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  • 17 Sep 2013
  • First Look

First Look: September 17

experiential quality demonstrate better clinical outcomes as measured by length of stay and readmissions, but have worse performance with regard to cost efficiency. This may result in hospitals inability to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Feb 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 2

the benefits of unexpected inflation are tempered by higher interest rates. We obtain that costs from inflation more than offset the benefits from reducing tax distortions. We further discuss sustainability of nominal debt in developing (volatile) countries.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 Sep 2016
  • First Look

September 20, 2016

Feeley, Robert S. Kaplan, and Steven J. Frank Abstract—Question: Can we create a value-based tool to visualize the outcomes and cost of various treatments that could facilitate patient-centered decision... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Sep 2015
  • First Look

First Look -- September 1, 2015

logic than firms utilize to organize market resources.) Second, there has been very little (if any) significant research linking firm strategy to both nonmarket outcomes and firm performance. Most research has developed theories and/or... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Aug 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Retail Execs Underplay Current Performance to Investors--but Why?

they had more positive post-quarter sales information. WHAT’S THE MOTIVATION? The same outcome was found when they studied managers’ voice tone during announcement conference calls using natural language testing that View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Financial Services
  • 09 Sep 2008
  • First Look

First Look: September 9, 2008

b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=409003 In-Vitro Fertilization: Outcomes Measurement Harvard Business School Case 709-403 As of 2007, there were very few examples of widespread View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 2003
  • Article

BMW Group's Sustainability Management System: Preliminary Results, Ongoing Challenges, and the UN Global Compact

By: Michael W. Toffel, Natalie Hill and Kellie McElhaney
This article describes preliminary results and ongoing challenges faced by Designworks/USA, an industrial design subsidiary of BMW Group, in its sustainability management efforts since it implemented the world's first certified Sustainability Management System (SMS).... View Details
Keywords: Environmental Sustainability; Management Systems; Standards; Social Issues; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Outcome or Result; Auto Industry
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  • 17 Dec 2024
  • News

Solving the Underemployment Crisis

education are able to have good outcomes after they finish. Kerr: So give us an example of some of the projects that you’re engaged in. Moret: Sure. We’re very active in the research space, exploring opportunities to improve View Details
  • 02 Jan 2013
  • What Do You Think?

Should We Rethink the Promise of Teams?

successful and unsuccessful experiences with teams. Improper uses of teams were cited. Phil Clark said that "Often teams are formed to 'look good' but truly are not teams Ownership of the outcome is directly related to the success of a... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 10 May 2016
  • First Look

May 10, 2016

Promises and Limitations of Improved Measures of Urban Life By: Glaeser, Edward L., Scott Duke Kominers, Michael Luca, and Nikhil Naik Abstract—New, "big" data sources allow measurement of city... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 23 Dec 2014
  • First Look

First Look: December 23

care for congenital heart disease conditions beginning in 1995 and had initiated universal outcome measurement. In 2014, the challenge was to continue to improve care in a complicated patient population and take View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 29 May 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Research Symposium 2014

key components: It is organized into "integrated practice units" that focus on a particular disease, as well as the conditions associated with that disease. It measures outcome based on the patient's... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Accounting; Health
  • 30 Sep 2014
  • News

Life Lessons on the Open Seas

sailboats to a former America’s Cup boat that we adapted—although no one said it could be accomplished.” A competitive sailor who has raced in the Paralympic Games in Sydney in 2000 and in London in 2012, Callahan takes a measured... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
  • 15 Jul 2014
  • First Look

First Look: July 15

"co-search" algorithm to Internet traffic at the SEC's EDGAR website, we develop a novel method for identifying economically-related peer firms and for measuring their relative importance. Our results show that firms appearing... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 12 Oct 2011
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First Look: October 12

2011) Abstract Organizational culture-the shared assumptions, values, and behaviors that determine "how we do things around here"-can be measured and shaped. In organizations with large numbers of customer-facing employees, it... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Aug 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Mapping Your Board’s Effectiveness

performance management system into corporate governance processes. The Balanced Scorecard strategy map portrays, on a single page, a company's strategy. It includes the financial outcomes expected; performance with targeted customers and... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan
  • 01 Oct 1997
  • News

Theory & Practice

that presents a wide array of commitment decisions. He analyzes the match between case outcomes and model predications both qualitatively and quantitatively. The case method offers clues about how to refine existing theory. In addition to... View Details
  • 30 Jun 2015
  • First Look

First Look: June 30, 2015

inequalities in the public and the private spheres are affected by childhood exposure to non-traditional gender role models at home. We test the association between being raised by an employed mother and adult men's and women's outcomes... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 05 Nov 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Venture Capital Goes Boom—or Bust?

unknowability. Rather, uncertainty can be viewed as a measure of the distribution of possible outcomes for a company or project. The greater the uncertainty, the wider the distribution of potential outcomes.... View Details
Keywords: by Paul A. Gompers & Josh Lerner
  • 08 Nov 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Nov. 8

industry to measure to what extent waiting-time performance impacts different firms' market shares and price decisions. We report on a large-scale empirical industrial organization study in which the demand equations for fast-food... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne