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13 Oct 2015
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October 13, 2015

and Beijing turned their focus to attracting these new entities, setting the stage for Sino-Soviet competition. Based on archival research from 10 countries, including new materials from Russia and China, many no longer View Details

03 May 2004
What Do You Think?

How Much Is Enough?

against similar goals others have strived for), significance (a positive impact on people you care about), and legacy (establishing your values or accomplishments in ways that help others find future success)." According View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

16 Jun 2014
Research & Ideas

The Unfulfilled Promise of Educational Technology

referring to massive open online courses pioneered by many universities that put their lectures and course content online. That has provided new access to students on two... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Education

August 21, 2018
Article

Patient–Physician Gender Concordance and Increased Mortality Among Female Heart Attack Patients

By: Brad Greenwood, Seth Carnahan and Laura Huang

We examine patient gender disparities in survival rates following acute myocardial infarctions (i.e., heart attacks) based on the gender of the treating physician. Using a census of heart attack patients admitted to Florida hospitals between 1991 and 2010, we find... View Details

Keywords: Health Disorders; Health Care and Treatment; Gender; Outcome or Result

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22 Dec 2015
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December 22, 2015

legendary jeweler but became complacent and lost its clients. Taken over in 2001 by a new leadership team, Mauboussin engaged in a radically different strategy and abandoned its ultra-prestigious and exclusive positioning to embrace a... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

15 Jul 2014
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Keywords: Carmen Nobel

19 May 2014
Research & Ideas

Why Companies Should Compete for Your Privacy

information. Social networking on Facebook would be of little value if users provided no personal information, and digital assistants such as Apple's Siri require access to consumers' location, contact... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Consumer Products

16 May 2005
Research & Ideas

Confronting the Reality of Web Services

access it? Who gets to update it? What's the last day for bookings in each quarter? Is it the same all around the world? Do we have to do a credit check before scheduling every... View Details

Keywords: by Sara Grant

07 Aug 2012
Research & Ideas

Off and Running: Professors Comment on Olympics

Olympics can be pulled off only by large, rich cities that have most of the existing infrastructure and venues in place and access to substantial subsidies. A supportive political environment (think Seoul,... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty; Sports

31 May 2020
Working Paper Summaries

Demystifying the Math of the Coronavirus

Keywords: by Elon Kohlberg and Abraham Neyman; Health

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Case

Nopane Advertising Strategy

By: David E. Bell

Nopane is a proprietary drug that sells in much of the United States. It faces substantial competition. The brand manager is undertaking an experiment to determine whether ad copy should be emotional-based or rational-based. The data and associated regression results... View Details

Keywords: Competition; Intellectual Property; Advertising; Health Care and Treatment; Brands and Branding; Product Marketing; Pharmaceutical Industry; United States

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13 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

Small Businesses Are Worse Off Than We Thought

and is working through the details of a partnership with GoFundMe to help facilitate donations for businesses. Other platforms such as Uber are working on similar initiatives. Distrust of government aid The survey data also shed light on... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Financial Services

2009
Working Paper

Input Constraints and the Efficiency of Entry: Lessons from Cardiac Surgery

By: David M. Cutler, Robert S. Huckman and Jonathan T. Kolstad

Prior studies suggest that, with elastically supplied inputs, free entry may lead to an inefficiently high number of firms in equilibrium. Under input scarcity, however, the welfare loss from free entry is reduced. Further, free entry may increase use of high-quality... View Details

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Market Entry and Exit; Duopoly and Oligopoly; Government Legislation; Mathematical Methods; Health Industry; Pennsylvania

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07 Feb 2005
What Do You Think?

If You Blink, Will You Miss?

there were some dissenters. According to Peter Schaible, "A careful reading of Blink reveals that snap decisions can just as often be incorrect, even dangerous." August Specter expressed a clinical... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

07 Jun 2019
Book

Are You a Digital Manager?

themselves. If they cannot leverage themselves, they have no time to build relationships with their peers and bosses to get access to the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

03 Jun 2020
Research & Ideas

Who Guarantees Your Workplace Is Safe for Return?

expected to look for some objective standard of reasonable care before they will concur that indoor environments are reasonably safe. There are likely to be do-it-yourselfers,... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber and Joseph Allen; Real Estate

05 Oct 2016
Research & Ideas

Why Don't More People Get Flu Shots at Work?

workers with access to free vaccination clinics take advantage of them. (Overall, about 20 percent of vaccines are administered at work.) To boost the number of employees... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Health

01 Apr 2019
What Do You Think?

Does Our Bias Against Federal Deficits Need Rethinking?

Should End Its Debt Obsession, Foreign Affairs, March/April, 2019, foreignaffairs.com, accessed March 23, 2019. Neil Irwin, Neil Irwin, How America Learned to Love Deficits, The New York Times, February 24,... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

24 Jul 2006
Research & Ideas

How Kayak Users Built a New Industry

innovation in design spaces related to new sports, like rodeo kayaking and kite surfing. The participants care passionately about their sport, and (because it is new), its design spaces are still largely... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Entertainment & Recreation

September 2024
Case

The Health Equity Accelerator at Boston Medical Center

By: Susanna Gallani, Mary Witkowski and Katie Sonnefeldt

This case describes how Boston Medical Center, a hospital and safety net organization, changed its strategic approach to health equity after realizing that previous efforts were not sufficient to address the health disparities among their patients. In 2021, the Health... View Details