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Entrepreneurship - Faculty & Research
competitive Darwinian contest. Instead, a few investors make decisions that are impacted by incentive, agency, and coordination problems, often before a new idea even has a chance to compete in a market. We contend that costs and... View Details
- 06 Jun 2018
- Research & Ideas
Cut Salaries or Cut People? The Best Way to Survive a Downturn
eugeniek Companies looking to shed costs in an economic downturn rarely cut compensation—typically, they slash jobs instead. New research confirms the wisdom of that decision. The study concludes that when a company cuts employee pay the... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 08 May 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 8, 2018
in HAI and present-on-admission (POA) infection reporting rates that are strongly suggestive of upcoding. We conservatively estimate that 10,000 out of 60,000 annual reimbursed claims for POA infections (18.5%) were upcoded HAIs, costing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
movement. Join alumni experts to discuss impact investing innovations across asset classes, hot button topics like the anti-ESG movement, and critical public policy intersections. Alumni will leave this session with a better understanding of impact investing and the... View Details
- 21 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
Strategy and Execution for Emerging Markets
How can we profit from the structural reality of emerging markets by identifying opportunities to fill voids, serving as market intermediaries? For Khanna and Palepu, an emerging market is anyplace where buyers and sellers cannot easily... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
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Finance - Faculty & Research
including an ( S, s ) cost of implementing such policies. We illustrate how this friction goes a long way toward bringing the model closer to the data. When the extended model is calibrated for each of the countries in the new dataset, we... View Details
- 16 Feb 2023
- HBS Case
ESG Activists Met the Moment at ExxonMobil, But Did They Succeed?
The impact-investment hedge fund Engine No. 1 made a big splash in May 2021 when it managed to get three nominees elected to the ExxonMobil board of directors. It was an open effort to prod the oil giant toward renewable energy and test whether activist investing could... View Details
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Academics - Health Care
entrepreneurial health care ventures that respond to the massive opportunities created by the escalating cost and uneven quality and access of health care systems globally. Students prepare a business plan,... View Details
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The New Social Contract: Contractors, Firms, and Agencies
The emergence of a 'new social contract' linking employees and organizations - perhaps most notable for the absence of a promise of lifelong job security - has been widely remarked. A related trend, less noted but potentially important, has been the emergence of a... View Details
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Faculty & Research - Health Care
Blavatnik Fellowship in Life Science Entrepreneurship Led by Peter Barrett and provides a select group of alumni with the opportunity to work with Harvard inventors to promote the commercialization of life science technologies with... View Details
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Leadership - Faculty & Research
leaders. Some want to use the program as a fig leaf for laying off staff; others think it costs too much and might put the company at a competitive disadvantage relative to companies that are hiring technologically skilled people right... View Details
- 13 Mar 2023
- Op-Ed
How Leaders Should Leave
switching costs up front, though. If you don’t immediately have a new job to go to, spending more time at home with your family may be as awkward as it is delightful. But more time at home gives you a rare View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
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Human Behavior & Decision-Making - Faculty & Research
optimizing banner design are much smaller than those from adopting browser-level consent, which eliminates the time costs of repeated decisions. Keywords: Consumer Behavior ; Decision Choices and Conditions ; Welfare ; Policy Citation... View Details
- 31 Oct 2018
- What Do You Think?
What is the Function of Fear in Leadership?
reminds us that, “a recent tidal wave of harassment claims highlights the costs of failing to create a psychologically safe workplace for women.” Edmondson has the numbers to back up her arguments. She has, for example, conducted many... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 22 May 2024
- HBS Case
Banned or Not, TikTok Is a Force Companies Can’t Afford to Ignore
business opportunities The average US TikTok user spent 45.4 hours a month on TikTok in 2023, passing YouTube’s 26.2 hours, according to Statista. It’s a place to get seen. Last year, TikTok focused on advertising as its main revenue... View Details
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Health Care - Faculty & Research
They also introduce bundled payment contracts with three insurers for orthopedic surgeries, and join a multi-hospital study for applying time-driven activity-based costing to identify process improvement and View Details
- 20 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
Blind Spots: We’re Not as Ethical as We Think
training in ethics and corporate programs focus on intentional acts. We saw an opportunity to contribute to our understanding of how so many unethical acts occur. Q: Why don't traditional approaches to thinking about ethics work? A: Most... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
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Aligning Reimbursement with Value - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
lead to both outcomes and cost improvement. In addition to CMS bundles, pilot programs with insurers such as UnitedHealthcare and with employers such as Walmart, are creating opportunities for both providers... View Details
- 27 Oct 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
Achieving Excellence in Nonprofits
actions that are aligned with producing them. Fundamentally, that is the focus of our work in the Social Enterprise Initiative. Board and executive leaders today are confronted by a confusing landscape of conflicting demands, rapidly evolving rules, and changing View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
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Curriculum - Business & Environment
MBA Experience Curriculum 1ms Required Curriculum (1st Year) Cases Environmental opportunities and challenges are embedded in most Required Curriculum courses so that all students understand the importance of the natural environment to... View Details