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    Michael A. Wheeler

    Mike Wheeler joined the HBS faculty in 1993 and has taught extensively in its MBA, Executive, and distance learning programs. His highly interactive 8-week/40-hour HBS Online Negotiation... View Details

    Keywords: arts; construction; e-commerce industry; energy; federal government; green technology; internet; legal services; nonprofit industry; petroleum; pharmaceuticals; publishing industry; real estate; service industry; sports; state government; utilities
    • 2007
    • Article

    Pharmacovigilance and the Missing Denominator: The Changing Context of Pharmaceutical Risk Mitigation

    By: Arthur A. Daemmrich
    In the wake of Vioxx, Avandia, and other recent prominent cases of drugs found to cause side effects after marketing, the safety of pharmaceuticals has come to the forefront of American public policy. Press attention, congressional investigations, and legislative... View Details
    Keywords: Brands and Branding; Policy; Risk Management; Government Legislation; Risk and Uncertainty; Goals and Objectives; Customers; Pharmaceutical Industry; Health Industry; United States
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    Changing the Game

    career decisions Who Should Attend Executives who engage in activities such as business development, strategic alliances and business partnerships, dispute resolution and consensus building, procurement and purchasing, finance,... View Details
    • December 2001 (Revised February 2003)
    • Case

    Netherlands:The, A "Third Way?"

    By: Bruce R. Scott and Jamie Matthews
    The economic success of The Netherlands in the 1960s can be attributed to Dutch wages that were kept substantially below those in neighboring countries. But increased pressures in the 1970s led to a wage explosion, which in turn pushed unemployment and disguised... View Details
    Keywords: Wages; History; Policy; Problems and Challenges; Macroeconomics; Economic Systems; Employment; Performance Productivity; Jobs and Positions; Economic Growth; Netherlands
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    Dissertation: Speaking Up on Boards

    My dissertation examines individual and group behavior in corporate boards of directors. I focus on individual traits and group traits that can foster or inhibit the act of speaking up when an individuals views go against the general consensus in the room. Research and... View Details
    • March 2013
    • Article

    The Client Is King: Do Mutual Fund Relationships Bias Analyst Recommendations?

    By: Michael Firth, Chen Lin, Ping Liu and Yuhai Xuan
    This paper investigates whether the business relations between mutual funds and brokerage firms influence sell-side analyst recommendations. Using a unique data set that discloses brokerage firms' commission income derived from each mutual fund client as well as the... View Details
    Keywords: Prejudice and Bias; Decision Choices and Conditions; Investment Funds
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    • 2010
    • Chapter

    Unlocking the Slices of Genius in Your Organization: Leading for Innovation

    By: Linda A. Hill, Maurizio Travaglini, Greg Brandeau and Emily Stecker
    There is a widespread consensus that innovation is fast becoming the principal source of differentiation and competitive advantage in today's knowledge-intensive economy. But until we reframe our understanding of what innovation and leadership are all about, we fear... View Details
    Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Leadership; Practice; Competitive Advantage
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    • November 8, 2018
    • Article

    Transitioning Payment Models: Fee-for-Service to Value-Based Care

    By: Thomas W. Feeley and Namita Seth Mohta
    In a survey of the NEJM Catalyst Insights Council in July 2018, 42% of respondents say they think value-based reimbursement models will be the primary revenue model for U.S. health care. Indeed, this transition is already happening. Respondents report that a quarter of... View Details
    Keywords: Payment Methods; Value-based Healthcare Reimbursements; Health Care and Treatment; Value; Transformation
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    • April 2012
    • Article

    Coming Through When It Matters Most

    By: Heidi K. Gardner
    All teams would like to think they do their best work when the stakes are highest-when the company's future or their own rests on the outcome of their projects. But too often something else happens. In extensive studies of teams at professional service firms, I have... View Details
    Keywords: Groups and Teams; Projects; Performance Expectations; Failure; Risk and Uncertainty; Safety; Experience and Expertise; Knowledge Sharing
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      Coming Through When It Matters Most

      All teams would like to think they do their best work when the stakes are highest—when the company’s future or their own rests on the outcome of their projects. But too often something else happens. In extensive studies of teams at professional service firms,... View Details

      • 2015
      • Discussion Paper

      The Roles of Import Competition and Export Opportunities for Technical Change

      By: Claudia Steinwender
      A variety of empirical and theoretical trade papers have suggested and documented a positive impact of trade on the productivity of firms. However, there is less consensus about the underlying mechanism at work. While trade papers focus on access to export markets,... View Details
      Keywords: Performance Productivity; Trade
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      • Spring 2016
      • Article

      Net Neutrality: A Fast Lane to Understanding the Tradeoffs

      By: Shane Greenstein, Martin Peitz and Tommaso Valletti
      The last decade has seen a strident public debate about the principle of "net neutrality." The economic literature has focused on two definitions of net neutrality. The most basic definition of net neutrality is to prohibit payments from content providers to internet... View Details
      Keywords: Internet and the Web; Policy
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        Policy versus Practice: Conceptions of Artificial Intelligence

        The recent growth of concern around issues such as social biases implicit in algorithms, economic impacts of artificial intelligence (AI), or potential existential threats posed... View Details

        • 12 Mar 2013
        • First Look

        First Look: March 12

        But there's a growing consensus that ads don't work on mobile devices; consumers just don't like them. Instead of creating tiny banner ads, smart marketers will turn to apps to reach customers and engage them. Effective apps will do one... View Details
        Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
        • 05 Mar 2007
        • Research & Ideas

        Risky Business? Protecting Foreign Investments

        arbitration, backed by bilateral investment treaties and regional trade agreements, promised further protection. The new protections, however, had emerged without a real consensus on the part of investors' home countries and their hosts.... View Details
        Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Energy; Utilities
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        The Role of Finance and Private Investment in Developing Sustainable Cities

        By: John D. Macomber
        Three trends will drive urban investment, development, and entrepreneurship in the next two decades. This article provides tools to identify the situations and circumstances that will be most favorable for private sector involvement in consideration of these trends.... View Details
        Keywords: Trends; Demographics; Private Sector; Investment; City; Infrastructure; Opportunities; Urban Development
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          The Contract Year Phenomenon in the Corner Office: An Analysis of Firm Behavior During CEO Contract Renewals

          This paper investigates how executive employment contracts influence corporate financial policies during the final year of the contract term, using a new, hand-collected data set of CEO employment agreements. On the one hand, the impending... View Details
          • December 2010
          • Case

          Financing Higher Education in Australia

          By: David A. Moss and Stephanie Lo
          Even before Australian lawmakers abolished university tuition in 1973, students in Australia had long benefited from low tuition and large government subsidies. By the early 1980s, however, the nation's universities faced growing budget challenges and an apparent... View Details
          Keywords: Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Higher Education; Borrowing and Debt; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Policy; Education Industry; Australia
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          • 2020
          • Working Paper

          Of Learning and Forgetting: Centrism, Populism, and the Legitimacy Crisis of Globalization

          By: Rawi Abdelal
          Every order is a bargain with disappointments and trade-offs. Thus is every order an unstable equilibrium. The first era of globalization, circa 1870–1914, created both international prosperity and domestic instability. That instability was fully realized during the... View Details
          Keywords: Centrism; Populism; Globalization; History; Balance and Stability; Economic Systems; Government and Politics; Learning
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          • 2022
          • Chapter

          Of Learning and Forgetting: Centrism, Populism, and the Legitimacy Crisis of Globalization

          By: Rawi Abdelal
          Every order is a bargain with disappointments and trade-offs. Thus is every order an unstable equilibrium. The first era of globalization, circa 1870–1914, created both international prosperity and domestic instability. That instability was fully realized during the... View Details
          Keywords: Globalization; Policy; Economic Systems; Balance and Stability; Europe; European Union; United States
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