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  • 18 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 18, 2008

this result and assessing how future work in this field should proceed, based upon these first steps in measuring "design." Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-039.pdf Modeling Expert Opinions on Food... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 06 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53786 forthcoming Strategic Management Journal Scope versus Speed: Team Diversity, Leader Experience, and Patenting Outcomes for Firms By: Choudhury, Prithwiraj, and Martine R. Haas... View Details
  • 08 Sep 2010
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First Look: September 8, 2010

literature on willpower. Understanding how willpower develops can shed important light on time-inconsistent economic decision making, a topic that has received substantial attention over recent decades. In particular, we argue that View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 17

experiential quality demonstrate better clinical outcomes as measured by length of stay and readmissions, but have worse performance with regard to cost efficiency. This may result in hospitals inability to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 14

the scientists themselves. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52220 January 2017 American Economic Review Are Online and Offline Prices Similar? Evidence from Large Multi-Channel Retailers By: Cavallo, Alberto Abstract—Online prices are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Jul 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Forgiving Medical Debt Won't Make Everyone Happier

Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich. Almost $170 million in medical debt To measure the impact of medical debt relief, the researchers conducted two experiments in partnership with RIP Medical Debt and their debt collector partners.... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Health
  • 07 Dec 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Are Creative People More Dishonest?

faced with ethical dilemmas. The first study tested the hypothesis that a naturally creative person is predisposed to dishonest behavior. (The week before the experiment, the participants, 71 university students, completed an online survey that included dispositional... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Advertising
  • 11 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 11

from the athenahealth practice management system and EHR task logs. Methods: We developed monthly measures of EHR use and delegation to support staff from task logs. Productivity was measured using work... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 13

ignores the implications of past successes when valuing future innovation. We show that two firms that invest the exact same in research and development (R&D) can have quite divergent, but predictably divergent, future paths. Our approach is based on the simple... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Nov 2016
  • Op-Ed

Where Could More Regulation Help Small Businesses? Online Lending.

No-action letters could be helpful tools, as they would allow regulators to assure lenders that new products, or partnerships, are legal and that no enforcement action will be needed. 4. Shine a light on bad actors with better data on borrower View Details
Keywords: by Karen Mills and Brayden McCarthy; Financial Services
  • 26 Jul 2011
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First Look: July 26

  PublicationsPolicy Bundling to Overcome Loss Aversion: A Method for Improving Legislative Outcomes Authors:Katherine L. Milkman, Mary Carol Mazza, Lisa L. Shu, Chia-Jung Tsay, and Max H. Bazerman Publication:Organizational Behavior and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 31 Jan 2017
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First Look at New Research: January 31, 2017

which finds (a) a shift in the object of observation from organizational outcomes to the detailed individual activities within them; (b) a shift from people observing the technology to technology observing people; and (c) a split in the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 04 May 2023
  • Blog Post

Why Business Travel Still Matters in a Zoom World

whenever they knew the address of each patent’s inventor and used cutting-edge empirical methods to determine causality. In addition to the 1.4 percent uptick in patents, the authors found that new applications cited other patents 3.4 percent more often—evidence of... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • 29 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 29

since the 1980s has coincided with a strong revival in interest in local traditions and practices, which is particularly noticeable in some of the fastest growing emerging markets such as China.   Working Papers Do Measures of Financial... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 20

programs as a win-win-win scenario: compliance improves, regulators conserve enforcement resources, and firms save money. But this outcome can only be achieved if the self-regulatory activities of corporations can effectively substitute... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Jun 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017

compare the slant and bias of pairs of articles on identical topics of U.S. politics. Our slant measure is less (more) than zero when an article leans towards Democratic (Republican) viewpoints, while bias is the absolute value of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Jul 2016
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July 19, 2016

released through such refactoring efforts. We address this gap by analyzing the relationship between system architecture and maintenance costs for two software systems of similar size but with very different structures: one has a “Hierarchical” design, the other has a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 10

Approaches and Evidence By: Kerr, William R. Abstract—High-skilled immigrants are a very important component of U.S. innovation and entrepreneurship. Immigrants account for roughly a quarter of U.S. workers in these fields, and they have a similar contribution in terms... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 8

organizations and in the right locations to deliver high-value care. The strategy for moving to a high-value health care delivery system comprises six interdependent components: organizing around patients' medical conditions rather than physicians' medical specialties,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Nov 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Solving the Health Care Conundrum

have been largely ineffective as they failed to address the root causes of the problems and have dealt instead with micromanaging and inspecting providers and forcing process compliance as opposed to achieving outcomes and results. The... View Details
Keywords: by Michael E. Porter; Health