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  • 2009
  • Other Unpublished Work

When Does Industrial Policy Work? Evidence from the Brazilian Ethanol Fuel Industry

By: Santiago Mingo and Tarun Khanna
What is the impact of a state-led industrial policy program on entrepreneurial activity, industry evolution, and firm competitiveness? How and when is industrial policy an effective tool to spur the development of an emerging industry? To address these questions, we... View Details
Keywords: Economic Growth; Entrepreneurship; Policy; Industry Growth; Business and Government Relations; Competition; Energy Industry; Brazil
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  • 09 Apr 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Industry Self-Regulation: What’s Working (and What’s Not)?

"Resolving Information Asymmetries in Markets: The Role of Certified Management Programs," describes this research. Q: What are you working on next? A: I'm working with David Levine (UC Berkeley) to examine how companies' adoption of the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • December 2006 (Revised September 2007)
  • Case

Ponsse: From Finland to Global

By: David E. Bell and Mary L. Shelman
Finland-based Ponsse Oyj, with 2005 turnover of $250 million, is the only dedicated forest equipment company of size that remained in a consolidating industry. Competitors included global giants such as John Deere and Komatsu. Since his arrival at Ponsse in 2004, CEO... View Details
Keywords: Globalized Firms and Management; Globalized Markets and Industries; Growth and Development Strategy; Performance Capacity; Expansion; Forest Products Industry; Forestry Industry; Russia; Finland; United States; Brazil
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Fly-by-Night Firms and the Market for Product Reviews

By: Gerald R. Faulhaber and Dennis A. Yao
This paper presents a model that permits third-party information provision in a market characterized by information asymmetries and reputation formation. The model is used to examine how the market for information provision affects prices and supply in the primary... View Details
Keywords: Markets; Reputation; SWOT Analysis; Mathematical Methods; Price Bubble; Inflation and Deflation; Duopoly and Oligopoly; Cost; Information; Quality; Price; Competitive Advantage; Information Industry
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  • Research Summary

Consumerism and the Distributed Delivery of Health Care

By: Robert S. Huckman
This stream of Professor Huckman's work examines the growing tendency for health care to be delivered in a more distributed manner. Examples of this phenomenon include health IT, teleradiology, medical travel, remote monitoring of chronic medical conditions, and retail... View Details
  • 07 Mar 2016
  • HBS Seminar

Scott Stern, MIT Sloan School of Management

  • August 2001 (Revised August 2012)
  • Case

BestDoctors, Inc.

By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Seth Bokser
Upon learning the news of a critical illness, patients and their families are shocked, saddened, fearful, and angry all at once. And just as soon as they catch their collective breath, they all ask the same question—a question that has the potential to infuse hope into... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Entrepreneurship; Health Care and Treatment; Medical Specialties; Knowledge Sharing; Demand and Consumers; Health Industry
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    Trends and Predictors of Biomedical Research Quality, 1990-2015

    This work leverages the strengths of expert human assessments of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) included in Cochrane reviews with data science techniques to build a comprehensive database on biomedical research quality. The data links the full-text and... View Details

      Jerry R. Green

      Jerry R. Green

      David A. Wells Professor of Political Economy

      John Leverett Professor in the University

      Harvard University

       

      Jerry Green is the John Leverett Professor in the University and the David A. Wells... View Details

      Keywords: aerospace; education industry; insurance industry; professional services
      • 01 Apr 2008
      • Working Paper Summaries

      No Harm, No Foul: The Outcome Bias in Ethical Judgments

      Keywords: by Francesca Gino, Don A. Moore & Max H. Bazerman
      • November 9, 2019
      • Article

      Effect of Revealing Authors' Conflicts of Interests in Peer Review: Randomized Controlled Trial

      By: Leslie K. John, George Loewenstein, Andrew Marder and Michael Callaham
      Objective: To assess the impact of disclosing authors’ conflict of interest declarations to peer reviewers at a medical journal.
      Design: Randomised controlled trial.

      Setting: The study was conducted within the manuscript review process at the... View Details
      Keywords: Conflicts Of Interest; Peer Review; Randomized Controlled Trial; Scientific Publication; Conflict of Interests; Journals and Magazines; Science
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      The IT Transformation Health Care Needs

      By: Nikhil R. Sahni, Robert S. Huckman, Anuraag Chigurupati and David M. Cutler
      In recent years, health care organizations have made sizable investments in information technology. They’ve used their IT systems to replace paper records with electronic ones and to improve billing processes, thereby boosting revenue. But so far, IT has been of little... View Details
      Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Information Technology; Performance Improvement; Business Model
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      • 30 Sep 2008
      • First Look

      First Look: September 30, 2008

      http://papers.nber.org/papers/w14302 The Effect of Labor on Profitability: The Role of Quality Author:Zeynep Ton Abstract Determining staffing levels is an important decision in retail operations. While the costs of increasing labor are... View Details
      Keywords: Martha Lagace
      • April 2012
      • Article

      The Predictive Value of Accruals and Consequences for Market Anomalies

      By: Francois Brochet, Seunghan Nam and Joshua Ronen
      We revisit the role of the cash and accrual components of accounting earnings in predicting future cash flows using out-of-sample predictions and market value of equity as a proxy for all future cash flows. We find that, on average, accruals improve upon current cash... View Details
      Keywords: Forecasting and Prediction; Investment Return; Value; Equity; Markets; Cash Flow; Information Management; Accrual Accounting; Earnings Management; Corporate Governance; Stocks
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      • Research Summary

      1. When Does Industrial Policy Work? Evidence from the Brazilian Ethanol Fuel Industry

      Joint work with Tarun Khanna (Strategy Unit, Harvard Business School).

      Abstract: What is the impact of a state-led industrial policy program on entrepreneurial activity, industry... View Details

      • January 1998 (Revised March 2000)
      • Case

      Reading Rehabilitation Hospital: Implementing Patient-Focused Care

      Reading Rehab Hospital has experimented with a popular new concept in health care--patient-focused care--intended to increase quality and reduce costs by organizing care delivery around particular diagnoses or "service lines," rather than around the functions or... View Details
      Keywords: Demand and Consumers; Production; Service Operations; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry
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      • 2013
      • Working Paper

      Securities Litigation Risk for Foreign Companies Listed in the U.S.

      By: Beiting Cheng, Suraj Srinivasan and Gwen Yu
      We study securities litigation risk faced by foreign firms listed on U.S. exchanges. We take into account not only the propensity for foreign firms to commit violations of U.S. securities laws but also the costs that investors face when suing foreign firms. We find... View Details
      Keywords: Litigation Risk; Cross Listing; Bonding; 10b-5; Securities Litigation; U.S.Listing; Class Action; Risk and Uncertainty; Debt Securities; Globalized Firms and Management; Ethics; Lawsuits and Litigation; United States
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      • August 17, 2016
      • Article

      How a Cancer Center Rapidly Developed Patient-Centered Outcome Measures

      By: Kevin P. Shah, Tracy E. Spinks and Thomas W. Feeley
      In 2014, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center created a streamlined process for developing measure sets for patient-centered outcomes, including provider-generated and patient-reported outcomes, at an accelerated pace. These comprehensive sets are... View Details
      Keywords: Information Technology; Measurement and Metrics; Quality; Service Delivery; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry; Texas
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      • 2019
      • Working Paper

      Biometric Monitoring, Service Delivery and Misreporting: Evidence from Healthcare in India

      By: Thomas Bossuroy, Clara Delavallade and Vincent Pons
      Developing countries increasingly use biometric identification technology in hopes of improving the reliability of administrative information and delivering social services more efficiently. This paper exploits the random placement of biometric tracking devices in... View Details
      Keywords: Biometric Technology; Health Care and Treatment; Technological Innovation; Analytics and Data Science; Quality; Performance Improvement; India
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      • November 2019
      • Article

      Conversations and Idea Generation: Evidence from a Field Experiment

      By: Sharique Hasan and Rembrand Koning
      When do conversations lead people to generate better ideas? We conducted a field experiment at a startup boot camp to evaluate the impact of informal conversations on the quality of product ideas generated by participants. Specifically, we examine how the personality... View Details
      Keywords: Peer Effects; Field Experiment; Interpersonal Communication; Creativity; Personal Characteristics; Entrepreneurship; Innovation and Invention
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