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The Use of Broker Votes to Reward Brokerage Firms' and Their Analysts' Research Activities

By: David A. Maber, Boris Groysberg and Paul M. Healy
In traditional markets, the price mechanism directs the flow of resources and governs the process through which supply and demand are brought into equilibrium. In the investment-research industry, broker votes perform these functions. Using detailed clinical data from... View Details
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  • 24 Aug 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Can Obamacare Be Saved?

merger between Aetna and Humana, two of the largest health insurers in the United States. The 838,000 consumers who were insured by Aetna exchange plans in 2016 will be forced... View Details
Keywords: by John A. Quelch and Emily Boudreau; Insurance; Insurance
  • 02 Mar 2023
  • Blog Post

Women, Work, and the "M" Word

from their employer (62%) and health insurance carriers (73%). Yet, most US workplaces—unlike their British counterparts—do not offer benefits specifically geared towards menopause. This is exactly the gap... View Details
  • January 2018
  • Technical Note

The Scope of Business at the Base of the Pyramid: Middle and Lower Income Countries

By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Tricia Gregg
Using World Bank data, the note defines the Base of the Pyramid population as the 4.76 billion people living on less than $10/day. It briefly reviews the perspectives of key business articles that address this market, notably C.K. Prahalad’s work on Bottom of the... View Details
Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Poverty; Social Issues; Human Needs; Segmentation
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  • 22 Mar 2016
  • News

Bill (MBA 1966) and Penny George

Bill (MBA 1966) and Penny George “We made a legacy gift so that our contributions will continue after our deaths,” says William W. “Bill” George (MBA 1966) of the planned gift he and his wife, Penny,... View Details
  • September 2022
  • Article

Human Versus Machine: A Comparison of Robo-Analyst and Traditional Research Analyst Investment Recommendations

By: Braiden Coleman, Kenneth J. Merkley and Joseph Pacelli
We provide the first comprehensive analysis of the properties of investment recommendations generated by “Robo-Analysts,” which are human analyst-assisted computer programs conducting automated research analysis. Our results indicate that Robo-Analyst recommendations... View Details
Keywords: Fintech; Analysts; Robo-analysts; Investment Recommendations; Investment; Information Technology; Performance
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  • 30 Nov 2016
  • Op-Ed

Where Could More Regulation Help Small Businesses? Online Lending.

Our regulatory system has also been an unnecessary albatross on the growth of fintech players and on banks who try to partner with them. No single federal regulator has authority to oversee business lending.... View Details
Keywords: by Karen Mills and Brayden McCarthy; Financial Services
  • 20 Aug 2007
  • Working Paper Summaries

Hedge Fund Investor Activism and Takeovers

Keywords: by Robin Greenwood & Michael Schor; Banking

    Act Like a Scientist: Great Leaders Challenge Assumptions, Run Experiments, and Follow the Evidence

    Though they’ve been warned for decades about the dangers of overrelying on gut instinct and personal experience, managers keep failing to critically examine—much less challenge—the ideas their decisions are based on. To correct this problem they need to think and... View Details

    • November 2022
    • Case

    The Battle Among Channels for Marketing Pharmaceuticals: UpScript, Pharmacy Benefit Managers, and Direct-to-Consumer Sales

    By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Tiffany Farrell
    Can an online, direct-to-consumer pharmacy both improve the quality and speed of care for patients who need branded drugs and stabilize profits for pharmaceutical manufacturers? UpScript, after years spent achieving legal and regulatory compliance and simultaneous... View Details
    Keywords: DTC; Internet and the Web; Marketing Channels; Customer Value and Value Chain; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Competitive Strategy; Service Delivery; Growth and Development Strategy; Pharmaceutical Industry; Health Industry; Retail Industry
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    • December 2014 (Revised July 2021)
    • Case

    Discovery Limited

    By: Michael E. Porter, Mark R. Kramer and Aldo Sesia
    Discovery Ltd. is a South Africa-based insurance company. Started in the early 1990s, Discovery used behavioral economics and data collection to innovate in the health care insurance industry. Its founder Adrian Gore believed that the company's products needed to not... View Details
    Keywords: Shared Value; Health Care; Financial Services; Strategy; Value Creation; Health Care and Treatment; Insurance; Growth and Development Strategy; Insurance Industry; Insurance Industry; Insurance Industry; South Africa
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    • fall 1994
    • Article

    Banc One Corporation: Asset and Liability Management

    By: B. C. Esty, P. Tufano and J. Headley
    Keywords: Banks and Banking; Assets; Finance; Management; Banking Industry; United States
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    • September 2016
    • Article

    Do Display Ads Influence Search?: Attribution and Dynamics in Online Advertising

    By: Pavel Kireyev, Koen Pauwels and Sunil Gupta
    As firms increasingly rely on online media to acquire consumers, marketing managers feel comfortable justifying higher online marketing spending by referring to online metrics such as click-through rate (CTR) and cost per acquisition (CPA). However, these standard... View Details
    Keywords: Internet and the Web; Digital Marketing
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    • Web

    Politics and War - Coin and Conscience – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

    Vanity and Virtue Misers, Moneylenders, and Thieves Money Devil Biblical and Mythological Scenes Love and Money Politics View Details
    • 2022
    • Working Paper

    High-Yield Debt Covenants and Their Real Effects

    By: Falk Bräuning, Victoria Ivashina and Ali Ozdagli
    High-yield debt including leveraged loans is characterized by incurrence financial covenants, or “cov-lite” provisions. A traditional loan agreement includes maintenance covenants, which require continuous compliance with the covenant threshold, and their violation... View Details
    Keywords: Debt Covenants; Incurrence Covenants; Borrowing and Debt; Banks and Banking
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    • 01 Oct 2000
    • News

    Lydia M. Marshall: Gumption and Grace

    Lydia Marshall is more comfortable talking about the impact that CARE -- the international relief and development organization -- has had on her than what she has done for it. If pressed, however, Marshall, a CARE board member for... View Details
    Keywords: Susan Young
    • 25 Jul 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    Could a Business Model Help Big Pharma Save Lives and Profit?

    With a foothold in these markets, pharmaceutical companies will also sell branded drugs—at appropriately tiered prices—to higher income consumers and insurers who can afford them, even as the companies earn... View Details
    Keywords: by Esther Schrader; Pharmaceutical; Health
    • Web

    Aligning Reimbursement with Value - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

    lead to both outcomes and cost improvement. In addition to CMS bundles, pilot programs with insurers such as UnitedHealthcare and with employers such as Walmart, are creating... View Details
    • 11 May 2017
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Coordination Frictions in Venture Capital Syndicates

    Keywords: by Ramana Nanda and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf; Banking
    • 04 Dec 2000
    • What Do You Think?

    Have We Overdone Deregulation and Privatization?

    Summing Up Let's hear it for deregulation, at least its long-term effects. It's well worth the short-term disruptions and consumer confusion. That's the near-unanimous judgement of those of you responding to my recent piece on the... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett