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- 11 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 11, 2006
service provider Geek Squad. For the eight years leading up to 2004, Best Buy had reported double-digit revenue growth every year and rarely missed earnings. But on December 13, 2005, Best Buy missed its third-quarter earnings per share... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Hot is the “Hot Spot” Business?
new line of business. (Starbucks partners with hot-spot provider, T-Mobile and Hewlett-Packard to offer users subscription plans that average under $40 per month.) We are moving to a time when broadband will be totally ubiquitous, part of... View Details
- 16 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 16, 2019
including patients, physicians, employers, insurance companies, and the government need to recognize that value is best defined as “a given health outcome per dollar of cost expended.” In this article, we examine some of the challenges to... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 10, 2015
Online Advertising By: Kireyev, Pavel, Koen Pauwels, and Sunil Gupta Abstract—As firms increasingly rely on online media to acquire consumers, marketing managers feel comfortable justifying higher online marketing spending by referring to online metrics such as... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Racist Umpires and Monetary Ministers
Bulls In The News While not in the realm of incentives, per se, another of Parsons's papers also shows how extremely open to influence people can be. It stands to reason that news can influence events as much as it reports on them—but... View Details
- 22 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 22
sales per worker does not support the higher returns for entrepreneurship rationale. Our evidence suggests that entrepreneurship is higher when fixed costs are lower and when there are more entrepreneurial people. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
& Company, based in San Francisco. Randy W. Goldman (MBA '76), vice president for electronic brokerage product development at Schwab, explains that her company's Internet site carries more than half the firm's trading volume and handles some $4 billion in... View Details
- 05 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Porsche’s Risky Roll on an SUV
Germany in 2000, the labor costs were about 25-26 Euros per hour. In the Czech Republic it's about four Euros per hour. So it's quite dramatic. But how you assess these costs depends on productivity levels... View Details
- 29 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019
a concurrent change in electronic transaction standards allowed hospitals to document a larger number of diagnoses per claim, which had the effect of reducing risk-adjusted patient readmission rates. Prior studies of the HRRP relied upon... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 11 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 11
a 5.3% increase in RVUs per clinician workday; an increase in delegation of EHR tasks of 1 standard deviation resulted in an 11.0% increase in RVUs per clinician workday (P August 2013 Journal of Development... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Nov 2017
- Research & Ideas
Handgun Waiting Periods Prevent Hundreds of Homicides Each Year
iStockPhoto State laws that require people to wait a few days before purchasing firearms reduce gun-related homicides by 17 percent, new research shows. Waiting periods saved 750 lives per year in the 17 states that had such policies in... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 23 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
A Little Understanding Motivates Copyright Abusers to Pay Up
they approached was already trying a kinder-and-gentler tactic by waiving the fee to recoup enforcement costs ($400 per image) and just asking for the actual cost of licensing the image that averages between $380 and $825 View Details
- 12 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
The New Real Estate
per year for heating and transport versus 143 BTUs for the average U.S. city dweller. If the city dweller lived in a green multifamily building and drove an energy-efficient Prius, his average use would drop to 62 BTUs, a savings of 75... View Details
- 23 May 2019
- Book
These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems
In 1908, Harvard Business School’s first dean, Edwin Francis Gay, welcomed the School’s inaugural class of 59 students by saying that HBS was challenged with encouraging its students to have the “intellectual respect for business as a profession, with the social... View Details
- 28 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 28, 2015
Hepatitis C? If so, how would its U.S. healthcare customers, who were paying $84,000 per patient, react? On the other hand, Gilead had to balance the interests of its shareholders, who paid $11 billion for an acquisition that led to the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 03 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 3
of the happiest countries in spite of a tumultuous history, low life expectancy, a dismal literacy rate, a small and undiversified economy, and low GDP per capita. Everyone, it seemed, from tourists and Hollywood screenwriters to leading... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Dec 2006
- Research & Ideas
Improving Public Health for the Poor
anyone can visit for $2. Today the drugstore chain has upwards of 3,500 outlets and revenues of $900 million. Two-and-a-half million people visit the doctors and 10.5 million people go through "Farmacia Simi" per month. Just by... View Details
- 12 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Solving COVID'S Mental Health Crisis
April 2020 alone, CAMH’s virtual care visits went from approximately 350 per month to almost 3,000—an increase of over 750 percent,” Anderson says. “We also have increased the number of telemental health providers across Canada by 1,400... View Details
- 26 Feb 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Airbnb Effect: Cheaper Rooms for Travelers, Less Revenue for Hotels
Airbnb competed with hotels, the study shows. During busy travel times, guests enjoyed an average "consumer surplus" of $57 per night. This surplus didn't necessarily amount to more money in a visitor's pocket, but it did mean... View Details
- 06 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
Money and Quotas Motivate the Sales Force Best
bonuses were equal in amount—500 rupees (about $7.80) per week, or roughly 27 percent of normal pay. Positioning a Sales Bonus The researchers set up an experiment to test the effectiveness of incentive pay based on how the extra... View Details