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- 18 Mar 2008
- First Look
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
- 17 Sep 2013
- First Look
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
- 15 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: November 15
referring users to all manner of other sites, and in light of striking market concentration among search engines. Read the paper: http://www.nls.ac.in/ojs-2.2.3/index.php/IJLT/article/viewFile/92/72 Measuring the Prevalence of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 4
allocation within an economy. The theory predicts that GAAP's principal focus, as shaped by the demand for and supply of financial information, is on the use of the income statement and balance sheet for performance measurement and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 14, 2009
Ubel Publication: Health Psychology 27, no. 6 (November 2008): 669-675 Abstract Objective: The authors addressed a lingering concern in research on hedonic adaptation to adverse circumstances. This research typically relies on self-report View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 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
- 25 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 25, 2018
stores with higher information-gathering costs for headquarters). Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50576 Measuring Gentrification: Using Yelp Data to Quantify Neighborhood Change By: Glaeser, Edward... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 22 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 22, 2016
managerially substantial increases in current retailer orders (i.e., demand, not just sales). Specifically, a one percentage point increase in fill rate, measured over the prior year, is associated with a statistically significant 11%... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Nov 2012
- First Look
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
- 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
- 05 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 5
research in the natural sciences on the measurement of biodiversity, we introduce-and demonstrate the benefits of-emodiversity: the variety and relative abundance of the emotions that humans experience. Two cross-sectional studies across... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for Stuart Gilson
restructuring before they are hit with a financial crisis. When is a preemptive restructuring appropriate? A: If a company waits too long to address problems with its business, the resulting restructuring may be very painful. This may deter executives from taking the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Nov 2024
- HBS Case
What Wartime Service Taught These Historic Leaders
because of poor eyesight, McNamara wanted to be close to the action in 1943 and helped man the US Office of Statistical Control in London, where he applied the statistical methods he had honed at HBS to monitor troop and supply movements, View Details
- 12 Dec 2019
- Research & Ideas
How to Turn Down the Boil on Group Conflict
voting lines. While currently, committee members were appointed by the governor, a Republican, the new proposal would allow equal representation by both parties. They then asked participants to predict on a 100-point scale how much Republicans would dislike or oppose... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 05 Feb 2009
- What Do You Think?
Why Can’t We Figure Out How to Select Leaders?
the ones that scare me." These comments raise the question of how much theory tells us about selecting for harder to measure characteristics such as possible behaviors under fire and motives as opposed to skills and past... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 05 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Changing Face of American Innovation
science and engineering workforce and nearly 50 percent of those with science and engineering doctorates. And at the Ph.D. level, ethnic researchers make an exceptional contribution to science as measured by Nobel Prizes, election to the... View Details
- 24 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
Climate Finance in Africa: Health, Self-Interest, Avoided Future Cost
exhaust gases. The further hope is that regular traffic will move faster, also reducing tangible air pollution. These benefits matter to the people and to the government of Senegal. They have quantified the reduction in health care costs from bad View Details
- 22 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 22
an excitement and willingness to explore new insights and new angles on how to explain and cultivate social change within or across organizations. This edited volume will be of interest to an international community that seek to understand how organizations and people... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Starting Up and Starting Over
As it happened, many of the young men and women returning home from war were in complete agreement with Slichter. By one measure - a series of Air Force outprocessing interviews conducted in 1945 - the number of veterans intending to join... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
China, and others will grow rapidly. The authors predict probable new principles for commercial success, among them that an obsession with return on equity will give way to more broad-based measurements of success, and that Adam Smith’s... View Details