Forecasting And Prediction - Publications - Faculty & Research

16 Apr 2007
Research & Ideas

Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer

attracted the research attention of Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, a professor at Harvard Business School, and Andres Hervas-Drane, a PhD candidate in Economics at the Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona and a... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Music

09 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

Warring Algorithms Could Be Driving Up Consumer Prices

higher on average and variable profits increased by 9.6 percent, according to the study. The model also predicted that algorithmic competition resulted in a modest decline of .9 percent in quantity purchased... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Retail

01 Jun 2013
News

Brick by Brick

globalize, the financial picture grew worse. One problem: The company's growing complexity was choking it. Adding more bricks made products harder to assemble, forecasts harder to determine, and inventory... View Details

Keywords: toys; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade

01 Mar 2010
News

Noted & Quoted

“Unfortunately, the technology for growing flu viruses to make vaccines is fifty years old — it’s chicken eggs.” — HBS Professor of Management Practice and former Merck CEO Raymond Gilmartin, at a November HBS panel discussion on drug... View Details

Keywords: Educational Services; Information

01 Jun 2020
News

Meal Plan

at a white-tablecloth restaurant. This year is looking a little different. On May 8, as some states loosened dining-in restrictions and others maintained strict guidelines for takeout and delivery only, the... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; restaurants; COVID-19; pandemic; recovery; Food Services and Drinking Places; Food Services and Drinking Places; Food Services and Drinking Places; Food Services and Drinking Places

Charles E. Merrill

the first established broker to predict the Great Crash of 1929 and the only one that liquidated his firm’s stock portfolio. At his death, his firm boasted 115 offices with 400,000 clients View Details

Keywords: Finance

Fast Answer

HBS Course: Real Estate Private Equity - Research Resources

LSEG Workspace
PE data includes investments, portfolio company and firm profiles, exits and fundraising information. Moody’s Analytics CRE Search millions of real estate data points... View Details

David Sarnoff

Trained as an engineer, Sarnoff predicted that radio, and later, television, would transform the way people interacted with the world around them. Sarnoff lead RCA to become the leader in radio programming,... View Details

Keywords: Entertainment & Broadcast Media

28 May 2019
News

Research Brief: Field Research

their yields. The findings were promising, Cole says: Those who received a weekly call about weather forecasts or pest strategies, for example, saw their yields increase by 8.6 percent for cotton and 28... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Crop Production; Agriculture

01 Dec 2000
News

Vivek Ranadivé

In a few years there will be no such thing as an e-business," says Vivek Y.Ranadivé (MBA 1983). As founder, chairman, and CEO of Palo Alto-based TIBCO Software, Inc., (www.tibco.com) it would seem that Ranadivé is View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services

18 Mar 2014
News

The Oz of Data Opens the Curtain

Scott Howe Nineteenth-century Philadelphia retailer John Wanamaker famously said, "Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half." Nearly 150 years later, Scott Howe (MBA 1994), president and CEO... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services

31 Jan 2012
First Look

First Look: Jan. 31

new empirical finding that confirms this model's central policy prediction across developed countries and the U.S. In countries and states with more heterogeneous tastes for... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel

01 Jun 2010
News

Touting Green Energy’s Potential

MARKEY: Just as the telecom sector was revolutionized in the 1990s by legislation that unleashed competition, so too will a green energy sector be launched, generating enormous wealth creation. In March, at a two-day HBS conference on energy, Congressman Ed Markey... View Details

Keywords: Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services

01 Jun 2014
News

Research Brief: Capitol Gains

FOR MORE INFORMATION Legislating Stock Prices Psst looking for a hot stock tip? Forget the Wall Street Journal. Try the Congressional Record. HBS professors Lauren Cohen and Christopher Malloy, with Dartmouth's Karl Diether, analyzed the... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support

01 Feb 2011
First Look

First Look: Feb. 1

worst of times and the best of times. During the "great recession" of 2009, smartphones growth stalled, stalling Qualcomm's revenue, but in 2010 growth surged again and was View Details

17 Jan 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research: January 17

we test the prediction that novel rituals—arbitrary hand and body gestures enacted in a stereotypical and repeated fashion—can impact intergroup bias in newly formed groups. In... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2015
News

India Research Center: Connecting HBS to South Asia

Executive Director of HBS’s India Research Center With the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund predicting that India will overtake China as the fastest-growing major economy within two years,... View Details

01 Jun 2015
News

Five-Star Research

When Assistant Professor Michael Luca began studying online consumer reviews in 2008, then four-year-old Yelp.com, cofounded by Jeremy Stoppelman (MBA 2005), had 10 million reviews. Today, it has more than 71 million reviews, and the... View Details

Keywords: April White; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services

Profile

LaToya Marc

for leadership at a management level." While in school, LaToya applied her talents at a Coca-Cola bottler and at Bank of America, helping them roll out new lines of envelope-free ATMs, and View Details

Keywords: Financial Services; Nonprofit/Government/Education

Web

HBS - Financials | From the Chief Financial Officer

$224 FY 22 174 FY 21 81 FY 20 146 FY 19 222 Total revenues for fiscal 2023 increased 11 percent year over year to more than $1 billion. This growth exceeded our forecast by 2 percent, primarily driven by Executive Education, the endowment... View Details

Publications