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  • 20 Dec 2011
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First Look: December 20

teams are exacerbated when teams are leaderless, undermining performance. A longitudinal study of multicultural MBA study teams found that in the early stage of team formation, teams with a low average level of, but moderate degree of variance in, uncertainty View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 17 Apr 2007
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First Look: April 17, 2007

transforming locally engaged citizens into viewers consuming programming from distant sources. In response to such concerns, many regulatory agencies, including the Federal Communication Commission in the United States, curtail the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Jun 2016
  • Research & Ideas

These VC Partners May Make Your Firm Less Innovative

of students, the researchers surmised it may dampen innovation among competitive companies. To test that hypothesis, McDonald, Pahnke, Hallen and Wang looked at close to 200 medical device startups that developed products for minimally invasive surgery from 1986 to... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services; Banking
  • 12 Oct 1999
  • Research & Ideas

Bright Ideas: The Creative Power of Groups

engineers, for example, brought in anthropologists to help them design copiers that were more user-friendly. And Genzyme leavened the impact of the lawyers on its regulatory team with a sprinkling of scientists and liberal arts graduates.... View Details
Keywords: by Laurie Joan Aron
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This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details

  • 14 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 14

wondered if they should avoid any potential regulatory issues altogether and instead focus on generating revenue primarily from recruiting and other ancillary services. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Jul 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Solving COVID'S Mental Health Crisis

ongoing state support and federal emergency aid will be required to avoid a crisis.” Telepsychiatry may increase patient access David Theobald (HBS MBA 1991)’s interest in mental health technology commercialization has led him to Genoa... View Details
Keywords: by Howard Stevenson and Shirley Spence; Health
  • 25 Sep 2012
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First Look: September 25

Sector from 'Preventing Regulatory Capture: Special Interest Influence, and How to Limit It' Authors: Daniel Carpenter, David Moss, and Melanie Wachtell Stinnett Publication: Chap. 3 in The Making of Good Financial Regulation: Towards a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 10

How can I avoid compromising my integrity—and stay out of jail? Using lessons from some of the world's greatest businesses, he provides incredible insights into these challenging questions. How Will You Measure Your Life? is full of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 30 Oct 2012
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First Look: October 30

onerous when outsourcing the monitoring and enforcement of government regulation. In this paper, we argue that the considerable moral hazard associated with private regulatory monitoring can be mitigated by understanding conflicts of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 May 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 8, 2018

manner that increases reimbursement or avoids financial penalties. Identifying upcoding in claims data is challenging due to unobservable confounders (e.g., patient risk). We leverage state-level variations in adverse event reporting... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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carry out agreements with Harvard University for the benefit of data subjects; to satisfy its legal or regulatory obligations; or, where applicable, on the basis of legally compliant data subject consent. 4. INTERNATIONAL DATA TRANSFERS... View Details
  • 23 Sep 2014
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First Look: September 23

importance of organizational governance, and the role of governing boards in particular, in prioritizing and aligning potentially conflicting objectives and interests in order to avoid mission drift and to maintain organizational... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jun 2018
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June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books

injured or die every year from avoidable medical errors. This field manual provides practical guidance on how hospital patients and their advocates can avoid those errors by taking up a weapon and bringing... View Details
  • 03 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 3

Nien-hê Abstract—Multinational enterprises (MNEs) operate across countries that vary widely in their legal, political, and regulatory institutions. One question that arises is whether there are certain minimum standards that ought to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 May 2015
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First Look: May 19

server or set of servers to store transactions and also avoiding any single party that can ban certain participants or certain types of transactions. Bitcoin is of interest to economists in part for its potential to disrupt existing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Jan 2016
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January 26, 2016

subject to the constraints of market mechanisms. In this chapter, I outline another alternative to shareholder primacy that aims to improve upon existing alternatives and avoid some of the difficulties they encounter. I argue that even... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Jul 2009
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First Look: July 7

corporate environmental ratings that guide investors to select "socially responsible," and avoid "socially irresponsible," companies. We examine how several hundred firms respond to corporate environmental ratings... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 11 Dec 2018
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New Research and Ideas, December 11, 2018

industries over others, including wishing to avoid sectors where there was extensive government interference. Oral history can shed light on hypersensitive topics, such as corruption, which are rarely formally documented. While the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 12 Apr 2010
  • Research & Ideas

One Report: Better Strategy through Integrated Reporting

point of focus and discipline. Some simple and pragmatic guidelines can be used to make the company's reporting as useful as possible to all stakeholders. By simplifying the language and avoiding the use of jargon or "legalese," the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace