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- 01 Mar 2009
- News
A New Approach to Health-Care Reform
is almost 100 percent effective in protecting children’s teeth against decay, only about one-third of kids get it. By contrast, in the minority of dental plans that provide comprehensive care for a yearly fixed fee, nearly all children... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Hope for Reform Dims
By contrast, he continued, not enough attention has been paid to improving risk management. Risk models widely used before the crisis relied too heavily on historical data that turned out to be flawed, he said. Most models, for example,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Going Public: Christopher S. Yeh
"consumers now understand that business needs their personal data and will pay for it. We see ClickRebates as the leader in this emerging field of consumer-to-business e-commerce; we've even trademarked a term for it: C2B." Yeh plans to... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 14 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 14
students' self-assessment and to the instructor's assessment of class participation performance, based on five years of data (n=7,025) across ten sections. The article demonstrates that crowdsourced peer-to-peer assessment (unlike... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
5.1 Information Technology | MBA
system or database, falsely obtaining electronic services or data without payment of required charges, intentionally intercepting electronic communications, and obtaining, altering, or destroying others’ electronic information. Similarly,... View Details
- 20 Oct 2016
- News
Smart Moves
provider of a whole range of services—parking, fuel-price data, intermodal routing—centered on the connected car. Although the majority of our data comes directly from consumers—think of it as crowd sourcing of traffic information—we’re... View Details
- 21 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
Is a Gap in Small-Business Credit Holding Back the American Economy?
Protection Bureau with requiring banks to collect and maintain certain data in connection with credit applications made by women- or minority-owned businesses and small businesses.) However, the information... View Details
- 14 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
Creating a Global Business Code
investigate corporate conduct standards around the world. But what started as a seemingly straightforward search soon grew into a major undertaking that required a dedicated server to process multilingual data from thousands of employees... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 21 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
Faculty Research Looks to Latin America
country." [We were then able to cross-check data for blocks which had Jewish institutions versus blocks that did not.] "What is crucial is that we can obtain an estimate of by how much the police presence deters crime."... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- Web
High-Tech Greenhouse Innovations in The Netherlands - Blog - Business & Environment
Blog Blog Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author HBS Faculty Author HBS Staff Author Students Topics Topics Accelerating Climate Solutions Conference 2023 Alumni Alumni Programs Alumni in Climate Networking Series Business & Environment... View Details
- 22 Jun 2021
- Blog Post
Why Many Businesses Are Becoming More Vocal In Support of LGBTQ Rights
protections and against discriminatory laws. And they are not doing it alone. They are turning to coalitions to ensure they have strength in numbers, resources, and messaging alignment. In one example, then-Indiana Gov. Mike Pence signed... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 15 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 15, 2017
were compliant (that is, 52.8% under treatment). Fifty-five (18%) had normal blood pressure readings (BP under control). The data also demonstrated higher prevalence (39%) of hypertension among tobacco users compared to non-users (28%)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
An Rx for Small Business Recovery
“What happens when the algorithms make a mistake on someone’s credit score, and because of that they don’t get a loan? How do you protect against bias? How do you regulate data access and ownership? These... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 05 Dec 2013
- Op-Ed
Encourage Breakthrough Health Care by Competing on Products Rather Than Patents
they should open target data and compete on solutions—compounds and molecules addressing the targets. I agree. If we're going to get the breakthrough products we want at a development cost we can afford, we have to figure out the best... View Details
- 18 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018
firms face little competition, even after the end of formal periods of patent protection and market exclusivity. Additionally, the evolving technologies of drug development—in particular, the increasingly common use of auxiliary endpoints... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 13 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 13, 2016
accelerate progress: Put patients at the center of care, create choice, stop rewarding volume, standardize value-based methods of payment, and make data on outcomes transparent. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 27 Jul 2019
- Op-Ed
Does Facebook's Business Model Threaten Our Elections?
the transparency front, it is publishing quarterly reports across nine categories of content, showing how much they take down before users see it. Last May, the European Union passed the General Data View Details
Keywords: by George Riedel
- 25 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Has Occupational Licensing Outlived Its Usefulness?
or she will pay. The study, Consumer Protection In An Online World: An Analysis Of Occupational Licensing, is the first to look together at what consumers care about and the effects on demand and metrics of customer satisfaction. It is... View Details
- 31 Oct 2023
- Blog Post
Climate Change Pioneers in the Class of 1978
protect against pests and diseases, enhance grain and fruit quality, and improve plant nutrition. Some of the microbes under development may soon be used to reduce fertilizer usage and to substantially reduce methane gas escapage. Rick... View Details
- 14 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 14, 2016
which analysis of the numbers, facts, and data fails to provide a clear answer. Gray areas test not only managers’ skills but also their humanity. This book presents a five-question framework—based on the long humanist tradition of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne