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- 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
- 29 Jan 2019
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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
- 01 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 1
including suggestions for future research. The Many Faces of Nonprofit Accountability Authors:Alnoor Ebrahim Publication:Chap. 4 in The Jossey-Bass Handbook of Nonprofit Leadership and Management. 3rd ed., edited by David O. Renz,... View Details
- 31 Jul 2012
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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
- 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
- 18 Feb 2009
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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
- 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
- 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
- 06 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 6
failure and success and from the experiences of others. For our empirical analyses, we use ten years of data from 71 cardiothoracic surgeons who completed over 6,500 procedures using a new technology for cardiac surgery. We find that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Unspoken Cues: Encouraging Morals Without Mandates
attention to the human input into the system since so much moral decision-making is repeatedly delegated to individuals. The screening and hiring procedures need therefore be quite robust to ensure continuity. In addition, a lot of... View Details
- 05 Jun 2006
- Research & Ideas
Using Competition to Reform Healthcare
procedure centric, or institution centric, not patient centric. They are also misaligned with how patient value is actually created. Patient value in health care delivery . . . can only be understood at the level of medical conditions.... View Details
- 06 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Don’t Listen to “Yes”
the way in which they want people to contribute and behave during decision-making processes. People need to understand what is expected of them, as well as what to expect of the leader. But perhaps more importantly, leaders need to maintain discipline over time,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 14 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2006
improvement, and holding people accountable for results. The authors propose a holistic framework that district leaders can use to develop an improvement strategy and build coherent organizations to implement it. The framework is based on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27
ambiguous effect on high-quality output. To evaluate this trade-off, I develop a procedure to estimate agents' effort costs and simulate counterfactuals under alternative feedback policies. The results suggest that feedback on net... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jan 2013
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First Look: January 15
and Use of a New Accounting System Authors:Narayanan, V.G., Ranjani Krishnan, and Jamshed J. Mistry Publication:Journal of Management Accounting Research Abstract This study examines the attitudes, use, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 28
reflected in the enforcement actions of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). I find that large employers are less likely to be subject to an SEC enforcement action, after controlling for firm size, accounting quality, distance to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Nov 2011
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First Look: November 15
sustainability, and top executive incentives are more likely to be a function of sustainability metrics. Moreover, they are more likely to have organized procedures for stakeholder engagement, to be more long-term oriented, and to exhibit... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 25, 2007
for download. Fair (and Not So Fair) Division Author:John W. Pratt Abstract Drawbacks of existing procedures are illustrated and a method of efficient fair division is proposed that avoids them. Given additive participants' utilities,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 26, 2018
results of this multi-method investigation have implications for both managers and academics interested in how consumers learn to become expert in hedonic product categories. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54622 forthcoming... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 8
the way that, for more than a century, it has articulated and shaped for the larger society a set of ideas, aspirations, and norms concerning business and management. Moreover, the visions and values animating the university-based business school in America—which... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne