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  • 27 Jan 2015
  • First Look

First Look: January 27

SEOs are disproportionately conducted by Capital Purchase Program (CPP) recipients, and this is not explained by CPP recipients' economic and regulatory capital needs. SEOs in 2009 and 2010 by CPP recipients alone account for 27% by number, and 52% by View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Apr 2015
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Leadership Lessons From Outer Space

So far, space tourists have paid tens of millions of dollars each for such trips (Brightman is reportedly spending a record $52 million) but several companies have announced that cheaper trips are in the offing. Virts responded like a... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Aerospace
  • 10 Sep 2007
  • Research & Ideas

High Note: Managing the Medici String Quartet

know each other as if they are family members. One can imagine they know where all the buttons are that can be pushed. As the case describes, they went through periods of not liking each other very much. Paul told me how other string... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Music
  • 16 Nov 2010
  • First Look

First Look: November 16, 2010

games. Our dictators can purchase signals about why the recipients are poor. We find that a third of the dictators are willing to pay a dollar to learn more about their recipient. Dictators who devote resources to acquiring information... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Apr 2019
  • First Look

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
  • 19 Feb 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019

the BCBS affiliate and its rivals increased premiums following conversions in markets where the converting affiliate had substantial market share. Medicaid enrollment rates also increased in these markets, a pattern consistent with "crowd in" of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Apr 2021
  • Research & Ideas

New Research: Surviving Bankruptcy, Useful Economics, and Retirement

of dollars every year. I estimate that liquidation is frequently chosen when a reorganization would have maximized total creditor recovery. I estimate that courts could dramatically improve creditor recovery by assigning liquidations... View Details
  • 08 Mar 2011
  • First Look

First Look: March 8

immigrants made a conspicuous impact. Part I demonstrates the dominant role of immigrants in forming public financial policies from 1775 to 1817. Part II surveys 12 merchant and investment banking firms founded during the nineteenth century by individual immigrants or... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Sep 2024
  • HBS Case

McDonald’s and the Post #MeToo Rules of Sex in the Workplace

drive-through restaurant with low prices that appealed to working-class families. “The company has built its brand around family dining, so that is especially important to its culture,” explains Paine. Despite its ubiquity, McDonald’s... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman; Food & Beverage
  • 23 Jun 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS

1971 after incurring heavy losses. But the deathblow to the company came when RCA followed the advice of Wall Street and spent millions of dollars turning itself into a conglomerate that included everything from frozen foods to rental... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
  • 25 May 2016
  • Research & Ideas

How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health

age, there are more consumers than ever before suffering from chronic conditions. Most no longer see disease and the timing of their death as inevitable. Supported by the Internet, many actively seek out information to increase their odds of staying alive. Aided by... View Details
Keywords: by John A. Quelch; Health
  • 24 Nov 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Corrupting Silence: Companies Must Speak Up Against Bribes

troubles, HBS's Paul M. Healy, the James R. Williston Professor and Senior Associate Dean for Research, saw a unique opportunity to examine an elephant in the room in the business world. The United Nations estimates that roughly a trillion View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 01 Aug 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1

Scott Morton, Fiona, Ariel Dora Stern, and Scott Stern Abstract—Biologic drugs (therapeutic proteins or “large-molecule drugs”) represent a substantial and growing share of the U.S. drug market, accounting for less than 1% of prescriptions filled but more than 25% of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Jun 2002
  • Research & Ideas

A Litmus Test for Entrepreneurs

In 1999, Tom Herman and Kaleil Isaza Tuzman, best friends since childhood, quit their comfortable jobs to start govWorks, with millions of VC dollars to back them up. Their goal was nothing if not grandiose: to use Internet payment... View Details
Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle
  • 24 Jul 2007
  • First Look

First Look: July 24, 2007

Successes and Failures of a Global Entrepreneur Harvard Business School Case 807-165 Bert Twaalfhoven (70; HBS '54) is faced with two offers to acquire the manufacturing holding company he had built up over 40 years. Despite the attractive price, which would net... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 Jun 2014
  • First Look

First Look: June 24

http://hbr.org/product/making-stickk-stick-the-business-of-behavioral-economics/an/514019-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 314-053 From Beijing Jeep to ASC Fine Wines: The Story of an American Family Business in China In 1985, Don St.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Apr 2008
  • First Look

First Look: April 8, 2008

describes the transformation of its role from transactional to strategic. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=908405 Dice-K: The Hundred (Plus) Million Dollar Man Harvard Business School Case... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 Feb 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Busting Six Myths About Customer Loyalty Programs

consumers bestow their loyalty by spending most of their grocery dollars with one retailer for 1-2 percent payback? Let's look more closely at the actual rewards. They come in two forms : (1) turbo charged vouchers (doubling, tripling, or... View Details
Keywords: by Marcel Corstjens & Rajiv Lal; Retail; Consumer Products
  • 15 Jan 2018
  • Research & Ideas

A Better Business Model for Fighting Cancer

iPhoto With billions of dollars spent on the development of precision medicine and related cancer research over the last decade, a recent partnership seeks a new way to bring these treatments to patients more quickly: through a better... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Health; Pharmaceutical
  • 28 Mar 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, March 28

high-quality products at reasonable prices, and runs a highly popular advertising campaign that spoofs current events. It offers its farmers 80% of the consumer's dollar for milk, compared with 35%–40% typical in some Western markets.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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