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  • 17 Oct 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 17, 2017

patient satisfaction, and problems with patient safety. Nearly all U.S. health care organizations have used similar evidence to justify their investments in safety and quality. Herein, we provide conservative formulas based on readily... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Sep 2011
  • First Look

First Look: September 20

frequent punishment and in turn fewer norm violations. Despite ubiquitous scholarly references to Coleman's theory, little empirical work has directly tested it in large-scale natural settings with longitudinal data. We undertake such a test using View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Sep 2008
  • First Look

First Look: September 16, 2008

Abstract This paper presents evidence of performance persistence in entrepreneurship. We show that entrepreneurs with a track record of success are much more likely to succeed than first-time entrepreneurs and those who have previously... View Details
  • 19 Nov 2010
  • Research & Ideas

The Landscape of Integrated Reporting: An E-Book

Editor's note: Harvard Business School in mid-October played host to the 2010 Workshop on Integrated Reporting: Frameworks and Action Plan. Under direction of conference organizer Robert G. Eccles, participants recently published an View Details
Keywords: by Nitin Nohria; Accounting
  • 11 Aug 2009
  • First Look

First Look: August 11, 2009

insiders strategically sell shares prior to the disclosure of goodwill impairment losses. We provide evidence that insiders of goodwill impairment firms engage in abnormal selling of their shares quarters prior to the announcement of such losses. In addition, of firms... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 06 Jul 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Conducting Layoffs: ’Necessary Evils’ at Work

managers felt they understood the magnitude of the responsibility—that the health and welfare of the company and the victims rested on their shoulders—and were ready to take on that responsibility. A common question that gets debated is... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 21 Jul 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Don’t Get Buried in Customer Data—Use It

initiative that will address a problem hinted at in the overall relationship survey ("this is the 'digging and understanding' layer," says Cunningham); and, at the most granular level, records of each individual transaction that... View Details
Keywords: by Jean Ayers
  • 22 Sep 2014
  • Op-Ed

Online Banks Fill Funding Needs for Small Business

and electronic payment technology to assess the health of a business. Traditional lenders generally focus on both the small business owners' personal credit history and key metrics about the borrower's... View Details
Keywords: by Karen Mills; Banking; Financial Services
  • 10 Jan 2012
  • First Look

First Look: January 10

and Toby Stuart Abstract The corporate staff is central in theories of the multi-business firm, but empirical evidence on its function is limited. In this paper, we examine the high-level role of two units of a corporate staff through analysis of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Apr 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, April 25

President of Product Development and cofounder, closed on a $41 million investment round. Their firm was one of the hottest companies in the health information technology field. They provided core data warehouse technology to enable... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Jul 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Overcoming the Challenges of Selling Brand New Technology (Hey, Need a 3-D Printer?)

Once a company grows large enough to scale, says Cespedes, it’s important that managers think strategically about segmenting its market, not just “partitioning” it into broad categories such as health care or financial services. Cespedes... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Electronics; Electronics; Electronics; Electronics; Electronics; Electronics; Electronics; Electronics
  • 26 Sep 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017

article proposes that the review process initially be adopted on a pilot basis. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53264 September 2017 Health Affairs Narrow Networks on the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 2008
  • Lessons from the Classroom

How Many U.S. Jobs Are ‘Offshorable’?

account the potential for an occupation's tasks to move offshore over the next 10 years, assuming a normal rate of technological progress (particularly in the area of electronic communications). They also had to indicate a likely... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 14 Nov 2006
  • First Look

First Look: November 14, 2006

eminent hospitals, and for decades has been a leader in pioneering cardiac care. Explores the methods, processes, and personnel that the hospital has cultivated over the years in order to develop its track record of excellence. In light... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Mar 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Want to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part I]

Founded in 1997 to revolutionize the mundane printing business with new display technology, the company had its eye on multibillion-dollar markets like electronic newspapers. But to realize that vision, its scientists had to get into... View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
  • 11 Apr 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Financial Services 24/7

week for it to clear will be equally unfathomable. Technology is transforming the banking industry so rapidly that anything less than around-the-clock electronic access to bank accounts seems unthinkable. While predictions vary widely as... View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
  • 06 Mar 2018
  • First Look

First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018

Mahek A. Shah, and Kevin A. Schulman Abstract—The federal government mandated adoption of certified electronic health record systems (EHR), at least in part, to reduce... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Jul 2013
  • First Look

First Look: July 23

School Case 713-483 Yammer (B) Supplement to "Yammer (A)," HBS case 713-407 Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/713483-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 712-466 Moving to Universal Coverage: Health Care Reform in... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 04 Dec 2012
  • First Look

First Look: December 4

fiscal 2000, Circuit City was at the top of its game. The world's leading consumer electronics retailer had delivered record sales and profits for the first year of the new millennium. It was a fitting... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 19 Jan 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 18

analysis, then presents a real-life case example from the natural gas industry that students can use to gain experience developing and interpreting the results of time equations. Purchase this note:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/111001-PDF-ENG Assessing a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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