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Aligning Reimbursement with Value - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Measure Outcomes & Cost for Every Patient Aligning Reimbursement with Value Systems Integration Geography of Care Information Technology Aligning Reimbursement w... Aligning Reimbursement with Value Value-based health care delivery... View Details

30 Jan 2007
First Look

First Look: January 30, 2007

worker dismissal costs will curtail hiring below efficient levels and retain unproductive workers, both of which should affect productivity. These theoretical predictions have rarely been tested. We use the adoption of wrongful-discharge... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Guides to Archival Collections – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

Donham, and materials regarding his interest in sociology, philosophy, anthropology, and psychology. Also included are interviews and reports on industrial relations and efficiency studies conducted at various locations as well as... View Details

04 Aug 2023
Blog Post

Aaron Sabin (MS/MBA 2023): Engineering a Climate Change Solution by Cutting the Cost of Carbon Capture

there was any encouraging information in the report it was that the world has plenty of options for mitigating climate change. One that is increasingly attracting the attention of policymakers is direct air carbon capture—a technology... View Details

31 Mar 2022
Op-Ed

Navigating the ‘Bermuda Triangle’ in Professional Services

easy. Small firms operate informally. Continuing an informal approach to management strains performance as a firm grows. Costs begin to increase and errors in operations and service delivery begin to cumulate. Formal systems and processes... View Details

Keywords: by Ashish Nanda

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Generative AI - Alumni

AI-generated materials to maintain ethical standards and authenticity. Striking a balance between leveraging technological advancements and upholding personal responsibility ensures that GenAI becomes an efficient and ethical tool in the... View Details

12 May 2023
Blog Post

Independent Project: The Rise of Electric Heat Pumps

regions. However, while heat pumps have historically been known to be more economical in warmer regions, recent studies have cited improvements in newer heat pumps, such as inverter technology, making them effective and efficient at... View Details

23 Oct 2007
First Look

First Look: October 23, 2007

Abstract We study the interplay of inequality and trust in a dynamic game, where trust increases efficiency and thus allows higher growth of the experimental economy in the future. We find that trust is initially high in a treatment... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

2023
Article

Probabilistically Robust Recourse: Navigating the Trade-offs between Costs and Robustness in Algorithmic Recourse

By: Martin Pawelczyk, Teresa Datta, Johannes van-den-Heuvel, Gjergji Kasneci and Himabindu Lakkaraju

As machine learning models are increasingly being employed to make consequential decisions in real-world settings, it becomes critical to ensure that individuals who are adversely impacted (e.g., loan denied) by the predictions of these models are provided with a means... View Details

Keywords: AI and Machine Learning; Decision Choices and Conditions; Mathematical Methods

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21 Jun 2010
Research & Ideas

Strategy and Execution for Emerging Markets

How can we profit from the structural reality of emerging markets by identifying opportunities to fill voids, serving as market intermediaries? For Khanna and Palepu, an emerging market is anyplace where buyers and sellers cannot easily and View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Dec 2006
What Do You Think?

How Important Is Quality of Labor? And How Is It Achieved?

low-cost labor but rather fearing high-quality labor that comes at low cost." Regarding the migration of labor, Tayyab Rashid said, "High-paying work is knowledge work. That is not going anywhere." Hemant Rachh agreed, saying that " it does matter... View Details

Keywords: by by Jim Heskett

2023
Working Paper

Black-box Training Data Identification in GANs via Detector Networks

By: Lukman Olagoke, Salil Vadhan and Seth Neel

Since their inception Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have been popular generative models across images, audio, video, and tabular data. In this paper we study whether given access to a trained GAN, as well as fresh samples from the underlying distribution, if... View Details

Keywords: Cybersecurity; Copyright; AI and Machine Learning; Analytics and Data Science

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Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition

Runner-Up SaferTaxi takes a successful concept from the US/Europe to Latin America. The company provides a smartphone application that allows consumers to book, pay rate taxis with added convenience as well as transparency. SaferTaxi aims to bring greater View Details

01 Jun 2024
News

Quantum Leap

day quantum computing becomes a reality is the day conventional digital security ends.) They should even be able to do things that digital computers cannot do at all, like realistically modeling molecules for more efficient drug discovery... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Chris Sorensen; quantum computing; innovation; leadership; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing

19 Jan 2023
Research & Ideas

What Makes Employees Trust (vs. Second-Guess) AI?

the model was accurate,” one interviewee told researchers, according to the paper. That employee confidence has big implications. In Tapestry’s case, revenue rose—and the leftover stock was less common—in stores where allocators used the machine learning algorithm to... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

07 Mar 2016
Blog Post

Living Off Campus at HBS

efficient and you can have much more space. As long as you stay within walking distance it won't feel any different. For more information about housing options at HBS you can read the following blog posts:... View Details

01 Jan 2017
News

Improving Health Care Delivery

through big data by offsetting the cost of collection and analysis and by tapping into the tremendous amount of existing medical information available. “I think HBS can be a leader in making use of that View Details

08 Aug 2005
Research & Ideas

Decision Rights: Who Gives the Green Light?

for the pricing of bids made by its foreign subsidiaries. The company believed that its U.S.-based executives would be more effective in making pricing decisions because they had a broader purview of the company's needs. But the time needed to transfer the relevant... View Details

Keywords: by Peter Jacobs

16 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Restaurant Revolution: How the Industry Is Fighting to Stay Alive

However, we also heard that restaurateurs remained steadfastly committed to their goal of nurturing and nourishing people, providing a place of succor and community in a strange new world. Our conversations with the panel and our field research View Details

Keywords: by Michael S. Kaufman, Lena G. Goldberg, and Jill Avery; Food & Beverage

03 Mar 2009
First Look

First Look: March 3, 2009

relative to one-sided markets. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-011.pdf Why Do Intermediaries Divert Search? (revised) Authors:Andrei Hagiu and Bruno Jullien Abstract We analyze the incentives to divert search for an View Details