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Scharlemann, Ishita Sen and Ana-Maria Tenekedjieva 2025 | Working Paper In a world with rising risk, how much are U.S. households willing to pay for homeowners insurance, and what does their demand imply for the future of insurance markets? We provide the first View Details
- 02 Mar 2007
- What Do You Think?
What Is the Government’s Role in US Health Care?
Butler believes that it could come in the form of a two-tiered system of private treatment at personal expense layered on a service free to all with protections for healthcare givers and the elimination of third party insurance. Are these... View Details
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South Asia - Global
Cole , Tomoko Harigaya, Grady Killeen and Aparna Krishna This paper evaluates a low-cost, customized soil nutrient management advisory service in India. As a methodological contribution, we examine whether and in which settings satellite measurements may be View Details
- 10 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 10, 2008
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-098.pdf Evidence from Goodwill Non-impairments on the Effects of Unverifiable Fair-Value Accounting (revised May 2008) Authors:Karthik Ramanna and Ross L. Watt Abstract SFAS 142 requires firms to use... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Apr 2022
- HBS Case
Dick’s Sporting Goods Followed Its Conscience on Guns—and It Paid Off
Stack felt compelled to do more, including eliminating the type of semiautomatic rifle that was used in the shooting from stores and refraining from selling any firearms to people under age 21. “Watching those kids, listening to those parents—it had a profound View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 20 Jan 2009
- Research & Ideas
Risky Business with Structured Finance
modeling exercise (using the same computer tools employed by the ratings agencies) that demonstrates that the challenge of rating structured products lies in their extreme sensitivity to estimation errors—that even modest imprecision in... View Details
- 04 Jan 2021
- Working Paper Summaries
Hospital Allocation and Racial Disparities in Health Care
- 22 Feb 2021
- Working Paper Summaries
Private and Social Returns to R&D: Drug Development and Demographics
- 16 Jul 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
Selection, Reallocation, and Spillover: Identifying the Sources of Gains from Multinational Production
Keywords: by Laura Alfaro & Maggie X. Chen
- 01 Nov 2019
- Blog Post
Confronting Climate Change in the Classroom and Beyond
leaders, and to inspire new ideas and practical, effective solutions that will benefit managers everywhere. In practical terms, that translates to the BEI team, led by Faculty Chair and Senator John Heinz Professor of Environmental... View Details
- 03 May 2019
- HBS Seminar
Stephanie Cheng & Ran Song, Harvard University & Harvard Law School
- Research Summary
The Value of Family Ownership, Control, and Management
In collaboration with Professor Raphael Amit of Wharton, Belén Villalonga is investigating how family ownership, control, and management affect firm value. Their forthcoming Journal of Financial... View Details
- March 2019
- Article
Evidence of Upcoding in Pay-for-Performance Programs
By: Hamsa Bastani, Joel Goh and Mohsen Bayati
Recent Medicare legislation seeks to improve patient care quality by financially penalizing providers for hospital-acquired infections (HAIs). However, Medicare cannot directly monitor HAI rates and instead relies on providers accurately self-reporting HAIs in claims... View Details
Keywords: Medical Coding; Health Policy; Healthcare-acquired Conditions; Medicare; Health Care and Treatment; Policy; Performance Improvement; Quality; Measurement and Metrics; Government Legislation
Bastani, Hamsa, Joel Goh, and Mohsen Bayati. "Evidence of Upcoding in Pay-for-Performance Programs." Management Science 65, no. 3 (March 2019): 1042–1060. (2015 INFORMS Health Applications Society best student (H. Bastani) paper award.)
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Program Requirements - Doctoral
Processing (MIT 6.864) Bayesian Modeling Inference (MIT 6.435) Inference Causal Parameters (MIT 14.388) Quantitative Research Design Courses Advanced Quantitative Research Methodology (Gov 2001) Program Evaluation: Estimating Program... View Details
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Program Requirements - Doctoral
Empirical Methods in Corporate Finance (HBS 4220) Experimental Methods (HBS 4435) Matched Sampling and Study Design (Stat 240); (Stat 140 or Econ 1127 are strongly recommended as prerequisites.) Program Evaluation: Estimating Program... View Details
- March 2021
- Article
Provider Teams Outperform Solo Providers in Managing Chronic Diseases and Could Improve the Value of Care
By: Maximilian J. Pany, Lucy Chen, Bethany Sheridan and Robert S. Huckman
Scope-of-practice regulations, including prescribing limits and supervision requirements, may influence the propensity of providers to form care teams. Therefore, policy makers need to understand the effect of both team-based care and provider type on clinical... View Details
Keywords: Disease Management; Team-based Care; Health Care and Treatment; Groups and Teams; Performance
Pany, Maximilian J., Lucy Chen, Bethany Sheridan, and Robert S. Huckman. "Provider Teams Outperform Solo Providers in Managing Chronic Diseases and Could Improve the Value of Care." Health Affairs 40, no. 3 (March 2021): 435–444.
- May 2024
- Article
Design of Off-Grid Lighting Business Models to Serve the Poor: Field Experiments and Structural Analysis
By: Bhavani Shanker Uppari, Serguei Netessine, Ioanna Popescu and Rowan P. Clarke
A significant proportion of the world's population has no access to grid-based electricity and so relies on off-grid lighting solutions. Rechargeable lamp technology is gaining popularity as an alternative off-grid lighting model in developing countries. In this paper,... View Details
Keywords: Technological Innovation; Developing Countries and Economies; Consumer Behavior; Poverty; Logistics; Business Model; Utilities Industry
Uppari, Bhavani Shanker, Serguei Netessine, Ioanna Popescu, and Rowan P. Clarke. "Design of Off-Grid Lighting Business Models to Serve the Poor: Field Experiments and Structural Analysis." Management Science 70, no. 5 (May 2024): 3038–3058.
- 13 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 13
2011 Abstract The contribution of culture to organizational performance is both substantial and quantifiable. This book presents the results of field research that demonstrates how an effective culture can account for up to half of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Mar 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
How Elastic Are Preferences for Redistribution? Evidence from Randomized Survey Experiments
- 22 Aug 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
A Randomized Field Study of a Leadership WalkRounds™-Based Intervention
climate antecedent for positive, discretionary behaviors of frontline staff. We compare change in PIP in the treatment work areas to the same type of work areas in control hospitals. Results: On average, compared to control work areas,... View Details