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  • 03 Oct 2017
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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
  • 21 Apr 2011
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Searching for Better Practices in Social Investing

say, a cloud computing company. "I think the [venture philanthropy] model really does work," he said. "It's long term and makes it hard to see short-term results. But we can show mounting evidence that when you put in significant capital, you're View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services
  • 01 Dec 2015
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December 1, 2015

different results and have 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 View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Apr 2009
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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
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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
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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
  • 12 Oct 2011
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First Look: October 12

accountability reporting system is likely to be more useful if it (1) accommodates for a delegate's information advantage over her delegator, (2) produces periodic performance and position reports, and (3) has a mutually agreeable due... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Sep 2015
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First Look -- September 1, 2015

performance. Using panel data from the Japanese National Hospital Organization, we analyze performance improvements following regulation requiring standardized measurement and peer disclosure of absolute and relative View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Jul 2016
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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
  • 09 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 9, 2008

b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=409003 In-Vitro Fertilization: Outcomes Measurement Harvard Business School Case 709-403 As of 2007, there were very few examples of widespread View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Dec 2011
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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
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Advertising
  • 18 Aug 2009
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First Look: August 18

stock repurchases. We investigate whether the informativeness of payout policy with respect to earnings quality changes over this period. We find that the reported earnings of dividend paying firms are more persistent than those of other... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Dec 2018
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New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018

accounting and discuss the intended purposes of the balance sheet and income statement (with particular attention to net income). Students will also have a chance to review the business model of Berkshire Hathaway to debate how to measure... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 30 Aug 2004
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Mapping Your Board’s Effectiveness

and monitor the CEO, scrutinize the performance of the company's leadership team, oversee financial reporting and disclosure, and ensure compliance with laws and regulations. The recent failures triggered regulatory and legislative... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan
  • 23 Jan 2008
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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
  • 30 Apr 2001
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Why Evolutionary Software Development Works

newer models. The most widely quoted references report lessons from only a few successful projects. Now a two-year empirical study, which the author and colleagues Marco Iansiti and Roberto Verganti completed last year, reveals... View Details
Keywords: by Alan MacCormack; Technology
  • 01 Aug 2016
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Retail Execs Underplay Current Performance to Investors--but Why?

they had more positive post-quarter sales information. WHAT’S THE MOTIVATION? The same outcome was found when they studied managers’ voice tone during announcement conference calls using natural language testing that View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Financial Services
  • 18 Mar 2014
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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
  • 26 Aug 2008
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First Look: August 26, 2008

contribute to citations listed in issued patents—and that this could complicate interpretation of findings in this literature. In 2001 the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) began reporting examiner and applicant citations... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Aug 2012
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Employee-Suggestion Programs That Work

health care has led her to study nurses, who, as direct care providers, are at the center of the web of supply chains of equipment, supplies, medications, and even physicians. Singer received a grant from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality to develop an... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Guttry

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