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- 24 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurial Hospital Pioneers New Model
the hospital's work reaches beyond individual patients and into informal but important diplomacy, Khanna speculated. If you can pay, you pay; if you can't pay, you get treated for free. It doesn't matter what your heart ailment is.... View Details
- 15 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 15
Working PapersThe CHAT Dataset Authors:Diego A. Comin and Bart Hobijn NBER Working Paper Series, No. 15319, September 2009 Abstract This note accompanies the Cross-country Historical Adoption of Technology (CHAT) dataset. CHAT is an unbalanced panel dataset with... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 26
Beshears, John, James J. Choi, David Laibson, Brigitte C. Madrian, and Gwendolyn Reynolds Abstract—Objectives: To assess whether the addition of a peer testimonial to an informational mailing increases conversion rates from brand name... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017
almost double. These results suggest a role of brokers in fostering predatory behavior and raise a red flag for regulators. Moreover, our findings highlight the trade-off between slow execution and potential information leakage in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 17
investigates the urbanization of the Indian manufacturing sector by combining enterprise data from formal and informal sectors. We find that plants in the formal sector are... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 02 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Japan Compete? [Part One]
in the economy in order to conserve foreign exchange, and to allocate the limited resources available at the time to a few sectors that could provide critical basic commodities, such as chemicals and steel. The early intervention, under... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer
- September 1993 (Revised December 1993)
- Case
Cott Corp.: Private Label in the 1990s
By: Ray A. Goldberg and Robert S. Kaplan
Private label cola, Cott, gets 30% of the market in Canada. How does it move into the U.S. market? How do retailers evaluate its benefit costs? Does Cott use an existing structure or build new ones? Does Cott diversify from drink to snack foods? View Details
Keywords: Private Sector; Cost Management; Labels; Growth and Development Strategy; Market Entry and Exit; Industry Structures; Diversification; Food and Beverage Industry
Goldberg, Ray A., and Robert S. Kaplan. "Cott Corp.: Private Label in the 1990s." Harvard Business School Case 594-031, September 1993. (Revised December 1993.)
- 28 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 28, 2007
advantage. We propose several frameworks to help firms develop and exploit this new ability. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-079.pdf Cases & Course Materials Royal DSM N.V.: Information Technology Enabling... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 24, 2008
taxonomy that assembles the field's knowledge about these decision-making bounds and organizes efforts toward deepening this knowledge and developing strategies for improvement. Specifically, we group five identified decision-making bounds into three broad categories:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 14, 2016
patent applications in 1976 to 16% in 2008. This is partly driven by the increase in the prevalence of information and communication technology; however, even for patents unrelated to information and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Aug 2019
- Research & Ideas
Big Infrastructure May Not Always Produce Big Benefits
who used to work at the Reserve Bank of India, helped aggregate that information up to the level of district, time, and industry. We put together all loans that were made to private nonfinancial corporations. We do not include the public... View Details
- 03 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017
industries. Extreme Teaming provides new insights into the world of complex, cross-industry projects and the ways they must be managed. The authors analyze contemporary cases that expose the complex demands of cross-boundary collaboration on management and View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Setting the Stage: A Young Scholar at HBS
resources and regulatory effort goes into ensuring that the public has access to these financial opportunities; in fact, much of American social policy oriented toward the non-indigent operates through structured opportunities for saving and borrowing. And, of course,... View Details
- 15 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 15
experiments offer evidence that debates about the relative costs and benefits of self-deception are informed by adopting a temporal view that assesses the cumulative impact of self-deception over time. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 2
working paper shows that the costs faced by multinational corporations in managing governments and political risk grew sharply. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-003.pdf The Architecture of Transaction Networks: A Comparative Analysis of Hierarchy... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 4
elections shows that voter registration requirements have significant effects on turnout, resulting in unequal participation. We assigned 20,500 apartments to one control or six treatment groups that received canvassing visits providing either View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 3, 2009
the type of financing firm. The additional empirical results allow us to distinguish the property-rights explanation from alternative stories, based on uncertainty and asymmetric information about the project quality or research... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Case for Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking
just said will actually happen is vanishingly small. But I'm an old man, so I should keep on emphasizing completely obvious solutions." Like many people, Lassiter is concerned that the massive carbon emissions from today's coal plants and transportation View Details
- 30 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 30
effect of variation in experience on performance. The problem is that variation in experience improves a team's information processing capacity and knowledge base but also creates coordination challenges. We hypothesize that team... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Jan 2014
- What Do You Think?
Do Productivity Increases Contribute to Social Inequality?
especially the public sectors that, "We need to do more with less?" The underlying assumption, of course, is that greater productivity will cure whatever ails an organization. Something good will come from it, either for an... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett