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- 31 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Bypass Marketing: Are Docs Influenced?
be important to determine how often physicians feel pressured into prescribing drugs inappropriately, and if this affects patient health. Silk: An important question facing policymakers is rising health care costs that some attribute, in... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 20 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 20, 2015
illustrative example, we show that production subsidies of higher investment and production cost technologies (such as carbon capture and storage technologies) have no effect on the firm's optimal total capacity when firms own a portfolio... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
New Challenges for Long-Term Investors
monitor my investments as often as I like, and that I can perform all kinds of financial transactions from my home computer at a fraction of the cost I would have had to pay twenty years ago. In this sense,... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 31 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 31
PublicationsFinancial Development, Fixed Costs and International Trade Authors:Bo Becker, David Greenberg, and Jinzhu Chen Publication:Review of Corporate Finance Studies (forthcoming) Abstract Exporting firms face significant up-front... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 23 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018
relatively low market capitalization. It also evaluates the costs and benefits of the traditional finite-life fund structure and introduces the concept of a secondary transaction as a means to transition... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017
Overall Cost Comparison of Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Procedures with Endoscopist- or Anesthesia-Supported Sedation by Activity-Based Costing Techniques By: Helmers, Richard A., James A. Dilling,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Apr 2022
- News
Home Grown
consumer products. And by the way, last point on this: I think the cost of creation of a product that reaches 100 million consumers is one 10th or maybe one 50th, the cost that it would take to do so in the... View Details
- 16 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 16, 2008
Minimizing Joint Gains: An Ethical Dilemma? Authors:Stephen M. Garcia, Max H. Bazerman, and Dale T. Miller Abstract People prefer maximizing joint gains (e.g., self gets $600 / counterpart gets $800) instead of receiving lower amounts (e.g., self and other each get... View Details
- 12 Jun 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Promise of Channel Stewardship
companies that have tried to improve their go-to-market strategies, we have learned that almost everyone agrees it is difficult to effect significant change in distribution channels. Even though technology has made access to customers easier, View Details
- 20 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 20
PublicationsSpanning the Institutional Abyss: The Intergovernmental Network and the Governance of Foreign Direct Investment Authors:Juan Alcácer and Paul Ingram Publication:American Journal of Sociology (forthcoming). Abstract Global economic View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 18, 2018
appears to owe more to management fads than to serious underperformance. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54369 Seeker Beware: The Interpersonal Costs of Ignoring Advice By: Blunden, Hayley, Jennifer M.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 4
increased scope for markets, and distrust of markets generally. Our results suggest that while the public is potentially receptive to compensating kidney donors, among those who oppose it, general disapproval towards certain kinds of View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 27, 2007
participation: uncertainty about the value of the IP being offered, value dissipating effects of competition for the knowledge, and costs associated with ex-post lawsuits claiming expropriation. Overcoming Barriers to Collaboration:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 3, 2006
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=606090 Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing Harvard Business School Note 106-068 Introduces the role for time-driven activity-based costing. Identifies the value from an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Fixing Corporate Governance: A Roundtable Discussion at Harvard Business School
accounting restatements—and longer vesting would be great. Another significant step would be to expense stock options, which would make their costs more evident and more transparent. Expensing would likely result in fewer excesses and... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 01 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 1
Microsoft and IBM were initially very successful in creating freestanding business units that could compete with entrants on their own terms, but that as the new businesses grew, the need to share key firm-level assets imposed significant View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 28 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018
through social learning) and costs (lower maximum solution quality due to a reduction in individual exploration for novel answers) relative to independent problem solving. In contrast to prior work, which has focused on how the presence... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 11 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 11, 2018
settings in which each agent can be both a buyer in some transactions and a seller in others and show that all these definitions are equivalent. We then introduce a new class of substitutable preferences that allows us to model... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 15, 2017
Attributing moral agency to business enterprises may be thought to avoid this controversy given that most theories of morality recognize positive duties on the part of all moral agents to help others even if at some cost to their own... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
On Credit
brittle page from the R.G. Dun & Co. Collection provide a slow-motion close-up of a 50-plus-year span when American business expanded from small, local exchanges within a day’s horseback ride to transactions spanning multiple states and... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna