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  • 13 Jan 2009
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First Look: January 13, 2009

standard measures of patent quality, we find that patents granted to firms involved in private equity transactions are more cited (a proxy for economic importance), show no significant shifts in the fundamental nature of the research, and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Measure Outcomes & Cost for Every Patient - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

health care agenda. Health care invests billions of dollars in quality measurement programs and complex cost accounting systems yet these systems currently fail to collect outcomes that matter to patients and the costs to acheive them. Outcome Measurement View Details
  • 22 Jul 2014
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First Look: July 22

use process mapping and time-driven activity-based costing to measure the costs of treating patients over a complete cycle of care for a specific medical condition. With valid outcome and cost information, managers and clinicians can View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

    Reinventing State Capitalism

    In this book we study the evolution of corporate governance arrangements that governments have adopted for their state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in the last 20 years. We show that the process of privatization and liberalization of the 1990s and early 2000s created... View Details

    • 11 May 2010
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    First Look: May 11

    Standard theories of corporate ownership assume that because markets are efficient, insiders ultimately bear agency costs and therefore have a strong incentive to minimize conflicts of interest with outside investors. We show that if... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 27 Apr 2010
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    First Look: April 27

    standards represent a political-economic equilibrium, why is that equilibrium for some countries shifting over time in favor of IFRS? We develop and test the hypothesis that network effects from the extant... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 24 Mar 2023
    • Blog Post

    Answering Your Questions About the 2+2 Program

    visit the Application Process page. Which standardized tests does the 2+2 program accept? What is the range of GMAT or GRE scores for accepted students? While you are required to submit either the GMAT or... View Details
    • 25 Jan 2021
    • Book

    In a Nutshell, Why American Capitalism Succeeded

    How did the United States become the world’s center of business growth following its founding in 1776? Surely a number of nations had powerful natural resources, stable financial and legal institutions, and dynamic entrepreneurs over that same span. Why was American... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Manufacturing
    • 21 Dec 2023
    • Blog Post

    Top 10 MBA Voices Blogs of 2023

    graduating undergrad. Additionally, I knew that if I took the GMAT and applied while I was in the academic headspace, I would thank myself endlessly for having that option down the road. Read More>>> ANSWERING YOUR QUESTIONS ABOUT THE 2+2 PROGRAM Which View Details
    • 03 Nov 2015
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    November 3, 2015

    November 2015 Quarterly Journal of Economics Behavioral Hazard in Health Insurance By: Baicker, Katherine, Sendhil Mullainathan, and Joshua Schwartzstein Abstract—A fundamental implication of standard moral hazard models is overuse of... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 31 Mar 2009
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    First Look: March 31, 2009

    equity that are nonetheless considered public by virtue of having publicly traded debt. We develop and test two hypotheses. The "demand" hypothesis holds that earnings of public equity firms are of higher quality than earnings... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 24 Apr 2018
    • Op-Ed

    Op-Ed: What Mark Zuckerberg Can Learn About Crisis Leadership from Starbucks

    Starbucks CEO Kevin Johnson (left) meets with employees and community members in this file photo. (Photo courtesy Starbucks.) Johnson & Johnson CEO Jim Burke’s leadership during the 1982 Tylenol crisis is what we at Harvard Business School teach as the View Details
    Keywords: by Bill George; Technology; Food & Beverage
    • 12 Oct 2021
    • Research & Ideas

    What Actually Draws Sports Fans to Games? It's Not Star Athletes.

    Ferguson and Lakhani decided to test this theory using data from the Australian Football League (AFL), the wildly popular sport also known as “footy.” They detailed their findings in the recent working paper Consuming Contests: Outcome... View Details
    Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Sports
    • 16 Feb 2023
    • HBS Case

    ESG Activists Met the Moment at ExxonMobil, But Did They Succeed?

    The impact-investment hedge fund Engine No. 1 made a big splash in May 2021 when it managed to get three nominees elected to the ExxonMobil board of directors. It was an open effort to prod the oil giant toward renewable energy and test whether activist investing could... View Details
    Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Financial Services
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    Topics - HBS Working Knowledge

    Government and Politics (455) Groups and Teams (37) Growth Management (12) Growth and Development Strategy (40) Growth and Development (16) Happiness (29) Health Care and Treatment (96) Health Disorders (3) Health Pandemics (32) Health View Details
    • 10 Jun 2014
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    First Look: June 10

    working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2443674 Codes in Context: How States, Markets, and Civil Society Shape Adherence to Global Labor Standards By: Toffel, Michael W., Jodi L. Short, and Melissa Ouellet Abstract—Transnational business... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 28 Feb 2022
    • Research & Ideas

    How Racial Bias Taints Customer Service: Evidence from 6,000 Hotels

    of the information that people received varied.” Concierges provide less information to some customers Testing each of the return emails for responsiveness, helpfulness, and rapport, the researchers counted the number of restaurants... View Details
    Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
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    Hiring International Students

    employer to first test the US labor market through a variety of standard recruitment methods (see below). The recruitment period lasts from 1 to 6 months and, once complete, the employer submits the labor... View Details
    • 07 Jul 2008
    • Research & Ideas

    Innovation Corrupted: How Managers Can Avoid Another Enron

    companies. This remedy is best observed in formerly public companies that—aided by professional buyout firms—have been taken private and armed with active directors who pursue commonsense governance practices that have stood the test of... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Energy; Utilities
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    Business Fundamentals Course - CORe | HBS Online

    problems—from performing A/B testing on a website to using sampling to check warehouse inventory. Highlights Learn about the basics of population sampling. Start with the question you are trying to answer first before determining what... View Details