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Suppliers - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
carefully examine the outcomes relative to cost for every new drug and device introduced. Key Action Steps for Suppliers Base strategies on creating unique value for patients Focus on cycles of care rather... View Details
- 28 Jul 2015
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First Look: July 28, 2015
inventors. However, the model also shows that as NPEs become effective at bringing frivolous lawsuits, the resulting defense costs inefficiently crowd out some firms that, absent NPEs, would produce welfare-enhancing innovations without... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 05 May 2009
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First Look: May 5, 2009
effects of satisfaction and switching costs as drivers of retention among self-service customers. Our empirical analysis examines 26,924 multi-channel customers of a nationwide retail bank. For each... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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VBHCD Initiative - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Involved Videos Books Value-Based Health Care Delivery – Measuring and Managing Costs The Value-Based Health Care Delivery (VBHCD) initiative, led by Harvard Business School professors Michael Porter and Robert Kaplan, engages with... View Details
- 08 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
Is it Worth a Pay Cut to Work for a Great Manager (Like Bill Belichick)?
empirically demonstrated that a manager’s ability was a very important factor in converting player performance into team victories in baseball. But it wasn’t just team performance that was enhanced by managerial quality. “Kahn’s additional View Details
- 30 Dec 2013
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2013
Cuddy, operating a relatively large device inspires more assertive behavior than working on a small one. Hiding From Managers Can Increase Your Productivity Ethan S. Bernstein explains why decreasing workplace transparency can increase... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 08 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
A Company’s Evolving View of Gender Equity
cycles. To sustain these changes, leaders may want to initiate "periodic monitoring of the fit between outcomes and assumptions, and intermittent periods of analysis relatively free of new... View Details
- 24 Nov 2014
- Research & Ideas
Corrupting Silence: Companies Must Speak Up Against Bribes
the cost of investment in developing countries by at least 20 percent. And yet, companies are mostly silent on the subject. "The thing that struck me is how little information there is on corruption because no one wants to talk about it,"... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 17 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Rating Fund Managers by the Company They Keep
work? A: Unfortunately the method is quite difficult to implement—it took us many months to do it properly, and it required mutual fund holdings data that costs tens of thousands of dollars (which the HBS Division of Research was kind... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 17 May 2011
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First Look: May 17
founders. To motivate the empirical analysis we develop a simple theory of costly bargaining, where founders trade off the simplicity of accepting an equal split, with the costs of negotiating a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 3, 2009
and complementary effects across channels to provide sales forecasting, promotion planning, and customer relationship management guidance to multichannel managers. We investigate three contingencies in a sales analysis of a leading U.S.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Dec 2015
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December 22, 2015
Sakis, Shalini Rao, Daniela Saltzman, and George Serafeim Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50239 December 2015 Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology Time-Driven Activity-Based View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 28 Aug 2018
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New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018
through social learning) and costs (lower maximum solution quality due to a reduction in individual exploration for novel answers) relative to independent problem solving. In contrast to prior work, which... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Height Tax, and Other New Ways to Think about Taxation
it wants to spread the burden of taxes among its citizens in the least painful way, Weinzierl says. In other words, the government wants those for whom it is relatively easy to earn money to pay more in taxes than those for whom it is... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Noted & Quoted
“Some Democrats view Medicare as a successful cost controller, pointing to its low administrative overhead, which they peg at 3 percent. But that figure ignores an inconvenient truth: Medicare’s unfunded liabilities, estimated at about... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
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Elevator Pitch: Good Vibrations
fractures and subsequent complications kill 20 percent of their victims, and debilitating spine fractures represent a health care cost of $19 billion annually. “There are a number of medications to treat osteoporosis, but they’re... View Details
- 02 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 2
Ert, and Alvin E. Roth Publication:Special Issue on Predicting Behavior in Games. Games 1, no. 2 (2010) An abstract is unavailable at this time. Read the paper: http://www.mdpi.com/2073-4336/1/2/117/ The Counterfeit Self: The Deceptive View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on Supreme Court Health Care Ruling
focuses almost entirely on disease care to keep people alive, but does very little to enable Americans to live healthy lives. The longer people live in their disease-prone years, the more they cost Medicare. AHCA doesn't really address... View Details
- 05 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Porsche’s Risky Roll on an SUV
not looking at relative productivity at a given moment in time or the relative unit cost levers, for instance, of managerial expertise. And then two, you're not seeing how fast... View Details
- 18 May 2011
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U.S. Manufacturing Comeback?
Don’t give up on American manufacturing yet. There are signs of new life that give rise to optimism about a U.S. manufacturing renaissance. A new analysis by The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) estimates that within the next five years the... View Details