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- 08 May 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 8, 2018
Medicare cannot directly monitor HAI rates and instead relies on providers accurately self-reporting HAIs in claims to correctly assess penalties. Consequently, the incentives for providers to improve service quality may disappear if... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jun 2015
- HBS Case
Consumer-centered Health Care Depends on Accessible Medical Records
Healthsuite is an open platform that provides a secure and private home for data, allowing care providers and consumers to use the information to make decisions about patient care. Philips executives are hoping the company's early entry... View Details
- 06 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
Harvard Business School Announces 2024 Goldsmith Fellows
several cancer therapies and diagnostics. “While at HBS, I aim to maintain patient impact as my priority as I explore innovative ways to engage the private life sciences sector in tackling global health inequity,” she commented. Laura De... View Details
- 17 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Business Case for Diabetes Disease Management
Management" that Beaulieu co-wrote to launch the discussion, works like this: "In a carve-out arrangement, a private disease management vendor typically takes on full risk for the care of patients with specific diseases like... View Details
- 30 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 30, 2015
Management Journal Monitoring Global Supply Chains By: Short, Jodi L., Michael W. Toffel, and Andrea R. Hugill Abstract—Firms reliant on supply chains to manufacture their goods risk reputational harm if the working conditions in those... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 12 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
Amager Bakke: I Like This Waste Incinerator in My Backyard!
approximately 600,000 citizens and 68,000 businesses, private homes account for 50% of the combustible waste provided. Waste is also occasionally imported from countries as far away as Italy, as the environmental impact of waste... View Details
- 06 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 6, 2007
Self-Policing in the Shadow of the Regulator Authors:Jodi L. Short and Michael W. Toffel Abstract As part of a recent trend toward more cooperative relations between regulators and industry, novel government programs are encouraging firms to View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Role of Government When All Else Fails
Moss: One of the things that a historical perspective helps make clear is that risk management has always been an essential function of government. From the very earliest days of the American Republic, government policymakers have actively managed risk in the View Details
Keywords: by Laura Linard
- 25 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 25
Abstract—Researchers have long hypothesized that research outputs from government, university, and private company R&D contribute to economic growth, but these contributions may be difficult to measure when they take a non-pecuniary... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Feb 2016
- HBS Case
Bigbelly's Big Bet on the Digital Trash Can
patterns and reduce your monitoring staff by 25 percent, but it’s better to explain how the public will get through rush-hour faster and how they will be able to pick up their kids more quickly,” says Weiss. In addition, he says, “city... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Alumni Books
from the terrorist attack on September 11, 2001, there were many heroic and extensive efforts to rebuild this iconic urban area in New York City. Political accomplishments, economic recovery, and community rehabilitation were urgent and important concerns and were... View Details
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4.2 Student/Faculty Ventures | MBA
Dean’s Office will use the annual reporting process and periodic audits to monitor compliance. Definitions For the purposes of this policy statement, the following definitions apply: A faculty member is anyone with a current full-time or... View Details
- 17 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 17, 2015
evolving structure of corporate debt markets—and given rise to new questions about the private and social costs and benefits of leverage and, in particular, the role of leverage in affecting the likelihood and extent of systemic financial... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 21, 2006
buyout market: RLBOs performed strongly in the late 1980s, the mid-1990s, and the 2000s. Large RLBOs that are backed by private equity firms with more capital under management perform better. We also find the so-called quick flips—when... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
private investment," says Bloom. "Fortune 500 companies have told us that they read our scorecards every year." In countries where the MCC operates, a government entity implements the program agenda, in addition to View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Saving Grace
mandate that private sector employers auto-enroll their employees in a pension plan. In the span of six years, the number of people with pensions in the UK jumped by 10 million. But just opening the accounts isn’t enough to ensure they... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 07 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
How to Help Small Businesses Survive COVID's Next Phase
performance on real-time dashboards, making monitoring less onerous. “Small-business owners tend to focus on their customers, and on their products and services,” Mills says. “They often don’t have time for the accounting and paperwork.... View Details
- 21 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
Is a Gap in Small-Business Credit Holding Back the American Economy?
the nation's private sector workforce—about 120 million people—but since 1995 they have created approximately two-thirds of the net new jobs in our country. They are also instrumental in driving the innovation that provides a competitive... View Details
- 17 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 17
uniqueness in the transferable utility (TU) case. Our main result is an extension of the definition and the existence and uniqueness theorems to stochastic games-discounted or undiscounted. Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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community, and we have felt their impact in our classrooms and on our campus. We find ourselves facing difficult and complex questions about what constitutes hate speech and private speech, particularly in a digital era; how we navigate... View Details