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- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Waking Up a Sleeping Company
issue of Medtronic's performance standards, I found that goals and deadlines were routinely set, missed, and then simply adjusted. Poor performance was rationalized by excuses. Even incentive payments were adjusted upward to reflect these... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 27 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 27
of inflation increases demand for cost of living adjustments. Frames that highlight flexibility, control, and investment significantly reduce annuitization. A majority of respondents prefer to receive an extra "bonus" payment... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Nov 2014
- Op-Ed
A Challenge to the New Congress: Pass Housing Finance Reform
mortgage should continue as the backbone of the new system. It helps keep monthly payments low, and protects consumers from interest-rate volatility. Given the recent extreme economic stress, Uncle Sam must stand behind these mortgages in... View Details
- 09 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 9, 2008
Working PapersHow Firms Respond to Being Rated Authors:Aaron K. Chatterji, Michael W. Toffel Abstract While many independent rating systems are designed primarily to help buyers overcome information asymmetries when making purchasing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
Use the Psychology of Pricing To Keep Customers Returning
contribute to what we call the psychology of price. You can take the very same physical price and break it up into parts, bundle it with other items, ask for payment early, or ask for payment late, and... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Mahoney
- 03 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on Supreme Court Health Care Ruling
trillion mandate and no assurance of reversing the inexorable rise in health care costs. Paradoxically, although America has the most technologically advanced and expensive health care system in the world, its citizens continue to get... View Details
- 19 Jan 2022
- In Practice
7 Trends to Watch in 2022
collection of patient physiological measurements such as blood pressure, weight, or blood glucose levels—and both commercial health insurers as well as the Medicare system have seen dramatic increases in the use of these services in... View Details
Keywords: by HBS News
- 28 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 28
to see a complex technical system in an abstract way and change the system's structure by rearranging its components. In this paper, I argue that the essence of dynamic architectural capabilities lies in the effective management of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 29 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018
more sensitive to losses than gains in terms of economic growth? We find that measures of subjective well-being are more than twice as sensitive to negative as compared to positive economic growth. We use Gallup World Poll data from over 150 countries, U.S. Behavioral... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 3
Abstract—Improving the way we pay for health care must be a central component in health care reform. Payment reform must link provider reimbursement and accountability to improving patient value: better health outcomes delivered at lower... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 11
Review 89 Abstract The capitalist system is under siege. In recent years business has been criticized as a major cause of social, environmental, and economic problems. Companies are widely thought to be prospering at the expense of their... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Apr 2019
- Book
Fintech's Game-Changing Opportunities for Small Business
Transforming Lending and Shaping a New Era of Small Business Opportunity By Karen G. Mills [A] business owner has one system, perhaps QuickBooks or Xero, for their accounting software, one portal for bank transactions, another like HubSpot for marketing, and a separate... View Details
- 22 May 2020
- In Practice
Post-COVID Health Care: More Screens, Less Red Tape?
they said: Hospitals will rethink payment and operating models Leemore S. Dafny: Physician organizations will expand The decline in independent physician practices will accelerate, leading to larger physician organizations and more... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 04 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 4, 2016
purchasing Treasuries did not have such differential effects. We find that the Fed's purchase of MBS (rather than exclusively Treasuries) during QE1 resulted in an additional $600 billion of refinancing, substantially reduced interest View Details
- 02 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 2
Andrew Huang and the Center had worked with the Taiwan National Health Insurance system to create a pay-for-performance reimbursement program for breast cancer care that has since been adopted by five other providers. The program issues... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 3
self-report of the licensee. The self-reporting aspect of the environment gives rise to demand for auditing by the licensor or third-party attestation by the licensee. We characterize the optimal royalty contract, accounting system choice... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 May 2020
- In Practice
Nonprofits Hurt by COVID-19 Must Hoard Cash to Hold On
circumstances: ensure the survival of the organization. For this, cash is king. Accordingly, the immediate priority is to halt the outflow of cash. Any dollar leaving the organization is a high-level decision and any payment that does not... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 05 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
Five questions for Regina E. Herzlinger
care system into a consumer-driven model. What, in a nutshell, are the advantages to your proposal? And the risks? Herzlinger: The pros of consumer-driven health care: Unlike today's cookie-cutter insurance policies, under consumer-driven... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 30 Aug 2006
- Op-Ed
The Compensation Game
payments or deferred-compensation arrangements that serve to obscure total pay. And when clubs get rid of poorly-performing players, they do not generally provide them with the equivalent of a golden parachute—a payout that is common... View Details
Keywords: by Lucian Bebchuk & Rakesh Khurana
- 07 Aug 2009
- What Do You Think?
Why Can’t Americans Get Health Care Right?
Freyd); profit-oriented risk managers and payment processors such as insurers (R. MacKenzey, Emre Erkut, and others); specialized service providers (including malpractice lawyers) at various points in the channel (C. J. Cullinane, Michael... View Details