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  • 06 Nov 2012
  • First Look

First Look: November 6

greater use of U.S.-style pay arrangements, and a reduction in the U.S.-UK pay gap. The product market effect is incremental to the effect of a U.S. exchange listing, the extent of the firm's non-U.S. foreign market interactions, and the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 22

high rents are associated with a slower reduction in tariffs. A country's average mark-up in manufacturing is a strong negative predictor of future economic growth, indicating that we may be measuring a phenomenon of the broader business... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Jul 2020
  • Op-Ed

It's Time for a Bipartisan Health Plan for Employers and Employees

rather than what they want? Is it reasonable for employers to be allowed a tax benefit for paying for health insurance benefits, but not their employees, when the insurance is primarily funded through reductions in employee income? Must... View Details
Keywords: by Regina E. Herzlinger and Richard J. Boxer; Health; Insurance
  • 24 Sep 2014
  • Op-Ed

Stop Thinking of Climate Change as a Religious or Political Issue

You sometimes hear people say things like, "I believe in global warming" or "I don't believe in climate change." It seems odd to approach climate change in this way, as though it were a question of belief, like religion. Most of the time when we confront uncertainty in... View Details
Keywords: by Forest Reinhardt; Energy; Utilities
  • 07 Aug 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, August 8, 2018

preoperative holding room was less than that of placing epidurals in the operating room. Personnel reallocation and workflow changes resulted in mean cost reductions of 14% with epidurals in the holding room... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Jun 2011
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Twenty-first Century Skill: Trading Carbon Credits

minutes trading halts, and students submit their permits. They are obliged to pay a fine of $40 per ton of pollution exceeding their permit holdings. “No one is thinking about efficient reduction of pollution during the exercise.”... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Energy; Utilities
  • 08 Nov 2024
  • Op-Ed

How Private Investors Can Help Solve Africa's Climate Crisis

African people, businesses, and nations are becoming increasingly stressed by climate-related perils like droughts, river flooding, extreme heat, and rising sea levels. This is leading not only to the destruction of assets but also challenges to lives and... View Details
Keywords: by John Macomber; Green Technology; Energy
  • 07 Apr 2003
  • What Do You Think?

Should Global Business Initiatives Be Devalued?

firms with global interests—one that centers around the impact that these phenomena may have on such things as the potential benefits and costs of doing business abroad? Specifically, will questions increasingly be asked about whether... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 13 Mar 2012
  • First Look

First Look: March 13

census. We document a shift to smaller shops following a 1996 regulatory change that increased the costs of opening large stores. Our analysis suggests that total factor productivity (TFP) of multi-store retail chains fell after the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 16, 2018

strong complementarity, but it can arise for other reasons as well. Transaction cost economics and property rights theory advise that strong complements should be placed under unified governance, for example, through common ownership.... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 18 Jul 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Time to Rethink the Corporate Tax System?

concern has to be weighed against the gains in reduced compliance costs (firms would no longer have to file hundreds or thousands of returns) that are currently sizable, reductions in tax sheltering, and... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
  • 02 Sep 2019
  • What Do You Think?

Are Overlooked Forces Shielding the US from Severe Economic Downturns?

to communicate with each other at will, then repeated the experiment. The result of increased communication was a significant reduction in inventory swings. The paper resulting from that experiment (and probably a lot of other research... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Service
  • 04 Apr 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Attention Medical Shoppers: What Health Care Can Learn from Walmart and Amazon

to get the best results with the lowest costs." “In the end what we're looking for is the first community that actually lowers health care costs without harming a soul." —Atul Gawande Gawande brought up the hopeful example of... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health
  • 24 Sep 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Do National Security Secrets Hold Back National Innovation?

mass rescindment in 1945, but their use spikes immediately afterwards,” Gross explains. This suggests that secrecy orders were effective at keeping sensitive technology out of the public view.   Whether the 15 percent reduction in... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
  • 12 Dec 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: Strength in Numbers

particular climate change. Responses to climate change pit energy providers and manufacturers—for whom the costs of adjustment are likely to be high—against the general public interest in restraining temperature increases. In this... View Details
Keywords: Re: Gunnar Trumbull
  • 01 Sep 2015
  • First Look

First Look -- September 1, 2015

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49520 2015 Journal of Comparative Effectiveness Research Comparative Costs of Advanced Proton and Photon Radiation Therapies: Lessons from Time-driven Activity-based View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Jan 2010
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First Look: Jan. 26

  Working PapersCompeting Ad Auctions: Multi-homing and Participation Costs Authors:Itai Ashlagi, Benjamin Edelman, and Hoan Soo Lee Abstract We model competing auctions for online advertising, with attention to the participation View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 30 Dec 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles of 2013

litigations on firm strategy. Increased Speed Equals Increased Wait: The Impact of a Reduction in Emergency Department Ultrasound Order Processing Time This study of ultrasound test orders in hospital emergency departments shows that,... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 14 Mar 2007
  • Op-Ed

Government’s Misguided Probe of Private Equity

jointly underwriting public corporate offerings. Nor is this unique to the United States. Britain's Financial Services Authority has announced that it is increasing its scrutiny of private-equity firms. Among the problems or risks attributed to private equity are... View Details
Keywords: by Josh Lerner; Financial Services
  • 05 Mar 2001
  • What Do You Think?

Fine Coupling: Can Human Resource Management Learn from Supply Chain Management?

hard to believe how little of this was possible just ten years ago. At the same time that we devote massive attention to the reduction of waste in materials, one organization after another is announcing once again that significant cuts in... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
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