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  • Article

Consumers' Misunderstanding of Health Insurance

By: George Loewenstein, Joelle Y. Friedman, Barbara McGill, Sarah Ahmad, Suzanne Linck, Stacey Sinkula, John Beshears, James J. Choi, Jonathan Kolstad, David Laibson, Brigitte C. Madrian, John A. List and Kevin G. Volpp
We report results from two surveys of representative samples of Americans with private health insurance. The first examines how well Americans understand, and believe they understand, traditional health insurance coverage. The second examines whether those insured... View Details
Keywords: Behavioral Economics; Simplification; Insurance; Consumer Behavior; Health Care and Treatment; Cognition and Thinking; Insurance Industry; Health Industry; United States
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  • 20 Aug 2013
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First Look: August 20

Buildings By: Herron, J., Amy C. Edmondson, and Robert G. Eccles, Jr. Abstract—Buildings are the nation's greatest energy consumers. Forty percent of all our energy is used for heating, cooling, lighting, and powering machines and devices... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 26 Apr 2011
  • Op-Ed

HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day

smart cities will perform better environmentally, financially, and socially than has been the case in most of the world's cities to date. A pretty smart way, we'd say, of protecting our environment. Benjamin G. Edelman, Assistant... View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Energy; Utilities
  • 15 Dec 2015
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December 15, 2015

forthcoming Journal of Marketing Research The Role of (Dis)similarity in (Mis)predicting Others' Preferences By: Barasz, Kate, Tami Kim, and Leslie John Abstract—Consumers readily indicate liking options that appear dissimilar—for... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 01 Dec 2017
  • News

Pencils Up: Taking Note of New Courses

When MBA students returned to Soldiers Field in the fall, they had nine new second-year courses to choose from, four with an emphasis on fieldwork. For faculty, developing a course affords the opportunity to draw on research and address what they see as some of the... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
  • 01 Sep 2024
  • News

The Exchange: Lessons from the Edge

Image by John Ritter Professors Geoff Jones and Tarun Khanna had been toiling away from their respective HBS offices for many years, each of them interested in emerging markets but expressed through different disciplines: Jones, a... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Educational Support Services; Educational Services
  • 18 Feb 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Wrap-up: Software, Telecom, and Recovery

for blocking hackers and preventing online invasion. There is a trend to invest in application and infrastructure hardware, said John G. Simon, a partner at General Catalyst. An opportunity exists, he said,... View Details
Keywords: by Wendy Guild & Martha Lagace; Financial Services; Technology; Communications; Telecommunications
  • 12 Mar 2013
  • First Look

First Look: March 12

Your Roots: Rose Carpenter's Story Davis, John A., Janet Kraus, and Lisa StropeHarvard Business School Case 813-077 Rose Carpenter is a successful entrepreneur who is considering the personal implications of leaving the business she... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • November 2015
  • Article

Influence of Experience and the Surgical Learning Curve on Long-term Patient Outcomes in Cardiac Surgery

By: Bryan M. Burt, Andrew W. ElBardissi, Robert S. Huckman, Lawrence H. Cohn, Marisa W. Cevasco, James D. Rawn, Sary F. Aranki and John G. Byrne
OBJECTIVE: We hypothesized that increased post-graduate surgical experience correlates with improved operative efficiency and long-term survival in standard cardiac surgery procedures.

METHODS: Utilizing a prospectively collected retrospective database,... View Details
Keywords: Service Delivery; Value; Health Care and Treatment; Experience and Expertise; Health Industry
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  • 05 Sep 2012
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First Look: September 5

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-064.pdf   Cases & Course MaterialsPerformance Management at Vitality Health Enterprises, Inc. John B. Bingham and Michael BeerHarvard Business School Case 913-501 Vitality Health Enterprises, a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Dec 2015
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December 8, 2015

2015 Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing The Impact of Globalization on Argentina and Chile: Business Enterprises and Entrepreneurship By: Jones, G. Abstract—This book compares the effects of globalization on two Latin American... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Jul 2015
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First Look: July 28, 2015

Publications In press Chap. 1 in Business Models and Modelling The Business Model: Nature and Benefits By: Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, and John Heilbron Abstract—This paper considers the nature of the business model and its strategic... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 05 Mar 2013
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First Look: March 5

emerging Asian markets. Paper: http://www.asiabusinessinsights.com/articles.html#sub_articles_E-commerce_in_Asia Issuer Quality and Corporate Bond Returns Authors:Greenwood, Robin, and Samuel G. Hanson Publication:Review of Financial... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Jun 2020
  • News

Toronto Copes with COVID-19 Via Webinars; Alumni Respond to Pandemic in Philippines

equipment to these front-liners in 12 provinces.” Angie G. Flaminiano (AMP 196) President, NutriAsia, Inc.: “In alliance with Project Ugnayan, a collaboration effort among 59 private business establishments, NutriAsia donated $2 million... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • 12 Jan 2010
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First Look: Jan. 12

Sadun, and John Van Reenen Publication:Chap. 1 in The Global Economic Impact of Private Equity Report 2009. Globalization of Alternative Investments: Working Papers Volume 2, 1-23. Geneva, Switzerland: World Economic Forum, 2009. An... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Apr 2011
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First Look: April 12

describes Palmisano's approach as a strategist, organization builder, and driver of performance. Again, video clips supplement the reading of the case. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/311030-PDF-ENG Porsche: The Cayenne Launch View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Jan 2010
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First Look: Jan. 26

Breakups Author:Stuart C. Gilson Publication:2nd ed. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2010 Abstract A collection of case studies illustrates real-world techniques, implementation, and strategies on corporate restructuring. Over the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Dec 1999
  • News

From the Editors

briefly when Bates left in 1928, and former newspaper correspondent John Hunter Sedgwick (MBA '22), who began his ten-year assignment in 1929. In the first of his trademark editorials on world events, Sedgwick commented on the recent... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
  • 01 Mar 2012
  • News

Capitalism’s New Agenda

Image © politicalcartoons.com/R.J. Matson It was easy to dismiss the Occupy Wall Street protesters. By many accounts, they were disorganized, lacked a clear agenda, advanced arguments that were inconsistent and poorly reasoned, and had no solutions. In style, they were... View Details
Keywords: Joseph L. Bower, Herman B. Leonard, and Lynn S. Paine; social activism; Occupy Wallstreet; Corporate Services; Finance
  • 12 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018

of the pace of technological substitution by providing insights on complementarities between technologies and horizontally differentiated human capital. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53855 Buying the Verdict By: Cohen, Lauren... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman