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2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

measures reduce US dependence on supply chains linked to China? And what should we do with prices of imports from Vietnam and Mexico on the rise? Paper on Global Supply Chain Great Reallocation CASE STUDY Acquiring and Engaging Talent for... View Details
  • 07 Mar 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Why Companies Fail—and How Their Founders Can Bounce Back

there was not enough customer demand for its grocery delivery service. Next, there's the matter of timing, a huge issue that can determine whether a company gets funding and whether it achieves the start-up's elusive measure of success:... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 24 Jan 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Passion at Work Is a Good Thing—But Only If Bosses Know How to Manage It

it is this recognition that employee passion can also produce valued work outcomes that can at times create difficulties." Where conflicts arise Indeed, managers in passion-forward organizations may unintentionally emphasize passion in... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Jul 2023
  • News

Lessons from Major League Baseball's Game-Changing Innovations

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Back in 2014, When Chris Marinak (MBA 2008) was in the process of rolling out the instant replay system as a Senior Vice President at Major League Baseball, he... View Details
  • 30 Mar 2010
  • First Look

First Look: March 30

significant role. An experiment compared a condition where participants sequentially predicted the colored outcomes of a virtual roulette wheel spin with a condition where the wheel's past outcomes were... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Leadership - Faculty & Research

and extensive longitudinal studies. Recent Publications Outcome and Process Frames: Strategic Renewal and Capability Reprioritization at the Federal Bureau of Investigation By: Ryan Raffaelli , Tiona Zuzul , Ranjay Gulati and Jan Rivkin... View Details
  • 04 Sep 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Governing the Family-Run Business

policies, debt policies, even fire emergency policies. Brings the right people together at the right time to discuss the right (important) things. No organization is effective for long without doing these things. You should measure the... View Details
  • 2009
  • Chapter

Evaluating the Impact of SA8000 Certification

By: Michael J. Hiscox, Claire Schwartz and Michael W. Toffel
SA 8000, along with other types of certification standards and corporate codes of conduct, represents a new form of private governance of working conditions, initiated and implemented by companies, labor unions, and non-governmental activist groups. Whether these codes... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Governance; Working Conditions; Standards; Performance Evaluation
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  • September 2008
  • Article

Firm Heterogeneity and Credit Risk Diversification

By: Samuel G. Hanson, M. Hashem Pesaran and Til Schuermann
This paper examines the impact of neglected heterogeneity on credit risk. We show that neglecting heterogeneity in firm returns and/or default thresholds leads to under estimation of expected losses (EL), and its effect on portfolio risk is ambiguous. Once EL is... View Details
Keywords: Volatility; Credit; Investment Return; Outcome or Result; Risk and Uncertainty; Loss; Diversification; Complexity; United States
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  • 2024
  • Working Paper

Does Private Equity Have Any Business Being in the Health Care Business?

By: Nori Gerardo Lietz and Zirui Song
Private Equity (“PE”) has come under increased scrutiny by the press, academics, and policymakers, as well as the public, for its investments in health care delivery. This scrutiny has been exacerbated by recent high profile hospital bankruptcies following PE... View Details
Keywords: Private Equity; Government Administration; Acquisition; Health Industry
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  • July 2021
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Medical Debt in the U.S., 2009–2020

By: Raymond Kluender, Neale Mahoney, Francis Wong and Wesley Yin
Importance: Medical debt is an increasing concern in the US, yet there is limited understanding of the amount and distribution of medical debt, and its association with health care policies.

Objective: To measure the amount of medical debt nationally and by... View Details
Keywords: Debt; Borrowing and Debt; Health Care and Treatment; United States
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Human Behavior & Decision-Making - Faculty & Research

outcomes in organizations, such as individual stress and well-being, intergroup conflict, performance, and change. By providing a way to investigate patterns of relationships among multiple identities, the identity network approach can... View Details
  • Web

The Caring Company

Employers Should Care About the Care Economy Why Employers Should Care About the Care Economy Joseph Fuller Joseph Fuller Measuring the Hidden Costs of Caregiving Measuring the Hidden Costs of Caregiving... View Details
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Research Areas - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Edition by Michael E. Porter See All Publications Projects & Activities U.S. Competitiveness Project U.S. Cluster Mapping Project International Consortium for Health Outcomes Measurement Social Progress... View Details
  • 12 Apr 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Swiping Right: How Data Helped This Online Dating Site Make More Matches

tell if these online matches came to fruition in real life.) Defining desirability To sort matches, the researchers measured desirability, though not in the “supermodel” sense. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder: The team determined... View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin
  • 17 Jan 2020
  • In Practice

6 Traits That Set Top Business Leaders Apart

their team’s best efforts. They’re great learners that view successful outcomes as both achieving specific objectives and improving their organization’s ability to deal with its next wave of challenges." Chester A. Huber, senior lecturer... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
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Entrepreneurship - Faculty & Research

and Antoinette Schoar This paper documents that ventures that are funded by two successful angel groups experience superior outcomes to rejected ventures: they have improved survival, exits, employment, patenting, web traffic, and... View Details
  • 29 Jan 2018
  • Book

How 'Teaming' Saved 33 Lives in the Chilean Mining Disaster

initial best option for extracting the miners. At that point, no expert considered rescue of the 33 men a reasonable possibility. Nonetheless, within 70 days all of them would be alive and reunited with their families. This outcome was... View Details
Keywords: by Amy C. Edmondson; Mining
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Topics - HBS Working Knowledge

Marketing Channels (1) Marketing Communications (15) Marketing Strategy (173) Marketing (322) Marketplace Matching (5) Markets (302) Mathematical Methods (10) Measurement and Metrics (16) Media (15) Medical Specialties (5) Mergers and... View Details
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Geography of Care - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Measure Outcomes & Cost for Every Patient Aligning Reimbursement with Value Systems Integration Geography of Care Information Technology Geography of Care Geography of Care Today’s top health care providers... View Details