Health Care Policy - Publications - Faculty & Research

14 Dec 2011
Research & Ideas

The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance

speak the same language for the most part. In the social sector we don't have nearly that degree of agreement over what constitutes useful, common metrics, even in subsectors like health care, education, and the environment. At the moment... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

12 Jun 2006
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The Promise of Channel Stewardship

encouraged to stay in the system. Far from it. Stewardship involves careful construction and management of channel relationships so that the valuable members are suitably rewarded and the less valuable members are weeded out. When a... View Details

Keywords: by V. Kasturi Rangan & Marie Bell; Consumer Products

29 Jan 2013
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First Look: Jan. 29

Authors:Rotemberg, Julio J. Publication:Marketing Science Abstract A setting is considered where consumers keep track of the extent to which brands care about them, which is modeled as altruism of brands towards their target consumers.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

16 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 16, 2008

Evaluation Framework for Product Take-Back Policies Authors:Michael W. Toffel, Antoinette Stein, and Katharine L. Lee Abstract Manufacturers are increasingly being required to adhere to product take-back regulations that require them to... View Details

26 Jun 2000
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Presentation Round-Up

led to the collapse of the Global Alliance. That left fiber as "the infrastructure or the infrastructure" with wireless—"connectivity with mobility"—existing alongside it, but without the high bandwidth services available through the AFN. Jean Camp, Assistant Professor... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Kenneth Liss; Technology; Communications; Telecommunications

06 Nov 2000
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The Determinants of Corporate Venture Capital Success

particularly the weak level of protection afforded by the California courts), it was unclear how effective a policy of aggressive litigation would be. Furthermore, such a policy might reduce Xerox's ability... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Gompers & Josh Lerner

23 Jan 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 23, 2018

consequence of actual leverage than it is of risk premiums. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53733 2017 India as a Pioneer of Innovation The Private Provision of Missing Public Goods: Evidence from Narayana View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

28 May 2012
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A Pragmatic Alternative for Creating a Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy

treating its employees well. The company provides staffers with free education services to complete high school and supplementary medical care to cover gaps in government health plans. These efforts have... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

09 Aug 2004
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A Diagnostic for Disruptive Innovation

established market. Mapping a product's or service's delivery chain can identify opportunities where removing a link from the delivery chain will allow people to do for themselves what they previously had to rely on others to do for them. The View Details

Keywords: by Scott D. Anthony, Mark W. Johnson & Matt Eyring

18 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 18

http://dx.doi.org.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/10.1016/j.socscimed.2014.01.041 August 2013 The Changing Frontier: Rethinking Science and Innovation Policy Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Renewable Energy By: Nanda, Ramana, Ken Younge, and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

29 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 29

http://hbr.org/search/214005-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 114-009 Contempo Technologies, Inc. and Betty Sievers: A Clash of Interests in an Uncertain Time In an era of rapidly evolving systems of health View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

17 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

Can China Maintain Its Economic Power?

terrible Foxconn suicides. The one-child-per-family policy was beginning to create a population shortage that meant cheap labor was running out. The old low-cost manufacturing-for-export strategy had run out of steam. They were developing... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg

12 Sep 2016
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What Brands Can Do to Monitor Factory Conditions of Suppliers

brand-name multinationals that contract out the work. “In a sense, global supply chains are serving a regulatory function, with companies imposing an additional layer of rules and investing resources to enforce them,” says Harvard Business School Professor Michael W.... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

23 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 23

Publications "From Visible Harm to Relative Risk: Centralization and Fragmentation of Pharmacovigilance Author: Arthur A. Daemmrich Publication: Chap. 13 in The Fragmentation of U.S. Health Care, Oxford University Press, 2010... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

06 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 6

Science (forthcoming) Abstract While monitoring and regulation can be used to combat socially costly unethical conduct, their intended targets are often able to avoid regulation or hide their behavior. This surrenders at least part of the effectiveness of regulatory... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

16 Nov 2009
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The Times Captures History of American Business

by story, the reporting is very thoughtful and careful. At this moment in history when we wring our hands about the future of newspapers, readers who care about the importance and contribution of newspapers should look at the book,... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Journalism & News

17 Mar 2008
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The Lessons of Business History: A Handbook

by Harvard Business School's Aldo Musacchio in the BGIE Unit, showing that this hypothesis has little empirical support. A careful study of 19th-century French and American law, for example, found little difference between the two... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

28 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 28

and costly scams are common. Yet, even more frequent and pervasive are cases of "ordinary" unethical behavior-unethical actions committed by people who value and care about morality but behave unethically when faced with an... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

03 May 2011
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First Look: May 3

sacrificing his health or family life. In this article he presents six of them. Know your comparative advantage. Focus not on what you do best but on what your organization most needs from you-and don't spend too much time on operational... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne