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- 15 Dec 2015
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December 15, 2015
information to enhance care delivery and realize cost efficiencies. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50183 October 26, 2015 Harvard Business Review Measuring and Communicating Health Care Value with Charts... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 27 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
New Cluster Mapping Project Helps Companies Locate Facilities
linkages or externalities across industries. Regional economies and clusters are analyzed at various geographic levels including states, economic areas, and metropolitan areas. Access to top-level data on the CMP is free; more in-depth View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 09 May 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 9
counterparts in sectors that were hardest hit by the subsequent crisis. We present a model where higher turbulence benefits decentralized firms because the value of local information and urgent action... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Porter’s Perspective: Competing in the Global Economy
modern competition; how they arise and decline; how they affect productivity, new business formation, and economic growth; and the roles both the private and the public sectors can have in developing them. Q: So, even in an age of... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter
- 25 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 25
Sector from 'Preventing Regulatory Capture: Special Interest Influence, and How to Limit It' Authors: Daniel Carpenter, David Moss, and Melanie Wachtell Stinnett Publication: Chap. 3 in The Making of Good Financial Regulation: Towards a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 28, 2015
strategic management and to the literature on information disclosure. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=40289 Experimental Evidence on Decision Making Under Information... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 05 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
Risky Business? Protecting Foreign Investments
proving to be inefficient and were drains on the public treasury. Business would do well to support improvements in the system that purports to protect their investments abroad. The Thatcher and Reagan revolutions in the industrialized countries led to new views toward... View Details
- 18 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Getting It Done: Improving Nonprofit Performance
sector tends to be mired in a process that often results in various degrees of chaos. Supported by a broad mix of foundations, corporations, and individuals, the philanthropic capital markets depend mostly on a hodgepodge of personal... View Details
Keywords: by James E. Aisner
- 23 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017
points. Pseudo-set framing changes gambling choices (Study 1), effort (Studies 2 and 3), giving behavior (Field Data and Study 4), and purchase decisions (Study 5). These effects persist in the absence of any reward, when a cost must be incurred, and after participants... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 03 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Lehman Brothers Plus Five: Have We Learned from Our Mistakes?
was a source of stress for the system's stability. Today, banks are better capitalized, rely less on short-term wholesale funding, and make available much more detailed information about their portfolios, while the amount of "shadow... View Details
- 02 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Health Care Research and Prospects
and inadequate care. In short, health care in the United States appears to be broken. Enter Harvard Business School's Life Sciences & Health Care Initiative, which brings together faculty from diverse parts of HBS to both conduct research on the View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
information made available to consumers; and on the nature and variety of products being offered. Not surprisingly, competition has heightened activity and stimulated change in these areas." Tufano adds that the proliferation of... View Details
- 14 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 14
firms face market uncertainty about consumers' preferences for innovation on two product attributes and technology uncertainty about the success of their R&D investments. Firms can conduct costly market research before setting R&D strategy. We find that the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Aug 2006
- First Look
First Look: August 22, 2006
expansión pues, desde la perspectiva institucional, el país no logró superar las instancias deliberativas y declamativas alrededor de la organización del crédito rural. En la financiación de este proceso, por tanto, se estructuró un denso entramado donde otros View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
How Business Leaders Can Strengthen American Schools
Business has long recognized the connection between an effective school system and a qualified workforce—by some estimates, the private sector invests $4 billion annually in efforts intended to improve public education. So why isn't that... View Details
- 05 Aug 2024
- Research & Ideas
Watching for the Next Economic Downturn? Follow Corporate Debt
information about the risk of future economic crashes and deserve more scrutiny from policymakers, economists, and regulators. The paper emerges after years of persistent inflation and mounting interest rates, and amid close scrutiny of... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 20 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 20
are two mechanisms by which this can happen: engaging the periphery may either change the information set of the core or help align incentives of multiple core actors. Engaging the periphery might be particularly relevant in settings... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018
Innovation: Evidence from China By: Fang, Lily, Josh Lerner, Chaopeng Wu, and Qi Zhang Abstract—: Governments are important financiers of private sector innovation. While these public funds can ease capital constraints and View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 2
accountable? Nonprofit leaders tend to pay attention to accountability once a problem of trust arises-a scandal in the sector or in their own organization, questions from citizens or donors who want to know if their money is being well... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
VCs Survey Post-Bubble Opportunities
individuals in any given field," said Hirshland. His advice? Develop the ability to identify opportunities and judge character; over time, you can focus on various specialties and sub-specialties and hone your knowledge of these areas. A lot of opportunities in... View Details