Publications

Article

Refined Configuration Results for Extremal Type II Lattices of Ranks 40 and 80

By: Noam D. Elkies and Scott Duke Kominers

We show that, if L is an extremal Type II lattice of rank 40 or 80, then L is generated by its vectors of norm min(L)+2. This sharpens earlier results of Ozeki, and the second author and Abel, which showed that such lattices L are generated by their vectors of norms... View Details

Keywords: Mathematical Methods

July 2021 (Revised July 2022)
Case

Brigham & Women's Hospital: Using Patient Reported Outcomes to Improve Breast Cancer Care

By: Robert S. Kaplan, Navraj S. Nagra and Syed S. Shehab

Dr. Andrea Pusic, breast cancer reconstruction surgeon, wants to extend outcomes measurement beyond traditional surgical metrics of infections, complications, and survival rates. The case describes her development of a new mobile phone app, which collects patients’... View Details

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Outcome or Result; Cost Management; Activity Based Costing and Management; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Health Testing and Trials; Surveys; Health Industry; Boston

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July 22, 2014
Blog Post

What Impact? Resist Taking Credit for Results You Can't Achieve

By: Alnoor Ebrahim and V. Kasturi Rangan

Keywords: Impact Measurement; Measurement and Metrics; Outcome or Result

01 Dec 2010
News

Make or Break

design will over time erode as well.” Bloom acknowledged that initial efforts will be modest but “huge” compared with previous administrations that viewed the decline of manufacturing as the inevitable result of globalization and a shift... View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing

January 2007
Article

Impact of Cardiac Intraoperative Precursor Events on Adverse Outcomes

By: Daniel R. Wong, David F. Torchiana, Thomas J. Vander Salm, Arvind K. Agnihotri, Richard Bohmer and Imtiaz S. Ali

Keywords: Health; Outcome or Result

26 Jan 2011
News

Insurance Mergers Can Lead To Mixed Results For Consumers And Companies

July–August 2021
Article

Lowering the Bar? External Conditions, Opportunity Costs, and High-Tech Startup Outcomes

By: Annamaria Conti and Maria P. Roche

We assess the heterogeneous impact of economic downturns on individuals’ decisions to bring high-technology ideas to the market in the form of new ventures. We thereby examine how worsening labor market conditions influence individuals’ opportunity costs of starting... View Details

Keywords: Necessity Entrepreneurship; Economic Conditions; Recessions; High-tech Startups; Opportunity Costs; Entrepreneurship; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Business Startups; Information Technology; Performance; Labor

September 2023
Article

Consuming Contests: The Effect of Outcome Uncertainty on Spectator Attendance in the Australian Football League

By: Patrick Ferguson and Karim R. Lakhani

Contests that non-contestants consume for entertainment are a fixture of economic, cultural and political life. We exploit injury-induced changes to teams' line-ups in a professional sports setting to examine whether individuals prefer to consume contests that have... View Details

Keywords: Sports; Entertainment; Consumer Behavior

30 Mar 2007
Conference Presentation

Inspection Holidays and Compliance Outcomes: Examining the Outcomes of Self-Policing

By: Michael W. Toffel

Keywords: Outcome or Result; Governance Compliance

05 Aug 2019
News

Navy saves money, improves patient outcomes through value-based care pilot: study

2011
Article

The Dynamics of Warmth and Competence Judgments, and Their Outcomes in Organizations

By: Amy J.C. Cuddy, Peter Glick and Anna Beninger

Two traits-warmth and competence-govern social judgments of individuals and groups, and these judgments shape people's emotions and behaviors. This paper describes the causes and consequences of warmth and competence judgments; how, when, and why they determine... View Details

Keywords: Judgments; Organizations; Emotions; Behavior; Selection and Staffing; Performance Evaluation; Resource Allocation; Valuation; Competency and Skills; Information; Research

Financial markets have recently witnessed a disruptive force: the rise of online intermediaries and, more generally, fintech companies, i.e., firms that apply technology to improve financial activities. Fintech companies have targeted the consumer credit market,... View Details

20 Apr 2021
Working Paper Summaries

Cognitive Biases: Mistakes or Missing Stakes?

Keywords: by Benjamin Enke, Uri Gneezy, Brian Hall, David Martin, Vadim Nelidov, Theo Offerman, and Jeroen van de Ven

May 1982
Article

Risk Aversion and Nash's Solution for Bargaining Games with Risky Outcomes

By: A. E. Roth and U. Rothblum

Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Negotiation; Outcome or Result

2007
Article

Three Perspectives on Team Learning: Outcome Improvement, Task Mastery, and Group Process

By: Amy C. Edmondson, James R. Dillon and Kate Roloff

The emergence of a research literature on team learning has been driven by at least two factors. First, longstanding interest in what makes organizational work teams effective leads naturally to questions about how members of newly formed teams learn to work together... View Details

Keywords: Learning; Organizational Culture; Performance Improvement; Practice; Groups and Teams; Research; Adaptation; Cooperation

January 2008
Article

Prudence in Bargaining: The Effect of Uncertainty on Bargaining Outcomes

By: Lucy White

Keywords: Negotiation; Risk and Uncertainty; Outcome or Result

Web

Measure Outcomes & Cost for Every Patient - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

medical condition or segment of a primary care population. Outcomes for a condition are always multidimensional and include what matters to clinicians and patients – patient reported View Details

01 Oct 2003
Conference Presentation

The Best (and Worst) Days in Creative Project Teams: Some Preliminary Results

By: Teresa M. Amabile and Steve J. Kramer

Keywords: Creativity; Groups and Teams; Outcome or Result

September 2017
Teaching Note

The Productivity Decline: Demographics, Robots, or Globalization?

By: Laura Alfaro and Hayley Pallan

In the early 21st century, there was a noticeable trend of declining productivity growth. Despite the persistent decline in productivity growth, a consensus on its explanation had not been reached. Some of the debate focused on the technicalities of productivity... View Details

Keywords: Performance Productivity; Measurement and Metrics; Technological Innovation; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Globalization; Business and Government Relations