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  • 17 Sep 2013
  • First Look

First Look: September 17

implementation cost. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/download.aspx?name=14-020.pdf The Impact of Conformance and Experiential Quality on Healthcare Cost and Clinical Performance By:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Dec 2014
  • First Look

First Look: December 9

more negative announcement effect than those on debt. Real investment falls following the controls. Overall, the results suggest that capital controls segment international financial markets, increase the cost of capital, reduce the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Jun 2015
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First Look: June 30, 2015

Business School. Guerra was vice president of Operations at Evans Food, a $100 million company, which produced pork rinds-salty snacks made out of pork skin-sold at some of the largest U.S. retailers such as HEB, Meijer, ALDI, and Wal-Mart. In the last few years, the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 15 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 15

private practice tradition while remaining effective and competitive in a healthcare industry demanding increasing integration between physicians and hospitals? This is the decision facing Newton-Wellesley Hospital president Mike Jellinek... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Dec 2006
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First Look: December 12, 2006

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=207041 Clinical Change at Intermountain Healthcare Harvard Business School Case 607-023 Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 03 Aug 2010
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First Look: August 3

performing functions traditionally relegated to government. Yet these potential cost efficiencies from market competition are often offset by poor enforcement quality resulting from moral hazard, which can be particularly onerous when... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Sep 2012
  • What Do You Think?

Will Business Management Save US Health Care?

for-profit health care organization led to better patient outcomes at the same time that "provider engagement and feeling of satisfaction have increased, our costs have fallen and our net profit has increased." One of the basic... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Health
  • 29 May 2001
  • Research & Ideas

How Technological Disruption Changes Everything

could only be accomplished by specialists in less convenient, centralized settings. PCs, for example, brought computing power to individuals at a fraction of the cost of minicomputers, replacing the minicomputer specialist and centralized... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Health
  • 04 Dec 2007
  • First Look

First Look: December 4, 2007

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=407049 Analyzing Relative Costs Harvard Business School Note 708-462 Introduces students to the technique of relative cost analysis, a core... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Oct 2011
  • First Look

First Look: October 18

the operating decisions of the waste-to-energy firm. Our analyses suggest that if the social planner's objective is to maximize landfill diversion, offering a subsidy as a per kilowatt-hour for electricity is more cost effective, whereas... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Apr 2021
  • Research & Ideas

New Research: Surviving Bankruptcy, Useful Economics, and Retirement

Healthcare costs for employees of Onex’s portfolio companies were continuing to rise above the consumer price index, reflecting broader trends across employer-sponsored health insurance in the US.” Board... View Details
  • 13 Aug 2024
  • Op-Ed

Can AI Save Physicians from Burnout?

expectations for clinicians include a healthy balance between volume and value. Without proper boundaries, a short-sighted response to volume maximization, even when justified as much-needed access expansion, will likely come at the cost... View Details
Keywords: by Susanna Gallani, Lidia Moura, and Katie Sonnefeldt; Health
  • 31 May 2011
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First Look: May 31

make purchases. Retailers, however, felt that major credit and debit card issuers had too much market power which was leading to higher costs for retailers to accept such payment forms. Consumers were increasingly adopting smart phones... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Feb 2015
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First Look: February 24

resistance to their lobbying activities from the general public. These areas are known as "thin political markets" to distinguish them from more vibrant and competitive "thick" political processes (e.g., healthcare... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Oct 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 9, 2018

minutes at minimal cost with no branding or design skills required. As it sets out to raise its Series B, the founders make some critical changes to their business model, moving to a subscription model and adding additional products and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 03 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 3, 2009

when compared to defense and healthcare expenditures, not to mention the costs incurred recently rescuing failing banks and automakers, among others. But the picture changes when we consider the long-run... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 Sep 2012
  • Research & Ideas

US Competitiveness at Risk

absolutely want jobs. But we want competitive jobs that can last in a demanding global economy. MP: The sectors where you can generate the most jobs quickly tend to be in things like healthcare and construction—inherently local... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin
  • 10 Apr 2006
  • Research & Ideas

American Auto’s Troubled Road

woes of the 1980s) has been ascribed to some or all of the following: excessive corporate bureaucracy, arrogance, and insularity; union obstinacy; exorbitant healthcare costs and retirement packages; bloated... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Manufacturing; Transportation; Auto
  • 24 Oct 2024
  • Research & Ideas

With Millions of Workers Juggling Caregiving, Employers Need to Rethink Support

to remain working left because they could not reconcile the obligations of the career path they were on with caring for kids. Caregiving, along with higher education and healthcare delivery, has among the highest real-dollar increase in... View Details
Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
  • 05 Jul 2011
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First Look: July 5

perceived benefits from lowering transactions costs to foreign financial-statement users increase and contribute significantly towards the country's decision to adopt IFRS. We find that perceived network benefits increase the degree of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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