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Benefiting from Location: Knowledge Retrieval
By: Juan Alcacer and Wilbur Chung
Alcacer, Juan, and Wilbur Chung. "Benefiting from Location: Knowledge Retrieval." Global Strategy Journal 1, nos. 3-4 (November 2011): 233–236.
- 12 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Regulators Ease Up on Companies Generating Political Benefits
serious diagnosis that would be reimbursed at a higher rate. The problem is a huge drain on taxpayers, costing an estimated $44 billion in 2012, a full 10 percent of Medicare's payments. At the same time, hospitals, especially nonprofit ones, are creating tangible...
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by Michael Blanding
- 15 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
Kids Benefit From Having a Working Mom
©iStockphoto Here's some heartening news for working mothers worried about the future of their children. Women whose moms worked outside the home are more likely to have jobs themselves, are more likely to hold supervisory responsibility at those jobs, and earn higher...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 09 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Benefits of “Not Invented Here”
of its operating income, while P&G has a policy of licensing any patented technology not in use in one of its own businesses within three years. Q: What are the benefits for a business actively following an open innovation paradigm?...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jul 2019
- Research & Ideas
How Companies Benefit When Employees Work Remotely
costs, and live closer to family and friends. Isolating the benefits of remote work To study the productivity effects of work-from-anywhere policies, Choudhury looked for a setting that would allow the researchers to isolate productivity...
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by Kristen Senz
- 12 Aug 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
Culture Clash: The Costs and Benefits of Homogeneity
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by Eric J. Van den Steen
- June 6, 2012
- Article
Mandatory Audit Rotation Risks Outweigh Benefits
By: Robert C. Pozen
Pozen, Robert C. "Mandatory Audit Rotation Risks Outweigh Benefits." Economia (ICAEW) (June 6, 2012).
- May 13, 2021
- Article
The Big Benefits of Employee Ownership
By: Thomas Dudley and Ethan Rouen
Wealth inequality in the U.S. has been increasing for decades: The richest 1% own a majority of all business wealth, and the top 10% own more than 90%. Companies, which have played a vital role in the growth in inequality can also play one in reducing it. One place to...
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Wealth;
Equality and Inequality;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Employee Ownership;
United States
Dudley, Thomas, and Ethan Rouen. "The Big Benefits of Employee Ownership." Harvard Business Review (website) (May 13, 2021).
- 11 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
Politicians Benefited From Using Toxic Loans
opting for the short-term benefits in spite of the risks?” "There is no doubt the transactions were very risky, as interest rates on these loans frequently exceeded 20 percent," says Boris Vallée, an assistant professor in the Finance...
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- 12 Nov 2019
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Innovation Increasingly Benefits from Government Research
suggests that government-funded patents are more important, reinforcing the idea of government-funded innovation as a driver for the economy,” Yao says. Who benefits from government funding? Companies, which filed the vast majority of the...
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by Michael Blanding
- 2015
- Working Paper
The Business Model: Nature and Benefits
By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and John Heilbron
This paper considers the nature of the business model and its strategic relevance to negotiations. We elaborate a substantive definition of the business model as decisions enforced by the authority of the firm; this definition enables the analysis of business models...
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Business Models;
Value Capture;
Value-Based Business Strategy;
Ambivalent Value;
Business Model;
Negotiation Deal
Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, and John Heilbron. "The Business Model: Nature and Benefits." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 15-089, May 2015. (Revised June 2015.)
- October 2009 (Revised November 2016)
- Case
Generation Health: A Pioneer in Genetics Benefit Management (A)
By: Robert F. Higgins, Jeffrey D. Marrazzo and Rachel Gordon
Generation Health, a pioneer in the new field of genetics benefit management and a newly formed company, faces many strategic issues. CEO Per Lofberg is in the midst of negotiating a partnership with a major pharmacy benefit management company. As part of these...
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Business Startups;
Entrepreneurship;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Partners and Partnerships;
Genetics;
Health Industry;
Insurance Industry
Higgins, Robert F., Jeffrey D. Marrazzo, and Rachel Gordon. "Generation Health: A Pioneer in Genetics Benefit Management (A)." Harvard Business School Case 810-007, October 2009. (Revised November 2016.)
- 05 Sep 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Hidden Benefit of Giving Back to Open Source Software
productivity from using the software by as much as 100 percent, when compared with free-riding competitors. "Companies that contribute and give back learn how to better use the open source software in their own environment" The reason for that View Details
- September 2013
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Self-serving Altruism? The Lure of Unethical Actions That Benefit Others
By: F. Gino, S. Ayal and D. Ariely
In three experiments, we propose and find that individuals cheat more when others can benefit from their cheating and when the number of beneficiaries of wrongdoing increases. Our results indicate that people use moral flexibility to justify their self-interested...
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Ethics;
Cheating;
Morality;
Moral Sensibility;
Behavior;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Attitudes
Gino, F., S. Ayal, and D. Ariely. "Self-serving Altruism? The Lure of Unethical Actions That Benefit Others." Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 93 (September 2013): 285–292.
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Temporal View of the Costs and Benefits of Self-Deception
By: Zoe Chance, Michael I. Norton, Francesca Gino and Dan Ariely
Researchers have documented many cases in which individuals rationalize their regrettable actions. Four experiments examine situations in which people go beyond merely explaining away their misconduct to actively deceiving themselves. We find that those who exploit...
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Hindsight Bias;
Lying;
Motivated Reasoning;
Self-enhancement;
Social Psychology;
Perception;
Performance Expectations
Chance, Zoe, Michael I. Norton, Francesca Gino, and Dan Ariely. "Temporal View of the Costs and Benefits of Self-Deception." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 108, no. S3 (September 13, 2011): 15655–15659.
- Research Summary
Does Banks' Corporate Control Benefit Firms?
In this paper we examine the importance of banks' corporate control by investigating the loan policy pricing effect of banks' voting stakes on their borrowers. A sample of loans taken out over the 2000-2003 time period shows that banks charge lower rates on...
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- 2015
- Chapter
The Business Model: Nature and Benefits
By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and John Heilbron
This paper considers the nature of the business model and its strategic relevance to negotiations. We elaborate a substantive definition of the business model as decisions enforced by the authority of the firm; this definition enables the analysis of business models...
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Keywords:
Business Models;
Value Capture;
Value-Based Business Strategy;
Ambivalent Value;
Business Model;
Value;
Negotiation Deal
Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, and John Heilbron. "The Business Model: Nature and Benefits." Chap. 1 in Business Models and Modelling. Vol. 33, edited by Charles Baden-Fuller and Vincent Mangematin. Advances in Strategic Management. Emerald Group Publishing, 2015.
- October 2010
- Article
Culture Clash: The Costs and Benefits of Homogeneity
This paper develops an economic theory of the costs and benefits of corporate culture-in the sense of shared beliefs and values in order to study the effects of "culture clash" in mergers and acquisitions. I first use a simple analytical framework to show that shared...
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Cost vs Benefits;
Organizational Culture;
Economics;
Information Management;
Forecasting and Prediction;
Values and Beliefs;
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Framework;
Satisfaction;
Motivation and Incentives;
Power and Influence;
Communication
Van den Steen, Eric. "Culture Clash: The Costs and Benefits of Homogeneity." Management Science 56, no. 10 (October 2010): 1718–1738.
- 2009
- Working Paper
Culture Clash: The Costs and Benefits of Homogeneity
This paper develops an economic theory of the costs and benefits of corporate culture—in the sense of shared beliefs and values—in order to study the effects of "culture clash" in mergers and acquisitions. I first use a simple analytical framework to show that shared...
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Keywords:
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Cost vs Benefits;
Values and Beliefs;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Organizational Culture;
Motivation and Incentives;
Theory
Van den Steen, Eric J. "Culture Clash: The Costs and Benefits of Homogeneity." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 10-003, July 2009.
- 07 Oct 2014
- Working Paper Summaries