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- 16 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Can Applied Economics Save Homeless Puppies?
discourages them from posting on Wagaroo. Some people don’t want pets to go to a family not willing to pay for it, and are hesitant to give their dogs away for free. Wagaroo agrees with this concern, Exley says, and thus encourages... View Details
- 22 Apr 2015
- Op-Ed
Reforming Greece: Myths and Truths
procedures to start a business declining from 15 to 5. Equally good news was that the average time to prepare and pay taxes declined from 264 to 193 hours over the same period. The Failures This is all good news and, in theory, should... View Details
Keywords: by George Serafeim
- 22 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 22
This structure allows bank depositors to remain "sleepy": they do not have to pay attention to transient fluctuations in the mark-to-market value of bank assets. In contrast, shadow banks create safe claims by giving their... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Japan Compete? [Part Two]
companies are already starting to find ways to combine incentives for performance with measures to create more loyalty and employee affiliation with the company. Japanese companies created a very extreme version of such affiliation. The company provided a job for life... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer
- 22 Apr 2020
- Research Event
How Investors Are Sizing Up Climate Change’s Risks—and Opportunities
climate policies. Applying the “universal owner” model. The world’s largest assets owners have taken note of the scale of this exposure. Large pension funds invest so broadly—through index funds, private equity, or other securities—that they become “universal owners”... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- Lessons from the Classroom
Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science
post-mortems on successful missions, NASA missed the opportunity to identify problems (and solutions) that might have helped avoid later failures. A third problem lay in NASA's tendency to aggressively post mortem failed missions while View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
The Dow at 20,000: What's That All About?
own account but who are not paying attention to the market all the time, the Dow at 20,000 is clearly an event that does catch their attention. The news around it will make them turn their attention to the markets and their portfolios and... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 12 Nov 2015
- Research & Ideas
Can Consumers be Trusted with Their Own Health Care?
along with his mother at Sainsbury’s in England. Back then, shoppers visited different counters to request various foods, paying for cheese at the cheese counter, fruit at the fruit counter, and so on. Years later, self-service became the... View Details
- 27 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2015
US Health Care? (18,291) Jim Heskett asks, are we addressing health care cost issues with the creativity they deserve? What do YOU think? How Should Pay Be Linked to Performance? (18,284) Jim Heskett sums up 98 reader responses from... View Details
- 26 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
How Grocery Bags Manipulate Your Mind
their hypothetical choices were organic milk and vegetables. "We could support some of the story but not all of it yet," Karmarkar says. And so she and Bollinger conducted a second experiment, in which participants reported how much they'd be willing to View Details
- 24 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
How To Be an Angel Investor
the big Internet wins of the late 1990s, you may not know a thing about early-stage investing. By the same token, if you had 10 failures in multiple industries, you might not know anything either. But you will if you keep paying... View Details
Keywords: by David Amis & Howard Stevenson
- 13 Aug 2024
- Op-Ed
Can AI Save Physicians from Burnout?
patients during visits, plus more accurate visit notes. However, clinicians’ well-being is unfortunately not always the top priority for hospital executives. Currently, most US hospitals generate revenue based on “fee-for-service" payment models, which View Details
- 21 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018
increasingly using crowdsourced public goods as inputs for innovation and production. Counterintuitively, some firms pay their employees to contribute to the creation of these goods, which can be used freely by their competitors. This... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 21 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 21
their willingness to pay for two product characteristics and marginal costs are increasing with the quality level chosen on each attribute. We show that while firms seek to manage competition through product positioning, their... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 11, 2018
partners to build her fashion business and legendary luxury brand based on understated elegance. Chanel’s famous “little black dress” was accompanied by many other innovations including the use of jersey as material for daytime clothing and her development of the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Lehman Brothers Plus Five: Have We Learned from Our Mistakes?
tools to deal with asset bubbles after they form, and no regulator wants to act promptly and spoil the fun. Thus the need to avoid them. No one really knows what the future entails during the Great Unwind. We do know that most likely we will continue to debase our... View Details
- 31 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 31
increase in experience, consistent with learning on the job. Answerers who focus on particular question categories provide answers of higher quality but earn lower pay per hour (perhaps reflecting a lack of versatility). Answers provided... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Building a Better Board
honest criticism will hurt the group's collegiality or, worse, result in reprisal—namely, getting kicked off the board and losing a gig that often pays six figures annually, plus stock options or shares. "At $150,000 a year—a typical... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 19 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Unlocking Your Investment Capital
similar to long-maturity fixed-rate debt. If the pension fund enters into an equity asset swap in which it pays the total return on a standard index of the stock market (e.g., S&P 500) and receives in return a fixed rate of interest,... View Details
- 02 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Health Care Research and Prospects
As is clear to anyone who pays medical insurance premiums or has undergone any kind of medical procedure, the business of health care is an expensive one. The technology is expensive. The research is expensive. The services are expensive.... View Details