Learning From Failure - Publications - Faculty & Research

2021
Working Paper

Diagnosing Quality: Learning, Amenities, and the Demand for Health Care

By: Achyuta Adhvaryu, Emilio Gutierrez, Anant Nyshadham and Jorge Tamayo

We study the role of amenities in increasing demand for underutilized healthcare services. We evaluate the offer of a high-amenity diagnostic consultation for cataracts with a randomized price and find that a lower price for the high-amenity consultation increases... View Details

Keywords: Health Care Demand; Amenities; Health Care Quality; Cataracts; Surgery; Health Care and Treatment; Demand and Consumers; Quality; Learning; Mexico

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Loujaine AlMoallim

game that keeps you on your toes (or on your head, in some cases). And nothing feels more rewarding than facing these challenges and learning how to tackle them. What is your most memorable classroom moment? During one of our classes in... View Details

29 Sep 2003
Research & Ideas

Why Managing Innovation is Like Theater

objectives, even if you could. Often in this kind of work, time spent planning what you want to do will be better spent actually doing (or letting others in your charge do), trying something you haven't thought out in detail so you can quickly incorporate what you... View Details

Keywords: by Rob Austin & Lee Devin

30 Nov 2015
Research & Ideas

Donors Are Turned Off by Overhead Costs. Here’s What Charities Can Do

recommendations from watchdogs like CharityWatch, which tend to give higher ratings to charities with low overhead costs. But that can lead to a harmful cycle in which charities keep their overhead costs unreasonably low in order to... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

13 Jan 2023
Blog Post

Video: Introduction to the Harvard MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences

View Video TRANSCRIPT Robert D. Howe: The MS/MBA program is a dual degree program. So in two years, you'll earn an MBA from Harvard's Business School and a Master of Science in engineering from Harvard's... View Details

14 Jun 2021
Op-Ed

When Your Nerves Get the Best of You, Change the Narrative

was really excitement about being included among such an accomplished team. This reframing worked: I felt far less stressed, and the program went well. I did learn from the experience, and eventually I... View Details

Keywords: by Francesca Gino

30 Mar 2003
Research & Ideas

The Future of IT Consulting

have been several. First, innovation in frameworks and methodologies along with trained professionals have provided value-added services uniquely available from the consulting firm. For example, the Boston Consulting Group and McKinsey... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston; Consulting

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Globalization - Faculty & Research

competition, and earnings management affect mean reversion in accounting return on assets. Using a sample of 48,465 unique firms from 49 countries, we find that accounting returns mean revert faster in countries where there is more... View Details

21 Feb 2013
Working Paper Summaries

Developing the Guts of a GUT (Grand Unified Theory): Elite Commitment and Inclusive Growth

Keywords: by Lant Pritchett & Eric D. Werker

12 Dec 2005
Research & Ideas

Using the Law to Strategic Advantage

Constance Bagley: Yes, I'd be happy to. The law offers a variety of tools managers can use to manage the firm more effectively. They range from contracts, which can be used to strengthen business relationships, allocate risk and reward,... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Legal Services

15 Oct 2020
Research & Ideas

IT Job Wages Are No Longer 'Exceptional'

area. [Image: iStock Photo] Related Reading What We Learned from Reading Jeff Bezos’ Patents Are Digital Organizations Better at Overcoming COVID? Immigration Policies Threaten American Competitiveness Have... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Information Technology

22 May 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018

However, high purpose firms come in two forms: firms that are characterized by high camaraderie between workers and firms that are characterized by high clarity from management. We document that firms exhibiting both high purpose and... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

04 Oct 2016
First Look

October 4, 2016

corporate sales from multiple sources, including approximately 50 million mobile devices. These measures contain information from both the earnings quarter (within quarter) and the period between that... View Details

12 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

The Three Components of Family Governance

There are three components to family governance: Periodic (typically annual) assemblies of the family; all families in business can benefit from this activity. Family council meetings for those families that benefit View Details

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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

expectations into a standard setting of price formation in which investors learn about the fundamental value of an asset and trade it. They study the interaction of diagnostic expectations with learning... View Details

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Self-environment relationship and its effect on decisions under risk and uncertainty

My research seek to better understand the main cognitive and social abilities that guide our judgments, and the ways they interact with aspects of the situation to shape humans' decisions. It is currently comprised of three related... View Details

15 Jan 2025
Blog Post

Building Bridges to Sustainable Infrastructure with Allied Climate Partners

opportunities within ACP’s pipeline. Each day was an immersion into critical questions about climate impact and financial viability, set against the backdrop of a fast-evolving sector. Why This Path? I came to HBS with the goal of transitioning View Details

9 AM – 9 AM EST, 07 Nov 2018

HBX Disruptive Strategy

Make innovation a reality with strategies from two-time Worlds Most Innovative Business Thinker, Clayton Christensen. Program Dates: November 7, 2018 - December 19, 2018 View Details

9 AM – 10 AM EDT, 03 Apr 2019
HBS Online

HBS Online Disruptive Strategy

Make innovation a reality with strategies from two-time World's Most Innovative Business Thinker, Clayton Christensen. Program Dates: April 3, 2019 - May 15, 2019 View Details

01 Mar 2023
What Do You Think?

How Much Does 'Deep Purpose' Matter to the Bottom Line?

culture, shifting its mission from a product-oriented “computer on every desk and in every home” to “empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more.” The assumption is that “to be the best” just doesn’t measure... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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