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18 Jul 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, July 18, 2017

to better connections rather than superior skill. Knowing When to Ask: The Cost of Leaning-in By: Exley, Christine L., Muriel Niederle, and Lise Vesterlund Abstract—Gender differences in the propensity to negotiate are often used to... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

08 Mar 2011
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First Look: March 8

PublicationsConcentrating on Governance Authors:Dalida Kadyrzhanova, and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf Publication:Journal of Finance (forthcoming) Abstract This paper develops a novel trade-off view of corporate governance. Using a simple model that integrates agency View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

05 Jun 2006
Research & Ideas

Using Competition to Reform Healthcare

Care: Creating Value-Based Competition on Results, Michael E. Porter and Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg take a systemic approach to healthcare reform. Today's system is dysfunctional, they argue, rewarding participants who redirect costs and... View Details

Keywords: by Michael E. Porter; Health

17 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

Why E-commerce Didn’t Die With the Fall of Webvan

induced about 12 percent of the pharmaceutical market to buy that way. Once that was done, it was comparatively straightforward to use the same inducements to persuade people who had Web access to do that over the Internet, saving the View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Consumer Products; Retail

17 Oct 2016
HBS Case

Business Solutions That Help Cut Food Waste

As much as 40 percent of food grown in the United States for human consumption is wasted. Source: Eivaisla After decades of wasteful food practices, where perfectly good food is discarded even as poverty keeps many families hungry, solutions are starting to come... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Food & Beverage

17 Nov 2015
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November 17, 2015

evolving structure of corporate debt markets—and given rise to new questions about the private and social costs and benefits of leverage and, in particular, the role of leverage in affecting the likelihood and extent of systemic financial... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Executive Education Courses - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

successful value measurement system. In the process, you will learn how to use the Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing (TDABC) method, which will enable you to more accurately measure costs for individual... View Details

01 Oct 1998
News

New Loan Program Signals Breakthrough in MBA Financial Aid

interest. The new arrangement, unique to HBS among business schools with similar cost and financing structures, eliminates access limitations based on citizenship and creditworthiness - hurdles that have discouraged potential candidates... View Details

01 Feb 1997
News

Herzlinger on Health Care: Revolution in Evolution

already have lower occupancy due to advances in technology. Then where does the misconception arise that expensive technology - such as MRIs and CAT scanners - is pushing up the cost of health care? Hospitals like to showcase the latest... View Details

27 May 2009
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First Look: May 27, 2009

Rotemberg Abstract A model is considered where firms internalize the regret costs that consumers experience when they see an unexpected price change. Regret costs are assumed to be increasing in the size of... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Jun 2011
News

Latin Flair

different to walk into HBS when you’re 23 years old, with the entrepreneurial bug, than when you’re older and [making a] big career move,” says the 28-year-old chief executive. “[But] I knew that if I didn’t go right after college, my opportunity View Details

20 Nov 2018
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New Research and Ideas, November 20, 2018

organizations, which often use capitated payments, and bundled payments. Nearly half (46%) of respondents say value-based contracts significantly improve the quality of care, and another 42% say value-based contracts significantly lower the View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

03 Dec 2015
Op-Ed

How "New Nuclear" Power Could Save the Planet—If Regulators Would Allow It

Leaders from some 150 nations have convened in Paris this week for the COP21 conference with a singular goal: to fight the global threat of climate change. Each of them have brought to Paris their own national plan for reducing greenhouse gas emissions that drive... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph Lassiter; Energy

02 Apr 2010
What Do You Think?

Why Are Fewer and Fewer U.S. Employees Satisfied With Their Jobs?

research that suggests that an organization's practices have profound effects on the health of its employees. A large body of research offers evidence of the following: (1) Organizations implementing health and wellness programs for their employees realize significant... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

21 Mar 2023
Blog Post

Grundfos: Innovation & Inspiration for Sustainable Product Design

either recycling these components externally or reincorporating the material back into the Grundfos supply chain. Although the scale of the recycling program is still in its pilot phase and volume is low, the future potential is significant for Grundfos and its... View Details

01 Dec 1997
News

Making Real Progress in the Middle East: The Bottom-Up, Economic Solution

these ventures is competitive advantage and profit. For Israeli companies, cooperation can open up new markets, provide cost-effective outsourcing opportunities, and significantly lower the costs of production, which is especially... View Details

Keywords: Michael Porter, Yagil Weinberg, and Noreena Hertz

03 Feb 2015
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First Look: February 3

databases). We also show that it reveals the main "flow of control" within the architecture, as denoted by the classification of components into Core, Peripheral, Shared, and Control elements. We analyze the cost of change for a... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2003
News

HBS Releases 2003 Financial Report

increase established for the MBA class that entered the School in September 2002. In response to the revenue shortfall, the School implemented vigorous cost controls, made all the more challenging because of the fixed-cost nature of... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

24 Mar 2008
Research & Ideas

Reducing Risk with Online Advertising

pleased. The idea here is to make everyone better off, except of course the fraudsters. Q: What would it take to eliminate the remaining potential for fraud? A: It's hard. For fraudsters whose profit margin is extreme, I don't have a tool in this toolkit to deter them.... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Video Game; Web Services