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  • 29 Jul 2008
  • First Look

First Look: July 29, 2008

delivery around specific categories of disease. It provides an opportunity to evaluate BWH's approach to integration along all of these dimensions and to identify the nature of the tradeoffs that hospitals—specifically, academic medical... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 May 2008
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First Look: May 28, 2008

opportunities: private signals that can be distorted by managers, and public signals that are undistorted but noisy. Headquarters faces a tradeoff between the cost of attaining an accurate private signal and the value of the information... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Nov 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Can Religion and Business Learn From Each Other?

standpoints—layoffs; cost-cutting to the point where you know you're going to stretch your work force very, very thin; quality tradeoffs that may mean that you're not going to be delivering on what you say, and there may even be a safety... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 07 Feb 2012
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First Look: February 7

Redistribute So Much but Tag So Little? The Principle of Equal Sacrifice and Optimal Taxation Author:Matthew Weinzierl Abstract Tagging is a free lunch in conventional optimal tax theory because it eases the classic tradeoff between... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Aug 2014
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First Look: August 5

proposed organizational designs and presents the arguments within Merrimack's leadership team for and against each. It highlights the tradeoffs associated with each design as they relate to accountability, efficiency, innovation, product... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 May 2014
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First Look: May 6

http://www.palgraveconnect.com/esm/doifinder/10.1057/9781137294678.0461 August 2013 Journal of Economics & Management Strategy Delegation in Multi-Establishment Firms: Evidence from I.T. Purchasing By: McElheran, Kristina Steffenson Abstract—Recent contributions to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Jul 2011
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First Look: July 5

control and order processing, particularly the tradeoffs between centralized and decentralized inventories. Students must complete a quantitative analysis of the costs and benefits of several alternatives. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Sep 2009
  • Research & Ideas

The Height Tax, and Other New Ways to Think about Taxation

government taxes incomes, it discourages people from working as hard as they otherwise would have worked. This is what generates the classic tradeoff in tax policy: The more equally you try to slice the economic pie, the smaller it gets.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 21 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 21, 2009

depth against scope of MSP functions. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-115.pdf Proprietary vs. Open Two-Sided Platforms and Social Efficiency Author:Andrei Hagiu Abstract This paper identifies a fundamental economic welfare View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Jun 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Investors Have More Than Money to Offer Entrepreneurs

understand the tradeoff decisions you are making and can be very informative when it comes to strategic thinking about the company’s product roadmap and long term direction. Speaking of roadmaps, if you’ve got a former head of product or... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
  • 11 Apr 2017
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First Look at New Research, April 11

innovations (for whom the price of failure tolerance is too high) can only be started by investors who are not failure tolerant. Since policies to stimulate innovation must often be set before specific investments in innovative projects are made, this creates a View Details
  • 05 Nov 2013
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First Look: November 5

disclosure levels for consumer information and consumers observe both before deciding which firm to patronize and how much information to provide it with. The provision and disclosure of information presents tradeoffs for all market... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Mar 2015
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First Look: March 17

volatility, whereas shadow banks tend to hold relatively liquid assets. Publisher's link: http://www.people.hbs.edu/shanson/banks_20150305_FINAL.pdf March 2015 Production and Operations Management Managing the Performance Tradeoffs from... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018

incentive contract including both rewards and penalties. While prior research focuses predominantly on ex-ante incentive effects of tournament systems, we explore the consequences of awarding rewards and penalties subjectively. We extend the literature on the View Details
  • 26 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019

attempts at managing these ”strategic paradoxes” fail because they’re not managed carefully and consistently. (It’s easy to write a great purpose statement or to dream up a new business model but way more difficult to follow through when it’s time to make actual View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 20 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018

difficulties in designing incentive systems, including the tradeoff between objective and subjective performance metrics, how to design incentive systems in team environments, and the inherent problems with designing incentive systems in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Nov 2016
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First Look - November 1, 2016

emerging market firms raise external capital, they face a tradeoff where greater transparency may lead to a lower cost of capital but at the cost of revealing proprietary information in their relational business practices. We find that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 May 2013
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First Look: May 14

benchmark setting, the marketplace mode is preferred if and only if the variance of local information exceeds the squared value of spillovers from marketing activities across products. We explore several generalizations, showing how the benchmark View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Apr 2011
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First Look: April 12

conducts one of the first large-scale, establishment-level empirical studies of delegation within firms. Recent contributions to a rapidly growing theory literature have focused on the tradeoff between adaptation and coordination in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Jan 2010
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First Look: Jan. 26

Schankerman examine the ways in which software differs from other technologies in promoting economic development, what motivates individuals and firms to contribute to open source projects, how developers and users view the tradeoffs... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

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