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  • 02 Jan 2020
  • Op-Ed

Medicare for All or Public Option: Can Either Heal Health Care?

The United States has serious health care problems: More than 27 million uninsured people, costs that are growing faster than income, and a staggering $37 trillion of unfunded liabilities in the Medicare program. Perhaps most alarming: The View Details
Keywords: by Regina E. Herzlinger and James Wallace; Health; Public Administration
  • 28 Oct 2024
  • Op-Ed

Latino Voters Have Grown More Politically Divided. That’s Not Surprising.

in the future. Instead, it is a good bet that the group will get more attention from both parties, and a bad bet that US politics will become lopsided. So, don't be surprised the next time a group starts to... View Details
Keywords: by Richard Calvo, Vincent Pons, and Jesse M. Shapiro
  • 28 May 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Can LEGO Snap Together a Future in Asia?

licenses properties from blockbuster films such as Star Wars and Harry Potter. “It's really easy for them to be nimble and meet demand” LEGO's ambition has at times exceeded its reach. By 2004, the company's overdiversification into theme... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard; Entertainment & Recreation
  • Web

Measure Outcomes & Cost for Every Patient - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

time required for each process. Overhead functions such as billing, information technology, and human resource management should be attributed to the condition based on resource use resulting from the needs... View Details
  • July 2019
  • Article

'Forward Flow': A New Measure to Quantify Free Thought and Predict Creativity

By: Kurt Gray, Stephen Anderson, Eric Evan Chen, John Michael Kelly, Michael S. Christian, John Patrick, Laura Huang, Yoed N. Kenett and Kevin Lewis
When the human mind is free to roam, its subjective experience is characterized by a continuously evolving stream of thought. Although there is a technique that captures people’s streams of free thought—free association—its utility for scientific research is undermined... View Details
Keywords: Cognition and Thinking; Creativity; Forecasting and Prediction
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  • October 2018 (Revised July 2019)
  • Case

Sidewalk Labs: Privacy in a City Built from the Internet Up

By: Leslie K. John, Mitchell Weiss and Julia Kelley
Email mking@hbs.edu for a courtesy copy.

By the time Dan Doctoroff, CEO of Sidewalk Labs, began hosting a Reddit “Ask Me Anything” session in January 2018, he had only nine months remaining to convince the people... View Details
Keywords: Public Entrepreneurship; Govtech; CivicTech; Smart Cities; City Innovation; Government Innovation; Privacy; Sidewalk Labs; Dan Doctoroff; Entrepreneurship; Public Sector; Consumer Behavior; Governance; Business and Government Relations; Innovation and Invention; Technology Industry; Public Administration Industry; Transportation Industry; Real Estate Industry; Canada
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  • 2016
  • Working Paper

The Empirical Economics of Online Attention

By: Andre Boik, Shane Greenstein and Jeffrey Prince
In several markets, firms compete not for consumer expenditure but instead for consumer attention. We model and characterize how households allocate their scarce attention in arguably the largest market for attention: the Internet. Our characterization of household... View Details
Keywords: Internet and the Web; Competition; Behavior; Resource Allocation; Household; Cognition and Thinking
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    Location Choices under Strategic Interactions

    The literature on location choices has mostly emphasized the impact of location and firm characteristics. However, most industries with a significant presence of multi-location firms are oligopolistic in nature, which suggests that strategic interaction among firms... View Details

      Glass Half Broken

      Why the gender gap persists and how we can close it. For years women have made up the majority of college-educated workers in the United States. In 2019, the gap between the percentage of women and the percentage of men in the workforce was the smallest on... View Details
      • February 2015 (Revised December 2016)
      • Case

      Poseidon Carlsbad: Desalination and the San Diego County Water Authority

      By: John Macomber
      Extreme drought conditions in California have significant impacts on the ability of the San Diego County Water Authority to provide adequate water for current users. Water shortfalls also could curtail the economic development of one of the fastest growing regions in... View Details
      Keywords: Risk Management; Partners and Partnerships; Resource Allocation; Public Sector; Private Sector; Environmental Sustainability; Policy; Infrastructure; Green Technology Industry; Utilities Industry; California
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      Privacy Notice | About

      with the provision of any personal information to us. We may update our Privacy Notice from time to time and will post any changes on this page. We encourage you to check our website frequently to review the... View Details
      • 24 Mar 2015
      • First Look

      First Look: March 24

      novel dataset by hand-mapping data on sustainability investments classified as material for each industry into firm-specific performance data on a variety of sustainability investments. This allows us to present new evidence on the value... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • Fast Answer

      Stock prices: current & historical

      desired frequency and time period. You can download this data into Excel. Another option is to choose Chart under Price & Charts. Expand the filter to the left of where it says ‘Templates’ to add in another company, and/or... View Details
      • Web

      Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

      execution as the instructor moves through time from pre-class arrival, to the opening, through sequences of questioning, listening, and responding, to transitions and, ultimately, to the closing of the class. Discussion Management... View Details
      • 05 Dec 2022
      • What Do You Think?

      How Would Jack Welch’s Leadership Style Fare in Today’s World?

      pre-YouTube). He said he used it all the time with GE colleagues to help them maintain perspective. And he sent me a new copy. You may wonder why I’m having trouble with the question in the title, even if we... View Details
      Keywords: by James Heskett; Industrial Products; Media & Broadcasting; Medical Devices & Supplies; Manufacturing
      • 03 Oct 2017
      • First Look

      First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017

      ventures. Specifically, we argue and show that although cultural beliefs that disassociate women from commercial activity may result in female social venture founders being less likely to use commercial activity than their male... View Details
      Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
      • Research Summary

      The Evolution of Corporate Structure, Internal Governance, and Leadership

      My research documents the evolution of the internal governance of senior management in large US firms over a 20-year period and explores, via multiple methods, the causes and consequences of these changes. My findings suggest that... View Details

      • 10 Feb 2009
      • First Look

      First Look: February 10, 2009

      differentials. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-089.pdf The Bloody Millennium: Internal Conflict in South Asia Author:Lakshmi Iyer Abstract This paper documents the short-term and long-term trends in internal conflict in South Asian countries,... View Details
      Keywords: Martha Lagace
      • 12 Sep 2023
      • Research & Ideas

      How Can Financial Advisors Thrive in Shifting Markets? Diversify, Diversify, Diversify

      more comfortable using technology to make financial decisions. It turns out, Di Maggio says, that “having a broader view of the financial picture of the client helps [advisers] keep their clients and helps with growing the clientele as... View Details
      Keywords: by Ben Rand; Financial Services
      • 06 Jun 2011
      • Research & Ideas

      Why Leaders Lose Their Way

      forced to resign for trading in Lubrizol stock prior to recommending that Berkshire Hathaway purchase the company. Examples abound of other recent failures: Hewlett-Packard CEO Mark Hurd resigned for submitting false expense reports concerning his relationship with a... View Details
      Keywords: by Bill George