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- 04 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Start to Measure Your E-commerce Success
performance that are derived through an aggregation of measures of individual business units and functions. It is important to evaluate the performance of both overall e-commerce performance and the specific aspects of e-commerce that... View Details
Keywords: by Marc J. Epstein
- 12 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Competition the Cure for Healthcare
a value-based system keeps the health plan separate from the provider, and providers compete at the medical condition level. The health plan is also indispensable in aggregating information. We think the health plan is the logical place... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Case Study: Building the Base
initial step in his quest to help readers—particularly millennials and Gen Zers—better understand how the news is spun. The company’s launch product is a free daily newsletter that aggregates headlines from both the left and the right,... View Details
- 21 Mar 2016
- HBS Case
Can Customer Reviews Be 'Managed?'
people with young kids all have very different expectations. Q: So what started as an aggregation of consumer reviews is now blossoming into much more of a full-service type environment. Is there the potential there for some kind of bias... View Details
- 15 Mar 2021
- Office Hours
Readers Ask: What's the Next 'Big Thing' in Finance?
decisions better. Now, finance—financial markets, asset prices—are just the aggregation of all these biases, mistakes and difficult and complex decisions. So, the more you understand those, the deeper you’re going to understand all... View Details
- 06 Dec 2010
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Doing Business in Emerging Markets
analyzers and advisors, aggregators and distributors, transaction facilitators, and more. A useful starting point for managers is to construct an institutional map to identify institutional voids—which may themselves present business... View Details
- 12 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
How Crowds and Experts Kickstart the Arts
aggregation allowed the funding of many projects that were slightly outside the purview of what judges focused on, suggesting that Kickstarter's democratization enables a greater breadth of artistic production, says Nanda. At the same... View Details
- 31 Oct 2004
- What Do You Think?
Should the Wisdom of Crowds Influence Our Thinking About Leadership?
effective, have to have three characteristics: diversity of points of view, independence from each other's opinions, and decentralization (with access to and the ability to draw on "local knowledge"). And they have to have some kind of mechanism for View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 05 Feb 2001
- What Do You Think?
Do MBA Programs Face “The Innovator’s Dilemma”?
content ... [with] aggregation and interpretation of knowledge [as] ... their core competency," all of which gives them significant competitive advantages in the educational market. However, this doesn't mean that onsite programs can... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 24 May 2023
- Blog Post
Innovating, Funding, and Scaling Climate Solutions at Harvard Business School: Day Three of Harvard Climate Action Week
potentially game-changing; and Carmichael Roberts, partner at Breakthrough Energy Ventures, discussed the firm’s mission of aggregating and funding ideas and companies to scale climate solutions. In closing, Tufano urged attendees to... View Details
- Web
Privacy - HBS Working Knowledge
improve our website and to generate aggregate statistical reports that analyze general user information and demographics. Unless required by legal process, we do not link IP addresses to anything personally identifiable. This means that... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
The Rankings Game
bars handing out student or alumni e-mail addresses to commercial enterprises.) “My feeling is that rankings do serve a purpose by aggregating information for people who are trying to make a difficult decision,” says Kenny, who came to... View Details
- 23 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 23, 2016
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51502 forthcoming Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings Organizational Decision-Making and Information: Angel Investments by Venture Capital Partners By: Wu, Andy Abstract—We study information View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 11
future aggregate commission payments across brokerage firms; that these votes are responsive to actions that brokerage-house analysts take to communicate with client investors; and that brokerage firms use client-supplied votes as a quasi... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 27
insignificant or a significantly negative association with future returns. In supplemental analyses, we show that these forecasts are also informative of the time-series variation in aggregate conditions: 1) for a representative firm, the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Unexpected Way Whistleblowers Reduce Government Fraud
Business School Working Knowledge. [Image: FangXiaNuo] Related Reading: Can Decades of Military Overspending be Fixed? The Secret Life of Supply Chains Can Paying Firms Quicker Affect Aggregate Employment? What do you think of this... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Democratizing Data to Favor Farmers
harvest data with one another to help find the best performing seeds—which represented their largest variable expense. The idea quickly evolved into developing a completely independent, farmer-driven information source identifying top seeds, benchmarking farm... View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
- 03 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Facebook’s Future
are already encouraging us to share private information automatically. For example, if you are using Google Maps on your iPhone, you are most likely sending information to Google about your location and speed—data the company aggregates... View Details
Keywords: by Mikolaj Piskorski
- 21 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 21, 2010
aggregate the "information" and "communication" components together. We show theoretically and empirically that this is problematic. Information and communication technologies have very different effects on the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 13, 2016
channel is selection and market reallocation whereby competition leads to factor reallocation both within and between domestic firms and exits of the least productive firms. We investigate the roles of these different mechanisms in determining View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel