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  • 12 Mar 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer

supposed to be kept separate and preferably distant. And many agree with Milton Friedman who famously said that the purpose of business is to maximize returns to shareholders and compete to satisfy consumer desires in the marketplace. Government—not business—is... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
  • 06 Mar 2018
  • First Look

First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018

associated with billing and insurance activities at a large academic health care center that had a certified EHR system. The center enjoyed economies of scale by concentrating its bill paying functions within a single, dedicated unit. The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Feb 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019

findings can help explain a variety of behavioral phenomena including the structure of social insurance programs, patterns of public good provision, and why transactions that turn money into time are often deemed repugnant. Download... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 15 Jan 2013
  • First Look

First Look: January 15

dollar lending more than euro lending in response to a shock to their credit quality. Because these banks rely on wholesale dollar funding, while raising more of their euro funding through insured retail deposits, the shock leads to a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 May 2009
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First Look: May 12, 2009

The paper also leads to new perspectives on the firm as a legal entity and on the relationship between the Knightian and Coasian views of the firm.   Cases & Course MaterialsAppellation Shanxi: Grace Vineyard Harvard Business School Case 309-075 Grace Vineyard was... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 07 Feb 2012
  • First Look

First Look: February 7

Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/212031-PDF-ENG Social Finance, Inc Shawn Cole, Rawia Abdel Samad, Matt Berner, and Raluca DragusanuHarvard Business School Case 212-055 Social Finance attempts to design and launch a complex new financial... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Jan 2017
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January 3, 2017

regulate the industry. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52032 Populism and the Return of the 'Paranoid Style': Some Evidence and a Simple Model of Demand for Incompetence as Insurance Against Elite Betrayal... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 07 Apr 2009
  • First Look

First Look: April 7, 2009

average, use unverifiable discretion to convey private information on future cash flows; in contrast, agency theory predicts managers, on average, use unverifiable discretion opportunistically. We test these alternative hypotheses using a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 08 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 8

including assessing charges for insuring against losses. Without such a comprehensive assessment and improvement plan, boards cannot do their jobs, and the system will remain as subject to calamitous events as it was before the crisis.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 27

which the ACA was passed and develops estimates of its likely impact on the biopharmaceutical industry. Universal insurance, either through a government-run system or by mandated purchase of private insurance, has been controversial in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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