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  • 01 Dec 1996
  • News

Starting Up and Starting Over

As it happened, many of the young men and women returning home from war were in complete agreement with Slichter. By one measure - a series of Air Force outprocessing interviews conducted in 1945 - the number of veterans intending to join... View Details
  • 19 Dec 2006
  • First Look

First Look: December 19, 2006

were the outcomes in some cases that a few notable infrastructure firms came close to bankruptcy; several others hurriedly fled poor countries as projects soured. In this book, Louis Wells and Rafiq Ahmed show why disputes developed,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 25

on a test measuring divergent thinking tended to cheat more (Study 1); that dispositional creativity is a better predictor of unethical behavior than intelligence (Study 2); and that participants who were primed to think creatively were... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Aug 2009
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First Look: August 11, 2009

since the Great Depression. That is why Barack Obama and his team have been looking to Franklin Delano Roosevelt for help. The stimulus measure passed by Congress in February that includes money for building infrastructure, strengthening... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Mar 2013
  • News

A Healthy Profit

lowest-income countries," he explains, "76 percent of health spending is private, and 70 percent is out of pocket." Furthermore, the health services and products that poor people pay for are all too often inferior. Thus, making better health services and View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Health, Social Assistance
  • 23 Feb 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Creative Entrepreneurship in a Downturn

need for substitutes.” Another outcome of a drop-off in consumption and employment is a need for products that become more valuable during such periods when consumers have more time on their hands. An astounding number of media companies... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 13 Dec 2016
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December 13, 2016

accelerate progress: Put patients at the center of care, create choice, stop rewarding volume, standardize value-based methods of payment, and make data on outcomes transparent. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 05 Nov 2013
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First Look: November 5

role of firms as facilitators of globalization during the nineteenth century and more recently and as preservers of it when governments sought to close it down in the interwar years. However the ability of firms to shape the world was always constrained, especially by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 28, 2009

  Working PapersNo Harm, No Foul: The Outcome Bias in Ethical Judgments (revised) Authors:Francesca Gino, Don A. Moore, and Max H. Bazerman Abstract We present six studies demonstrating that outcome... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 08 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 8

the workgroup. We test our hypotheses in a study of 23 hospital neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) involved in a quality improvement collaborative. We find that using deliberate learning activities is associated with better workgroup performance, as View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Feb 2012
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First Look: February 7

fairness within the industry. Coordinating conflicting programs requires a careful balance between equity and efficiency. In our work, we first develop a fairness metric to measure deviation from first-scheduled, first-served in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Dec 2014
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First Look: December 16

why we believe this reimbursement method best aligns everyone's interests around value. We describe how recent improvements in measuring outcomes and costs have overcome past barriers to wide-scale adoption... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Dec 2007
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First Look: December 4, 2007

advantage and market outcomes hence could be more efficient with stronger indirect network effects. We empirically examine the competition between the Xbox and PlayStation 2 consoles. We find that Xbox has a small quality advantage over... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 Oct 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Business Research that Makes for Smarter Public Policy

decisions. Analysts and Advocates Sometimes it’s hard to measure exactly the impact that academic research has on government—or to tell in advance what kind of research will be useful, says David Moss. “As one member of Congress I worked... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 16 Jun 2009
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First Look: June 16

economic theory of GAAP under the assumption that GAAP's objective is to facilitate efficient capital allocation within an economy. The theory predicts that GAAP, as shaped by the economic forces of demand for and supply of financial information would focus on... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 02 Mar 2016
  • News

The New Space Race

used to measure everything from weather to traffic. (NASA) All of these futuristic space-mining plans, though, still struggle against the oldest barrier: getting into space. Most of the cost of carrying people, satellites, supplies, or... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
  • 10 Jun 2002
  • Research & Ideas

How to Look at Globalization Now

instability in Latin America and Russia give fodder to the global skeptics. Why do you advocate a more historically measured view of globalization? A: Accounts of the cross-border integration of markets have tended to get very wrapped up... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 15 Jun 2021
  • News

June 2021 Books and Podcasts

to measure. How should we measure ours? This book of advice on life is dedicated to the younger generations, which have so many capabilities and the potential to solve the many problems that we face today. Final Delivery and Eight Others... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 18 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 18

on practical measures that businesses can implement to create shared value. Originally published in an online forum hosted by Harvard Business Review, it offers valuable advice about how CEOs, other senior executives, and boards of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Aug 2010
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First Look: August 17

generalizability of the implicit voice theories identified in Study 1. Studies 3 and 4 develop and test survey measures for five implicit voice theories, using additional samples comprised of more than 300 adults. The analyses establish... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace