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  • September 2003 (Revised January 2005)
  • Case

Bridges to Excellence: Bringing Quality Health Care to Life

By: Richard M.J. Bohmer, Ingrid Marie Nembhard and Robert Galvin
General Electric launched Bridges to Excellence Diabetes Care Link, a program through which enrolled physicians receive bonuses of up to 10% of their salary for delivering quality care to diabetic patients covered by a participating employer or health plan. A day... View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Motivation and Incentives; Programs; Ethics; Quality; Moral Sensibility; Service Delivery; Compensation and Benefits; Health Industry
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  • 2003
  • Article

Developing a Management Systems Approach to Sustainability at BMW Group

By: Michael W. Toffel, Natalie Hill and Kellie McElhaney
This article describes how Designworks/USA, a subsidiary of BMW Group, developed a Sustainability Management System (SMS) by integrating the management of environmental, social, and traditional business issues. After several months of deploying the SMS throughout its... View Details
Keywords: Environmental Sustainability; Management Systems; Standards; Operations; Auto Industry
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  • 01 May 2007
  • First Look

First Look: May 1, 2007

Lessons from the Management of Clinical Trials Authors:Robert S.Huckman and Darren E. Zinner Periodical:Strategic Management Journal (forthcoming) Abstract For over three decades, the benefits of focus have... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Research Summary

Financial Incentives

My research examines how the performance effects of internal governance and the design of compensation vary by managerial position. For example, I document links between innovation and stock options for corporate R&D heads;... View Details

  • Research Summary

Current Research

By: Leslie K. John

Professor John is a behavioral scientist who uses both laboratory and field experiments to investigate questions that are at the intersection of marketing, organizational behavior, and public policy.

Professor John’s work has been published in leading... View Details

  • August 2006
  • Article

Predicting Returns with Managerial Decision Variables: Is There a Small-Sample Bias?

By: Malcolm Baker, Ryan Taliaferro and Jeffrey Wurgler
Many studies find that aggregate managerial decision variables, such as aggregate equity issuance, predict stock or bond market returns. Recent research argues that these findings may be driven by an aggregate time-series version of Schultz's (2003, Journal of Finance... View Details
Keywords: Prejudice and Bias; Fairness; Managerial Roles; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Equity; Bonds; Financial Markets; Investment; Capital Markets; Borrowing and Debt; Investment Return
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  • 18 Jul 2006
  • First Look

First Look: July 18, 2006

Principles of Business Conduct. Governance-Linked D&O Market-Based Governance: Leveraging D&O Insurance to Drive Corporate Governance Authors:Srikant M. Datar and J. H. Friedland Publisher:International View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Oct 2006
  • First Look

First Look: October 3, 2006

Bit Player or Powerhouse? China and Stem-Cell Research Authors:Debora Spar and Fiona Murray Periodical:New England Journal of Medicine 355, no. 12 (September 21, 2006):... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Nov 2008
  • First Look

First Look: November 12, 2008

"Dubai's answer to Pixar" in a recent magazine article, Lammtara's first animated television show, FREEJ, had taken the Arabian Gulf region by storm a year ago. It was November 2007, and the second... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Research Summary

Professor Pill's current research has two dimensions. On the one hand, he is investigating the formulation and conduct of monetary policy in advanced economies, with a focus on the implementation of the single monetary policy in the euro area. On the other hand, he is... View Details
  • 03 Apr 2007
  • First Look

First Look: April 3, 2007

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=607008   PublicationsUnraveling Yields Inefficient Matchings: Evidence from Post-Season College Football Bowls Authors:Guillaume R. Frechette, Alvin E. Roth, and M. Utku Unver... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 06 Sep 2016
  • First Look

September 6, 2016

between portfolio choice and return realizations. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51573 In Press Journal of Personality and Social Psychology... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
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Microfinance

"Tying Odysseus to the Mast: Evidence from a Commitment Savings Product in the Philippines." (with Dean Karlan and Wesley Yin) Quarterly Journal of Economics 121, no. 2, 2006.
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  • 17 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 17, 2009

  Working PapersFemale Empowerment: Impact of a Commitment Savings Product in the Philippines Authors:Nava Ashraf, Dean Karlan, and Wesley Yin Abstract Female 'empowerment' has increasingly become a policy goal, both as an end to itself... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Article

Algorithms Need Managers, Too

By: Michael Luca, Jon Kleinberg and Sendhil Mullainathan
Algorithms are powerful predictive tools, but they can run amok when not applied properly. Consider what often happens with social media sites. Today many use algorithms to decide which ads and links to show users. But when these algorithms focus too narrowly on... View Details
Keywords: Machine Learning; Algorithms; Predictive Analytics; Management; Big Data; Analytics and Data Science
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  • 29 Feb 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Whence IT Value?

During the past few years inventory turns among U.S. manufacturers have climbed steadily, and it appears as if productivity has improved nicely. One explanation for these happy trends is that the massive investments we've been making in... View Details
Keywords: by Andrew McAfee
  • February 2013
  • Article

Daily Horizons: Evidence of Narrow Bracketing in Judgments from 9,000 MBA Admission Interviews

By: U. Simonsohn and F. Gino
Many professionals, from auditors and lawyers, to clinical psychologists and journal editors, divide a continuous flow of judgments into subsets. College admissions interviewers, for instance, evaluate but a handful of applicants a day. We conjectured that in such... View Details
Keywords: Judgments; Forecasting and Prediction; Research
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  • June 2020 (Revised February 2021)
  • Case

Accounting for Leases at American Airlines (A)

By: Jonas Heese, Gerardo Pérez Cavazos and Julia Kelley
In March 2020, as coronavirus reduced demand for air travel, an analyst was forecasting American Airlines’ (American’s) first quarter financial results. To develop a forecast, she needed to familiarize herself with Accounting Standards Update (ASU) 2016-02, “Leases... View Details
Keywords: Accounting; Financial Reporting; Financial Statements; Finance; Governance; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Governance; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Governing and Advisory Boards; Leasing; Accounting Industry; Air Transportation Industry; North and Central America; United States
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  • 04 Apr 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, April 4

political participation and interest while improving representation of all groups. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52460 December 2016 Strategic Management Journal Through... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Feb 2024
  • Research & Ideas

The Middle Manager of the Future: More Coaching, Less Commanding

American Journal of Sociology. While artificial intelligence promises to transform the workplace and disrupt the organizational chart, Zhang’s research suggests that middle managers will still play a key... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand

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