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  • 01 Aug 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Retail Execs Underplay Current Performance to Investors--but Why?

unreported numbers said. It’s startling to find that managers are not even neutral; they’re somewhat negative.” RESEARCHERS CREATE FORECASTING MODEL To test their ideas, the researchers studied 50 big-box... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Financial Services
  • 27 Mar 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, March 27, 2018

Abstract—Current academic and policy debates focus on the impact of tort reforms on physicians’ behavior and medical costs. This paper examines whether these reforms also affect incentives to develop new technologies. We develop a theoretical View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Tough Tech Ventures - Course Catalog

incorporating intellectual property concerns and “technoeconomic” forecasting Articulate paths to market and business models while accounting for tough tech value chains and competition Explore and negotiate... View Details
  • 28 Sep 2010
  • First Look

First Look: September 28, 2010

the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-104.pdf Competition for Scarce Resources Authors:Péter Esö, Volker Nocke, and Lucy White Publication:The RAND Journal of Economics 41, no. 3 (fall 2010) Abstract We model a downstream industry... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Feb 2007
  • First Look

First Look: February 6, 2007

  Working PapersThe Rise of Business Forecasting Agencies in the United States Author:Walter A. Friedman Abstract This paper analyzes the rise of business and economic forecasting agencies in the United... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 Jan 2022
  • In Practice

7 Trends to Watch in 2022

As 2022 gets underway we asked our faculty to highlight some trends worth watching in the coming year. Ariel Stern: A new future for digital health care While 2020 and 2021 were years of rapid innovation and deployment of new health care technologies and delivery... View Details
Keywords: by HBS News
  • 01 Jul 2014
  • First Look

First Look: July 1

returns of 0.86, whereas the popular factor-based expected return models have either an insignificant or a significantly negative association with future returns. In supplemental analyses, we show that these View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 25 Feb 2015
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Scholars and Students Unpack the Digital Business Revolution

hedge fund, an Amazon employee focused on retail data, and a forecaster at General Electric," says HBS David Sarnoff Professor of Business Administration Marco Iansiti, who serves as faculty chair of the initiative and head of the... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education; Technology
  • 13 Apr 2010
  • First Look

First Look: April 13

Interest Rates Author:Luis M. Viceira Publication:International Journal of Forecasting (forthcoming) Abstract This paper explores time variation in bond risk, as measured by the covariation of bond returns with stock returns and with... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Apr 2007
  • First Look

First Look: April 17, 2007

of inventory policies, including optimal inventory policies, that can be employed in a single-stage supply chain. The perceptions framework is based on forecasting with Auto-regressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA) time series View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 27 May 2014
  • First Look

First Look: May 27

forecasts of holding period returns strongly predict the cross section of future returns up to three years ahead. We document a highly significant predictive pooled regression slope for future quarterly returns of 0.86, whereas the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Feb 2008
  • First Look

First Look: February 12, 2007

firms. They also affect trading signal classifications, back-testing inferences, track records of individual analysts, and models of analysts' career outcomes in the three years following the changes. Long-Run Stockholder Consumption Risk... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Dec 2014
  • News

Making Big Data Fashionable

from anything so unquantifiable as emotion, Moon values that intuition and wants to “help validate” it. More Retail Revolutions Speeding Up Accessories BaubleBar cofounders Amy Jain and Daniella Yacobovsky (both MBA 2010) apply the popular “fast fashion” View Details
Keywords: Christine Lejeune; fashion; Market Research, Photo, Translation, Veterinary and Other Services; Professional Services
  • 22 May 2007
  • First Look

First Look: May 22, 2007

policy resolution. In so doing, they engender excess burden. This paper posits, calibrates, and simulates a life cycle model with earnings, lifespan, investment return, and future policy uncertainty. It then measures the excess burden... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Jun 2008
  • News

Faculty Books

incomes either among countries or within them. Inequalities of income and power emerge as a major societal issue alongside poverty, and the book develops alternative societal models based upon the degree of inequality in wealth and power.... View Details
Keywords: Educational Services; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Management
  • 28 May 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Can LEGO Snap Together a Future in Asia?

where top execs tested whether the current business model was robust enough for the challenges lying ahead. While LEGO has sold toys in Asia for three decades, there is serious potential to improve market share and maybe even outgrow... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 25 Nov 2008
  • First Look

First Look: November 25, 2008

autonomous, product-focused model to an account-centered matrix structure and will challenge many elements of the company's current organizational design including accountability, revenue and cost allocation, compensation systems, sales... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Jan 2012
  • News

Charter Supporter

headquartered in Waterloo, Wisconsin. While there, she set up Trek’s sales and distribution companies across Europe and worked in forecasting and planning. Since 2007, she has devoted her energy and skills full time to the nonprofit... View Details
Keywords: Arts, Sports, Language, Driving, and Other Schools; Educational Services
  • 26 Jun 2007
  • First Look

First Look: June 26, 2007

include positioning strategies, choosing the proper channel, potential partnerships, manufacturing issues, market analysis, and PR management. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=507016 Demand and Supply View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 27 Feb 2007
  • First Look

First Look: February 27, 2007

  Working PapersPublic Action for Public Goods Authors:Abhijit Banerjee, Lakshmi Iyer, and Rohini Somanathan Abstract This paper focuses on the relationship between public action and access to public goods. It begins by developing a simple View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace