democratic-leaning Companies Delayed Negative Announcements
delay the release of bad financial news until after the election, despite the cost. Using Fox News data in 35 states between 1998 and 2003, and determining the areas in those states where FNC was available, the researchers pulled together... View Details
- 04 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Most Leaders (Even Thomas Jefferson) Are Replaceable
solid data to answer the question of who mattered. So he made lists of US presidents and British prime ministers that dated back to George Washington in 1789 and Britain's Charles Grey in 1830. He noted how historians ranked them on... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 19 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 19
related activities). We consider whether there are similar benefits to related diversification within an operating unit and examine the mechanism that generates these benefits. Using the empirical context of cardiovascular care within... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jan 2014
- First Look
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
- 13 Feb 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 13, 2018
on those earnings, targeting behavior is muted and no longer generates a negative effort response to higher wages. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53905 in press Games and Economic Behavior Games of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018
later and if so, how? The friendship formation of students at a large Canadian university was assessed during their first term. These data were used to predict self-reported health and health behaviors (physical exercise, diet, tobacco,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 15, 2016
transparency and weak governance in resource rich countries. However, we document that industry self-regulation has generated information to substitute for the gap in voluntary company disclosure. We also find some evidence that these... View Details
- 26 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 26
identifying the types of GPs that drive the identified correlation between GPs and reduced shareholder value. Publisher's link: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1718488 August 2013 American Journal of Managed Care Testimonials Do Not Convert Patients... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
What Wall Street Doesn’t Understand About International Trade
sense to do business with that country. What part of that country is the best trade partner? Who are the best contacts?" Analyzing Data Of course, immigrants most likely to aid trading decisions are those who work at the firm. But because... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 15 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
Deconstructing the Price Tag
about our interpersonal relationships, when people share things with us—as long as they don't overshare—we tend to like them better," Buell says. "We find it interesting that we're seeing evidence of the same thing in our relationships with companies." To gather View Details
- 31 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 31, 2007
Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=707019 The History of Credit Agencies in the United States Harvard Business School Note 307-057 Provides a brief background on the history of credit agencies in the United States.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 5, 2016
on self-affirmation theory, we propose that pre-team relational self-affirmation can prepare individuals to contribute to team creative performance more effectively. We theorize that relationally affirming one's self-views increases View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
- 02 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 2
simply using subnational cases to generate or test theories about Chinese politics; instead, they propose that subnational political economies in China are a function of endogenous change rather than a reaction to national priorities.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne