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- 16 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 16, 2018
strong complementarity, but it can arise for other reasons as well. Transaction cost economics and property rights theory advise that strong complements should be placed under unified governance, for example, through common ownership.... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Jul 2015
- Op-Ed
The Future of the Greek Economy
the private—sector, a way out should be easier to arrange even at the cost of bending the rules somewhat once again. But as long as European leaders look at the next local election and their own domestic political interest rather than the... View Details
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Social Entrepreneurship Fellowship | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
sustainable, and relevant to the stakeholders. Risk : The plan addresses the risk to people and planet that impact does not occur as expected, due to evidence risk, external risk, stakeholder participation/drop-off risk, efficiency risk,... View Details
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Policy - Business & Environment
HBS MBA 1966 (R) “The most effective way to address the climate crisis is with national legislation that would impose a significant fee on carbon where it enters the market. Only by pricing in external costs can we eliminate existing... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Ready for Takeoff
profitable and sustainable airline if we don't have a very slim and efficient cost structure," she says. "And it's a challenge for the region because there are a lot of regulations that make our View Details
- 12 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Facing the New World Order
continuation of the process of globalization. I think this is a safe bet, although one has to be rather nervous right now with the higher costs of trade, the difficulties of moving people around, the difficulties of crossing borders, the... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 18 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018
valuation of $200 million and debating changes to them that will allow them to grow their business. Ensuring that their marketing dollars were being spent efficiently was critical to the data-driven management team and proving to be... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Too Big To Fail
the future may be identified as too big to fail. “What’s worse, these firms impose costs on society by creating systemic risks that they don’t have to bear on their balance sheets,” says Moss. “That’s not a situation we want to maintain.”... View Details
- 03 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 3, 2008
efficient use of social resources)? We address these questions through the lens of economics, including insights from legal analysis and business scholarship. Download the paper from SSRN ($5): http://papers.nber.org/papers/w13989... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Green Day
good ROI.” Diniz began to brainstorm with Paulo Puterman, a friend studying to get his PhD in biotechnology at the University of São Paulo who also happened to be focused on the highly efficient elephant grass/electricity equation. “After... View Details
- 18 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 18, 2007
within the task network and serve to separate one set of tasks from another. Placing a transaction in a particular location in turn requires work to define, count (or measure), and pay for the transacted objects. The costs of this work... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
How to Put Meaning Back into Leading
enactment of values and a purpose to which the organization subscribes. Barnard came to define the role of the organizational leader as the creator and steward of the purpose and values, where an important aspect of the stewardship activity is balancing short-term... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 17 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 17
we use longitudinal data from 3,458 U.S. acute care hospitals and examine the relationships between conformance and experiential quality and two important dimensions of hospital performance: cost efficiency... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
A Mass Crisis Can Overwhelm Health Care. Liberia Found a Solution.
quickly and efficiently for COVID-19 in the US, he says. The training modules cover four areas including epidemic surveillance; maternal and child health care; identifying Malaria, tuberculosis, and HIV; and referrals and chronic disease... View Details
- 20 Apr 2020
- Book
Why COVID-19 Raises the Stakes for Healthy Buildings
(Environmental Insights) COVID-19 Business Impact Center (Harvard Business School) Read COVID-19 coverage from Working Knowledge Many elite companies already use their building’s efficiency or grandeur to send a signal to customers and... View Details
- 11 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 11, 2007
America's health care system—figures in the insurance, hospital, employment, governmental, and academic sectors. She proves how our current system, which is organized around payers and providers rather than the needs of its users, is dangerously eroding patient welfare... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Aug 2024
- Op-Ed
Can AI Save Physicians from Burnout?
artificial intelligence (AI) as a potential solution to physician overwork and burnout.” Studies have shown that medical scribes are efficient substitutes for relieving administrative burdens and increasing physician productivity.... View Details
- 12 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Broadband Explosion: Thinking About a Truly Interactive World
about computers as ways of making things efficient or lower in cost (through automation). And it's good for that. But the potential for computers to support creative processes is not fully appreciated and is... View Details
- 15 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 15
available at positive prices. We characterize the size of the p2p network as a function of the firm's pricing strategy and show that the firm may be better off setting high prices, allowing the network to survive, and acknowledging that the p2p network may work more... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 31, 2006
capital are also important for the effect of FDI on economic growth. Download working paper: http://papers.nber.org/papers/W12522 A New Framework for Analyzing and Managing Macrofinancial Risks of an Economy Authors:Dale F. Gray, Robert C. Merton, and Zvi Bodie... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne