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- 12 Apr 2018
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: The Trouble with Tariffs
will take for us to maintain leadership in the future. What the USTR list did highlight for me is the extent to which supply chains have globalized and intertwined across almost every industrial sector. That means that economic sanctions... View Details
Keywords: by Willy C. Shih; Manufacturing; Auto; Steel; Air Transportation; Technology; Telecommunications
- 13 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 13
http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9781138794313/ January 2015 Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization Strategic Disclosure: The Case of Business School Rankings By: Luca, Michael, and Jonathan Smith Abstract—We empirically analyze disclosure decisions made... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for Max Bazerman
train students across professional schools to identify and implement opportunities for mutually beneficial tradeoffs. Q: Wasn't the U.S. government set up by the founding fathers to, in effect, be inefficient—that is, three branches of... View Details
Keywords: Re: Max H. Bazerman
- 22 May 2020
- In Practice
Post-COVID Health Care: More Screens, Less Red Tape?
at the US Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. The pandemic has made it clear that this must change. Richard Hamermesh (@RHamermesh) is a Baker Foundation Professor of Management Practice and View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 13 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
Negotiating Challenges for Women Leaders
Below, excerpts from an interview. Lagace: What is an example of an experiment you've conducted that looks at differences in how women and men negotiate? McGinn: One of the interesting first pieces of data we looked at was job offers to View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 06 Aug 2014
- Research & Ideas
Climbing Down from the Ivory Tower
elective course, Managing Global Health: Applying Behavioral Economics to Create Impact, which she teaches to second-year MBA students at HBS and select students from Harvard Medical School and the Kennedy School of Government. The User's... View Details
- 20 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Big Deal: Reflections on the Megamerger of American and US Airways
across the legacy organizations and have a clear sense of the future. The top team must be ready to make people choices quickly and facilitate team-building. Otherwise uncertainty turns to passivity, and resentments are a drag on the... View Details
- 05 Jun 2006
- Research & Ideas
Using Competition to Reform Healthcare
partnerships across geography. Medical conditions represent the basic unit of analysis for thinking about value in health care. Medical conditions are patient centric, not provider centric. We use the term medical conditions, rather than... View Details
- 07 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why Immigrant Workers Cluster in Particular Industries
Research. Kerr is the MBA Class of 1975 Professor of Entrepreneurial Management. “If your group is concentrated, you are making an extra premium over what others in the industry are making” “Every city has a taxicab industry dominated by... View Details
- 26 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019
effectiveness of groups, how perceivers use group properties to inform their judgment, and the contextual and individual differences that allow some perceivers to be more accurate. Across seven studies, we present consistent evidence that... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Mar 2014
- What Do You Think?
When Will the Next Dot.com Bubble Burst?
kozmo.com also got its money (including $60 million from Amazon) and managed to run through $250 million of venture capital before shutting its doors just 14 months later. The next time I met the CEO was as a student in my MBA classroom.... View Details
- 02 Nov 2016
- Op-Ed
Government and Financial Tech Can Fix Cash Woes for Small Businesses
products and services. Making the payrolls that support middle class families across the country. These are all things we rely on small businesses for, so we should look with more than just casual interest at how technology, and even... View Details
Keywords: by Karen Mills
- 25 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 25, 2016
between broad foreign experiences and immoral behavior was robust across a variety of cultural populations (anglophone, francophone), life stages (high school students, university students, MBA students,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 25, 2007
popular or unpopular titles relates to their appreciation of those titles, and assess the characteristics of customers in the "head" and "tail" of the distribution of choices across titles. I find that a large share of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
Banning Big-box Stores Can Hurt Local Retailers
a convenient research environment. In the late 1980s, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher adopted a more lenient approach vis à vis planning regulations, which allowed for a significant increase in big-box store openings across the country.... View Details
- 03 Oct 2005
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Future of Globally Organized Labor?
and continues to be a lack of good leadership! . . . The politics of international labor interaction are extremely complex and will require tremendous leadership ability to negotiate win-win deals across countries so that employees of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 29 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Are First-Time Buyers Left Out of Real Estate’s Rebound?
The United States housing market is no longer the boat anchor dragging down economic growth. Data from the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices show that average home prices in an assortment of American cities have been on the upswing, increasing by almost 7 percent... View Details
- 15 Nov 2004
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Health Care Conundrum
Olmsted Teisberg. Key Learnings 1. The U.S. health care system is a paradox in that it has competition yet fails to deliver improving value. Competition has been shown to be an incredibly powerful force in driving increased quality and decreased costs. This has been... View Details
- 07 Mar 2018
- Research & Ideas
Electronic Health Records Were Supposed to Cut Medical Costs. They Haven't.
time-driven activity-based costing, a method Kaplan co-developed. “We tracked how much time each person spent dealing with that bill, we determined the cost per minute of each person, and we just multiplied the two numbers and added them up View Details
- 09 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Entrepreneurs Who Invented Economic Forecasting
underscored the risk and uncertainty inherent to capitalism itself. Sean Silverthorne: Why did you decide to write this book? Walter Friedman: The idea came to me years ago when teaching "Creating Modern Capitalism," a short course that was once required for incoming... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne