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    Peter F. Hurst

    citizenship forced him to relinquish his business. After the war, Hurst regained control of his business and built it into a full-scale supplier of parts for conveying and moving fluids – often ones that were very dangerous. In the... View Details
    Keywords: Fabricated Goods
    • 2008
    • Working Paper

    How Did Increased Competition Affect Credit Ratings?

    The credit rating industry has historically been dominated by just two agencies, Moody's and S&P, leading to longstanding legislative and regulatory calls for increased competition. The material entry of a third rating agency (Fitch) to the competitive landscape offers... View Details
    Keywords: Credit; Financial Markets; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Quality; Reputation; Competition; Financial Services Industry
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    Becker, Bo, and Todd Milbourn. "How Did Increased Competition Affect Credit Ratings?" Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 09-051, October 2008. (Revised July 2009, September 2010.)
    • 08 Dec 2008
    • Research & Ideas

    Thinking Twice About Supply-Chain Layoffs

    one-standard-deviation increase in store labor brought about a 10 percent increase in profit margin. These findings ran contrary to the thinking of store managers that Ton interviewed. They consistently identified service quality as a top... View Details
    Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail
    • 27 Sep 2016
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    September 27, 2016

    increased resource utilization (i.e., longer average length of stay) for both minor and major teaching hospitals, relative to a control group of non-teaching hospitals. We find limited evidence of negative effects on View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 21 Jun 2011
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    First Look: June 21

    results are consistent with an experimentation hypothesis in which tight monitoring of decisions leads to more control but less learning. An Evolutionary Approach to Financial History Author: Niall Ferguson Publication: Cold Spring Harbor... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 01 Dec 2010
    • News

    You Are What You Eat

    creative tension of competition and cooperation.... We are now in the grip of another agricultural revolution in which Elite Capital takes control of the food chain. It is false to argue that intensification is needed to feed the world... View Details
    Keywords: agricultural intensification; Animal Production and Aquaculture; Agriculture
    • 01 Feb 1998
    • News

    Former HBS Dean Fouraker Dies at 74

    Dean Kim B. Clark. "He paved the way for the kind of international point of view that we regard as so essential today in educating leaders for the 21st century." Former HBS Dean John H. McArthur praised Fouraker's successful efforts to manage and View Details
    • 05 Aug 2002
    • Research & Ideas

    Five questions for Regina E. Herzlinger

    the sick. The resulting competition for consumers with differentiated products will control costs by increasing quality of care—e.g., integrated teams for congestive heart failure have reduced costs by... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace
    • 17 Sep 2013
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    First Look: September 17

    prizes that are awarded to high-quality innovations may encourage future innovation. U.S. patent data indicate a 40% increase after 1851 in patenting for prizewinners compared with other exhibits. Results are robust to controlling for... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 05 Aug 2002
    • Research & Ideas

    Are Consumers the Cure for Broken Health Insurance?

    Just as we saw with the securities industry, entrepreneurs will respond to the unleashing of consumer demands with clearly differentiated products featuring various combinations of benefits, levels of insurance coverage, payment systems for providers, lengths of... View Details
    Keywords: by Regina E. Herzlinger
    • 10 Oct 2007
    • Research & Ideas

    “Blank” Inside: Branding Ingredients

    the quality of what's inside. We need the assurance of the Sunkist brand. A variant on this theme is ingredient branding: putting the brand of an ingredient on the outside of a product to increase its appeal. When is the provider of the... View Details
    Keywords: by John Quelch; Aerospace; Consumer Products
    • 19 Sep 2024
    • Blog Post

    A Day at Royal FloraHolland: The Epicenter of the Global Flower Market

    overlook the significance of these certifications and typically lack the necessary operational capacity to pursue them, underscoring a divide in the adoption of sustainable practices within the RFH community. RFH also champions eco-friendly cultivation methods, such as... View Details
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    Regulating Hospital Prices Based on Market Concentration Is Likely to Leave High-Price Hospitals Unaffected

    By: Maximilian J. Pany, Michael E. Chernew and Leemore S. Dafny
    Concern about high hospital prices for commercially insured patients has motivated several proposals to regulate these prices. Such proposals often limit regulations to highly concentrated hospital markets. Using a large sample of 2017 US commercial insurance claims,... View Details
    Keywords: Health Care Providers; Hospitals; Insurance Market Regulation; Price Regulation; Markets; Health Care and Treatment; Cost; Quality; Insurance; Price; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms
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    Pany, Maximilian J., Michael E. Chernew, and Leemore S. Dafny. "Regulating Hospital Prices Based on Market Concentration Is Likely to Leave High-Price Hospitals Unaffected." Health Affairs 40, no. 9 (September 2021): 1386–1394.
    • 01 Dec 2020
    • News

    Up Your Time Affluence

    wealth weakly predicts happiness. “It’s okay to be money-focused,” says Whillans. “But beyond a certain point, the amount of money you have has little bearing on happiness levels.” Finding quality time in an already hectic schedule can... View Details
    • 05 Jun 2014
    • Research & Ideas

    Fixing the ‘I Hate Work’ Blues

    under intense operational pressure is nearly impossible. In addition, the heavy burden of compliance with government regulations and internal corporate requirements is taking a toll on people, limiting their creativity, and causing them to be risk-averse. In this... View Details
    Keywords: by Bill George
    • 24 Apr 2014
    • News

    Clean water that provides a trickle-down effect

    As chairman and CEO of Ayala Corporation, Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala (AB 1981, MBA 1987) is enhancing the quality of life of more than six million people, approximately one-third of whom belong to the low-income sector in Manila, by... View Details
    • 17 Jun 2002
    • Research & Ideas

    Entrepreneurship in Asia and Foreign Direct Investment

    strength or weakness of local entrepreneurship in host countries, Huang argued. The institutional quality of an economy, which affects the efficiency of capital allocation and the security of property rights of productive and innovative... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace
    • 09 Jul 2008
    • Research & Ideas

    Starbucks’ Lessons for Premium Brands

    coffee, revitalizing the quality of its standard beverages. But none of these moves addressed the fundamental problem: Starbucks is a mass brand attempting to command a premium price for an experience that is no longer special. Either you... View Details
    Keywords: by John Quelch; Retail
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    Mi Zhou

    of Chinese businesses,” she says, “is rapid growth that overtakes corporate governance. In many cases, there’s very loose control over the business. I worked with one client that had business units making up their accounting numbers. In... View Details
    • 01 Jun 2018
    • News

    Digging Deep

    solidly built, collapsible shovel tools that won’t break when things get down and dirty. In the past year, Pieper moved manufacturing from China to Portland, Oregon, a difficult logistical shift that nonetheless made it easier to control... View Details
    Keywords: Julia Hanna
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