From Home Runs to Base Hits

American medical home runs.

Four primary care sites in the United States constitute "medical home runs" because their patients incur 15-20 percent less (risk-adjusted) total health care spending per year than patients treated by regional peers, without evidence of reduced quality. The sites achieved this result in a U.S. payment environment that usually penalizes physicians who invest to prevent costly near-term health cr...

How Europe hits home: Evidence from the Swiss case

From Home Country to Home Base: a Dynamic Approach to the Liability of Foreignness

FROM HOME COUNTRY TO HOME BASE: A DYNAMIC APPROACH TO THE LIABILITY OF FOREIGNNESS NAN ZHOU1,2 and MAURO F. GUILLÉN* 1 E&Y SKOLKOVO Institute for Emerging Market Studies, Moscow School of Management Skolkovo, Beijing, China 2 Developement Planning Department, China Minsheng Banking Corporation, Beijing, China 3 Lauder Institute, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Penn...

Inferring Strings from Runs

A run in a string is a nonextendable periodic substring in the string. Detecting all runs in a string is important and studied both from theoretical and practical points of view. In this paper, we consider the reverse problem of it. We reveal that the time complexity depends on the alphabet size k of the string to be output. We show that it is solvable in polynomial time for both binary alphabe...

The Law of Genius and Home Runs Refuted

In a lively, provocative article, DeVany claims inter alia that the size distribution of home runs follows a continuous ‘‘power law’’ distribution which is nested in a larger class of ‘‘stable’’ statistical distributions characterized by an infinite variance. He uses this putative fact about the size distribution of home runs to argue that concern about the use of steroids to enhance home run a...