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- 05 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 5, 2016
healthcare providers are associated with a significant reduction in medical device patenting. Tort reforms have the strongest impact in medical fields in which the probability of facing a malpractice claim is the largest, and they do not... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
Why Competition May Not Improve Credit Rating Agencies
to finance ratings. Issuers have no choice but to pay the fee, and are not allowed to choose the rater. By severing the link between issuer and payment, this is supposed to limit potential pressure for favorable ratings. This model has not really been tested, and is... View Details
- 29 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
Building a Powerful Prestige Brand
Her objective of working with retailers known for carrying high-quality, premium-priced merchandise probably owed something to the social aspiration that drove her. Her interest in such stores was also strategic. Estée suspected that her... View Details
- 16 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
Has Apple Reinvented the Watch?
computer ended the use of typewriters, or how electronic fuel injection systems replaced carburetors. It's probably more accurate to say the Apple Watch introduces several impressive incremental innovations that improve and combine... View Details
- 04 Jun 2014
- What Do You Think?
Does Internet Technology Threaten Brand Loyalty?
will probably be enhanced by the information that others have about us. Will big data overwhelm us, thereby reinforcing such things as brand loyalty? Or will the quality of our search and valuation devices make us smarter, and less loyal,... View Details
- 13 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Dark Side of Trust
It's called TrapGuard—a special kind of floor drain developed by a Georgia company that prevents sewer gases from entering homes. On the great spectrum of innovative products, it's probably not keeping company with the iPod or Segway... View Details
- 30 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Market Makers Bid for Success
epic quest of trying to create that infrastructure and that new kind of commodities marketplace. And that's what we've been doing at FreeMarkets ever since. The anniversary date of the day I left GE was the end of February, five years ago. I View Details
- 21 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Shabana Azmi: Leveraging Bollywood Fame into Social Good
she crosses over to work in the new “parallel” or art cinema, those films challenge those views. Deshpandé: Very few crossover actors are successful; there is a big divide between the two. She is probably the most successful. She gets to... View Details
- 24 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 24, 2008
research outputs in a panel dataset spanning the careers of 3,862 academic life scientists. Using inverse probability of treatment weights (IPTW) to account for the dynamics of self-selection into patenting, we find that patenting has a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Gurus in the Garage
Branscomb tries to help people who have worked for her. "I will call venture capitalists for them. There are probably a half-dozen little companies founded by former employees that I have helped get funded." Mike Homer, former... View Details
Keywords: by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap
- 20 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
US Competitiveness at Risk
improve. But we have a political system that's increasingly about today's news. This mismatch has probably gotten worse in the last 10 or 20 years. The politics of economic policy is never easy, but we used to be better at overcoming... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin
- 06 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
High Hills, Deep Poverty: Explaining Civil War in Nepal
diversity were important? A: These factors have been hypothesized in the prior literature to affect the probability of civil war. Some findings in the cross-country literature are quite robust, such as the fact that poor countries tend to... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 31 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Bypass Marketing: Are Docs Influenced?
drugs? How frequently do physicians prescribe advertised drugs when other drugs or treatments may be equally effective? We surveyed a national probability sample of 643 physicians practicing in a wide variety of specialties. Data were... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 10 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
Breakthrough Negotiation: Don’t Leave It On the Table
the cost of using force can be very high. The Gulf War, for example, cost the U.S.-led coalition $61 billion; allied casualties were low, but tens of thousands of Iraqis lost their lives. Experienced negotiators recognize too that their counterparts will View Details
Keywords: by Michael Watkins
- 16 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Private Meetings of Public Companies Thwart Disclosure Rules
a group, investors who met with management were more likely to all buy or all sell the firm's stock in any given quarter, compared with investors who did not meet with executives. A meeting, on average, changed the probability of... View Details
- 13 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Making Biotech Work as a Business
just create a bottleneck somewhere else. Real gains in productivity, he suggested, will probably come from integrated improvements across multiple components of the system. Finally, he offered, the economic barriers in biotech once again... View Details
- 17 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
What Hospitals Must Learn to Compete
evidence of quality improvements—nonetheless, so many organizations continue to pursue them. So you wonder why leaders are choosing this route. One answer might be that the strategy Raffaella is talking about—improving management practice—is really hard. It’s View Details
- 26 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 26
intermediaries—called outsourcing agencies—have emerged in these markets. This paper shows that agencies signal to employers that inexperienced workers are high quality. Workers affiliated with an agency have substantially higher job-finding View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Secrets to a Successful Social Media Strategy
social strategy, he says. "Say I own a flower shop in Paducah, Kentucky, and there's only one other flower shop in my town. The owner of that other shop probably won't talk to me about the flower business, because we're competitors. But... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 25 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
A Few Firms Have Outsized Influence in D.C.
Capitol—relatively few firms lobby. In fact, they found that only 10 percent of firms in the sample lobbied in any given year, and in some years that number was closer to 5 percent. Secondly, the researchers found that the probability of... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding