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Measure Outcomes & Cost for Every Patient - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

these, while often easy to measure, do not always correlate with clinical outcomes. Similarly, structural measures, patient experience, and other indicators are often substituted for outcomes. There are several basic principles of outcome... View Details

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Technology & Innovation - Faculty & Research

an input-output table that includes disaggregated REE inputs. Using REE-related patents categorized by a large language model, sectoral TFP data, trade data, and physical and chemical substitution properties of REEs, we show that the... View Details

28 Mar 2016
Research & Ideas

What's a Boss Worth?

exploration. “There is a growing literature in the social sciences about the importance of peer effects—many people think about how to form teams and what the right team should look like,” says Stanton. But according to this data, the effects of View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Service

26 Dec 2012
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Reinforcing Regulatory Regimes: How States, Civil Society, and Codes of Conduct Promote Adherence to Global Labor Standards

Keywords: by Michael W. Toffel, Jodi L. Short & Melissa Ouellet

August 2019
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When and How to Diversify—A Multicategory Utility Model for Personalized Content Recommendation

By: Yicheng Song, Nachiketa Sahoo and Elie Ofek

Sometimes we desire change, a break from the same or an opportunity to fulfill different aspects of our needs. Noting that consumers seek variety, several approaches have been developed to diversify items recommended by personalized recommender systems. However,... View Details

Keywords: Recommender Systems; Personalization; Recommendation Diversity; Variety Seeking; Collaborative Filtering; Consumer Utility Models; Digital Media; Clickstream Analysis; Learning-to-rank; Consumer Behavior; Media; Customization and Personalization; Strategy; Mathematical Methods

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23 Apr 2024
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Getting to Net Zero: The Climate Standards and Ecosystem the World Needs Now

With each month clocking record-breaking temperatures across the planet, this Earth Day reflected the renewed urgency of regulators and businesses to find climate-change solutions. The US Securities and Exchange Commission recently adopted new rules that will mandate... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

01 Mar 2024
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Game On

managed large YMCA clubs in her pre-pickleball career. She’s deeply concerned about the way online activity has become a substitute for physical activity, particularly for children. Pickleball can have a hand here, she says. She loves to... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; photographed by Edward Linsmier; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment

02 Apr 2020
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What Are Lessons for Leaders from This Black Swan Crisis?

we be working instead on faster vaccine development once we know the shape of the virus? Rather than take risks with human lives, should we be giving more attention to the development of human substitutes for testing vaccines, View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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Managing Marketspace Service Interfaces

By: Jeffrey F. Rayport

Jeffrey F. Rayport is focusing on the strategic challenges that face businesses selling information-intensive products and services. A key strategic issue in such businesses is the dematerialization of information-intensive products and services as a consequence of... View Details

05 May 2014
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Firms and the Economics of Skilled Immigration

Keywords: by Sari Pekkala Kerr, William R. Kerr & William F. Lincoln; Technology

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Online Business Strategy Course | HBS Online

complements and substitutes and discover the power of complements as a competitive advantage. Highlights Pricing Complements Discerning Complements from Substitutes Creating Complementarity Show Hide Details... View Details

24 Jan 2005
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Rethinking Activity-Based Costing

per time unit of supplying capacity. For example, if employees receive an 8 percent compensation increase, the resource cost rate in our example increases from $0.80 per supplied minute to $0.864 per minute. If new machines are View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & Steven R. Anderson

2013
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Clusters and the New Growth Path for Europe

By: Christian Ketels and Sergiy Protsiv

This paper outlines elements of a conceptual framework that clarifies the role that clusters play relative to government policies and actions of individual companies in supporting the emergence of "High Road" strategies that lead to better New Growth Path–related... View Details

Keywords: Technological Innovation; Competition; Industry Clusters; Globalization; Economic Growth; Europe

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Curriculum - Business & Environment

opportunities. Harvard University and Urban Mining Industries: Decarbonizing the Supply Chain The case describes Harvard University's consideration to decarbonize its supply chain by replacing cement with a low-carbon substitute called... View Details

01 Dec 2015
HBS Seminar

Nicola Lacetera, University of Toronto

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Understanding Customers

In conventional business case studies, protagonists almost never have the option of stepping back to seek a new understanding of the customer. But to be effective in practice, managers need both the self-assurance and ability to initiate and pursue, with rigor and... View Details

01 Mar 2024
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Vital Signs

Image by Edmon De Haro Illustration by Edmon De Haro The signs of strain were there long before the pandemic: Health care workers had been managing under tremendous pressures while working long hours in understaffed hospitals. Then COVID unleashed an unprecedented... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance

01 Dec 2006
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How Important Is Quality of Labor? And How Is It Achieved?

is to assume that quality of labor is genetic ." Flavius Chircu said, "I would simplify the analysis by substituting 'quality of labor' with 'quality of output,' be that output a product, service, or mix thereof." In Sneh... View Details

Keywords: by by Jim Heskett

18 Jun 2024
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Industrial Decarbonization: Confronting the Hard Challenges of Cement

Cities like Cairo; Chongqing, China; Delhi; and Kinshasa, Congo are experiencing population explosions accompanied by unprecedented demand for homes, offices, factories, and infrastructure. In the United States, the Biden Administration’s policy-driven infrastructure... View Details

Keywords: by by Janelle Conaway; Green Technology; Energy; Industrial Products; Manufacturing

19 Sep 2023
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2023 Summer Internships in Business & Environment

accelerating the integration of wind, solar, and battery storage — while leveraging existing infrastructure assets. TS’s products can be used to substitute legacy conductors using the same tools and installation procedures. TS is a... View Details

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