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  • 29 Jan 2018
  • Book

How 'Teaming' Saved 33 Lives in the Chilean Mining Disaster

initial best option for extracting the miners. At that point, no expert considered rescue of the 33 men a reasonable possibility. Nonetheless, within 70 days all of them would be alive and reunited with their families. This outcome was... View Details
Keywords: by Amy C. Edmondson; Mining
  • Web

Health Care - Faculty & Research

Outcomes Measurement ; Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing ; Health Care and Treatment ; Business Strategy ; Leading Change ; Decisions ; Transformation ; Service Delivery ; Adoption ; Value ; Health Industry... View Details
  • Web

Events & Presentations - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

this Executive Education program examines new strategies, organizational models, and measurement approaches to drive value improvement in health care delivery. Participants gain insights and capabilities to direct the strategic... View Details
  • 11 Aug 2009
  • First Look

First Look: August 11, 2009

we provide evidence that those firms with insiders selling prior to the announcement of the loss face significantly more negative abnormal returns. Our findings are robust to subsample analysis examining firms reporting goodwill... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 31 Jan 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: January 31, 2017

reports involving high-risk cardiovascular devices by linking regulatory review times for all 106 new, high-risk cardiovascular devices approved from 2000 to 2009 to subsequent adverse event reports. Reports... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • Web

Human Behavior & Decision-Making - Faculty & Research

attractive person whom they thought of spontaneously than deliberately in Study 4, and reported their commitment to a current romantic relationship would be more affected by the spontaneous than deliberate recollection of a good or bad... View Details
  • 17 Jun 2014
  • First Look

First Look: June 17

  Publications August 2013 California Management Review What Impact? A Framework for Measuring the Scale & Scope of Social Performance By: Ebrahim, Alnoor, and V. Kasturi Rangan Abstract—Organizations with social missions, such as... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Sep 2018
  • Research & Ideas

How Cost Accounting is Improving Healthcare in Rural Haiti

keep up with the demand to treat patients every day. And that’s why Partners in Health turned to the straightforward time-driven activity-based costing system to measure the cost of treating a patient, with... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health
  • 16 Dec 2014
  • First Look

First Look: December 16

why we believe this reimbursement method best aligns everyone's interests around value. We describe how recent improvements in measuring outcomes and costs have overcome past barriers to wide-scale adoption... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Dec 2015
  • First Look

December 8, 2015

Big Cities: The Promises and Limitations of Improved Measures of Urban Life By: Glaeser, Edward L., Scott Duke Kominers, Michael Luca, and Nikhil Naik Abstract—New, "big" data sources allow View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Jul 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Is Performance-Based Pricing the Right Price for You?

individual level. No person or organization wants to pay more for a product or service than it is worth. Again, when performance delivery is in doubt, performance-based pricing enables the buyer to pay only for the amount of performance that is actually delivered on a... View Details
Keywords: by Benson Shapiro; Manufacturing
  • 2008
  • Working Paper

Finding Missing Markets (and a disturbing epilogue): Evidence from an Export Crop Adoption and Marketing Intervention in Kenya

By: Nava Ashraf, Xavier Gine and Dean Karlan
In much of the developing world, many farmers grow crops for local or personal consumption despite export options which appear to be more profitable. Thus many conjecture that one or several markets are missing. We report here on a randomized controlled trial conducted... View Details
Keywords: Agribusiness; Developing Countries and Economies; Trade; Profit; Product Marketing; Standards; Failure; Risk and Uncertainty; Non-Governmental Organizations; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Service Industry; Kenya; Europe
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  • 21 Jul 2021
  • Research & Ideas

What Does an ESG Score Really Say About a Company?

Receiving more information can clarify the complex, but not when it comes to environmental, social, and governance (ESG) scores. A recent study shows that the more information a company discloses about its ESG practices, the more rating agencies disagree on how well... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
  • 01 Oct 2013
  • First Look

First Look: October 1

(treadmills attached to desks that enable employees to walk while working), provided employees with feedback on their own and their co-workers' usage, and assessed usage over six months. We report how we determined our sample size, as... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Dec 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017

definition that extends the concept beyond the traditional binary retain/not retain view of retention. We discuss a variety of metrics to measure and monitor retention. We present an integrated framework for managing retention that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Social Enterprise - Faculty & Research

environmental dimension of CSR. Spring 2014 Article What Impact? A Framework for Measuring the Scale & Scope of Social Performance By: Alnoor Ebrahim and V. Kasturi Rangan Organizations with social missions, such as nonprofits and social... View Details
  • 19 Mar 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019

Norton Abstract—Four studies reveal the benefits of relationship rituals: couples with relationship rituals report more positive emotions and greater relationship satisfaction and commitment than those without them. We show that rituals... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • Web

Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

fintech platform, the authors find that, compared to actual outcomes of the fintech platform’s model, the counterfactual outcomes based on a “traditional model” used for regulatory View Details
  • 12 Aug 2019
  • Research & Ideas

How Scale Changes a Manager's Responsibilities

level—major products within product lines and with clear, measurable outcomes. Your job is to set the tone at the top, and at fewer than 100 employees, you can stay pretty close to the details. Once teams get bigger, you will rely on this... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
  • 02 Jun 2021
  • Research & Ideas

A Rare Find in Health Care: A Simple Solution to Racial Inequity

hospital care. They focused on the mortality rates for heart attacks, an ailment that typically requires patients to seek hospital care, and where mortality is a validated measure of hospital quality. They... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health