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- 10 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Commodity Busters: Be a Price Maker, Not a Price Taker
with beating Microsoft. His battle was futile. He left the company as Novell began a long downward slide. The fighter pilot mentality of several U.S. airlines led to a price war in which billions of dollars were lost. Even in small... View Details
Keywords: by Benson P. Shapiro
- 12 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Michael Porter’s Prescription For the High Cost of Health Care
will need to be developed. In addition, people in small groups or with individual insurance policies face the likelihood that their premiums will rise sharply if someone in the family actually develops an... View Details
- 27 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 27
households. In contrast, small subsidy payments have a large effect on the likelihood of opening a savings account. These payments are more than two times more cost-effective than the financial literacy... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 12, 2016
Immigrant Entrepreneurs and the Social Safety Net By: Olds, Gareth Abstract—This paper explores the role of public health insurance in small business ownership among immigrants, a group with high rates of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 23, 2008
welfare. Yet, our understanding of this decision is limited. Using an instrumental variables strategy and dataset new to this literature, we provide the first precise, causal estimates of the effects of education on financial market participation. We find a View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Dec 2002
- What Do You Think?
How Will We Respond to the “Moment of Truth” in Option Plans?
expansion may face longer odds in getting approval. This is the result of scandals in executive compensation, many of which are associated with the fruits of large stock option awards. It is reasonable to assume that stock options, which... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 15 Aug 2007
- Op-Ed
3 Steps to Reduce Financial System Risk
even a small change in correlation specifications can have a large impact on ratings. There has been less discussion about where the transferred risk has ended up and why. Meanwhile, the responsibility for... View Details
- 03 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 3, 2015
November 2015 Quarterly Journal of Economics Behavioral Hazard in Health Insurance By: Baicker, Katherine, Sendhil Mullainathan, and Joshua Schwartzstein Abstract—A fundamental implication of standard moral hazard models is overuse of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Mar 2000
- Research & Ideas
Putting Health Care Consumers in the Driver’s Seat
available to their workers. The conference's agenda alternated between small breakout sessions that brought together participants from different industry areas and large group discussions where all attendees... View Details
- 14 Nov 2016
- Op-Ed
5 Lessons I Hope Marketers Don’t Learn from Donald Trump
better health insurance with lower taxes, remember the essence of a brand is promise, large promise. Pin your brand to a dream, yes, but have a plan or today’s happy buyers will become tomorrow’s angry... View Details
Keywords: by John A. Deighton
- 12 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019
these costs. However, existing resilience trainings are often conducted in-person, suffer from low levels of engagement, and are difficult to scale to large groups of employees. In the current study, we compared change in resilience over... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 04 Mar 2002
- What Do You Think?
Why the Bull Market in Leadership Books?
the somewhat pessimistic view that "There has always been and will always be a dearth of quality leadership ... because self-interest continues to drive human conduct." But Mark Horstman suggests that this doesn't insure a... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 02 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Role of Government When All Else Fails
deal in common, since both require participants to spread risk on the basis of an insurance model. The nation's product liability system, which shifts risk from consumers to producers, has dramatically influenced the calculus of... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Linard
- 11 Aug 2014
- HBS Case
The Business of Behavioral Economics
with matching funds. In the third case, participants were entered in a lottery that had a 5 percent chance of winning $100—but they would only win if they had met their weight loss goal for the month. This enticement took advantage of another behavioral economic... View Details
- 29 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019
coordinate with one another to reduce costs and ensure that patients were receiving the highest quality of care. PatientPing sold its platform to a range of customers, from small skilled nursing facilities to View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 09 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
A Playbook for Small-Business Job Creation
in the competitiveness discussion, as well. The level of dependence of small firms on bank credit is estimated to be as high as 90 percent, according to separate studies by the Federal Deposit Insurance... View Details
- 26 Sep 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017
motivation. Should bonuses be tied to quotas or should they be given unconditionally? Is it better to use bonuses as a reward or as punishment? A randomized field experiment at a large Indian company investigated these questions, finding... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Growing Pains: Prescriptions for U.S. Health Care
We know the symptoms all too well. We wait months to see a doctor. Office visits end, it seems, just moments after they begin. Managed care firms hold sway over doctors' treatment plans, and health insurance premiums are heading for the... View Details
- 17 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 17
employment activity. This retrenchment follows both Senate and House committee chair changes, occurs in large and small firms and within large and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 3
Lerner and Scott Stern, 483-502. University of Chicago Press, 2012 Abstract Software development occurs in a patchwork or "confederacy" of different types of institutions (universities, small start-ups, multinational... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel