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  • 19 Sep 2006
  • First Look

First Look: September 19, 2006

rises rapidly; it is now four times as high as in 2000. Many underdogs thus in fact appear to be losers. We also find evidence of a superstar effect. Among the best-performing titles, an ever-smaller number of titles accounts for the bulk... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 2007
  • News

Where Are the Innovators in Health Care?

medical technology and health-insurance sectors, when it comes to health services, the 800-pound gorilla of our system, entrepreneurs are nowhere to be found. And their absence has enabled the status quo providers to get fat and sloppy. One analysis showed that... View Details
Keywords: Regina E. Herzlinger; Health, Social Assistance; Management
  • 12 Aug 2008
  • Op-Ed

Google-Yahoo Ad Deal is Bad for Online Advertising

bids. The API is an automated method for efficient computer-to-computer communications—letting an advertiser use software to manage its account automatically. The AdWords API provides a function whereby an advertiser can retrieve its ads,... View Details
Keywords: by Benjamin G. Edelman; Advertising; Publishing
  • 12 Dec 2017
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017

Overall Cost Comparison of Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Procedures with Endoscopist- or Anesthesia-Supported Sedation by Activity-Based Costing Techniques By: Helmers, Richard A., James A. Dilling, Christopher R. Chaffee, Mark V. Larson,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Sep 2008
  • News

Mara Aspinall

1,500-person division is a leader in the emerging field of personalized medicine, which treats cancer and other diseases with customized therapies that take into account the patient’s specific genetic traits. With HBS professor Richard... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance
  • Web

Getting Things Done: Motivating Yourself and Others - Course Catalog

incentive systems shape the mix of individuals who are attracted to, promoted within, and retained by the organization Know how to design organizational processes, such as hiring procedures and training programs, in ways that complement... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2020
  • News

Maintaining a Resilient Democracy

solutions. Braun believes term limits would make lawmakers more accountable to constituents by diluting the outsized influence of lobbyists, money, and special interest groups in Washington. Harder suggests the way to give “the people” a... View Details
Keywords: Deb Blagg
  • 05 Jun 2012
  • First Look

First Look: June 5

  PublicationsTowards an Understanding of the Role of Standard Setters in Standard Setting Authors:Abigail M. Allen and Karthik Ramanna Publication:Journal of Accounting & Economics (forthcoming) Abstract We investigate the effect of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Feb 2015
  • First Look

First Look: February 18

While many texts teach the theories and frameworks of management education, Managerial Accounting goes further by covering the capabilities and techniques necessary for effective management practice, as well as fostering attitudes that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Apr 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Attention Medical Shoppers: What Health Care Can Learn from Walmart and Amazon

and counting, according to research—that the human body can fail. "The delivery of health care is arguably the delivery of 13,360 different service lines, town by town, of anyone who needs care," Gawande said. He then told the audience that 5 percent of... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health
  • 05 Feb 2008
  • First Look

First Look: February 5, 2008

and unintentional, resulting from informational and procedural blind spots. We show that the forecasting process, together with the supporting mechanisms of information exchange and elicitation of assumptions, is capable of managing the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 29 Jan 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019

which could falsely create the appearance that readmission rates are changing more in the treatment than in the control group. Accounting for the revised standards reduced the decline in risk-adjusted readmission rates for targeted... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 23 Nov 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Management’s Role in Reforming Health Care

health-care reform is a management problem. It can't be solved by policymakers acting at a distance.” Having said that, I think we have to recognize that in the last 10 to 15 years there have been substantial advances. Mortality rates for major View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health
  • 18 Feb 2009
  • First Look

First Look: February 18, 2009

must choose to improve an old technology (steel) or to develop a new material (carbon fiber). The decision must take into account a complicated context: increased demand for the "old" steel products made in Italy, increasing... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 03 Jul 2012
  • Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty on Supreme Court Health Care Ruling

ultimately be bankrupt, and Americans will be forced to pay for a much higher share of their health care bills. There is a better way. The United States must make healthy living the twenty-first century equivalent of putting a man on the moon. With lifestyle choices... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty; Health
  • 23 Sep 2014
  • First Look

First Look: September 23

  Publications September 2014 Research in Organizational Behavior The Governance of Social Enterprises: Mission Drift and Accountability Challenges in Hybrid Organizations By: Ebrahim, Alnoor, Julie Battilana, and Johanna Mair Abstract—We... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Jun 2016
  • First Look

June 14, 2016

our data. Finally, building on our model, we find that differences in management practices account for about 30% of cross-country total factor productivity differences. Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Sep 2002
  • Research & Ideas

The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs

just in the U.S. The rise of the charismatic CEO, escalating pay, and the consequences of Tyco or Global Crossing—these have reverberations across the world. It undermines the medium-term and long-term prospects of countries that are now just embracing a free... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 01 Jun 1996
  • News

Four Professors to Retire

Science, the American Accounting Association, and the American Economics Association. Graduating from Cornell University in 1952, Christenson continued his education at HBS, where he earned an MBA with high distinction as a Baker Scholar... View Details
Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb and John Prestage
  • 31 Jul 2012
  • First Look

First Look: July 31

others. For our empirical analyses, we use 10 years of data from 71 cardiothoracic surgeons who completed over 6,500 procedures using a new technology for cardiac surgery. We find that individuals learn more from their own successes than... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
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