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    Design-Based Confidence Sequences: A General Approach to Risk Mitigation in Online Experimentation.

    Randomized experiments have become the standard method for companies to evaluate the performance of new products or services. In addition to augmenting managers' decision-making, experimentation mitigates risk by limiting the proportion of customers exposed to... View Details
    • 2023
    • Working Paper

    Design-Based Confidence Sequences: A General Approach to Risk Mitigation in Online Experimentation

    By: Dae Woong Ham, Michael Lindon, Martin Tingley and Iavor Bojinov
    Randomized experiments have become the standard method for companies to evaluate the performance of new products or services. In addition to augmenting managers’ decision-making, experimentation mitigates risk by limiting the proportion of customers exposed to... View Details
    Keywords: Performance Evaluation; Research and Development; Analytics and Data Science; Consumer Behavior
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    • 07 Feb 2013
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Which Does More to Determine the Quality of Corporate Governance in Emerging Economies, Firms or Countries?

    Keywords: by Andrea Hugill & Jordan Siegel
    • 03 Jan 2017
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    January 3, 2017

    implementation of strategic plans. This case stimulates reflections on the importance of costing systems, in particular Time-Driven Activity Based Costing, and variance analysis as decision support... View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel
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    Design of Field Research Methods (DFRM)

    Field research involves collecting original data (qualitative and/or quantitative) in field sites. This course combines informal lecture and discussion with practical exercises to build specific skills for conducting field research in organizations. Readings include... View Details

    • 23 Oct 2012
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    First Look: October 23

    year gains. We evaluate the performance of all policies under consideration using the same statistical and simulation tools and data as the U.S. policymakers use. Other case studies perform a sensitivity analysis (for instance,... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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    Health Care - Faculty & Research

    ambulatory care—with emphasis on routine CF clinic visits—were measured utilizing time-driven activity-based costing (TDABC). Variance analysis was applied to identify the components of cost variation... View Details
    • 12 May 2023
    • Blog Post

    Independent Project: The Rise of Electric Heat Pumps

    analysis from EIA data, it is clear that the Northeast has the highest electricity rates (16 cents per kilowatt-hour) on average and thus the largest operating costs associated with heat pumps. Conversely, the South has the cheapest... View Details
    • 01 Feb 2011
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    First Look: Feb. 1

    Publisher's Link: http://www.josseybass.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0470392509.html How to Catch a Tiger: Understanding Putting Performance on the PGA TOUR Authors:Douglas Fearing, Jason Acimovic, and Stephen C. Graves Publication:Journal of Quantitative View Details
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    Social Enterprise - Faculty & Research

    significant discretion. Corporate philanthropy is our setting to study how a differentiated structural element—the corporate foundation—constrains the influence of individual senior managers and directors on corporate strategy. Our View Details
    • 20 Sep 2019
    • Research & Ideas

    Solving the Riddle of How Companies Grow Over Time

    years ago, he found the last serious analysis on firm growth was conducted in 1959, in Edith Penrose’s book The Theory of the Growth of the Firm. “I’d like to think we’ve learned a lot since then,” Pisano says. Getting a better... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Manufacturing
    • 22 Jan 2001
    • Research & Ideas

    Control Your Inventory in a World of Lean Retailing

    manufacturer can increase profits and reduce inventory risks. To demonstrate that improvement, we ran a computer simulation that tests various inventory policies for three groups of SKUs in the same product line — one group with low View Details
    Keywords: by Frederick H. Abernathy, John T. Dunlop, Janice H. Hammond & David Weil; Consumer Products
    • 24 Apr 2020
    • Op-Ed

    Lessons from the NFL: Virtual Hiring, Leadership, Building Teams and COVID-19

    to team wins? We divided our 38-year panel dataset into two parts: 1981-1992 and 1993-2018. We conducted variance decomposition analysis in the manner of Groysberg, Hecht, and Naik and we found that since... View Details
    Keywords: by Sarah Abbott , Boris Groysberg, Tali Groysberg, and Abhijit Naik; Sports
    • 20 Mar 2018
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    First Look at New Research and Ideas, March 20, 2018

    Buell, Ryan W., Dennis Campbell, and Frances X. Frei Abstract—This paper investigates the impact of customer compatibility—the degree of fit between the needs of customers and the capabilities of the operations serving them—on customer experiences and firm performance.... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 26 Aug 2008
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    First Look: August 26, 2008

    patents granted by the USPTO in 2001-2003. We show that examiner citations account for 63% of all citations on the average patent and that 40% of patents have all citations added by examiners. We use multivariate regression and analysis... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 24 Jan 2017
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    First Look at New Research: January 24, 2017

    provides a vehicle for discussing the dynamics of business philanthropy in China and the future directions it may take. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/317045-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 117-006 Cost View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 22 Nov 2016
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    November 22, 2016

    the Foxwoods story. The true story is one of strategic negotiation and the leveraging of tribal sovereignty into economic opportunity. Using a close analysis of the Foxwoods-Connecticut negotiations as a point of departure, this chapter... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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    Bibliography - Option Pricing in Theory & Practice: The Nobel Prize Research of Robert C. Merton - Exhibits - Historical Collections

    the American Mathematical Society , no. 4. New York, N.Y.: American Mathematical Society, 1951. * Samuelson, Paul A. Foundations of Economic Analysis . Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1947. * Samuelson, Paul A. " Rational... View Details
    • 20 Dec 2011
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    First Look: December 20

    teams are exacerbated when teams are leaderless, undermining performance. A longitudinal study of multicultural MBA study teams found that in the early stage of team formation, teams with a low average level of, but moderate degree of View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel
    • 26 Jan 2010
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    First Look: Jan. 26

    forthcoming Abstract Discussions of the economic impact of open source software often generate more heat than light. Advocates passionately assert the benefits of open source, while critics decry its effects. Missing from the debate is rigorous economic View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace