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- March 2019
- Article
Evidence of Upcoding in Pay-for-Performance Programs
By: Hamsa Bastani, Joel Goh and Mohsen Bayati
Recent Medicare legislation seeks to improve patient care quality by financially penalizing providers for hospital-acquired infections (HAIs). However, Medicare cannot directly monitor HAI rates and instead relies on providers accurately self-reporting HAIs in claims... View Details
Keywords: Medical Coding; Health Policy; Healthcare-acquired Conditions; Medicare; Health Care and Treatment; Policy; Performance Improvement; Quality; Measurement and Metrics; Government Legislation
Bastani, Hamsa, Joel Goh, and Mohsen Bayati. "Evidence of Upcoding in Pay-for-Performance Programs." Management Science 65, no. 3 (March 2019): 1042–1060. (2015 INFORMS Health Applications Society best student (H. Bastani) paper award.)
- September 1992 (Revised March 1993)
- Case
Empresas ICA and the Mexican Road Privatization Program
By: Willis M. Emmons III and Monica Brand
Mexico's largest construction company, Empresas ICA, makes an initial public offering to international equity investors in April 1992 to help fund its participation in an ambitious new private-sector approach to highway development. Under the new program, launched by... View Details
Keywords: Construction; Transportation Networks; Infrastructure; Privatization; Private Equity; Investment; Initial Public Offering; Private Sector; Government and Politics; Policy; Construction Industry; Mexico
Emmons, Willis M., III, and Monica Brand. "Empresas ICA and the Mexican Road Privatization Program." Harvard Business School Case 793-028, September 1992. (Revised March 1993.)
- 02 Nov 2006
- Working Paper Summaries
Resolving Information Asymmetries in Markets: The Role of Certified Management Programs
Keywords: by Michael W. Toffel
- 18 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Short Intensive Program (SIP): Climate Adaptation
Short Intensive Program (SIP) Recap: Climate Adaptation From January 18th through January 21st, approximately 40 students gathered in Aldrich Hall for a SIP on Climate Adaptation. This course was led by HBS Professor John Macomber with... View Details
- October 1994
- Article
Unreasonable Pressures on Defense Program Managers
By: J. Ronald Fox
Fox, J. Ronald. "Unreasonable Pressures on Defense Program Managers." Inside the Pentagon (October 1994).
- 04 Jan 2017
- What Do You Think?
How Much Bureaucracy is a Good Thing in Government and Business?
call these people ‘zombie managers.’ They keep on pushing papers round and round, and then the actual decision goes to a guy who does not understand the subject at all” Several respondents, some of whom have served in government agencies,... View Details
Keywords: by James L. Heskett
- Web
Business, Government & the International Economy Faculty - Faculty & Research
Business, Government & the International Economy Overview Faculty Curriculum Seminars & Conferences Awards & Honors Doctoral Students Unit Head David A. Moss Paul Whiton Cherington Professor of Business Administration Unit Head, Business,... View Details
- Web
1.20 Joint Degree Programs | MBA
1.20 Joint Degree Programs 1.0 Academic Information & Policies In collaboration with six Harvard University graduate schools, Harvard Business School offers seven Joint Degree programs. These programs... View Details
- 03 Sep 2024
- Cold Call Podcast
How the US Government Is Innovating in Its Efforts to Fund Semiconductor Manufacturing
- 2008
- Working Paper
Resolving Information Asymmetries in Markets: The Role of Certified Management Programs
Firms and regulators are increasingly relying on voluntary mechanisms to signal and infer quality of difficult-to-observe management practices. Prior evaluations of voluntary management programs have focused on those that lack verification mechanisms and have found... View Details
Keywords: Management Practices and Processes; Information; Standards; Performance Improvement; Programs; Environmental Sustainability; Manufacturing Industry; United States
Toffel, Michael W. "Resolving Information Asymmetries in Markets: The Role of Certified Management Programs." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 07-023, December 2008. (October 2006.)
- 2023
- Working Paper
Coordinated R&D Programs and the Creation of New Industries
By: Daniel P. Gross and Maria P. Roche
Complex systems technologies—including “deep tech”—are prone to numerous frictions that stymie commercial development. Yet technologies with these features underpin some of the most valuable industries of the past century. We examine how large, mission-oriented... View Details
Keywords: Research and Development; Policy; Business and Government Relations; Technological Innovation; Collaborative Innovation and Invention
Gross, Daniel P., and Maria P. Roche. "Coordinated R&D Programs and the Creation of New Industries." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 24-027, April 2023. (Revised October 2024.)
- 20 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
Exploring Technology and Public Impact Through the HBS/HKS Joint Degree Program
technologies -- responsibly manage innovation without sacrificing profitability? What is the role of government in mitigating harms and establishing safeguards?? I came to the HBS and Harvard Kennedy School MBA/MPP joint degree View Details
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Business, Government & the International Economy Curriculum - Faculty & Research
Business, Government & the International Economy Overview Faculty Curriculum Seminars & Conferences Awards & Honors Doctoral Students MBA Required Curriculum (FIRST YEAR) Business, Government and the... View Details
- 2020
- Working Paper
The Cost of Banking Deserts: Racial Disparities in Access to PPP Lenders and their Equilibrium Implications
By: Jeffrey Wang and David Hao Zhang
Many government support programs for small businesses are designed to pass through banks and credit unions. However, this poses barriers for minority communities that are less connected to financial institutions for obtaining this support. Using the latest program for... View Details
Keywords: Banking Deserts; Minority Communities; Paycheck Protection Program; Banks and Banking; Small Business; Demographics; Race; Government and Politics; Programs
Wang, Jeffrey, and David Hao Zhang. "The Cost of Banking Deserts: Racial Disparities in Access to PPP Lenders and their Equilibrium Implications." Working Paper, December 2020.
- 26 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
Tap into Top Talent with the HBS Leadership Fellows Program
around the country, and he credits the HBS Leadership Fellows Program as the springboard that launched his career. Now he is back at Harvard Business School as the Director of the Social Enterprise Initiative helping develop more leaders... View Details
Keywords: Social Enterprise
- May 2018 (Revised January 2019)
- Teaching Note
Designing a Compliance Program at AB InBev
By: Eugene Soltes
Teaching Note for HBS No. 118-071. View Details
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Nonprofit Strategy & Governance | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Linos, Laura Jakli & Melissa Carlson 2021 | American Political Science Review 115, no. 1 As government welfare programming contracts and NGOs increasingly assume core aid functions, they must address a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
No Nukes
They admitted to the existence of nuclear programs they previously had denied. Kelly has since told the North Koreans that the United States insists upon “complete, verifiable, and irreversible dismantlement” of all nuclear programs,... View Details
- 17 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
The Fifth Year of Short Intensive Programs (SIPs) at HBS
The frigid temperatures on the Harvard Business School campus in mid-January were a minor inconvenience for the 641 students enrolled in Short Intensive Programs (SIPs), the no-fee, no-credit elective courses now in their fifth year. The... View Details