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FAQs - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

sufficiently generous to support inefficiencies. Therefore providers must turn to other incentives to motivate a shift in costing practices. Medical Conditions Q: How is the medical condition defined? A: A medical condition is defined by... View Details
  • 30 Jun 2009
  • First Look

First Look: June 30

non-local investments suggests that policy makers in regions without local venture capitalists might want to mitigate costs associated with established venture capitalists investing in their geographies rather than encouraging the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Jun 2007
  • Op-Ed

Leveling the Executive Options Playing Field

behavior. Indeed, a significant cost for corporations—the cost associated with compensating key employees with stock options—was until recently treated as an expense for tax purposes but not for financial... View Details
Keywords: by Mihir Desai
  • 02 Jan 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 3, 2018

environmental regulation. Previously, it was believed that corporate managers resisted the extra costs imposed by environmental regulation from the 1960s. This argument was primarily based on empirical evidence from the United States. It... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Oct 2015
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October 20, 2015

of the variation in industry imports from China and changes in federal spending) and two supply-side ones (TFP shocks and variation in knowledge/ideas coming from foreign patenting). In each case, we find... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Aug 2018
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New Research and Ideas, August 8, 2018

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53835 July–August 2018 Journal of Healthcare Management Using Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing to Model the Costs of Various Process-Improvement Strategies in... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 May 2017
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First Look at New Research: May 2, 2017

two new measures of bank productivity: one focused on deposit-taking productivity and one focused on asset productivity. We then use these measures to evaluate the cross-section of bank value. Both productivity measures are strongly value relevant, with View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 23 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 23, 2008

additional compensation across social category lines than it did within them. The results thus broach an ethical dilemma for managers: Is it appropriate to let mere social category lines interfere with profit maximization? Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 27 Jun 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27

factor-based ERPs from finance and implied costs of capital (ICC) estimates from accounting. Our analyses show ICCs are particularly useful in tracking time-series variations in expected returns. We also... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 May 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Health Care Under a Research Microscope

players, poor customer service, and regional variations in quality of care. "By virtually any standard, it's an underperforming industry," says Richard Hamermesh, faculty chair of Harvard Business School's recently formed... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Health; Biotechnology
  • 08 Dec 2014
  • Research & Ideas

A Manager’s Guide to International Strategy

a tradeoff here, in terms of how similar a product will be around the world and what sort of product range a company will offer," Collis says. Will a company allow for local variation and differences in taste, and what will its... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 21 Jul 2015
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First Look: July 21, 2015

(the exogenous component of the variation in industry imports from China and changes in federal spending) and two supply-side ones (TFP shocks and variation in knowledge/ideas coming from foreign patenting).... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Nov 2015
  • Research & Ideas

These Employers Pay Higher Salaries than Necessary

necessarily charging higher prices to take advantage of inexperienced companies, says Stanton. They could also be trying to recoup their higher costs in working with a first-time employer, who might need more hand-holding navigating the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Employment; Technology; Computer
  • 23 May 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017

points. Pseudo-set framing changes gambling choices (Study 1), effort (Studies 2 and 3), giving behavior (Field Data and Study 4), and purchase decisions (Study 5). These effects persist in the absence of any reward, when a cost must be... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 03 Nov 2015
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November 3, 2015

these models, the demand curve alone can be used to make welfare statements, a fact relied on by much empirical work. There is ample evidence, though, that people misuse care for a different reason: mistakes or "behavioral hazard." Much high-value care is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 24, 2009

of 102 non-European Union countries, we study variations in the decision to adopt International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). There is evidence that more powerful countries are less likely to adopt IFRS, consistent with more... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 02 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 2

per capita and, thus, lower cost of capital. We also explain that the variation in revenues per capita was both a product of the variation in natural endowments and a commodity... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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The Green Industrial Strategy Project | Institute for Business in Global Society

central problems that companies face in scaling markets for clean technologies? Analysts widely assume the cost of clean technologies and services is the main barrier to market penetration. We examine the role of coordination and... View Details
  • 18 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 18, 2007

within the task network and serve to separate one set of tasks from another. Placing a transaction in a particular location in turn requires work to define, count (or measure), and pay for the transacted objects. The costs of this work... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Jan 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 16, 2018

on average, more valuable—they are more clinically effective; have higher patent citations; lead to more revenue and to higher stock market value. Using variation in the expansion of Medicare prescription drug coverage, we show that firms... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne