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  • 29 May 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018

more sensitive to losses than gains in terms of economic growth? We find that measures of subjective well-being are more than twice as sensitive to negative as compared to positive economic growth. We use Gallup World Poll data from over... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 01 Apr 2014
  • First Look

First Look: April 1

centers. It uses a transfer-pricing system designed to account for interdependencies between profit centers and to induce coordination. Further, profit center managers are incentivized with own-level residual income measures. The use of the latter View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 31 Jul 2012
  • First Look

First Look: July 31

seen as arising from a delegator's (e.g., a citizenry) demand to hold a delegate (e.g., shareholders) to account. When effective, corporate accountability reporting can internalize certain externalities into firms' resource-allocation... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 19 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019

Accounting Review Rethinking Measurement of Pay Disparity and Its Relation to Firm Performance By: Rouen, Ethan Abstract—I develop measures of firm-level pay disparity and examine their relation to firm... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 06 Dec 2016
  • First Look

December 6, 2016

characteristics (competence, ambition) and is scarce and in demand on the job market. This research uncovers an alternative kind of conspicuous consumption that operates by shifting the focus from the preciousness and scarcity of goods to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Aug 2007
  • First Look

First Look: August 14, 2007

Beers at the Millennium Harvard Business School Case 706-518 At the time of the millennium, diamond demand was threatened by an increasing awareness among jewelry customers that diamond production and trading in some countries was being... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 Sep 2006
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First Look: September 19, 2006

favorite content wherever they are whenever they demand it, consumption patterns will become more, not less uniform, this theory predicts. To shed light on this debate, we study the distribution of revenues across products in the context... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Feb 2016
  • HBS Case

Bigbelly's Big Bet on the Digital Trash Can

strategy is selling cities on something citizens need. In Bigbelly’s case, the company aims to leverage the power and connectivity already embedded in the waste stations for a public increasingly hungry for data. Not only are Wi-Fi hotspots in View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Energy
  • 01 Sep 2004
  • News

One-on-One with Robert McNamara

taught by Professor Ross Graham Walker and others, a company’s numbers had value far beyond mere record-keeping. Statistical data could instead be used proactively as a general management tool for analyzing an organization’s production and operations and View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
  • 16 Oct 2012
  • First Look

First Look: October 16

more modular than the product from the tightly coupled organization. We measure modularity by capturing the level of coupling between a product's components. The magnitude of the differences is substantial-up to a factor of six, in terms... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Oct 2012
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First Look: October 30

phenomenon whereby the potential to be good at something can be preferred over actually being good at that very same thing. We document this preference for potential in laboratory and field experiments, using targets ranging from athletes to comedians to graduate... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Mar 2006
  • News

The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could

rejected Cook, and the balance from a private-equity firm, Charterhouse Group. “As a matter of principle” Charterhouse demanded that Rogers ante up $100,000 of his own money. “I told them it might as well be $10 million because I only had... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing
  • 12 Jul 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Solving COVID'S Mental Health Crisis

Community Behavioral Health Clinics (CCBHCs) and other providers to build their telepsychiatry programs and meet the needs of under-served populations. “Our support allows patients to see providers remotely over video conferences,” he says. To help clinics meet surging... View Details
Keywords: by Howard Stevenson and Shirley Spence; Health
  • 04 Aug 2014
  • Op-Ed

Why Small-Business Lending Is Not Recovering

banks, both large and small, from ever fully returning to the small business market. Cyclical Factors Linger From The Recession In the recent recession small-business sales were hit hard and may still be soft, undermining their demand for... View Details
Keywords: by Karen Mills; Banking; Financial Services
  • 13 Dec 2016
  • First Look

December 13, 2016

to exert over the different segments of their production processes. We describe a property-rights model of firm boundary choices along the value chain that generalizes Antràs and Chor (2013). To assess the evidence, we construct firm-level View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 11 Jan 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 11

effective nonprofits and away from underperforming ones. We illustrate how innovative information and financial intermediaries, using new measurement approaches tailored for the nonprofit sector, have recently arisen to help direct funds... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Mar 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Risky Business? Protecting Foreign Investments

to gain much traction and proposes measures that will better protect the rights of property owners. We asked Wells to discuss his research and experiences representing host governments in such negotiations, and what international managers... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Energy; Utilities
  • March 2015
  • Teaching Note

CVS Health: Promoting Drug Adherence

By: Leslie John, John Quelch and Robert Huckman
Email mking@hbs.edu for a courtesy copy.

This Teaching Note explains the theory of the case and teaching plan for the case: CVS Health: Promoting Drug Adherence (515010). The case finds Helena Foulkes, Executive... View Details
Keywords: Medication Adherence; Affordable Care Act (ACA); Marketing Strategy; Communication Strategy; Customer Value and Value Chain; Decisions; Health Care and Treatment; Goals and Objectives; Resource Allocation; Marketing Communications; Consumer Behavior; Measurement and Metrics; Service Delivery; Behavior; Motivation and Incentives; Social Issues; Information Technology; Value Creation; Health Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; Insurance Industry; Public Relations Industry; Retail Industry; United States
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  • 01 Aug 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1

processes. We describe a property-rights model of firm boundary choices along the value chain that generalizes Antràs and Chor (2013). To assess the evidence, we construct firm-level measures of the upstreamness of integrated and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 May 2017
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New Research and Ideas, May 9

sovereign default induced by legal rulings in the case of Republic of Argentina v. NML Capital. We find that a 10% increase in the probability of default causes a 6% decline in the value of Argentine equities and a 1% depreciation of a View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne