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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
- Profile
Margarita de la Piedra Carrillo
During her last year of university, Margarita interned at Citibank del Peru's Quality and Innovation area to streamline asset-based finance projects and "reduce workloads." After graduation, Margarita transferred to Credit Risk... View Details
- 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
- 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
- 02 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
Foreign Multinationals in the U.S.: A Rocky Road
transfer pricing, this present study pointed to acute problems of control and managing U.S. affiliates as an important factor. Q: What are the key themes you have discovered among foreign multinational companies in the United States? What... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston & Martha Lagace
- 14 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 14
flexible random coefficients aggregate discrete choice model that accommodates heterogeneity in preferences for school quality and athletic success, and an extensive set of school fixed effects to control... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Katharine Graham Offers Advice on Leadership
the Post to look after their four children and coordinate the couple's active Washington social life. Her life changed abruptly in 1963, when Philip Graham committed suicide after a struggle with manic depression, and she took control of... 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
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Taking Care of Business
expertise in quality control and volume manufacturing in the automotive industry (where he does double duty as managing director of Sundaram Brake Linings), Mahesh launched Sundaram Medical Devices in 2010,... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 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
- 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
- Portrait Project
Chirag Shah
a significant milestone in a personal journey. I discovered that the practice of good medicine teaches the values needed for a quality life. It involves helping people through tough choices. It means having the courage to listen without... 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
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.
- 07 Mar 2000
- Research & Ideas
Putting Health Care Consumers in the Driver’s Seat
U.S. consumers more power over decisions related to health care. Those who advocate consumer-driven health care—including conference chair Professor Regina E. Herzlinger—believe that shifting control of health-care purchasing decisions... View Details
- 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
- 17 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
Who is Boss in the Sharing Economy?
types of decisions that affect the joint payoffs of the firm and the professionals: nontransferable and transferable. Nontransferable decisions are always completely controlled by the professionals (e.g., how friendly to be to customers)... View Details
- 16 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research, May 16
sharing system recording employees’ creative work—a control system often used to promote local experimentation—on the quality of creative work, job engagement, and financial performance. While, on average,... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 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
- 23 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 23, 2015
pronounced for firms with high growth opportunities, not controlled by a family, operating in "sin" industries, and exhibiting commitment to IR. I find that the results are robust to the inclusion of firm fixed effects, View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Mar 2016
- HBS Case
Can Customer Reviews Be 'Managed?'
word-of-mouth, marketers should influence word-of-mouth, is actually not entirely correct. We still do advertising because you control 100 percent of your advertising. You have very little, sometimes no View Details