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  • 01 Sep 2015
  • First Look

First Look -- September 1, 2015

found even in the absence of any compensation-based incentives to improve performance. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49496 Budgeting, Psychological Contracts, and Budgetary Slack By: Gallani, Susanna, Ranjani Krishnan, Eric J.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 30

significant complementarity between the two. Publisher's link: http://www.people.hbs.edu/nashraf/InformationSubsidies.pdf 2013 pub Thought Calibration: How Thinking Just the Right Amount Increases One's Influence and Appeal By: Kupor, Daniella M., Zakary L. Tormala,... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 14 Apr 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Pay-for-Performance Doesn’t Always Pay Off

their ability to reach if not surpass the goals, start banking on the extra money. In practice, however, the process of connecting pay to performance may be far trickier that it at first appears, according to HBS professor Michael Beer.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 19 Nov 2012
  • Research & Ideas

LEED-ing by Example

this strategy actually worked, up until now. “LEED [adoption] is not just something to pay attention to when there's a bid to rebuild city hall.” In a new paper, Public Procurement and the Private Supply of Green Buildings, authors Timothy Simcoe and View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Construction; Real Estate; Energy; Utilities
  • 17 Sep 2024
  • HBS Case

The Climate Targets Leaders Need to Know as Regulations Loom

Michael Toffel, the Senator John Heinz Professor of Environmental Management at Harvard Business School. Roughly 42 percent of Fortune 500 companies said they’d reached an environmental target or committed to reaching one by 2030, an 11... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 02 Aug 2016
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August 2, 2016

forthcoming Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes Don't Stop Believing: Rituals Improve Performance by Decreasing Anxiety By: Brooks, Alison Wood, Julianna Schroeder, Jane Risen, Francesca Gino, Adam D. Galinsky, View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Oct 2008
  • First Look

First Look: October 15, 2008

competition can impede the reputational mechanism. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-051.pdf Scale without Mass: Business Process Replication and Industry Dynamics Authors:Erik Brynjolfsson, Andrew McAfee, Michael... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Jul 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Competition the Cure for Healthcare

Last month HBS Working Knowledge offered an excerpt from Redefining Health Care: Creating Value-Based Competition on Results, by Harvard Business School professor Michael E. Porter and Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg. The U.S. healthcare... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Health
  • April 2014 (Revised March 2018)
  • Case

Texas Children's Hospital: Congenital Heart Disease Care

By: Michael E. Porter, Justin M. Bachmann and Zachary C. Landman
In 2014, Dr. Charles D. Fraser Jr., Surgeon-in-Chief of Texas Children's Hospital in Houston, was contemplating the future direction of the congenital heart disease program. The nation's largest pediatric hospital, Texas Children's was ranked by U.S. News & World... View Details
Keywords: Health Care; Congenital Heart Disease; Integrated Practice Units; Health Care and Treatment; Outcome or Result; Measurement and Metrics; Performance Improvement; Health Industry; United States; Texas
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  • 08 Jul 2014
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First Look: July 8

attracting and retaining more profitable customers over time. Download working paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1759545 When 3+1>4: Gift Structure and Reciprocity in the Field By: Gilchrist, Duncan, Michael... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 06 Nov 2018
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New Research and Ideas, November 6, 2018

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55194 Large Banks and Small Firm Lending By: Bord, Vitaly, Victoria Ivashina, and Ryan D. Taliaferro Abstract—We show that since 2007, there was a large and persistent shift in the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 25 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 25

  Publications August 2013 Social Psychological & Personality Science Matchmaking Promotes Happiness By: Anik, Lalin, and Michael I. Norton Abstract—Four studies document and explore the psychology underlying people's proclivity to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Aug 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 29

Positive By: Goranson, Amelia, Ryan S. Ritter, Adam Waytz, Michael I. Norton, and Kurt Gray Abstract— In people’s imagination, dying seems dreadful; however, these perceptions may not reflect reality. In two studies, we compared the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Aug 2017
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First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52998 forthcoming Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America Buying Time Promotes Happiness By: Whillans, Ashley V., Elizabeth W. Dunn, Paul Smeets, Rene Bekkers, and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Mar 2016
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March 29, 2016

Oncology Value-Based Breast Cancer Care: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Defining Patient-Centered Outcomes By: Feeley, Thomas W., Fayanju M. Oluwadamilola, Tinisha L. Mayo, Tracy E. Spinks, Seohyun Lee, Carlos H. Barcenas, Benjamin D.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Jun 2009
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First Look: June 9

Region, 15-19. Copenhagen: Nordic Council of Ministers, 2009 Abstract unavailable at this time. Book link: http://norden.org/pub/ovrigt/ovrigt/sk/ANP2009731.pdf On Good Scholarship, Goal Setting, and Scholars Gone Wild Authors:Lisa D.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 11 Apr 2023
  • Op-Ed

The First 90 Hours: What New CEOs Should—and Shouldn't—Do to Set the Right Tone

10 weeks won’t make up for any ground that gets lost. When Michael Watkins published his best-selling book The First 90 Days 20 years ago, the world was a kinder, gentler, and slower place. Today, given the... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
  • 22 Nov 2016
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November 22, 2016

Brain Sciences Vicarious Contagion Decreases Differentiation—and Comes with Costs By: Sezer, Ovul, and Michael I. Norton Abstract—Baumeister et al. propose that individual differentiation is a crucial determinant of group success. We... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Jun 2015
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First Look: June 9, 2015

  Publications June 2015 Perspectives on Psychological Science Three Principles to REVISE People's Unethical Behavior By: Ayal, S., F. Gino, R. Barkan, and D. Ariely Abstract— Dishonesty and unethical behavior are widespread in the public... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 3, 2009

Authors:Joseph Rhatigan, Sachin H. Jain, Joia S. Mukherjee, and Michael E. Porter Abstract The care delivery value chain is a framework that can help conceptualize the organization and structure of care delivery for medical conditions. We... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

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