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  • 01 Mar 2009
  • News

Model Patient

world in life expectancy, at 77.9 years. Half the U.S. population does not receive standard preventive care such as cancer screening, blood pressure checks, or vaccinations. A 2007 McKinsey study found that compared with the average for... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Health, Social Assistance
  • 22 Jul 2008
  • First Look

First Look: July 22, 2008

  Working PapersFixing Market Failures or Fixing Elections? Agricultural Credit in India Authors:Shawn A. Cole Abstract This paper integrates theories of political budget cycles with theories of tactical electoral redistribution to test... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 Jun 2014
  • Lessons from the Classroom

FIELD Trip: Conquering the Gap Between Knowing and Doing

they probably didn't do a good job." Learning By Doing For decades, Harvard's case-study method has been the gold standard in business-school education, emulated around the world for its methodology that teaches students... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Education
  • 06 Nov 2007
  • First Look

First Look: November 6, 2007

findings to the retailer for comment, but received no response. While Wal-Mart did not respond, the company had taken several steps to strengthen its ethical standards worldwide in recent years. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Aug 2008
  • First Look

First Look: August 12, 2008

Commercializing a Diagnostic Test Harvard Business School Case 308-090 What are the barriers and opportunities to commercializing genetic diagnoses for disease? Purchase the case:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Jul 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Ideas and Research, July 11

time. We examined a radical change in a recently acquired subsidiary of a U.S.-based global organization over a two-year period. With the aim to standardize communication across borders, the subsidiary changed its native working language... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Jul 2011
  • First Look

First Look: July 12

implementation of firm strategy). Thus, agency theory predicts managers will, on average, use the discretion in SFAS 142 consistent with private incentives. We test these hypotheses in a sample of firms with market indications of goodwill... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 03 Feb 2009
  • First Look

First Look: February 3, 2009

absolute. Instead, measures/reports of time and distance were found to depend on one's reference point, specifically one's direction and speed of travel, making our apparent physical reality, in Einstein's words, "merely an illusion." Like time and distance,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 Jan 2016
  • First Look

January 19, 2016

efficiency and long-term survival in standard cardiac surgery procedures. Methods: Utilizing a prospectively collected retrospective database, we identified patients who underwent isolated CABG (n=3726), AVR (n=1626), MV repair (n=731),... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 2002
  • News

Bad Times for Business

their employees, their communities, the financial community, and the public, as to what they stand for and what they're really about. Make it not only a touchstone for how a particular company conducts its operations but, more broadly, the View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
  • 17 Dec 2013
  • First Look

First Look: December 17

albeit in a staggered manner, adopt IFRS over local standards in the 2003-2008 period? We test the hypothesis that perceived network benefits from the extant worldwide adoption of IFRS can explain part of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 20 Feb 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Are Company Founders Underpaid?

are the opposite of what we'd expect based on large-company compensation patterns. Q: Can you explain the difference between stewardship theory and agency theory? How do these theories apply to new venture firms? A: Agency theory is the View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Financial Services; Technology
  • 17 Apr 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Resisting the Seductions of Success

feel it, you fail to be alive."5 Tony is unknowingly describing his own predicament. His ceaseless efforts to meet others' standards and succeed have deadened his emotional life and moral instincts. This happens in three ways. First,... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph L. Badaracco Jr.; Entertainment & Recreation; Information; Publishing
  • 01 Mar 2007
  • News

The Winning Season

1982. “It was incredible,” says DeWitt of that history-making moment. “It was always a dream — but you’re not sure your dream will ever come true. This year it did.” As is so often true in the game of baseball, the Cardinals tested their... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment
  • 28 Aug 2012
  • First Look

First Look: August 28

of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) leads to capital market benefits through enhanced financial statement comparability. UK domestic standards are considered very similar to IFRS (Bae et... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Mar 2011
  • News

James McNerney Jr.

"Pilots Push 787 Dreamliner to the Limit" - Watch some take-offs and landings best left to the test pilot professionals. "Capturing the Birth of the Dreamliner" - Photographer Ed Turner documented the global effort of manufacturing the... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; interview; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Air Transportation; Transportation
  • 08 Feb 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 8

learning challenges presented by rapid knowledge growth, uncertainty, and complexity in dynamic settings. We test whether there are additional performance benefits to using deliberate learning activities and whether the effectiveness of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Mar 2010
  • First Look

First Look: March 30

Daniel Kahneman, 217-247. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. Abstract We test for whether, once "basic needs" are satisfied, there is happiness adaptation to further gains in income using three data sets. Individual German... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Mar 2008
  • Research & Ideas

The Lessons of Business History: A Handbook

and social science research is specialist, peer-reviewed journals. Second, much research takes the form of case studies and is often qualitative rather than quantitative. In disciplines where standardized social science methodology,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Jun 2007
  • First Look

First Look: June 29, 2007

economic successes of the Allied war economies ensured that the new empires created by the Axis powers did not endure for long. Two models of state-led production—the American and the Soviet—passed the test of total war. Those new models... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace