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- 29 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 29, 2016
healthcare—i.e., patient-centered outcomes achieved per healthcare dollar spent—can define quality and unify performance improvement goals with health outcomes of importance to View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 3, 2015
divergent implications. We find evidence that the choice to pool is influenced by changes in the underlying newsvendor model parameters in our setting. In robustness tests, we show that choosing a pooling outcome is especially pronounced... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 29, 2007
experience with patients who were exposed to DTCA. The majority of surgeon respondents reported DTCA had an overall negative impact on their practice and their interaction with View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
Germany May Have the Answer for Reducing Drug Prices
reversed in a later evaluation. That means that none of the drugs that left the market were, ultimately, ones that had additional patient benefit,” Stern says. “Innovative, high-value drugs that were found to lead to better View Details
- 03 Sep 2020
- Op-Ed
Why American Health Care Needs Its Own SEC
A health care SEC could collect data on prices and outcomes that comply with its measurement standards, and certified, independent appraisers could attest that the numbers comply with accepted View Details
- 18 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 18, 2007
borrowers and lenders is feasible, the incentive effect of credit reporting is negligible, as bilateral banking relationships discipline borrowers. Information sharing nevertheless affects market outcome by... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 17
existence of rural areas not supplied by grid electricity was an important motivation for early movers in both the U.S. and Denmark. Public policy was the problem rather than the opportunity for wind entrepreneurs before 1980, but beginning with feed-in tariffs and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Consumers Blame Business for Global Health Problems. Can Business Become the Solution?
only—measure of success. But recent forces are pushing CEOs to adopt long-term and broader considerations, which requires consideration of various outcomes related to sustainability. For example, a growing number of companies around the... View Details
- 03 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017
manipulation that involves misclassifying a patient into a diagnosis-related group that yields higher reimbursement. As overbilling allows hospitals to increase revenues without altering operations, affecting costs, or having to reverse... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jul 2008
- Op-Ed
What Should Employers Do about Health Care?
by specialty and discrete interventions. Third, prevention and screening can dramatically improve value, as does ongoing disease management to prevent recurrences and setbacks. Fourth, the only way truly to drive value is to measure View Details
- 15 Nov 2004
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Health Care Conundrum
seek the best health care value regardless of location. (Some consumers will continue to choose local care because of greater convenience even if the quality is not as good.) Value-based competition will be supported with detailed information that View Details
- 28 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 28, 2009
Working PapersNo Harm, No Foul: The Outcome Bias in Ethical Judgments (revised) Authors:Francesca Gino, Don A. Moore, and Max H. Bazerman Abstract We present six studies demonstrating that outcome... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 21, 2006
as pessimism about future economic opportunities and verify that two similar equilibria emerge. Purchase this paper from SSRN: http://papers.nber.org/papers/w12641 Three Perspectives on Team Learning: Outcome Improvement, Task Mastery,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Nov 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, November 6, 2018
and Adi Sunderam Abstract—We develop three novel measures of how much of the price impact of their trading different mutual funds internalize. We show that mutual funds that internalize more of their price impact hold larger cash buffers... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 04 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
Is Your Org Chart Stuck in a Rut? Try a Scientific Experiment
it could drive a reorganization of our existing organizational structures.” Other participants in the refinement stage include a health care professional, who proposed an experiment around the idea of “creating cross organizational teams that promote collaboration and... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 23 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 23, 2008
Working PapersA Resource Belief-Curse: Oil and Individualism Authors:Rafael Di Tella, Juan Dubra, and Robert MacCulloch Abstract We study the correlation between a belief concerning individualism and a measure of luck in the US during... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
Are Creative People More Dishonest?
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. In "The Dark Side of Creativity: Original Thinkers Can Be More Dishonest," the authors report that inherently creative people tend to cheat more than noncreative types. Furthermore,... View Details
- 18 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 18
survey data, however, suffers from two main limitations: First, it reveals little about individuals' actual registration or donation behavior. Second, past studies' reliance on average survey measures may have concealed variation within... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Competition the Cure for Healthcare
the doctor did a bad job. But with evidence on outcomes and true risks, the burden of proof to sue a doctor will rise. Doctors will learn to be happier in a world where they are measuring results more than... View Details
- 05 Jun 2006
- Research & Ideas
Using Competition to Reform Healthcare
consumer. The system needs to be redesigned so that each participant is motivated to increase value, measured by health outcomes per dollar expended. This excerpt discusses how healthcare providers can shift... View Details