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  • 02 Jan 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 3, 2018

Sources of Inefficiency in Health Care By: Chandra, Amitabh, and Douglas O. Staiger Abstract—In medicine, the reasons for variation in treatment rates across hospitals serving similar patients are not well understood. Some interpret this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jun 2014
  • News

Early Impact

1987), have made it possible for HBS faculty to do research, conduct surveys, hold forums around the country, and publish their ideas and insights, all as part of the multiyear U.S. Competitiveness Project... View Details
Keywords: Construction of Buildings; Construction of Buildings; Construction of Buildings; Construction of Buildings
  • 05 May 2003
  • Research & Ideas

What It Takes to Restore Trust in Business

It's not in great shape, but it isn't doing too badly, and measured by the standards of the rest of the world it is a marvel and it's doing quite well," he observed. The... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services
  • 08 Jan 2007
  • What Do You Think?

Neuro Economics: Science or Science Fiction?

associated with findings based on research in need of standards and more fully-developed methods. Joseph Mello points out that "these studies will produce results along two lines. First, there will be... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 21 Aug 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Faculty Research Looks to Latin America

discuss research possibilities in more depth. Below are snapshot summaries of their presentations. Globalization And Fdi A native of Costa Rica, Professor Laura Alfaro teaches the Business, Government and... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 18 Jan 2017
  • Blog Post

The Latino Community at HBS

body and the Harvard community at large. Developing partnerships with other affinity groups, helping support admissions and outreach events, and cultivating a support network for Latino students are just a few of the initiatives LASO... View Details
  • 28 Aug 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Online Match-Making with Virtual Dates

interact, as if the couple is going to a museum together and chatting about the art work. "We wanted to give people something more specific to talk about, help them find common interests and points of divergence, and give them some... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Publishing
  • 18 Nov 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Enterprising Women—a History

"Where is the historiography of business? Why have businessmen, and now women, had to fight their way into history?" Yeager is conducting research on Miriam Beard and Henrietta Larson, who were... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Linard
  • February 2000 (Revised April 2001)
  • Case

Boston Medical Group

By: Richard M.J. Bohmer and Bruce L. Hall
Describes the structure of a variable compensation plan for physicians implemented by a Massachusetts medical group practice. Examines issues such as balancing group and individual risk and selection of performance metrics (productivity and patient satisfaction). View Details
Keywords: Customer Satisfaction; Health Care and Treatment; Executive Compensation; Management Practices and Processes; Risk Management; Standards; Risk and Uncertainty; Health Industry
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  • 12 Sep 2006
  • First Look

First Look: September 12, 2006

a not-for-profit research center at the Harvard Medical School (HMS). The center was started in late 2000 with a gift of $37.5 million from an anonymous donor. Its mandate was to conduct research that could... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Nov 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Solving the Health Care Conundrum

quickly than inflation; restriction of access and services; standards of care that lag behind accepted benchmarks; frequent treatment errors; wide variations in practice... View Details
Keywords: by Michael E. Porter; Health
  • 06 Apr 2010
  • First Look

First Look: April 6

standard deviation increase in the divergence increases the average loan spread by approximately 18%, or 35 basis points. The effect of the excess control rights on the cost of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Apr 2011
  • First Look

First Look: April 12

conducts one of the first large-scale, establishment-level empirical studies of delegation within firms. Recent contributions to a rapidly growing theory literature have... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Nov 2015
  • First Look

November 10, 2015

find that each $1 invested in display and search leads to a return of $1.24 for display and $1.75 for search ads, which contrasts sharply with the estimated returns based on standard metrics. We use these... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Apr 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Adding Time to Activity-Based Costing

definite advance over the arbitrary overhead allocations done by traditional standard cost systems, many companies abandoned ABC or updated their model only infrequently, because of the high time and cost... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
  • 2011
  • Other Unpublished Work

Height Taken but Worth Unknown: Valuation as an Institutional Process

By: R. Daniel Wadhwani and Mukti Khaire
Drawing on research from organizational studies, sociology, history, and anthropology, we develop a framework for understanding valuation as an institutional process in markets. We posit that three institutional elements—categories, criteria, and standards—are integral... View Details
Keywords: Interactive Communication; Markets; Standards; Situation or Environment; Perception; Valuation
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  • May 1984 (Revised May 1989)
  • Case

Cleveland Twist Drill (B)

By: Richard G. Hamermesh
Describes events at Cleveland Twist Drill between April 1982 and February 1983. Jim Bartlett's approach to the union and the implementation of the "move strategy" are described. Students are asked to evaluate these actions and to develop plans for dealing with current... View Details
Keywords: History; Management Style; Leadership Style; Standards; Power and Influence
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  • 03 Feb 2009
  • First Look

First Look: February 3, 2009

studies conducted in numerous countries and contexts have consistently demonstrated that setting specific, challenging goals can powerfully drive behavior and boost performance. Advocates of goal setting... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 11 Oct 2010
  • Research & Ideas

It Pays to Hire Women in Countries That Won’t

domestic Korean companies that did employ senior female managers, particularly but not exclusively in the apparel and publishing industries, also appeared to benefit financially from doing so.) The idea of exploiting the social divide is... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 19 May 2015
  • First Look

First Look: May 19

Abstract—The prominent but unproven intuition that preference heterogeneity reduces redistribution in a standard optimal tax model is shown to hold under the plausible condition that the distribution of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne