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  • 23 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018

is economically important, is associated with lower ROA, and can be explained by compensation consultants' tendencies and firms' governance weaknesses. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51919 Lifting the Veil: The Benefits of View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 21 Aug 2018
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New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018

Tracking Performance Indicators By: Beveridge, Christiana, Sofia Warner, Greg Leya, and Thomas W. Feeley Abstract—Given that accountable care organizations (ACOs) have not achieved the degree of cost reductions and quality improvements... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 18 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 18, 2007

within the task network and serve to separate one set of tasks from another. Placing a transaction in a particular location in turn requires work to define, count (or measure), and pay for the transacted objects. The costs of this work... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 13 Jan 2009
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First Look: January 13, 2009

and regulation of clinical trials, managerial challenges related to pharmaceutical product testing, and current debates regarding prescription drug safety. Since clinical testing takes between five and seven... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 1

propose a general mechanism of partner choice, "screening," that is similar to the economic theory of mechanism design. Imposing the appropriate costs and rewards may induce the informed individuals to screen themselves... View Details
  • 30 Oct 2007
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First Look: October 30, 2007

pre-specified limit. Mr. Sattaiah, managing director of the BASIX's bank, considers a revised insurance policy for the coming season, weighing the costs and potential risks of expanding the product against the potential benefits. Purchase... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Oct 2006
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First Look: October 3, 2006

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=606090 Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing Harvard Business School Note 106-068 Introduces the role for time-driven activity-based costing. Identifies the value from an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 May 2005
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Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers

institutions are in flux. Many of the large German firms have huge legacy costs and entrenched corporate cultures that must change. Remembering August Thyssen reminds people just how entrepreneurial corporate Germany once was. I think... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Jun 2007
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Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?

mother gave me a copy of The Jungle by Upton Sinclair. I was very struck by that book. I find the writing, in retrospect, really wretched, but the kind of passion that said, "Here is an awful system," was pivotal in getting food and View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Health
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Past Issues - Alumni

leave our jobs behind and who do we become? After Ozempic How a game-changing drug is reshaping Novo Nordisk, disrupting the pharma industry, and setting up a once-in-a-generation windfall for philanthropy Complete Table of Contents... View Details
  • 04 Sep 2019
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Deep Dive

reusable, highly safe, and can make many repeated dives to anywhere on the bottom of the ocean,” Vescovo says. “There’s no restriction anymore.” (He won’t discuss the total costs of this expedition, but the announced price tag of the... View Details
Keywords: April White; photo by Jeff Wilson; Scientific Research and Development Services
  • 26 Nov 2013
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First Look: November 26

Beshears, John, James J. Choi, David Laibson, Brigitte C. Madrian, and Gwendolyn Reynolds Abstract—Objectives: To assess whether the addition of a peer testimonial to an informational mailing increases conversion rates from brand name View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 May 2008
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First Look: May 20, 2008

prescriptive suggestions for candidates to approach job negotiations as a two-level game and to minimize disadvantageous effects of gender on job negotiation outcomes. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-095.pdf Optimal... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Dec 2008
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Business at the Summit

’59), and was moderated by PBS’s Charlie Rose. Whitman, former CEO of eBay, noted that most Americans are “deeply afraid” as they watch energy and food costs rise and their retirement accounts shrink. More must be done, she said, to... View Details
Keywords: leadership; alumni events; Centennial; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Finance; Management
  • 01 Jun 2018
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June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books

damaged the US’s social psyche, as did widespread drug use and chemical dependency. Vivid pictures of violence in Vietnam on TV plus incessant riots in major US cities began to blur the differences between crime, punishment, and... View Details
  • 15 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 15

likely to be associated with a significant impact on regulatory relations. Finally, bribery cases where the main perpetrator is dismissed are less likely to be associated with a significant impact on firm competitiveness. These results shed light on the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 31 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 31, 2009

  PublicationsInnovator's Prescription: A Disruptive Solution for Health Care Authors:Clayton M. Christensen, Jerome H. Grossman M.D., and Jason Hwang M.D. Publication:McGraw-Hill, 2009 Abstract A groundbreaking prescription for health... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Dec 1996
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An Entrepreneurial Journey

habit. Introduced as a prescription drug in 1992 by de Weese's company, California-based Cygnus Research Corporation (now Cygnus, Inc.), Nicotrol represented a breakthrough in transdermal patch technology.... View Details
  • 08 Nov 2016
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November 8, 2016

foods, which had previously been colored with dyes extracted from natural plants and organic minerals, helping them to achieve mass production and mass marketing. Color was easier to control, reproduce, and commoditize than other sensory factors such as smell and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 May 2011
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First Look: May 24

through signature—e.g., at the end of tax returns or insurance policy forms. Yet even when people care about morality and want to be seen as ethical by others, they sometimes transgress when beneficial to their own self-interest, at great View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne