Congestion And Delays - Publications - Faculty & Research

12 Dec 2017
First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017

Cristina Kirchner, Néstor Kirchner’s wife and successor. Then in 2009, in a call for “democratizing” the media, Cristina Kirchner introduced a media reform law that would significantly limit Grupo Clarín’s operations. By 2012, the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

25 May 2016
Research & Ideas

How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health

be headquartered in England in order to achieve a lower corporate tax rate. The British government favored the merger as it would boost the high-priority life sciences sector, but little attention was paid to whether the integration of the two company research groups... View Details

Keywords: by John A. Quelch; Health

13 Feb 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 13, 2018

backlogs and delays in numerous Patent and Trademarks Offices, and litigation over IP rights is expensive with an uncertain outcome. Moreover,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

19 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019

compulsory invention secrecy was effective at keeping affected technology out of the public domain, but it appears to have reduced and delayed follow-on invention, reduced entry into patenting, View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

05 Dec 2008
News

Rebuilding America - now

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VBHCD Initiative - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

repairs Tonsillectomies and adenoidectomies Observations room patients after ED care Chronic & Primary Care End-stage kidney disease Diabetes Congestive heart failure Audiology Dementia Degenerative... View Details

15 Aug 2024
Op-Ed

Post-CrowdStrike, Six Questions to Test Your Company's Operational Resilience

resilience and success. Hise O. Gibson is a senior lecturer in the Technology and Operations Management Unit. Anita Lynch is an executive fellow at the Digital Data Design Institute at Harvard, View Details

Keywords: by Hise Gibson and Anita Lynch

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Calling All Issuers: The Market for Debt Monitoring

By: Huaizhi Chen, Lauren Cohen and Weiling Liu

95% of long-term municipal bonds have callable features, and yet we find new evidence of a substantial fraction of local governments exercising these valuable options sub-optimally, with significant delays – resulting in sizable losses. Using data from 2001 to 2019, we... View Details

Keywords: Bonds; Financial Institutions; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Government Administration; Financing and Loans

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Working Papers

By: Dennis A. Yao

Anton, James J. and Dennis A. Yao (2011). "Delay as Agenda Setting."

Abstract: In this paper we examine a class of... View Details

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VBHCD Initiative - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

kidney disease Diabetes Congestive heart failure Care transition patients to reduce frequency of readmission Primary and psychiatric care for patients with intellectual and... View Details

08 Aug 2017
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First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017

data-sharing partnership that provided officials with traffic incident and congestion data. Since 2015, her program had enabled officials in Kentucky and elsewhere to share... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

29 Aug 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 29

August 14, 2017 Harvard Business Review Study: More Frequent Sales Quotas Help Volume but Hurt Profits By: Chung, Doug J., and Das Narayandas Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link:... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

16 Aug 2024
In Practice

Election 2024: What's at Stake for Business and the Workplace?

vital infrastructure that keeps the economy—and goods and services—moving, including roads, bridges, ports, and freight trains. Businesses that want employees to return to the office know that commute times... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

01 Jun 2015
News

The Military and the MBA: Chris Howard (MBA 2003)

the military, I took those lessons with me to Bristol-Myers Squibb and then to HBS. We were in class when 9/11 happened. I was a reservist. A few weeks later I got a call saying I was being returned to active duty, View Details

Keywords: National Security and International Affairs; National Security and International Affairs

24 Sep 2014
Op-Ed

Tackling Climate Change Will Cost Less Than We Think

percent of global output) by 2095. Moreover delaying action could increase mitigation costs by 40 percent every decade, making it ever more difficult to do what may need to be done. OP-ED COLLECTION The Business of Climate Change What... View Details

Keywords: by Rebecca Henderson; Energy; Utilities

30 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

Vanguard, Trian And The Problem With 'Passive' Index Funds

investing, especially for smaller investors, and ultimately created greater returns than most professionally managed mutual funds could deliver. That has made index, or passive, funds wildly popular: For the 12-month period ending May... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

24 Aug 2021
News

Having a Moment

paid attention to.” After two years of planning, and a slight delay due to COVID, Moment launched in June 2020 and won Best Startup Beverage at the BevNET New Beverage Showdown... View Details

Keywords: mindfulness; entrepreneurship; wellness; food and beverage; meditation; Beverage and Tobacco Product Manufacturing; Beverage and Tobacco Product Manufacturing

January 2018 (Revised February 2018)
Technical Note

Making Markets

By: Thomas R. Eisenmann and Scott Duke Kominers

Explains how to identify and capitalize on marketplace design opportunities. Defines markets and marketplaces and describes the basic functions of each. Discusses attributes (e.g., heterogeneity of participants' preferences and asymmetry in available information) that... View Details