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- 04 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?
insane, or what? Q: But to say these groups are killing their patients is pretty strong language. A: Well, 300,000 people die every 3 years in hospitals, not with the problems that brought them in. What killed these 300,000 people? It's...
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- 23 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 23
VAT adoption worldwide, but there is surprisingly little evidence. This paper analyzes the role of third-party information for VAT enforcement through two randomized experiments among over 400,000 Chilean firms. Announcing additional View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 10
simulations that allowed for longer chain segments and used actual patient data from the Alliance for Paired Donation. When chain segments of 4-6 are allowed in the simulations, NEAD chains produce more transplants than DPD. Our...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 13
self-regulatory program on children's advertising. The existing program was a voluntary cross-industry program that monitored advertisements directed to children. However, the program did not stipulate which products companies could or...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Toy Story
products — and such cheerleading is literally paying off. One company that has certainly ridden — and perhaps created — the wave of increased interest in the market is LeapFrog, the developer of the LeapPad system, a computerized device...
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- 06 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 6
Using Transparency International's ratings of firm disclosures on anticorruption efforts, we find that disclosures are related to firms' country and industry exposures to corruption, as well as to enforcement and monitoring variables. We...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 25
the disinterested shares. This article also identifies ways that the Delaware courts can encourage the use of these more potent devices when appropriate: through the threat of entire fairness review, the application of Revlon duties, and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Aug 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs
An online shipping platform that uses social networks and smartphones. Low-cost medical care and monitoring that helps seniors to live at home. The "Skype" of broadband, offering free Internet service. On an April morning known as "Super...
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- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
with Urban Water Partners RelayRides explanatory video FashionStake-Reuters story An online shipping platform that uses social networks and smartphones. Low-cost medical care and monitoring that helps seniors to live at home. The “Skype”...
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- 02 Mar 2016
- News
The New Space Race
direct them to specific orbital locations where, as a group, they will provide total global coverage 24/7, rather than viewing some of Earth some of the time. Spire wants to put up 100 of them to provide worldwide weather and shipping data; Platzer says that fewer than...
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Robert S. Benchley
- 11 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 11
by inventory shrinkage and cash shortage. Using two store-level datasets from the convenience store industry, we find that relative wages are negatively associated with employee theft after we control for each store's employee characteristics, View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 17, 2017
patient satisfaction, and problems with patient safety. Nearly all U.S. health care organizations have used similar evidence to justify their investments in safety and quality. Herein, we provide...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 20, 2016
visualize and communicate a wide range of patient outcomes and cost for three forms of prostate cancer treatment. Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51627 Firm Selection and Corporate Cash Holdings By:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 18
Dalida, and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf Abstract—Equity overvaluation is thought to create the potential for managerial misbehavior, while monitoring and corporate governance curb misbehavior. We combine these two insights from the literatures...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 6
activities increase the monitoring costs and the credit risk faced by banks and, in turn, raise the cost of debt for the borrower. Working Papers A New Model of Integrity: The Missing Factor of Production (PDF file of Keynote and...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Lords of Strategy
those numbers. And it has become steadily less patient for results, in part because now you can get the numbers back from the market overnight. Private equity firms, with their short time horizons and relentless pressure for results, are...
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Annual Report 2019 - Annual Report 2019
Extracorporeal CO2 removal device that uses ultra-low blood flow to treat patients with hypercarbic respiratory failure. 266 Teams 200 Judges $ 315,000 Cash Prizes See press release MS/MBA in Biotechnology:...
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- 28 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 28, 2009
consumer-oriented model for drug development and use has attracted attention in recent years as an alternative to the much-maligned approach of mass-marketing blockbuster drugs. In a parallel development, patients and disease-based...
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Martha Lagace
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
look at the history of regulation, even going back to the 1980s, there were instances in which agencies—I’m thinking specifically the Federal Communications Commission—actually stepped back from some of its mandate. Historically, the FCC had to approve View Details
- 15 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 15
monitoring hardware and software. When it was first funded, Intel was in the midst of record growth and was seeking diversification. But the company lacked domain expertise, and the unit faced many challenges working with existing Intel...
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Martha Lagace