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  • 15 Sep 2008
  • Research & Ideas

The Coming Transformation of Social Enterprise

actually accomplish. Why aren't nonprofits more accountable and transparent with all this money? That's a very big issue in this sector because there is no common measure or framework to assess whether these organizations are... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson
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Organize Care Around Medical Conditions - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Measure Outcomes & Cost for Every Patient Aligning Reimbursement with Value Systems Integration Geography of Care Information Technology Organize Care Around Med... Organize Care Around Medical Conditions To deliver more value, providers... View Details

    Randolph B. Cohen

    Randolph B. (Randy) Cohen is the MBA Class of 1975 Senior Lecturer of Entrepreneurial Management in the Finance Unit at Harvard Business School. Cohen’s main research focus has been the identification of top investment managers and the prediction of manager... View Details

    Keywords: financial services; investment banking industry
    • 09 Feb 2016
    • First Look

    February 9, 2016

    proportion of cross-institutional publications between funded and unfunded firms. Specifically, we measure the impact on each of these variables based on three dimensions—small- and medium-sized enterprises (SME), younger firms, and size... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 01 Feb 2011
    • First Look

    First Look: Feb. 1

    agreements. In September 2008, Eric Rey, Arcadia's CEO, faces an inflection point concerning his leading technology, genes for Nitrogen Use Efficiency (NUE) in rice. He can determine a price to charge for NUE seed based on savings to... View Details
    • 06 Jun 2016
    • Research & Ideas

    Skills and Behaviors that Make Entrepreneurs Successful

    right members of a team and motivate that team to accomplish business goals. Efficient Decision Making. Measures skills and behaviors associated with the ability to make effective and View Details
    Keywords: by HBS Working Knowledge
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    Assessing the Food and Drug Administration's Risk-Based Framework for Software Precertification with Top Health Apps in the United States: Quality Improvement Study

    By: Noy Alon, Ariel Dora Stern and John Torous
    BACKGROUND: As the development of mobile health apps continues to accelerate, the need to implement a framework that can standardize categorizing these apps to allow for efficient, yet robust regulation grows. However, regulators and researchers are faced with numerous... View Details
    Keywords: Mobile Health; Smartphone; Food And Drug Administration; Risk-based Framework; Health Care and Treatment; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Applications and Software; Framework
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    Faculty & Research - Business & Environment

    Learning By: Michael W. Toffel and Nabig Chaudhry Artificial Intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) have emerged as powerful tools to address climate change. This note summarizes a wide range of the uses of AI/ML to drive climate change adaptation and resilience,... View Details
    • 29 Sep 2008
    • Research & Ideas

    How Economics May Lead to Better Football Games

    measurement of the inefficiency due to early transaction times in a naturally occurring market." Lessons about the value of better matching go far beyond the football field, however. As Roth describes in this e-mail Q&A with HBS... View Details
    Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Sports
    • 03 Oct 2023
    • Research Event

    Build the Life You Want: Arthur Brooks and Oprah Winfrey Share Happiness Tips

    wants. Now remember you're if you're at HBS you're doing plenty of math. For you Divinity School students, remember back to high school. Sorry. And you can raise, you can raise the value of a fraction by increasing the numerator or by more View Details
    Keywords: by HBS Staff
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    Podcast - Business & Environment

    between financial models and credibility, the challenges of measuring impact, and the broader implications for corporate climate action. Investing in Carbon Markets: A Conversation with Luke Leslie of Key Carbon 26 MAR 2025 | Climate... View Details
    • 28 Jan 2014
    • First Look

    First Look: January 28

    increased dramatically (seven- to nine-fold) in the last two decades. To counteract this trend, I propose novel approaches to lower its cost or use attention more efficiently by adopting multitasker-tailored ads, Lean Advertising, and... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 2020
    • Working Paper

    Do Lenders Still Discriminate? A Robust Approach for Assessing Differences in Menus

    By: David Hao Zhang and Paul Willen
    We use a new methodology to assess mortgage pricing discrimination by race. We make four main contributions. First, we show that existing estimates of mortgage pricing differences by race can be confounded by a "menu problem," which is the problem associated with... View Details
    Keywords: Mortgages; Financing and Loans; Prejudice and Bias; Race; Measurement and Metrics; Banking Industry; United States
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    • 2011
    • Working Paper

    The Impact of Horizontal Mergers and Acquisitions in Price Competition Models

    The question of what impact mergers and acquisitions have on key equilibrium performance measures is fundamental to our understanding of competitive dynamics in an oligopolistic industry. We address these questions in the context of price competition models with... View Details
    Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Cost; Price; Profit; Duopoly and Oligopoly; Performance Efficiency; Mathematical Methods; Competition
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    • 12 Apr 2022
    • Research & Ideas

    Swiping Right: How Data Helped This Online Dating Site Make More Matches

    objective criteria such as price or venue. But what happens when emotion fuels the process? Could it increase efficiency and engagement? Edward McFowland III, assistant professor at Harvard Business School, and his coauthors examine this... View Details
    Keywords: by Kara Baskin
    • 13 Dec 2006
    • Research & Ideas

    Improving Public Health for the Poor

    to—and not a substitute for—health defined as a public good. Part of the measure of success of Project Antares will be whether through commercial means we get a higher percentage of the population covered than would be possible otherwise.... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health
    • 2008
    • Chapter

    Corporate Honesty and Business Education: A Behavioral Model

    By: Rakesh Khurana and Herbert Gintis
    Since the mid-1970s neoclassical economic theory has dominated business school thinking and teaching in dealing with the nature of human motivation. However valuable in understanding competitive product and financial markets, neoclassical economic theory employs an... View Details
    Keywords: Business Education; Ethics; Managerial Roles; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Organizational Culture; Business and Shareholder Relations; Mathematical Methods; Behavior
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    • 21 May 2013
    • First Look

    First Look: May 21

    pharmaceutical sales teams in Belgium and sports teams in Canada. These results suggest that a minor adjustment to employee bonuses-shifting the focus from the self to others-can produce measurable benefits for employees and... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 24 Jan 2005
    • Research & Ideas

    Rethinking Activity-Based Costing

    practical capacity is grossly in error, the process of running the time-driven ABC system will reveal the error over time. The capacity of most resources is measured in terms of time availability. Returning to our example, let's assume... View Details
    Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & Steven R. Anderson

      Robert C. Merton

      Robert C. Merton is the School of Management Distinguished Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

      Merton is University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University and was the George Fisher Baker Professor of... View Details

      Keywords: banking; brokerage; financial services; insurance industry; investment banking industry; retail financial services