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- 02 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 2
average patient of medium severity in this ED. We propose that the improved performance comes from a reduction in social loafing and a more distributed utilization of shared resources. These benefits... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer
Thus NGO involvement is essential to monitor and provide assurance that the poor are benefiting from the public-private partnership. NGOs, in spite of their own legitimacy problems, have become the... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 22 Jun 2011
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Motivation
Dynamic Structural Analysis of Bonus-Based Compensation Plans Companies generally pay their sales staff with some combination of salary, commissions, and bonuses for meeting quotas—with sales force costs... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 11 Apr 2000
- Research & Ideas
Financial Services 24/7
Juno Online Services in an effort to attract more clients, and it is banking on retaining customers by offering benefits such as discounts when using a Wingspanbank credit card at certain e-commerce sites.... View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
- 25 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 25, 2007
safety and efficiency, fixing operational failures can yield benefits for both. Thus, prioritizing improvement of work systems in general, rather than focusing more narrowly on specific clinical conditions,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- June 2010
- Teaching Note
Southwest Airlines: In a Different World (TN)
By: James L. Heskett and W. Earl Sasser
Teaching Note for 910419. View Details
- 06 Aug 2024
- Op-Ed
What the World Could Learn from America's Immigration Backlash—100 Years Ago
welfare state. Restricting immigration would require budget cuts that would harm natives by reducing pension benefits or increasing the age of retirement, for example. “It’s thus impossible to conclude that immigration has no economic... View Details
Keywords: by Marco Tabellini
- 18 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Bias of Wall Street Analysts
know that they can increase their stature and compensation greatly if they achieve recognition on one of the analyst rankings put out by the Institutional Investor or The Wall Street Journal. Given that... View Details
- 13 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 13, 2008
procedures of Pratt (2007), including the Nash bargaining procedure, satisfy this. Other prominent efficient procedures do not. In two-agent problems, reducing the feasible set between the solution and one agent's maximum point increases... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
Only Capitalists Can Save Capitalism
benefits to many, and if we don't look out, we may kill it." From Prediction To Fruition Problems that forum participants cited included environmental degradation, trade breakdowns, View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 30 Jan 2018
- First Look
January 30, 2018
invest in fixed income securities, public equities, and alternative assets such as hedge funds, real estate, or private equity. What are the costs and benefits of each asset... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 5
(giving competitors a lead in a market) and the entrenchment benefits (the cost advantage firms develop through learning-by-doing when they enter early). Both the opportunity costs of absence View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
Are You Managing To a ‘T’? Time To Break With Tradition
benefit companies of almost any size, but they're particularly crucial in large corporations where operating units have been granted considerable autonomy. Although giving business units greater freedom generally increases accountability,... View Details
Keywords: by Morten T. Hansen & Bolko Von Oetinger
- 03 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 3, 2007
Principles Harvard Business School Module Note 607-068 Purchase this note: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=607068 Truman and the Bomb Summary: Balancing Benefits View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Dec 2015
- Op-Ed
Without Immigrants, We Wouldn't Have Google
In light of the tragedies in Paris and San Bernadino, a number of politicians, following in the footsteps of Donald Trump, have urged this country to respond by barring immigrants, refugees, and Muslims from... View Details
- 13 Mar 2018
- First Look
March 13, 2018
likely to be licensed before patent grant and shortly after 18-month publication. Licensing delays are reduced by about 10 months, on average, after AIPA's enactment. These findings suggest a hitherto unexplored View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 7, 2015
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49331 Working Papers The Business Model: Nature and Benefits By: Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, and John Heilbron Abstract—This... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
What Loyalty? High-End Customers are First to Flee
service-level strategy better than one that varies by market? There is something to be said for and against both approaches. While there are certainly cost benefits to service standardization (Buell cites... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 24 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
How Kayak Users Built a New Industry
reduction and process improvements. Cost-reducing process innovations benefit large firms most; hence the emergence of a dominant design will trigger an industry shakeout and... View Details
- 31 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 31
PublicationsLying to Level the Playing Field: Why People May Dishonestly Help or Hurt Others to Create Equity Authors:F. Gino and L. Pierce Publication:Journal of Business Ethics (forthcoming) Abstract Unethical View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne