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- 11 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 11
Sustainable cost reduction is best achieved by optimizing the quantity and mix of all the resources needed to produce excellent outcomes for a patient's medical condition, not by across-the-board reductions in line-item expenses.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018
under-provision of innovation. Firms have clear incentives to engage in strategic behavior because policymakers use market outcomes as a benchmark in designing regulation. This study examines a unique energy efficiency standard for... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 07 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 7
that researchers can potentially invoke to supplement other resources available to them. We propose a framework of antecedents for the use of professional social networks by academics. The framework captures researchers’ relevant personal... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 3
is constrained to occur at the same price as a purchase of that same good directly from the seller (or through another competing intermediary). We examine thirteen markets with price coherence, including their origin and outcomes as well... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 7, 2008
cream), controlling for customer fixed effects. These findings are all consistent with theories suggesting that people's should selves exert more influence over their choices the further in the future outcomes will be experienced.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
that will reimagine health and other fields for decades more. Revenues at IBM have been in the red since 2012, yet analysts have pointed to Watson as the engine that can revitalize the company—as the potential through-line that will touch... View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 17 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
Pandemic Self-Care for CEOs: Rituals, Running, and Cognitive Restructuring
any other organism) to become more resilient, or it can have the opposite effect, wearing down and depleting their physical and mental resources. The outcome depends on many factors: Whether the stress was chosen or involuntary,... View Details
- 18 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 18, 2018
supplemental, qualitative investigation, we propose some potential interpretations for our findings. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54356 forthcoming Psychological Science The Effect of Graphic Warnings... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 19, 2016
components. In essence, a small number of components generate a large proportion of system costs. However, we find major differences in the potential benefits available from refactoring these systems, related to their differing designs.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 7, 2006
outcome methods don't seem to apply? Performing the research to answer these questions led to the publication of this book. It is based on project records and interviews exploring the experiences of men and women who have managed, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Loan Assistance Programs - Alumni
third-party verification. This change will affect very few potential applicants, and current students are encouraged to switch any personal debt for eligible loan types if they are considering these programs. Bank loans not certified or... View Details
- 10 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018
Lending Outcomes By: Campbell, Dennis, Maria Loumioti, and Regina Wittenberg Moerman Abstract—We explore how cognitive constraints can impede the effective processing and interpretation of less salient, non-quantitative (soft) information... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19
experiences at work and at home are shaped by social class, heightening identification with gender for relatively upper class women and identification with class for relatively lower class women, potentially mitigating, or even reversing,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 8
grounded in a definition of creativity as the production of ideas or outcomes that are both novel and appropriate to some goal. In this theory, four components are necessary for any creative response: three components within the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 19 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
Business Research that Makes for Smarter Public Policy
research to help address. EPA senior attorney-advisor Jon Silberman says he attended with potential research questions related to the agency’s Next Generation Compliance initiative, which aims to take advantage of new tools and... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 03 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 3
affecting decision making about appropriate types of business entities are explored in the context of advising a prospective investor with particular emphasis on why LLCs are increasingly "go-to" entities. The potential effect... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Nov 2019
- Book
Lifting the Lid on Turkey's Hidden Business History
and the present. (The comparable figures for India are $330 and $2,104). Nonetheless, likely negative outcomes range from poor quality construction and growing work-related accidents to the remarkably low level of personal trust seen in... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
improve inner cities a decade ago. In the early 1990s, with support from then HBS Dean John H. McArthur, Porter oversaw a series of field studies that looked at potential solutions to the problems facing America's inner cities. This... View Details
- 15 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 15
slightly worse outcomes than non-affiliated investments, despite the targets having superior performance prior to investments. Investments during market peaks by commercial banks have significantly higher rates of bankruptcy. The... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Dec 2018
- News
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Hawkins’s theories about brain function. (“We don’t do discovery by wet lab,” Hawkins clarifies. “We’re theorists.”) One of the first theories to become a business foundation was Hawkins’s finding that the brain’s neurons use their synapses to make predictions—about... View Details