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- 02 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 2, 2016
problem, and writing a detailed specification. The Jeopardy! problem is different—it requires a probabilistic approach where there is no closed-form solution. Instead statistical patterns in the data are important, and there is no obvious View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 12
specification. The Jeopardy! problem is different-it requires a probabilistic approach where there is no closed form solution. Instead, statistical patterns in the data are important, and there is no obvious mapping to the way queries are...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jun 2020
- Book
Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever
of a fire bell in the night—and provide a road map and additional examples for companies to follow. Lagace: Why do you think capitalism is at risk? Bower and Paine: In Chapter 4 we lay out the pre-conditions or foundations for a thriving...
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by Martha Lagace
- 07 Nov 2005
- What Do You Think?
Is Less Becoming More?
Too much innovation merely increases complexity without creating economic benefits for either the producer or the consumer. In his book, The Paradox of Choice, Barry Schwartz maps the adverse impact of what he calls the "culture of...
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- 19 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019
algorithms for antibody clustering, imputing gene expression data, and querying the Connectivity Map (CMap). Performance gains are evaluated quantitatively using realistic, albeit sanitized, data sets. The solutions produced through these...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 18 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018
business. One common approach used to gain traction in these adjacent markets has been to pursue a tying strategy. For example, Microsoft pre-installed Internet Explorer into Windows, and Apple set Apple Maps as the iOS default....
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Dina Gerdeman
- 20 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 20
business model. We then map that representation to an analytical model that quantifies Walmart's sources of competitive advantage over a 36-year period. Although Walmart's business model remained the same during the years of our study, we...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: Sept. 7
sector. In a second section, a multidisciplinary team of sociologists and an economist map how reforms in economic and social policies have produced declines in the social standing of some specific groups and economic mobility for others....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 28
After an overview of Boston Children's Hospital and its local health care market environment, the case presents process maps and financial data relating to patients making office visits to a plastic surgeon for three different diagnoses....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 19
streetlamps) and efforts by the City of Boston to address them. Some participants observed a count of new, open, and recently closed service requests, while others viewed these requests visualized on an interactive map that included...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
Managing the Support Staff Identity Crisis
implementer (who executes ideas). While the roles were mapped out with marketing in mind, they could serve to empower others corporate departments; any of the four roles would be more effective, attractive, and full of potential than the...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 13 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 13
Review 88, nos. 7-8 (July-August 2010) An abstract is unavailable at this time. Read the Article: http://hbr.org/2010/07/are-you-ignoring-trends-that-could-shake-up-your-business/ar/1 Vision Statement: Mapping the Social Internet...
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Martha Lagace
- 26 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
How Grocery Bags Manipulate Your Mind
bags" participants were asked to imagine approaching a supermarket to do their grocery shopping with their own bags. The "without bags" group received nearly identical instructions, but nothing about bags was mentioned. All the participants looked at a...
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- 25 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 25
Network Methods to Map Product Architecture By: Baldwin, Carliss Y., Alan MacCormack, and John Rusnak Abstract—In this paper, we describe an operational methodology for characterising the architecture of technical systems and demonstrate...
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Anna Secino
- 23 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
It’s Back to Business-Basics for Nonprofits
estimates are often wildly divergent. Organizations also need to look at their activities, and really map out how much each of these activities is costing them. How do you take available resources and achieve maximum social impact with...
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by Manda Salls
- 14 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance
Center has developed a tool called "outcome mapping" that could potentially be useful for measuring ecosystem outcomes. It involves bringing together a diverse set of stakeholders that are working on a similar problem to map out their...
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by Julia Hanna
- 23 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 23, 2008
http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=308035 PublicationsWarmth and Competence as Universal Dimensions of Social Perception: The Stereotype Content Model and the BIAS Map Authors:Amy J.C....
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Martha Lagace
- 06 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53857 First Quarter 2018 Dialogue Beyond Engagement By: Hallowell, Roger, Hervé Coyco, and Randall White Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53796 forthcoming...
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- 13 Oct 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Building a Business in the Context of a Life
practitioners who are midway through their careers can benefit from developing a road map for the rest of their lives. Kraus is working with a team of professors, led by faculty chair John A. Davis, on developing the Crossroads Executive...
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- 21 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 21
requirements. Download working paper: http://www.nber.org/papers/w19018 Hidden Structure: Using Network Methods to Map System Architecture By:Baldwin, Carliss Y., Alan MacCormack, and John Rusnak Abstract—In this paper, we describe an...
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Sean Silverthorne