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- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
accelerated sharply in the U.S. economy. In this paper, we identify several other industry-level changes that have occurred during the same time and argue that they are consistent with an increased use of information technology (IT). We use View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Feb 2005
- Op-Ed
Is Business Management a Profession?
executive compensation. Yet while laws, regulations, and policies have a clear role to play here, they are a relatively expensive and inefficient way for a society to promote responsible conduct and trustworthy business leadership. In the View Details
- 07 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Better Way to Forecast the Future
are broader. When Grushka-Cockayne refers to averaging the forecasts, she is not necessarily referring to a mathematical average but any number of ways to combine them. Various methods can include weighting certain ones or trimming... View Details
- 14 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 14, 2007
simulate counterfactuals, and develop tentative implications for pricing policy. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-034.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsBT Plc: The Broadband Revolution (A) Harvard Business School... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 29, 2007
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-103.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsBancaja: Developing Customer Intelligence (A) Harvard Business School Case 107-055 In 1996, CEO Fernando Garcia Checa wanted to make... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 6
and Business Groups: New Data and New Methods Authors: Jordan I. Siegel and Prithwiraj Choudhury Abstract The last decade of corporate governance research has been focused in large part on identifying what leads to superior or deficient... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
Strategy Execution and the Balanced Scorecard
services, others deliver complete solutions to their customer, and still others innovate with high-technology products. About the only common element all these diverse successful strategy implementers have in common is exceptional and visionary leadership. In every... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 16 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 16
a firm's headquarters—for the presence of large, non-managerial individual shareholders in firms. These shareholders have a large impact on firms, controlling for selection effects. Course Research: Using the Case View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Mar 2019
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Antidote to Surveillance Capitalism?
Surveillance Capitalism, you are fooling yourself.” David Wittenberg stated the case for the position that the source of the problem is us. “No matter how much businesses know about us, they cannot sell to us unless their products make... View Details
- 12 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018
narrative processing. The authors conduct qualitative interviews with taste experts (Master Sommeliers) to operationalize the holistic approach to hedonic learning, and then test it against traditional analytic methods in a series of... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 09 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 9
the Panama Canal to make use of both conventional historical methods and the tools of quantitative analysis, The Big Ditch examines the impact of the Panama Canal on the Republic of Panama, the United States, and the world. Noel Maurer... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 26, 2018
analytic methods in a series of experiments across a range of hedonic products. The results suggest that hedonic learning follows a sequence of stages whose order matters and that the holistic stage is facilitated by attending to... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 09 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 9, 2018
Hessel, Randal Weber, Sandra Denney, Lee Newcomer, and Thomas W. Feeley Abstract—Purpose: Despite growing interest in bundled payments to reduce the costs of care, this payment method remains largely untested in cancer. This 3-year pilot... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 25, 2007
for download. Fair (and Not So Fair) Division Author:John W. Pratt Abstract Drawbacks of existing procedures are illustrated and a method of efficient fair division is proposed that avoids them. Given additive participants' utilities,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018
resource deployment. Methodology: The predictive model developed is based on a regression tree combined with copula-based simulations. We generalize the tree method to predict complete distributions, moving beyond point forecasts. To... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 18 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 18, 2007
quantity, and method of distribution account for the observed variation in IRI within stores. Store-specific factors such as the density and variety of inventory observed at each store account for the variation in IRI across stores.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 2010
- Case
Playa Dorado
By: W. Earl Sasser
Playa Dorada Beach & Resort in Boca Raton, Florida, faces a growing seasonal demand for tennis services. The number of guests is expected to double in the next few years, and while the tennis facilities are a popular and well-promoted amenity at the resort, court space... View Details
- 28 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 28, 2008
on a systematic selection and analysis of articles, the paper outlines an emerging consensus on the definition and process of institutional entrepreneurship. It also presents the previously identified enabling conditions for, and reviews the research View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 2, 2010
using different methods (two experiments and a survey) indicate an inverted-U shaped relationship between degree of decision latitude and leadership effectiveness perceptions. The increase in leadership effectiveness perception between... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Apr 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching a ‘Lean Startup’ Strategy
course, Eisenmann teaches cases on cloud storage company Dropbox and the social search service Aardvark. Both firms' founders were early practitioners of the lean startup method. The Dropbox team initially announced a bare-bones version... View Details