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- 18 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 18, 2007
particular, continuation and pruning decisions (i.e., series renewals and cancellations). Finally, can be used to facilitate an assessment of challenges and opportunities in developing sustainable businesses in a rapidly changing media... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Jun 2017
- News
Can Neuroscience Find You the Perfect Job?
you have all this data about people. Polli: Right. Morrell: What has it taught you about how we think? Polli: This is really, I think, one of the fundamental takeaways. Whenever you mention the word test or assessment or something, we are... View Details
- 03 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
Who Guarantees Your Workplace Is Safe for Return?
downside, what legal actions can we expect from workers or shoppers or diners? In the best upside, what perceptions and indicators of healthy environments led to more productivity and confidence (and revenue)? Right now, assessments of... View Details
- 16 Jun 2015
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First Look: June 16, 2015
manufacture their goods risk reputational harm if the working conditions in those factories are revealed to be dangerous, illegal, or otherwise problematic. While firms are increasingly relying on private-sector "social auditors" to View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2015
they may turn off your best employees altogether. Most Popular Faculty Working Papers from 2015 Are “Better” Ideas More Likely to Succeed? An Empirical Analysis of Startup Evaluation (547 visits) Pian Shu and colleagues examines whether View Details
- 26 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
How Grocery Bags Manipulate Your Mind
organic and indulgent items. Photo: iStockPhoto Looking at loyalty card data from a large grocery chain in California, Karmarkar and Bollinger tracked and analyzed 936,232 purchases by 5,987 households across two years. To assess organic... View Details
- 15 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 15
inventory turns and can be uniformly utilized by all stakeholders to assess whether a retailer is carrying too much or too little inventory. We explain applications of the metric with examples and lay out prescriptions for retailers.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jun 2012
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First Look: June 12
article provides conceptual foundations for analyzing organizations comprising multiple legally autonomous entities, which we call meta-organizations. We assess the antecedents of the emergence of such collectives and the design choices... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 13, 2007
Working PapersAdding Bricks to Clicks: The Effects of Store Openings on Sales through Direct Channels Authors:Jill Avery, Mary Caravella, John Deighton, and Thomas Steenburgh Abstract We assess the effect of opening physical retail... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Health Is Wealth | The Path To Creating A Venture
how to solve them, the better.” Being a remote first company, culture is incredibly important. “Culture is different for every company, but making sure the person is an additive is a big one to focus on.” When hiring for Rootine, candidates are often asked to complete... View Details
- 10 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
What You Can Do to Create an Anti-Racist Organization
learn, and discuss is a central part of this work.” Audit Your Policies “Do an audit of your policies and assess if policies are reinforcing the marginalization of any group,” Manso-Brown recommended. This may include dress codes, lack of... View Details
- 26 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 26, 2008
Direct Channels Authors:Jill Avery, Thomas J. Steenburgh, John A. Deighton, and Mary Caravella Abstract We assess the effects of opening physical retail stores on direct-to-consumer channel sales. Our data come from a leading U.S.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018
an electronic version of a patient questionnaire that had been designed and vetted by a group of subspecialty experts. We integrated that survey into our EHR. To assess the effects of our new EHR system and the new process flow for... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
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Loan Assistance Programs - Alumni
you must have filed a financial aid application for HBS Need-Based Scholarships and Loans while at HBS. For these programs, the financial aid assessment considers HBS need-based scholarship, the recommended loan amount per your initial... View Details
- 17 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Risks and Rewards of the Intrapreneur
Christensen). Look at the product to be developed and assess its chances for success, Barron said. A start-up that develops a so-called disruptive business—one that dramatically improves upon the status-quo available in the market—has a... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
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Sustainable Investing - Course Catalog
to rigorously assess investments in the context of non-financial objectives. Investing – Sustainable Investing is a finance course, which could be taken on a stand-alone basis or as a complement to Private Equity Finance, VC/PE, and... View Details
- 16 Aug 2017
- Research & Ideas
Researchers Use Google Street View to See the Future of Cities
extra boost in development. A new tool by Harvard and MIT researchers promises to do just that, with the help of machine learning and the biggest library of urban images on the Internet: Google Street View. By using digital tools, researchers were able to View Details
- 11 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
Politicians Benefited From Using Toxic Loans
education will be able to understand the risks," he says. The Role Of Financial Sophistication That said, the researchers did assess the role of financial sophistication on the use of structured loans. They considered the size of each... View Details
- 16 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Unfulfilled Promise of Educational Technology
customize classes so that students received the lessons they needed without reviewing material they already knew? That is the idea behind School of One, an approach to learning piloted by New York City Department of Education, which View Details
- 23 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
In Venture Capital, Birds of a Feather Lose Money Together
can't get anyone else to do," Xuan says. To test for that possibility, the team assessed the 12,577 investments according to measures that had proven to be indicators of future success, according to previous research. Such indicators... View Details