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- 12 Mar 2024
- Research & Ideas
Publish or Perish: What the Research Says About Productivity in Academia
Health, claim to be interested in supporting “high-risk, high-reward” research. First off, Myers notes, the goal should be to fund the most rewarding research that has the lowest risks. But, if it is true that high View Details
- 28 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 28
Working PapersNone this week PublicationsAdverse Selection in Online 'Trust' Certifications Author:Benjamin Edelman Publication:Proceedings of ICEC'09 (forthcoming). ACM International Conference Proceeding Series Abstract Widely used online "trust"... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- March 2013
- Other Article
Redesigning Primary Care: A Strategic Vision to Improve Value by Organizing Around Patients' Needs
By: Michael E. Porter, Erika A. Pabo and Thomas H. Lee
Primary care in the United States currently struggles to attract new physicians and to garner investments in infrastructure required to meet patients' needs. We believe that the absence of a robust overall strategy for the entire spectrum of primary care is a... View Details
Keywords: Health
Porter, Michael E., Erika A. Pabo, and Thomas H. Lee. "Redesigning Primary Care: A Strategic Vision to Improve Value by Organizing Around Patients' Needs." Health Affairs 32, no. 3 (March 2013): 516–525.
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Accounting & Management - Doctoral
individual firms; rewarding and monitoring the performance of managers; formulating, executing and evaluating strategy by firm managers; understanding the profitability of suppliers, products, customers, distribution channels, and... View Details
- 15 Jan 2008
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First Look: January 15, 2008
Working PapersCompetition in Modular Clusters Authors:Carliss Y. Baldwin and C. Jason Woodard Abstract The last twenty years have witnessed the rise of disaggregated "clusters," "networks," or "ecosystems" of firms. In these clusters the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Feb 2007
- Working Paper Summaries
The Value of Openness in Scientific Problem Solving
- Research Summary
Meaningful Work as the Recognition and Expression of Deeply Embedded Life Interests
A large part of my research efforts over the past twenty years has been focused on the understanding of meaning as the recognition and expression of "deeply embedded life interests", an aspect of the psychology of human personality that has a long tradition... View Details
- 2012
- Other Book
Redefining German Health Care: Moving to a Value-Based System
By: Michael E. Porter and Clemens Guth
The German health care system is on a collision course with budget realities. Costs are high and rising, and quality problems are becoming ever more apparent. Decades of reforms have produced little change to these troubling trends. Why has Germany failed to solve... View Details
Keywords: Health
Porter, Michael E., and Clemens Guth. Redefining German Health Care: Moving to a Value-Based System. Heidelberg: Springer, 2012.
Incentives versus Reciprocity: Insights from a Field Experiment
We conduct a field experiment in which we vary the sales force compensation scheme at an Asian enterprise that sells consumer durable goods. With variation generated by the experimental treatments, we model sales force performance to identify the effectiveness of... View Details
- December 2019 (Revised January 2021)
- Supplement
The Leveraged Buyout of TXU: (B) Energy Future Holdings
By: Trevor Fetter, Erik Snowberg and Rebecca M. Henderson
This case is designed to support a lively discussion about the relative merits of shareholder vs. stakeholder perspectives in the context of a company that provides a vital public service that has important environmental implications. The 2007 purchase of TXU, the... View Details
Keywords: Leveraged Buyouts; Transformation; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Environmental Sustainability; Business and Shareholder Relations; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Energy Generation; Utilities Industry; Energy Industry; Texas
Fetter, Trevor, Erik Snowberg, and Rebecca M. Henderson. "The Leveraged Buyout of TXU: (B) Energy Future Holdings." Harvard Business School Supplement 320-065, December 2019. (Revised January 2021.)
Regina E. Herzlinger
Regina E. Herzlinger is the Nancy R. McPherson Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. She was the first woman to be tenured and chaired at Harvard Business School and serve on many established and start-up corporate health care/medical... View Details
- 24 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
Reducing Risk with Online Advertising
How can online advertising fraud be detected and prevented? What should we look at, where should we look, and what methods and tools should we use? These questions are relevant to anyone who buys online advertising. According to HBS professor Ben Edelman, an expert on... View Details
- December 2001 (Revised June 2002)
- Case
Compensation at Level 3 Communications
Level 3's unique compensation plan rewarded managers for the firm's performance only if the firm's stock price movement exceeded that of the market. This design was intended to maximize shareholder value by tying manager's performance more closely to that of the firm,... View Details
Meulbroek, Lisa K. "Compensation at Level 3 Communications." Harvard Business School Case 202-084, December 2001. (Revised June 2002.)
- 12 Sep 2023
- Book
Successful, But Still Feel Empty? A Happiness Scholar and Oprah Have Advice for You
manage my feelings,’” Brooks says. “They don’t treat their self-management with the same seriousness that they treat their corporate management.” Big idea 1: The right path for you A straight sprint up the corporate ladder is what society pushes many to value; it might... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 01 Apr 2008
- Working Paper Summaries
No Harm, No Foul: The Outcome Bias in Ethical Judgments
- April 2023
- Article
The Subjective Expected Utility Approach and a Framework for Defining Project Risk in Terms of Novelty and Feasibility—A Response to Franzoni and Stephan (2023), ‘Uncertainty and Risk-Taking in Science’
In their Discussion Paper, Franzoni and Stephan (F&S, 2023) discuss the shortcomings of existing peer review models in shaping the funding of risky science. Their discussion offers a conceptual framework for incorporating risk into peer review models of research... View Details
Lane, Jacqueline N. "The Subjective Expected Utility Approach and a Framework for Defining Project Risk in Terms of Novelty and Feasibility—A Response to Franzoni and Stephan (2023), ‘Uncertainty and Risk-Taking in Science’." Art. 104707. Research Policy 52, no. 3 (April 2023).
- 2012
- Working Paper
Author-Level Eigenfactor Metrics: Evaluating the Influence of Authors, Institutions and Countries within the SSRN community
By: Jevin D. West, Michael C. Jensen, Ralph J. Dandrea, Gregg Gordon and Carl T. Bergstrom
In this paper, we show how the Eigenfactor® score, originally designed for ranking scholarly journals, can be adapted to rank the scholarly output of authors, institutions, and countries based on author-level citation data. Using the methods described herein, we... View Details
Keywords: Body of Literature; Measurement and Metrics; Networks; Rank and Position; Research; Motivation and Incentives
West, Jevin D., Michael C. Jensen, Ralph J. Dandrea, Gregg Gordon, and Carl T. Bergstrom. "Author-Level Eigenfactor Metrics: Evaluating the Influence of Authors, Institutions and Countries within the SSRN community." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 12-068, February 2012.
- 16 Feb 2024
- Research & Ideas
Is Your Workplace Biased Against Introverts?
It starts with communication, grounded in the realization that people express passion differently. Ask employees, “How do you typically express your passion?” Jachimowicz suggests. “The other question is, ‘What can I as a leader do to help you express your passion... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand
- 17 Jan 2008
- Working Paper Summaries