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- 17 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Business Case for Diabetes Disease Management
then the vendor is placed financially at risk for the costs of patient medical care and is responsible for coordinating all aspects of care for those patients. The vendor is often also involved with other chronically ill patients of the... View Details
- 20 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 20
“waver” over time in the relative weight they put on them. The model predicts that good news about fundamentals can trigger large price bubbles. We analyze the patterns of cash-flow news that generate the largest bubbles, the reasons why... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: Strength in Numbers
Gerald Marwell and Ruth Ames. In their 1979 study, groups of high school students were given funds to invest. Participants could opt to invest individually, at a relatively low rate of return, or to add some or all of their funds to a... View Details
Keywords: Re: Gunnar Trumbull
- 12 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
The New Real Estate
relative to all asset classes have been enormous. Let's take a moment on this last point, high returns relative to other investments. The public real estate markets as recorded by the Dow Jones Wilshire Real... View Details
- 13 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 13
Publication:Manufacturing and Service Operations Management (forthcoming) Abstract We empirically document factors that influence how local operating managers use discretion to balance the tradeoff between service capacity costs and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Conducting Business
In 2015 I moved from New York City to Madison, Connecticut, where I met, quite by chance, Ginny Vancil and her brother, Richard. I thought, How many Vancils can there be in the world? I asked if they knew Richard “Dick” Vancil, who was my first professor for my first... View Details
- 06 Nov 2019
- Op-Ed
Torched Planet: The Business Case to Reinvent Almost Everything
The world is. on. fire. The Earth is burning. We only have a little time to arrest climate change, and if we fail to do so the consequences will be both dire and irreversible. We have the technology and the resources to fix things, if we want to. We even have a... View Details
- 21 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 21, 2010
historical figures in Irish political economy along the analysis of major thematic issues, schools of thought, and major policy debates within the Irish context over this extended period. Publisher's Link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Nov 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, November 20, 2018
PE-backed companies increased investments relative to their peers, while also experiencing greater equity and debt inflows. The effects are stronger among financially constrained companies and those whose private equity investors had more... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Batteries Included
modern container shipping, the ship is really a relatively small part of costs,” observes McCown. “Everything ship-related might only be 30 percent of the carrier’s total cost. The biggest cost is fuel.”... View Details
- 22 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 22
constraints. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/download.aspx?name=14-097.pdf The Organizational and Geographic Drivers of Absorptive Capacity: An Empirical Analysis of Pharmaceutical R&D Laboratories By:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Fearing Fox News, Democratic-leaning Companies Delayed Negative Announcements
to explore the impact of a specific media source on the business landscape. "Depending on what the media reports on, it can actually create reputational costs for firms," says Jonas Heese, an assistant professor in the... View Details
- 01 Feb 2017
- What Do You Think?
Is the Next Jobs Crisis Just Ahead?
people who train at our expense.” His final volley was, “Labor cost is not what makes us noncompetitive, stupidity is.” Perhaps the most striking suggestion came from a representative of the Independent Workers Party of Chicago: “The... View Details
- 08 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
Will the Japan Disaster Remake the Landscape for Green Energy in Asia?
relatively cost efficient and scalable source of electricity. The reviews will happen across the world and each country will consider their own energy mix characteristics together with local sentiment."... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Curb Your Smartphone Habit
much bigger, which is the amount of time we are “on”—meaning at work or monitoring work remotely. Workaholics are nothing new in the managerial ranks, but technology has made a 24/7 connection to work the norm for many more people than ever before. What kind of... View Details
- 15 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
In the Virtual Dressing Room Returns Are A Real Problem
product categories on the Internet. An analysis by Harris Interactive ecommercePulse computed the ratio of dollars consumers spent offline as a result of online shopping to dollars spent online. The greater the ratio, the more likely that... View Details
- 17 Sep 2001
- What Do You Think?
What Is “Business as Usual” After September 11?
having and what isn't." What do you think? Original Article Looking over one of my favorite weekly business magazines published a couple days before the September 11 terrorist attacks in the U.S., I am struck by how dated (and View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 23 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 23, 2015
show how this process of experimentation can be particularly valuable in the context of entrepreneurship because most new ventures fail completely, and only a few become extremely successful. We also shed light on important costs to this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
XTV: Xerox’s Attempted Recovery From “Fumbling the Future”
because they were built with proprietary components, a manifestation of Xerox's approach to systems design. The development costs of these proprietary components had to be borne by the low unit volumes of its printers, in contrast to... View Details
Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough
- 17 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Protecting against the Pirates of Bollywood
protect their intellectual property rights—one of the most important growth drivers in the US economy—in developing markets. The case is one of a series Iyer is developing that are linked to property rights in emerging economies. Other case studies include an View Details