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- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Advanced Statistics Are the New Foam Fingers
The Quantified Athlete “Athletes will always look to improve their performance and stay injury-free with technology. But the sports media industry is also starting to explore how to incorporate athlete data into their broadcasts. And as... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Eight Join HBS Faculty
teaching. His coauthored research on golfer performance has aided the PGA’s development of a new metric to measure putting skills. Francesca Gino is an associate professor in the Negotiation, Organizations... View Details
- 05 Jun 2006
- Research & Ideas
Using Competition to Reform Healthcare
consumer. The system needs to be redesigned so that each participant is motivated to increase value, measured by health outcomes per dollar expended. This excerpt discusses how healthcare providers can shift to a value-based model. An... View Details
- 12 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 12, 2007
the performance of mechanisms intended for human use. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-064.pdf PublicationsBusiness Analysis and Valuation: Using Financial Statements. 4th ed. Authors:Paul M. Healy and Krishna G.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Jun 2011
- News
Serious Fun
unexpected) expenses and making investment decisions along the way about upgrades (such as lights and equipment) that will improve Angel’s performances (and pay). The impact of the games to date is encouraging. In surveys of participants... View Details
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles, Papers of the Decade
disbelieving music industry with their findings that illegal music downloads don't hurt CD sales. Oberholzer discusses what the industry should do next. A Balanced Scorecard Approach to Measure Customer Profitability Published: August 8,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 12, 2006
diverse backgrounds, had to develop an integrated organizational culture. Pedersen had just administered a new performance evaluation program for seventeen senior executives. This was the first time that they had been View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Is AI OK?
data science (e.g., unbiased data and algorithms), better implementation (e.g., understanding the target audience and market conditions), and better policies (e.g., auditing algorithms to ensure they perform in an equitable manner). For... View Details
- 08 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 8, 2010
literature on willpower. Understanding how willpower develops can shed important light on time-inconsistent economic decision making, a topic that has received substantial attention over recent decades. In particular, we argue that View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 14
the scientists themselves. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52220 January 2017 American Economic Review Are Online and Offline Prices Similar? Evidence from Large Multi-Channel Retailers By: Cavallo, Alberto Abstract—Online prices are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Consumers Blame Business for Global Health Problems. Can Business Become the Solution?
Every public health crisis—whether it’s the availability of highly addictive opioids or junk food marketing to children—prompts consumers to question how far companies will go for profit. It’s not an unwarranted concern. After all, cigarette makers once used... View Details
- 01 Aug 2005
- What Do You Think?
Is There an “Efficient Market” in CEO Compensation?
performance that raises the level of urgency to pay more to get the best. Thus, these situations force upward perturbations as well in the market value of CEOs in companies not facing such crises. The phenomenon would not be relevant if... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 15 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 15
opportunities to cheat on tests are likely to engage in self-deception, inferring that their elevated performance is a sign of intelligence. This short-term psychological benefit of self-deception, however, can come with longer-term... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
team, how to measure progress, and more. The Virtual Manager: Cutting-Edge Solutions for Hiring, Managing, Motivating, and Engaging Mobile Employees by Kevin Sheridan (MBA 1988) (Career Press) As more and more jobs can be View Details
- 07 Aug 2009
- What Do You Think?
Why Can’t Americans Get Health Care Right?
Original Article It is said that health care is the biggest threat to the long-term health of the U.S. economy and therefore, to some extent, the global economy. Americans pay much more for what they get (at least measured in terms of... View Details
- 03 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 3
details Schön Klinik's founding, its early focus on measurement and improvement, and the design and implementation of a system-wide structure for measuring and reporting actual health outcomes. The case... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
A Politician's Investment Portfolio Might Tip Off Corruption Potential
bonds, a standard measurement used by investment firms. He then matched the data against instances of wrongdoing covering a six-year period. The more the portfolio balance tipped toward stocks, the greater the chance of trouble.... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
- 22 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 22
expenditures on teammates lead to better performance in both sports teams in Canada and pharmaceutical sales teams in Belgium. These results suggest that a minor adjustment to employee bonuses-shifting the focus from the self to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Oct 2010
- What Do You Think?
Will Transparency in CEO Compensation Have Unintended Consequences?
pay packages required recently for public companies, the amounts shown in those reports can be highly misleading. For example, what are we to make of "out-of-range" compensation resulting from the excellent performance of the... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 22 May 2007
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First Look: May 22, 2007
firms in order to find new measures of strategy and to understand their linkages to organizational structure within such firms. It shows how the core knowledge required for decision making and the coordination challenges in these firms... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace