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- 12 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Competition the Cure for Healthcare
healthcare is not high quality. Indeed, there is every possible quality problem you can imagine: incorrect diagnoses, drug errors, unnecessary complications, and failed treatments. Also, there are huge differences in View Details
- 13 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 13
evidence of a lower likelihood of SEC enforcement for labor-intensive firms that are headquartered in districts of senior congressmen that serve on committees that oversee the SEC. All of these results hold after controlling for firms' View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015
Just Has to Make Money by Robert C. Hacker (MBA 1972) (North American Publishing Company) Nobody has more stories than agency account people. Having been inside hundreds of clients’ organizations and six agencies and seen it all, Hacker... View Details
- 05 Aug 2015
- What Do You Think?
What Happened to the ‘Innovation, Disruption, Technology’ Dividend?
measurement argument, which goes like this: The way we measure productivity increases doesn't account for such things as quality of life (although greater convenience should be reflected somehow in... View Details
- 02 Dec 2019
- What Do You Think?
How Does a Company like Boeing Respond to Intense Competitive Pressure?
possibly was another example unfolded. As reader Anna Johnson put it, “When the pressure to meet quarterly performance expectations against best-guess sales targets and a flesh pounding schedule take precedence, it’s not surprising that psychological safety and... View Details
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Delving Deeper into Development with the Joint MBA/MPA-ID Program | MBA
accounting & information systems instruction. What were you doing before grad school and what led you to apply/enroll at HBS and HKS? MPA-IDs at the Nutcracker Ballet in Winter 2019 I joined Deloitte’s Risk Advisory practice in Atlanta... View Details
- 06 Nov 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, November 6, 2018
focused on a single industry or country and has not accounted for possible variation across social contexts. This paper advances an institutional framework and predicts that gender diversity’s effect on performance is determined by both... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 15
to $426 billion, accounting for nearly 70% of the jump in total syndicated loan issuance over the same period. Did the inflow of institutional funding in the syndicated loan market lead to mispricing of credit? To understand this... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 2, 2016
quality of accounting information. Overall, a tractable accounting-based valuation model provides a unifying framework for obtaining reliable proxies of expected returns worldwide. Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Aug 2016
- What Do You Think?
How Can We Hold the “Leadership Industry” Accountable?
correcting this largely leave us with a frustrating sense that there is every reason to think that the industry will continue to grow and prosper without significantly affecting the quality of leadership in the world. Our readers shared... View Details
- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Waking Up a Sleeping Company
I joined the company. The company's long history of success had led to a soft underbelly that manifested itself in a lack of discipline. The company was extremely values-centered, but its internal norms of consensus decision making, conflict avoidance, and lack of... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 23 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
Businesses Need a 'Catalyst' to Make CSR Practices Stick
Many companies follow a tried-and-true approach to pursuing corporate social responsibility practices. They set aside a certain amount per year to fund a CSR office, which then tries to help clean up the environment or improve the quality... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 09 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
A Simple Way for Restaurant Inspectors to Improve Food Safety
are hospitalized, and 3,000 die due to foodborne illnesses, according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. The research is detailed in the paper “How Scheduling Can Bias Quality Assessment: Evidence from Food Safety... View Details
- 08 Jul 2015
- What Do You Think?
Do Americans Work Too Much and Think About Work Too Little?
are flat-out more productive than those that don't, even taking into account the hours that weren't spent "working." Are Americans working too hard? If so, what's the answer? How do we encourage organizations in a competitive... View Details
- 16 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 16
Working PapersOpen to Negotiation: Phenomenological Assumptions and Knowledge Dissemination (revised) Authors:Corinne Bendersky and Kathleen L. McGinn Abstract Phenomenological assumptions—assumptions about the fundamental qualities of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
Creating Emerging Markets Sustainability Series - Innovations to Address the Global Water Crisis
policy and business leaders, given that it accounts for approximately 70% of global water use. Speaking about the agricultural sector’s role in the global water crisis, Connor argued that “irrigation for crops has to be more efficient –... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Where Are the Innovators in Health Care?
medical technology and health-insurance sectors, when it comes to health services, the 800-pound gorilla of our system, entrepreneurs are nowhere to be found. And their absence has enabled the status quo providers to get fat and sloppy. One analysis showed that... View Details
- 25 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Cyber-Marketing: Scouting the Digital Communications Frontier
forthcoming book Digital Marketing (John Wiley & Sons), edited by Jerry Wind and Vijay Mahajan, John Deighton and coauthor Patrick Barwise of the London Business School identify three qualities that distinguish the Web from other mass... View Details
Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Innovation, Inc.
Illustration by Jose Ortega Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.—Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Inauguration Day, 1933 Creativity, a quality more traditionally... View Details
- 25 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health
too often still result in decisions that take scant account of public health and whether the health of individual citizens is being advanced. When worker safety is jeopardized by unenforced building codes or exposure to harmful industrial... View Details