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- 31 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 31
others. For our empirical analyses, we use 10 years of data from 71 cardiothoracic surgeons who completed over 6,500 procedures using a new technology for cardiac surgery. We find that individuals learn more from their own successes than...
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Carmen Nobel
- 18 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 18
innovation and entrepreneurship in renewable energy. Using data from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, we first show that patenting in renewable energy remains highly concentrated in a few large energy firms. In 2009, the top 20 firms View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019
which could falsely create the appearance that readmission rates are changing more in the treatment than in the control group. Accounting for the revised standards reduced the decline in risk-adjusted readmission rates for targeted...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 27 Sep 2010
- Research & Ideas
Customer Experts Lose Influence When Teams are Pressured
team boundaries to include clients. In my ongoing research across industries, I have found that the very best teams actually include clients as members of the core team, giving them joint accountability for helping to develop the team's...
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by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 22 May 2012
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First Look: May 22
question of social change and organizations. Some are anchored in more macro accounts of how and why social change processes occur, while others approach the question from a more psychological or social psychological perspective. Many of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 26, 2008
(c) accountability in implementation. Examples are drawn from the experiences of South Africa and Brazil. Several preliminary factors are identified that may enhance policy learning, while acknowledging the constraints of bounded...
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Martha Lagace
- 16 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs
just in the U.S. The rise of the charismatic CEO, escalating pay, and the consequences of Tyco or Global Crossing—these have reverberations across the world. It undermines the medium-term and long-term prospects of countries that are now just embracing a free...
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by Martha Lagace
- 13 Feb 2018
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New Research and Ideas, February 13, 2018
This acclaimed, market-leading text emphasizes the basic theme of “different costs for different purposes” and reaches beyond cost accounting procedures to consider concepts, analyses, and management. The...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Unspoken Cues: Encouraging Morals Without Mandates
attention to the human input into the system since so much moral decision-making is repeatedly delegated to individuals. The screening and hiring procedures need therefore be quite robust to ensure continuity. In addition, a lot of...
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- 05 Jun 2006
- Research & Ideas
Using Competition to Reform Healthcare
procedure centric, or institution centric, not patient centric. They are also misaligned with how patient value is actually created. Patient value in health care delivery . . . can only be understood at the level of medical conditions....
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- 06 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Don’t Listen to “Yes”
the way in which they want people to contribute and behave during decision-making processes. People need to understand what is expected of them, as well as what to expect of the leader. But perhaps more importantly, leaders need to maintain discipline over time,...
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by Martha Lagace
- 27 Jun 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27
ambiguous effect on high-quality output. To evaluate this trade-off, I develop a procedure to estimate agents' effort costs and simulate counterfactuals under alternative feedback policies. The results suggest that feedback on net...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Apr 2007
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First Look: April 3, 2007
address questions of distributive and procedural justice in post-Apartheid South Africa, and how should the CEO recover from a crucial misstep at the start of the strike? Chronicles the challenges and missteps of previous CEOs and the...
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Martha Lagace
- 31 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 31, 2009
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-101.pdf Does Public Ownership of Equity Improve Earnings Quality? Authors:Dan Givoly, Carla Hayn, and Sharon P. Katz Abstract We compare the quality of accounting numbers produced by two types of public...
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Martha Lagace
- 09 Jan 2007
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First Look: January 9, 2007
Authors:Benjamin Chiao, Josh Lerner, and Jean Tirole Publication:The RAND Journal of Economics (forthcoming). (Earlier version distributed as National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No. 11156.) Abstract This paper empirically explores the View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 26 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 26, 2018
results of this multi-method investigation have implications for both managers and academics interested in how consumers learn to become expert in hedonic product categories. Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54622 forthcoming...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Jun 2008
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First Look: June 3, 2008
China‘s income inequality has risen rapidly over that same time frame, Vietnam‘s has only grown moderately. Structural and socio-cultural determinants fail to account for these divergent pathways. Existing political variables are also...
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Martha Lagace
- 19 Jan 2016
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January 19, 2016
of surgeon experience; however, all other procedures had marked increases in the R2 following addition of surgeon experience. Cox proportional hazard models revealed that increased surgeon experience was associated with improved long-term...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 1
including suggestions for future research. The Many Faces of Nonprofit Accountability Authors:Alnoor Ebrahim Publication:Chap. 4 in The Jossey-Bass Handbook of Nonprofit Leadership and Management. 3rd ed., edited by David O. Renz,...
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- 06 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 6, 2007
the new product, taking into account the novel aspects of the RKS guitar. Alternatively, the company could find a marketing partner or license its novel design to a bigger player. Rich in descriptions of consumer behavior that enable a...
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Martha Lagace