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  • 19 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55632 forthcoming Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes Active Choice, Implicit Defaults, and the Incentive to Choose By: Beshears, John, James J. Choi, David Laibson, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 18

culture. We also find wide variation across variables for ratings consistency among analysts covering the same firm. On average, consistency is higher for sell-side than buy-side analysts, consistent with sell-side analysts facing greater View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Sep 2010
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First Look: September 28, 2010

incentive to consume more applications than the social optimum to better satisfy their preference for variety); (2) an equilibrium selection problem (consumption complementarities often lead to multiple equilibria); and (3) a coordination... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Jul 2015
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First Look: July 21, 2015

By: Stern, Ariel Dora Abstract—This paper explores how the regulatory approval process affects innovation incentives in medical technologies. Prior studies have found early mover regulatory advantages for drugs. I find the opposite for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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capture (NFT’s for example) and, most of all, moving the provision of trust from institutions and governments to network protocols that have no central authority. They challenge the core notions of brand value, scale, regulatory guardrails, hierarchy, View Details
  • 16 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 16, 2008

already sold. The news raised difficult questions about how Geoff had structured his firm and had designed its governance and incentive systems. Purchase the case: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/... View Details
  • 23 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 23

relationship: the best customer. Ironically, we find that firing the customer is often a case of blaming the victim: managers remain largely unaware of their own roles in creating the unprofitable customers they seek to shed. We reveal how CRM View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 13 Dec 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Improving Public Health for the Poor

School of Public Health, Project Antares aims to create a system for devising commercial incentives that provide affordable public health initiatives, or "interventions" in healthcare parlance. Examples of commercial high-impact... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health
  • 22 Aug 2006
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First Look: August 22, 2006

with the overall district strategy. The case emphasizes the details of implementation and documents the challenges and achievements of the program over four years. The key issue in the case is achieving high performance in all schools,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Dec 2014
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First Look: December 16

Michael E., and Robert S. Kaplan Abstract—Improving provider incentives and reimbursement must become a central component in health care reform. Reimbursement through bundled payments-a single payment that covers all the procedures,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 10

selling valuable and scarce products are more likely to have separate primary and secondary markets and will therefore appropriate more value when secondary markets thicken. Firms selling products that are not valuable and scarce will be hurt. Further, we hypothesize... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Jun 2011
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First Look: June 21

learning among lower-level employees. We exploit a field-research setting in which business units vary in the "tightness" with which they monitor employee decisions. We find that tighter monitoring gives rise to implicit View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Dec 2010
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First Look: Dec. 7

implicit incentives in the form of sharp increases in employee termination linked to "excessive" use of decision rights. Consistent with these implicit incentives, we find that employees in tightly monitored business units are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Nov 2016
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November 15, 2016

firms’ incentives to innovate and that private sector firms are more sensitive to IPR protection than SOEs. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50643 Fiscal Risk and the Portfolio of Government View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Dec 2002
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Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard

improvement programs kept failing. Meliones created a leadership team with representatives from each of the three employee groups to redefine the mission and to develop a Balanced Scorecard that incorporated two apparently conflicting... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
  • 19 May 2016
  • Research Event

Crowdsourcing, Patent Trolls, and Other Research Insights Highlighted at Harvard Business School Symposium

looking to hire. Holding contests to seek advice from the crowd may help companies fill the need for innovative answers more cheaply and quickly. “Contests create incentives and drive parallel search,” Lakhani said. “What you want when... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman & Carmen Nobel
  • 24 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 24

instead of participating in negotiated exchange offers. This paper critically examines this claim and argues that the incentives for holdout litigation are limited because of (1) significant constraints on creditor litigation, (2)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 18

change their companies' values, build healthier relationships with investors, revamp incentive systems to create long-term value, and develop stronger succession plans. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Aug 2010
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First Look: August 17

the fiscal quarter end when they have greater incentive to boost earnings. Our results confirm managers' stated willingness to sacrifice long-term value in order to smooth earnings (Graham, Harvey, and Rajgopal, 2005) and their stated... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Jun 2018
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Up by the Roots

analyzing the size of their addressable markets, to figuring out how they will scale their businesses to satisfy demand. And members of all three groups can serve as resources well beyond the program itself, investing in the startups they... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; illustrations by Dan Page