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- 05 Jun 2006
- Research & Ideas
Using Competition to Reform Healthcare
The ills of the U.S. healthcare system are well chronicled—soaring costs, low customer satisfaction, increasing problems with quality, and restricted coverage lead the list. But do we really understand the underlying issues well enough to... View Details
- 27 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 27
Michael W. Toffel Abstract Process-improvement ideas often come from frontline workers who speak up by voicing concerns about problems and by taking charge to resolve them. We hypothesize that organization-wide process-improvement... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 7, 2008
Annual Survey. We define the A&MS industry in terms of nine sectors, each of which is represented by a separate 5-digit NAICS category. In so doing, we have sought to redress some of the measurement View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Jun 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Transparency Revolution in Corporate Reporting
enormous impact on the very big problems we're facing in the world today: natural resource scarcity, social inequality, and poverty, as well as on governance issues like product safety and corruption. More and more CEOs are leading their... View Details
Keywords: Re: George Serafeim
- 02 Dec 2002
- What Do You Think?
How Will We Respond to the “Moment of Truth” in Option Plans?
key personnel to the development and survival of the business," Shann Turnbull suggests that cash bonuses may be a better alternative in established, cash-rich companies, where "bonuses eliminate the problem of valuing options... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 02 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 2
Review 88, no. 6 (June 2010) An abstract is unavailable at this time. Read the preview: http://hbr.org/2010/06/change-for-changes-sake/ar/1 Working PapersLimits of Nonprofit Impact: A Contingency Framework for Measuring Social... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 May 2007
- Research & Ideas
Health Care Under a Research Microscope
The $2 trillion health care system is one of the United States' largest industries—but one of its worst performing by almost any measure other than technological innovation. The problems are painful,... View Details
- 07 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 7
Working PapersConsistency and Monotonicity in One-Sided Assignment Problems Authors:Bettina Klaus and Alexandru Nichifor Abstract One-sided assignment problems combine important features of two well-known... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
Don’t Get Buried in Customer Data—Use It
launches an initiative to solve this problem and identifies the number of spare power supply parts it sends out weekly as the measure it will use to track the progress. The transactional measure—the number... View Details
Keywords: by Jean Ayers
- 29 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
Pride Goeth Before a Profit
to employees' identity and self-worth. Caring About Accuracy Dave Thompson was appointed a measurement technician at El Segundo, CA-based Unocal's Van, TX, oil field in 1993. He was responsible for making sure that the amounts of oil and... View Details
Keywords: by Theodore Kinni
- 13 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Making Biotech Work as a Business
productivity are hellishly difficult to sort out. This is due to the difficulty of measuring such amorphous factors as intellectual property creation and the long time lag before any expected return on investment. The sector's tendency to... View Details
- 13 Mar 2005
- Research & Ideas
Reinforcing Values: A Public Dressing Down
that confrontation was not to be avoided. In this way, employees gained experience in working through their problems on their own. Performance, of course, is the ultimate measure of a successful turnaround.... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Garvin & Michael A. Roberto
- 05 May 2010
- What Do You Think?
Is Denial Endemic to Management?
that "it is a natural human tendency to devolve into denial." As Elaine Sihera put it, "Denial comes out of fear of being wrong." Dan Wallace pointed out that neuroscientists tell us that "once you've solved a particular type of View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 23 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 23, 2008
Working PapersA Resource Belief-Curse: Oil and Individualism Authors:Rafael Di Tella, Juan Dubra, and Robert MacCulloch Abstract We study the correlation between a belief concerning individualism and a measure of luck in the US during... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 31 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 31, 2009
rich collection of feasible governance structures. Our model focuses on two issues emphasized by practitioners: spillover effects (as opposed to hold-ups motivated by specific investments) and contracting problems ex post (as opposed to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Feb 2015
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: The Battle for San Francisco
by 30,000 by 2020, using city revenues to subsidize affordable housing, as well as a resolution to preserve a portion of the Mission District, the city's historically Latino neighborhood that has been increasingly gentrified. A city ballot View Details
- 06 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 6, 2007
to self-disclose violations of environmental laws and regulations in exchange for reduced sanctions. We find that facilities are more likely to self-disclose if they were recently subjected to one of several different enforcement measures... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Social Responsibility in a Downturn
social responsibility evolving during the current recession? A: There is no doubt that corporations are engaging in less philanthropy, but that is not necessarily bad as long as they cut the ineffective ones and consolidate those that are synergistic to their business.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 08 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Height Tax, and Other New Ways to Think about Taxation
rich topic of study and an immensely powerful policy tool.” "The problem is this: The government can't tell whether it is easy or hard for a given person to earn income, because it can't measure... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 10 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 10, 2015
forthcoming Journal of Financial Economics Under New Management: Equity Issues and the Attribution of Past Returns By: Baker, Malcolm, and Yuhai Xuan Abstract—There is a strong link between measures of stock market performance, such as... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne