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  • 22 May 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Forgiving Student Loan Debt Leads to Better Jobs, Stronger Consumers

cars, for instance. Source: “Second Change: Life Without Student Debt” by Marco Di Maggio, Ankit Kalda, and Vincent W. Yao. All of these results show that policy interventions in the student loan market should not be considered a zero-sum... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 16 Feb 2016
  • First Look

February 16, 2016

later in the day, test performance decreases by 0.9% of a standard deviation (95% CI: 0.7%–1.0%). However, a 20–30 minute break improves average test performance by 1.7% of a standard deviation (95% CI: 1.2%–2.2%). These findings have two important View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 31 Jul 2013
  • Working Paper Summaries

Learning from Double-Digit Growth Experiences

Keywords: by Eric D. Werker
  • 17 Aug 2023
  • Research & Ideas

‘Not a Bunch of Weirdos’: Why Mainstream Investors Buy Crypto

$45,000 or less accounted for another 20 percent of the transactions. This shows, Di Maggio says, that the crypto market consists of “average US investors that are using crypto as an alternative asset class in their portfolio.” Impact of COVID-19 stimulus Fiscal View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand
  • 23 Nov 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Management’s Role in Reforming Health Care

continues. "We ought to think about the optimal way of caring for a particular type of patient and then how to pay for that optimal way rather than say, 'Here's the payment regime, what can we do in this context?' "For me, the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health
  • 03 Oct 2023
  • HBS Case

Layoffs Can Be Bad Business: 5 Strategies to Consider Before Cutting Staff

unavoidable. In such situations, companies can mitigate the hidden costs if executives develop specific policies to follow in downsizing and make everyone aware of the company’s approach and its commitment to acting fairly for all... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand; Telecommunications; Technology; Financial Services; Manufacturing
  • 14 Mar 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, March 14

abstract available. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52217 2016 Monetary Policy Through Asset Markets: Lessons from Unconventional Measures and Implications for an Integrated World Forward Guidance in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Oct 2007
  • First Look

First Look: First Look: October 10

  Working PapersTesting Limits to Policy Reversal: Evidence from Indian Privatizations Authors:Siddhartha G. Dastidar, Raymond Fisman, and Tarun Khanna Abstract We examine the effect of regime change on privatization using the 2004... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Dec 2014
  • First Look

First Look: December 16

growth, and the estate tax. The treatment has large effects on views about inequality but only slightly moves tax and transfer policy preferences. An exception is the estate tax-informing respondents of the small share of decedents who... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Jan 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019

budgets. Concurrently, changes to other government policies were causing expatriates—who made up about a third of Saudi Arabia’s population and were a key consumer of Almarai’s dairy products—to leave the country in droves. This case... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 23 Sep 2014
  • First Look

First Look: September 23

certain types of transactions. Bitcoin is of interest to economists in part for its potential to disrupt existing payment systems and perhaps monetary systems, and also for the wealth of data it provides about agents' behavior and about... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Dec 2008
  • First Look

First Look: December 23, 2008

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-005.pdf   Cases & Course MaterialsAmerican Cancer Society: Access to Care Harvard Business School Case 109-015 CEO John Seffrin decides to radically change the strategy of the American Cancer Society. The new Access to Care... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Teaching Interest

Overview

By: Regina E. Herzlinger
Course Requirements

Students are required to prepare a business plan, which employs the framework of this course, to explore an entrepreneurial opportunity in health care, and to evaluate their classmates' plans.

Career Focus

For... View Details
Keywords: Healthcare; Healthcare Industry; Healthcare Innovation; Healthcare Costs; Healthcare Operations; Healthcare Organizations; Healthcare Startups; Healthcare Technology; Healthcare Ventures
  • 08 Jan 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, January 8, 2019

to deliver high-quality goods or services in a cost-effective manner. This concept has become increasingly relevant to cardiac catheterization laboratories, as insurers move away from fee-for-service reimbursement and toward payment... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 03 Feb 2015
  • First Look

First Look: February 3

Dennis A. Yao Abstract—This article examines how antitrust law and policy can benefit from ideas developed in the academic strategy field. Because accurate assessment and prediction of the effects of firm conduct depend in part on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Jul 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Did Pandemic Stimulus Funds Spur the Rise of 'Meme Stocks'?

jumped after the first two stimulus payments hit in April 2020 and January 2021, driven by retail investor buying, says research by Harvard Business School Professor Robin Greenwood. "We've been through this extraordinary period in the... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services
  • 31 Mar 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Can a ‘Basic Bundle’ of Health Insurance Cure Coverage Gaps and Spur Innovation?

policies that amount to a “fragmented insurance system” that leaves 10 percent of the population uninsured, according to research by Harvard Business School Professor Amitabh Chandra. “The United States spends substantially more on health... View Details
Keywords: by Kasandra Brabaw; Insurance; Health
  • 16 Jul 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Restaurant Revolution: How the Industry Is Fighting to Stay Alive

by their insurers. Along with a number of well-known chefs and restaurateurs, Keller is leading a group named BIG (Business Interruption Group) to wage a legal, political, and public relations effort to mandate payment for View Details
Keywords: by Michael S. Kaufman, Lena G. Goldberg, and Jill Avery; Food & Beverage
  • 02 Jan 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 3, 2018

government turns out to be different from that in the United States. It shows that big business emerged as a constructive player in environmental policy in the 1960s, when it persuaded the government to establish a joint research... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Nov 2014
  • First Look

First Look: November 25

shape when and how public agencies implement policies effectively on behalf of marginalized citizens. November 2014 Antitrust Law Journal Are Patents Creative or Destructive? By: Nicholas, Tom Abstract—Current debate over patent... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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