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05 Sep 2012
What Do You Think?

Will Business Management Save US Health Care?

need to achieve "a cooperative effort on the part of physicians, hospitals, and yes, even patients." Milton Recht provided a list of responses: "Increase competition, allow medical business failures, remove guaranteed... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Health

07 Jul 2010
First Look

First Look: July 7

from new entrants. We further provide evidence that these effects are due to increased competition for local resources. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-112.pdf Disagreement about the Team's Status Hierarchy: An... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

20 Jul 2020
Op-Ed

It's Time for a Bipartisan Health Plan for Employers and Employees

who pays Medicare’s rates to providers. (For the purposes of this example, we assume Medicare pays providers 50 percent of the rates paid by private plans, at the midpoint of the 35 percent to 65 percent Medicare discounts reported by... View Details

Keywords: by Regina E. Herzlinger and Richard J. Boxer; Health; Insurance

16 Jul 2014
HBS Case

Marketing Obamacare

family-oriented. Strategy: Advertise in Spanish-language media to inform people how to sign up. Stoic Skeptics (20%): Older, often single people who doubted the success of healthcare reform. Strategy: Promote "Healthy Chats" with public officials, and View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

18 Jun 2013
First Look

First Look: June 18

may compete in the intraorganizational marketplace for influential ideas and the attention of decision makers. Specifically, as risk management becomes more tool-driven and toolmaking may become more prevalent, our study provides a more... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

24 Oct 2012
Research & Ideas

Want People to Save More? Send a Text

safety net for emergencies, but also would reduce financial stress and improve their quality of life. "In the private sector, a lot of startups fail, and the market provides a signal about whether the product is viable," says... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

30 Jan 2012
Research & Ideas

Measuring the Efficacy of the World’s Managers

WMS site also features individual policy reports for manufacturing, education, health-care, and retail organizations, providing a management benchmark for executives in any of those fields. On average, based on the evaluation tool, the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

05 Jun 2012
First Look

First Look: June 5

realized returns. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-103.pdf 'Power from Sunshine': A Business History of Solar Energy Authors:Geoffrey Jones and Loubna Bouamane Abstract This working paper provides a business history... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

17 Jun 2008
First Look

First Look: June 17, 2008

ownership concentration affect the need for and process of corporate restructuring? This case provides students with an opportunity to analyze the restructuring of a Turkish multinational business group by way of a merger. Finansbank AŞ... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

22 Sep 2003
Research & Ideas

How Businesses Can Respond to AIDS

same battle, participants said. While it is no simple matter to create collaborative relationships for treating disease among workforces, other partnership models unrelated to HIV/AIDS may provide ideas, inspiration, or red flags. The... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

19 Mar 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019

low percentage of income contributed) and rewarded the poor (for their high percentage of income contributed). In Experiment 4, participants provided with public education contributions for five New York school districts levied additional... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

22 Jun 2009
Research & Ideas

“Too Big To Fail”: Reining In Large Financial Firms

to monitor TARP expenditures and recommend regulatory reforms. Led by Harvard Law School professor Elizabeth Warren, the panel recruited Moss, an expert in risk management, to provide historical context to the financial crisis and a... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Banking; Financial Services

11 Sep 2000
Research & Ideas

Riding the Internet Fast Track

such as Amazon.com, drugstore.com, E*Trade, and Priceline.com, firms that unflinchingly invest millions of dollars in advertising and promotion each year to rapidly build traffic and revenues. The high-octane fuel that these super trains require is View Details

Keywords: by Peter Jacobs

10 Jan 2008
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Operations Management

production methods. But the payoffs have not been nearly as dramatic for service industries applying lean principles. HBS professor David Upton and doctoral student Bradley Staats look at the experience of Indian software services View Details

16 Nov 2010
First Look

First Look: November 16, 2010

certain milestones in international relations preceding the ICC's formation; provides an overview of the ICC and its activities as of March 2010; and outlines Kenya's post-election crisis in 2007-2008 and the ICC's decision to intervene.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

18 Nov 2013
Op-Ed

Twitter IPO: Overvalued or the Start of Something Big?

that term, allowing its users to "consume" information in ways that were formerly unavailable to them due to cost, complexity, or both. The fact that half a billion consumers willingly engage on Twitter's platform confirms the viability of the "job" they're being... View Details

Keywords: by Chet Huber; Technology

09 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

Warring Algorithms Could Be Driving Up Consumer Prices

requires substantial resources, both in terms of computing power and human capital. Even companies that contract with third-party providers to run pricing algorithms on their websites need significant data storage capacity, processing... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Retail

20 Jun 2016
Research & Ideas

When Predicting Other People's Preferences, You're Probably Wrong

content, Kate’s finding suggests that the interviewer might infer that you’re shallow that you do not like intellectual programming, for example.” Finally, the research findings provide a weapon against self-doubt. John recalls a recent... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail

25 Mar 2013
Research & Ideas

How Chapter 11 Saved the US Economy

employees, rather than doing what's necessary to rehabilitate the business." According to Gilson, this provides compelling evidence that "US bankruptcy laws and restructuring practices have played a critical role in driving the... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Financial Services

14 Nov 2011
Research & Ideas

Creating a Global Business Code

project, the professors aimed to provide an ethical reference point for both future and current business leaders. "We wanted a way to help companies answer these questions," Margolis says. "How do we know if we're doing... View Details