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- 21 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 21, 2009
distinguishing between direct and complementary spillovers, we examine (1) the extent to which a hospital's specialization in areas related to cardiovascular care directly impacts performance in cardiovascular care (direct spillovers) and (2) whether the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 31 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 31, 2009
hospital-year observations and 59 mergers, reveals differences in post-merger customer-mix reconfiguration strategies. For-profit hospitals increase their share of the insured patients and decrease their share of uninsured patients after the merger, while non-profit... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 6, 2015
technologies by examining the quality of the marginal entrants who benefited from reform. As expected, the reform relaxed constraints and led to an increase in entrepreneurship through the collateral channel. However, on average, new... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 1
standard results on double marginalization and pricing of complementary goods, a platform that already has exclusive access to content may prefer to relinquish control over pricing and associated revenues from the content to the content... View Details
- 26 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 26, 2008
find that, on average, employee turnover is associated with decreased performance, as measured by profit margin and customer service. The effect of turnover on performance, however, is mitigated by the nature of management at the store... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 19
spillovers) and (2) whether the marginal benefit of a hospital's focus in cardiovascular care depends on the degree to which the hospital "co-specializes" in related areas (complementarities). In our setting, we find evidence of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Jun 2015
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First Look: June 9, 2015
the beneficial effect of cost transparency holds when firms spend more on "less desirable" costs relative to "more desirable" costs. Studies 5-6 show that the effect of cost transparency weakens when high profit View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Oct 2003
- What Do You Think?
Is “the Innovator’s Solution” to Sustained Corporate Growth an Unnatural Act?
margins until their newly spawned competitors eventually overtake them. In The Innovator's Solution, Christensen and Raynor present a manual for managers of long-established companies wishing to generate their own disruptive technologies... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 02 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
Disruptors Sell What Customers Want and Let Competitors Sell What They Don’t
door and ready to be marketed to with more profitable products such as home mortgages. Already, entrepreneurial competitors are pecking around the margins of banking—Paypal offers essentially the equivalent of an online checking account,... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 23 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 23, 2007
particular, we let the upstream firm's marginal cost be private information, unknown to the downstream firms. The previous literature has argued that vertical integration is harmful because it allows an upstream monopolist to limit output... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 15, 2016
presidential and parliamentary elections shows that voter registration requirements have significant effects on turnout, disproportionately discouraging marginalized citizens. We assigned 20,500 apartments to one control or six treatment... View Details
- 07 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 7
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/13-008.pdf Risky Business: The Impact of Property Rights on Investment and Revenue in the Film Industry Authors:Venkat Kuppuswamy and Carliss Y. Baldwin Abstract Our paper tests a key prediction of property rights theory: that agents... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Nov 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
How Activist Investors Became Respectable
sometimes be thin and their conclusions questionable. But in an era of chronically slow economic growth, activists will find shareholders increasingly open to their overtures. Let the record show that they have evolved from slightly disreputable players on the View Details
- 15 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Lessons Not Learned About Innovation
rare, but too many executives swing for the fences with each new innovation. This not only marginalizes people who work on smaller projects, but also tends to result in projects modeled on existing market successes—that is, not that... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jun 2012
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching Leadership: What We Know
leadership education falls at best on the periphery rather than at the center of most schools that profess to educate leaders as their animating purpose. Many of today's most popular leadership courses are delivered by external consultants, senior lecturers and adjunct... View Details
- 20 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2008
information to maximize their consumption-based utility. Emotionally, prices can induce regret and anger among consumers. The optimal responses of firm's prices to these reactions can explain why firms charge prices below marginal cost... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 17
majority of newsvendor settings. When demands are uncensored, subjects tend to order below the normative quantity when facing high margin and above the normative quantity when facing low margin, but in neither case beyond mean demand... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 24, 2017
but increased Hollande's vote share in the first round and accounted for one-fourth of his victory margin in the second. Visits' impact persisted in later elections, suggesting a lasting persuasion effect. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Hold or Fold? Sizing Up Business Risk
as "high" or "low," with "high" being anything from pretty satisfied to very satisfied and "low" being anything from deeply unsatisfied to marginally satisfied. Prediction is the second dimension we... View Details
- 21 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Loyalty: Don’t Give Away the Store
particularly bad. The marginal cost is almost 75 percent, so every time you give a dollar to someone in the form of a turkey, or a ham, it's costing you 75 cents. In contrast, if you look at offers from the airlines, the cost of miles... View Details