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  • 08 Oct 2013
  • First Look

First Look: October 8

achieving the best outcomes at the lowest cost. We must move away from a supply-driven health care system organized around what physicians do and toward a patient-centered system organized around what View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 22, 2008

goals has different effects on performance. This paper reports on a longitudinal study of 23 neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) in a structured, quality-improvement program. We test the relationship between collaboration within the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 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
  • 05 Sep 2012
  • What Do You Think?

Will Business Management Save US Health Care?

for-profit health care organization led to better patient outcomes at the same time that "provider engagement and feeling of satisfaction have increased, our costs have fallen and our net profit has... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Health
  • 15 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 15, 2008

that, at the aggregate level, is similar to the one sector neoclassical growth model, while, at the disaggregate level, has implications for the path of observable measures of technology adoption. We estimate our model using data on the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 30 Aug 2004
  • Research & Ideas

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
  • 01 Aug 2016
  • Research & Ideas

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
  • 30 Jul 2013
  • First Look

First Look: July 30

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/download.aspx?name=kupor%20tormala%20norton%20rucker.pdf Working Papers An Empirical Study of the Spillover Effects of Workload on Patient Length of Stay By: Berry Jaeker, Jillian, and Anita Tucker... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 07 Mar 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Putting Health Care Consumers in the Driver’s Seat

management control and health care. Her latest book, Market-Driven Health Care, won the 1998 Book of the Year Award from the American College of Healthcare Executives. Herzlinger opened the conference by reporting on the forces driving... View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Health
  • 21 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 21

evidence that the decline in performance outcomes stems from reduced effort or increased risk taking. Instead, errors in logic lead to a decline in performance, which suggests a cognitive explanation for the negative response to increased... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Oct 2011
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First Look: October 18

Healthcare has traditionally focused on medical outcomes and financial performance. The big question is always, "How much is it going to cost?" What would happen, though, if healthcare also considered the question of "How... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 23

measures of national political instability—Alesina and Perotti's (1996) well-known index of instability, a subsequent index derived from Banks' (2005) work, and two indices of managerial perceptions of nation-by-nation political... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Jul 2014
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First Look: July 15

"co-search" algorithm to Internet traffic at the SEC's EDGAR website, we develop a novel method for identifying economically-related peer firms and for measuring their relative importance. Our results show that firms appearing... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 17 Mar 2015
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First Look: March 17

  Publications March 2015 Journal of Financial Economics Banks as Patient Fixed-Income Investors By: Hanson, Samuel G., Andrei Shleifer, Jeremy C. Stein, and Robert W. Vishny Abstract—We examine the business model of traditional... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018

Claudine, Andrea Prat, and George Serafeim Abstract—We construct a measure of corporate purpose within a sample of U.S. companies based on approximately 500,000 survey responses of worker perceptions about their employers. We find that... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 03 Jun 2008
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First Look: June 3, 2008

surgical service that is constantly improving. The case has many details about how Dr. Shingleton works with his staff and patients and how the provider team focuses on patient care. A key View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 Mar 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, March 14

abstract available. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52217 2016 Monetary Policy Through Asset Markets: Lessons from Unconventional Measures and Implications for an Integrated World Forward Guidance in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 13

the paper: http://papers.nber.org/papers/w18250 The Consequences of Mandatory Corporate Sustainability Reporting Authors:Ioannis Ioannou and George Serafeim Abstract We examine the effect of mandatory corporate sustainability View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Jul 2016
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July 19, 2016

released through such refactoring efforts. We address this gap by analyzing the relationship between system architecture and maintenance costs for two software systems of similar size but with very different structures: one has a “Hierarchical” design, the other has a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Sep 2013
  • Research & Ideas

The Curse of Double-Digit Growth

during the civil war. Investing In Growth Still, Liberia's economic team expects at least 6-7 percent GDP growth per year but believes that double-digit growth, a rare economic outcome overall in Werker's research, will be required to... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard

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